Change, Change, Change
Kings Street Townhouse Hotel, 10 Booth Street, Manchester, M2 4AW
Manchester
Summary
A dinner for those craving growth amid constant change
Large organisations globally are in a race to change faster. At last there is now an appetite from leadership to embrace change, to be constantly alive to new opportunities and to empower teams.
Still - as this shift occurs there are challenges. Leaderships have retained much of the old “command and control”, slowing down progress whilst also creating frustration. Meanwhile, skills in the new technology driving agility are in short-supply, whilst the old cultures around “Black Box” outsourcing development still remain.
Our dinner will allow leaders to come together and debate the relationships business needs to have with the technology ecosystem - within the business and with the supplier and vendor community. How best to close the skills gap whilst taking advantage of the new MACH technology, and where to invest to drive quality at speed - truly empowering teams to drive optimisation without getting in the way.
Over dinner we will debate:
- Enhanced skills models and blended inhouse v outsourced models
- MACH stack as the ambition - how fast can you get there?
- Customer-first technology - is that aim simply enough?
Neil Memmott
Head of Technology
The Very GroupRead Full Bio →
Neil Memmott is Head of Technology for the Very Group’s Digital Customer Experience, responsible for an engineering team of circa 100. Currently undertaking a multi-year technology transformation from a monolithic eCommerce platform to a MACH architecture. Prior to joining Very, Neil was Head of Software Engineering for BBC iPlayer and Sounds during a period of accelerated migration to streaming services. Before that Technology Director at Auto Trader during their transition from magazine publisher to pure digital player.
AGENDA
18:30: Arrival & Welcome Drinks
19:15: Guests Seat
19:20: Welcome - Commerce Futures
19:30: Opening Speech - Neil Memmott, Head of Technology at The Very Group
20:00: Starters (Topic one - Discussion at individual tables)
20:20: Topic one discussed as a collective
20:30: Mains (Topic two - Discussion at individual tables)
21:10: Topic two discussed as a collective
21:30: Desserts and Networking
23:00: Event closes
Neil Memmott
Head of Technology
The Very GroupRead Full Bio →
Neil Memmott is Head of Technology for the Very Group’s Digital Customer Experience, responsible for an engineering team of circa 100. Currently undertaking a multi-year technology transformation from a monolithic eCommerce platform to a MACH architecture. Prior to joining Very, Neil was Head of Software Engineering for BBC iPlayer and Sounds during a period of accelerated migration to streaming services. Before that Technology Director at Auto Trader during their transition from magazine publisher to pure digital player.
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