Near Northamptonshire - BCS Bedford event - Computer Law after Brexit

Computer Law (including Data Protection Law) after Brexit

Dai Davis

Partner, Percy Crow Davis & Co.

Tuesday, 4^th July 2017

6.30-8.00pm

(Registration starts at 6:30pm)

Tavistock Suite

The Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street,

Bedford MK42 0AR

(Free Parking at the rear – Inform Hotel Reception)

Register online at: https://events.bcs.org/book/2605/

This talk examines the legislative outcome of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, with an emphasis on Computer Law. The primary protection of Software in the United Kingdom is by virtue of a European Union law originally passed in 1991 but restated in Directive 2009/24/EC on the legal protection of computer programs. Not only will certain aspects of that legislation change on Brexit, but also in fact it can be argued that the law has already changed. Data Protection has taken a tough new turn with the passing of the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in May 2016. Irrespective of the “Brexit” vote, this new European Union Regulation will, in any event, come into force on 25th May 2018. While it is possible that is subsequently changed after the UK leaves the European Union, it is inconceivable that the UK will leave the European Union without retaining the GDPR. One reason for this is because, were it do so, European financial institutions would be prohibited from sharing data with UK organisations.

Dai Davis is a Technology Lawyer.  He holds Masters degrees in both Physics and Computer Science.  He is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.  Dai has consistently been recommended in the Legal 500 and in Chambers Guides to the Legal Profession.  Having been national head of Intellectual Property Law and later national head of Information Technology law at Eversheds for a number of years, Dai is now a partner in his own specialist law practice, Percy Crow Davis & Co. 

Although he works in Leeds and London on a weekly basis, he has clients throughout the country and also works out of other cities such as Manchester and Birmingham regularly.  Dai advises clients on intellectual property in Information Technology products, and all types of computer and technology law issues including such topical matters as Open Source, IT Security, Cloud Computing and Data Protection issues.  Dai is a non-executive director of FAST (The Federation Against Software Theft) and a Freeman of the WCIT (Worshipful Company of Information Technologists). 

He is primarily a non-contentious lawyer, specialising in advising on commercial agreements relating to software and technology products, including outsourcing agreements, web-related contracts and data protection.  A further “super specialism” that Dai has practised for over two decades is high-tech product safety and product recall, including the law relating to CE Marking.  Dai can be contacted on 07785 771 721 or mail@daidavis.com. 

Agenda

6.30pm             Registration, refreshments and networking

7.00pm             Guest Speaker – Dai Davis

8.00pm             Opportunity to network and talk to the speaker

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BCS (Bedford) Artifical Intelligence: How did we get here and where are we going?

Taken from: http://beds.bcs.org/event.php?event=130

Artifical Intelligence: How did we get here and where are we going?

Date	Tuesday 21 Feb 2017
Time	18:30-20:00
Registration	Please register for this event
Location	Tavistock Suite, The Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street, Bedford MK42 0AR
Speaker	Professor Max Braemer, University of Portsmouth.
Abstract	Professor Bramer joined the small Artificial Intelligence (AI) research community in Britain as a part-time PhD student in the early 1970s, just in time to see the field virtually wiped out in this country following a very hostile report to the main national funding agency. AI techniques have become near-ubiquitous in recent years, often under other names such as Recommendation Systems, Intelligent Robotics, Conversational Agents or Big Data. It is now possible to discuss the idea of a machine possibly becoming intelligent in respectable circles and AI has gone from being dismissed as of no value 40 years ago to being denounced today as a possible threat to the survival of our species. In this talk Professor Bramer will give a personal and highly selective view of the history of this important field and he will look at some of the ways in which AI is now in everyday use and some recent high-level applications, together with the issues of legal liability some of them raise. Finally he will consider some alternative possible AI futures and to what extent the warnings that are now being made about AI by some prominent people are justified. Max Bramer is Emeritus Professor of Information Technology at the University of Portsmouth. He is Chair of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) and Vice-President of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), a consortium of around 50 national and international IT societies, including the BCS and the ACM. He is also a Chartered Fellow of the BCS. Professor Bramer has been actively involved in the AI field since the early 1970s. He has led or supervised many AI projects since then, mainly in Knowledge Based Systems and the area that is now known as Data Mining or Big Data. He has written extensively on AI and other topics with over 200 publications, including many books and edited collections of papers. He has also presented well over 100 external lectures, seminars, etc. on a variety of topics, principally concerning Artificial Intelligence and the use of computers in education, including lectures in Denmark, Canada, Holland, Spain, Japan, the Republic of Ireland, the former Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, the United States, China and Australia. The third edition of his book 'Principles of Data Mining' is scheduled for publication in January 2017.
Agenda	18:30 Registration, refreshments and networking 19:00 Guest speaker - Professor Max Bramer 20:00 Opportunity to network and talk to the speaker
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BCS Bedford event: Cybercrime - Prevent and Protect

