| 2009 Programme Event Chair: Dan Jellinek, Editor E-Government Bulletin |
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| 09.30 - 10.00 |
Registration and Coffee
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| 10.00 - 10.30 | Opening Keynote James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and Innovation, De Montfort University |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Conference Session: Flexible
Working - Towards sustainability and a reduced carbon footprint Chris Head, Principal Associate, Socitm Insight |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Refreshments, networking and pre-arranged meetings |
| 11.30 - 12.30 | Choice of Discussion Groups:
Sharing the Benefits - Flexible Working as a Route to Neighbourhood Renewal Peter Goodwin, Director, Accelerate Nottingham The reality of VoIP as an enabler for flexible working in local government Jon Watkinson, Senior Manager, The Project Network Ltd Project Network have helped to implement VoIP at London Borough of Lambeth and other change initiatives with the FCO and Runnymede Council. - Implementation in practice - Successes - Challenges and lessons learnt. Case Study: Mobile and Flexible Working – How do you make it happen? Gail Kirby, Director, Flexibility Like many local authority organisations there was widespread recognition across West Berkshire Council that mobile and flexible working could deliver a triple win, in terms of benefits to the organisation, its customers and employees. The challenge the Council faced was ‘how to make it happen’. This discussion group explores the feasibility phase that West Berkshire County Council went through in 2008 to understand the workstyle requirements for different roles across the Council, to define the technology requirements, develop the business case for making the change and creating the right level of employee engagement to create the momentum. The council is now in the second of three phases of deployment, with mobile and flexible working deployed across the majority of the Council by December 2010. This feasibility phase was led by Vodafone, and Gail Kirby, one of the core team members will lead this discussion. |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Choice
of Discussion Groups: Case Study: Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council's use of PDA's by housing repair operatives Andrew Tromans, Information Systems Manager, Dudley MBC 50 mobile electrical and multiskilled operatives were issued with PDA in 2007. These replace the paper based work sheets for scheduling their work and also generates a real time status report of a job back at the office. Cashable savings of £250,000 in 2007/8 have been generated as a result of this work. Putting Integration at the Heart of your Mobile Strategy David Harrison, Senior Account Manager, NDL Unifying communications methods, infrastructures and services to achieve transformation targets Stewart Braid, Business Development Consultant, Damovo With the Transformational Government challenges becoming ever more demanding, communication environments can assist in achieving the targets. Unifying the mobile and fixed infrastructures and services enables business transformation from both a process and a cost efficiency perspective. This session will provide an insight into communication capabilities of a truly unified environment. |
| 13.30 - 14.30 | Lunch, networking and pre-arranged meetings |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Conference Session: The reasons
for adopting flexible and mobile working and overcoming the challenges Jon Watkinson, Senior Manager, The Project Network Ltd |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Refreshments, networking and pre-arranged meetings |
| 15.30 - 16.30 | Choice
of Discussion Groups: Why integration of mobile (and other) applications is difficult to achieve Geoff Sissons, Applications & Information Manager (ICT), South Cambridgeshire District Council Case study: Achieving efficiency savings in food hygiene and health safety inspections with mobile technologies at Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council Nick Wellington, Environmental Health Manager, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council Mobile Working - more than just a laptop, tablet or PDA Sanjeev Kataria, Project Programme Manager - Mobile Working, Oxfordshire County Council |
| 16.30 - 17.00 | Closing remarks Dan Jellinek, Editor, E-Government Bulletin |