Nottingham Event (servo)

About a dozen IT people got together for a dinner and discussion event last night preceeded by a presentation by John Hemingway ex CIO Sheffield Hallam and now an independent consultant. Focus started on a bunch of Gartner Research about the top priorities in next few years around technology, funding and people. Some provocative stuff about whether we need as many HEIs, whether IT departments are in decline and disappearing with cloud and related services and whether the IT teams are fit for purpose. Phoenix example of enrolling for a degree every Thursday versus the so called agricultural calendar and whether IT are enabling that. John is going to write up a summary which will circulate. A tool called xobni was mentioned need to explore and at least one iPad in the room. Nottingham one way system beat me twice but not bad as no map or sat nav iPhone maps app saved the day. Great drive over peaks to Manchester in early morning PS unrelated the free vuvuzela app is a must have.