Cybercrime - Prevent and Protect

Sean O’Neil and Danny Howett "AN Investigator", Bedfordshire Police

Wednesday, 23^th November 2016

7.00-8.00pm

(Registration starts at 6:30pm)

Pilgrim Suite, Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street, Bedford MK42 0AR

(Free Parking at the rear – Inform Hotel Reception on arrival )

Register online at: https://events.bcs.org/book/2327/ 

Agenda

6.30pm                        Registration, refreshments and networking

7.00pm                        Talk by Sean O’Neil and Danny Howett "AN Investigator"

7.40pm                        Questions and Answers

8.00pm                        Networking

Speakers:

Sean O’Neil  LLb (Hon) MSyl, has extensive law enforcement experience having served for 30 years in UK Police service.  He was a fully qualified ‘Senior Investigating Officer’ (SIO), with vast experience in dealing with ‘Critical incidents’ and ‘Crisis Management’ affecting organisational reputation.  He is now tasked to provide cyber security advice to business; to help prevent cybercrime attacks and bring companies together to learn and tackle cyber enabled crime.

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BCS Bedford Event: Disability, Accessibility, Personalisation, inclusion and Design

                    Disability, Accessibility, Personalisation,

                Inclusion and Design

                       Peter Abrahams

                               Secretary, BCS Digital Accessibility Specialist Group

Tuesday, 8^th November 2016

6.30-8.00pm

(Registration starts at 6:00pm)

Tavistock Suite

The Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street,

Bedford MK42 0AR

(Free Parking at the rear – Inform Hotel Reception)

                                   

Register online at: https://events.bcs.org/book/2265/

Peter joined IBM as a student in 1966. Specialised in databases and system design. Retired in 2003 and joined Bloor Research.

In 2004 his experience with some disabled friends and a report by the Disabilities Rights Commission prompted him to start research into IT accessibility for the disabled. Recognising the growing importance of this area he set up Bloor's Usability and Accessibility practice and now devotes most of his research to this area.

He is a founder member and secretary of the BCS Digital Accessibility Specialist Group.

Agenda

6.00pm                 Registration, refreshments and networking

6.30pm                 Guest Speaker – Peter Abrahams

7.20pm                 Opportunity to question the speaker

7.45pm                 Opportunity to network and talk to the speaker

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BCS Bedford Event: Fortran, alive and well at 59!

 ' Fortran, alive and well at 59! ' 

                        Speaker: Peter Crouch | Chairman, BCS Fortran Specialist Group

Followed by Branch AGM

Tuesday, 20^th September 2016

6.30-8.00pm

(Registration starts at 6:00pm)

Tavistock Suite

The Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street,

Bedford MK42 0AR

(Free Parking at the rear – Inform Hotel Reception)

The talk will cover the history of Fortran from its inception in the 1950s to today, including its evolution through the standardisation of the language from the 1960s through to the 2010s and the Fortran Specialist Group's role in the UK and internationally in that evolution from 1970 to today. Some of the features of modern Fortran will be described together with examples of its current applications, including weather forecasting and climate prediction, computational chemistry and the design and maintenance of high performance cars and aircraft.

 Register online at: https://events.bcs.org/book/2170/ 

Peter Crouch joined the D and R Laboratory of International Nickel in Birmingham in 1968 to work on the technology of nickel electrodeposition after completing his PhD in inorganic coordination chemistry at the University of Reading.

His involvement with computing began in the late 1970s when he started using early personal computers for the statistical analysis of his experimental results.  Initially he used BASIC and Pascal but in the early 1980s he began to use Fortran.

In 1985 he was offered the opportunity to work full time as a software developer on the computer aided design and manufacturing systems of Inco Engineered Products.  He worked as a Fortran, and later C, programmer until 2001.

