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Virtual Roundtables Live Podcast

66 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -

Virtual Roundtables Live brings together leading business professionals to discuss and debate the latest challenges in their industry.

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Breach Defence: Protecting what’s now and what’s next

November 19, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB

Speaker:  Hugo Bishop, UKI Lead, SecOps Portfolio, Cisco Umbrella How are you currently protecting your company, assets and employees against security breaches? We know you are doing everything you can to avoid security breaches. But in an ever-evolving threat landscape, what happens when a hacker outsmarts you and bypasses your security system? This keynote session shows you how to build a strong security posture and integrated defence system that will allow you to quickly respond to bre...

Are you Ready to Kill the PDF?

November 19, 2020 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MB

Speaker: Karla Rivershaw, Head of Marketing, Turtl Self-education plays a far more significant role in the customer journey than ever before, and buyers expect a consistently good experience at every turn. Most businesses know this, and yet they still spend an inordinate amount of time and money creating PDF documents to share with their prospects and customers online. The 21st century demands improvement. Join Karla Rivershaw, Head of Marketing at Turtl, in this session to explore: - Why ...

How to Build Successful Design Teams

November 19, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MB

Speaker: Julie Kennedy, User Experience Director, Saint- Gobain An effective design team requires a multitude of diverse skills and it’s impossible for anyone individual to possess them all. How do you go about putting together a team that’s balanced, powerful and can work effectively with other teams? What is the right size and mixture of junior and senior practitioners? What skills, soft and hard; do you need to design and deliver outstanding products and services that support meaningful ...

How the changing Green Energy landscape will affect Smart Energy Strategies

November 18, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MB

This live virtual roundtable will bring together a group of senior facility managers, energy managers and energy finance leaders to discuss how emerging trends across the green energy sector are affecting smart energy strategies for pharmaceutical & food production companies. The panellists take a deep looker into the following questions: Has your organisation implemented any energy efficiency & energy sustainability targets? How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected your energy strategy as ...

Disrupt your Thinking: The Conversational Customer Journey

October 21, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MB

2020 has seen one of the most disruptive phases in business history. Yet the challenges brands are facing today have uncovered the opportunity of technology, and the power of a conversational strategy, to create a more resilient, efficient and connected future. The disruption has accelerated years of digital transformation in just a matter of weeks. With that, customer contact is approaching a renaissance; remote work is proving to be effective, messaging technology is replacing phone volum...

Building a Secure, Sustainable IT Stack for Remote Work

October 21, 2020 09:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MB

This session brings together industry experts to look at how the global pandemic has forced many organisations to initiate work-from-home strategies to ensure business continuity and the emerging issues that come with it. Naturally, as with any disruptive change; gaps in legacy systems, IT Infrastructure and security vulnerabilities in the IT stack have emerged that need immediate action to ensure the survival of the business in a post-covid world. During this session, our panel of experts...

The Value of DevOps Transformation

October 19, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MB

As an IT leader you are leaning on DevOps methodologies to help your business meet market needs; to do so, your DevOps teams must find ways to accelerate the speed of delivery, decrease code flaws and improve time to market. Discussion Points: - The financial impact of an effective DevOps strategy The role of a unified approach to DevOps in order to impact quality, security, productivity and collaboration DevOps best practice and How to reduce "tool tax" Join our panellists for an in-de...

The Impact of Covid-19 on Workplace of the Future

September 03, 2020 10:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MB

Claire Forestier moderates a discussion between David George, CEO at CRUX Workplace, Mark Wartenberg, Senior Global Director of Workplace Experience, Nike, and Tony Williams, Director of Design, Construction and Facilities at USPS. This panel discusses how the concept of space and the use of it will change dramatically, and what that means for the physically working environments we currently inhabit. 

Rethinking Digital Transformation Post COVID-19

July 31, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MB

Moderated by digital transformation expert, Shikha Hornsey. The discussion brought together perspectives from; Nathan Marsh, Chief Digital Officer at Costain; Philip Clayson, active CIO; Gavin Killen, Head of Digital Services at Centrica and Simon Evans, Associate Director at Arup Over the past two months, several countries across the world have experienced various forms of remote work and distance learning as governments were coming to grips with COVID-19 Business leaders have been very vo...

