Northumbrian Water and Johnson Matthey CIOs at CIO Town Hall Live
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“I’ve been in telecoms. I’ve been in financial providers. I did an interim stint with Microsoft. And I assume the greatest variation in the drinking water sector is that we are a minor far more danger averse. You drink the things, so you can in all probability recognize why… The challenge is earning absolutely sure that way too much danger aversion doesn’t go in all places in our organisation that we are in a position to innovate, for our customers, for the surroundings.”
Northumbrian H2o CIO Nigel Watson has assisted lead the enterprise to award-profitable use of know-how – and pioneered a thriving yearly innovation competition. And he is refreshingly frank about the business is working on, from cloud to AI.
He is talking at Computer system Small business Evaluation and NS Tech’s CIO City Hall Are living this coming Wednesday September nine. The occasion is a frequent gathering for CIOs, CTOs and fellow know-how executives to be a part of a are living, interactive forum with peers, engage with each individual other in group discussions, are living Q&As with our speakers, and in non-public chats.
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Nigel Watson, who is talking with Computer system Small business Evaluation editor Ed Targett, will be joined by Paul Coby, CIO of FTSE 100 sustainable technologies enterprise Johnson Matthey, who will be talking with NS Media Teams Edward Qualtrough.
As Ed Targett notes: “Our CIO City Hall Are living is promptly getting the go-to assembly for CIOs to hear from colleagues and to focus on essential field developments and disruptive threats. Sign up for us to hear from two refreshingly immediate speakers, with world-class experience and a monitor report of groundbreaking innovation at their organisations.”
Speakers
Nigel Watson has been CIO at Northumbrian H2o since Oct 2016, getting earlier worked in know-how roles at Vodafone, Travelport, Microsoft and GE Money.
Northumbrian H2o Group’s stated purpose is to develop into the most digital drinking water enterprise in the world — scooping a world-wide award for an innovative use of artificial intelligence past year as a outcome.
Specially passionate about innovation, Watson set up Northumbrian H2o Group’s Innovation Festival in 2017 to develop on the achievement of the organisation’s open up doorway hackathons which introduced collectively startups, suppliers, regulators and tech distributors to test and tackle the enterprise and the sector’s greatest business, resilience, know-how and environmental problems. Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival 2020 will get put in the autumn about digital channels.
Paul Coby has been CIO of Johnson Matthey since April 2018, and is a Non-Executive Director of Virgin Dollars, which also operates Clydesdale Financial institution and Yorkshire Financial institution.
At Johnson Matthey, a FTSE 100 enterprise which is a chief in sustainable technologies, the name of IT has by no means been larger and Coby’s functionality is driving the 200-year-outdated organisation’s options to innovate employing digital and info. Coby was earlier IT Director of John Lewis and subsequently the initially CIO of the John Lewis Partnership. He was CIO of British Airways for far more than a decade.
A author on Roman navy historical past, Coby has also served as an NED or board member for Pets at House, P&O Ferries and SITA, the airline joint venture know-how providers enterprise.
Agenda
2pm
Johnson Matthey CIO Paul Coby interview
‘Innovation in digital and data’
3pm
Northumbrian H2o CIO Nigel Watson interview
‘Opening the innovation floodgates’
3.40pm
Are living viewers Q&A with CIO Paul Coby, and Northumbrian H2o CIO Nigel Watson
Earlier speakers at NS Media Group’s CIO City Hall Are living occasion include British Army CIO Main General Jonathan Cole, and Parliamentary Digital Service CIO Tracey Jessup.
NS Media Group’s CIO City Hall Are living will be confined to CIOs and senior know-how executives on the day of the occasion, but the sessions will subsequently be opened and manufactured out there on demand to all.
