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14/03/2019

CIO at Zenith to talk ‘digital disruption’ at ITBoss | Register Here

Corecom Consulting is delighted to announce Ian Gibson, CIO of Zenith as the Keynote Speaker at ITBoss on Wednesday 19 June 2019 from 6.00 – 8.30pm in Central Leeds.

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Zenith is the UK’s leading independent leasing, fleet management and vehicle outsourcing business managing 135,000 assets, employing 700 people and based in Kirkstall, Leeds.

Ian is responsible for finding the right solutions for Zenith customers whilst driving new technology developments through business change and transformation. His career spans some 28 years across different sectors predominantly in leasing but also consulting, product reselling, logistics and manufacturing.

Ian’s presentation titled ‘Small Pebble, Big Ripple – ZenAuto, digital disruption and our story so far’ is set to gather plenty of interest from leaders in technology. Ian said:

“To disrupt or be disrupted has been a mantra in business for some time. I will focus on the importance of a blank canvass, dreaming big, having a mission and the power of your people.”

“Also, how Technology Leadership plays a pivotal role in making this happen.”

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ITBoss is an award-winning networking event for Senior IT leaders in Yorkshire. The event takes place on Wednesday 19 June 2019 from 6.00 – 8.30pm in central Leeds. Click here to register your interest.

03/04/2018

IT Crisis Management to be the hot topic at ITBoss

Corecom Consulting is pleased to announce Andrew Carvell, Managing Director at One Voice, as the Keynote Speaker for ITBoss on Thursday 19 April 2018 from 8.30 – 10.30am in central Leeds. One Voice provides incident and emergency crisis management software for companies across a range of different industries.

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Andrew heads up One Voice’s London office and is responsible for managing client relationships both in the U.K and internationally, specialising in crisis management. Andrew’s previous role was working within Business Development for over five years at Access Intelligence Plc; a group of Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses that deliver comprehensive reputation and risk management solutions.

He comments on what delegates can expect to take away from ITBoss:

“It is important to be able to respond to a crisis, especially in today’s world where information and media coverage is shared and spread rapidly as soon as something happens.”

“Attendees will come away with an increased awareness of the need for a robust crisis management process, but also an understanding of how companies are using technology as an enabler to increase the resilience from small or large incidents.”

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ITBoss is an award-winning networking event for Senior IT Professionals. The event takes place on Thursday 19 April 2018 from 8.30 – 10.30am in central Leeds. The award-winning event boasts a wealth of information from experienced leaders within the IT community. Click here to register your interest.

16/08/2017

Forming agile relationships, IT security and GDPR – confirmed ITBoss topics

ITBoss is fast approaching on Thursday 24 August. Amongst the list of confirmed delegates include senior IT professionals from the likes of CPP Group, MasterCard and Hallmark Cards.

Attendees have been submitting their hot topics over the past few weeks for discussion at the event. Event host and Managing Director at Corecom Consulting, Jonathan Sanderson, said:

“There were a number of common themes that emerged from the discussion topics which were submitted by registered attendees so we’ve chosen to focus on those areas which have proven most popular.”

Here’s a rundown of the topics you can look forward to discussing next week:

Benefits to attract IT professionals to join your business

Creating agile relationships with clients

IT Security and GDPR preparation

If these sound like areas you’d be interested in hearing more about, simply register your interest here

You can also look forward to learning from guest speakers from Sky Betting and Gaming and Infinity Works Consulting – click here to listen to the podcast interview

About ITBoss

ITBoss takes place on Thursday 24 August 2017 from 6.00 – 8.30pm in central Leeds. The award-winning event boasts a wealth of information from experienced leaders within IT. Take a look at the event schedule and register online

27/07/2017

Fellow Sky Betting & Gaming ‘techies’ confirmed as ITBoss keynote speakers

The keynote speakers for the next ITBoss on 24 August 2017 from 6.00 – 8.30pm, have been announced as Simon Roberts, Principal Consultant at Infinity Works Consulting and Joe Ellis, Product Manager – Free To Play Games at Sky Betting & Gaming.

