AGENDA

09:30  Registration
 

09:45  Welcome – Stephen Way
 

09:50 Managing a Mobile Workforce (Peter Bays, IBM)

IBM has a large, technically literate workforce, which is mobile in both IBM locations and working from home and from customer sites.
Peter Bays, as IBM Mobility Manager for Northern Region, is responsible for managing the mobile workforce, and will discuss some of the technical and practical issues he faces in so doing.

10:05  Remote Connectivity in a Global Corporate
Stephen Way, e-Commerce Manager, Johnson Matthey plc

In this case study, Stephen will examine and demonstrate the various remote access solutions in play, and discuss the costs and benefits of the systems deployed
Johnson Matthey are a global manufacturing company, and have a variety of solutions in place for remote access and travelling users (and have used, and discarded, many more).

10:35  Notes from the Beach

John Taylor, Technical Director, Typex

What are the options for remote and mobile working? What about connectivity? What else do I need? Can I really work from the beach at last, including 'surfing' the Web? Where do 'Palms' fit in? What are ' Island ' settings? Do I need to 'shell' out a fortune? This overview presentation will look at the practicalities of remote working, with emphasis on the Lotus Notes environment.

11:20  Coffee

11:30  Notes from the Beach (cont)

12:00   Extending the LAN

Kevin Regan, Cisco Systems

How do you extend your network infrastructure for secure remote working? In this session, we will look at configuring access to the corporate network for remote workers, and discuss the pros and cons of the various options.

13:00  Lunch
 

13:30  Transparent Networks
Alex Waterman, VODAT

This presentation will address the technical background behind the delivery of IP solutions to provide office-based and remote working employees with direct dial extensions, voicemail, email and fast Internet access over broadband. This will be shown as a preferable alternative to investment in PBX systems, the purchase of dedicated equipment and the re-cabling of offices. It will also take a look at some implementation experiences using case studies.

14:15  Global Roaming Solutions
John Taylor, Typex

Global traveling needs  a global internet roaming service which aggregates all available forms of connection, dial-up, ISDN, broadband, wi-fi and LAN, and  delivers the best means of connection for the location. In this presentation, John Taylor will address the issues behind connection aggregation, and review the options available in the marketplace. 

15:00   Web-Based Terminal Services
Steve Jennings, Think-Secure Ltd

This presentation will use case studies to show how the integration of remote access, simplified management and security can be used to solve a host of remote access problems. It will demonstrate how to deliver the LAN desktop securely, via a browser, to any internet-connected computer.

15:30  Close