NCVO free seminar: Managing IT and Telecoms

NCVO Conference Suite, London

*** Speaker Presentations ***

• Jonathan Levy, Class Telecommunications - Presentation (1,414KB) and handout (971 KB).
• Philip Anthony, Co-Operative Systems - Presentation (5,126 KB).
• Louise Brown, NCVO - Presentation (591 KB).

Managing ICT

ICT (computers and phones in layman’s terms) even for small organisations underpins just about every activity that is carried out. After salary costs, for many organisations ICT spend is the second biggest item in the budget.  The recent downturn has rightly seen organisations looking at this area and trying to make sure they get good value.

This seminar looks at the key issues in effective ICT management including:

• Key points that ICT professionals need to know, but are often afraid to ask
• Hot topics and trends and why this affects you
• How to benchmark your ICT systems
• How to make savings and get good value from ICT
• How to evaluate a potential supplier and manage ICT relationships
• What to look for in the small print and how to get out of bad contracts
• Best sources for advice
• Get your questions answered in the Q&A session

Speakers

Louise Brown, ICT Development Officer, NCVO – Louise will briefly introduce the work of NCVO and explore some key ICT challenges for voluntary organisations. Her role at NCVO is to support organisations in making the best use of technology.

Philip Anthony founded Co-Operative Systems a leading supplier of IT services to NCVO members, 20 years ago. During this time he has worked with over 500 organisations on a wide range of IT projects. Assisting 2 person start ups to large nationwide organisations such as the YMCA.

Jonathan Levy, Chief Operating Officer at Class Telecommunications, has over 30 years of industry experience from various roles - an engineer designing telephone systems at Nortel, a Divisional Manager developing and launching a diverse range of fixed line and mobile services in the UK and overseas at Cable & Wireless and as a Marketing Director launching transatlantic and pan European fibre-optic networks at Level 3.

Event Schedule

• 2pm - Introduction by Chris Taylor, Business Development Manager, NCVO
• 2.05 – Jonathan Levy, Chief Operating Officer, Class Telecommunications
• 2.50 – Refreshments and networking
• 3.00 - Phil Anthony founder of Co-operative Systems
• 3.45 - Refreshments and networking
• 4.00 - Louise Brown, ICT Development Officer, NCV0
• 4.30 - Q&A session
• 4.45 - close

Don't take our word for it, here's what previous delegates have said:

"An informative event, with good speakers who made the topic interesting"

"A great overview of IT risk Management"

"Excellent"

"Useful and stimulating"  

Who should attend?

The session is aimed at those responsible for ICT at a management level: Directors, Finance Directors and Managers, ICT Directors and Managers.

Free event

Free to NCVO members and also free to voluntary organisations who are not NCVO members.

Venue

NCVO Conference Suite, London

Book now

Book your free place online now. For further information contact Lauren at Lauren.baker@ncvo-vol.org.uk or call 0207 250 2597.