Indeed much of web is dominated by companies that appear to be giving away free services such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, OpenStreetMap, TripAdvisor and Linkedin with advertising, marketing, crowdsourced and freemium business models.

When the European Commission selected the free release of Public Sector Information as a key driver of growth in the European Single Market and a confident united response to default domination of the digital economy by Silicon Valley, the open data movement turned mainstream overnight.

The event will be held at the Claremont hotel on Friday 2nd March 2012. The programme is as follows:

5:00 PM Doors open for introductions, networking opportunities, etc. with complimentary light refreshments
5:45 PM Introduction
6:00 PM The business case for “open data”.
Professor Robert Barr OBE, Manchester Geomatics and University of Liverpool
– break –
6:45 PM Local Updates followed by Panel Debate
– break –
7:30 PM Demonstrations, discussions with the speakers, drinks at the bar, etc

Please note that the event is on Friday evening due to speaker availability.
 

THE BUSINESS CASE FOR “OPEN DATA” @ 6:00 PM

Professor Robert Barr OBE, Manchester Geomatics and University of Liverpool

Bob is a geographical information systems specialist with 30 years experience at the University of Manchester, Manchester Geomatics and the University of Liverpool, including a year in the USA as a Harkness Fellow, and he has delivered keynote presentations all over the world.

He will explore the pros and cons of trading data by benchmarking British Irish Council member countries and highlight lessons learned to maximise the value to the private sector and non-profits in the Isle of Man. He is the only person to receive an OBE from the Queen for services to mashups.

Biography
A council member and past chair of the Association for Geographical Information.
A member of the UK Ministry of Justice Advisory Panel for Public Sector Information.
Chairman of Manchester Geomatics, a commercial spin out from the University of Manchester labs and a market leader in dataset quality, that overcame 2001 census limitations and supplied the National Address Register for the UK 2011 census. Clients include the Land Registry, Thales and the Landmark Information Group and contributions to the IBM START programme.

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Whilst many organisations are already successfully using the intranet and collaboration technology, more advanced features such as extranets, website templates with webparts, automated forms processing, business process workflow and records management are not nearly as widely deployed.

BMN are a Microsoft Gold Partner and specialists in all things SharePoint helping clients such as BP and KPMG to reshape their systems with significant cost savings and new business opportunities.

Qorus Technologies are developers of document assembly software installed at clients such as Vodafone, fund managers and retail chains.

Duncan Lawrie, private bankers, are part of Camelia PLC, an international group listed on the London Stock Exchange with over 75,000 employees.

The event will be held at the Claremont Hotel in Douglas, with doors opening at 5:30pm for a 6pm start.

Agenda

17:30 Light Refreshments: Sandwiches with Tea and Coffee

18:00 Andrew Tomlins, Account Manager, BMN Ltd

Who is using SharePoint?
How are they using it to help grow their business?

18:45 Simon Chalfont, Technical Director, BMN Ltd

Nintex Workflow is a power user tool for designing and implementing business processes entirely within your SharePoint deployment with some fantastic returns on investment at client sites.

19:00 Jonathan Dawson, Business Development Manager, Quorus Software

Qorus DocGeneration is a “drag and drop” tool to dramatically reduce the time and effort required to generate complex, customised documents such as legal agreements, contracts, policies and financial reporting with Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Word whilst ensuring regulatory compliance.

19:15 Kurt Roosen, Group IT Director, Duncan Lawrie

Private Banking Case Study

19:30 Q&A with a Speakers Panel

19:45 END OF SESSION

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Steve Burrows, a director and treasurer of BCS Isle of Man, an international section of BCS The Chartered Institute for IT, has been appointed Vice Chair of the BCS Membership Board. The Membership Board is responsible for all aspects of membership for the Institute’s 70,000 members.

Bob Sullivan, Chairman of BCS Isle of Man, said “We’re delighted at Steve’s appointment, it is very rare for overseas members to achieve such important roles in BCS because of our limited opportunities to network with influential UK based members and the logistics of attending board meetings in the UK. Steve’s appointment not only reflects great credit and recognition to our Isle of Man section, but also ensures that overseas sections such as the Isle of Man are not forgotten when BCS is developing plans that will affect our professional members”.

17:00   doors open / complimentary sandwiches and mineral water

17:45   AGM

Session #1:  Barrule Suite, 5^th Floor, Tynwald via public entrance on Finch Road

18:00   Allan Mitchell MVP

Allan will cover the business benefits of live management information as a data integration specialist with SQL Server Integration Services to support M&A systems integration, data cleansing (including regulatory compliance and cross-border data protection), data mining and visualisation.

As a SQL Azure Advisory Board member with Microsoft and co-author of “First to Market” by Wrox publishing, he knows all about cloud computing database analytics too.

18:45   questions and answers / short break

Session #2:  Barrule Suite, 5^th Floor, Tynwald via public entrance on Finch Road

19:00   Chris Webb MVP

Chris will “map” the Microsoft BI landscape, where Sharepoint 2010 fits in, and explain business benefits with a free tool Excel 2010 PowerPivot.

