Category Archives: FOTE12 Speakers

FOTE12 Speaker – Anirban Saha

Posted by Nuwa on 02/10/2012 No comments

Name: Anirban Saha

Title: Head of Social Innovation and Intelligence, Global at Nokia

Bio: Anirban is a highly experienced digital marketing thought leader with over 11 years experience and has been very much engrained in the social revolution online. He has worked for digital media giants such as AOL and the most fresh faced of start-ups such as Last.fm and has vast experience in managing and working with global and cross-cultural teams and organisations. He currently heads up Social Innovation and Intelligence for the global consumer engagement organisation at Nokia.

Session Title: Social Business –  Evolving cultures

Session Abstract: Large organisations are starting to see cultural shifts in their day to day business operations. Nokia has started to implement several initiatives which are evolving into cultural changes across the business to create greater efficiencies and enhanced collaboration opportunities.

FOTE12 Speaker – Richard Davis

Posted by Nuwa on 25/09/2012 No comments

Name: Richard Davis

Title: Digital Archives & Repositories Manager at ULCC

Bio: Richard manages ULCC’s Research Technologies team, which focuses on applications for libraries, archives and research, in the HE and cultural heritage sector. The team has worked on innumerable successful and innovative projects since 1997, for the JISC, the National Archives, the European Union, and many University of London colleges. Key activities include the research repositories service, web archiving and digital preservation training. You can follow Richard on twitter @onothimagen.

Session Title: Roll your own e-books: What’s not to love?

Session Abstract: Among Richard’s current activities is the JISC-funded, “Anthologizr”, which is developing e-book export capabilities for EPrints repositories. ‘Roll your own e-books: What’s not to love?’ will include a brief history of e-books, and explore their significance and potential for managing and distributing customised content in teaching and learning contexts.

FOTE12 Speaker – Mark Hahnel

Posted by Nuwa on 24/09/2012 No comments

Name: Mark Hahnel

Title: Founder of Figshare

Bio: Mark is the founder of figshare, an open data tool that allows researchers to publish all of their data in a citable, searchable and sharable manner. He’s fresh out of academia, having just completed his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London, having previously studied genetics in both Newcastle and Leeds. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionise the research community. For more information about figshare, visit http://figshare.com. You can follow him at @figshare

Session Title: Disruptive dissemination of research outputs

Session Abstract: Figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, sharable and discoverable manner. figshare allows users to upload any file format to be visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets and media can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow. In a research environment, under the current operating system, most data and figures collected or generated during your work is lost, intentionally tossed aside or classified as “junk”, or at worst trapped in silos or locked behind embargo periods. This stifles and limits scientific research at its core, making it much more difficult to validate experiments, reproduce experiments or even stumble upon new breakthroughs that may be buried in your null results.

The dissemination of research data is something that has been done in a well-defined manner for 300 years. With the advent of the internet, many established distribution models have been redefined and improved on. The outputs of academic research are evolving and much of it is becoming digitized and growing in size. There are many good example of how web platforms that efficiently distribute digital content, such as YouTube and iTunes. In this presentation, we will explain how figshare is following their lead in an effort to disrupt one of the last remaining content distributing systems to be revolutionized by the internet, and how open access makes all of this possible.

FOTE12 Panel Member – David Webster

Posted by Nuwa on 21/09/2012 No comments

Name: David Webster

Title: Religion, Philosophy & Ethics lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire

Bio: David has worked for various Universities, and has studied Philosophy, Hinduism and Buddhist thought. In addition to scholarly works on Buddhism and desire, the nature of belief, and other topics in Buddhist studies and the Philosophy of Religion, David has also written about the blues, video games, and death in religions. He is his Faculty¹s Teaching & Learning Coordinator, and has experience with podcasts, VLEs, and the development of e-learning in his institution.

Dave blogs and is on Twitter as @davidwebster.

