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Rebecca George OBE

Rebecca George spent almost twenty years with IBM, as it transitioned from a hardware and software supplier to a services company. In 2006 she joined Deloitte and is now their lead partner for public sector. Rebecca received an OBE in 2006 for services to IT and for her work supporting the Egan Review on sustainable community skills

4 June 2019

Dr Alan Shepherd

Alan has had a long and varied IT career, with a background in research, innovation, technology assessment, and large scale contracting. He has held senior technology management appointments in both public and private sectors, and recently has specialised in highlighting the growing business impact of emerging technologies. He has been responsible for many major projects and investment decisions, and has considerable experience of IT-supported and IT-driven business change programmes. He is very familiar with the difficulty of implementing change that affects workplace culture and tradition, a challenge that’s still very much with us today. Alan is a Chartered Engineer, and has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Intel Corporation, and as a Council Member of EURIM and of the Parliamentary IT Committee.

30 May 2019

Interview with Sir Andrew Hopper

Andy Hopper studied computer science at Swansea under Professor David Aspinall then did his PhD in Cambridge where he worked on the Cambridge Ring. His LAN company came to the attention of Acorn Computers and was taken into Acorn in 1979. Hopper was appointed managing director of the Olivetti Cambridge Research lab in 1986. As MD he helped more than 10 venture operations become independent companies under the benign eye of Olivetti. On the closure of the lab Hopper focused on his professorship at Cambridge where he developed a strategy to get over 200 ventures from Cambridge University into the market.

28 March 2019

Jane Tozer MBE OBE

Jane Tozer MBE OBE has had three phases to her career in IT: an early stage of over 13 years with IBM; a middle period as CEO of a software development start-up; and a third phase with a portfolio of non-executive directorships in the private and public sectors.

6 November 2018

History of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (formerly British Computing Society) , is committed to…

7 September 2018

Professor Frank Land

One of the pioneers of early commercial computing who worked on the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) and became the first Professor of Informatics in the United Kingdom.

28 August 2018

Charles Hughes

Charles Hughes, is one of the best known and highly regarded managers in the UK information technology business, with a career stretching back to 1967, much of it spent in ICL, the UK’s one-time computer flagship. He has also been a Government adviser, at critical times in the development of the UK IT industry. He was BCS President 2005/6

27 April 2018

David Mann

David Mann, is a former Master of the Worshipful Company, a past President of the British Computer Society, and was the fourth employee of Logica, where he went on to become its Managing Director and Deputy Chairman. From 1995 David has held non-exec roles in the capacity of chairman or director for a number of diverse organisations operating worldwide. He was President of the BCS 1994-95.

31 October 2017