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Dan Parry, Migration Lead for HSCN, NHS Digital

With over 12 years’ experience, Dan has delivered a range of IT and digital transformation across local government and recently health and social care. Dan’s current role is part of the team leading the migration of health & care organisations from the legacy private network to the new Health & Social Care Network, offering a combination of private and internet connectivity through a single connection with organisational savings between 30% – 74%. Working across an established market place of new HSCN suppliers, the HSCN Programme is driving the migration of over 14,000 connections off the legacy network before August 2020.

Lola Harre, Govroam service manager, Jisc

Lola has worked across the public, research and education sectors for both commercial and not-for-profit organisations. Experienced in customer-led product development, she champions the use of market insight and community engagement to ensure that projects deliver real value to users. She is currently responsible for govroam, Jisc’s roaming service for the public sector.

Ian Fishwick, Chairman, AdEPT

Ian was the Managing Director or CEO of technology companies for 29 years and had the honour of announcing rising EBITDA for 29 consecutive years. In 2003 he set up AdEPT in a spare bedroom and 15 years later it was valued on the Stock Exchange at £100 million.

In 2016 Corporate Vision magazine named him as UK CEO of the Year and later that year Technology Media and Telecoms (TMT) magazine also named him as UK CEO of the Year. Ian was named as Acquisition International magazine’s London CEO of the Year 2017 and Game Changer of the Year 2017 by Acquisition Finance magazine.In November 2016 Ian had the great honour of being appointed to the Cabinet Office SME Panel. His aim is to help the Government achieve their objective of spending more public sector monies with small and medium sized suppliers.

Ian has been Commercial Director of Innopsis, the trade association for suppliers of digital infrastructure and services to the public sector since 2014.

Ian is now Chairman of AdEPT Technology Group and continues to lead their acquisition strategy having done over 40 mergers and acquisitions of technology companies in his career.

Mark Jackson, Principal Security Architect, Cisco

Dave Lindsay, Head of KPSN, Kent Public Service Network

Dave heads up the Kent Public Service Network Team, and has been in post since January 2017.

Before that Dave has most recently been the Chief Information Officer at Mid Kent ICT, an ICT shared service between Maidstone, Swale, and Tunbridge Wells Councils.  Prior to this he was employed as the Head of ICT at Maidstone Borough Council.  He has a long pedigree in Local Government ICT, having also worked at Tonbridge Malling District Council, and Kent County council earlier in his career.

Dave has a wealth of partnership and shared service experience, is an accredited Shared Services Architect, and gained a Diploma in Digital Leadership form the Academy of Digital Business Leaders.

Laurence Pitt, Director – Enterprise Security, Juniper Networks

Laurence has over 20 years of experience in the security industry and previously worked at Symantec.  His areas of technology expertise include security policy, threat assesment and managed security.  Laurence has presented at conferences ranging from the exclusive IDC CISCO Summit to Gartner’s Security Summit and RSA (earned engagements), as well as dozens of other industry events.

Ben Ryland, Head of Public Sector, FourNet

Ben has been working in the comms industry for over 18 years, eight years of which have been with FourNet. As FourNet’s Head of Public sector, Ben has worked closely with and helped to deliver projects for multiple local & central government, Blue Light Organisations, Healthcare, Education and Housing Associations.

“I work collaboratively with our customers and partners to create unique vertical specific use cases that provide real life benefits whether they are operational or cost savings. These have included digital transformation projects and vertical specific projects such as working to deliver next generation 999 solutions for UK Blue Light organisations.”

Keith Smith, Business Development Manager, Virgin Media Business

As a public sector specialist, business development manager and all-round techie, Keith currently spends most of his time on marketplace development. This means he gets to work directly with customers and industry, finding new and exciting ways to create a positive impact across the sector through connectivity. Another big part of his role is helping customers navigate complex opportunities, with a particular focus on initiatives that benefit the wider public sector. When he’s not at work he likes to volunteer, helping to run conventions where the proceeds go to charity.