His course has a Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/RPEglos/

FOTE12 Panel Member – Miles Metcalfe

Posted by Nuwa on 21/09/2012 No comments

Name: Miles Metcalfe 

Title: Founder of Relevant Department

Bio: Miles Metcalfe is a founder of the Relevant Department, an IT consultancy with the refreshingly novel approach of helping you get the most out of technology instead of selling back to you what you already know dressed up with buzzwords, hype-cycles, and strategic grids.

With 20 years experience in further and higher education, Miles was an early pioneer of extra-institutional technologies for learning and teaching. He has been involved in a range of successful projects in elearning, online collaboration, BYOD, cloud documents and email, learning space design, green IT, IT service professionalisation, and institution-wide service desk design and deployment.

Miles remains a passionate, though not a wide-eyed and uncritical, advocate of the power of digital technologies to transform learning and teaching. He believes that the potential for new technology to disrupt academic institutions has never been greater, and that smart institutions can harness technology in creative ways to bring about better outcomes for a wider audience. He finds that believing two contradictory things before breakfast is an aid to digestion.

 

FOTE12 Panel Member- Philip Butler

Posted by Nuwa on 19/09/2012 No comments

Name: Philip Butler 

Title: Senior e-learning Advisor

Bio:  Philip Butler has worked in the post-16 education sector as a teacher, manager and adviser for 30 years. He worked as a founding member of the JISC Regional Support Centre for London from 1999 until 2005 where he led on a number of strategic regional and national developments for the post-16, ACL and HE sectors.

In 2005 Philip was appointed as Senior e-Learning Adviser for the University of London Computer Centre where he started the Moodle Service and helped grow it to become the largest provider of e-Learning services to the UK education sector.

Philip has also worked as a consultant on several national projects for JISC, NIACE, BECTA, NLN, LSIS and the DTi, and presented to conferences and meetings on a range of subjects to do with embedding e-Learning and organisational transformation in the UK, Ireland, USA and India.

FOTE12 Speaker – Cailean Hargrave

Posted by Nuwa on 17/09/2012 2 comments

Name: Cailean Hargrave

Title: UK Higher and Further Education Business Development Manager at IBM UK Limited

Bio: Two years into the role from four years in the education sectors, Cailean has developed new solutions for the market including “Classroom in the Cloud” technology; creating online spaces for virtual collaboration, and encouraging the global expansion of UK education excellence. Cailean has a keen focus on driving the thought leadership of key college network consortia and creating strategic relationships with top education institutes to demonstrate a new dimension of viewing and running the business of education to bring value to learners.

Cailean is passionate about social learning and fully utilising mobile, cloud, social, data and emerging technologies to create an exceptional student experience. He is a firm believer in the value of immersive technological environments, affording tailored educational pathways for learner success, entrepreneurial access and education for young adults.

A keen cupcake baker, infrequent cyclist and disruptive entrepreneur in his spare time.

Session Title: Achieving an Exceptional Student Experience

Session Abstract: The global recession, increasing pressure on education budgets and a rise in tuition fees have all resulted in the need for the sector to become more efficient and provide a better quality service in order to remain competitive. Students are demanding a technologically immersive experience that provides them with capabilities that are commonplace in their personal lives.

IBM together with our partners have established the Exceptional Student Experience strategy to enable education institutes to bring nothing less than a revolution to education delivery and organisation agility. Cloud, Social, Mobile and Analytics technologies developed across the depth and breadth of IBM capability, in every sector, in over 180 geographies across the globe, applied directly as best practice to the UK education industry.

From applicant to alumni, we have established technologies that transform the learner journey to ensure the greatest student success, staff efficiency, stakeholder engagement and sector growth:

  • Cloud based Digital Marketing technologies that address student needs with personalised offers, taking precedence from retail, e-commerce and s-commerce practices.
  • Social Collaboration technologies that create a connected ecosystem of learning, international virtual campuses and immersive social learning environments.
  • Mobile BYOD technologies that ensure accessibility and a seamless experience regardless of device or location in a sustainable and secure way.
  • Analytics technologies that can report and predict, with confidence, student success to enable proactive support, reducing attrition and raising success.

