Carl is an executive with a blend of expertise covering strategy and implementation, head of unit, interim head of unit, start-up business development and thought leadership. Carl has cross-industry experience and has acted as an advisor, CIO and CTO for several organisations.

Carl is a member of Capgemini’s leadership team with responsibility for innovation, and is a leading contributor to its thought leadership in business technology. Prior to the CTO role at Capgemini Carl ran its Technology Consulting business (TCG).

Carl is chair-elect for a new working group of the British Computer Society looking at IT futures.

 

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Mark has 24 years of Local Government experience gained at the local, regional and national level. Mark has worked in ICT, Housing and Emergency Management. Mark was the founding programme Manager of London connects, London’s e-Government agency, where he led on pan-London Infrastructure and Security projects.

Mark has worked with the London Resilience Team and through Socitm has led on the Local Authority WARP (Warning, Advice and Reporting Point), Security programme.

Mark is currently engaged through Socitm with the National Information assurance Strategy, working with CSIA on the Local Government delivery approach and with the LGA on the Local Government response to the Data Handling review. Mark is the co-Chair of the Cabinet Office pan-government information assurance group.

 

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David currently earns a crust as a Norfolk-based technology consultant, specialising in networking, telecomms, security and Internet application development. He has variously worked as a systems and network manager in academia and the defence industry, a full-time writer, technical director of an international test lab, head of IT for a multi-national publisher and CTO of both an Internet startup and later a venture capital organisation. Since 1996 David has been a member of the judging panel for the UK Networking Industry Awards. When not writing copy for TechWorld or developing Web sites for friends and family, David's main weekend vice is spending vast amounts of money renting light aircraft to fly over the mountains of Norfolk.

 

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Maxwell Cooter has been editor-in-chief of Techworld from the start after he and John Dunn came up with the concept of an online publication for UK enterprises.

 

Before his time on Techworld we worked on several online ventures and was previously editor-in-chief of the UK's first networking weekly, Network Week. He has worked on several IT magazines, freelanced for most of the leading titles, and has also worked in statistical analysis for a supermarket chained. He trained as a programmer but found writing about IT more rewarding that writing code.

 

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James Governor is co-founder and principal of RedMonk, the first analyst firm built on open source methods. He advises companies on technology, community development and customer strategies.

 

James also edits Greenmonk, a blog looking at how social media, open data and grassroots efforts can improve environmental outcomes. Greenmonk underpins clean tech advisory services at RedMonk. James serves as an adviser to the Movement Design Bureau think-tank and associated projects such as the Akvo water quality project for developing nations, which recently gained funding to the tune of 500k euros. He is co-author of the forthcoming O'Reilly publication Web 2.0 Design Patterns.

 

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Mr. Gylden leads the Network Infrastructure Consulting practice in Accenture. Mr. Gylden has been with Accenture for 17 years and has focused on infrastructure and networks for the entirety of that time. The Accenture Network Infrastructure Consulting Practice counts 250 full time professionals aligned directly to the practice and a total interest group of over 1000.

 

Mr. Gylden is based Prague and has spent the last 13 years of his career on clients in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. His most recent experience has been in the Retail, Oil & Gas and Financial Services sectors.

 

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Martin co-ordinates IDC's main thought leadership themes in the region and is responsible for improving IDC's reputation for qualitative research in the region. He also heads up its ICT Markets research, publishing market overview and theme-based studies.

 

As an analyst Martin has focused primarily on server and PC markets, although he has also contributed to a number of other research projects in the workstation, distribution and software areas – writing a large number of studies, reports and bulletins for IDC, as well as presenting its opinions about the development of computer usage and purchasing trends. He regularly contributes as lead analyst in primary research projects conducted by IDC in the UK, EMEA and the US. Current topics in his research are Green ICT, Virtualization, Convergence, Corporate and Social Responsibility and the Digital marketplace.

 

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Carolyn is the Chairman of the Communications Management Association, CMA, an association of professionals from the communications user community.

Carolyn’s career has spanned International Global Networking Management, Independent Consultancy, an SME start-up, strategic management support for a Corporate offshore call centre and external relationship activity.

Carolyn is currently heading up the external relationships activity for TechCaliber Consulting, a leading provider of benchmarking and professional services for enterprise users of worldwide telecommunications services which sits well with her priorities.

She represents CMA on the UK Trade and Industry ICT  Strategy Advisory Group the Parliamentary IT Committee Council and is a director of Women in Telecommunications and Technology.

 

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Janice McGinn is research director at The 451 Group. Before joining The 451 Group, McGinn was editor of CIO Magazine UK. Prior to that, she was editor of MIS UK and The C Magazine, and worked at City brokerage Killik & Co as editor and equity analyst. She also has worked for other well-known IT publications including ComputerWire's Computergram International.

 

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Mike is the Editor of ComputerWorldUK, joining IDG from Reed, where he worked on Computer Weekly and ComputerWeekly.com since 1999. He was News editor at the launch of ComputerWeekly.com in 2001 and news editor of a combined Computer Weekly and ComputerWeekly.com operation from 2003.

 

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Martin Veitch is Editor In Chief at CIO magazine. He started his IT journalism career at PC Week in 1990 and joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 to help launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor. In 1996 he set up ZDNet News, an early web-based service. After joining IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998, he was appointed Editor in May 1999 and Executive Editor in 2001. His other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, The Guardian and CFO magazine. He also speaks at various conferences.

 

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