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SmartGov Live (FREE Event)

May 15, 2011 By Ken Eastwood Leave a Comment

The UK’s leading government IT event

IT is at the heart of cost savings across the public sector, with the joint challenges of reducing costs within IT whilst enabling your organisation to deliver services more efficiently.

SmartGov Live will provide you and your colleagues with the latest insights and information shaping IT today, together with the opportunity to meet new and existing suppliers in one place. Click here to register FREE now.

Meet innovative suppliers showcasing cost effective IT solutions
Listen to the most influential figures from public sector IT in the Government Talks -including a session with Ken Eastwood, founder of Public Sector Nomads, about mobile and wireless working.
Discover how IT can transform public services in our Best Practice Seminars
Explore the Open Government feature area showcasing cost effective and practical Open Source software
Enter our Open Source Solutions Awards to be in with a chance of winning some great prizes
Gain FREE entry to Smart Healthcare Live and The Public Procurement Show – both co-located with SmartGov Live

Follow us on twitter for the latest show news and join our LinkedIn group in order to participate in pre-show discussions with speakers and delegates.

If you only attend one event this year, make sure it’s SmartGov Live 2011. Click here to register FREE now.

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Mobile Working Seminars for Social Care

April 19, 2011 By Ken Eastwood Leave a Comment

These free supplier events from Consilium may be of interest to public sector NOMADS working in social care;

Access to information is vitally important to the role of a social worker. A client’s background, history and assessments are fundamental to the care they receive. Yet, many social workers have very limited access to information when outside of the office.

To resolve this issue, Consilium have launched their TotalMobile Solution for the Social Care Sector. To coincide with this launch, Consilium will be hosting Mobile Working for Adult Services Seminars and Mobile Working for Children and Young People Services Seminars across the UK.

These seminars will detail how Mobile Working could help remote Social Care workers to access the information they need in the most secure way possible and reduce personal admin hours. The benefits of Mobile Working for domiciliary care workers will be outlined in the Adults Services seminar. Consilium will also discuss how mobile technology can improve personal safety for lone workers and could save money for Social Care departments.

The events will take place on the follow dates:

Tuesday 17^th May- Leeds City Museum, West Yorkshire

Mobile Working for Adult Services Seminar: Morning

Mobile Working for Children and Young People Services Seminars: Afternoon

Thursday 19^th May- Spring Grove House, West Midlands Safari, Worcestershire

Mobile Working for Adult Services Seminar: Morning

Mobile Working for Children and Young People Services Seminars: Afternoon

These events are free of charge and will include lunch and refreshments. Attendees are invited on a tour of the Museum / Safari Park (please confirm at time of booking).

Essential to anyone involved in improving Adult or Children and Young Peoples Services. Don’t miss you chance to attend an inspirational conference, which will empower you to implement changes that will have a positive impact on the services you provide.

To secure your place, please call Anna Mulvenna on 02894 480000 or email Anna.Mulvenna@ctechs.co.uk

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London Council’s Event

April 1, 2011 By Ken Eastwood Leave a Comment

13 April 2011 09:00 – 13:45

Capital Ambition commissions a wide range of projects that focus on making efficiencies and improving services to tackle many of the issues facing local authorities in improving life for Londoners.

Supported by Public Sector Nomads they are organising a mobile and flexible working event for London’s Local Authorities.

Event Objectives:

To establish a common understanding of mobile and flexible working across London Councils
To share lessons learnt and best practice stories for either people, processes or technology surrounding the success of mobile and flexible working
To identify the current leaders in mobile and flexible working
To identify possible efficiency savings and productivity gains due to mobile and flexible working
To network and build relationships with other London boroughs and to support one another
To discuss technology partnerships and delivery partners that are experienced in mobile and flexible working.

Croydon Council have been leading on a project focusing on the creation of a ‘heat map’ which will capture the level of mobile and flexible working currently across all London boroughs. The heat map will be made available at the event and there will be ample opportunity to network and to discuss how a community of interest around new ways of working can be sustained across London.

