Professor Jim Norton

PROFESSOR M.J. NORTON
BEng(Hons) CDir CITP CEng DEng FIoD FBCS FIET FRSA

Key Speaking Engagements Completed - Professor Jim Norton - 2008:

22nd January Spoke in London (jointly with Prof. Martyn Thomas) at the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology and Oxford Internet Institute seminar "Government 2.0": on "On-time, On-budget, On-spec Government Information Systems".

15th February Gave lunchtime seminar to the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit on "Getting the most from public sector IT investment".

3rd March Gave seminar to Macintyre Hudson LLP in Milton Keynes on "ICT Strategy: An SME perspective".

11th March Gave e-Business lectures to Sheffield University Management School MBA students. Lecture Three "New opportunities - new threats". Lecture Four "Benchmarking global best practice".

8th April Spoke in Leeds on "ICT Issues facing SMEs" for the IoD Yorkshire IT Special Interest Group.

1st July Chaired Information Security Seminar Breakfast for COLT.

11th September Member of the Judging Panel for the 'Computing' awards.

12th September Helped judge group projects from the London Business School Entrepreneurship Summer School.

16th September Chaired judging panel for the IET Awards 'Best Project Team' category.

28th October Spoke at Microsoft Press Briefing on "ICT needs of small and medium enterprises".

30th October Spoke at Daily Telegraph Business Club / T-Mobile event on "Dealing with the negatives of mobile working".

11th November Chaired the annual Chartered Director conference.

24th November Spoke on "IoD Members views on ICT Risk" at the EURIM Directors' Roundtable on Information Governance.

26.11.2008.

31st January Spoke in London at a Continuity Institute seminar on Post Event Recovery" .

20th February Spoke on 'Responsibilities of Directors and Managers in IT Projects' at joint BCS/IoD/CMI event in the Isle of Man.

4th March 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".

27th March Chaired and gave the lead keynote address at the IoD "Practical ways for SMEs to profit from the Internet" conference in London.

22nd April Spoke to the Intellect Security & Resilience Group on "Using market forces to boost resilience?"

24th June Spoke at UK Online Breakfast Seminar "Broadband for the SME".

10th July Spoke at 'Strategy for humanitarian policy makers' seminar at Kings College London.

15th September Gave presentation on: "SME perceptions on resilience" to the Cabinet Office, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Business Advisory Group.

8th October Spoke on: "Using market forces to boost resilience" at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) conference "UK Resilience 2008: Contributions to resilience".

28th October Chaired IoD-Orange evening seminar on "Networking your way to better business".

5th November Spoke on "Resilience in UK Telecommunications: Success and Challenge" to the European Utilities Telecoms Conference in Lisbon.

18th November Participated in the IT Governance Institute breakfast roundtable on "How can enterprise governance of IT be effectively applied to get through the current economic situation and improve longer term performance?"