16 – 18 October at the Grand and Metropole Hotels, Brighton Chaired by TV presenter Kate Bellamy
Programme
Sunday 16 October
| 16.00 |
Registration |
| 17.30 |
Introduction for new delegates, Metropole Hotel, Osborne Suite. Ken Boxhall, Chair Socitm Events |
| 18.00 |
President's welcome, Metropole Hotel, Oxford Room. Angela Waite |
| 18.10 |
Conference Keynote: Polar bear Pirates, Adrian Webster |
| 19.15 |
Reception |
| 20.15 |
Dinner in Empress Suite of the Grand Hotel |
| 21.30 |
Quiz in the Empress Suite, Rocitm will play in the Albert Room at the Grand Hotel |
Monday 17 October
All plenary sessions will take place in the Metropole Hotel, Oxford Room. Workshop sessions will be in the Durham Gallery and Hall 4
| 09.15 |
Key Presentation: Digital inclusion from grass roots to government strategies. Lord Anthony St John of Bletso, Chairman of Trustees, Citizens Online |
| 10.00 |
Case Study: Not just a tick in the box!. Simon Riley, Halton Borough Council |
| 10.35 |
Tea, coffee & exhibition |
| 11.15 |
Managerial Workshops: The role of ICT in developing and delivering a customer access strategy - E-capacity building programme - Exchanging international experiences - Making the case for investment in ICT to support transformation or Technical Workshops: Value engineering methodologies applied to structured cabling systems and ICT rooms-OR how to reduce the cost of quality by 30% by using global best practice - Government connect - Securing a mobile word - IP Telephony - why and when? |
| 12.00 |
Workshops repeated |
| 12.40 |
Lunch & exhibition |
| 14.10 |
New York City 3-1-1: Delivering high performance government. Larry Knafo, 1st Deputy Commissioner, New York City |
| 14.55 |
Workshops repeated |
| 15.40 |
Tea, coffee & exhibition |
| 16.20 |
Combating organised and serious high-tech crime. Tony Neate - National Hi-Tech Crime Unit |
| 17.10 |
Close |
| 17.30 |
Session for international delegates in Consort Room, Grand Hotel |
| 19.30 |
Reception in Grand Hotel |
| 20.30 |
Gala Dinner and Entertainment in the Grand Hotel, After dinner speaker John Sergeant. Dancing to Out2Play in Albert Room |
Tuesday 18 October
All sessions will take place in the Metropole Hotel, Oxford Room.
| 09.15 |
Key Presentation: A year in the job. Ian Watmore, Head of the Cabinet Office e-Government Unit |
| 09.55 |
Panel Debate: CIOs for local government. Ian Watmore Head of the Cabinet Office e-Government Unit, Jos Creese, Chair Socitm Insight, Mike Phillips , Partner GatenbySanderson |
| 10.35 |
Tea, coffee & exhibition |
| 11.15 |
Learnings from a wired town. Michael Byrne, former CEO of Ennis Information Age Services |
| 12.05 |
IT Excellence Awards |
| 12.25 |
Lunch & exhibition |
| 14.00 |
Will it make the boat go faster?. Ben Hunt-Davis MBE, Olympic rowing gold medalist |
| 14.45 |
Exhibitors' prize draws |
| 14.55 |
President's closing remarks. Angela Waite |
| 15.00 |
Tea, coffee & depart |
Other highlights
Local Government IT Excelllnece Awards 2005 are a collaborative venture between Socitm, SOLACE and Intellect, and aim to demonstrate how IT has been used effectively and innovatively to deliver best value public services. Judges are looking for IT projects that help people do their job better, and in turn improve the service to the citizen. Winners will be presented with their awards at the conference on themorning of Tuesday 18 October. The Awards are sponsored this year by: Xansa, Nabarro Nathanson, and OGC Buying Solutions.
Gala dinner and entertainment including this year's after dinner speaker John Sergeant, former Chief Political Correspondent of the BBC
Socitm would like to thank the major sponsors of Socitm 2005: BEA Systems, Cisco Systems, Clearswift, Dell, HP and Messagelabs.