This vision is continually evolving and we are looking for more strategic partnerships with education institutes to gain mutual benefits from developing unique technologies and provide areas of added value from the IBM brand

FOTE12 Speaker – Dave Coplin

Posted by Nuwa on 06/09/2012 No comments

Name: Dave Coplin

Title: Director of Search, UK

Bio: Since joining Microsoft in 2005, Dave Coplin has worked across a wide range of sectors and customers, providing strategic advice and guidance around the cost effective use of technology in relation to their business needs. As an established thought leader in the UK and having spent a considerable amount of time in the Public Sector providing leadership and guidance around key technology policy issues like Cloud Computing, Open Government, Open Data and the “consumerisation” of IT, Dave is currently working as the Chief Envisioning Officer for Microsoft UK’s Advertising and Online business, focusing the spotlight on the power and potential of search and the way it holds the key to society’s effective use of all that technology and the internet has to offer.

Dave can be found on Twitter – @dcoplin and at his on-line home, www.theenvisioners.com

Session Title: Future Forward

Session Abstract: The web is quietly, but quickly, undergoing a social revolution, blending the analogue and digital worlds to become even more powerful in the way we all live, work and play.  Search is at the very heart of this change as the internet evolves to be more about “doing” and less about “finding”.  Understanding this change is crucial, not just for the satisfaction and welfare of consumers and customers, but equally for the success and relevance of businesses and brands. This session will uncover the challenges (and opportunities!) faced by us all as we move to this new way of living and working, and how shifting to a more human approach enables us to unlock the full potential of all that technology has to offer a modern society.

FOTE12 Panel Member- Jeff Haywood

Posted by Nuwa on 03/09/2012 No comments

Name: Jeff Haywood

Title: Vice-Principal for Knowledge Management, Chief Information Officer and Librarian at the University of Edinburgh

Bio: Professor Jeff Haywood is responsible for the University’s integrated Information Service which contains the Library, the IT services and the eLearning Services.  He leads current major initiatives in expanding online distance education, high performance computing services, research data management & storage services, the redesign of the University website, selection of the next generation VLE, development of technology-rich study spaces, and e-assessment.

Jeff also holds the position of Professor of Education & Technology in the University’sSchoolofEducation.  His research interests are in the development of strategies for effective use of ICT in education at institutional, national and international levels, with a particular emphasis on understanding learner experiences.  He has led, and been a partner in, numerous EU-, JISC-, SFC- and Research Council-funded projects in the field of technology in higher education and lifelong learning.

Jeff is a member of the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Board (www.jisc.ac.uk), its Transition Group and past Chair of the Coimbra Group Taskforce on E-learning (www.coimbra-group.be).  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Homepage:  http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/jhaywood

FOTE12 Speaker – Sharlene Jobson

Posted by Nuwa on 03/09/2012 No comments

Name: Sharlene Jobson

Title: Head of Nexus

Bio: Sharlene has a wealth of experience in programme, operations and business management. Her collaborative approach has underpinned business and operations continuous service improvements through change.

She has successfully led systems integration business improvement programmes for public sector organisations such as the Borders Agency, NHS and the MoD. This extends to private companies that include AEAT and BT where customer service excellence and product improvement were critical to sustainability.

Session Title: Here, DARE and Everywhere

Session Abstract: The Digital Academic Records Exchange (DARE) is an operational service for the secure distribution of electronic documents via the Cloud. Development was funded under JISC’s Shared Services and the Cloud programme and delivered by a consortium of seven Universities led by LJMU, with external partner Digitary providing the application, Nexus delivering optional integration services, and ULCC hosting.

The application provides a secure means of storing, authorising and distributing a range of academic documents including the HEAR, Transcripts and Graduation Certificates. Lessons learned from the project include:

  • the need to resource properly, both technically and functionally
  • that doing web services and XML is harder than people anticipated
  • that the Nexus ESB can provide a beneficial route to integration

This presentation will take you through the factors to consider  when implementing a new (remote) shared service informed by the experience of the universities who participated in DARE; the benefits of a new approach to managing documents; the merits of using Nexus to handle service integration.  It finishes with a look at DARE’s plans for the future as it builds on the success of the initial project.

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