DIG21

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Date

2 November 2021

3 November 2021

4 November 2021

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4 November 2021

online 13:00 - 16:00 each day

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About the Event

 

DIG21: Resilience, Reinvention and Revolution in a Connected World

 

We invite you to join us at this year’s Digital Infrastructure Group virtual conference ‘Resilience, Reinvention and Revolution in a Connected World’.

The conference will be once again delivered digitally giving you access to a range of great presentations from Tuesday 2nd November to Thursday 4th November between 1 and 4pm – and the best part – it’s free to attend for ucisa members!

This has been a challenging 12 months and the conference will explore how infrastructure has had to be finessed to meet these interesting and difficult times. We have broken the challenges we have face into 3 main topics:-

  • Resilience – making sure that new, existing, and modified services are fit for purpose, maintained, and running 24x7. Our people and teams working above and beyond and coming up with ideas and implementing solutions and ideas in timeframes previously thought impossible.
  • Reinvention – Taking what we already have and modifying, expanding or completely re-engineering to make what we have work better and fill the gaps in requirements
  • Revolution - Adopting working, teaching and learning from home have required a different mindset, tools and systems. These will be the foundation for how we change as organisations and could lead to new and better ways of working and teaching.

The conference looks to share these ideas, question our longstanding ways of working and looking forward into how we can work together to continue to adopt a can-do mindset and encourage the revolution of IT enabled change.

DIG21 is for those who implement, monitor and manage IT infrastructures & networks, as well as technology leaders. The programme will feature a great mix of sector-led presentations, interactive sessions, business showcases and insightful keynotes.

We look forward to seeing you at DIG21!

Event Schedule

Tuesday

14:00

Introduction and welcome

Jim Florence, Support and Operations Team Lead, Robert Gordon University
14:05

Managing data sprawl in a hybrid cloud environment

Adrian Cooper. Field CTO, NetApp
15:05

Why the most successful Enterprise Architecture is Collaborative - Leiden University, the Netherlands

Maarten van Schie, Leiden University; Daisy Schuchmann, and Henk van Wijnen, ValueBlue
15:55

Wrap up of Day 1

Jim Florence, Support and Operations Team Lead, Robert Gordon University
16:00

Close

 

Wednesday

14:00

Welcome to day 2

Jim Florence, Support and Operations Team Lead, Robert Gordon University
14:05

Outsmart disruption: Gaining greater value and agility from your business IT infrastructure

Enzo Brienza, InterSystems
14:10
14:35

Beyond IaaS; Robust architectures and security models for cloud native technologies

Josh Fry, Director of Cloud, Jisc
14:55

The challenge of achieving true mobility for datacentre workloads

Gareth John, Q Associates
15:15

Leadership Resilience: Beyond 2021

Dale Murray, Software Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
15:55

Wrap up of Day 2

Jim Florence, Support and Operations Team Lead, Robert Gordon University
16:00

Close

Thursday

14:00

Welcome to Day 3

Jim Florence, Support and Operations Team Lead, Robert Gordon University
14:05

Smarter Distributed Working with Office 365

Nick Skelton, Independent IT Consultant
14:35

Zero Trust Data Management - How to protect & recover from a ransomware attack

Grant Dinning, Rubrik
14:55

Leadership Vision for 2022: Infrastructure and Operations

Tim Zimmerman, VP Analyst, Gartner
15:55

Wrap of the Conference

Jim Florence, Support and Operations Team Lead, Robert Gordon University
16:00

Close

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