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.

David Smith, CEO of Global Futures and Foresight, and one of the most influential futurists in the UK, will present his views on how organisations need to adjust to a radically new environment in 2021 and what implications this infers for digital leaders. This event will be chaired by Roger Camrass, global research director at CIONET, and will include a panel of distinguished CIO leaders who will respond to David’s predictions.

A leader of 35 years’, principally in the pharmaceutical sector at GlaxoSmithKline, experience across global operational and technology remits, Maureen has deep expertise in the management of manufacturing and supply, she has led and strategically directed global product and transformational programmes across complex multi-national businesses. Experienced in many leadership roles from originating and delivering strategy and solutions to create business value, including synergies from M&A and divestments, to leading crisis management responses.

30 year executive career, 15 years leading IT functions at Executive Board level: CIO at easyJet, The AA, RAC, HomeServe. 9 years at Mars Inc. rising to Head of IT at Mars Confectionery and FourSquare.

Range of non-executive, advisory and coaching roles/clients from Affinity Water, Futurice, the Civil Aviation Authority, Cisco, Savills to A Plan Insurance.

Led high profile and diverse transformation programmes. Substantial experience of acquisitions and disposals, integration activities and turnarounds/restructuring. Extensive team leadership, budget, portfolio and risk management experience and able to facilitate change through others.

Career consciously developed across diverse sectors to ensure broad experience: Travel, Support Services, Insurance, Consumer Packaged Goods and Manufacturing, Banking, Oil and Gas.