February’s LNETM will focus on IT Security in the enterprise, with several top quality demo presenters and a panel discussion on key trends in IT Security.

The panel discussion will include the following speakers:

• Dexter Casey (Group CISO of Centrica PLC)
  
• Poppy Dowell (Program Manager of Wayra GCHQ) - moderator
  
• Paul Knott (Security Strategist, Northern Region, Symantec Corporation)
  

The demo presenters will include:

• iProov simply and securely authenticates online users, via its Azure-based Saas service. iProov can authenticate users for access purposes, and can also provide remote onboarding by authenticating users against their identity documents for secure remote KYC. iProov uses face verification, which is effortless on any device (including PCs, IOS and Android devices). iProov’s unique capability is to reliably detect attack by copies of users’ faces, and by replayed recordings of prior sessions.
• PostQuantum’s patented authentication process relies on cryptographic binding, with applications that extend beyond authorisation and verification into creating reliable digital signatures and non-repudiation capabilities. Most significantly, they have created quantum-secure encryption, to give users peace of mind over your data’s security, today and tomorrow.
• ZeroFOX protects modern organizations across social, mobile, web and collaboration platforms from targeted phishing attacks, credential compromise, data exfiltration, brand hijacking, executive and location threats by using targeted data collection and artificial intelligence-based analysis

The academic speaker will be Dr Vasilios Mavroudis, Doctoral Researcher in the Information Security Group at University College London, who will speak about his research into high assurance cryptographic hardware from untrusted components.

Tickets are £7.50, with an opportunity to purchase early bird discount tickets for £5.00 up until two weeks before the event.

Dexter Casey (Group CISO of Centrica)

Dexter Casey is the Group CISO of Centrica PLC, the UK’s largest energy & gas company. Dexter has 17 years experience in the IT Security space, with senior roles at a range of top tier organisations including Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, HSBC, Willis Towers Watson, Royal Mail Group and The Cooperative Group.

Poppy Dowell (Program Manager of Wayra GCHQ)

Poppy started her career in Business Change for a management consultancy firm; with a range of assignments from doing a governance review for a uranium enrichment plant to advising on the universal credit scheme to working internally on a UK-wide restructure programme.

Recently, she has been working within innovation in arguably one of the most challenging government environments to create change and cause positive disruption, with the Wayra team as site manager of the GCHQ Cyber Accelerator.

Paul Knott (Security Strategist, Northern Region, Symantec Corporation)

Paul Knott is a security strategist for Symantec across Northern Europe within the CTO team. In this role, Paul serves as a trusted advisor to the leaders of Symantec’s clients, helping them understand the cyber threat landscape, providing expert industry insight and enabling them to bolster their enterprise security strategy.

Prior to joining Symantec, Paul served as a Consultant and Advisory Security Principal for DXC Technology, and as a Senior Security & Network Analyst for QinetiQ.

Paul holds a Master’s degree in information technology and business management from the University of Worcester.

Vasilios Mavroudis (Doctoral Researcher at University College London)

Vasilios is a Doctoral Researcher in the Information Security Group at University College London, where he studies the security and privacy aspects of digital ecosystems with a focus on emerging technologies and previously unknown attack vectors. He works under the supervision of Professor George Danezis and Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro.

In the past, he developed auditing tools for the Public Key Infrastructure of Deutsche Bank and participated in an international consortium studying large-scale security threats in telecommunication networks. He has also cooperated with the Computer Security Group of University of California, Santa Barbara in several projects, including a detection system for evasive web-malware.

He holds an M.Sc. in Information Security from UCL, and a B.Sc in Computer Science from University of Macedonia, Greece.

January’s LNETM will focus on AI in the enterprise, with a keynote from David Kelnar (Investment Director & Head of Research at MMC Ventures), who will present the findings of his recent report into the state of AI in the UK, followed by a fireside chat discussion.

The fireside chat will be moderated by John Newton (CTO & Founder of Alfresco Software and former founder of Documentum).

In addition to the keynote, there will be three demo presentations from:

• Action.ai provide fully configured natural language AI instances to ensure your Chatbot is Intelligent from day one. This means users are understood however they express themselves in the relevant domain, benefitting from truly intuitive user experiences that Chatbots really can deliver.
• Grakn is a distributed hyper-relational database for knowledge engineering, that provides the knowledge base foundation for cognitive/intelligent systems to manage complex datasets.  Graql is Grakn’s reasoning (through OLTP) and analytics (through OLAP) query language. Graql is a much higher level abstraction over traditional query language - SQL, NoSQL, or Graphs.
• TrueAI provides automatic, intelligent response suggestions for customer support operators. These suggestions can be integrated with existing CRM systems using a plugin. The product is more intelligent and effective than currently used automation alternatives, such as copy & paste templates or rule-based chatbots.

