2024 Programme

Key

Technology

Information

Data

Environment

Society

Services

14:00 - 15:00

IRMS AGM

15:00 - 17:00

The Beach Hut – IRMS Conference Fringe sponsored by OASIS Group

15:00 - 18:00
Registration Opens
18:00 - 18:45

Drinks Reception Sponsored by OASIS Group

18:45 - 22:00

Sunday Social Sponsored by OASIS Group

08:50 - 09:00
Welcome address from the IRMS Conference Director
09:00 - 09:30

Keynote: The Keys to the Kingdom

Vivienne Artz OBE
Vivienne Artz OBE
Data Strategy and Privacy Policy Advisor
Centre for Information Policy Leadership
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09:30 - 10:00

Vendor Showcase

10:00 - 10:30
Information Market & Networking
10:30 - 11:00

Past, present and future of Information Governance and Records Management

Andrew Warland
Senior Consultant
Andrew Warland Consulting
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11:10 - 11:50

Generative vs. predictive Artificial Intelligence – exploration of use cases

Carol Stainbrook
Executive Director
Cohasset Associates
Michael Haley
Principal Consultant
Cohasset Associates
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Our IM strategy story and journey to improve our SAR service

Rob Evans
Head of Information and Records Management, and Departmental Records Officer
Ministry of Justice
Carly Darby
Head of Service Transformation
Ministry of Justice
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Get stakeholders to sit up and listen

Luke Beckley
Head of Privacy and Data Governance
Correla
Kathryn Brooks
DPO
Cambridge Education Group
Clare Paterson
Data Protection Consultant
CP Data Protection
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Alpha and the Omega: the SharePoint journey beginning to end and everything in between

Michele Noad
Information Management Change Specialist
Continuum Connected & LGimprove
Hedda Motherwell
IG Operational Lead
Staffordshire County Council
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How to sail through the Legal and Regulatory waves in a Sea of Information: A proven approach to Record Retention and Policy Management

Hana Laws
Principal Consultant, Information Governance Professional Services
Iron Mountain
Karen Alvey
Senior Consultant, Information Governance Professional Services
Iron Mountain
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11:50 - 12:20
Information Market & Networking
12:20 - 13:00

Moving Historic Royal Palaces to M365 from file shares, one Teams site at a time

Vanessa Hodge
Head of Records
Historic Royal Palaces
Daisy Murray-Smith
Senior Records Officer
Historic Royal Palaces
Patricia Pettersson
Product Executive
Historic Royal Palaces
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National Archives, weeping angels and the Doomsday Machine

David Smith
Deputy Director - Knowledge and Information Management
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Ruth Walbrin
Deputy Departmental Records Officer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Hayley Jennings
Information Asset Management and Information Security Lead
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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Learning lessons from data protection breaches and audits

Andrew Harvey
Director of Information Governance, Cyber and Compliance
Graphnet Health Ltd
Barry Moult
Director & Owner
BJM Privacy Ltd
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Thnx 4 ur message: what do I do with it now?

Eilidh McLaughlin
Head of the Digital Citizen Unit
Scottish Government
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How sustainability can drive meaningful transformation in records management

Ann Beavis
Head of Sustainable Development
Crown Records Management
Tim Rushent
Director of Digital Services EMEA
Crown Records Management
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13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:50

Navigating GDPR implications in the AI era: A deep dive into ChatGPT

Ibrahim Hasan
Lawyer
Act Now
Reynold Leming
Co-Owner
Informu Solutions
Penny Wright
Information Governance Manager
Scottish Government
Hellen Beveridge
Senior Manager - Data Responsibility and Privacy Delivery
Cognizant
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Empower You Panel: Insights from Leading Women in IG Consultancy

Liz Taylor
Managing Director
Tkm Consulting
Heather Jack
Managing Director
HJBS
Rachel Mitchell
Director / DPO IG Lead
RiSiO Solutions Ltd/Care Inspectorate
Jacqueline Stockwell
CEO
Leadership Through Data
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A wake-up call for welfare?

Alison Drew
Deputy Head of Archives
Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
Justine Rainbow
Head of Evidence Management
COVID-19 Public Inquiry
Rebekah Taylor
Records Manager and Departmental Records Officer
Independent Office for Police Conduct
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File management and content collaboration in the modern workplace

Durai Murugan
Senior Product Marketer
Zoho Corporation
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14:50 - 15:20
Information Market & Networking
15:20 - 15:50

A fresh start with information management – Registers of Scotland’s approach to SharePoint migration

Alison Kendall
Head of Information Governance
Registers of Scotland
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Focusing on the sand bed of records management amid the waves of information

Natali Higgins
IG Manager (Corporate Records)
NHS Ayrshire & Arran
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Creating and managing adopted and care-experienced people’s records

Elizabeth Lomas
Associate Professor in Information Governance
University College London
Wendy Walker
County Archivist
West Sussex Record Office
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Evolving from Conventional Document Management to Comprehensive Information Management with ELO

