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Innovating in a Secret World...

Monday 22nd February, 18:30 GMT, 13:30 EST, 10:30 PST

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Our February LNETM will examine how national security can drive innovation and how concepts & technologies that spin out from the intelligence community influence the private sector.

We are very pleased to have gathered a set of top industry experts to explore this topic, including:

Tina Srivastava PhD (Former Chief Engineer of Raytheon and author of Innovating in a Secret World).

Bob Flores (President & CEO of Applicology and Former CTO of the US Central Intelligence Agency)

Nat Puffer (Managing Director of IQT International)

Omar Saad (Head of Digital Policing Strategy & Innovation, London Metropolitan Police Service)

In addition, we will have flash talks showing two innovative technologies in the space:

Siren - John Randles (CEO) - provides the leading Investigative Intelligence platform to some of the world’s largest and most complex intelligence organizations. Rooted in academic R&D in information retrieval, distributed computing, and knowledge representation, the Siren platform combines the capabilities of search, business intelligence, link analysis, and big data operational logging and alerting.

Vintra - Brent Boekestein (Co-Founder & CEO) - makes AI-powered video analytics solutions that transform video from any camera source into actionable, tailored and trusted intelligence, enabling our customers to build and maintain the safest and most productive organizations in the world.

We're also planning to try out a new platform called Toucan for the LNETM "Afterparty", so do come join us for both the main event and the virtual networking afterwards.

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Getting a Nudge On... Behavioural Science in Enterprise Tech

Monday 26th October, 7pm GMT

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Creating great products involves a healthy mix of art and science - so we are very excited to welcome Matt Wallaert, an industry renowned expert in behavioural science as our next LNETM keynote speaker.

For over fifteen years, Matt has been applying behavioural science to practical problems, from startup exits to the Fortune 500 to an array of pro-social side projects.

In his new book, Start at the End: How to Build Products that Create Change, Wallaert details a science-based process to create behaviour change that can be implemented in organisations of any size and industry.

In addition to presenting, Matt will answer audience questions in a fireside chat that will be moderated by Jenny Grinblo (Head of User Experience & Design at Future Workshops).

We also have two highly impressive flash talks that will build upon the theme:

Cian O’Maidin (CEO of Nearform) will discuss how their contact tracing app are achieving mass adoption in nine jurisdictions to date (most recently in the US States of New York and New Jersey). Initially developed to augment Ireland’s contact tracing efforts, the Covid Tracker apps built by NearForm have effectively set the standard for what health authorities, governments and the public can expect from mobile technology in the fight against Covid-19.

Oz Alashe MBE (CEO & Founder of CybSafe) will discuss how their intelligent SaaS application applies behavioural science and data science to intelligently manage human cyber risk. All within the context of a more remote, flexible or hybrid working environment.

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Going with the TensorFlow... What’s next for ML?

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Since being open sourced by Google in 2015, TensorFlow has quickly become one of the core platforms used in the Machine Learning (ML) space – it is truly a global technology, with ~50m downloads and several thousand contributors. We are very pleased to welcome Kemal El Moujahid, Head of Product for TensorFlow at Google, to discuss the evolution of ML ecosystem and what the future holds for these technologies.

This discussion will be moderated by Kelley Mak, who is a Principal at the Work-Bench enterprise tech venture fund in NYC.

In addition, we will have flash-talks from two innovative emerging companies:

Peter Hayes, who will talk about a new company in the ML tagging space called HumanLoop.

Priscilla Alexander (Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Arthur.ai)

We are also very pleased to be joined by Professor Stephen Roberts, who is Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford, to give an overview of their latest research in the space.

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Defying Gravity... Data Management in the Cloud

Mon 13th July, 19:00 BST / 14:00 EST / 11:00 PST

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We are very pleased to welcome a panel of industry experts to discuss key trends in cloud data management with four highly innovative data companies.

 The expert panel will include:

Oli Bage (Global Head of Business & Data Architecture at Refinitiv)

Sarah Catanzaro (Partner at Amplify Partners)

Stijn (Stan) Christiaens (Co-Founder & CTO at Collibra)

A founder from each of the four emerging companies will present their capabilities and then discuss key trends in the space with the expert panel.

Our emerging company Founders presenting will include:

Anthony Cosgrove (Co-Founder of Harbr)

Maarten Masschelein (CEO & Co-Founder of Soda)

Seif Lotfy (Co-CTO and Co-Founder of Axiom)

Jorge Gomez Sancha (Co-Founder of Tinybird)

Oli has recently taken up the co-chair position at the EDM Council's Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) working group, so will also provide an overview of their activities.

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Serverless and the Future of Computing

Monday 15th June 2020, 19:00 BST / 14:00 EST / 11:00 PST

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Our next event examines the emerging cloud computing trend of Serverless, where much of the infrastructure is abstracted away to be managed by the cloud provider. While this change in consumption of infrastructure has much promise, there are also challenges such as application suitability, ambiguity of security and legacy migration.

We have assembled a great line-up of thought leading technical experts to discuss this topic and share their perspectives:

Chris Swan (Fellow, VP and Global CTO of Delivery at DXC Technology)

Melika Golkaram (Hybrid Cloud Specialist at Google)

Paul Johnston (Research Associate at the Leading Edge Forum, Consultant and Interim CTO)

The panel discussion will be moderated by Erik Stadigh (Investor at Crane Venture Partners).

