This event will tackle business and technology issues facing senior IT leaders today, providing expert advice from industry specialists as well as real life experiences from fellow CIOs...

Find out about:

• Gartner's Top 10 trends driving IT decision making in 2012
• How the Cabinet Office Deputy CIO helped formulate the government G-Cloud strategy
• The trends driving desktop transformation
• How to avoid the common pitfalls which inhibit many desktop virtualisation projects
• How one of the UK's largest NHS Trusts have transformed their approach to IT, by adopting private cloud technologies

Who should attend: CIOs, IT Directors & IT Decision Makers

Event Program

10:00 Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director, Novosco

Welcome & Introduction to Novosco and some of the top issues affecting our customers today.

Ex-Deputy CIO for Central Government responsible for overall ICT Strategy incorporating G-Cloud

Bill will cover how he helped develop and implement a transformation strategy encompassing one of the largest and most complex IT infrastructures in Western Europe at the Cabinet Office.

Within this presentation, hear how Central Government embarked on their Journey to the Cloud, where the perceived benefits lay, and how the G-Cloud Framework is working for users and citizens. This presentation will also discuss the next steps and timescales for utilising G-Cloud, and where the reality is for Public Cloud in the near and long term.

10:45 Philip Dawson

Vice President & Virtualisation Agenda Manager,Gartner Research

Philip Dawson will outline the Top 10 issues affecting IT decision makers in 2012 with a focus on Datacentre technologies.

11:30 Tea & Coffee

Chief Marketing Officer at Unidesk

Tom will be looking at desktop virtualisation, why VDI projects stall, what the common pitfalls are and how these can be addressed with the right approach and technology.

Co-Director for ICT & Telecommunications, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust (BHSCT)

One Healthcare Trust’s journey to the private cloud.

Since the creation of the Belfast Health & Social Care Trust in 2007, Paul Duffy has been responsible for the delivery of an IT & Telecommunications strategy that ensures the seamless transition from seven legacy organisations into one. BHSCT has around 20,000 staff and is one of the largest Health & Social Care Trusts in the UK.

Within this presentation, hear how Paul has used his more than twenty five years’ experience in healthcare ICT to help BHSCT shape its journey to the private cloud, the benefits they have realised and the challenges faced. This presentation will also cover the Trust’s private cloud strategy for the immediate and longer term.