Northumbrian Water and Johnson Matthey CIOs at CIO Town Hall Live
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Sign up for these two main CIOs on Wednesday 9 September for a dwell Q&A and additional
“I’ve been in telecoms. I have been in fiscal services. I did an interim stint with Microsoft. And I consider the largest change in the water sector is that we are a minor additional danger averse. You consume the stuff, so you can probably value why… The obstacle is creating absolutely sure that too a great deal danger aversion doesn’t go in all places in our organisation that we are equipped to innovate, for our customers, for the ecosystem.”
Northumbrian Drinking water CIO Nigel Watson has aided direct the organization to award-successful use of technologies – and pioneered a flourishing once-a-year innovation festival. And he is refreshingly frank about the enterprise is operating on, from cloud to AI.
He is talking at Laptop Enterprise Critique and NS Tech’s CIO City Corridor Reside this coming Wednesday September 9. The celebration is a regular accumulating for CIOs, CTOs and fellow technologies executives to sign up for a dwell, interactive forum with peers, engage with just about every other in group discussions, dwell Q&As with our speakers, and in private chats.
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Nigel Watson, who is talking with Laptop Enterprise Critique editor Ed Targett, will be joined by Paul Coby, CIO of FTSE one hundred sustainable systems organization Johnson Matthey, who will be talking with NS Media Teams Edward Qualtrough.
As Ed Targett notes: “Our CIO City Corridor Reside is swiftly becoming the go-to assembly for CIOs to listen to from colleagues and to explore key field trends and disruptive threats. Sign up for us to listen to from two refreshingly immediate speakers, with world-course practical experience and a track file of pioneering innovation at their organisations.”
Speakers
Nigel Watson has been CIO at Northumbrian Drinking water due to the fact Oct 2016, getting beforehand worked in technologies roles at Vodafone, Travelport, Microsoft and GE Money.
Northumbrian Drinking water Group’s stated aim is to develop into the most digital water organization in the world — scooping a international award for an innovative use of artificial intelligence final year as a result.
Especially passionate about innovation, Watson established up Northumbrian Drinking water Group’s Innovation Pageant in 2017 to make on the achievements of the organisation’s open up door hackathons which introduced jointly startups, suppliers, regulators and tech vendors to try out and deal with the organization and the sector’s largest enterprise, resilience, technologies and environmental challenges. Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Pageant 2020 will get put in the autumn over digital channels.
Paul Coby has been CIO of Johnson Matthey due to the fact April 2018, and is a Non-Government Director of Virgin Funds, which also operates Clydesdale Financial institution and Yorkshire Financial institution.
At Johnson Matthey, a FTSE one hundred organization which is a chief in sustainable systems, the name of IT has under no circumstances been better and Coby’s perform is driving the two hundred-year-previous organisation’s ideas to innovate employing digital and facts. Coby was beforehand IT Director of John Lewis and subsequently the 1st CIO of the John Lewis Partnership. He was CIO of British Airways for additional than a ten years.
A writer on Roman armed forces historical past, Coby has also served as an NED or board member for Pets at House, P&O Ferries and SITA, the airline joint enterprise technologies services organization.
Agenda
2pm
Johnson Matthey CIO Paul Coby interview
‘Innovation in digital and data’
3pm
Northumbrian Drinking water CIO Nigel Watson interview
‘Opening the innovation floodgates’
three.40pm
Reside viewers Q&A with CIO Paul Coby, and Northumbrian Drinking water CIO Nigel Watson
Former speakers at NS Media Group’s CIO City Corridor Reside celebration incorporate British Army CIO Significant Typical Jonathan Cole, and Parliamentary Electronic Provider CIO Tracey Jessup.
NS Media Group’s CIO City Corridor Reside will be limited to CIOs and senior technologies executives on the working day of the celebration, but the classes will subsequently be opened and produced readily available on demand from customers to all.