Cost: Seminars and product reviews - free of charge. Dinner - £30 for CiG members, £45 for non-members
Seminars
Managing change in the workplace
A panel debate with Kate Arnold, NHS Direct; Kim Horwood, PTSC; Jane Heenan, Fidelity Investments International. Chaired by Julia Hordle, Intelligent Resources.
The panel will discuss how they have embraced or pushed change within their teams or the workplace and how to make a success of managing change.
Changing technologies
"Working in a wired world"
Euan Semple, Independent Consultant
Formally Head of KM at the BBC, Euan is now an independent consultant. He was voted IWR 2005 Information Professional of the Year. Euan will be speaking on the impact that forums, blogs, wikis and social networking tools have had in making the BBC more efficient and creative and how they will inevitably impact on every workplace in the future.
Changing relationships: "Who is a buyer and who is a seller?"
Manny Cohen, RM Online Ltd.
Creator of aRMadillo, Manny will look at the changes in the dynamics of the business information industry due to the latest advances in technology and the internet.
Product Reviews
Vendors presenting include Swets, Company Watch Ltd, ICC, Bailey Solutions, LexisNexis, Cartouche, RM, Infocandy, Thomson Business Intelligence, 7Side and EBSCO. Each vendor will be given a 3 minute slot to update you on a particular product, tell you about a new development or highlight a new product feature. The reviews will be scheduled in half hour slots, which will be delivered between the seminars, with a maximum of 10 product reviews in each slot.
Chaired by Lesley Robinson, Lesley Robinson Consultancy Services Ltd.
Annual General Meeting
The official AGM, open to CiG members only.
Drinks Reception & Dinner
The drinks reception is kindly sponsored by EBSCO and the wine at dinner by LexisNexis Butterworths. Our after-dinner speaker this year is author Jo Owen, serial entrepreneur, journalist and author of "Management Stripped Bare - What They Don't Teach You At Business School".