He is a SQL Server Analysis Services, Reporting Services and OLAP MDX specialist, co-author of “Expert Cube Development with SSAS 2008” and routinely helps multi-nationals in insurance, banking and online gambling significantly improve number crunching performance.

19:45   questions and answers / short break

Session #3: Prospect Hotel, Prospect Hill, Douglas

20:15   informal consultancy with the speakers and social networking

Session #4:  VIP CPD @ Liverpool

As a follow up to the event for database specialists, committee members will host a VIP CPD session at the SQLbits.com conference in Liverpool, the most important SQL server event in Europe with 50+ speakers from Microsoft and official partners.  Entry on Thursday 29^th September and/or Friday 30^th September will be subject to a 35 percent discount and entry on Saturday 1^st October will be free.  Sorry, first come first served!  Please contact any committee member for more details.

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Debra Paul will explore business analysis within the broader context of the business change lifecycle. This will include a discussion about the evolving role and responsibilities of the business analyst and will highlight some of the current issues with business analysis practice. This presentation will also consider why effective business analysis is critical if organisations are to achieve the predicted benefits from business improvement projects.

Debra Paul FBCS CITP is the Managing Director of Assist Knowledge Development, a training and consultancy company specialising in business analysis, business process change and solution development. She has extensive experience in all aspects of business analysis and business process improvement. Debra is the BCS Chief Examiner for Business Analysis and is an accredited SFIA consultant. Debra jointly edited and wrote the best-selling BCS reference manual, Business Analysis, and is also the co-author of the BCS reference manual Business Analysis Tools and Techniques.

Debra is a regular speaker at business seminars, is a member of the organising committee for the Business Analysis Conference Europe 2011 and is a founder member of the BA Management Forum. Her recent clients include blue chip clients include Allianz and Lloyds TSB Group.

Schedule

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Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is becoming more mainstream as high speed broadband becomes more widely available. For example, it is estimated that global IPTV subscribers will increase from 28 million in 2009 to 83 million in 2013.

Dr Keith Mitchell will explain how and why companies are sending television programmes over IP data networks. The session will include brief overviews of key technologies, current trends and hot topics for this fast paced industry with some live demonstrations. He will also discuss research projects and commercialisation at Lancaster University and how such technology is being evaluated with a series of regional and rural Living Labs to gain valuable insights into IPTV based services in rural communities with the latest developments in peer to peer (P2P) and wireless mesh network technology.

With the shift to mobile users, limited local content from the BBC licence fee and more digital production expected from the £50 million pound Media Development Fund budget – IPTV with personalised services is the future of broadcasting.

Speaker Biography
Dr. Keith Mitchell is a Research Fellow at Lancaster University and co-founder of 21media Innovations Ltd, a technology spin-out based in InfoLab21. He is one of the leading British specialists in human-computer interaction, context-aware computing and multimedia systems.

Schedule

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17:00 Doors open – Drinks, complimentary snacks, and networking opportunity

18:00 “Enterprise and eBusiness Search Technology”

Connie Chen, Transparensee, New York City (speaker kindly supplied by US Department of Commerce)

18:30 Q & A

18:45 “Security Loopholes and Hacking Updates”

Mark Mann, Webtech Software, Ballasalla, Isle of Man

19:15 Q & A

19:45 Optional meal with the speakers and BCS Isle of Man committee

(£15 for 2 courses in Coast restaurant)

This event is being held on Thursday 14^th April 2011 at the Sanderson Suite, Claremont Hotel, Douglas Promenade, Douglas.

If possible, please confirm your intention to attend, and any guests, by email to events@bcs.org.im; and, if you wish to join the speakers for a meal and continued discussions, please state MEAL, total seats, and any specific points of interest.

Connie Chen Presentation Summary:

How can search be better when the user doesn’t know what the user really wants?   Users frequently, initially, have not defined their search boundaries as precisely as websites anticipate.  Their imaginations can be triggered by what they see in the periphery.  In typical searches, the more information a user gives on wishes and desires, the worse the results.  A better search produces better results with more information from the user.  A better search produces better results for your organization too.

Connie Chen Biography:

Connie Chen leads business development at Transparensee Systems.  Formerly the VP of Marketing for NewsBank, Connie owned market strategy, product management, and new product initiatives for this premier digital archiver of news and information.  As the COO and the VP of Business Development of Morris DigitalWorks (MDW), Connie led MDW’s efforts to become a primary software vendor to more than 150 newspapers and several major newspaper groups in the US.  She has been in information technology sales, marketing and business development for over 20 years, with the last 15 years directly in the Internet space. Her previous employment includes ten years at IBM, several start-up company experiences ranging from Internet consultancies to Foofoo.com, a luxury commerce, content and community B2C site, to sales and marketing for Infragistics, one of the top Microsoft Developer toolkit manufacturers. She has a B.S. in applied mathematics, computer science from Yale University.