Simon started his career working for British Telecom (BT) in Solution and Service Architect roles. He progressed to Technical Lead at NHS Connecting for Health, followed by Solution Architect at BSkyB where he met fellow keynote speaker, Joe Ellis. More recently, Simon worked as a Technical Architect at BJSS, before securing his current role at Infinity Works Consulting; an Agile software delivery consultancy.

Joe began his career on the Graduate Scheme for Betfred in Gibraltar as Poker Product Administrator, before moving to Betfred’s Warrington offices as Sportsbook Product Executive, followed by Sportsbook Product Development Manager. Joe joined Sky Betting & Gaming in Leeds a year and a half ago as Product Manager for Free to Play Games. When asked about his current role, Joe said:

“In online betting, the sporting calendar of events drives our product and marketing roadmaps . These fixed events leave little or no room for flexibility on a delivery date. Its not like we can convince the British Horse Racing Authority to push the Cheltenham Festival back so that Sky Bet can launch their brand new product in time for that pinnacle of the racing calendar. Nonetheless, in mid-January, I’d be dishonest if I said I hadn’t considered a “Dear sir/madam,” plea to the British Horse Racing Authority to persuade them otherwise!

“I’ll look to discuss how working in an Agile environment with fixed date deliverables in areas such as sport betting can still be successful, even if challenging!”

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ITBoss takes place on Thursday 24 August 2017 from 6.00 – 8.30pm in central Leeds. The award-winning event boasts a wealth of information from experienced leaders within IT. Click here to register your interest

28/09/2016

Value adding ITBoss presentations achieve success

ITBoss proved to be a great success on 22 September with fantastic talks from Yoel Marson, CTO at CPP Group and Tom Walton, Director of Infinity Works Consulting , Gary Green, Principal Consultant at Infinity Works Consulting and Glenn Crossley, Head of IT Delivery at Hitachi Capital.

Yoel’s presentation, titled: ‘Structuring an Agile Organisation’, discussed how best to design organisations to best suit Agile software development and delivery. A link to Yoel’s presentation can be found here.

Tom, Gary and Glenn’s presentation, titled: ‘Rapid, Repeatable, Predictable Delivery’, consisted of a full end-to-end demonstration of how Hitachi have adapted their Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to deliver software in a rapid, repeatable and predictive manner using techniques aligned with the Agile methodology. You can find a copy of this presentation here.

A special thanks to all of the Guest Speakers at ITBoss for adding such value to the event by delivering thought-provoking and informative talks.

To get a feel for what to expect at ITBoss, Corecom Consulting has interviewed delegates from William Hill, UKAR, What Giants and Catalyst IT Solutions, and this video can be viewed here. The friendly atmosphere generated at ITBoss creates a unique platform whereby the IT Management Community can come together, share ideas and network with like-minded professionals.

When asked what he enjoyed the most about ITBoss, Chris Davies, IT Manager at Mission Without Borders said,

“I really enjoyed listening to both presentations and thinking about how they can be applied ‘locally’ to my organisation.

“The networking throughout the evening also proved to be extremely useful. A special thanks to Corecom Consulting for putting on an excellent event.”

Want to join the conversation?

If this interests you, make sure to register your interest for our next event on 16 March 2017. Simply contact Dan Mills at itboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk or call 0113 457 1454.

06/09/2016

Former Head of Engineering at Yahoo! to present at ITBoss

Yoel Marson

Corecom Consulting’s award-winning networking event for Senior IT Professionals is coming up on 22 September 2016. ITBoss promises to be a great success with two presentations from some sought after IT professionals. The event will take place in Leeds City Centre and will run from 6:00pm – 9:00pm. Register your interest today.

The second Guest Speaker will see Yoel Marson, CTO at CPP Group, with a presentation titled talking about ‘Structuring an Agile IT Organisation’. This presentation will cover how best to design organisations to best suit agile software development and delivery.

Yoel has over 8 years’ experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams of up to 100; across design, web, server & app development, architecture & testing. With a background in Development, Yoel has progressed in his career from Senior Developer, through Development Manager to Head of Engineering where he worked at Yahoo! Answers.

