Northumbrian Water and Johnson Matthey CIOs at CIO Town Hall Live

Be part of these two top CIOs on Wednesday nine September for a are living Q&A and far more

“I’ve been in telecoms. I have been in financial expert services. I did an interim stint with Microsoft. And I believe the greatest big difference in the water sector is that we are a very little far more chance averse. You drink the stuff, so you can likely recognize why… The obstacle is producing positive that way too a great deal chance aversion doesn’t go everywhere in our organisation that we are equipped to innovate, for our buyers, for the natural environment.”

Northumbrian Water CIO Nigel Watson has assisted lead the organization to award-profitable use of technology – and pioneered a thriving once-a-year innovation competition. And he is refreshingly frank about the business enterprise is doing work on, from cloud to AI.

He is speaking at Computer system Small business Review and NS Tech’s CIO City Hall Stay this coming Wednesday September nine. The occasion is a frequent accumulating for CIOs, CTOs and fellow technology executives to join a are living, interactive forum with friends, have interaction with each individual other in team conversations, are living Q&As with our speakers, and in personal chats.

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Nigel Watson, who is speaking with Computer system Small business Review editor Ed Targett, will be joined by Paul Coby, CIO of FTSE a hundred sustainable systems organization Johnson Matthey, who will be speaking with NS Media Groups Edward Qualtrough.

As Ed Targett notes: “Our CIO City Hall Stay is speedily getting to be the go-to assembly for CIOs to listen to from colleagues and to explore important sector developments and disruptive threats. Be part of us to listen to from two refreshingly immediate speakers, with planet-course practical experience and a track document of groundbreaking innovation at their organisations.”

Speakers

Nigel Watson has been CIO at Northumbrian Water because October 2016, getting earlier labored in technology roles at Vodafone, Travelport, Microsoft and GE Capital.

Northumbrian Water Group’s stated intention is to turn out to be the most digital water organization in the planet — scooping a global award for an revolutionary use of synthetic intelligence very last year as a consequence.

Particularly passionate about innovation, Watson established up Northumbrian Water Group’s Innovation Competition in 2017 to establish on the success of the organisation’s open door hackathons which brought jointly startups, suppliers, regulators and tech sellers to test and deal with the organization and the sector’s greatest business enterprise, resilience, technology and environmental difficulties. Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Competition 2020 will get put in the autumn more than digital channels.

Paul Coby has been CIO of Johnson Matthey because 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 organization which is a leader in sustainable systems, the popularity of IT has under no circumstances been larger and Coby’s purpose is driving the 200-year-old organisation’s strategies to innovate working with digital and details. Coby was earlier IT Director of John Lewis and subsequently the initially CIO of the John Lewis Partnership. He was CIO of British Airways for far more than a ten years.

A author on Roman military services background, Coby has also served as an NED or board member for Pets at Residence, P&O Ferries and SITA, the airline joint enterprise technology expert services organization.

Agenda

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

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

3.40pm
Stay audience Q&A with CIO Paul Coby, and Northumbrian Water CIO Nigel Watson

Preceding speakers at NS Media Group’s CIO City Hall Stay occasion include British Army CIO Major Standard Jonathan Cole, and Parliamentary Digital Provider CIO Tracey Jessup.

NS Media Group’s CIO City Hall Stay will be minimal to CIOs and senior technology executives on the day of the occasion, but the periods will subsequently be opened and designed offered on demand to all.

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