The academic speaker will be Will Venters from the London School of Economics, who is researching the economic/cultural/sociological aspects of AI.

Tickets are £7.50, with an opportunity to purchase early bird discount tickets for £5.00 up until one week before the event.

David Kelnar (Investment Director and Head of Research at MMC Ventures)

David joined MMC in 2016 and leads the Firm’s research team, which provides MMC with a deep and differentiated understanding of the technologies, themes and sectors in which it invests.

David has eight years of entrepreneurial leadership experience in early stage companies, having served as the founding CEO and CFO, respectively, of two consumer service technology companies, and is an advisor to a range of early stage ventures.

Previously, David was an equity research analyst and investor in the European technology sector, at Goldman Sachs in London and a hedge fund in New York.  David graduated with double First Class Honours in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.

John Newton (CTO & Founder of Alfresco Software)

John Newton, CTO and Founder, has had one of the longest and most influential careers in content management. In 1990, John co-founded, designed and led the development of Documentum®, the leader in content management acquired by EMC.

For the next ten years, he invented many of the concepts widely used in the industry today. In addition, he built Documentum’s marketing and professional services organizations in Europe. John has also been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital. John was one of the founding engineers at Ingres where he helped develop the world’s first commercial relational database. John graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr Will Venters (Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Dept of Management, LSE)

Dr Venters has an international reputation for his work in distributed systems development, Grid and Cloud Computing and Knowledge Management. He holds a doctorate from the University of Salford, and a first-class degree in computer science from the University of Manchester.

He has researched the organisation of distributed work and systems in various organisations including government-related organisations, the construction industry, financial services, health, and most recently among particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Will has undertaken consultancy for a wide range of companies and has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Management Studies, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Knowledge Management Research & Practice. He is a member of the board of Youthnet, the UK’s first online charity, and the former chair of a national volunteering charity.

NOTE: Our ticketing process has changed - to attend the event, please use our Eventbrite listing (https://november2017lnetm.eventbrite.co.uk).

The November LNETM will feature a fireside chat with Adrian Colyer, Venture Parter and CTO at Accel Partners. Adrian is also the author of the prominent tech blog The Morning Paper, which focuses on reviewing a mix of the latest research and foundational papers in computer science.

Adrian will be interviewed by Fintan Ryan, who is an industry analyst with Redmonk, a developer focused tech research firm.

In addition to the fireside chat, there will be two demo presentations from:

• Manual.to is providing mobile manual technology to medium and large corporations, lowering their production costs and enhancing the customer user experience. In addition, Manual.to offers unique benefits for companies trying to build relationships with their customers after sales, and decreases the cost of after sales support.
• Hyperglance is an IT visualization solution that cuts through the complexity of modern virtual and physical IT systems to give small to large enterprise organizations a comprehensive, interactive, 3D topology view of their many, often disparate, layers of IT - this IT relationship modeling is rendered with intuitive multidimensional graphics as well as data rich dashboards on demand for deeper analysis.

Tickets are £7.50, with an opportunity to purchase early bird discount tickets for £5.00 up until one week before the event.

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Adrian Colyer (Venture Partner at Accel Partners)

Adrian Colyer has been involved in open-source infrastructure companies for more than 20 years, having previously held CTO roles with SpringSource, VMware and Pivotal.

As a venture partner, Adrian works with software-based companies across Europe, and is a board member or observer for ClusterHQ, Skipjaq and Weaveworks. Adrian is originally from London.

He writes “The Morning Paper”, a CS blog reviewing a mix of the latest research and foundational papers in computer science.

Fintan Ryan (Industry Analyst at Redmonk)

Fintan Ryan is an industry analyst at RedMonk, the developer focused industry analyst firm.

Fintan’s research focuses on all things related to developers, from tooling to methodologies and the organisational aspects of software development. His primary research areas include software lifecycle, cloud native computing architectures, data and analytics, DevOps, machine learning, artificial intelligence and blockchain.

Prior to joining RedMonk, Fintan held senior roles across management, development, services and strategy in both startups and enterprise technology vendors. He holds an MSc in Information Systems Strategy from Dublin City University.

You can find Fintan on twitter @fintanr and he regularly publishes research at http://redmonk.com/fryan/.

