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Seminar chair
Kate Bellamy trained as a ballet dancer and performed at some of the world's most famous venues before developing a career in television. She has reported for 'This Morning', one of Britain's most popular programmes, and covered a wide variety of assignments for Granada and Sky Sports, included some pretty active roles in front of camera, such as hang gliding, tractor racing, sand surfing, rock climbing and abseiling. She is a regular conference presenter and awards host, and her corporate work has involved her in the pharmaceutical, IT, telecoms, finance and building sectors. |
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Socitm President
Chris Guest has worked in Local Government IT since 1980, and is currently Head of Technology and Improvement with Flintshire County Council, which includes responsibility for ICT, e-Government and the Improvement agenda generally, across the Council. Prior to becoming Socitm President in 2004 he was Chair of the Socitm Welsh Region from 1997 until 2002, and has been actively involved in other Socitm initiatives nationally, particularly as chair of the Socitm Insight Steering Group. Chris is a standing advisor to the Welsh Local Government Association on ICT related matters. |
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Speakers
Sir Nicholas Montagu KCB started his civil service career at the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS), where he later undertook one of the early "Rayner" efficiency scrutinies, and was involved in the social security reviews of 1983-86. As head of personnel, finance and planning at the DHSS he led the establishment of the major executive agencies under the "Next Steps" programme. From 1992 to 1997 he was at the Department of Transport, overseeing the privatisation of the railways and the competition to build the fast rail link to the Channel Tunnel. After a brief spell heading the Economic Secretariat in the Cabinet Office, Nick became Chairman of the Inland Revenue from 1997 until 2004, leading the Revenue through the greatest changes in its history, as it became a social as well as a tax-collecting Department and developed its e-services. Since his retirement, Nick has been a member of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Advisory Board for Corporate Finance, is on the Board of Investors in People and has undertaken numerous consultancy and speaking engagements. |
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Jos Creese is the Head of IT for Hampshire County Council, leading the IT Department of about 300 IT and business professionals, the e-Government programmes for the County Council and the support for a range of partnership projects with other public service organisations. Jos has over 20 years of IT management experience, and has worked for central government, district and unitary councils, joining Hampshire County in 2002. He is involved in a number of national groups on IT and e-Government, working with the LGA, ODPM, and SOCITM (Insight Chair, former SIAG vice chair and director of SSL services) and sits on the Board of the National Standards Programme. Recently Jos has been invited to join the UK government CIO Council. A regular speaker at conferences, Jos is a strong advocate for the need for changing approaches to IT management to reflect the changing role of IT demanded by business and the public sector alike. Between times Jos is a school governor and has interests in music (writing, playing and occasionally conducting), sport (triathlon, racket sports and sailing), food and natural history |
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Mary Wintershausen's 34 year career includes the health and private sectors and 23 years in ICT management with a London Borough. For the last 5 years she has been an independent consultant specialising in the development of local e-government. Mary has conducted assignments for a variety of local and central government clients, including the Office of the e-Envoy, Socitm Insight and the IDeA. Her research work includes four annual 'Local e-government now' studies; 'Casting the net wider', a review of good practice in local e-democracy; and an overview of the development of e-government across Wales. She has carried out many training and skills development assignments, including e-government training for elected members as part of the IDeA 'Modern Members' development programme; Socitm Learning's e-government introduction and update courses; the Employers' Organisation 'Managers e-government development network' and specific seminars and workshops for a variety of individual councils. |
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William Davies is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, where he runs the Digital Society programme. He is currently working on a 'Manifesto for a Digital Britain', to be published in Spring 2005. Previously, he worked on The Work Foundation's iSociety project, where his research focused on the relationship between communities and new media. He is the author of two iSociety reports 'You Don't Know Me, But...: Social Capital & Social Software' (Work Foundation 2003) looking at new uses of the internet in supporting social networks, and 'Proxicommunication: ICT and the Local Public Realm' (Work Foundation 2004) exploring uses of new media in sustaining local communities. |
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Glyn Evans has twenty-five years experience in IT support within the local authority sector and has been Director of Business Solutions & IT with Birmingham City Council since November 2003. As well as ensuring the delivery of excellent core IT services, he has a remit to drive forward a business transformation programme across the Council. His current challenges are nurturing the organisational commitment to the change programme and developing the capacity to support it, including seeking a strategic partner from the private sector. Glyn chairs the Society of IT Management's Information Age Group and is a member of the CIO Council, an advisory body established by Ian Watmore, the Head of the Cabinet Office's e-Government Unit. He is also a member of ODPM's Local Government On-Line
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Paul Smith, Director of Research leads Kable's research team, Paul has researched and analysed the government market for more than eight years. He is a recognised authority in the industry and his knowledge and opinion on e-Government issues, and is highly sought by government officials, ICT industry and the press. |