Following the networking lunch, delegates will be able to take part in one of the following workshop sessions to explore issues in depth and receive expert advice.

 

This workshop will look at how ICT is playing an increasing role in linking government services and local authorities to their consumers.  Connected communities use technology to contribute to safer, higher quality services, and deliver front-line services more effectively.  ICT is influencing and shaping education, healthcare, learning, policing, transport and our city centres to reduce dependancy on fossil fuels, lighten our carbon footprints and enable connected urban development. 

 

If you deliver public services, these are issues which will increasingly shape your work in the future.  Join this workshop and

find out what this will mean for your work, future infrastructure, and service development.

 

 

This workshop will look at ways in which software as a service is changing business models for SMEs and micro-businesses especially.  Software as a service allows small businesses to have access to software and services that were once the preserve of large corporate firms, allowing access to marketing systems, customer and supply chain management systems that can greatly reduce their costs whilst massively increasing their customer satisfaction ratings, and their ability to respond to customer needs.

 

Join this workshop and find out how you can make software as a service and cloud computing work for your business and how you can use it to cut your business operating costs and increase profits.

 

 

The MATiSSE Smarter Working programme aims to encourage smarter, more flexible ways of working and reduce the numbers of peak time vehicles on our roads.  This has numerous benefits in terms of improved air quality, less congestion, a lighter environmental impact and a better work/life balance.  This workshop will also look at the newly launched Smarter Working Centres initiative, and explore how technology can enable location independant working.

 

If you are interested in using technology to work remotely, using or operating a Smarter Working Centre, or would like to know more about the health benefits of a more flexible way of working, join this afternoon workshop.