In the early 1990s he joined the BCS and later the Birmingham Branch committee.  He became Chairman of the branch in 1997.In the late 1990s he had joined the Fortran SG committee as Web Editor and became Chairman in 2002, within days of stepping down as Chairman of the Birmingham Branch!

Agenda

6.00pm                        Registration, refreshments and networking

6.30pm                        Guest Speaker – Peter Crouch

7.20pm                        Opportunity to question the speaker

7.45pm                        Opportunity to network and talk to the speaker

8.00pm                        Bedford Branch AGM 2016 – Everyone is welcome to attend 

 All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with

BCS (Bedford) event: Social Project Management – Go Social or Die

Social Project Management – Go Social or Die

Jonnie Jensen, CEO | Online Business Strategist, Live And Social

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

6.30-8.00pm

(Registration starts at 6:00pm)

Tavistock Suite

The Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street, Bedford MK42 0AR

(Free Parking at the rear – Inform Hotel Reception)

Register online at: https://events.bcs.org/book/1951/

Jonnie is founder of content marketing and social business agency Live And Social (http://www.liveandsocial.com/). His career has involved the internet, mobile and all things digital since 1999.  This work helped him recognise that social media was going to transform the way we communicate and operate in business, as well as our personal lives.  Live And Social was launched in 2007 to help B2B companies utilise social media across their entire business, raising their profile, generating leads and growing their business in the process.

Agenda

6.00pm                        Registration, refreshments and networking

6.30pm                        Guest Speaker – Jonnie Jensen

7.20pm                        Opportunity to question the speaker

7.45pm                        Opportunity to network and talk to the speaker

You can engage in  discussion via: 

https://www.facebook.com/bcs.bedford 

https://twitter.com/BCSBedford 

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4701821  

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BCS Bedford and IET: Network Rail Southeast Map Project

Details taken from: http://www.beds.bcs.org.uk/event.php?event=118

Network Rail Southeast Map Project

Date	Tuesday 23 Feb 2016
Time	18:30
Registration	Please register for this event
Location	Tavistock Suite, The Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street, Bedford MK42 0AR (Free parking at rear - inform hotel reception)
Speakers	Alan Dalley and Katherine Thomas, Network Rail.
Abstract	The project to develop and deliver the Southeast Map app for Network Rail used leading-edge mobile technologies to process and present large amounts of publicly available train running data seamlessly, enabling operational staff to make better informed decisions, enable faster recovery of rail network performance following incidents and provide better quality information to passengers. Its unique value is in the way live data is presented through a simple and recognisable map-based interface. Information that was previously delivered in a complex and inefficient way is now available at a glance to a wider customer base, reducing costs and improving insight, responsiveness and communication with passengers. From the initial customer requirement the project used agile delivery techniques to provide a proof of concept, engage the customer through collaboration, manage complex data and undertake testing to deliver a highly innovative product.
Agenda	6.00pm Registration, refreshments and networking 6.30pm Guest Speakers - Alan Daley & Katherine Thomas 7.20pm Opportunity to question the speakers 7.45pm Opportunity to network and talk to the speakers
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BCS Bedford: How to select your new cloud provider: A rigorous, effective and proven approach

A BCS (British Computer Society) Bedford branch Event at the Park Inn, Bedford

Date: Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Topic: ”How to select your new cloud provider: A rigorous, effective and proven approach”

Speakers: Martin Tate

Time:  6.30-8.00pm; registration starts at 6:00pm

Location:  Tavistock Suite, The Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street, Bedford MK42 0AR

Register online at:  https://events.bcs.org/book/1845

You are warmly invited to attend a FREE evening talk at The Park Inn, Bedford (opposite Bedford College) on Wednesday 27 January 2016.

”How to select your new cloud provider: A rigorous, effective and proven approach” is the topic of a talk by Martin Tate.

Most organisations under-estimate the risks when selecting IT solutions such as cloud provision.  They use conventional product procurement approaches, or the informal “I’ll know it when I see it”.  Martin Tate’s presentation explains why ordinary approaches pretty much guarantee the best candidate will withdraw or be de-listed.  He illustrates his methodical approach using an actual cloud selection – his first was in 2002, before it was even termed cloud – the winner was provably a better fit, but less than one-tenth the cost of the runner up.

A ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’, Martin formerly worked for an IT provider and was trained to sell software.  He has been an independent consultant for over 20 years, specialising in evaluating, selecting and procuring off-the-shelf solutions.  He has personally run or rescued 52 selection projects and appraised over 1,000 candidate solutions.  However, the most important statistic is zero – never once has an IT selection gone through his method and procured software that proved unfit for purpose.

BCS awarded Martin Chartered Fellow status in 2007 for eminence in the field of IT selections and in March published his book ‘Off-The-Shelf IT Solutions: A practitioner's guide to selection and procurement’. 

More recently, the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) published his article ‘IT Requirements when Buying, not Making: Effective specifications to select off-the-shelf software’ in the latest RE Magazine.  You can read this article at: http://re-magazine.ireb.org/issues/2015-4-building-the-extreme/

 

Agenda

6.00pm        Registration, refreshments and networking

6.30pm        Introduction

"How to select your new cloud provider: A rigorous, effective and proven approach”

7.20pm        Opportunity to question the speaker

7.45pm        Thanks

Opportunity to network and talk to the speakers

There is free parking to the rear of The Park Inn Hotel.  Note: Please give your vehicle registration at reception on arrival otherwise you may incur a penalty charge.  Parking spaces are also available at a £1 charge on the Bedford College Campus.  There are also free parking areas in the vicinity.

Everybody is welcome – please mention this to friends and colleagues.

Register online at:  https://events.bcs.org/book/1845

Information on this and other talks are available on our Branch website: www.beds.bcs.org.uk

. All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with

Near Northamptonshire BCS (Bedford) Talk Wed 16 Sept "Cyber - The Challenge for us all" and BCS Branch AGM

Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2015 

 Topic: ”Cyber – The challenge for us all”
 Speaker: Detective Superintendent Jon Gilbert, Strategic Lead for Cyber for Bedfordshire Police 
 Time: 6.30-8.00pm; registration starts at 6:00pm 

 Location: Bridge Suite, The Park Inn Hotel, 2 St Mary's Street, Bedford MK42 0AR 

 Register online at: https://events.bcs.org/book/1701 

FREE evening talk at The Park Inn Hotel, Bedford (opposite Bedford College) on Wednesday 16 September 2015. The talk will be followed immediately by the Bedford BCS Branch’s 2015 Annual General Meeting. 

Superintendent Jon Gilbert is the strategic lead for Cyber for Bedfordshire Police and previously led the delivery for the East of England in support of a co-ordinated National Policing response to Cyber 

 Jon’s talk will cover the following topics: 
· An overview of the current use and adoption of (information) technology · Associated risks and criminal exploitation 
· Law Enforcement Strategy and response to the challenges posed 
· Emerging opportunities moving forward in partnership 

Cyber crime is one of the fastest growing criminal activities across the world, and can affect both individuals and businesses. Bedfordshire Police is now embarking on a comprehensive response to cyber crime, working together with partners to research real-world cyber issues, and developing strategies to both prevent and protect against the ever-changing cyber crime profile. In August this year, Bedfordshire Police were proud to announce the launch of its innovative new Cyber Hub – a unit dedicated to analysing digital data to investigate cyber crime. 

The full agenda for the Bedford BCS Branch’s 2015 AGM can be found at: http://www.beds.bcs.org.uk/event.php?event=114 

 Agenda 
 6.00pm Registration, light refreshments and networking 
 6.30pm Introduction ‘Cyber – The challenge for us all’ 
 7.15pm Opportunity to question the speaker 
 7.30pm Bedford BCS branch’s 2015 AGM 

 Registration registering online at: https://events.bcs.org/book/1701 . 

 If you'd like to find out more about Computing at the University of Northampton go to: www.computing.northampton.ac.uk. All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with

British Computer Society ( Northampton and Bedford ): Bletchley Park The National Museum of Computing Family Day

Taken from: http://northampton.bcs.org/events.php?menu_id=4

Doors open at 10.30am for an 11.00am start

You are warmly invited to take part in a Family Day in July at Bletchley Parks National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) on Sunday 19 July. Bring all the family – there will be activities suitable for children of all ages.

This event is for members of BCS Bedford and Northampton branches and their families. 

