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David Taylor is author of the global best-selling Naked Leader books, and works with top leaders from major organisations like Coca-Cola, Tesco, and The Royal Bank of Scotland. Honorary Professor of Leadership at Warwick Business School, he is the first Business Ambassador for The Prince’s Trust and a director of Woking Football Club. Since speaking at Socitm 2005, David has been applying his thinking to IT leadership. It’s time, he says, to draw a line under the past, when IT was treated as a poor partner inside organisations. Better days are now here and for those who have chosen, IT has arrived at board level. IT is the business, and is regarded not as a service or support function, but as a driver, a leader, an agenda setter. The key for IT leaders is knowing the exact, specific set of beliefs, actions and leadership required to put the past behind.
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Dan Jellinek is Managing Director and co-founder of Headstar (www.headstar.com), a publishing, events and research company focusing on technology and social issues. He edits Headstar's email newsletters E-Government Bulletin; and E-Access Bulletin, on access to technology by people with disabilities, and chairs their annual conferences on topics including e-government and e-democracy. Dan's other roles include as UK board member of the Minneapolis-based international charity e-democracy.org; and as Chair of the Sussex Community Internet Project (SCIP), a non-profit body providing IT services and support to the voluntary and community sectors. He is a member of Socitm Insight's 'Better Connected' review team, which reviews every UK local authority web site annually. Previously he worked as a freelance journalist for The Guardian and BBC Online.
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Peter Court is the Senior Responsible Owner for the Government Secure Intranet; the Managed Telecomms Service Contract; and public sector flex - a new Shared ICT Service. He is also CIO for the Cabinet Office. Peter was previously e-Commerce Director at the Office of Government Commerce where he was involved in delivering the Government Purchasing Card; eAuctions Framework eSourcing Framework; and Zanzibar, the purchase to pay marketplace. His previously held posts in the Office of the e-Envoy covered ‘Customer Focus’ and interpreting the workforce (i.e. back office) implications of ecommerce for the public sector to inform Spending Review 02 decisions, and being a Course Director at the Civil Service College with responsibility for Project and Programme Management training and development.
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Sir Michael Bichard’s career has crossed most parts of the public and near-to-public sectors including his time as Chief Executive of two major local authorities (Brent and Gloucestershire), Chief Executive of the Government’s then largest executive agency (the Benefits Agency), Permanent Secretary of the Department for Employment and then the Department for Education and Employment, Rector of the University of the Arts London and Chairman of the Legal Services Commission. In 2004 he chaired the Soham Inquiry and has remained involved in matters concerning child protection and the use of information and intelligence. Michael Bichard joined RSe Consulting as Chairman in 2003 and plays an active part in the work of the company including, from time to time, the delivery of specific pieces of work.
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Peter Gilroy was appointed chief executive of Kent County Council in 2005, having been the council’s strategic director of social services for the previous eight years. During this time he led the country’s largest social services department from 'poor' performance to 'excellent'. Putting the public at the heart of everything in order to deliver modern and customer-focused services is high on this former social work practitioner’s agenda as chief executive. He is a tireless champion for innovation as a means to deliver better, more effective services, and regards team-working as vital to this, as well as collaboration with other organisations in the public, private, voluntary and community sectors. Peter also chairs the South East Centre of Excellence which concentrates on sharing best practice and creating a smart environment with regard to efficiency and performance.
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Bill McCluggage joined the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) as Director of eGovernment in 2003. He represents the NICS on the CIO Council and became ‘Director of the Delivery and Innovation Division’ in the Department of Finance and Personnel in April 2006. The Division has four business areas comprising eGovernment Policy and Innovation, Strategic Programmes, Business Consultancy and the NICS’s ICT Shared Service Centre (IT Assist). Bill is sponsor for the NICS’s multi-channel contact centre project ‘NI Direct’. He is also on a range of cross-cutting public sector programme boards including Records NI, Network NI and Access to Benefits programme. Prior to joining the NICS, Bill was IT Director of Harland and Wolff, MD for a Fred Olsen Group IT services company, and set up his own engineering company.
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Billy Dixon is Managing Partner at Mind Associates, and specialises in communication, leadership and body language. He works extensively in the political, corporate and media arenas and speaks regularly at conferences in Ireland, UK and Europe. He is a TV coach for the BBC network and has co-designed and delivered the developing leaders programme. Billy believes that for organisations to succeed they must develop top talent and hire the best people - meaning Winners. His interactive and entertaining session will cover the key attributes of a Winner; talent, desire and optimism, focussing on desire, because a person can have talent and a belief in success but without the spark of motivation that is ‘desire’, they cannot be a Winner.
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