Northumbrian Water and Johnson Matthey CIOs at CIO Town Hall Live
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“I’ve been in telecoms. I have been in fiscal providers. I did an interim stint with Microsoft. And I feel the largest variance in the drinking water sector is that we are a minor additional threat averse. You drink the things, so you can most likely respect why… The problem is creating sure that way too much threat aversion does not go all over the place in our organisation that we are ready to innovate, for our prospects, for the natural environment.”
Northumbrian Water CIO Nigel Watson has served direct the firm to award-successful use of engineering – and pioneered a thriving yearly innovation festival. And he is refreshingly frank about the organization is doing the job on, from cloud to AI.
He is talking at Personal computer Organization Review and NS Tech’s CIO Town Hall Reside this coming Wednesday September 9. The event is a normal gathering for CIOs, CTOs and fellow engineering executives to be a part of a dwell, interactive discussion board with peers, engage with each and every other in group discussions, dwell Q&As with our speakers, and in personal chats.
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Nigel Watson, who is talking with Personal computer Organization Review editor Ed Targett, will be joined by Paul Coby, CIO of FTSE 100 sustainable technologies firm Johnson Matthey, who will be talking with NS Media Groups Edward Qualtrough.
As Ed Targett notes: “Our CIO Town Hall Reside is fast turning into the go-to assembly for CIOs to hear from colleagues and to examine critical industry traits and disruptive threats. Sign up for us to hear from two refreshingly immediate speakers, with world-class expertise and a monitor file of pioneering innovation at their organisations.”
Speakers
Nigel Watson has been CIO at Northumbrian Water considering the fact that Oct 2016, possessing formerly worked in engineering roles at Vodafone, Travelport, Microsoft and GE Cash.
Northumbrian Water Group’s stated goal is to grow to be the most electronic drinking water firm in the world — scooping a world wide award for an modern use of artificial intelligence previous calendar year as a consequence.
Particularly passionate about innovation, Watson set up Northumbrian Water Group’s Innovation Competition in 2017 to build on the good results of the organisation’s open doorway hackathons which introduced together startups, suppliers, regulators and tech distributors to test and deal with the firm and the sector’s largest organization, resilience, engineering and environmental problems. Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Competition 2020 will choose location in the autumn around electronic channels.
Paul Coby has been CIO of Johnson Matthey considering the fact that April 2018, and is a Non-Govt Director of Virgin Revenue, which also operates Clydesdale Financial institution and Yorkshire Financial institution.
At Johnson Matthey, a FTSE 100 firm which is a chief in sustainable technologies, the status of IT has under no circumstances been larger and Coby’s operate is driving the two hundred-calendar year-aged organisation’s plans to innovate using electronic and data. Coby was formerly IT Director of John Lewis and subsequently the first CIO of the John Lewis Partnership. He was CIO of British Airways for additional than a decade.
A author on Roman military historical past, Coby has also served as an NED or board member for Animals at Residence, P&O Ferries and SITA, the airline joint undertaking engineering providers firm.
Agenda
2pm
Johnson Matthey CIO Paul Coby job interview
‘Innovation in electronic and data’
3pm
Northumbrian Water CIO Nigel Watson job interview
‘Opening the innovation floodgates’
3.40pm
Reside viewers Q&A with CIO Paul Coby, and Northumbrian Water CIO Nigel Watson
Former speakers at NS Media Group’s CIO Town Hall Reside event consist of British Military CIO Important General Jonathan Cole, and Parliamentary Electronic Provider CIO Tracey Jessup.
NS Media Group’s CIO Town Hall Reside will be limited to CIOs and senior engineering executives on the day of the event, but the classes will subsequently be opened and designed out there on desire to all.