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Overview: Join Tech Monitor’s editorial team for the Tech Leaders Club, convening the C-suite of technology leadership. We invite you to share experiences and challenges with your peers as we explore strategies for gathering, cleaning and connecting data – and what this means for supercharging your transformation efforts.

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Cloud: Stategic Thinking on the Cloud.

The cloud makes up an ever-growing proportion of IT spend and, for many organisations, it is the presumptive future of IT. How can IT leaders ensure their organisation’s long term interests are protected in the cloud choices they make today? Join your tech leadership peers for a forward-looking discussion on cloud management.

Topics for discussion include:

  • SaaS integration
  • Hybrid, multi- or single cloud?
  • Data sovereignty
  • Effective cloud spend management

*In unforeseen circumstances if you need to cancel your VIP delegate place, we kindly request that you send a suitable replacement and inform us of the name change as soon as possible.

Overview

Register here to view day 1 on-demand: What progress have we made since COP26? 

 

Major commitments were made at COP26, from ending deforestation by 2030 to helping nations adapt to climate change. Have we seen any notable progress to net zero as a result? The upcoming COP27 will be the first COP to be held in Africa, shifting the spotlight towards the needs of the most climate-vulnerable countries. Will climate leaders in the developing world seize the momentum and take the lead on tackling urgent issues around climate mitigation and adaptation, and securing fairer energy access? How can developed countries support clean transitions in emerging and developing economies?

Join us for the first day in our series as we assess progress made since last year and explore the potential of COP27 to ensure a climate-resilient future for all. 

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There are so many definitions of ESG floating around, it is easy for many people to be sceptical if the popular acronym has any relevance at all. Maybe the simplest way to describe it is as a corporate performance evaluation criteria that assess a company’s governance mechanisms and ability to manage its environmental and social impacts. Such descriptions, however, fail to capture the enormity of that data collection and the means by which to evaluate criteria effectively.

 

Institutional investors, stock exchanges and boards increasingly use sustainability and social responsibility disclosure information to establish a link between a company’s ESG risk management and business performance. Let’s take a step back and revisit the definition of ESG, an investment risk framework that measures the effect of the outside world on an asset. Given the context, any conclusions drawn must be met with some scepticism, as ESG in essence is not designed to indicate performance.

 

However, as regulators continue to inject the markets with reporting standards and taxonomies, the scope of the challenge is narrowing. And, although far from perfect, it does mean that institutions can work towards terminology that they know will be being applied across the board; providing some foundation can allow those truly committed to measuring sustainable impact a foothold into establishing its existence.

 

This webinar examines the challenges the asset management industry faces in applying “ESG” into their workflows and the means by which to get under the hood and establish more meaningful ways of measuring impact through data and regulatory change. If we don’t address this confusion, the momentum behind investing in companies that are actively helping the planet and society is threatened.

Overview

The UK government’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill aims to revolutionise regeneration across the country. As currently planned, the Bill will offer new funding for housing and infrastructure, and give authorities more control over their budgets and transport systems. The accompanying Levelling-Up Fund is one of five ongoing funding initiatives designed to help authorities boost their local economies.

But this new flexibility comes after a period of unprecedented spending – the pandemic cost local authorities £11.9 in additional costs and lost income, according to one estimate – and amid a cost of living crisis.

This means that while local authorities must be poised to capture opportunities to innovate, they must do with so with extreme cost discipline.

This webinar, produced in partnership with VMware, will investigate how the levelling agenda impacts IT service provision among local authorities and how an effective approach to cloud computing can help them balance flexibility and cost.

Speakers:

  • Pete Swabey, Editor-in-Chief, Tech Monitor (Chair)
  • Joseph Langford, Head of Strategy, UK&I, VMware
  • Martyn Wallace, Chief Digital Officer, Scottish Local Government Digital Office

 

New Statesman Spotlight Debates is a new quarterly event series focused on some of the most challenging questions facing policymakers today. Featuring high-profile journalists, politicians and academics, the debates will gather thought leaders and decision makers for an evening of stimulating discussion and exclusive networking opportunities.

As the UK considers its pandemic recovery, bold, fresh policy thinking is more urgent than ever. The New Statesman, Britain’s leading political weekly, has been at the forefront of policy debate since its founding in 1913.

