"IT practices in law & recent legislation"

Lindsay Healy is a solicitor at Norton Rose specialising in information technology and intellectual property law. He qualified as a solicitor in Ireland before practising in England, has advised on a number of large transactions ranging from software purchase agreements to large scale outsourcing arrangements to complex arrangements for company share purchase agreements. Lindsay has been involved in a range of e-commerce projects particularly in the financial services sector and in the area of electronic payments and credit and debit card schemes.

Lindsay will be discussing current IT practices in the law, from software contract formation (and how the law has had to change in order for it to keep pace with IT development) to current legal aspects of e-commerce, including security issues and recent legislation.

"Applications Service Provision (ASP)"

Ian is a Director with KPMG UK and heads up their Telecomms and Media Outsourcing solution line. Ian works with clients who are either building ASP hosting capabilities or who wish to procure hosted services. His practice is also responsible for managing large outsourcing engagements where KPMG assists clients through the outsourcing process - from scoping client outsourcing deals to contract implementation with the outsource provider to contract termination at the end of their existing outsourcing arrangement. He is a frequent speaker at conferences in Europe, the USA and South Africa on Service Level Agreements and outsourcing.

The ASP market in Europe is estimated to be worth £5.5bn by 2004 and is expected to bring e-commerce capability to organisations who until now could not afford it. This year the UK is seeing a tremendous number of joint ventures and alliances between some of the biggest players in the IT business as they pile into a market that, so far, can only boast a handful of clients. This talk sets out an understanding of the ASP offering and market and the rationale of the service providers who are so keen to enter this business. We will examine the issues that IT managers will have to face if forced to consider this "latest toy" in the context of the future of their IT organisation.

"Obstacles & Benefits in Contracts Management Implementation"

Alan is Technical Support Manager since 1997 at Isogon International, the International wing of Isogon Corporation of New York which is the world’s largest vendor of MVS based Software Asset Management systems. He has been involved in the implementation of SAM practices across Europe and the Americas. Prior to this he had over 10 years in support roles within the MVS software industry with some of the leading ISVs.