Technology networking in the heart of London
Daniel Wagner Decoded, founded in 2011, is an experience that has redefined digital education, bringing vital digital knowledge to everyone.
Their philosophy is that ‘Digital Enlightenment’ transforms individuals and organisations, empowering people and giving them a fundamental understanding of the technologies behind the screen.
Dominic’s LinkedIn profile: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dominic-connor-01b56ab7
Kevin is a leader in the IT Learning and Development industry and currently Director, Global Training at ForgeRock. Prior to ForgeRock, Kevin was Executive Director – IT at Telecoms, at The Open University after having spent nearly 20 years in various service delivery, project management and training leadership roles at Sun Microsystems. Kevin has acted as an independent consultant to the SFIA Foundation, City & Guilds, Hudson IT Recruitment and the Isle of Man Government, and is a recognised expert in IT skills development frameworks.
Kevin is a Chartered Fellow and vice-chair of Council of the BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT and sits on the BCS Learning & Development specialist group committee. He is also a Director of CEdMA (Computer Education Managers Association), Fellow and Advisory Board member of the Learning and Performance Institute, member of the SFIA 6 project board and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, and external lecturer at City University, London.
Kevin was formerly Chairman and Trustee Director of Richard Cloudesley’s Charity, a historic endowed charity engaged in funding inner-city welfare and health improvement.
Kevin holds a BSc. (Hons) in Computer Science from City University, London, and an MBA from The Open University.
Kevin’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinstreater
Let IT Be?
A Real Time Club dinner in collaboration with the WCIT Education & Training Committee.
Debate: Computer Education — The new school curriculum misses the mark. Again.
Join the great debate of 2015 – After all the intense battling to bring real computer science back into the classroom, is the newly launched Computing Curriculum still not fit for purpose? Have we missed THE golden opportunity or are we now on the road to creating a generation of world beating computer experts?
With a future set to be increasingly defined by technological advancement are we going about educating our children in the right way? Are we giving them the right tools to ensure the UK can compete with the likes of China and India in the 21st Century?
We must continue to discuss and influence the direction of computing education in our schools because it will inevitably impact us all.
A Computer Platform for Managing Catastrophes
We live on a planet prone to catastrophes. Natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods and volcanic eruptions are a persistent threat to the lives and livelihoods of people across the globe. Beyond the force of Nature, other catastrophic events such as pandemics, acts of political violence, and industrial disasters blight the human environment. The massive scale of catastrophes, both natural and man-made, made risk management very difficult before the computer desktop revolution. Since then, quantitative catastrophe models have been constructed to assist insurers and government agencies in managing the extreme risks to which they are exposed. A quarter of a century after catastrophe risk modelling began, a new revolution beckons with the development of an integrated cloud-based computer platform for running all catastrophe models.
An evening at the ‘Information Age’ exhibition
Join Real Time Club members at a private Science Museum ‘Lates’ reception. The Science Museum’s November ‘Lates’ celebrates the opening of the brand-new gallery “Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World”. The exhibition tells the story of how life has been transformed by information and communication technologies over the last 200 years.
Ever been in the dark and afraid to switch on the light because of what you might see? We live in a world of the internet where all most of us ever see is the light and enlightenment; but there’s a dark side to the internet – a very dark side indeed. And it’s growing. And growing. What should we do? And what can we do?
In Conversation with former Anonymous and Lulzsec hacktivists
Real Time Club meeting at the Royal Court Theatre to hear Gabriella Coleman, academic and anthropologist, in conversation with former Anonymous and Lulzsec hacktivists.
If you’re working at the frontiers of knowledge, timing is everything …
You can have great ideas, brilliant people and all the funding you need, but if you’re too far ahead of your time, the project won’t give you the pay-off you seek.
Epigenetics, quantum biology, psychoneuroimmunology and computational cosmology are just some of the scientific fields taking off in the 21st century, but they have all at some time in the past been championed by people now lost to history.
The burden of bad timing is sometimes hard to bear: in science it has resulted in lost fortunes, public opprobrium, irredeemably tarnished reputations, depression and even suicide. Get your timing right, though, and the prize can be immortality.
So, how do you survive the dangers of working at the edge of uncertainty?