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Northumbrian Water and Johnson Matthey CIOs at CIO Town Hall Live

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Join these two leading CIOs on Wednesday nine September for a stay Q&A and extra

“I’ve been in telecoms. I’ve been in money products and services. I did an interim stint with Microsoft. And I believe the most significant variation in the h2o sector is that we are a tiny extra threat averse. You consume the stuff, so you can in all probability value why… The problem is creating positive that way too a great deal threat aversion does not go almost everywhere in our organisation that we are able to innovate, for our consumers, for the environment.”

Northumbrian Drinking water CIO Nigel Watson has served guide the business to award-successful use of technology – and pioneered a flourishing annual innovation festival. And he is refreshingly frank about the company is working on, from cloud to AI.

He is talking at Computer system Business enterprise Overview and NS Tech’s CIO Town Corridor Reside this coming Wednesday September nine. The celebration is a typical accumulating for CIOs, CTOs and fellow technology executives to be a part of a stay, interactive discussion board with friends, engage with every single other in team discussions, stay Q&As with our speakers, and in personal chats.

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Nigel Watson, who is talking with Computer system Business enterprise Overview editor Ed Targett, will be joined by Paul Coby, CIO of FTSE a hundred sustainable technologies business Johnson Matthey, who will be talking with NS Media Groups Edward Qualtrough.

As Ed Targett notes: “Our CIO Town Corridor Reside is promptly turning out to be the go-to assembly for CIOs to hear from colleagues and to explore essential sector traits and disruptive threats. Join us to hear from two refreshingly immediate speakers, with entire world-course encounter and a track history of revolutionary innovation at their organisations.”

Speakers

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Nigel Watson has been CIO at Northumbrian Drinking water considering that October 2016, possessing beforehand labored in technology roles at Vodafone, Travelport, Microsoft and GE Cash.

Northumbrian Drinking water Group’s said goal is to come to be the most digital h2o business in the entire world — scooping a world award for an modern use of synthetic intelligence last 12 months as a consequence.

Particularly passionate about innovation, Watson established up Northumbrian Drinking water Group’s Innovation Pageant in 2017 to develop on the achievement of the organisation’s open door hackathons which introduced collectively startups, suppliers, regulators and tech suppliers to try and tackle the business and the sector’s most significant company, resilience, technology and environmental problems. Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Pageant 2020 will choose put in the autumn more than digital channels.

Paul Coby has been CIO of Johnson Matthey considering that April 2018, and is a Non-Govt Director of Virgin Income, which also operates Clydesdale Financial institution and Yorkshire Financial institution.

At Johnson Matthey, a FTSE a hundred business which is a leader in sustainable technologies, the reputation of IT has never been greater and Coby’s perform is driving the two hundred-12 months-aged organisation’s ideas to innovate employing digital and knowledge. Coby was beforehand IT Director of John Lewis and subsequently the 1st CIO of the John Lewis Partnership. He was CIO of British Airways for extra than a ten years.

A author on Roman military historical past, Coby has also served as an NED or board member for Pets at Home, P&O Ferries and SITA, the airline joint venture technology products and services business.

Agenda

2pm
Johnson Matthey CIO Paul Coby job interview
‘Innovation in digital and data’

3pm
Northumbrian Drinking water CIO Nigel Watson job interview
‘Opening the innovation floodgates’

three.40pm
Reside viewers Q&A with CIO Paul Coby, and Northumbrian Drinking water CIO Nigel Watson

Past speakers at NS Media Group’s CIO Town Corridor Reside celebration involve British Army CIO Main General Jonathan Cole, and Parliamentary Electronic Provider CIO Tracey Jessup.

NS Media Group’s CIO Town Corridor Reside will be constrained to CIOs and senior technology executives on the working day of the celebration, but the periods will subsequently be opened and produced accessible on demand to all.

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