OxBridge CITC Conference – at The National Space Centre
Today I attended the 2012 College IT Management conference, jointly run by Oxford’s and Cambridge’s College IT Managers. The events are always away from Oxford or Cambridge and have been held at some fascinating venues over the years, including Bletchley … Continue reading
Virtualisation Implementation and Cloud Trial Course
I attended this today run by JANET training as a guinea-pig since it was a first run of a course. I’d been asked to attend by a contact in the UCISA Staff Development Group. The course was well presented by … Continue reading
UCISA Service Desk Group (SDG) Meeting 6-7 September, Sheffield University
I attended this meeting becuase SDG is one of the subgroups of the UCISA Support Services Group that is repsonsible for organising a biennial symposium focusing on support issues and I am to be the chair of the 2012 event. … Continue reading
UCISA Advisory and IT Support Conference
I’ve just got back from this event at Clare College, Cambridge. I was part of the organising committee and it was good to see about 120 people attending. We started with lunch on Tuesday and then the conference was introduced … Continue reading
Cardiff Distributed IT Support Conference
After a rather early start I got to this conference around 9.45am. I went last year to speak about Oxford IT Staff but this year was a guest and just a consumer (although I provided a few tweets!) We started … Continue reading
UCISA Staff Development Group meeting
We met today at the University of Wolverhampton, hosted by Nici Cooper. Members Present were: Jim Nottingham (South Bank, Chair), Roland Cross (Leeds Met., Secretary), Peter Tinson (UCISA execsec), Dave Atkins (Cardiff), Me, Steve Gough (Reading), Katharine Iles (Janet UK), … Continue reading
UCISA Distributed IT Support Staff Group meeting
We met today at Birmingham City University in Perry Barr, hosted by Rajesh Mistry. Members present were Steve Gough (Reading University, chair), Me (note-taker), Marina Whitmore (Cardiff), Paul Mazumdar (Cambridge), Dave Valentine-Hagart (Nottingham), Rajesh Mistry (Birmingham City). A full house!
UCISA Management Conference 2011 – Final thoughts and useful links
This was another excellent conference. It was well worth attending both in terms of cost and time. UCISA events like this offer wonderful opportunities to network with the most important and influential IT people right across the UK HE Sector. … Continue reading
UCISA Management Conference 2011 Day 3 – See over the Horizon
Today’s first session was from John Mahoney of Gartner and it was about managing change and making change happen. The science is about the ability to change and the art is about the willingness (thanks to Gill Ferrell for that … Continue reading
UCISA Management Conference 2011 Day 2 Evening – Conference Dinner
We were treated to a trip to Edinburgh’s Our Dynamic Earth Centre. It was very impressive and the dinner menu was fantastic. It was a shame there was a fire alarm in the middle of the charity prize draw but … Continue reading
