Join the Warwick Technology & Energy professional networks at our joint event on Friday 20th May 2016 at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

We live in times where technology is invading everywhere and creating brand new opportunities but also introducing new risk and governance issues for policy , business strategy and individuals alike. Following the recent examples of the Apple versus FBI case over personal data privacy; the win by AlphaGo versus the grand master in GO, to the UK government plan to roll out smart metering nationally in the UK this year and the intervention by government security to add additional security protection to prevent hacking, these are suggesting a shift in the connecting power of technology that is pushing beyond human experience into uncharted consequences. We are now growing past the early innocence of Moore’s law that is not just hugely powerful computing and data storage and global networks but a scaling out and new intelligence that is challenging the very basis of human rights, jobs and competitive behaviors.

This session brings together a diverse set of speakers around this central emerging question of technology power versus governance and rights and discusses what should businesses need to do to address possible near futures of work, automation and this convergence around faster rapidly changing business strategies and disruptive dilemmas.

Schedule

5:30pm Registration & Welcome Drinks 6:15pm

Introduction to the disruptive convergence of data privacy, connectivity and intelligence

Dr Xiao Ma - Personal data economy – Hub-of-all-things
Prof. David Elmes - Integration of Energy Demand and supply management implications
Mike Brooman - Managed Services, AV Systems, Smart Buildings
Dr John Oyekan - Digital Manufacturing – VR , AR, Computational Intelligence

7:30pm Panel debate 8pm Networking 8:30pm Close

Speakers

Mark Skilton
Professor of Practice
Warwick Business School
I am a +30 Experienced Professional Consultant with a track record in top 1000 Companies in over 20 countries and across multi public, private and start-up sectors. I've direct Industrial experience of commercial practice leadership, boardroom and investor strategy to program team and transformation management at scale. I'm a recognized International thought leader in Digital, company strategy, Telecoms, Digital markets and M&A strategies, CxO practices and Author of books and International papers. My work and views have been published in the FT, NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, Bloomberg, AP, Mail, NewScientist, Nature, Scientific American and many channels around the world, TV and Radio including BBC, Sky, ITV, Al Jazeera and many others, I support Warwick with Industrial Best Practice in my interests and expertise areas.

Dr John Oyekan
Research Fellow, Manufacturing Informatics Lab, Cranfield University A proactive, creative and enthusiastic research and product development engineer with expertise in developing algorithms (via Python, C++, C#, C, Java, Lua, MySQL, Oracle) for data informatics, machine learning, artificial intelligent algorithms, robotics (SLAM, control theories etc), embedded systems and interfacing with novel sensors.

Dr Xiao Ma
Senior Research Fellow
Warwick Manufacturing Group

Research Expertise: Semantic Web, Ontology, Social Media, Cloud Technology & Internet Of Things
Research Methods: Social Network Analysis, Big/Linked/Open Data

Mike Brooman
CEO, Vanti
Mike is CEO (Chief Engagement Officer) at Vanti, an organisation implementing and supporting ICT, audio-visual and smart building technologies, based at Innovation Birmingham Campus. Having worked with clients such as Accenture, London Stock Exchange, Dell Computers, Carillion, Verizon Wireless, and Capgemini, Mike advises on a variety of technology solutions that offer new and remarkable ways of conducting otherwise everyday processes. Mike has also been shortlisted for the prestigious Birmingham Young Professional of the Year awards; the winners will be announced at the ceremony on 12 May

David Elmes
Professor of Practice, Warwick Business School

David joined WBS in 2008 as Academic Director for the Warwick Global Energy MBA after more than 20 years working in the energy & management consulting industries. After graduating in Natural Sciences from Christ's College, Cambridge, David joined BP, working in the UK then the US. While in the US he completed his MBA at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he received the Dean's Award for academic excellence. He then joined Gemini Consulting in 1995 and, after various mergers, was Vice President with the UK Energy, Utilities & Chemicals team of CapGemini. More

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