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Bill Halbert

Bill Halbert joined the computer industry as an ICL technology graduate in 1969. He was the MD and CEO of three software and services companies before setting up Syntegra for BT as a systems integration start up. Over 13 years he built it up to a $1 billion global business with 5,500 employees. He saved Kingston Communications, the telephone company for Kingston in 2008 and built it from having a negative value to having market capitalisation of £500 million.

8 November 2019

Stephen Temple CBE

Stephen Temple is an engineer by profession and has spent 25 years in the Civil Service (rising to a senior position in the Home Office and DTI) and 18 years in the private sector (rising to Director level including Board level). He has also recently published a book Casting the Nets, which provides an unparalleled insight into the great digital transformation of Britain’s communications networks over the period 1984-2004.

9 August 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

Dr Robert (Bob) Nowill

Bob Nowill has had a career as an IT security expert at the Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) and at BT. He helped respond to the change of stance of GCHQ from combating the USSR in the cold war to the more asymmetric challenges faced today. He now works to try to bridge the skills gap between the pool of talent available to combat cyber security issues and the need for more expertise to achieve higher security

2 May 2019

Sir Alan Rudge

Sir Alan Rudge has been called one of the top technical minds in the country. He took an unconventional path to the top doing a City and Guilds telecoms technicians course and then a diploma in electrical engineering at a polytechnic. He worked in the USA, taught at a UK university and then ran the Electrical Research Association. He was headhunted to run R&D at BT: his first act was to hand the R&D budget back to the operating units and make his laboratories bid for projects from the rest of BT. So successful was this approach that he doubled the number in BT R&D.

15 February 2019

David Cleevely CBE

A telecoms & wireless expert, a serial entrepreneur, an advisor to Government on both a National & Local level, a businessman with strong links to academia who vigorously promotes networking, collaboration and the City of Cambridge. David is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology & a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

19 June 2018

Philip Virgo

Philip Virgo worked for Standard Telephones and Cables, and International Computers Limited (ICL). He then worked for the Wellcome Foundation advising on the introduction of IT systems. An active member of the Conservative Party from University he was trusted as a user to help put together Conservative Party policy on IT. He helped form the Parliamentary IT Committee (PITCOM) in the late 1970s to create links between the industry and politicians of all types.

15 June 2018

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