Edgar Grasl
International Business Development
ELO Digital
Abdul Dastageeri
International Project Manager
ELO Digital
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16:00 - 16:30

How I learned to stop worrying and to love the 'delete' button

David Canning
Head of DKIM Team
Cabinet Office
Daniel King
Senior Information Manager
Cabinet Office
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How the Care Inspectorate captures and manages information risk

Molly Edmond
Information Governance Analyst
Care Inspectorate
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Don’t call me stupid

Ellie Dowsett
Data Protection Officer
Best Companies
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Managing the retention & digital preservation of long-term records in Microsoft 365: Practical best-practice examples

Nathan Voogt
Director of Business Development
Preservica
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16:30 - 17:00
Information market and meet the experts
18:30 - Late

Gala Dinner & Industry Awards

09:10 - 09:20
Welcome address from the IRMS Vice-Chair
09:20 - 09:50

Keynote: Navigating the Digital Maze: Managing Records in the Modern Workplace

Joanne C Klein
Joanne C Klein
Microsoft 365 Consultant | Advanced Compliance
NexNovus Consulting Inc
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09:50 - 10:20
Information Market & Networking
10:20 - 10:50

National Trust’s journey implementing SharePoint online

Patricia Stabbins
Records Manager
National Trust
Sophie Houlton
Archives and Records Advisor
National Trust
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Drowning in your shared drives? How to turn the tide

Sian Astill
Deputy Document and Records Manager
Independent Office for Police Conduct
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Human factors unveiled: Investigating hidden causes of data breaches – it’s not just about the individual!

Becky Hall
Information Governance Manager
Naomi Korn Associates
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Transforming your training and awareness programmes to promote a positive privacy culture

Georgina Daugherty
Information Governance Specialist
8foldGovernance
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Automating the classification of paper records with PII using Microsoft AI

Daniel Kong
Director
encodian
Martin Dobbie
Senior Solution Architect
encodian
Aaron Rendell
Microsoft MVP
encodian
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11:00 - 11:30

Keynote: AI and Data Privacy – The Inside Story

Chris Elwell-Sutton
Chris Elwell-Sutton
Partner
TLT LLP
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11:30 - 12:00
Information Market & Networking
12:00 - 12:40

“It’s not them it’s you”: Are the IG challenges of M365 more about implementation than the product?

Pete Wadley
Public Records Officer
National Records of Scotland
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Sharing best practices for KIM implementation

Elena Georgescu
Knowledge and Information Officer
Wellcome Trust
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Joining forces for records and data management!

Kirsten Hylan
Records Manager
St George's University of London
Sarah Stewart
Research Data Support Manager
St. George’s, University of London
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Privacy at work

Henry Davies
Data Protection Lead
Likewize
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Preserving History and Unleashing Tomorrow’s Potential

Kim Hannes
Programme Manager BENE
OASIS Group
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12:40 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00

Navigating NHS IG frameworks: Tales from the coal face

Tash Whitaker
Data Protection Officer
Birdie Care Services Ltd
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Phase 2 – embedding a sustained change to information asset management

Will Knights
Project Manager
Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Transport for Greater Manchester
John Laurence Curtis
Assistant Director Information & Data Governance and Data Protection Officer
Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Transport for Greater Manchester
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A tale of two fileplans: Top-down and bottom-up approaches

Katharine Schopflin
Information Governance Manager
General Dental Council
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Overcoming tough challenges – sensitive application of best practice information management at a children’s hospice charity

Iain Fiddes
Head of Information Technology
CHAS
Dan Murdoch
Consulting Director
Oyster IMS
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Deliver cost savings with information lifecycle

Alyssa Blackburn
Director, Records and Information Management Strategy
AvePoint
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14:00 - 14:30
Information market and meet the speakers
14:30 - 15:20

Ethics and the AI challenge

Dr David Reeve
Director
Data Potentials Ltd
Daragh O Brien
Managing Director
Castlebridge
Rowenna Fielding
Director
Miss IG Geek
Professor Edward Keedwell
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
University of Exeter
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The IG Lifebelt

Tim Turner
Trainer
2040 Training
Inga Kroener
Consultant in Data Protection & Privacy
Qualogue
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Imposter syndrome – who wants to sail with a saboteur

Scott Sammons
IG Consultant & Coach
Lighthouse IG
David Smith
Deputy Director - Knowledge and Information Management
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Georgina Daugherty
Information Governance Specialist
8foldGovernance
Clare Paterson
Data Protection Consultant
CP Data Protection
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Securing Microsoft Copilot Lab – preventing prompt-hacking and data exposure

Will Priestley
Manager of Sales Engineering
Varonis
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15:30 - 16:20

Closing Keynote: Unveiling the Hidden Costs: The Environmental Impact of Digitalization on the Road to Net-Zero Emissions

Professor Tom Jackson and Professor Ian Hodgkinson
Professor of Information and Knowledge Management
Loughborough University
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16:20 - 16:30
2024 Event Close