Yvonne Gallagher, NAO, on "Lessons from Digital Transformation in Large Government Organizations"

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Digital Transformation
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Date: 5th May 2022
Time: 

10:30 - 10:45 Presentation

11:30 - 12:15 Panel discussion "How to create impact in Digital Transformation

Yvonne Gallagher, Director, Digital, National Audit Office has over 25 years’ experience in IT, business change, digital services and cyber and information assurance.

She has had senior roles in the private sector in large organisations such as the Prudential and Network Rail. Yvonne was CIO in two government departments, as well as Chief Digital Officer and CIO in the private sector prior to her move to the NAO. Yvonne is also a Fellow of the BCS and previous chair of their Organisation and Employer board. 

Yvonne’s role in the NAO over the past 7 years is to support the NAO’s work for Parliament evaluating how well Digital and associated business change programmes are implemented to deliver value for money.

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Lessons from Digital Transformation in Large Government Organizations

Last summer we published a major report on The challenges in implementing digital change, which looked into why digital business change programmes are very difficult to implement successfully. 

In this session we will look at the systemic areas that we said government needs to get right and how some of the more persistent challenges can be addressed, including approaches to legacy systems and data, choice of delivery method, engaging with commercial suppliers and addressing the digital skills gap.

Stephen Cassidy, BT, on "Digitisation Dynamics"

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Digital Transformation
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Date: 4th May 2022
Time: 

10:45 - 11:00 Presentation

11:30 - 12:15 Panel discussion "How to create impact in Digital Transformation

Stephen Cassidy MA MInstP CEng FIET leads research in Behavioural, Organisation and System Science at BT, with a particular interest in the relationship between people, information technology and organisational structure and how this determines enterprise culture and effectiveness. This multi-disciplinary programme combines research into AI, data-driven decision tools, self-learning systems, human behaviour and culture.

After graduating in physics, his initial research interests were in fibre optics, during which time he published over 60 journal and conference papers, and filed a similar number of patents. He then spent a number of years in different roles around the business, including intelligent networks, platform strategy, systems evolution, and high tech sales, before returning to research to run the networks research programme. His experiences in the range of business areas developed his current interest in how organisations function, and how they could improve.

He lectures on the MBA programme at Tsinghua University, Beijing, on Information Systems at LSE, and on the Executive Education programme of the Cambridge Judge Business School. He is a member of several advisory boards, a Member of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology. He is a winner of the Queen’s Award for Industry.
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Digitisation Dynamics - maintaining the human and business connection through time: some critical research questions  

Digitalisation is the driving force behind modern life, ever-increasing in sophistication and ubiquity. It mediates our burgeoning access to information, products & services, and even each other – co-ordinating the complex and often ephemeral delivery chains behind each transaction. Telecoms is no exception, where it helps networks and their management achieve economic scale, managing the ever-growing complexity of the technology and provider relationships.

These capabilities have even more impact when the technology is equipped to learn from its own performance and adapt processes to improve outcomes. This allows human beings to add their value at higher levels of the business, devolving the repetitive minutiae to machines. This brings into scope a new raft of critical technological and human behavioural challenges, which need deep research to help us navigate.

The talk will describe some of these research challenges, referencing one or two examples and experiences from the work here at BT, and with academic partners.

Dr Paul Gosling, Thales UK on "A Thales Perspective on Future Digital Transformation Research Opportunities"

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Digital Transformation
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Date: 5th May 2022
Time: 

10:45 - 11:00 Presentation

11:30 - 12:15 Panel discussion "How to create impact in Digital Transformation

Dr Paul Gosling achieved his Doctorate in physics from Oxford University in 1986. He worked for 4 years in communications and radar systems before joining Thales in 1990. Working for Thales for over 30 years Dr Gosling established himself as a leading expert in sonar and naval systems for which he received an IET achievement medal in 2018. In recent years his areas of interested have expanded to to wider senior engineering and technical roles applying his knowledge to a variety of defence, security and civil sectors.

In his current role as CTO of Thales UK Dr Gosling directs the research and innovation activities required for future systems. Dr Gosling is in charge of the Thales UK Research Technology and Innovation group and works with a network of around 50 sponsored PhDs across a range of subjects including AI, Autonomy, Security and Complex Systems. Dr Gosling is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Network SAN and supports a number of university advisory committees including the trustworthy autonomous systems hub.

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A Thales Perspective on Future Digital Transformation Research Opportunities  

Managing and securing data is a growing challenge for everyone. Thales is a designer of large systems gathering and processing data both in defence and civil systems from land, sea air and space. Over the last few decades our sensors have become far more capable, some gathering several peta-bytes of data per day. . Processing and storage capacity of modern systems combined with advanced algorithms allow us to do far more to extract very weak signals from data and help find objects of interest, detect changes or to predict when something is about to fail. This presentation gives an industrial perspective on the importance of data driven decision making and how systems we produce in Thales help our customers to make those decisions in a timely and accurate way.

