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Business Continuity and Communications via JANET

- for Post 16 Learning

14 September 2007

Glasgow Menzies Hotel

Programme

(Presentations are linked as pdfs)

10:00 Coffee & registration 

 

10:15 Introduction from Scottish Funding Council

Dr Bill Harvey, Scottish Funding Council, Deputy Director

- bigger picture with e-learning strategy 

 

10:30 Resilience – how much do you need?

Tim Kidd, JANET(UK), Head of Operations

- how resilient the JANET network is at the core and the regions 

- your own campus, how to improve your resilience

- business case for resilience – how much should you pay?


11:00 Group work Facilitated by JANET(UK) what do you do within your organisation? 

- name five key issues, work in groups of 5

- poster session over lunch

 

11:30 JANET services for improving your organisation’s resilience 

Paula Smith, JANET(UK), Web hosting Facilities and Content Services Manager

- Co-location service 

- Web Hosting

- CSIRT service 


12:00 InTechnology backup service 

Anton Murphy, InTechnology, Head of Managed Services

 

12:15 Buffet Lunch

 

13:00 Communications and technology 

Professor Tom Wilson, Glasgow Metropolitan College

- why is it important, how it impacts on recruitment, retention etc 


13:30 Uses and benefits of JANET txt service 

Alistair Wren, PageOne,  Project Manager

- new text messaging for education

 

14:10 Group work Facilitated by JANET(UK)

- identify key issues,

- what technologies you will use or need in next 12 months

 

14.40 JANET Collaboration service – what can it do for me? 

Tim Boundy, JANET(UK), Schools Content Co-ordinator

 

15:10 JANET Talk service 

Roger Bolam, JANET(UK), Content Delivery Manager

- pros and cons of Voice over IP 

 

16:00 Close