RealTimeClub:Dinner Ideas

What events would you like to see in the future?

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Feel free to add to or modify the ideas already on the page. In the spirit of "there's no such thing as a bad idea" please don't delete ideas.

Politics

• "Politicians challenge IT! Can the IT industry deliver anything other than grief and over-run?" [Philip Virgo and Lucy Fairbrother]

• "Why should any-one trust an on-line system/identity and why should government care if they do not?" [Philip Virgo and Lucy Fairbrother]

• "Is the Internet socially inclusive or divisive?" [Philip Virgo and Lucy Fairbrother]

Innovation

• Futurology -- What will be the big tech idea(s) of 2020? 2030? What is the expected evolution of the big tech trends of the present day (e.g. social networking, nanotechnology, renewable energy, energy efficiency, mobile communications, cloud computing)? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Mark Stevenson, author of 'An Optimist's Tour of the Future' is willing in principle to speak. [Maury Shenk]

• Prof Sir Michael Brodie [Mike Evans]

• Clive Hilton, via Charles Ross/Susan Greenfield [Mike Evans]

Privacy & Security & Health

• Privacy issues for digital wallets [Adrian Lewis]

• BCS DIODE Ethics with Ian Harris [Michael Mainelli]

• "What's Different About Ethics On The Internet?" [Basil Cousins]

• "EMF Dangers" – Andrew Goldsworthy [Stephen Aitken]

Education & Philosophy

• A C Grayling -- The philosophy of technology [Maury Shenk]

• Graduate competition for speaking ideas with prize of opportunity to address Club [Geoff McMullen]

• Event re syntax and semantics in computing with Isaac Newton Institute (Alan Turing year celebrations) [Maury Shenk]

Business & Finance

• Cyber-reinsurance [Michael Mainelli]

• Charity banking [Michael Mainelli]

• Comparative innovation in major markets (e.g. UK, Europe, US, China, Japan, etc), with speakers from tech businesses in 2 or 3 different markets [Maury Shenk]

• "Why Do We Think Everything From China Is Cheap And Cheerful" - Faisal Islam [Michael Mainelli]

• "Resolving the Paradoxes of Implementing Innovative IT" – Martin Rice, CEO of Erudine, Merlin, the Earl of Errol, Dr Paul Stevens, ex CIO of Glaxo Smith Kline [John Riley]

• "Technology Finance Night" - reprise round robin with Angus Milne and some of his technology start-ups from Beer & Partners [Michael Mainelli]

Wild Card

• Impact of energy security on Western Industrial economies - to include coverage of peak oil, substitutes for fossil fuels and the impact on complexity, technology, supply chains etc. Particularly relevant through to 2020, 2030 and perhaps a necessary antidote to the paradigms and assumptions taken for granted in "futurology"? Jeremy Leggett may be an interesting and interested speaker jeremylegget.net

Old Ideas (did not work initially, but could be revived)

• "Inclusion by Design – disability, new technology" - Martha Lane Fox? [Geoffrey McMullen]

• The Web of tomorrow? - Sir Tim Berners-Lee?

• "What Has IT Ever Done For Us?" [Simon Maddison and Phil Sayer]

• "Coalition Community and IT" - Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Communication, Culture and the Creative Industries [Ed Wolton]