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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 – 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.

Provisional agenda

Posted by Frank Steiner on 01/08/2011 No comments

This is the provisional agenda for this year’s FOTE conference. At this early stage this is likely to change and we will post updates as and when they become available. For instant updates follow us on Twitter and set up a search for the #fote11 hashtag.

FOTE11 – Friday, 7 October 2011

09.00 Registration & Coffee
10.00 Opening & Welcome Richard Maccabee, Director of ICT ULCC
Morning Sessions
10.10 The CIO and finding the future (eco-system) of education Jan-Martin Lowendahl Gartner
10.30 Pervasive Media in Education Nick Skelton University of Bristol
10.50 Student Analytics for Success Cailean Hargrave IBM
11.10 Q & A Session I
11.20 Coffee Break
12.00 140Challenge
12.15 Panel Discussion – Bring your own Device
13.00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions
14.00 The student as the agent of change James Clay Gloucestershire College
14.20 Microsoft Kinect Lee Stott Microsoft
14.40 Student Expectations Emily-Ann Nash NUS Higher Education Committee
15.00 Q & A Session II
15.10 Coffee Break
15.45 Making it rich and personal:
The personal path to institutional learning environments		 Dr Su White University of Southampton
16.05 The Student is Broke! Andrew Bollington University of London International Programmes
16.25 Social media and Employability: The age of sharing and ‘publicness’ Sue Beckingham Sheffield Hallam University
16.45 Q & A Session III
16.55 Drinks Reception

Speaker Bio – Ray Fleming

Posted by Frank Steiner on 23/07/2010 No comments

Ray Fleming

Ray Fleming

Ray Fleming is the Education Marketing Manager for Microsoft UK, and has spent 25 years working within the education ICT industry. In that time he has worked for some of the main organisations in education ICT  – RM, Capita, and now Microsoft – in a variety of roles.

“In my current role I create a bridge between the education institutions and their suppliers of ICT, and am often involved in conferences and meetings where the purpose is to discuss the impact of ICT upon education, and the potential for transformation. Often, with commercial companies, the goal is to draw them closer to the educational world, and to help them to see the needs that universities, colleges and schools have. Similarly, with education organisations, I am often asked to tell the story of how technology is changing, and what the impact may be on education – both within and outside of the institution.”

Why not watch Ray’s talk from last year’s FOTE conference, entitled ‘The Collaborative Campus and the Cloud’ below. He addresses the challenges of cloud computing. ‘In the world of students, the debate about cloud or not is history – they just use the services. Now it is not just students but faculty too. Challenge for a business and the individual is ownership of information – where does the intellectual property of your institution sit? In your own or someone else’s systems?’

Follow Ray on Twitter: @RayFleming


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