East Midlands Regional Meeting

Wiring into your CEO's objectives - Public services in a networked world

Sponsored by IBM

Ensuring that our ICT strategic direction is wired into our chief executive's objectives is clearly important for us all moving forward.  A recent SOCITM briefing under the heading "What's your CEO's agenda?" presented five themes identified by SOLACE.  The focus of Socitm East Midlands October event will be two of these themes namely:

"Local government can drive local economic growth"; and "Public services in a networked world"

Presentations

• Review of the Technology challenge report - Socitm Insight ( 1.04 MB PDF)
• Communicating with Social Media - A corporate approach - Broxtowe Borough Council ( 3.96 MB PDF)

Agenda

08:30	Registration
09:30	Welcome Kevin Powell, chair of socitm East Midlands, CIO  Broxtowe BC, Newark and Sherwood DC, and Rushcliffe BC
09:40	The Implementation of VDI and a private cloud: Sunderland - A  Case Study   Richard Snell, IBM
10:40	Coffee break
11:00	Communicating with social media  - a corporate approach Jackie Harwood, Broxtowe Borough Council
11:30	Key messages from the technology challenge report (includes discussion to identify members' needs for future reports) Tony Riding, Principal Associate, Socitm Insight
12:30	Socitm East Midlands regional update
12:45	Lunch and networking

Date/Time	Region	Venue
12 October 2012	East Midlands	Burleigh Court, Loughborough University