Brian Jones is Chief Information Officer of Smiths Group plc where he reports to the Chief Executive, Philip Bowman. He is a member of the Group Executive Committee and is also the Investor Director for Smiths Detection and Managing Director of Smiths Business Information Services Limited.

A successful and experienced executive, Brian has become best known in recent years for his business and functional change leadership as well as his management of IT and shared service operations. Successful tenures include Allied Domecq (CIO & Director of Shared Services), Burberry (CIO & Head of Business Transformation), Scottish Power (CIO), and Smiths. Prior to this he held a variety of positions in IBM including line responsibility for one of IBM’s services businesses in UK and Northern Europe.

Brian is a member of the Chief Executive’s HQ leadership team. As such he has exposure to and provides input to a wide range of strategic, operational, commercial, and compliance-related matters.

His wide-ranging background in sales, marketing, IT services, and business transformation, makes him ideally suited to leading Smiths BIS with its focus on enabling actionable information, providing fit for purpose infrastructure, and delivering high-quality, cost-effective services to Smiths Group’s businesses.

Alan was appointed to the post of Service Director, Strategic Procurement and e-Services at Wakefield Council in April 2006 with a remit to corporatise and transform the Council’s ICT services.

Alan is leading an organisational transformation programme under the heading “WorkSmart”. The holistic programme is improving services to citizens, delivering a major infrastructure upgrade to support flexible working, and providing a catalyst to rationalise the Council’s property portfolio. He is a proactive member of the Microsoft Shared Learning Group.

He has over 25 years experience in local government in a range of services including facilities management, service planning, special projects and corporate procurement. He obtained an MBA with distinction at the University of Leeds in 1994.
For 2½ years Alan was seconded part-time to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as an associate of the Strategic Partnering Taskforce.

James Thomas is ICT Director for UCL Hospitals, a 7 hospital group with a turnover in excess of £700m. UCL Hospitals was voted Hospital of the year 2009, being part of the World leading Academic Health Science Center UCLPartners. James has been involved with Change Management and Technology for over 20 years, having worked across public and private sectors. His more recent career in public sector NHS has followed 7 years running consulting practices for Oracle Corporation dealing with a complete mix of businesses and technologies.

He started out at BP Exploration undertaking satellite image processing and oilfield concession mapping moving into the water utilities working for Veolia delivering solution in GIS, Real time telemetry, and customer billing through to ERP&BI system. James is passionate about making sure that solutions are delivered through the enhancement of People, Processes and Technology

Tony joined Promethean in September 2010 to head up their Global Infrastructure, Communications & Security teams based in EMEA, US and APAC. His remit focuses on the standardization and consolidation of cutting edge technology while implementing best practice, policy and procedures.
The current roadmap includes Virtualisation, Unified Communications, Hosting and a variety of projects to bring the infrastructure up to date with the latest technologies.
With over 15 years experience in a variety of industries including Finance, Transportation, Telecommunications and Retail he brings a wealth of experience and expertise in bringing I.T to the forefront of business.
Tony is an active Member of the Institute of Directors (MIoD), a Professional Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and regularly talks at I.T events.

An award winning Programme Manger, Lee Parry has been an active member of the IT Public Sector community within Scotland for the past five years. Bucking the trend, Lee consistently succeeds in delivering multi million pounds, complex IT change programmes for Fife Council. Lee is also an ICT advisor to Procurement Scotland; a Central Government body which creates national Public Sector procurement frameworks. As Project Lead for a recent commodity project Lee delivered savings, for the Scottish Public Sector, of in excess of £1.7M in the first year.

Lee has also held the role of Depute Chair for Nomad Scotland. Nomad is a centre of excellence for the development of knowledge sharing opportunities related to efficiency savings that can be accessed via the implementation of mobility solutions throughout the Public Sector.

Lee is a true advocate of harnessing technology to assist in delivering efficiencies.
To that end, the investigation and development of a Unified Communications and Collaboration Strategy has been essential for Fife Council. To ensure the delivery of key efficiency Programmes across the Council we need to harness ICT, as an enabler, and use it to our advantage.

Based in London, Phil serves Infrastructure & Operations professionals. He is an expert in global and European enterprise networking strategy and implementation. Specifically, Phil advises enterprise clients on the selection and use of telecom and network equipment and services, including negotiating, implementing, and managing commercial and service-level agreements for wide area network managed services and ICT outsourcing, unified communications and collaboration, WAN optimization, and enterprise mobility applications.

Phil is regularly invited to be the keynote speaker or session chairman at international conferences focusing on enterprise use of telecoms. He is frequently quoted in the technical and business press, including the Financial Times, and he wrote a monthly column for Communications News. He is a director, past chairman, and a Fellow of the UK Communications Management Association.

Onica is an Analyst based in Amsterdam. She serves Infrastructure & Operations professionals. Her research and client engagements focus on green IT issues pertaining to IT asset disposition, infrastructure and operations power management, and environmental management information technologies. Onica also conducts research on ITIL, as well as the implications of infrastructure service provider strategies on corporate IT network connectivity and storage.

Prior to her role as a research analyst, Onica was a senior research associate at Forrester. She conducted primary research and numerous interviews with Infrastructure & Operations service providers and corporate end users. She also developed research models and tools such as Forrester's PC power management calculator.

Onica holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and pursued a master's in international business and economics at the Erasmus University, the Netherlands.