Agenda

09.30 – Opening session – Introductions by Capital Ambition, Croydon Council and guest speaker, Ken Eastwood, Public Sector Nomads
10.00 – Workshops – Mobile and flexible working and home working workshops to consider the people, process and technology factors involved (45 minutes each)
12.15 – Lunch – Buffet style, with opportunities to chat with other council representatives
12.45 – Panel discussion – Open Q&A with the leaders of the workshops and a technical sponsor representative

Download the event flyer here.

There are 60 free spaces available on a first come, first served basis. Due to limited spaces, there will be a no show fee of £20.

Contact charlotte.stothert@croydon.gov.uk to reserve your place.

The event is being supported by a small number of carefully selected suppliers who will exhibit and participate in the final panel discussion.

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Listen Again

November 10, 2010 By Ken Eastwood Leave a Comment

Nomad presented a 1 hr online conference yesterday exploring online collaboration and new ways of working with the potential to dramatically reduce costs.

The webinar was kindly hosted by PGi and partner Cisco Webex and featured an insightful presentation from Alan Hush, who has adopted a collaboration strategy across NHS Lothian from PGi which has shown to reduce organisational expenditure by reducing travel, saving time, reducing CO2, increasing efficiencies and enabling flexible, mobile and new ways of working.

You can listen to and watch the recorded online presentation here.

With thanks to;

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Webinar – 9 November

October 5, 2010 By Ken Eastwood Leave a Comment

‘Work smart through collaboration and reduce the impact of budget cuts’

A FREE online LIVE webinar kindly hosted by PGi and partner Cisco Webex

The Date: Thursday 9th November, 2010

The Time: 3pm – 4pm

The Place: Online, wherever you are

Public sector budgets are being cut so the time for change and the need to adopt smarter working practices is now. Collaborating online can significantly reduce costs and increase efficiency and this live webinar will feature public sector case studies from NHS Lothian and Glasgow City Council who have adopted a collaboration strategy which has shown to reduce organisational expenditure by reducing travel, saving time, reducing CO2, increasing efficiency and also enabling flexible, mobile and new ways of working.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

Panellists:

Ken Eastwood: National Lead, Public Sector Nomads and Assistant Director, Barnsley MBC.

Gavin Kinnaird & Chris Thomas: consultants with PGi for the public sector with experience in delivering and managing the adoption of collaboration technologies into public sector organisations including NHS, Central Government and Local Authority and who will present the Collaboration Pilot Program and Glasgow City Council Case Study.

Mark Taverner: Consultant with Cisco Webex for Public Sector, an expert speaker on the adopting drivers, varied uses, ease of delivery and high returns on investment through the use of internet collaboration technologies.

Alan Hush: Voice & Video Services Manager @ NHS Lothian who has recently revolutionised working practices through collaboration technologies across the board.

Live Q&A session to all panellists.

If you require further information on this event or would like some more information about PGi and Cisco Webex, please contact: Gavin Kinnaird, 0781 631 8878.

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FREE Public Sector Efficiency Seminar

October 5, 2010 By Ken Eastwood 1 Comment

Public Sector Nomads with O2 presents;

‘Harnessing Future Technology to deliver efficiency today’

The Date: Wednesday, 3rd November, 2010

The Venue: National Railway Museum, York

The Time: 10:00 – 14:00

Mobile, broadband and internet solutions will be in the mix as you plan for 2015 and beyond. But what’s the evidence to support this focus on newer and better communications?

Lower budgets, higher expectations and the need for yet more efficiency are the challenges you will continue to face. That is why it’s so important to plan for doing more with less and to understand the role technology can play in local government of the future.

This session will explore examples of where technology is making a real difference in the public sector and really get you thinking – How ready are you for the digital economy?

To attend this event please register here.

Download the agenda here.