Session: The Future of the Internet
There has been a number of studies focused on current Internet utilisation and predictions of future applications which will leverage the Internet. For example, it is antipated that there will be unprecedented growth in traffic driven by emerging video technologies. At the same time the concepts of Globalisation, Virtualisation and Collaboration are increasingly enabled by the pervasiveness of the Internet, changing the very nature of work itself.
This session will review the status of the Internet, the challenges and opportunities ahead and what they mean for consumers and citizens. It will also explore how organisations of any size can start to leverage the benefits of pervasive Internet technology both inside and outside the boundaries of the organisation to deliver dramatic improvements in productivity and customer/citizen engagement.
Biography
Ian Kennedy heads the Technical Operations community at Cisco Systems in the European theatre. In this role Ian leads and sets the strategy for the Systems Engineering group comprising systems engineers, consultants and architects operating across Western Europe.
He communicates Cisco's vision & technology developments and the associated business benefits to service providers, business and public sector organisations, as well as industry consultants, analysts and the media. He is often called upon to discuss Cisco’s innovation processes based on open and disruptive innovation models.
Ian is also currently focused on examining the impact of the network as a platform for business transformation and building architectural blueprints for the delivery of advanced network-based services to highlight how technology can address real-world business problems.
Ian began his career at Cisco as a consulting engineer and became one of Cisco’s Distinguished Systems Engineers for his work on global network architectures in the Enterprise sector.
His career in the computing and communications field began in 1976 holding technical consultancy positions designing and managing the implementation of corporate and global networks in a wide range of industry sectors, including petro-chemical, retail and financial services.
Ian is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered IT Practitioner. He is also a Member of the IET, BCS & IEEE. He holds a First Class BSc Honours degree and is a BCS Certified IS Consultant.
