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BT – The ‘D’s shaping the future of work

BT – The ‘D’s shaping the future of work

Full Title: The ‘D’s shaping the future of work: how global disruption, Dolly, Dilbert and droids are all reshaping the digital workplace

Speaker: Dr Nicola Millard, principal innovation partner, BT

Synopsis: Automation was supposedly the force reshaping the future of work, but it turns out that it wasn’t technology, but a virus which disrupted everything. This session looks at how global disruption, Dolly, Dilbert and droids are all changing the digital workplace. It looks at the implications for employees, whether offices are dead, and what skills people need in an increasingly automated, remote, globalised workforce.
Key takeaways: why digital workplaces aren’t all about the technology; are offices redundant in a post-coronavirus world; how can remote teams collaborate better; and are the droids ever going to take over?

Company Information: We’re BT, one of the world’s leading technology companies. We design products and services, so you can do more than ever before. We have more than 1,800 public sector customers throughout the UK. So we understand the issues your organisations are facing, from the pressure to do more with shrinking budgets, to creating cutting-edge services that comply with changing regulations. No UK tech company invests more in R&D than us. So we’re in a strong position to not only support businesses with their digital transformation programmes, but help them get ahead of the curve without disrupting their vital services or shattering their budget.

Optus Homes: Mobile first – Genuine tenant self-management, today

Optus Homes: Mobile first – Genuine tenant self-management, today

Today, consumers can open a bank account, manage NHS appointments, order food and transport, all from a mobile app – so why not manage their rental account in an app? Optus Homes offers a solution for all landlords, covering complaints, repairs, payments and many more exciting features, such as two-way community messaging and open banking. It’s convenience for tenants and efficiencies for landlords – all in your own branded app, with integration to your existing systems.

Speaker: Gerry Kelly, CEO

Safecility: When buildings report on themselves – Compliance & safety in the IoT era

Safecility: When buildings report on themselves – Compliance & safety in the IoT era

As technology enables buildings to report, monitor and test themselves, how do compliance and asset managers automate critical compliance and safety work? What can we do to manage it at scale in a shifting regulatory environment? What can we expect from technology to help this journey? Discover insights and lessons from the team at Safecility who are tackling this problem right now.

Speaker: Cian O’Flaherty, CEO

ParaDPO & Look Ahead Housing: Pragmatic data protection using MyrIAD

ParaDPO & Look Ahead Housing: Pragmatic data protection using MyrIAD

We are over 18 months since GDPR went live so it’s important to discuss some of the challenges faced by organisations. To help address some of these areas, ParaDPO has launched MyrIAD to enable housing providers to manage all of their data protection needs. This compliments the Data Protection Officer (DPO) as a service offered by ParaDPO. We have partnered with Look Ahead.

Speakers: Neil Topping & Cliff Barton, co-founders, ParaDPO and John Tilsley, IT director, Look Ahead Housing

Minibems: Advancing heat networks by leveraging data science

Minibems: Advancing heat networks by leveraging data science

District and community heat networks are currently designed, specified, procured, installed, commissioned and operated following norms and practices that largely ignore data. Minibems leverages data to reduce costs and add value to each part of the value chain. The housing sector will be particularly interested in learning how using data science can reduce the capital and operating costs while pursuing carbon reduction goals and ensuring heating comfort for their residents.

Speaker: Finian Parrick (CEO)

Amazon Web Services: re:Imagine infrastructure

Amazon Web Services: re:Imagine infrastructure

The journey to driving more innovation in social housing starts with re-imagining how we manage our legacy systems and infrastructure. Chris Masey from Amazon Web Services will explore why shifting away from on-premise datacentres and hardware-focused tasks to provisioning these services in the cloud delivers greater resilience, performance and agility.

Chris will be joined by David Mason, technical director at Incline-IT, who has recently implemented an AWS infrastructure migration for a major housing provider in the North. He will introduce Incline’s core offering ‘housing as a service’ and explain why deploying AWS changes the game for how infrastructure is managed and enables housing providers to focus on what truly matters, their data. By adopting a new approach to infrastructure management, housing providers can focus on delivering projects with emerging technologies that will shape our communities of the future.

Speakers: Chris Masey (account manager, UK Public Sector, NPO, Amazon Web Services) & David Mason (technical director, Incline-IT, part of MIS Group)