A series of six, one-hour seminars running in the morning and afternoon of the event will allow delegates to understand complex areas of specific interest. The sessions will then open up into an interactive discussion on the key issues raised, giving you the chance to contribute to the debate as well as be updated on hot topics of the day. Some of the seminar areas that will be covered are as follows:

Seminar A: Unified Communications in Practice

Seminar B: Government, the modern data centre, resilience and recovery

Seminar C: Think the next generation of data-stealing malware doesn't have a headline waiting for you? Think again.

Seminar D: Convergence, can the integration of Communications and IT enable transformation?

Seminar E: He Who Hesitates is Lost!

Seminar F: Information Assurance as a Key Enabler for Transformational Government

• Delivering efficiency savings through mobility
• How to build a sustainable wireless city in partnership with a local authority
• Transforming service delivery through culture change
• Sustainable workplace solutions
• Next generation networks
• Delivering customer service excellence
• Reducing costs, improving services
• Transforming government procurement
• Telecoms 2.0 and the Public Sector
• Skills management in IT
• Data Loss Prevention - Data security and handling, challenges and best practice guidance
• Eco friendly working practices
• Improving the UK’s IT capabilities
• Local government IT solutions
• Meeting the digital challenge
• Transforming public sector contact centres
• Energy saving IT initiatives
• Mobile technology for community health workers
• IT initiatives to improve patient safety
• Delivering joined-up citizen centric services
• Web 2.0: improving the communication on social networks
• Business performance and project management solutions
• Managing your physical and virtual IT infrastructure
• A strategic approach to identity management
• Implementing ultra-thin clients at the RPA
• Directions in data centre and desktop virtualisation
• Innovative and sustainable print services
• The sustainable workplace: eco-friendly technology and better working practices
• Going green through virtualisation: The growing data burden and inefficient storage management
• Create a greener footprint and reduce IT costs
• Data warehouse: the green solution

12th November

New Speaker Announced

Dean James, Chief Operating Officer, Department of Work
and Pensions

4th November

New Speaker Announced

Martin Read, Lead Back Office and IT Strand of the Operational Efficiency Programme,
HM Treasury

21st October 2008

New Speaker Announced

Owen Pengelly, Head, Central Sponsor for Information Assurance, Cabinet Office

5th September 2008

New Speaker Announced

Dave Williams, Head of Technology and Innovation, The Environment Agency