Held live 30th June 2020 at 15:00 (BST)
Discussion summary:
Having an agile law firm has never been more essential, during a time when the technological landscape is continuously shifting, building resilient infrastructure and preparing for failure is paramount.
This session discussed the key challenges and lessons learned being raised by CTO’s including, IT automation and transformation, whilst considering internal and external pressures, and exploring collaboration as a core driver for success.
Key discussion points:
- Exploiting a crisis to create new opportunities
- Changing technology vs technological change
- Enhanced collaboration tactics for informed decision-making
- Considering barriers to change, that may offer benefits to the profession
Speakers
John O’Donovan
CTO
Allen & Overy
John is CTO at Allen and Overy and before joining Allen & Overy, John previously was the CTO at the Financial Times and at the Wall Street Journal, building technology and data solutions to fundamentally change digital reach and drive subscription growth. He has also been Chief Architect at BBC News and Sport as well as at TalkTalk and the Press Association.
Colette Kitterhing
Senior Director, UK&I
Riverbed Technology
Colette Kitterhing is the Senior Director for UK & Ireland at Riverbed Technology with overall responsibility for driving Riverbed’s sales strategy and operations for all aspects of sales in the region. Colette leads the sales team to deliver continued success across Riverbed’s portfolio of network and application performance solutions, driving closer customer engagement, deeper penetration into important vertical sectors, as well as generate new business with new customers and strategic partners.
Colette brings with her over 20 years’ experience in the IT Industry. Before taking the regional leadership role at the beginning of 2020, Colette joined Riverbed in 2019 to lead the UK Financial Sector sales team. She joined Riverbed from Nectar Services, where she was Director of Sales for Europe and Africa. Prior to Nectar Services, Colette held leadership positions in sales and operations at multinational technology service providers.
Sponsor
Enterprise IT teams are tasked with ensuring business applications are readily available. But for work-from-home and remote employees, the unpredictability of network and application performance dramatically increases.
They face unique issues–poor network stability and saturated local connections due to simultaneous access of bandwidth-intensive collaboration apps like video streaming and large file sharing – all of which negatively impact workforce productivity.
Riverbed helps enterprises address the productivity challenges these workers encounter, maximizing application performance through massive data reduction and latency mitigation across networks. Workforces can stay productive anywhere, anytime with fast, consistent, and available applications they need to get work done.