As Head of Engineering at Yahoo! Answers, Yoel was responsible for reporting to Global Head of Communities and was the only global product technology leader outside of the US. Yoel served 1.5bn page views a month to 200m+ unique monthly users. He saw a complete team rebuild following re-organisation to single co-located team in London and transitioned the team to Agile.

After Yahoo! Answers, Yoel joined Saffron Digital as a CTO whereby he transformed the technology from monolithic services to AWS hosted microservice architecture, resulting in multi-tenant and easily configurable/customisable platform. Here he transitioned towards hybrid automated presentation solutions whilst managing a multi-platform team across iOS, Android, Windows and SmartTV.

Now, Yoel is CTO at CPP responsible for the entire IT strategy and delivery at CPP.

Speaking ahead of the event, host and Head of Senior Appointments, Dan Mills, said:

“It’s a pleasure to be welcoming Yoel to speak at ITBoss later this month, his numerous years of experience in the industry will go a long way towards providing attendees with invaluable knowledge and information.

“ITBoss is going from strength to strength and this event is no exception. With two presentations from leading IT professionals, this event is looking to be our biggest yet. We have already reached our capacity for the event, but we’ve opened up a few more spaces on a first-come, first-served basis.

“If you’re a Senior IT Professional in Yorkshire and haven’t yet registered for our event, I highly recommend getting in touch to secure a ticket.”

ITBoss is an exclusive, invitation-only networking event in Yorkshire designed to bring Senior IT Professionals closer together. Organised and held by Corecom Consulting, Yorkshire’s fastest growing IT recruitment specialists, ITBoss creates a unique platform for IT Managers across Yorkshire to debate and discuss hot topics, learn from reputable and established speakers whilst networking with like-minded individuals in a friendly environment. Please click here for further information.

Want to join the conversation?

The next ITBoss event will be held on 22 September 2016 in Leeds City Centre. To register your interest for this event click here. To enquire about future events, please contact Dan Mills at itboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk or call 0113 457 1454.

07/04/2016

ITBoss is welcoming delegates from Hitachi, Callcredit Information Group and Jet2.com

Our award winning networking event for Senior IT Professionals across Yorkshire is fast approaching. ITBoss will take place on 21 April 2016 at 6:00pm in Leeds City Centre, welcoming delegates fromHitachi, Callcredit Information Group and Jet2.comamongst others.

As announced, David Ross, Chief Technology Officer at Callcredit Information Group, will be our Guest Speaker for the evening, delivering a presentation titled: ‘Extracting Business Value from the Cloud’. The presentation will be a discussion around everything Cloud, the way this is evolving and the impact this will have on businesses in the future.

David has some interesting ideas on ways companies and leaders can best utilise Cloud Technology to add tremendous business value alongside potential savings in many areas. He will also be talking about ways in which to approach this in the current climate, where data security is of paramount importance and a worry for business leaders and customers alike. The presentation is set to be an informative talk stimulating thought provoking discussions throughout.

Speaking ahead of the event Jonathan Sanderson, Director of Corecom Consulting said:

“Participants at the last ITBoss event included IT professionals from, Tunstall Healthcare, Callcredit Information Group, Lhasas Ltd. and Experian, to name a few.

“Registered attendees for the event later this month can look forward to an engaging presentation from David Ross of Callcredit, lightning discussions on topics chosen by delegates, networking and a complimentary buffet and bar.”

ITBoss creates a unique platform for Senior IT Professionals all over Yorkshire to debate, discuss hot topics, and learn from reputable and established speakers whilst networking with like-minded individuals.

Want to join the conversation?

ITBoss boasts a wealth of information from experienced leaders within IT and is aimed at IT Directors, Programme Managers, CIOs and CTOs. Forthcoming event dates include 21 April and 22 September 2016, if you would like to register your interest for either of these events please email itboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk or call 0113 350 8779.

