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Insider Business of Technology 2011

Date: Tue 4th October, 2011
Venue: The Point, Lancashire County Cricket Club, Talbot Road, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0PX
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Insider Business of Technology

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Confirmed speakers include:

  • Dave Bolton, sales manager, Clever Boxes
  • Alastair Curtis, executive director, FundedApps
  • Lee Campbell, network manager, James Dewhurst
  • John Easton, UK cloud technical leader, IBM
  • Jeremy Gray, data services product manager, Daisy
  • Drew Hamnett, creative director, Future Everything
  • Andy Haslam, IT director, Photolink
  • Bob Haworth, director, Haworth Holt Bell
  • Mark Herbert, business development director, Inty
  • Phil Jones, UK sales and marketing director, Brother UK
  • Rob Lees, managing director, Internova UK Ltd
  • Rick McEvoy, business partner account manager, Lenovo
  • Richard Slater, head of IT, The Football League
  • Adrian Smith, managing director, Flexsys Group
  • Paul Vlissidis, technical director, NGS Secure
  • Technology is both exciting and confusing. The latest developments are snapped up by consumers, and new applications are touted for their ability to save both time and money. But the sector is evolving at such a pace that businesses are finding it hard to keep up, especially with the pressing demands of running day to day operations.

    Insider’s inaugural Business of Technology conference, which is aimed at small to medium-sized companies, will focus on four key areas you need to know about to drive efficiency now. Through a combination of presentations and panel discussions the event will focus on hardware, software, communications and security. Technology experts, alongside business leaders, will be on hand to answer your questions.

    We’ll also look at what offices of the future might look like, drawing on debate during the event and the ideas and predictions from our industry panelists.

    Who should attend?
    Decision makers of SME organisations who control or influence the budgets for their company’s technology purchases.

    Why attend?
    To learn more about how investment in the latest technology can help make your business more efficient and impact on your bottom line.

    Tickets
    If you are interested in booking tickets please contact Lianne Sunderland on 0161 907 9741 as soon as possible – we expect demand for tickets to be high and tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis.

    Sessions

    Session one - hardware

  • Choosing the right equipment
  • Systems maintenance and disposal
  • The future of desktop computing
  • Session two – software

  • cloud migration and understanding the risks
  • gaining value for money
  • flexibility and scalability for growing businesses
  • Session three - communications

  • network infrastructure and storage
  • unified communications
  • mobile technologies
  • Session four - security

  • Prevention and protection
  • local law and jurisdiction where cloud data is held
  • Best practice of companies in the cloud
  • How cloud hosting companies have approached the cloud
  • If you are interested in sponsoring this or any other Insider event please contact David Smalley on 0161 907 9721.

    Please note that this is a half day conference.

    Event sponsored by:

    Business of technology sponsors 2011
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