The October (16th) LNETM will have a FinTech theme, in collaboration with the FinTech Innovation Lab - we have an amazing panel of top industry experts to discuss key developments in this space.

The panel speakers are:

• Ronen Benchetrit (CTO at Zopa)
• Sarah Hazzledine (Senior Manager, Financial Services Tech Advisory at Accenture)
• Julian Levy (CEO of Ayarma Strategic Consultancy and EIR at Redline Ventures)
• Laura McGuinness (Lead for London FinTech Innovation Lab - Moderator)
• Andrew Sargison (MD, Head of Advisory, Sales & Distribution Technology at Morgan Stanley)

In addition to a FinTech focused panel discussion, there will be two demo presentations from:

• Xtract is a SaaS platform for motor claims - Providing data-driven insights to telematics crash data in real-time. By introducing an un-biased layer of evidence to motor incidents, Xtract enables the insurer and policy holder to speed-up processing times, execute FNOL accurately, determine liability and deflect fraud.
• Tredzone are specialists in low latency trading environments, who provide a range of multicore-optimized software solutions, enabling users to build their own business driven jitter-free, low-latency Reactive systems.

Our academic speaker will be Katie Evans (Head of Policy & Research at Money & Mental Health Institute).

Tickets are £7.50, with an opportunity to purchase early bird discount tickets for £5.00 up until one week before the event - please book tickets here.

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Event Speakers:

Ronen Benchetrit (CTO of Zopa)

Ronen joined Zopa as CTO in mid 2016 to manage their growth-oriented technology strategy, having previously run technology for PokerStars.

Prior to his work at PokerStars, Benchetrit was senior R&D projects manager and architect for Avaya. He was also vice president of R&D and co-founder of Trinity Computing Systems, and spent six years as a software engineer and team leader for the Israel Defense Forces.

Benchetrit holds degrees in computer science from Mamram—IDF Computer Science Academy and The Open University of Israel—and graduated from the Cranfield Leadership Programme at Cranfield University’s School of Management in 2013.

Katie Evans (Head of Policy & Research at Money & Mental Health Institute)

Katie is Head of Research and Policy at Money and Mental Health, where she leads a ground-breaking research programme exploring the links between mental health problems and financial difficulty. Katie joined Money and Mental Health from the Social Market Foundation, where she led a programme of work around regulated consumer markets. An expert on vulnerable consumers and financial wellbeing, Katie’s research has been widely discussed across government, regulators and academia, and she has worked closely with both large financial services providers and fintech firms. @katieuevans

Sarah Hazzledine (Senior Manager, Financial Services Tech Advisory at Accenture)

Sarah leads large change and transformational journeys for global FS institutions, specialising in programme advisory and delivery. She is the Tech4Tech stream lead for the FinTech Innovation Lab and have a keen interest in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology.

Julian Levy (CEO of Ayarma Strategic Consultancy and EIR at Redline Ventures)

Julian is CEO at Ayarma Ltd – a strategic advisory firm. He has worked at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, CSFB and Index Venture; leading fintech and innovation programs, equity research and engineering. Projects have included writing digital and fintech strategies for a large European bank, board advisory on FinTech, technical due diligence for private equity and venture capital firms in areas ranging from custom hardware and silicon vendors to security companies, mentoring early stage FinTech and B2B technology companies with a combination of technical strategy, go-to-market support and commercial guidance, and supporting successful fund raises.

Laura McGuinness (Lead for London FinTech Innovation Lab - Moderator)

Laura leads Accenture’s FinTech Innovation Lab London - an annual 3 month accelerator programme for FinTech start-ups. She has spent 9 years working with Financial Services institutions and loves meeting start-ups whose innovative technologies can shape the future of financial services. In her spare time, Laura enjoys playing the piano, going to the theatre and escaping London with her fiancé Andy. Laura dislikes wedding planning. @LauraMcG7.

Andrew Sargison, (Managing Director, Super Department Head for Advisory, Sales and Distribution Technology at Morgan Stanley)

Andrew is currently the Super-Department Head for Advisory, Sales and Distribution Technology (ASD).  
Advisory Technology includes Investment Banking, Global Capital Markets and Equity and Fixed Income Research. Sales & Distribution supports the Institution Equities and Fixed Income businesses and also includes Client Intelligence and CRM.  

Key responsibilities include application development for internal solutions and external client services, application support, business continuity planning and providing technology opinions to investment banking and external clients.

