Chris Blenkhorn, CISCO on The Future of Secure communications; Anna Smith of  Gov Connect on how Gov Connect has moved on significantly since the move to DWP; Linda Scannell of Warwickshire County Council on  Achieving Gov Connect's Code of Connection;  Ian McCormack who has recently been assigned from GCHQ's Information Security and Governance arm CESG, to CLG to understand better how CESG can support other government bodies such as Local Government; and Yasmine Dlia and John Skipper, Employee Authentication Service take the group through a new DWP project on creating a single employee authentication approach for access to services by staff across government.
South Region chair Nick Roberts also presented his annual review of regional and Society activities over the past year.