Digital Transformation: Risks & Opportunities for a post-COVID Supply Chain

July 29, 2020 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MB

Moderated by Claire Forestier, David Embrey, Director of Digital Technology at Otis Elevator Lift Co, Amresh Mathur, Digital Transformation Leader at Samsung Electronics, Hasnain Somji, Director Marketing - Digital Health and Supply Operations at Vyaire Medical. This panel looks at the opportunities, risks and threats that COVID-19 has brought, the role of global supply chains in the new normal and what the boardroom now expect from their supply chain leaders.

Digital Transformation: Risks & Opportunities for a post-COVID Supply Chain

July 29, 2020 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MB

Moderated by Claire Forestier, David Embrey, Director of Digital Technology at Otis Elevator Lift Co, Amresh Mathur, Digital Transformation Leader at Samsung Electronics, Hasnain Somji, Director Marketing - Digital Health and Supply Operations at Vyaire Medical. This panel looks at the opportunities, risks and threats that COVID-19 has brought, the role of global supply chains in the new normal and what the boardroom now expect from their supply chain leaders.

Data Protection in a Pandemic Shaped Landscape

July 08, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MB

Moderated by John Wallworth, IT Security Leader at Virgin Care. The discussion brought together perspectives from; Toby Hayes, Global Data Protection Controller at pladis Global, Linda NiChualladh, Head of Privacy (Legal) EMEA & Assistant General Counsel at Citi, Debbie Hayes, Group Data Protection Officer to Rentokil Initial, Richard Ingle, Data Protection Manager at LV=.  This panel discusses the dramatic changes to the way we work, and how businesses are operating to ensure that their in...

How COVID-19 will Shape Workplaces of the Future

June 23, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 48.3 MB

Moderated by Peter Clinker, Former Head of Property & Facilities UK & Ireland at Nestle. The discussion brought together perspectives from; Adrian Coleman, Global Head of Property Planning at Rolls Royce, Natalie Bage, Future Workplace Director at Lloyds Banking Group, Antony Wiltshire, Director of Workplace and Facilities UK & Ireland at Edelman & Paul Eakins, Global Head of Real Estate & Facilities at Duff & Phelps.  Together they discuss how the concept of space and the use of it will ch...

The Impact of AI on the New Normal

June 12, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MB

Moderated by Angela Johnson De Wet, Head of Risk for IT Change and New Technologies at Lloyds Banking Group. The discussion brought together perspectives from; Danilo McGarry, Global Head of Automation at Alter Domus, Pritesh Shah, EMEA Delivery Manager - Transformation, Global Markets Technology at BNP Paribas, Richard Benjamins, Chief AI and Data Strategist at Telefonica, Lizi Jenkins, Group Innovation Director at Rentokil Initial & Georgina Owens, VP of IT Services at DAZN. Together they ...

Customer Experience in a post-COVID World

June 01, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MB

Chaired by Andy Brent, Moderator. The discussion brought together perspectives from; Meher Mumtaz, Head of Global Brand Operations for Western Union, Amit Sharma, Global Marketing Strategy Head & Lead for Americas & Europe Marketing for Tata Communications, Samantha Fay, SVP Global Brand Strategy at Guinness World Records and Simon Rider, Global Sales Enablement Director at JLL, working together to share their insights on ‘Customer Experience in a post-COVID world.’

How to Create a Productive Working Culture for a Varying Workforce in the Current Climate

May 28, 2020 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MB

Chaired by David McGoldrick, Chief People Officer for Comfort Keepers, the discussion brought together perspectives from Asif Iqbal, Vice President of HR for Gulf Oil, Melanie Lepine, Group Head of Learning, Development & Talent from Domestic & General, Ben Almond, SVP and Global Head of Property from Pearson, Simi Dubb, Group Head of Talent, Development and Inclusion at British American Tobacco and Tim Rose, Global Head of Facilities for Elekta, to share their insights on "How to create a p...