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The BCS Nottingham & Derby Branch serves over 1,000 BCS members in the Nottingham and Derby area and beyond. Our aim is to provide both professional and social activities throughout the year. For details of our planned activities this year, please see the calendar page.
Like most branches, it is hard for us to produce a calendar of events without the active involvement of members both to support the events and to help the committee in organising them. The branch committee welcome feedback from all members and attendees and suggestions for future events are especially welcome. If you would like to make a suggestion or if you can help with organising or publicising an event, please contact any committee member.
Latest News
Thank you to John Booth (@Carbon3IT) who delivered a presentation on Green IT issues at our Third Monday event in January. We had everything from elephants and dresses made from printed circuit boards, to the evolution of Green IT 2.0 and the impact of the cloud and on demand computing.
John's presentation provoked some healthy debate amongst attendees and we will no doubt be having more events on this topic in the future.
John has kindly provided a copy of his slide deck which can be downloaded here.
In addition, John has provided a link to a recording of his presentation that was made at the University of Gloucestshire in October 2011.
The results of our questionnaire are now available, and can be found here. Many thanks to all our members who responded.
Can you help us to help you? Please take five minutes or so of your time to fill in our questionnaire and let us know your thoughts.
Tony Brookes has recently joined our committee and will be helping us to continue the delivery of our programme of events and activities in the region. Tony, who works at the University of Derby as an Information Assurance Officer, has been a member of the BCS since 2005 and has already spoken at our two recent Open Mic nights offering his insights into social media and The Cookie Law. We look forward to Tony's input on the committee and hope that others will follow his example and get involved.
Dr Brian Logan, Lecturer at University of Nottingham, will be speaking about Computer Agents. For more details and to book a place at the event please click here.
Thanks to all those that attended our Open Mike (Mic) Night which gave attendees the opportunity to get up and speak about a topic of their choosing.
Thanks to all of our speakers who made the evening both informative and entertaining.
Steve Nice, Technical Director at ForLinux Limited, opened the event with his insights into the use of Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, particularly Amazon Web Services.
Gill Coker, freelance ICT trainer at AbletodoIT, gave an introduction to IT Can Help which is a network of volunteers who are able to offer free local computer assistance to disabled people.
Matthew Cunliffe, Test Team Lead at Experian, offered the audience a choice between testing or contracting. The majority choose contracting and Matt gave a warts and all portrait of his experience of contracting.
Lewis Elliot, a freelance SEO specialist, and Tony Brookes, University of Derby Information Assurance Officer, gave two very different perspectives of social media. Lewis is very much a sceptic but had conducted signifcant research on the topic. Tony's perspective was from an information security and a privacy viewpoint. Both talks were very informative and left the audience wanting more.
We will definitely be running more Open Mike (Mic) events and will be expanding on each of the topics raised at the event in the future.
Thanks again to all of our speakers.
That\'s right - an opportunity for you to have a go at presenting for 5-10 minutes on an IT topic of your choice!
For more information, see the main event page.
The presentation slides for the April 2011 3rd Monday Event on Mobile Foresensics are now available in Powerpoint 2007 format.
The presentation slides for the February 2011 3rd Monday Event on Service Orientated Architecture will be available from 22/02/2011 in Powerpoint 2007 format.
The presentation slides for the January 2011 3rd Monday Event on Mobile Foresensics are now available in Powerpoint 2007 format.