The event will take place from 18:30 until 20:00

Overview:

Join Tech Monitor’s editorial team for the Tech Leaders Club, convening the C-suite of technology leadership. We invite you to share experiences and challenges with your peers as we explore strategies for gathering, cleaning and connecting data – and what this means for supercharging your transformation efforts.

Topic:

Cybersecurity: Building defences against next-generation threats

Cybersecurity consistently ranks among IT leaders’ top priorities, as a seismic shift in working patterns coincides with a global cybercrime crisis. Join your tech leadership peers for an agenda-setting discussion on cybersecurity: what is working, what is not, and what is the gold standard for cybersecurity in 2022 and beyond.

Discussion will include:

    • Risk, governance and the board
    • Cybersecurity architectures and operating models
    • Talent, skills and awareness
    • Tools and techniques

*In unforeseen circumstances if you need to cancel your VIP delegate place, we kindly request that you send a suitable replacement and inform us of the name change as soon as possible.

The Spear’s Awards has been celebrating the very best private client advisers, wealth managers, lawyers and providers of service to HNW individuals for over 10 years.

Having been one of the premier networking events for private client advisers from Mayfair, the City of London and beyond for many years, the awards are taking place at Marriott Grosvenor House on 2 November 2022.

Our flagship event acknowledges and honours entrepreneurs, philanthropists and others for their innovation, success and outstanding contribution to the wealth management world and beyond.

Gold Table Package Includes

  • Table of 10 situated towards the front of the room
  • Drinks reception
  • 3 course dinner followed by petit fours, tea & coffee
  • ½ bottle of wine per person

Silver Table Package Includes

  • Table of 10
  • Drinks reception
  • 3 course dinner followed by petit fours, tea & coffee
  • ½ bottle of wine per person

Overview

The ability to derive insight from data is essential to the success of technology initiatives. Leaders across the public sector are well aware that data analytics capabilities are no longer a ‘nice to have’, but an essential driving force for transformation. Yet data analytics projects continue to be hamstrung by persistent issues that are difficult to overcome.

Tech Monitor convened central and local government data experts to dissect how digital leaders in the public sector are super-charging their analytics capabilities.

Our expert panel discussed how public sector leaders can take their data – however messy, incomplete or imperfect – and turn it into transformational insights that ultimately create real change for UK citizens.

Register to watch now and gain practical insights into how these hard-won lessons can be applied to your own organisation.

Discussion questions

  • What are the most pressing issues faced by public sector data leaders? How did the pandemic change the conversation around data analytics? Where are the current stumbling blocks?
  • How can organisations overcome the enormous challenge of cleaning the data? Does this have to be the first step for any digital transformation initiative? If not, how should poor, incomplete or biased data be handled, to avoid drawing incorrect conclusions?
  • What value is there in “democratising data” – making analytics available and accessible to departments outside of IT and technology? What are the challenges with this approach?
  • How should leaders govern, control and monitor data science projects, especially if they are outside traditional technology departments? What is the right balance between empowering employees to solve their own problems, and maintaining rigorous processes that produce reliable, high-quality results?
  • What does the future of data science look like for the UK public sector? Will data science become part of the skillset for most strategic roles?

 

Overview

Technology is changing the way we do business across all areas and roles. For leaders in finance, new technologies can open up massive opportunities and improve functionality across a company and beyond.

This event will explore the importance of data; how you compile, treat and manage it – and the rewards this can bring.

Key Topics:

  • How finance directors can use technology to simplify their output
  • What technologies are really driving change forward for finance directors to do their jobs more effectively
  • What can automation bring to the table
  • How to implement these technologies within the finance team and across the business

Future of Media Technology series

The Future of Media Technology webinar series is comprised of four online events which was held across 2022. The webinars provided essential information for media leaders about the future of our industry. These hour-long sessions provided insight into the big themes shaping the future of quality media. The speakers included a mixture of leading technologists, commercial directors, proprietors, and editorial leaders from the world’s leading digital publishers. The sessions included a data-led overview of each topic featuring exclusive new analysis from Press Gazette in addition to a panel discussion with interaction from attendees.