Defender to Disruptor: Rethinking Scale

 Defender to Disruptor: Rethinking Scale 

 The secrets of rapid scale and innovation 
Time
 18:00 - 21:30 
Calendar
 Wed 13 November 2019 
Location
 Lumiere, Southbank, SE1 0DW 

Platform companies and digital innovators have redefined the concept of scale, enabling game-changing products and services to reach customers more rapidly than ever before.

What are the principles behind the rapid scale characteristic of the digital era? What approaches to data, infrastructure and technology strategy underpin high growth?

This lively evening event brings together digital innovators to explore the new rules of growth and scale.

18:00 Registration opens.  Drinks reception

18.25 Welcome and introduction

18.30 New rules of growth

Sunil Kumar, VP, Chief Data Office, Barclays

18.45 Growth in the digital era: challenges for data & infrastructure

Damian Smith, Head of IT, England and Wales Cricket Board 

19.00 Case study: from start-up to scale up

19.15 Panel Discussion: Rethinking scale 

  • Reflecting on a decade of disruption - what are the new fundamentals of growth?
  • Digital disruptors: what can you emulate vs where do you innovate?
  • What technology choices underpin growth and innovation? 
  • How is data proliferation driving new behaviours? 
  • Too big for cloud? Options beyond public cloud for digital growth

Sunil Kumar, VP, Chief Data Office, Barclays

Damian Smith, Head of IT, England and Wales Cricket Board

Nigel Moulton, Global Chief Technology Officer, Dell

Gem Keitley, Director Client Engineering, NTT

20.00 Closing remarks

Drinks, canapés and networking

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Speaker - Damian Smith

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Damian has been building information systems and transforming organisations for more than twenty-five years, in a range of sectors including Defence, Telecoms, FMCG, Sports, Media, Financial Services and Financial Regulation. 

Damian is Head of IT at the England and Wales Cricket Board and tenuously claims responsibility for England winning the  Men’s Cricket World Cup this year and the Women’s Cricket World Cup in 2017.  Before Damian realised that his future lay in information technology, he ran pubs, climbed mountains and starred as a body double for Tom Cruise in Hollywood movies.

Speaker - Sunil Kumar

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Sunil is the Vice President, Chief Data Office at Barclays UK. He has over 20 years experience in leading data teams, defining business models and successfully delivering architectural plans within the Financial Services industry. 

He has worked at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Citibank and JP Morgan Chase. He also pursues an interest in smart cities and IoT.

 

Registration

This is a private event for members of our community. Membership is free and takes less than 5 minutes. As a member, you will have access to this and other complimentary events. Learn more.

This event is for 30 x Heads, VPs, Directors, Senior Managers and the drivers of live projects whose responsibilities include information, technology, cloud, platform, IT, architecture, innovation, infrastructure, information security, cybersecurity, dev ops, applications, networks, and telelcoms.

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