During Andrew’s eighteen year tenure at Morgan Stanley he has worked on a number of key transactions providing technology solutions and advice to support deals including the Google IPO, Google IPA, Safaricom, General Motors re-IPO, LinkedIn IPO and more recently the Facebook IPO.

Prior to Morgan Stanley Andrew worked for Sumitomo Finance developing derivatives technology solutions, previously working for Nestle UK.

NOTE: Our ticketing process has changed - to attend the event, please use our Eventbrite listing.

The September LNETM will have a data & analytics theme - we’re currently working on finalising speakers and will confirm shortly.

In addition to a Data & Analytics panel discussion, there will be two demo presentations from:

• Julia Computing is the support company for Julia, which is the fastest modern open-source language for data science, machine learning and scientific computing. Julia provides the functionality, ease-of-use and intuitive syntax of R, Python, Matlab, SAS or Stata combined with the speed, capacity and performance of C, C++ or Java.
• Demo 2: TBC

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Tickets are £7.50, with an opportunity to purchase early bird discount tickets for £5.00 up until one week before the event.

Speakers:

Chris Darvill (EMEA Director of Sales Engineering, Cloudera)

Chris is the Director of Sales Engineering for Cloudera in EMEA. In this role Chris manages a team of Sales Engineers who work with Cloudera’s customers to help them understand how the Cloudera platform can help them address their business challenges and add value to their organisations. Chris is an experienced Sales leader with over 18 years experience working in the software sales industry, with the last 15 years spent in the Sales and Presales function.Â

Prior to joining Cloudera Chris held a number of Presales management roles at companies such as SAP, Business Objects and Experian.  He graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Computer Science.

Avik Sengupta (VP of Engineering, Julia Computing)

Avik is VP of Engineering at Julia Computing. He fascinated by computing, and excited about the leverage technology can bring to the financial services business.

Avik has a range of experiences including creating large, complex trading systems for worlds leading investment banks and also leading a startup to successful exit. He remains a hands on developer, while leading and growing teams of smart developers creating exceptional software, with specialisations in Machine Learning, Big Data and Distributed Systems.  

The March 2017 LNETM falls on Monday 20th March (three days after St Patrick’s Day), so we will have an Irish theme!

We are excited to announce that the evening’s guest speaker will be Peter Coppinger, Founder and CEO of Teamwork. Peter is in an excellent position to talk about the Irish tech ecosystem, as he has grown Cork based Teamwork from the ground up to have more than three million customers in every country around the globe.

In addition to this excellent guest speaker, we will have two innovative company demo presentations:

• Privity is an innovative global secure authentication company with a patented dual channel communications system that enables secure authentication and real time communication, providing a unique combination of push-based dual channel authentication and built-in “credential hub” functionalities to deliver a secure and versatile solution that can be employed across a broad range of industry applications utilising API authentication. 
• Secure Code Warrior is a suite of hands-on, interactive learning scenarios that enable developers to master secure coding techniques in different development languages and frameworks. It goes beyond the classic multiple choice techniques and offers hands-on challenges where software design and code needs to be analysed for security weaknesses. Once identified, the developer needs to modify the code to remediate or mitigate the weaknesses.
• Teamwork is a suite of business management applications that enhances process management, customer engagement and team collaboration. Teamwork Projects is designed to work seamlessly with the tools teams already know and love. Everything is in the cloud, accessible anywhere and anytime.  Teamwork is trusted by thousands of companies around the world, including Disney, eBay, PayPal, Spotify, Vevo, Lenovo, HP and many more.

Hopefully you can join us - for more information, please email ian@lnetm.com.

Guest Speaker: Peter Coppinger (CEO & Founder of Teamwork)

Peter Coppinger went from an idea of creating a project management tool to a company with 20+ employees and more than 1 million customers in nearly every country around the globe. What started as a tool to compete with the likes of Basecamp has evolved into a full suite of products including time management tracking, chat, help desk and more.

He began coding the first version of the software on his sister’s sofa and hasn’t looked back since. The business has evolved, re-branded and experienced explosive growth with no plans of stopping anytime soon. Teamwork is only getting started.

Over the next 4 years, they have plans to radically improve their products and extend the product range with hopes to being the world’s only suite of Integrated SaaS business products, allowing an integrated solution to run entire companies.

We are very excited that Cris Conde will be our keynote speaker at the February LNETM (Mon 20th Feb).

Cris is a world renowned technology executive - as CEO of Sungard Systems, he took the company private in the largest leveraged buy-out of it’s time and subsequently lead the company to be a multi-billion dollar organisation.