05/04/2016

CTO of Callcredit Information Group is ITBoss Guest Speaker

We’re delighted to welcome David Ross, Chief Technology Officer at Callcredit Information Group, as Guest Speaker of ITBoss, our upcoming event for Senior IT Professionals, on 21 April 2016 in Leeds City Centre.

Being Chief Technology Officer for Callcredit Information Group, David is responsible for Callcredit’s product development organisation, delivering value added products, services and solutions across a wide variety of industries to improve risk, fraud and marketing.

David has 20 years’ experience in advanced analytics and decision management software, including recently at FICO where he was Vice President leading their Decision Management Suite, responsible for product and technology strategy for these software products and solutions.

In the lead up to the event, Philip Nairn, Head of Senior Appointments at Corecom Consulting said:

“It’s a pleasure to be welcoming David to speak at ITBoss later this month, his numerous years of experience in the industry will go a long way towards providing attendees with invaluable knowledge and information.

“ITBoss is continuing to go from strength to strength and this event is no exception. We have already reached our capacity for the event, but luckily for you we have opened up five more spaces on a first-come, first-served basis.

“If you’re a Senior IT Professional in Yorkshire and haven’t yet registered for our event I highly recommend getting in touch so that I can send through the details to our registration page.”

Want to join the conversation?

ITBoss is an exclusive invitation-only networking event for Senior IT Professionals across Yorkshire, hosted by IT recruitment specialists Corecom Consulting. The event creates a unique community for leaders in IT to network, debate, discuss hot topics, and learn from reputable and established speakers who are leaders in the industry. We’ll be providing catering from Leeds-based caterer Salt’s and we’ll even pick up the bar tab at the end of the evening.

Forthcoming ITBoss event dates include 21 April and 22 September 2016. If you’d like to register your interest for any of these events please contact Philip Nairn at itboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk or call 0113 350 8779.

03/11/2015

Infinity Works, BBC and John Lewis to Attend ITBoss

Our award winning, Yorkshire based ITBoss networking event for Senior IT Professionals is next week. Some of the confirmed attendees include representatives from BBC, Infinity Works and John Lewis. ITBoss will be held at 6.00pm on Thursday 12 November 2015 in central Leeds.

Tom Walton, Director, Clement Pickering, Principal Consultant and Gary Green, Principal Consultant at Infinity Works have announced their presentation topic for the evening. The presentation, titled ‘No More Pet Projects’, explores techniques to guide your organisation to deliver value quicker and more closely aligned to your business strategies.

The topic has come about as a result of delivery tending to primarily focus upon time, cost and scope. IT is tasked with ‘delivering the thing right’ and utilising techniques such as DevOps to aid in delivering features in a rapid, repeatable and predictable manner. However, in a world of DevOps and Agile Delivery, a more holistic focus is required to encompass ‘are we delivering the right thing?’

Speaking ahead of ITBoss Gary Green, Guest Speaker and Principal Consultant at Infinity Works said:

“Infinity Works is very excited to be invited to present at ITBoss. One of our core values is to share our learnings & techniques and we welcome the opportunity to present at this excellent event.”

Video highlights from ITBoss can be viewed here.

ITBoss is an exclusive invitation-only networking event hosted by Corecom Consulting. It is aimed at bringing Senior IT Professionals together in Yorkshire. The event is aimed at Senior Project Managers, IT Managers, IT Directors, Programme Managers, CIOs and CTOs.

Want to join the conversation?

Forthcoming event dates include 21 April and 22 September 2016. To register your interest, please contact itboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk or call Philip Nairn on 0113 394 4188.

22/10/2015

ITBoss to welcome Infinity Works trio

Corecom Consulting is thrilled to welcome Infinity Works trio: Clement Pickering, Principal Consultant, Tom Walton, Director and Gary Green, Principal Consultant as Guest Speakers for the upcoming ITBoss networking event on 12 November 2015 in central Leeds.

Clement Pickering – Principal Consultant

Clement began his career as an Analyst and Developer. He then joined Callcredit, leading Development teams in creating a wide range of products for the financial services industry. He has long been an advocate of Agile development practices and the philosophy that underpins Agile as he passionately believes it helps teams deliver more effectively.