Mark Mann and Webtech

Webtech design specialist software products to support International Finance, Trust and Corporate Service Providers, Banking and Regulatory Authorities. The Isle of Man based company was founded in 1992 and has a wealth of experience with finance industry systems, some of the leading names in banking and insurance rely on Webtech’s Genesis Life 3 to manage their complex multi-currency investment structures. Webtech’s Genesis system framework is designed to be highly flexible with secure internet integration and is developer and user friendly.

• IOM Drivers for Open Data
• IOM Online Services Feb 2011 – BCS Update
• Customer First
• Open Data Overview

PART ONE: SANDERSON SUITE
12:00 TRAVEL TIME or SOCIAL NETWORKING DEBATE: “QR CODES IN THE ISLE OF MAN”
12:10 WELCOME & OPEN DATA COMPETITION GRAEME JONES, VICE CHAIR & EVENTS, BCS ISLE OF MAN
12:13 EVENT VIDEO DAVID CAMERON, PRIME MINISTER, UNITED KINGDOM
12:15 MOBILE APPS IN THE ISLE OF MAN – SESSION #2 ANDREW GLEAVE, REDROBOTSTUDIOS.COM
with contributions from Kristin Kanaar (Twitter), Graham Shimmin (Manx Telecom),
Rob Mercer (previously with Mersey Travel), Tom Brew (iombusandrail.info), etc.
12:35 HOSTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
12:50 TRAVEL TIME or SOCIAL NETWORKING DEBATE: “BUDGET SPECIAL: THE 6 BILLION POUND QUESTION”
Dr Rufus Pollock at Cambridge University estimated that the public sector open data policy is worth about £6 billion to the UK economy. How much do you think it is worth to the Isle of Man?
13:10 ANY SURPRISES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT DATA?
CHRIS TAGGART, OPENLYLOCAL.COM, OPENCORPORATES.COM, OPENCHARITIES.ORG
13:40 HOSTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
13:50 TRAVEL TIME or SOCIAL NETWORKING DEBATE “EU DIRECTIVE 2003/98/EC” (Yes, really!)
The European Parliament recently reviewed the policy on third party reuse of Public Sector Information. Do you think we could beat Luxembourg, Malta and Gibraltar with local techys and faster amendments to legislation?

PART TWO: COAST
14:00 MASTERCLASS: WEBSCRAPING CLOSED DATA WITH PYTHON JULIAN TODD, SCRAPERWIKI.COM
14:15 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
14:30 ANY LOCAL PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES: FREE CONSULTANCY
15:30 BREAK

PART THREE: SANDERSON SUITE
17:00 OPEN DATA COMPETITION REGISTRATION:
RESEARCH CASH PRIZE (£50)
BEST IOM PRIORITISED PSI MAP OR LEAGUE TABLE BENCHMARK
DEVELOPMENT CASH PRIZE (£50)
BEST IOM MOBILE APP BUSINESS CASE OR MASHUP
Submissions from academic researchers, students and unemployed/underemployed IT sector workers are specifically welcomed. A placement may be offered to selected eligible entries subject to availability on specific dates. The audience at the next event on 31st March 2011 will be invited to help judge the competition.
17:45 SOCIAL NETWORKING DEBATE: “SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SELF-FUNDING AND INCOME STREAMS”
18:00 WELCOME & OPEN DATA COMPETITION – BOB SULLIVAN, CHAIR, BCS ISLE OF MAN
18:08 EVENT VIDEO – DAVID CAMERON, PRIME MINISTER, UNITED KINGDOM
18:10 DATA.GOV.UK & DATA.GOV.IM ANYONE? – LESSONS LEARNED, INTERNATIONAL TRENDS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS – CHRIS TAGGART, DATA.GOV.UK
18:25 OPEN DATA DRIVERS IN THE ISLE OF MAN – DAN DAVIES, BUSINESS CHANGE MANAGER, CHIEF SECRETARY’S OFFICE
18:35 EGOVERNMENT UPDATE – ONE MANN PROJECT – OWEN CUTAJAR, ISD, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
18:45 SHARED SERVICES UPDATE – CUSTOMER FIRST PROJECT – ANDY WILLIAMS, ISD, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
18:55 HOSTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
19:15 BREAK

PART FOUR: SANDERSON SUITE
FUNDED BY POSITIVE ACTION GROUP
19:30 CASE STUDY: A WORLD CLASS NICHE WEBSITE FROM A BARN IN MAUGHOLD
RALFY, WHISKYREVIEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM
You could end up with half a million potential customers if you had original content. Some sobering thoughts for any export led economic development strategy!
19:45 MASTERCLASS: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS
JULIAN TODD, WHATDOTHEYKNOW.COM, a world famous MYSOCIETY.ORG project
The Ministry of Justice recently acknowledged that over 10 percent of all requests each quarter are logged and tracked with the WDTK “clearing house”. He could probably be persuaded by the audience to talk about eDemocracy tools such as THEYWORKFORYOU.COM (it is an election year), UNDEMOCRACY.ORG and THESTRAIGHTCHOICE.COM, etc.
20:15 HOSTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ROGER TOMLINSON, POSITIVE ACTION GROUP

A PDF version of the event can be found here: bcs feb v5

Please book your attendance by emailing publicity06@bcs.org.im