Since retiring from Sungard, Cris has become a prominent international angel investor, with specialisms in areas such as FinTech, IT Security and Services. He is an Executive in Residence at both Accel Partners and the FinTech Innovation Lab.

In addition, we will have demo presentations from two highly innovative emerging tech  companies:

• Cutover (UK) is an enterprise SaaS solution that addresses the complex human orchestration necessary for critical events, replacing spreadsheets, emails and conference calls. It allows teams to collaboratively plan, rehearse, execute and analyse events on one intuitive platform. 
• Company Demo 2: TBC

Cris Conde (Executive in Residence, Accel Partners and former CEO of Sungard Systems)

Cris Conde is the former President and CEO of SunGard Data Systems Inc., one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. During his over 28 years at SunGard, including 12 as CEO, Mr. Conde took the company private in what was, at the time, the largest leveraged buyout in history. Mr. Conde then grew the company to become ranked #363 on the Fortune 500, with over $5.6 billion in revenues.

Now based in London, Cris is an Executive in Residence at both Accel Partners and the FinTech Innovation Lab.

Cris began his career as an astrophysicist and today has his own incubator for start-up technology companies where he is able to provide his expertise across a number of key areas including: cyber security, big data, market structure, financial risk management and executive leadership.

To get the New Year off to a flying start, we’ve put together a panel of Tech experts to discuss the key tech trends that will likely form the basis of every conversation in 2017!

Sign-up here:

https://www.meetup.com/ln-enterprise-tech/events/236828955/

The panel includes:

• Christopher Lowe (Global TMT Specialist at Bloomberg)
• Gonzalo Ruiz (CTO at the Microsoft London Accelerator)
• Michael Treskow (Partner at Eight Roads Ventures)
• Paul Guthrie (Tech Strategist and CSO of QxBranch)

Full biographies for all the panel speakers are below.

In addition, we will have demo presentations from two highly innovative emerging tech  companies:

• CountOpen (UK) is a stealth mode company that makes data analytics accessible for everyone. Their first product is a revolutionary desktop data companion and is coming later this year.
• Relayto’s (USA) new publishing medium helps innovators further their goals by achieving greater impact on communications. They turn PDFs and multimedia assets into interactive and measurable documents and microsites that grab and keep attention, drive and measure action.

Sign up today and don’t forget to tell your friends/colleagues.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Christopher Lowe (Global TMT Specialist at Bloomberg)

Christopher is the Global Technology, Media & Telecom Specialist at Bloomberg, working with a large number of the world’s leading companies in that industry. Chris has grown a very successful startup program including a quarterly event called “Now That’s What I Call Startups”, NoTwics – which has helped raise $9M worth of investment and worked with over 150 startups from all over Europe.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, he gained over 15 years experience at leading global investment banks including Morgan Stanley (as an Executive Director), J.P. Morgan (as VP, Corporate Access), Thomson Reuters, and UBS.

Gonzalo Ruiz (CTO at the Microsoft London Accelerator)

With more than 15 years of experience in the IT Industry, Gonzalo is currently the CTO for the Microsoft London Accelerator, where he helps startups to build state of the art cloud services and top-class engineering teams.

Before that, Gonzalo helped large organizations to fully realize the benefits of public clouds, both as a Research Director in Gartner, and before that, as a Lead Architect in the Azure group in Microsoft UK, where he spent more than 4 years.

Before reallocating to the UK , Gonzalo spent 8 years working as a Lead Consultant in Microsoft Consulting, developing payments systems and collaboration platforms for the largest banks in Western Europe.
Gonzalo is passionate about building top class engineering teams and accelerating digital transformation.

Michael Treskow (Partner at Eight Roads Ventures)

Michael is a Partner at Eight Roads Ventures, focusing on venture and growth investments in technology companies across Europe.
Previously, Michael was at Accel in London, where he was involved with companies such as Celonis, ClusterHQ, Funding Circle, GoCardless, Packlink, Qubit, Semmle, Shift Technology, SpaceApe, Trufa, WeaveWorks and WorldRemit.

Originally from Russia, Michael lived for 10 years in Berlin, before spending another 10+ years in the US. He received a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Paul Guthrie (Tech Strategist and CSO of QxBranch)

Paul Guthrie is a co-founder and the Chief Strategy Officer of QxBranch. Paul has over a decade of experience in strategy consulting, complex market analysis, and emerging technology investment management through his previous role as Senior Economist and Director of Business Development for The Tauri Group’s Space and Technology team.

