In the face of increasing globalisation, virtual teams and mobile
workforces are the new reality. What are the essential items that
will allow you to give your mobile workers access anytime, anywhere
to business critical applications? This online meeting will show
how you can use the latest conferencing and collaboration
technology to address the issues of dispersed organisations. Join
us as we focus on issues such as security and how you can get the
best deal in buying these services.
View Recorded Event: from 20/09/2005 at 2:30PM UK.
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The Panel
Joe O'Halloran
Writer/Consultant with over sixteen years of
experience as an IT/broadcasting/telecoms/design journalist, with
additional experience of working as an engineer in a large
corporation following masters degrees in Computer Aided Engineering
and Analysis and Microwaves and Modern Optics and a BSc in Maths
and Physics.
Currently Project editor for ComputerWeekly.com, in
charge of writing content, commissioning speakers, managing readers
clubs (for IT directors and security professionals respectively)
constructing seminar programmes, and devising research for projects
based around the Computer Weekly and Microscope brands. Also
freelance writer/ consultant for IBE, CSCI, TVB Europe, Future
Digital, Infosecurity Today, Microscope, Computer Weekly,
handbag.com plus high-tech PR firms
Shawn Farshchi, CIO and Vice President, Technical
Operations
Shawn has over 22 years of network and services
management experience at companies such as DHL Airways, Broadvision
and GTE Sprint. As Senior Vice President and CIO of DHL Airways, he
deployed and managed systems and network services for over 250
global locations and led the development of several customer access
and service initiatives. As Senior Vice President and CIO of
Broadvision, he lead worldwide engineering and product development
and re-engineered global IT operations to yield over $10 million
annual cost savings. At GTE Sprint, he oversaw the engineering of
its high-speed fiber optic communications network. Shawn has also
served in a variety of technology and management positions at
Bechtel Power Corp., GTE Spacenet, Oracle, Pacific Gas and Electric
and Syntex Corporation. Shawn holds a BSEE from Cal State
University, San Francisco, and an MS Telecom and MBA from Golden
Gate University.
Bio David Harrison, Chief Executive, Positive
Solutions
Originally from a construction background David
went into financial services in 1983 joining Hambro Life (later to
become Allied Dunbar) as a sales adviser. He worked his way upwards
through sales management, then eventually into a director role. On
leaving Allied Dunbar in 1996 David had become their Area Sales and
Operations director. His style was different to his peers,
believing in strong but small (lean) sales management teams, and
very flat organisational structures. He championed the use of
technology to assist in faster communication and control, and
stripped out many layers of middle management.
He worked with McKinsey and Co. (as part of the AD
team) investigating ways to transform the profitability of the
organisation, and believed that this could only be achieved by
forming a completely new company, rather than attempt to
re-engineer the existing one. Luckily (and predictably) his views
were not agreed with, so he decided to take his own advice and
left, closely followed by one of his senior reporting directors,
Maurice Cotter. They formed Positive Solutions in order to put the
vision into action. David has an MBA through the Open University
business school, which he attained through over 4 years of
personally funded tuition studying in evenings, week ends, and
holidays. The research and lessons learnt from this, together with
the Mckinsey approach has given him a strategic view of how modern
financial services, especially distribution, should be
employed.
Sarah Kittmer, Senior Analyst, Ovum
Sarah Kittmer is a senior analyst within Ovum's
Technology Group, and is responsible for the company's research
into enterprise content management technologies.
Sarah contributes to the Software@Ovum and PublicSector@Ovum
advisory services. She is lead author of Intranet: key to your
workplace future and Email management and archiving: you need
both.
Sarah has been involved with consulting assignments at Ovum,
focusing on content management and intranet strategies for the UK
Government. Prior to joining Ovum, she worked as a business
consultant, with clients in a wide range of industries including
public sector, retail and travel.
Sarah speaks regularly at conferences around the globe on
content management, collaboration and related topics, and regularly
writes for journals and trade publications.
Sarah has been working in the IT industry for nine years as an
analyst and consultant. She holds an MSc in Information Technology
and a BA in French with Spanish.
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