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AFCEA UK West Chapter – Face-to-Face Meeting
AFCEA UK Southern Chapter – Face-to-Face Meeting
Mr Steve Thornber CBE – “Urgent Requirement for a Revolution at Pace in Defence’s Digital Enterprise”
There is a need for an urgent revolution Defence’s Digital Enterprise. In a changing world of shifting global geopolitics and the availability of industry’s emerging capabilities, Defence must take a Digital Enterprise approach that is versatile and can be developed at pace.
More information can be found in the calling notice below. A copy can be downloaded here.
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AFCEA London Chapter – Face to Face Meeting
The AFCEA London Chapter meeting for November will take place on Thursday 7th, when Gp Capt (rtd) Rob Wright from Oxford Dynamics will be our guest speaker. The meeting will be preceded by a short AGM and election of AFCEA London Chapter Officers.
The title of Rob’s presentation will be “Avoiding an AI apocalypse: How can Defence procure and assure?”
Rob has a background in High Assurance network protection and now works for Oxford Dynamics, a provider of AI and robotics to MOD. He recently completed a secondment at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT), where he worked on the Software supply chain Code of Practice, with its related AI Safety Code of Practice. Rob will provide insight from his recent experience, changes in technology and the codes of practice and the impact on how Defence and government can procure and assure their tools. Attendees can expect to learn lessons from the cyber front line and how it intersects with the physical world, drawing on lessons from conflict in the Middle East and how the benefits of open source software and AI can be realised at pace to help analysts and decision makers alike have more time to make better decisions when it really matters.
We are in the process of finalising details for the meeting venue and details will be posted shortly.
Bookings are now open. This is bound to be a topic that will interest a lot of people, so please register and pay promptly, as places are limited to a maximum of 60 attendees.
In the event that we are over-subscribed, we will operate a short waiting list.
The closing date is Friday 1st November.
AFCEA London Chapter – Face to Face Meeting
The fourth meeting for our 2024 / 2025 Season, will take the form of a pre-Christmas Lunchtime Reception. This will be held on Thursday 5th December, in the Battle of Britain Suite in the RAF Club, 128 Piccadilly, London W1J 7PY.
The AFCEA London Chapter re-introduced this networking event last year and it proved popular, so we thought it worth running again. Our Guest Speaker will be Iain Standen, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, who will give a short presentation.
The main purpose of the reception is to provide senior executives from our Corporate Membership and invited guests from MoD and Other Government Departments, with an opportunity to network with like-minded individuals in an informal environment. It is an ideal opportunity for our regular Industry attendees to invite their CEO and/or CIO along, who may not be familiar with AFCEA.
Those who aren’t already AFCEA Individual or Corporate Members are most welcome to attend. Committee members will be circulating during the lunch, with some very persuasive reasons as to why you should join, or, in some cases, re-join!
Please note that numbers will be limited to 50 – first come first served.
Registrations will open at the end of September.