Clement joined Infinity Works Consulting earlier this year where he specialises in Agile / DevOps delivery and transformation.

Tom Walton – Director

Tom began his career as a Consultant Developer for Oracle working on projects such as Barclays Internet Banking and Tesco Personal Finance. He then joined Orange (now EE) where he led their Mobile and Web Portal Development teams creating various generations of mobile portals (WAP, XHTML, responsive) and native smartphone apps; finally moving to SkyBet to set up an Agile delivery and DevOps department aligned to the Spotify “tribes” model.

Tom left Sky with 2 other former Heads of Technology to form Infinity Works Consulting.

Gary Green – Principal Consultant

Gary started his career as a Developer for a boutique software services organisation, delivering packaged and bespoke Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and logistics solutions.

Now with over 25 years project and programme delivery experience encompassing Waterfall, Spiral, RAD, RUP and Agile delivery methodologies within software services, healthcare, financial services and supply chain organisations. He is a keen Agile & DevOps evangelist and has helped to lead the introduction of Agile practices within several organisations.

Gary joined Infinity Works Consulting earlier this year where he specialises in large-scale Agile delivery and Agile / DevOps transformations, often with distributed teams, leveraging scaling frameworks such as Spotify, SAFe, LeSS and DAD.

Speaking about a previous ITBoss event, Rooban Annamalai, PMO Consultant at UKAR said:

“The best thing about the ITBoss event was the opportunity to make new connections, leadership collaborations, ideas and brainstorming avenues to create self-knowledge and understand issues from the projects of others. Often we should take an evening out of the regular routine, step back and think about aspects of IT leadership and evidence with others and their great experiences.”

Event Host, Philip Nairn at Corecom Consulting said:

“We’ve never had three guest speakers at any of our Boss events, but based on the vast experience of the trio from Infinity Works it’s sure to be a fantastic evening. I am very excited to welcome Gary, Clement and Tom to speak at our event.”

ITBoss is an exclusive invitation-only networking event in Leeds aimed at bringing Senior IT Professionals together in Yorkshire. It creates a unique platform for Senior IT Professionals all over Yorkshire to debate, discuss hot topics, learn from reputable and established speakers and network with like-minded individuals. The event caters for Senior Project Managers, IT Managers, IT Directors, Programme Managers, CIOs and CTOs.

Want to join the conversation?

Forthcoming event dates include 21 April and 22 September 2016. To register your interest, please contact itboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk

04/06/2015

Experian, Learn Direct and Equifax secure ITBoss places

Experian, Learn Direct and Equifax secure ITBoss places

ITBoss is only two weeks away on Thursday 18 June 2015. Just some of the confirmed attendees include delegates from Experian, Learn Direct and Equifax. ITBoss is a prestigious invitation-only networking event for Senior IT Professionals in Yorkshire.

Chris Hirst, Director of Engineering at FinancialForce has announced the presentation topics for the evening. Chris will be discussing scalable agile, including how it can be used openly and effectively. He will also be covering a different approach to the Software Development Cycle and describing the development model at FinancialForce with a talk titled: ‘SAFe at FF’.

When asked about his thoughts of the last ITBoss event, Rooban Annamalai, Project Management Office Consultant at UKAR said:

“The best thing about ITBoss event was the opportunity to make new connections, leadership collaborations, ideas and brainstorming avenues to create self-knowledge and understand issues from projects of others. Often we should take an evening out of regular routine, step back and think about aspects of IT leadership and evidence with others with their great experiences.”

Click here to view the video highlights from ITBoss.

ITBoss is an exclusive invitation-only networking event, hosted by Corecom Consulting. It is aimed at bringing Senior IT Professionals together in Yorkshire. Held quarterly, it is aimed at Senior Project Managers, IT Managers, IT Directors, Programme Managers, CIOs and CTOs.

Want to join the conversation?

Forthcoming event dates include 18 June and 17 September 2015. To register your interest, please contact itboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk or call Philip Nairn on 0113 394 4188.

