Balancing BYOD and Cyber Essentials

Chris is a senior programme/project manager at the University of Wolverhampton. Prior to this, Chris worked as a project management consultant – where he helped clients to set up and improve upon their portfolio, programme and project governance and structures. At work, he is particularly passionate about people and change management, but outside of that he is a huge football fan. Although he hasn’t mentioned much about his beloved Manchester United for the last few months….

Henrik has gathered his experience of leading people through change and digital technologies from many sectors including Publishing, Tour Operating, Housing and, lately, Higher Education. Having worked in a variety of leadership roles encompassing operational management and strategic delivery, he is an experienced communicator at many levels. Henrik has spent the last decade in two leading universities creating successful Service Delivery and Operations departments with a focus on strategic goals and business outcomes, underlined by a culture of empowerment and achievement. He is the vice-chair of the UCISA Sustainability Group, member of the UCISA Support Services Group, an eager contributor to UCISA projects, and enjoys voluntary work, latest for tuition charity The Access Project. Continuous learning is a core principle to Henrik, he completed a Master’s degree with distinction in Management not long ago, and he perpetually embraces opportunities to learn through a variety of platforms. He is a keen architecture buff (having recently built a house to his own design) and loves a good cup of tea!

Michael joined Durham University in 1998 and has since implemented many iterations of windows managed desktop from NT4 to Win 11.  The main estate is still Windows 10 which delivers applications using Cloudpaging/AppsAnywhere and Parallels RAS - allowing all applications to be used on any internet enabled device via a single web portal, a game-changer at the time of inception.  Access to these applications extends to BYOD (any OS), so migration to Windows 11 and AVD involves minimal effort.

Nick co-founded AppsAnywhere back in 2009, and leads the company across North America and EMEA, with a particular focus on using customer success to share new and better ways of working in universities and community colleges. With a career background in ground-breaking and exciting technology, and a strong affinity to working across the education sector, Nick is particularly proud of his involvement with universities that enhance student outcomes and become more competitive as a result.