| Date: | 11 Mar 2015 |
Dr Joel Greenberg - The birth of Machine Cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park
Dr Joel Greenberg visits the past by following the early 1930s when the Government Code & Cipher School in the UK recognised that the age of machine cryptography had arrived. The British began recruiting mathematicians and other 'men of the professor type' as the onset of war with Germany appeared inevitable. Dr Greenberg will describe the early work of the Polish cryptanalysts and how a Victorian estate in Buckinghamshire was transformed into a hotbed of technological development during World War II.
Chris Matts - Managing Business Analysis and Product Management in Agile
Chris will introduce what Agile really means (and it isn't User Stories, Scrum or Kanban). He will then introduce the Cynefin Framework for Social Complexity to help you understand when you should be using business analysis and when you should dust off your product management toolkit. Finally you will learn a simple framework, 'Feature Injection', that helps you to adopt your existing analysis tools to Agile.
Steve Brown - Why machines must make us better humans
As a futurist, Steve is responsible for building and articulating a clear vision for the future of computing and the possibilities it will enable in the next decade and beyond. He consults industry experts and synthesizes social, technological, demographic, market, economic and business trends to understand how technology will shape the future of major vertical industries and the profound impact computing will have on our lives in 2025 and beyond.