Digital Transformation – the top 5 challenges facing research teams in 2021 and beyond
On-demand Webinar
It’s time to talk about Transformation!
Please join us as we debate the challenges faced by teams when transforming and modernising the research lifecycle to suit today’s operating environment. Our expert presenters, Bryan Littlefair, CEO Cambridge Cyber Advisers and Richard Forrest SVP Cayuse will be debating the requirements from both sides – Research transformation vs security and compliance implications!
Bryan has advised the UK’s top academic research establishments over the past 2 years on strategies to digitally transform operations whilst remaining secure without impacting researcher interaction. Richard Forrest with over 20 years of educational and research ecosystem experience will highlight the key operational requirements of teams.
In this session our experts will debate
- Why digital transformation is critical to research programs, how it increases efficiency, minimises risk and optimises operations for researchers and administration teams alike.
- The challenges of enabling a newly remote workforce with the technology and tools to drive efficiency whilst meeting compliance and information security requirements.
- Why and how to protect your research data, does hosting in a secure SaaS solution enables this? Examples of how a clear strategy can avoid miscommunication and incorrect information across all stages.
- Integrating technology to create a secure connected research administration platform while still providing flexibility, reporting and access.
- Transforming the full research lifecycle from funding to researcher success, through to marketing intellectual property. How moving from multiple disconnected tools to a consolidated technology platform is the future.
Speakers:
Richard Forrest
SVP, Global Operations, Cayuse
Bryan Littlefair
CEO, Cambridge Cyber Advisers
About our Speakers
Bryan Littlefair: CEO Cambridge Cyber Advisers
Bryan Littlefair is the Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Cyber Advisers (CCA). He has over 25 years’ experience leading teams within information and cyber security. He specialises in advising executive teams and boards of some of the world’s largest organisations on their security strategy as well as providing security consultancy, guidance, and mentorship to the Chief Information Security Officer community.
Prior to founding CCA Bryan held the role of Global Chief Information Security Officer for Aviva and Vodafone Group.
Bryan has significant experience within the higher education sector working with several Russell Group universities on their security, risk and data protection strategies. This has been especially important during Covid-19 where the academic sector was being actively targeted.
Bryan has also held the role of interim-chief information security officer for several major UK universities whilst security improvement activities were undertaken and has close working relationships with the academic security leads within the UK government.
Bryan holds several individual and joint patents in the information security field and is a regular keynote presenter at the major security conferences.
Richard Forrest: SVP, Global Operations, Cayuse
With over 20 years of higher education enterprise architecture and solution deployment experience, Richard has advised education institutions on their immediate and longer-term transformation options across Europe, the Middle East, India, and Asia Pacific. Richard has close involvement in many working groups and strategic projects helping define and develop new processes, strategies and innovations for the Higher Education and the Research community. Richard has also presented over the years at numerous conferences around the world.
Prior to Cayuse, Richard spent over 20 years at Ellucian, most recently as VP of Global Services Architecture and Governance.
Richard is a graduate of The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he received an Honours Degree in Medicinal Chemistry and went on to study for a PGDip in Computing Science at Staffordshire University