“Cyber Security – Cyber Essentials and the GDPR”

Date: March 27, 2018
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Sweet Mandarin, 19 Copperas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M1 1HS
North West

LES B&I North-West Seminar & Meal

Speaker: James Balderstone
Managing Director & Principal Consultant at Lucid Networks
Cyber-attacks are on the rise, and cyber security is the biggest technology issue facing professional services businesses who use IT today. Cyber Essentials is a government backed standard which can defend an organisation against 88% of the most common cyber attacks. This seminar will explore how by increasing organisations’ IT security, through the cyber essentials programme, it can go a long way towards being GDPR compliant.

James Balderstone is Managing Director & Principal Consultant at Lucid Networks, a specialist IT Infrastructure consultancy, based at Manchester Science Park. He has over 19 years’ experience of designing, supporting and delivering IT to the professions. Lucid specialises in managing business critical IT infrastructure, including servers, networks & cloud computing, with a focus on security. Lucid’s clients range from SME’s to large corporate firms. James is a qualified Cyber essentials ACE practitioner. This means he can help organisations become Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certified. He is also a certified GDPR Essentials practitioner. GDPR Essentials is a data protection standard devised to assist organisations in their efforts to comply with the GDPR directive.

“2018 Legal Update Meeting”

Date: March 15, 2018
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Vue Cinema complex in Piccadilly (19 Lower Regent Street, London, SW1Y 4LR
London

Afternoon Seminar & Networking Drinks

We are delighted to be able to host this afternoon seminar at the newly revamped ). We cannot promise premieres but the event does promise a series of interesting topics from excellent speakers on a range of legal issues relevant to everyone in the business of IP and IP transactions.

To view the programme, please click here.

Speakers:

Trevor Cook, Wilmer Hale

Adam Coughlin, Bristows LLP

Antony Craggs, D Young & Co.

Jonathan Moss, Hogarth Chamber

Collete Rawnsley, Wiggin LLP

Claire Smith, Bristows LLP

“Collaborative Product and Service Development, enabled by Licensing – a view from Caterpillar”

Date: February 8, 2018
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Bristows LLP, 100 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DH
London

Evening Seminar & Networking Drinks

Speaker: Jo Costura, Intellectual Property Transaction and Technology Licensing Manager EAME, Caterpillar UK

Jo Costura is the Intellectual Property Transaction and Licensing Manager for Caterpillar for Europe, Africa and the Middle East and is based in Peterborough in the UK. A Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and Fellow of Women’s Engineering Society in the UK, Jo works with Caterpillar engineering teams across the region developing construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives in Caterpillar’s three product segments – Resource Industries, Construction Industries and Energy & Transportation.

Working closely with engineers, IP lawyers and patent attorneys, she has responsibility for scoping, defining and negotiating technology development agreements and licenses with external industrial or academic partners related to Intellectual Property rights and technology licensing.

ITMA Spring Conference and Gala Dinner 2016

Start date: March 16, 2016
End date: March 18, 2016
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: One Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2EJ
Conference
CPD: 9 hours (SRA ref. WP/ITMA; BSB ref. 1494)

Full delegate, including conference and socials

Socials only tickets

Wednesday networking drinks reception

Thursday gala dinner

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