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Alastair Macdonald CB

Alastair Macdonald CB spent 32 years as a civil servant working on advice to ministers and executing policy for the IT industry. He was the civil servant in charge of the IT82 awareness campaign initiated by Lord Ken Baker. Macdonald was in charge of the privatisation of BT, a world first which started the liberalisation of the telecommunications industry. He was in charge of the Y2K efforts to avoid a catastrophe with the change of date at the start of this century. He took part in the decisions to widen the offering of mobile phone networks in the UK from two to four vendors.

27 March 2020

Michael Tobin OBE

Michael Tobin is a serial technology entrepreneur, writer and philanthropist. He has a multitude of awards including an OBE for services to the digital economy in 2014. He thinks that giving back to society is incredibly important and the more success we have the more we need to remember that that success isn’t permanent and the luck we have had to achieve it needs to be recycled back into the community

13 March 2020

Beverly Clarke

Beverly Clarke is responsible for the local community of practice programme for the Computing at School initiative, sponsored by the BCS Chartered Institute for IT and the National Centre for Computing Education. She is passionate about computing education and the role of computing at school.

6 March 2020

Chris Winter

Chris Winter is an independent consultant specialising in applying engineering methods to major complex IT projects. Prior to 2009 he worked for IBM for 31 years and reached the pinnacle of the technical career path as an IBM Fellow, noted especially for his development of IBM’s performance engineering disciplines.

28 February 2020

Edwina Dunn OBE

Edwina Dunn OBE has spent her 40 years in the IT industry analysing great globs of data and turning it into useful business information to guide businesses. We call that today the analysis of big data. She started at the US CACI company which used census data to help customers such as banks and building societies. She left with her husband after nine years and they formed their own consultancy focusing on analysing customer data. Their big breakthrough was launching the Clubcard customer service for Tesco which catapulted Tesco to the front rank of UK grocery marketing. They sold the business to Tesco and formed another company. She is concerned about the ethics of using data and about the role of women in IT.

7 February 2020

Jo Connell OBE DL

Jo Connell OBE started her career as a programmer in the 1960s, and later joined Freelance Programmers, the iconic company founded by Dame Stephanie Shirley, progressing to be Group Managing Director of the successor, FTSE 250 company, Xansa. Since retiring from corporate life, Jo has pursued a portfolio of activities, mainly charitable and voluntary, relating to those in need, public service and the IT industry.

4 February 2020

Eva Pascoe

Eva Pascoe was co-founder of Cyberia, the first Internet café in London, in1994. During her career, Eva pioneered women’s participation in online business, online secure payments, e-commerce fashion solutions, and electronic customer relationship management. She is currently the chair of Cybersalon.org, a non-profit digital think tank she co-founded in 1997. She works with a retail practice, developing strategies for large and small international retail companies supporting young fashion brands with women founders, like Bluebella.com and Thefoldlondon.com. In 1995, jointly with Gene Teare, she was awarded the Sunday Times Technology Award.

28 January 2020

Sarah Bond

Sarah Bond leads Microsoft’s gaming business development team. She and her team are responsible for cultivating and managing Microsoft’s gaming partnerships, crafting and executing deals and negotiations and shaping strategy and M&A. Sarah’s organization is global with presence in Redmond, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai and London.

Prior to Microsoft Sarah held a variety of senior roles at T-Mobile, including leading the Corporate Strategy and Development team, responsible for cross-functional strategic initiatives, major investments, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. She was a member of the team that led T-Mobile’s turnaround.
Sarah started her career at McKinsey & Company, where she was an Associate Partner in the West Coast office focused on the consumer technology sector. Sarah holds a BA in Economics from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

2 January 2020

Dr Stephen Castell

Dr Stephen Castell has worked in all four corners of the IT industry. He was worked on the computing side and in telecommunications. He has worked as a user implementing complex systems and as a vendor of information products and services. He spent years advising UK venture capitalists on what were and what were not the best companies to invest in. Finally he has spent decades as an expert witness in numerous legal disputes between vendors and users when the IT system supplied did not fit the expectations of the buyers. This gives him a unique insight into the failures of IT.