Brian Jones is CIO 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.

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.

Highly commercial, with a background in services and outsourcing, he is responsible for leading the leveraging of procurement across the Group and sponsoring the provisioning of any Group-wide supply arrangements.

As Investor Director for Smiths Detection Brian acts as a sponsor of and challenger to the line management of the business assuring its alignment to Group strategy. This role, which is akin to that of a Non Executive Director also requires involvement in M&A strategy and decision-making.

Brian has led many successful change programmes within large enterprises. These include business wide functional transformation programmes (Allied Domecq and Burberry – all functions) as well as IT transformation programmes (Allied Domecq, Burberry, Scottish Power, Smiths). Having led or sponsored over 50 “tier one” ERP implementations in SAP and Oracle Brian is a highly-experienced judge and exponent of large-scale programme management, organisational change, and process design.

In addition, his successful sales and marketing background coupled with his in-depth knowledge of business operations enables him to contribute value to the Group and its portfolio businesses on a broad set of topics, from strategy, through planning, to successful execution.

David is the CIO of thetrainline.com, the leading independent retailer of train tickets online and providing the ecommerce infrastructure for the majority of the UK rail industry. Trainline, through its subsidiary ECEBS, is also one of the world leaders in the development of smartcard technology covering ISAM design, CMS and HOPS systems for ITSO and non ITSO environments

Since joining Jack has architected the transformation of the business onto to a new application stack, technical infrastructure, organisation and sourcing strategy whilst supporting the huge growth of this retail, services and technology company.

Prior to joining Trainline, Jack was at Betfair, initially leading their development teams, subsequently building their venture capital arm and finally co-founding and spinning out the exchange traded financial derivatives business, LMAX – one of the world’s fastest exchanges.

His earlier career includes a number of CTO/VP roles within start-ups and leading engineering teams of software businesses such as Citrix, Novell, SPC and Borland.

Jack mentors a number of professionals across a variety of industries and is a non-exec advisor to VC backed www.astleyclarke.com

Chris Swan is co-head of Security CTO at UBS. Before joining UBS he was CTO at a London based technology investment banking boutique, which operated a cloud only IT platform. Chris previously held various senior R&D, architecture and engineering positions at Credit Suisse, which included responsibility for data centre automation and introduction of new application platforms.

Dr. Chaudry holds a doctorate degree in Medicine from Ross University (USA), a MSc in Health Care Policy and Management from the University of Birmingham (UK), a MSc in Information Systems Management from the University of Salford (UK) and a MBA for Aston University (UK).

Zafar was appointed in April 2005 as the Director of Information Management and Technology for the Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, Europe’s largest provider of women’s healthcare services. Zafar has led Liverpool Women’s to numerous awards including a Gold Medal and “Laureate” status in the 2007 and 2008 Computerworld Honors Programme in the USA. Dr Chaudry was awarded CIO of the Year (2008) from TECHWORLD (UK) in association with CIO magazine. Zafar was appointed as the CIO for Liverpool Women’s and Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trusts in July 2009 and was recently named by Government Computing (2010, UK) as one of the top 100 influential leaders in UK public sector IT (Kable 100).

Peter Clarke is Chief Technology Officer for the IoMG covering all aspects of Government Infrastructure and development, including Network, Telecomms, Data Centres, Desktop Services, Security and Integrity of Services and Data.

Tom Dalglish is a senior IT manager with international experience and over 20 years of success in developing, deploying and supporting global systems and infrastructures.

Tom is a recognized expert in market and reference data, legal entity/hierarchical data and high frequency tick capture with a well-established record of delivering systems quickly

The Strategic Cloud Programme is looking to deliver a next generation community cloud based replacement for current legacy MPS applications, focussing particularly on the high volume front end operational policing systems.

Roger was previously Head of ICT Infrastructure Delivery and Estates Support for the Metropolitan Police running a portfolio of projects and programmes covering everything from Desktops to Datacentres, IP Telephony to Electronic Security, Identity and Access Management to Virtualisation.

At the end of July 2011, the MPS employed 49,534 (full-time) personnel. This makes it the largest police force in the UK by a significant margin, and one of the biggest forces in the world.

Janet has worked in legal IT virtually all her working life – even her MBA speciality was ‘Competitive Advantage in the Legal Profession’. After working in administration at A&O, Janet set up a specialist consultancy practice looking at technology services (in their widest sense) for legal firms. She joined BLP about 16 years ago – initially as a consultant but later as their IT Director with a wide range of responsibilities. She normally says ‘if it plugs into an electric socket and does not make coffee it belongs to me!’ She is responsible for technology in its broadest sense, including ecommerce activities, knowledge management services and the building and infrastructure. In 2005 Janet won the BCS award for IT Director of the Year. The team have won many awards including Computing magazine’s Best Places to work in IT in 2007. Janet won IT Director of the Year at the Lawyers awards in 2008 and at the 2009 Legal Technology Awards Janet won the City/national - IT Director of the Year. In 2011 she was given the award for the Greatest Contribution to Legal Technology.

Janet established The Adelaide Group a women in business networking group in 1997 - the first speaker and honorary President is Cherie Blair. The group now has over 1000 members and holds regular events listening to high profile women speakers.

Janet is a member of the London First advisory board, and under their auspices also mentors a senior policeman. She is a governor of local preparatory school. She is the Regional Vice President of the International Legal Technology Association for the EMEA region.

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.

As VP Research EMEA, William created and drives 451’s early adopter research program with end users and innovators across a range of vertical markets for the CloudScape service. He has identified and tracked early adopter markets including grid and virtualization among enterprise users from 2000 and since 2007 the program been principally focused on cloud computing. As well as the end user constituency, William covers the suppliers - vendors, integrators and service providers – in the cloud market. William’s team also leads 451’s activities within the European Commission and numerous EC research projects. William is a co-founder of 451, a member of the EC Cloud Expert Group, and co-author of “The Future of Cloud Computing – Opportunities for European Cloud Computing Beyond 2010,” a regular speaker at industry and 451 conferences and participates in numerous advisory boards and planning committees for UK and international industry bodies.

A first class honours graduate with wide experience of globally deploying and managing IT solutions and projects. Prior to his current role with a FTSE 100 retailer, Richard was CTO at The University of Hertfordshire, leading a Green IT examplar project to demonstrate the efficiencies that can be achieved within a micro Data Centre. Richard previously held various senior IT management, architecture and engineering positions at The University of Nottingham, Capital One Bank and Avon Cosmetics.
Specialisations include: Design, development and operation of converged voice and data networks, data centres, high availability systems infrastructure, server and storage architectures and information security.

Jane Swindle has been in the IT industry for 35 years and during this time has worked in both software development and hardware and infrastructure areas.
She has been in Cancer Research’s IT Service Operations team since 2002 most recently specialising in business change. She was seconded from March 2009 until January 2011 to the technology workstream, within a program of works set up to deliver the move of 1200 staff from 8 offices into a single London HQ.
She currently looks after the Service Management team which includes the Service Desk and end user support which includes running and maintaining a 1200 user thin client environment.