Tech leaders' challenge: staying committed to long-term vision while juggling ever-evolving IT demands and rising sustainability pressures.
Speakers
Peter Ray
Darren Hilton
Martin Williams
Margaret Ross
Agenda
14:15 start
15:15. finish
Synopsis
In today’s fast-moving, often turbulent business environment, technology leaders are under increasing pressure to deliver digital results at speed whilst also progressing towards challenging sustainability objectives.
In this interactive session, cross-disciplinary experts will explore how organisations can stay true to their long-term vision amid the relentless and ever-shifting short-term pressures.
Through practical perspectives, we’ll look at how to align purpose with performance, balancing day-to-day demands on your IT services with broader strategic and sustainability ambitions, and discuss what it really takes to stay on track when priorities compete.
About the speakers
Peter Ray, Managing Consultant, CommITA Peter Ray spent most of his professional career in the technology reseller channel, taking on various roles, over a decade of which was heading up a Systems Integrator based in the south of the UK.
It was during his time running a reseller business that his interest in sustainability deepened, Peter now sits on various steering groups, both technology and sustainability focussed.
Describing himself as an “entrepreneurial advisor”, Peter specialises in helping organisations optimise their IT infrastructure while aligning their technology strategy and sustainability objectives. With a keen eye for innovation, he thrives on guiding organisations toward a strategic ‘sweet spot’ where efficiency and environmental impact go hand in hand, delivering meaningful and lasting results.
Darren Hilton MBA, Executive Coach Darren is a seasoned executive coach with a strong foundation in both business and leadership, drawing on a diverse career that bridges military discipline and corporate success.
His leadership journey began in where he honed his strategic thinking and resilience. Transitioning to the business world, Darren excelled in roles including business development for leading US technology firms, steering a software development start-up to a successful acquisition, and revitalising an Internet Service Provider to integrate it into a larger corporate organisation.
Darren’s career has been defined by a passion for unlocking the potential of the people he leads, which naturally evolved into his current focus on executive and team coaching. Today, he is dedicated to the transformational development of leaders and teams, guiding them to achieve and exceed their business growth aspirations.
Darren is also deeply committed to giving back, serving as a coach, mentor, and course facilitator for veterans through the Help for Heroes charity.
Martin Williams, Director, Freeman Clarke Martin is a technology and business leader with a passion for sustainable innovation.
With an MBA from Cambridge and deep technology expertise, he helps organisations align strategy, operations and technology to deliver transformational results. He grew the UK arm of a global tech consultancy from 1 to 200 consultants, working with clients to reimagine how technology drives their business.
He thrives on bold goals, creative problem-solving and building high-performing teams. His collaborative, entrepreneurial approach has earned trusted partnerships across industries.
Today, he's providing strategic IT leadership on a fractional basis to multiple organisations. Increasingly, his focus is on how technology can be applied responsibly and sustainably to support not just business growth, but a better future. He is particularly interested in decarbonisation, circular systems, and making climate action commercially viable.
Margaret Ross MBE (Chair) Margaret is Emeritus Professor of Software Quality at Solent University. She is Secretary of the BCS Green IT specialist group and is active in both the branches and specialist groups.
Margaret is CSci, CEng, CITP, FBCS, Fand also Honorary FBCS and was added to the Computer Weekly’s Hall of Fame in 2020.
Our events are for adults aged 16 years and over. Image by Peter Ray
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This event is brought to you by: BCS GreenIT SG
Supported by: Dorset branch, and Hampshire branch