Paul holds a masters degree in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in Philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He is a former member of the US Rowing National Team and current Olympic development rowing coach.

We are very pleased to be joined by Jon Reynolds, CEO & Co-Founder of SwiftKey, for a fireside chat about the company’s journey from inception to acquisition, key trends in the mobile tech space and the growth of artificial intelligence in day-to-day life.

Sign-up HERE.

The SwiftKey Keyboard app for Android has been No 1 in 58 countries on Google Play and overall, the company’s software features on more than 200 million devices. It uses Artificial Intelligence to learn from each user and accurately predict their next word.

SwiftKey has been named the No 1 hottest startup in London by Wired magazine and ranked the 6th most innovative mobile business in the world by Fast Company.

SwiftKey was acquired by Microsoft in February 2016 for a reported $250m, and the 150 person organisation will become part of the Firms Technology & Research division.

This fireside chat will be moderated by Matt Brooke-Smith (CEO & Founder of Future Workshops).

There will also be demo presentations from two highly innovative companies:

• Coscale (Belgium) is a full stack performance monitoring solution that contains integrated server monitoring, container monitoring, application monitoring, and real user monitoring for production environments.

•  Logmatic.io (France) is a SaaS log management platform empowering users to troubleshoot and monitor applications better and faster. It is the “new generation” of log management systems that makes DEVs, OPS and BIZs people work together sharing the same operational intelligence.

Sign up today and don’t forget to tell your friends/colleagues.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Jon Reynolds (CEO & Co-Founder of SwiftKey)

Jon co-founded SwiftKey in 2008 when he was just 22 years old, while working as a graduate trainee for the British government. He and co-founder Ben Medlock met at Cambridge University while Jon was studying for his Physics undergraduate degree and Ben was doing a PhD in the area of Natural Language Processing. They both shared the same vision – to make interacting with devices faster, smarter and more personalized.

Jon has won a series of accolades, including the European Commission’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013.

Jon has an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and an Advanced Diploma in Management Accountancy, CIMA.

Matt Brooke-Smith (CEO & Founder of Future Workshops) - Fireside Chat Moderator

Matt is the Founder & CEO of Future Workshops, a mobile solutions agency focused on building iOS, Android and other platform Apps for various premium clients in both enterprise and consumer markets.  Founded in 2008, the company works with a range of top tier brands, including IBM, RBS, Microsoft, UBS, Timeout, Qlikview, Top Table and Open Table (to name a few).

Future Workshops was a nominee for Best Newcomer and Best Emerging Enterprise in the WCIT enterprise entrepreneurship awards 2011. They also built the multiple Pixel Award winning App The Open 2010 and won the Sun Java Mobile Application Video Contest in 2007.

Before founding Future Workshops, Matt began his career as an IT Analyst at global investment banking firm Goldman Sachs.  He holds a degree in computer science from the University of Southampton.

We are very pleased to be joined by John Newton for a fireside chat about founding a company in the UK, the future of enterprise software and the evolution of open source technologies.

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John is one of the UK’s most influential serial entrepreneurs in the enterprise tech space and a pioneer in the Enterprise Content Management space, having co-founded Documentum in the 1990s. Documentum had a successful IPO on NASDAQ in 1996 and was subsequently acquired by EMC Group for $1.7BN in 2003. John then went on to co-found Alfresco Software in 2005, which is now a leading open source ECM/WCM, with the company being valued at an estimated $300m.

There will also be demo presentations from two highly innovative companies:

• Hadean (UK) is a cloud supercomputing technology that enables petascale compute on petabytes of data by unifying the performance and capabilities of HPC (high-performance computing) and the commoditisation and scale of ‘big data’, with easy-to-use development tools.
• Docuvo (UK) is a single place to organise all files from across multiple providers (such as Dropbox, Google Drive, etc) with the ability to use meta search and multiple viewing modes to preview/compare any file instantly, without need for predefined taxonomy and using machine learning to better understand how data is structured.

Sign up today and don’t forget to tell your friends/colleagues.

John Newton (CTO & Founder of Alfresco, Co-Founder of Documentum)

John Newton, CTO and Founder, has had one of the longest and most influential careers in content management. In 1990, John co-founded, designed and led the development of Documentum, the leader in content management acquired by EMC.

For the next ten years, he invented many of the concepts widely used in the industry today. In addition, he built Documentum’s marketing and professional services organizations in Europe. John has also been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital. John was one of the founding engineers at Ingres where he helped develop the world’s first commercial relational database.

John graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.