TNMOC enables visitors to follow the development of computing from the ultra-secret pioneering efforts of the 1940s through the mainframes of the 1960s and 1970s, and the rise of personal computing in the 1980s - including a newly rebuilt and fully operational Colossus, the world’s first electronic programmable computer.

TNMOC receives no government or lottery funding and you will be impressed by the enthusiasm of the staff involved in the project including the many volunteers who regularly give up their valuable time to ensure that this ever growing collection is restored and maintained.

It would be a good idea to register NOW since the number is limited to a maximum of 50 (25 people from each branch) and the event is heavily subsidised by the BCS. Note that children below the age of 6 years are welcome but will not be included in these numbers (but we still need their details for catering purposes). The cost per person (6 years and over) for the whole day is £10 and this includes a finger/sandwich buffet lunch. Registration is only available to BCS members.

A base room will be made available for use during the day with tea, coffee and water freely available all day. The LEGO will be kept in this room so that those who do not complete the competition in the morning will have the opportunity to try it in the afternoon.

Northampton Members Registration

TNMOC Directions

Bletchley Park

Event Flyer

If you'd like to find out more about Computing at the University of Northampton go to: www.computing.northampton.ac.uk. All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with

BCS Bedford: Google self-driving car: Be driven

The University of Bedfordshire’s BCS Student Chapter Event at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton

Date: Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Theme: “Google self-driving car: Be driven”

Speaker:  Dr Chris Urmson, Director, Self-Driving Cars, Google[x]

Time:  2.00pm for a 2.15pm start

Location:  The Postgraduate and CPD Centre, University of Bedfordshire (Luton Campus), Park Square, Luton LU1 3JU

Register online at:   https://events.bcs.org/book/1458/

You are warmly invited to attend a FREE afternoon lecture at The Postgraduate and CPD Centre, University of Bedfordshire, Luton on Wednesday 25 March 2015.  This event is organised by the University’s BCS Student Chapter.

Self-driving will save lives, save time, and offer mobility to those who otherwise don’t have it.  Eventually they will reshape the way we live in, and move through, our communities and cities.

A dedicated team at Google has spent the last five years moving self-driving vehicles closer to a reality.  New algorithms, increased processing power, innovative sensors and massive amounts of data enable our vehicles to see further, understand more and handle a wide variety of challenging driving scenarios.  Our vehicles have driven over a half million miles on highways, suburban and urban streets. Through this journey, we’ve learned a lot; not just about how to drive, but about interacting with drivers, users and others on the road, and about what it takes to bring in incredibly complex system to fruition. I’ll share some fun stories and lessons along with our vision for how these vehicles will become a reality.

About the Speaker

As Director of Self-Driving Cars at Google(x), Chris Urmson leads Google’s self-driving car program. The team’s vehicles have driven over three quarters of a million miles. Prior to joining Google, Chris was on the faculty of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where his research focused on motion planning and perception for robotic vehicles. During his time at Carnegie Mellon, he worked with house size trucks, drove robots around in deserts, and served as the Director of Technology for the team that won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He earned his PhD in 2005 from Carnegie Mellon and his BSc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1998. 

Car-Parking:  There is no parking available on the Luton Campus but there are a large number of public and privately owned car-parks in the vicinity.

Agenda

2.00pm            Registration, refreshments and networking

2.15pm            Introduction

                        “Google self-driving car: Be driven”

3.15pm            Opportunity to question the speaker

3.30pm            Thanks

Opportunity to network and talk to the speaker

Register online at:  https://events.bcs.org/book/1458

If you'd like to find out more about Computing at the University of Northampton go to: www.computing.northampton.ac.uk. All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with

British Computer Society (Bedford) Computer Security and Ethical Hacking

Joint Event between the University of Bedfordshire’s BCS Student Chapter and the Bedford branch of the British Computer Society

Date: Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Theme: “Computer Security and Ethical Hacking”

Speaker:  Geraint Williams, Information Risk Consultant and Trainer, IT Governance Ltd., Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire.

Time:  6.30-8.00pm

Location:  University of Bedfordshire (Luton Campus), Park Square, Luton LU1 3JU

Register online at: https://events.bcs.org/book/1416/

Details on www.beds.bcs.org.uk

Abstract

There will be a joint British Computer Society (BCS) (Bedford branch) and the University of Bedfordshire’s BCS Student Chapter lecture on Wednesday 25 February 2015.

