Morning Agenda

08:30

Coffee & Registration

09:15

Welcome Address by Stephen Fox, Director, PMP

09:30

Keynote Sessions - facing the future

The CBI's View
Jeremy Beale
Confederation of British Industry

Jeremy Beale is head of the e-business Group at the CBI and will explore the key economic and technology issues UK businesses will face over the next few years. What should companies do to deal with these issues successfully and what opportunities do they bring with them?

The IOD's view
Jonathan Cummings
Institute of Directors

As Director of e-marketing at the Institute of Directors Jonathan will present a view from the professional institute of over 55,000 UK Business Directors. What issues will affect senior management? How can they capitalise on the opportunities arising in such a rapidly developing business environment?

The IT Vendor's view
Gary Pugh
Oracle UK Ltd

Economic and technology changes have been forcing companies to review every aspect of their operation. Technology, especially the internet, has had a profound effect on the way people view their service delivery functions to both internal and external partners.

Oracle's director of product marketing, Gary Pugh, will put forward a view, as both a technology vendor and a significant trading entity in the UK business landscape, on how Oracle and its customers have used this technology to help remain competitive, and what we can expect from the future.

11:00

Coffee

11:30

Elective Sessions

IT technology and business applications working together in harmony?
Oracle UK Ltd &
Compelsolve

Portals, processes and business intelligence
Lawson Software &
AMEY

What are the benefits of integrated applications and database systems? Lower IT costs, quicker ROI, bigger business benefits?

This session will focus on the benefits accrued from having a uniquely complete set of business applications integrated around a single data model.

Why do so many businesses chose this model for their applications and technology? Oracle's director of product marketing, Gary Pugh, gives you the "inside track".

Amongst the most popular topics requested by pre-registering delegates, this session features a customer's own case study of how to use the latest advances over existing technology.

Find out how to take advantage of the latest techniques such as "portals" to unify the user interface across disparate systems, the latest in "process automation" and "workflow" to streamline work efficiency and "business intelligence" to produce management information for competitive advantage.

12:30

Lunch