Tech Careers

Good news from Career Services:

• BT has advised that they intend to continue with its MBA Leadership Program and will be hiring up to 30 MBAs this autumn
• Samsung has asked for dates to present this autumn (first time presenting on-campus)

keep you posted..

Tech Club Committee 2009/2010

Dear Tech Club members,

Technology Club is happy to announce the new Executive committee for 2009/2010:

Co-Presidents: Daniel Mazini & Eve Ben Cheikh

Summit Chair: Guy De Rocquigny

VP of New Initiatives: Krish Sridhar

VP of Executive Programs: Serhii Konovalov

Treasurer: Vipul Swarup

Tech Summit 09: theme, panels and early bird tickets!

There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes to bring the Summit together.  In the last few weeks we have defined the theme, decided on the panels, started reaching out for speakers and moderators and have done a lot of other useful things (e.g. budgeting, drafting invitations, pricing the tickets, etc).

So, the theme of this year is going to be:

What’s next? Technology trends and opportunities in the immediate future

To explore this topic, we are inviting 3 keynotes and doing 4 panels on the following topics:

• Internet business models [How are businesses run on the web? What are some of the prominent ‘New Economy’ models? How are cloud computing and web applications changing the landscape? Is ‘privacy on the web’ a real issue or is it over hyped?]
  
• Mobile [Who is challenging the status quo? What is the future of mobile operation systems? What can we learn from mobile operators in emerging markets?]
  
• Finance [Financial aftermath from technology's perspective. How is the credit crunch affecting the financial services technology?]
  
• Home of tomorrow [Who will ‘own the box’ at the house? What are some of the future devices that will be used at home?]
  

We are also planning to do a 'Gadgets corner'. No promises yet, but we want to bring in some cool gadgets for the audience to play with.

And the tickets are on sale now! 

Early bird tickets cost £20 to the student (any student, not just LBS, and please, register with your university address), £50 for the LBS alums and £100 for the rest. Numbers are limited, so hurry up to secure yours: http://connext2009.eventbrite.com/

P.S. You can also get a free ticket for the event, if you are a speaker (or a speaker's guest), a journalist (or a popular blogger and you will promise to cover our event) or a volunteer helping with organisation.

BarCamp LBS?

Here at the LBS Technology Club we're always thinking about new ways in which to engage the school community with the technology world. Our flagship event is the Technology Summit which will be held on February 20th, 2009. Of course, as we started to put that event together, we felt that it might be interesting to host an "unconference" to go with it.

BarCamp seems to be a perfect fit! As a former, highly satisfied participant of BarCamp (and reponsible for new initiatives in the club), I'm thinking of organizing one at school in the summer timeframe. The idea is to get together geeks, VCs, business school students and others in the London area for a weekend of ad-hoc and unstructured learning, networking and of course, a lot of fun!

Keep watching this space for more information on this. Of course, our first priority is to make Tech Summit '09 a massive success.

Technology Summit 2009

This post is not updated! please check the next Summit post at http://lbstechclub.blogspot.com/2008/12/tech-summit-09-theme-panels-and-early.html

The third London Tech Club Technology Summit will happen on 20th of February 2009 and will be hosted at RCOG. Save the date!

This full day summit will consist of 2 or 3 selected keynote speakers and 4 to 5 panels on different topics related to the single conference theme: What's next in technology - trends and business opportunities in the near future.

The panels we selected for this year are:

1. Cloud computing - Welcome to your browser – taking applications from your computer to the web

2. Internet businesses - How are businesses run on the web? What are some of the prominent "New Economy" models?

3. Clean tech - Clean Tech technological innovations. The green initiatives in your home and business

4. Tech in finance – Finance from a technology perspective. How does the credit crunch affects and was affected by financial services technology

5. Mobile - What are mobile companies are doing to change the future of mobile in emerging markets, wireless payments, devices, services and m-commerce

What do you think of those panels and our theme? Will you be interested to attend? Do you have a better idea (or speaker) that would fit in the theme? Let us know - submit your comments on this post!

Managing Global Teams – insights by Infosys

Today, Jitin Goyal (Vice President and Head of Banking & Capital Markets Group) from Infosys spoke to members of the Technology and Emerging Markets clubs about managing teams that are culturally and geographically disparate. He had some interesting insights and gave us a true feel for what it’s like to work across continents. This theme is very central to the diversity values that London Business School strives to instil.

To read more about this event, see the London Business School blog post (click here).

Innovation in an Economic Downturn, London, 1 Plough Place, 4th Dec 2008, 5pm

On Thursday 4th December, Lord Drayson, Minister of State for Science and Innovation will make a keynote speech on the importance of innovation in an economic downturn.

Lord Drayson will then join a panel discussion with Brent Hoberman, co-founder of Lastminute.com and Charlie Leadbeater, innovation expert and NESTA Visiting Fellow to consider the opportunities arising out of the downturn. Jonathan Kestenbaum, NESTA’s Chief Executive will moderate.

The event marks the launch of a NESTA report – ‘The Networked Recession’ - which will highlight how in an ultra-connected world, events a thousands miles away can affect us almost immediately: Our ability to respond effectively to the downturn will depend upon the resilience of those networks and our ability to manage the challenges they present. It will argue that the UK needs targeted investments on infrastructure, alongside a new economic strategy that reflects the changing nature of the economy.

Registration is full already, but here is the link.

Date: Thursday 4th December

Time: Registration will be from 5.00pm. Presentations will start promptly at 5.30pm

Venue: NESTA, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE

Networking will follow the main event.

London Business School Technology Club starts a blog

Last week I've been talking to Dalit (LBS Tech Club Co-President '07) and she said: 'Last year I found out about the Tech Summit 1 day before the Summit'. That's not good, I thought. If even the former club president doesn't know about the club events, there is something wrong with our beloved school Portal... why don't we start something external like a blog?

So here it is now to address 3 goals Tech Club Portal discussion board doesn't serve:

1. Be a newsletter on things happening at school and in London: speakers, conferences, events - and  potentially worldwide - that are of interest to LBS Tech Community
   
2. Create a more informal atmosphere and ask for your feedback, advice and ideas - so that you won't spam 1000 people while giving it to us
   
3. Let people who are not often on campus (alumni, admits or aspiring applicants)  find out what's going on
   

Let's get started!