“Computer Security and Ethical Hacking” is the topic of a talk and demonstration by Geraint Williams, Information Risk Consultant and Trainer, IT Governance Ltd., and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire.

The talk is designed as an introductory session on computer security and ethical hacking and will include a demonstration of how a weakness in an operating system can be exploited to take over the machine - allowing the attacker to gain full control.

The main areas to be covered – what is meant by computer security, phishing analysis, ethical hacking, a practical demonstration of hacking a computer and a brief discussion of wireless security.

The existence of the Internet and the wealth of resources it facilitates is so entwined with our daily lives that our IT systems and the data they hold can no longer live in isolation.  The online society in which we now exist, demands that we stay connected - making cyber crime a lucrative and ever-present threat.

Geraint will provide an overview of the concepts of data security and discuss the common attack strategies; he will demonstrate the tools, social engineering techniques and operating systems vulnerabilities that hackers could use to exploit their victims.

Geraint will conclude with an insight into the careers opportunities available in the area of Security Testing - more commonly known as Ethical Hacking - and options for further study.

Geraint Williams is an Information Risk Consultant and Trainer for IT Governance Ltd. and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire.  Geraint is a knowledgeable and experienced Information Security consultant with experience including vulnerability testing, digital forensics, secure networking, and wireless security issues.  Geraint has a strong technical knowledge of security and IT infrastructure including high performance computing.  Geraint has a number of certifications in security and digital forensics including CISSP, CISA, CEH and CHFI.

Agenda

6.00pm                        Registration, refreshments and networking

6.30pm                        Introduction

                Computer Security and Ethical Hacking

7.20pm                        Opportunity to question the speaker

7.45pm                        Thanks

                Opportunity to network and talk to the speaker

Everybody is welcome – please bring friends and colleagues.

Register online at:  https://events.bcs.org/book/1416/

Details of past and futures events can be found on www.beds.bcs.org.uk

If you'd like to find out more about Computing at the University of Northampton go to: www.computing.northampton.ac.uk. All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with

British Computer Society (Bedford) Women in Computing ? Breaking Myths and Broadening Horizons

BEDS BCS talk on “Women in Computing ? Breaking Myths and Broadening Horizons. Details of the event and registration are below.

University of Bedfordshire – BCS Student Chapter Event

Date: Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Theme: “Women in Computing – Breaking Myths and Broadening Horizons”

Time:  5.00pm-7.00pm

Location:  Room P107, University of Bedfordshire (Luton Campus), Park Square, Luton LU1 3JU

Register online at: https://events.bcs.org/book/1417/

Abstract

The University of Bedfordshire BCS Student Chapter invites you to an inspirational evening on Wednesday 11 February 2015 dedicated to female graduates, students and professionals looking for a career change who are interested in pursuing a career in the world of technology.

Hear first-hand from some of the industry’s technologists how they have excelled in their field and taken steps to address the gender imbalance in the industry. From networking to practical advice the evening will give you an insight into the spectrum of varied and rewarding opportunities open to anyone embarking on a career in IT.

Only 17% of IT professionals in the UK are women.  According to research, while women achieve 57% of Bachelor degrees, just 12% of computer science degrees are awarded to women.  Why is this happening?

Guest speakers include:

●     Elizabeth Sheldon, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer; Evidence Talks (ETL)

●     Katherine Brewster BA (Hons), Graduate Recruitment and Events Consultant, FDM Group

●     Madeleine Field, People Development Manager, FDM Group

●     Margaret Long FLPI, IT E-Learning Supervisor, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

●     Dr Ismini Vasileiou, Lecturer in Information Systems, University of Plymouth

●     Dr Herbert Daly, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Bedfordshire

Agenda

5.00pm                        Introduction and welcome

5.15pm                        Elizabeth Sheldon

5.30pm                        Katherine Brewster

5.45pm                        Madeleine Field

6.00pm                        Margaret Long

6.15pm                        Dr Ismini Vasileiou

6.30pm                        Dr Herbert Daly

6.45pm                        Summing-Up

6.50pm                        Opportunity to network and talk to the speakers

            Refreshments

Everyone is welcome, and you are warmly invited to attend.

Register online at:

https://events.bcs.org/book/1417/

If you'd like to find out more about Computing at the University of Northampton go to: www.computing.northampton.ac.uk. All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with