Forthcoming Events (all UK Chapters’ meetings, plus key AFCEA Europe conferences)…
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that is most responsive to change.” (Charles Darwin) This is the first monthly meeting of the new 2018 / 2019 season and we are delighted that Brig Sara Sharkey – Head of Application Services & DevOps – ISS, has agreed to be our guest speaker. Defence needs hybrid applications platforms and multi-grained services that can be exploited through standard interfaces (APIs), it needs a DevOps culture and Agile Delivery in order to be responsive to change. Pockets of DevOps and Agile excellence exist around the Defence estate, but to be a truly information centric organisation, enabled by information services, significant changes are needed to succeed at an enterprise level. Brig Sara will explore the ends, ways and means and provide a view on where Defence sits on an “Information as an Enabler Maturity model” today. Brig Sara Sharkey has served in the British Army for 27 years. A Royal Signals Communicator by background, she moved into the Applications layer initially as Commanding Officer 10 Signal Regiment and then moving to transform the Army’s Software House. During her 4 year tenure in Army HQ, she led a revolution from waterfall, monolithic projects to stand up an Army Private Cloud, a Dev Ops engine room and an agile delivery regime that released over £30M of savings into one value stream alone. Brig Sara is currently Head of Applications Services and DevOps at ISS, where she is charged with delivering Applications Hosting and associated DevOps & on-boarding capabilities as key components of Defence as a Platform (DaaP). This will span best of breed in house capabilities and embrace Cloud services. She is also charged with delivering uplifts in apps & data-based capability for Command & Control, Medical Information Services, Identity & Access Management and Training & Education IS (Defence Learning & Management), where the architectural approach is to create a loosely coupled eco system of micro services and COTS applications that share services and operate through the single information environment – all underpinned by SAFe and Agile Delivery methodologies. London evening meetings are held on the 1st Thursday of each month – this entry will be updated as more information becomes available! AGM & Monthly Meeting Land Systems Reference Centre (LSRC) a joint presentation between MoD & Industry Please note that the dress code for gentlemen is business suit / jacket & tie and the equivalent for ladies. No jeans, t-shirts or trainers. Tony Wheeler – Director Defence Sector, LUCIAD / Hexagon Geospatial The Capability that must be Enabled by our Networks – how can we exploit the vast and dynamic ISR data on offer today?”” Please note that the dress code for gentlemen is business suit / jacket & tie and the equivalent for ladies. No jeans, t-shirts or trainers. AFCEA London Chapter Corporate Networking Reception Air Cdre John (JW) Wariner – Air 38 Gp A6 AO a BT hosted event in “a prestigious central London venue”! More details regarding the speaker and topic will follow, but the important message is to book early, as spaces are limited – so first come first served. Priority will be given to fully paid-up members. If we are over-subscribed we will operate a waiting list. Monthly Meeting Speaker TBA Dr Stuart Eves – British Interplanetary Society “The Future Is Out Of This World” The future of space technology Please note that the dress code for gentlemen is business suit / jacket & tie and the equivalent for ladies. No jeans, t-shirts or trainers. Monthly Meeting Young AFCEA Event Monthly Meeting Speaker TBA
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that is most responsive to change.” (Charles Darwin)
This is the first monthly meeting of the new 2018 / 2019 season and we are delighted that Brig Sara Sharkey – Head of Application Services & DevOps – ISS, has agreed to be our guest speaker.
Defence needs hybrid applications platforms and multi-grained services that can be exploited through standard interfaces (APIs), it needs a DevOps culture and Agile Delivery in order to be responsive to change. Pockets of DevOps and Agile excellence exist around the Defence estate, but to be a truly information centric organisation, enabled by information services, significant changes are needed to succeed at an enterprise level. Brig Sara will explore the ends, ways and means and provide a view on where Defence sits on an “Information as an Enabler Maturity model” today.
Brig Sara Sharkey has served in the British Army for 27 years. A Royal Signals Communicator by background, she moved into the Applications layer initially as Commanding Officer 10 Signal Regiment and then moving to transform the Army’s Software House.
During her 4 year tenure in Army HQ, she led a revolution from waterfall, monolithic projects to stand up an Army Private Cloud, a Dev Ops engine room and an agile delivery regime that released over £30M of savings into one value stream alone.
Brig Sara is currently Head of Applications Services and DevOps at ISS, where she is charged with delivering Applications Hosting and associated DevOps & on-boarding capabilities as key components of Defence as a Platform (DaaP). This will span best of breed in house capabilities and embrace Cloud services.
She is also charged with delivering uplifts in apps & data-based capability for Command & Control, Medical Information Services, Identity & Access Management and Training & Education IS (Defence Learning & Management), where the architectural approach is to create a loosely coupled eco system of micro services and COTS applications that share services and operate through the single information environment – all underpinned by SAFe and Agile Delivery methodologies.
London evening meetings are held on the 1st Thursday of each month – this entry will be updated as more information becomes available!
AGM & Monthly Meeting
Land Systems Reference Centre (LSRC) a joint presentation between MoD & Industry
Please note that the dress code for gentlemen is business suit / jacket & tie and the equivalent for ladies. No jeans, t-shirts or trainers.
Tony Wheeler – Director Defence Sector, LUCIAD / Hexagon Geospatial
The Capability that must be Enabled by our Networks – how can we exploit the vast and dynamic ISR data on offer today?””
Please note that the dress code for gentlemen is business suit / jacket & tie and the equivalent for ladies. No jeans, t-shirts or trainers.
AFCEA London Chapter Corporate Networking Reception
Air Cdre John (JW) Wariner – Air 38 Gp A6 AO
a BT hosted event in “a prestigious central London venue”!
More details regarding the speaker and topic will follow, but the important message is to book early, as spaces are limited – so first come first served. Priority will be given to fully paid-up members. If we are over-subscribed we will operate a waiting list.
Monthly Meeting
Speaker TBA
Dr Stuart Eves – British Interplanetary Society
“The Future Is Out Of This World”
The future of space technology
Please note that the dress code for gentlemen is business suit / jacket & tie and the equivalent for ladies. No jeans, t-shirts or trainers.
Monthly Meeting
Young AFCEA Event
Monthly Meeting
Speaker TBA
