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UCISA15 Annual Conference and Exhibition
The premier IT event for universities and colleges
by Chris Sexton, Director of CiCS, University
T
he IT environment has been changing rapidly over the last few years – advances in mobile
technology, social media, big data, consumerisation and, more recently, the internet of things are providing both opportunities and challenges for us all. UCISA15 will provide a unique opportunity for CIOs and senior IT professionals to listen to an exciting range of keynote speakers, network with peers and talk to suppliers about how they can take advantage of these new developments and meet the challenges. We are returning this year to historic
Edinburgh, and the Conference will take place in the EICC, the award-winning centre of excellence for world class conferences in the heart of the city. Our opening keynote is from Mary Curnock Cook, Chief Executive of UCAS, who will provide an insight into the HE landscape and how UCAS is accelerating its digital transformation to become the single destination for information and services for progression in learning. Mary will provide an overview of the key drivers for change and how technology can enable UCAS’ vision. As we move more services into
the cloud, we are increasingly more dependent on our internet connections than before, and last year a number of universities lost their internet link for several hours. A case study of what happened and, more importantly, what we can learn, will be presented from the two sides involved. Tim Kidd, Executive Director for Jisc Technologies will give the service provider's view and Chris Sexton, Director of IT at the University of Sheffield will give the IT director's perspective. I’m sure this will provide a valuable learning experience! Emer Coleman, respected journalist
“As we move more services into the cloud, we are increasingly more dependent on our internet connections than before.” Chris Sexton, University of Sheffield
and founder of DSRPTN Digital and Technology Consultancy will talk about threats to incumbents, new business models and the nature of 'We, The Web Kids'. This is the generation who grew up on the web and who have very different expectations of institutions. Very relevant to this is the whole area of how students learn, and how we take advantage of learning technologies, so we are pleased to welcome Jeff Haywood, VP of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh who will bring us up to date with trends and future developments in the field of digital education and eLearning, Big data is a hot topic, and one
organisation that knows all about handling data is HESA. We are pleased to welcome Alison Allden, its Chief Executive, who will explore the future value proposition for HE data in the light of the business case being prepared for changing the approach to the collection of HE data, within the context of the future information landscape (reference HEDIIP). What is the return on the investment in information provision?
What are the opportunities for open and shared data? Who needs it and who wants it? And where does it come from. We will hear about why, after almost
28 years in education with over five as IT Director at Sheffield Hallam University, did Aline Hayes move to local government to take on the same type of role? What would it be like going in to do the same job but in a different kind of organisation with a different kind of customer base and culture? She'll be talking about the differences, similarities and whether she'd recommend being a public sector CIO, based on her experiences so far. From identity theft and fraud to
corporate hacking atacks, cybersecurity has never been more important. There are more security risks to come as cyber criminals become more sophisticated, and although traditional cybercrime such as password fraud will still be widespread, larger-scale atacks to gain access to information including our research data will also increase. We are very pleased to have Charlie McMurdie, Senior Cyber Crime Adviser for PwC and previously head of the Metropolitan
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