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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 Catherine Breslin

Dr. Catherine Breslin is a machine learning scientist specialising in speech and language technology. She has a distinguished academic background with a degree from Oxford and post-graduate qualifications from Cambridge. Her career has been about the application of speech and language research to real-world problems. She has worked for Toshiba and then Amazon, where she played a major role in developing Alexa onto other platforms.

23 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

Frank Jones

Frank Jones during his long career as an executive in IT service companies was known as the outsourcing man. Outsourcing gave financial directors back control: control they had lost to IT managers. But there were drawbacks. He also grew businesses by acquisitions. Frank has experience with the different cultures of UK and continental European companies as well as Asian ones.

5 March 2019

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson’s name has been familiar to huge numbers of software designers and developers for many years, from the mid-1970s onward, and he’s a pioneer, some would say a radical pioneer, in the field of software design and development. He published five books between 1975 and 2001, and has written numerous papers over the years.

21 February 2019

Kirstin Duffield

20 years in the Reinsurance and Insurance Software Industry has given Kirstin Duffield experience in Systems’ Analysis and Deployment, Training and delivery. She was shortlisted as Business Leader of the Year 2017 by Women in IT and was one of Computer Weekly’s top 25 most influential women in IT 2013.

25 January 2019

Dr Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor has had a varied career, much of it working on sensitive systems. He did pioneering work on speech recognition for use by pilots and helped the Metropolitan Police to “join up” its databases. He went on to become the IT champion of the UK’s joint intelligence committee within the cabinet office.

13 November 2018

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