Professor Jim Norton

PROFESSOR M.J. NORTON
BEng(Hons) CDir CEng DEng FIEE FIoD FRSA

Key Speaking Engagements Completed - Professor Jim Norton - 2005:

26th January - Spoke at the Microsoft/Telecom Italia seminar at Stoke Park giving an overview of telecommunications industry integration.

16th February - Spoke at Bedford Breakfast Club on "Extracting real bottom line benefits from information and communications technology (ICT)".

17th February - Gave e-Business lectures to Sheffield University Management School MBA students. Lecture One "e-Business myths and realities". Lecture Two "Broadband and mobile access matter".

24th February - Gave e-Business lectures to Sheffield University Management School MBA students. Lecture Three "New opportunities - new threats". Lecture Four "Benchmarking global best practice".

18th March - Held a Q&A session on "Technology" for "The Innovator's Hot Seat" at the London Innovation Conference 2005.

21st March - Speaker at the UBS-Wolfsberg Digital Forum lunch on "The societal impact of technology"

23rd March - Chaired IoD/Microsoft Debate on "The role of IT in Corporate Governance".

13th April - Participated in Microsoft Roundtable "Helping SMEs extract real 'bottom line' return from ICT investment while continuing to operate securely".

16th May - Member of the judging panel for the "Business Innovation" section of the National Business Awards.

10th June - Spoke at the Adobe debate on "Counting the cost of electronic document forgery".

15th June - Spoke at Computing/Intellect "Innovation Nation" roundtable debate.

16th June - Chaired IoD Information & Communications Technologies Summit.

23rd June - Member of judging panel for London Business School 'New Venture' business plans.

1st July - Gave presentation on "e-Business Techniques" to visiting delegation from Shanxi Province China.

12th July - Gave presentations at IoD Wessex Lunch - Bournemouth on "Disaster Recovery" and on "Extracting bottom line value from ICT".

07.12.2005.

8th September - Member of the judging panel for the "Computing Awards for Excellence".

9th September - Member of the judging panel for the London Business School "Entrepreneurship" Summer School.

14th September - Chairman of judging panel for the 'Project Team' category of the IEE Awards in Innovation.

20th September - Spoke at the Ordnance Survey "Terra Future" conference in Southampton.

27th September - Member of the judging panel for the 'National Business Awards" - "Best use of Technology" category.

20th October - Spoke to 6th Formers at Radley College on "Information & Communications Technology Futures".

26th & 27th October - Chaired roundtables at the "Message 05" Conference at the Business Design Centre, London.

3rd November - Gave evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Science & Technology regarding UK infrastructure resilience.

3rd November - Gave opening address to the IoD/BT/Oracle "Business Growth in the Digital Networked Economy" seminar in Leeds.

16th November - Gave opening address to the IoD/BT/Oracle "Business Growth in the Digital Networked Economy" seminar in Birmingham.

17th November - Member of the judging panel for the Computer Weekly "Best Places to Work in IT" Awards.

22nd November - Gave keynote address to Avea Management Conference - Istanbul.

24th November - Gave opening address to IoD/BT/Oracle "Business Growth in the Digital Networked Economy" seminar in Manchester

28th November - Chaired IoD/Oracle Round-table event: "Your business strategy - how IT can help".

30th November - Chaired Software Asset Management (SAM) industry round-table discussion for Monactive and Microsoft.