The Gem of all Mechanisms

CIO Network panelists provide further thoughts on strategic AI adoption following BCS CIO Network event, June 2025 Grant Powell MBCS, Senior Content Editor for ITNOW magazine, speaks to Leanne Allen, UK Head of AI at KPMG, Dr Bill Mitchell OBE FBCS, BCS Influence Board Member, and Sean Rafter, Head of Curriculum Development - Data & AI at BPP, following their panel debate at the BCS CIO Networ...

In this special edition following the latest BCS CIO Network event, Heather Lowrie, Chief Information Security Officer and Cyber Security Advisor and Ian McCormack, Deputy CTO at the National Cyber Security Centre speak to Brian Runciman MBCS about zero trust cyber security models. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT presents a special podcast with the Business Standards Institution (BSI), featuring an illuminating conversation between Rashik Parmar and David Mudd as they dive deep into the critical intersection of digital transformation and sustainability. In this must-listen episode, two industry leaders explore how organisations can build a more sustainable digital future...

The Law Centres Network comprise charitable legal practices that help those who can't afford a lawyer with legal issues - and that is around 70% of the population! Alex Charles, Head of IT and Data, and Julie Bishop, the Director of the Network, speak to Brian Runciman MBCS about the IT issues they face in providing this support, whilst giving insight into the data and digital maturity issues a lo...

In this special edition, four service resilience experts review BCS' CIO Network event. Mark Burnham, CTO Government and Public Services at Deloitte, Jonny Sammut, Director of Digital Services at the Welsh Ambulance Service, Patrick Burgess, Technical Director at Nutbourne, and Christine Ashton, CIO of UKRI and a member of BCS' FTAG join Brian Runciman MBCS to discuss the clear issues that came ou...

BCS Fellow Karl Hoods was recently honoured with a CBE. Brian Runciman MBCS spoke to him about his CIO career, his focus on social impact, the skills shortage, future challenges CIOs will face and more. Karl is Group Chief Digital & Information Officer at the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero and Department for Science Innovation & Technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

Stefano Mensa from the Hartree Centre speaks to Brian Runciman MBCS about the industry-facing supercomputer centre, with a focus on quantum computing. What benefit will it add? How close are we to fault-tolerant quantum computing with the current logical qubit bottleneck? What can it do for UK business? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can smaller organisations create a positive culture, encompassing genuine diversity of perspective? Melissa Sabella talks about her approach with the Honeycomb Works, where she has recently worked with RAEng on a new equity platform for start-ups and scale-ups. She also gives some practical tips, for example: how much time should you spend with your direct reports, and who should - or shouldn'...

What is the mindset IT professionals require to really harness the potential of computing for social good? Our panel discusses ambition, boldness, capability, determination and entrepreneurism. Rashik Parmar MBE, Group CEO of BCS, Charlene Hunter MBE, CEO & Founder of Coding Black Females, Professor Andy Stanford-Clark, Distinguished Engineer, IBM UK, and Dr Kitty Hung, BCS Fellow and author t...

In January 2024, Professor Ruth Misener was presented with the Needham Award for her exceptional contribution to identifying and solving fundamental computer science research challenges at the intersection of computational optimisation and machine learning. A special panel discussed the complexities of optimisation as a research discipline and how algorithms can help businesses make good deci...

Lisa Ventura MBE has been on a fascinating journey from mainstream TV to a cybersecurity career. Alongside this she has had a developing diagnostic journey. She talks to Brian Runciman MBCS about neurodiversity, her autism diagnosis and more. As she says... 'we are all generation cyber.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Jane Hillston, one of the winners of the Lovelace Award for 2023, discusses her work in formal languages. She talks to Brian Runciman MBCS about resource use in systems and performance modelling - measuring how much resource is used and when, from a mathematical viewpoint. It has applications in biology and transport systems in smart cities such as bike-sharing. She is also involved in s...

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, speaks to Brian Runciman about the site's progress over the last 22 years; fakes news; reliable sources; the Wikipedia community and funding model; and being a pathological optimist. With bonus content on stochastic differential equations…  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you like combining live music with discussions about science and technology, there’s now several summer festivals that tick that box. At the Dot Festival at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, and at WOMAD festival, you can hear expert talks and bands. Claire Penketh went to another festival - How the Light Gets In - to find out more, in this special edition of the Gem.  Hosted on Acast. See aca...

Felix Ryan speaks to Brian Runciman about a specialist area of IT - pen testing in the context of embedded systems. He talks careers, inspirations and why he launched a podcast on such a niche area. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Wendy Dearing discusses her passion for digital health and her career path from Nurse to Dean. She also tells Brian Runciman about enabling nursing careers through NVQs, the development of Digital Health and Care Wales, the problems with social care and the benefits of the NHS app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Tom Crick speaks to Brian Runciman about Wales’ science and technology reform and what our aspiration should be for digital skills and achieving a digitally competent population. In the context of Palantir and other large organisations interest in health data, how can and should we protect health records? What role should ethics take in curriculums? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

'The best founders see something in the world they want to fix'. Entrepreneur and start-up investor Barrie Heptonstall talks to Brian Runciman about agritech and education start-ups, the crossover between doing good in society and capitalism, and what he looks for in people he would invest in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the final episode of our six-episode Net Zero: A Digital Journey podcast series, we continue to explore the essential role that the IT professions hold in addressing the climate crisis and achieving net zero targets with guests from across the community. One of the biggest challenges faced by the IT sector is the training and education of the existing workforce with the new digital skills requi...

In the fifth episode of our six-episode Net Zero: A Digital Journey podcast series, we continue to explore the essential role that the IT professions hold in addressing the climate crisis and achieving net zero targets with guests from across the community. Effectively managing e-waste requires a shift from our existing one-way consumption model of IT hardware to a more sustainable circular e...

Late March 2023 saw over 1,000 experts - the Future of Life Institute – write a letter calling for a six-month pause on AI development, the UK government publish a new white paper on AI regulation, and Italy banning ChatGPT. Do we need new legislation? BCS’s Adam Leon Smith speaks to Merve Hickok of the Centre for AI and Digital Policy, who submitted an FTC complaint about the safeguards for AI go...

In the fourth episode of our six-episode The Net Zero: A Digital Journey podcast series, we continue to explore the essential role that the IT profession has in addressing the climate crisis and achieving net zero targets with guests from across the community. Synergistic relationships between industry, academia, practitioners and governments are needed in order to advance Green IT and delive...

In the third episode of our six-episode The Net Zero: A Digital Journey podcast series, we continue to explore the essential role that the IT profession holds in addressing the climate crisis and achieving net zero targets with guests from across the community. Research and innovation within the sector are helping to advance the science of climate forecasting, and develop technologies such as...

In the second episode of our six-episode The Net Zero: A Digital Journey podcast series, we continue to explore the essential role that the IT profession holds in addressing the climate crisis and achieving net zero targets with guests from across the community. Reducing the energy impact of IT infrastructure and technologies through Green IT practices will play an important role in the secto...

The Net Zero: A Digital Journey podcast is a six-episode podcast series exploring the essential role that the IT profession has in addressing the climate crisis and achieving net zero targets with guests from across the community. Climate change is firmly on the public agenda, and with our increasing reliance on digital and data technologies, the IT sector has a critical role to play in suppo...