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Research Director
CIONET UK
A pioneer of today’s Internet in the seventies (at MIT) Roger Camrass has been helping organisations across the Globe harness the power of new technologies and methods for over five decades.
As a thought leader, business executive and part time academic, Roger has introduced a succession of innovations including digital networking in the seventies, outsourcing and call centres in the eighties, business reengineering and third generation mobile networks in the nineties, e-commerce in 2000 and more recently cloud and 5G.
Director General CIO
U.K. Ministry of Defence
Charles Forte was appointed Chief Information Officer for the Ministry of Defence in January 2018. He is the primary advisor to the Defence Board on Information and Digital and is responsible for strategy, policy, delivery, interoperability and protection of all MOD ICT, including cyber security and resilience.
Prior to joining the Ministry of Defence, Charles gained 36 years industry experience
from leading IT globally as Deputy Group Global CIO at BP. Since leaving BP, he
has worked in a variety of consulting and executive roles. He was CEO of Global IT
Services at Prudential, tasked with creating a turnaround in delivery, and as Interim
CIO at Thames Water. He has worked as an independent consultant, helping
businesses create and deliver change to transform their ability to exploit technology
and to build internal capability enabling sustainable and lasting value from IT and
business operations.
He has significant experience in leading business innovation, driving business
change programmes and designing and leading IT delivery at a very large scale in
complex, multi-stakeholder business environments.
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Business Information Security Officer
Thoughtworks
Jim Gumbley is an accomplished Business Information Security Officer with over two decades of experience driving cybersecurity in large organisations. He is a sought-after thought leader in the technology community for his pioneering work in secure software development and his risk-based approach to enterprise security architecture and threat modelling.
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