Northumbrian Water and Johnson Matthey CIOs at CIO Town Hall Live

Be a part of these two main CIOs on Wednesday 9 September for a dwell Q&A and far more

CIO leaders from Northumbrian Drinking water and Johnson Matthey will discuss at the upcoming CIO City Hall Are living occasion on the afternoon of Wednesday 9 September.

CIO City Hall Are living, by Computer system Small business Overview (CBR) and NS Tech, is a common collecting for CIOs, CTOs and fellow know-how executives to be part of a dwell interactive discussion board with your friends, listen to from two main CIOs, and interact with every single other in group conversations, dwell Q&As with our speakers, and in personal chats.

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The September 2020 CIO City Hall Are living will characteristic the know-how leaders from award-winning utility Northumbrian Drinking water, Nigel Watson, who will be in discussion with CBR Editor Ed Targett, and Paul Coby, CIO of £10bn earnings FTSE one hundred sustainable technologies organization Johnson Matthey, in an job interview with NS Media Group Engineering Editor Edward Qualtrough.

CBR Editor Ed Targett explained: “We are hugely delighted to welcome Paul and Nigel to our CIO City Hall Are living discussion board, which is promptly becoming the go-to assembly for CIOs to network with their friends, listen to from colleagues and to focus on crucial industry trends, possibilities and disruptive threats.”​

“Two refreshingly immediate speakers, the two have planet-course knowledge and a observe history of groundbreaking innovation at their organisations.”

Speakers

Nigel Watson has been CIO at Northumbrian Drinking water due to the fact Oct 2016, getting previously labored in know-how roles at Vodafone, Travelport, Microsoft and GE Money.

Northumbrian Drinking water Group’s said intention is to grow to be the most digital h2o organization in the planet — scooping a global award for an progressive use of artificial intelligence last 12 months as a result.

Notably passionate about innovation, Watson set up Northumbrian Drinking water Group’s Innovation Festival in 2017 to develop on the achievements of the organisation’s open up door hackathons which introduced alongside one another startups, suppliers, regulators and tech vendors to test and tackle the organization and the sector’s greatest small business, resilience, know-how and environmental worries. Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival 2020 will take put in the autumn about digital channels.

Paul Coby has been CIO of Johnson Matthey due to the fact April 2018, and is a Non-Government Director of Virgin Cash, which also operates Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank. At Johnson Matthey, a FTSE one hundred organization which is a leader in sustainable technologies, the name of IT has never ever been larger and Coby’s function is driving the 200-12 months-aged organisation’s ideas to innovate making use of digital and details. Coby was previously IT Director of John Lewis and subsequently the initial CIO of the John Lewis Partnership. He was CIO of British Airways for far more than a 10 years.

A author on Roman military services history, Coby has also served as an NED or board member for Animals at Property, P&O Ferries and SITA, the airline joint enterprise know-how products and services organization.

Agenda

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

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

3.40pm
Are living viewers Q&A with CIO Paul Coby, and Northumbrian Drinking water CIO Nigel Watson

Prior speakers at NS Media Group’s CIO City Hall Are living occasion consist of British Military CIO Main Standard Jonathan Cole, and Parliamentary Digital Assistance CIO Tracey Jessup.

NS Media Group’s CIO City Hall Are living will be confined to CIOs and senior know-how executives on the working day of the occasion, but the classes will subsequently be opened and designed obtainable on demand from customers to all.

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