There will also be flash-talks from Sebastian Goasguen (Co-Founder of Triggermesh) and Taavi Rehemägi (CEO & Co-Founder of Dashbird).

Thanks to our sponsors Orrick and the FinTech Innovation Lab for their support.

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State of the “Union - Knowledge Graphs in the Enterprise

Monday 1st June 2020, 19:00 BST / 14:00 EST / 11:00 PST

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The London Enterprise Tech Meetup is going virtual for the summer! The first of these sessions will be on Monday 1st June for a one hour session and will feature an overview into the world of knowledge graphs *. Connecting disparate datasets in a meaningful way is strategic for every business as it helps decision makers, users, and (above all) computers gain context within the existing knowledge of an organisation. We’ll be featuring a panel, discussing the evolution and maturity of knowledge graphs in the enterprise, in addition to key trends and innovations in this space. The panel will include key industry experts, including:  

Ben Gardner (Knowledge Management Solution Architect, AstraZeneca)

Dylan Roy (Senior Engineering Manager, Dow Jones)

Jeremy Posner (Principal & Head of Services, Agnos.ai)

The discussion will be moderated by Mike Atkin (Director of the EKG Foundation and Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University), who will also provide a high level introduction to the space before the panel.

We will also have two flash talks: 

Ruben Verborgh who is working with Tim Berners-Lee on the SOLID ecosystem.

Marit Rødevand (CEO & Co-Founder of Strise.ai)

* A knowledge graph is a programmatic way to model a knowledge domain with the help of subject-matter experts, data interlinking, and machine learning algorithms. The easiest example is probably the box you see in Google’s results.

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2020 Vision - Big Tech in the New Decade... (Feb LNETM)

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We are very pleased to welcome Benedict Evans, former Partner at Andreessen Horowitz in Silicon Valley, as our main speaker at the February LNETM (Mon 10th Feb). 

Ben has just returned to the UK after spending a number of years in the USA , so this is a unique opportunity to hear his world-class insights in a whistle stop tour of the global technology trends.

Benedict will present his perspectives, followed by a fireside chat that will be moderated by Julian Levy (Operating Partner at Redline Capital).

In addition, there will be three demo talks from innovative technology companies, including:

Nexbotix identifies high volume, repeatable processes that are currently performed by humans, and creates intelligent automated processes that allow them to be performed, unattended, by software robots. The platform is software as a service and uses automation and AI machine learning to deliver a smarter way of working. NexBotix also provides real time process analysis and performance data through NexAnalytics, our process analysis dashboard, making it easy to manage and make decisions.

Polystream connects the computing power of the cloud to the billions of GPUs in games consoles, phones and computers, our ground-breaking technology creates scale at a level once thought impossible. Current solutions need to virtualize GPUs in the cloud to deliver a video to each user. They aim to replace this hardware dependence with a software-defined architecture that delivers commands, not video.

Demo 3: TBC

Benedict Evans (Former Partner, Andreessen Horowitz)

As a long-time mobile analyst, Benedict has been working in the media and technology industries for 15 years. He first entered the industry as a sell-side equity analyst for investment banks before moving on to strategy and business development roles at Orange, Channel 4 and NBC Universal.

Most recently Benedict was a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he researched key industry trends for the pre-eminent US VC firm.

Benedict has been publishing a weekly newsletter every Sunday since 2013 that provides his notes for week on the news that actually matters and what it might mean, which reaches 130,000 readers.

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Good Migrations... (Mon 13th Jan)

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The January 2020 LNETM will focus on the change from large multi-year OS migration projects to the more regular iterative approach that comes with evergreen operating systems, such as Win10 and others. The panel will discuss how these changes are managed, the impact for application owners and how the OS owners need to think differently about management/distribution/training.

We are in the process of lining up a world-class set of speakers to discuss these topics, including:

Nigel Filer (Founder & CEO of Rimo3)

Richard Dickens (Head of End User Services EMEA at Bank of America)

Steve Matthews (Global Programme Director for Windows 10 and Office 365 at Morgan Stanley)

Angelique Mohring (CEO & Founder of GainX), who was a panelist in the AI discussion during November will return to moderate the panel in January.

In addition, we will have demo talks from three innovative emerging companies in this space:

Juriba is a developer of IT migration command and control software designed to facilitate and automate the management of enterprise IT transformation projects such as Windows 10, Office 365, email, hardware refresh, application rollouts, MDM and virtualisation. Its flagship product, Dashworks, enables organisations to accelerate IT migration projects through agent-less, user-centric compatibility analysis, and dynamic project delivery management.

Lakeside's SysTrack digital experience monitoring platform gathers data to enable quantification of user experience, continuous measurement of the impact of change plus the analysis of the user personas/apps/devices to enable smooth migrations and transformations. Analysing 10,000+ data points collected every few seconds on each device delivers insight to lower the volume of help desk tickets, identifying over and under-provisioning, selecting the best-fit technology for the environment, tracking SLA performance and measuring the performance of projects. SysTrack provides the visibility needed to lower IT costs and optimise operations while improving business productivity.

Rimo3's ACTIV platform helps organisations adopt technology, manage change and minimise disruption through automation. The platform provides intelligent automation at scale to assess the impact of change across the application landscape, accelerating migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and ensuring continuous compatibility and compliance.