20/05/2015

Director of Engineering at FinancialForce.com to lead ITBoss troops into battle

Corecom Consulting is thrilled to announce that Chris Hirst, Director of Engineering at FinancialForce.com, has been announced as Guest Speaker at the forthcoming ITBoss networking event on 18 June 2015.

Armed with a Physics degree from Cambridge University, Chris started his professional career as a young officer with the Royal Tank Regiment. This started with 2 years as leader of a 12 man troop unit in the British Army of the Rhine, Germany, and lead to the post of Senior Lecturer at the Royal Armoured Corps Training Centre at Bovington Camp, Dorset.

Chris began his IT career as Team Leader and Developer at SD-SCICON with customers including British MoD and the German Weather Service. He progressed to a role with London Business School as a Freelance Developer, followed by Developer and then Project Leader at Concourse Systems in Bradford where he spent over 14 years as a hands-on developer in industrial control and monitoring software. He specialised in a wide variety of projects in the manufacturing industry across EMEA and clients ranged from a fibre optic switch for Pirelli production factory in Milan to a public sector team in Wakefield managing waste recycling and disposal.

Subsequently, Chris has transferred his knowledge and experience to development, technical and project management roles for Trutac Ltd, Manheim Auctions, Anaplan Ltd and Capita Customer Management. Key achievements included delivering a £1.5 million green field product to RAC which achieved budget gains of £300k pa. He has combined development and testing expertise across Europe, US, Singapore and New Zealand to deliver world class solutions.

Chris set up Eliga Solutions a year ago. As Director of the company, he leads IT projects on contract using Agile processes with SaaS Cloud computing. In January of this year he embarked on the role of Director of Engineering at FinancialForce.com where he leads a growing number of Agile scrum teams.

During his extensive career Chris has had the opportunity to work with:

teams in four continents for a globally successful cloud-based startup businesses
cloud-based tools such as Salesforce, VersionOne, Jenkins, Podio, Yammer, Box
Agile kanban and scrum methodologies
programming and test teams with Open Source and Microsoft technologies
automation tools for faster and higher quality delivery.

When asked about what he can bring to ITBoss, Chris said:

“I am looking forward to sharing my knowledge and experiences within the industry at the event. I relish providing Agile leadership, focus and direction. This is an exciting age of internet-driven teamwork and I am delighted to offer my perspective on how to deliver faster and richer software solutions.”

Event Host, Philip Nairn at Corecom Consulting said:

“I am thrilled that Chris accepted my invitation to speak at ITBoss. He boasts a whopping 30 year’s IT experience and some truly innovative ideas. Outside the workplace he has also demonstrated talent, determination and success by completing a Marathon in 2 hours 25 minutes, the Three Peaks of Yorkshire Fell Race (24 miles, 4,500 ft) in 3 hours 10 minutes and the Dambuster Olympic distance triathlon 1500m swim / 42 km bike / 10 km run) in 2 hours 28 minutes.”

Held quarterly, ITboss is an exclusive invitation-only networking event in Leeds aimed at bringing Senior IT Professionals together in Yorkshire. It creates a unique platform for Senior IT Professionals all over Yorkshire to debate, discuss hot topics, learn from reputable and established speakers and network with likeminded individuals. The event caters for Senior Project Managers, IT Managers, IT Directors, Programme Managers, CIOs and CTOs.

Want to join the conversation?

Forthcoming event dates include 18 June and 17 September 2015. To register your interest, please contact itboss@corecomconsulting.co.uk

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CIO at Zenith to talk ‘digital disruption’ at ITBoss | Register Here

IT Crisis Management to be the hot topic at ITBoss

Forming agile relationships, IT security and GDPR – confirmed ITBoss topics

Fellow Sky Betting & Gaming ‘techies’ confirmed as ITBoss keynote speakers

Value adding ITBoss presentations achieve success

Former Head of Engineering at Yahoo! to present at ITBoss

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ITBoss is welcoming delegates from Hitachi, Callcredit Information Group and Jet2.com

CTO of Callcredit Information Group is ITBoss Guest Speaker

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Experian, Learn Direct and Equifax secure ITBoss places

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