8.30 am
Registration
9.30 am
Chair’s Welcome
Speakers:
9.40 am
Morning Keynote: Best practice technology selection for UK manufacturers
- Investing time and effort in the early stages pays dividends with the subsequent ROI
- Business-led, not technology led
- Building solid foundations to then move into the implementation phase
Speakers:
9.55 am
Panel 1: Challenges when dealing with your systems?
Speakers:
10.15 am
Discussion Session 1
Choose a discussion group to join from across all three conference streams – click the tabs to see the available discussion groups in each stream. Each discussion group lasts 30 minutes and is limited to 7 delegates. All discussion groups are concurrent, allowing you to work your way through the discussion groups that matter most to you over the course of the day.
10.50 am
Coffee break and networking
12.20 pm
Lunch
13.20 pm
“This new system is rubbish!”
What is the purpose of an IT implementation; is it to bring in a new IT solution or is it to bring about tangible business change? In this session we’ll look at how to turn the projected benefits into a reality by engaging with your people based on the lessons learnt from the change programme of major systems implementations (and how to avoid your people saying, “This new system is rubbish!”)
Speakers:
13.35 pm
Panel 2: How to evaluate the claims of enterprise software vendors?
IT teams will play a critical role in enabling British industry to successfully transition to what is being called the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’. Effective vendor selection will be key to this.