Marc Geall, SAP on "Helping Businesses become intelligent Enterprises in an ever changing world"

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Digital Transformation
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Date: 5th May 2022
Time: 

11:00 - 11:15 Presentation

11:30 - 12:15 Panel discussion "How to create impact in Digital Transformation

Marc Geall is a senior executive at SAP with the current responsibility as COO of SAP’s Data & Analytics development organisation. He is also on the Advisory and Supervisory Board of SEDNA and InMind Coud. Marc has split his career between the software industry and financial services. In software he has been Chief Strategy Officer at SAP and Autonomy, and held other leadership roles across sales, development, and corporate functions. In financial services, Marc led the Technology and TMT research practices for Citigroup and Deutsche Bank respectively, where he was the top ranked sell-side financial analyst for a number of years. Marc has a Master’s degree in Engineering from Cambridge University.

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Helping Businesses become intelligent Enterprises in an ever changing world 

Businesses have gone through unprecedented change over the last decade: business disruption has come from internal and external factors and requires business models and business systems to be flexible, adaptive, and cloud based. SAP is helping its global customer digitally transform to take advantage of this dynamic environment. In this session Marc will discuss the challenges and opportunities when having to manage change from within to support change in the market.

Prof Tim Whitley, BT MD Applied Research and Adastral Park

Opening  the TFNetworkSpring22 "Digital Transformation" conference

Date: 4th May 2022
Time: 10:00

Prof Tim Whitley is a BT Distinguished Engineer and serves as MD Applied Research for BT and MD of BT’s Technology Campus ‘Adastral Park’ in Suffolk, England. He is accountable for all aspects of BT’s Global Research activities, which includes applied research, technology and partnerships with world leading universities.

From 2007 to 2011 he was BT Group Strategy Director. Tim holds a BSc in Physics and a PhD in Optical Fibre Systems. Tim is a Board member for the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership and a BT visiting Professor with the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex.

In December 2016, Professor Whitley was appointed as a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) by the UK Government.

In February 2018 Tim was admitted as BT's William Pitt Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge.

Tim joined BT in 1981 as a Telephone Engineering apprentice in North Wales and has held roles in Research, Technical Architecture, Strategic Analysis and Corporate Strategy.

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Thought Leadership Event: Prof Alan Brown on "Delivering Digital Transformation - Facing 5 dilemmas for a sustainable future"

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Speaker: Prof Alan Brown, Digital Economy, Exeter University
Title: Delivering Digital Transformation - Facing 5 dilemmas for a sustainable future

Date: 5th April 2022

Time: 11:00 - 11:40

Alan is an experienced business leader, academic, and advisor having spent over 3 decades in the UK, USA, and Europe in largescale software-driven programmes with commercial high-tech companies leading R&D teams, building state-of-the-art solutions, and driving innovation in software product delivery. More recently Alan co-founded the Surrey Centre for the Digital Economy (CoDE) at the University of Surrey where he led research initiatives in 4 EPSRC-funded research projects and transitioned this work to his role as Professor in Digital Economy at the University of Exeter. 

In March 2021, Alan was appointed as Director of an £11M UK National Research Centre exploring digital transformation in Large Established Organizations (LEOs). The DIGIT Lab works with several universities and business partners to deliver an ambitious research agenda providing new insights into how to accelerate digital innovation in LEOs. In March 2019 Alan received a Fellowship from the Alan Turing Institute, the UK national institute for AI and data science.

He has published 5 books and numerous papers on software engineering, systems design, and digital business transformation. Alan’s latest books include “Delivering Digital Transformation: A manager’s guide to the digital revolution” and “Digital Economy Dispatches: Critical reflections on how to succeed with digital transformation in turbulent times”.

This Thought Leadership event is a warm up for the  virtual TFNetwork conference on "Digital Transformation" which took place on 4th - 5th May 2020 as a collaboration with DIGIT Lab. 

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• Recording of the Conference 'Call for Action' - Delivering Impact in Digital Transformation
• Recording of the Thought Leadership Event - Delivering Digital Transformation: Facing 5 dilemmas for a sustainable future

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Conference call for Action - Delivering Impact in Digital Transformation

Delivering Digital Transformation - Facing 5 dilemmas for a sustainable future

As more and more organizations adopt digital first strategies, they must overcome a number of challenges to accelerate change and build sustainable business value. Based on the experience in the DIGIT Lab, a UK national research centre exploring digital transformation in Large Established Organizations (LEOs), a good starting point to gain a perspective on the issues is to focus on the areas of concern where tensions and questions are being raised. At the heart of these concerns lie 5 fundamental dilemmas being faced today.

1. The Productivity Dilemma
2. The Value Dilemma
3. The Ethical Dilemma
4. The Leadership Dilemma
5. The Human Dilemma

In this session we reviewed each of these dilemmas to surface key questions that will dominate future digital strategies.

Thought Leadership University Essex Series: Dr Zilong Liu

6G for Future V2X Communication 

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Among many emerging vertical industries, connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) with the aid of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication and networking are deemed to transform our travel experience with numerous far-reaching societal and economic benefits. With 5G communication networks rapidly rolling out globally, it is time to ask how 6G will help revolutionize our future V2X communications.

In this talk, I will share our vision to 6G V2X communications by emphasizing enabling technologies, major challenges and significant opportunities. In particular, I will introduce our new results on codedomain non-orthogonal multiple access and joint sensing and communication, two promising wireless techniques for ubiquitous and highly efficient V2X data exchanges.

This talk will be based on our recent preprint “6G for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communications: Enabling Technologies, Challenges, and Opportunities”.

Dr Zilong Liu, University of Essex, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE)

 Recording: 6G for Future V2X Communications