Business Computing:
the Second 50 Years

The Guildhall conference for business leaders

Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens Director, London School of Economics and Political Science

Registration
Welcome
Sir David Howard Bt, Lord Mayor of London
Business computing 2001 - the state of the art
George Cox, Director General, Institute of Directors - Details

Chair: Professor Richard L Nolan Harvard Business School

LEO to Linux: an economic historian's perspective on the development of IT and its applications in the business world - Presentation
Professor David Mowery, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley - Details

Afternoon

Workshops - the future of the "e" world

Company infrastructure for the e-world
Chair, John Bernstein, Editor-in-chief, Silicon Group - Details
Globalisation in the e-world
Chair, Colin Palmer, Chairman, Business Intelligence
Knowledge sharing
Chair, Professor Richard L Nolan, Harvard Business School - Details
Lessons of the dot.com fallout
Chair, Dr Tony Wicks, Research Director, Searchspace plc
Security risks and precautions
Chair, DK Matai, Chairman mi2g - Details
Transition into the e-world
Chair, Professor Rudy Hirschheim, University of Houston
Virtual organizations
Chair, Professor Clive Holtham, City University Business School

Chair: Professor Richard L Nolan Harvard Business School

Information management and the future of London
Judith Mayhew, Chairman, Policy and Resources Committee, Corporation of London - Details

Panel discussion - what have we learnt in 50 years?
Conference sponsors' panel including
- Chris Yapp ICL Fellow, Lifelong Learning - chair
- James Feeney, Adviser
- Michael Gough Chief Executive, National Computing Centre
- Keith Marlow Head of UKIE Engineering, Yahoo
- Peter W Morriss Partner, KPMG - Details
- Roger Watson Head of Strategy and Planning, eBusiness, BT Ignite - Details

Evening

LEO and the computer revolution without pictures (68k) with pictures (1mb)
David Caminer, Systems and Programming Manager, LEO project, from 1949 - Details
This lecture is open to non-delegates free of charge
The annual IEE Pinkerton lecture
Chair Professor Brian Mellitt President, IEE
Reception and celebratory dinner
The Chief Executive's view
Michael Grade, Chairman, hemscott - Details

Panel discussion - economic and social consequences of business computing and public policy
- Dame Stephanie Shirley, Founder, Xansa - chair - Details
- Boris Babayan, Academician, Russian Academy - Details
- Professor Subhash Bhatnagar, World Bank - Details
- Kevin Harris, Information Manager, Community Development Foundation - Details
- Alastair Macdonald, President, British Computer Society
- Andrew Pinder, the Government e-Envoy - Details
- Ian Taylor MP - Details

Chair: John C Carrington Master, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists

Knowledge management and digital information
John Ashworth, Chairman of the Board, British Library - Details
The world and business computing in 2051
Chandra S Amaravadi - Details
The National Computing Centre prize paper

Other papers entered for the competition

Afternoon

Chair: John C Carrington Master, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists

Investor criteria for the future for business computing
Cherine Chalaby, Managing Partner - Europe, Accenture Technology Ventures - Details
Panel discussion - crystal ball 2001-2051
- Richard Hudson Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal Europe - chair - Details
- Rudy Berger Director, MIT Media Lab Europe
- Mark Elliott General Manager, IBM Europe Middle East and Africa
- Herman Hauser Chairman, Amadeus Partners
- Maurice Abell Chief Executive - UK and Ireland, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young - Details

Conference report by Richard Baskerville

page last updated 4 March, 2003