Speakers

Antonela has a wealth of SAM and licensing experience, initially as an LMS consultant at Oracle, then as a general licensing consultant at Infraware and SHI.

She moved into the end user space as a SAM analyst and manager at Argos / Sainsbury's, combining her deep licensing skills with process, audit defence and stakeholder management skills to ensure Sainsbury's achieves its goals of licensing compliance, cost control and high levels of service to customers and colleagues.

David has 30 years’ experience in Service Management roles across multiple industries. David is an ITIL4 Strategic Leader, VeriSM Contributor, SIAM Community Champion and Service Management author with a passion for value co-creation. 

As well as providing Service Management consultancy to his clients, David sits on Service Management committees for the British Computer Society (BCS), the British Standards Institute (BSI) and the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) and acts a mentor for the BCS and Reeds Women in Technology Programme.

Marilyn has over 25 years of experience in IT and Telecoms across multiple sectors and is currently the vice chair of the BCS SM-ITAM specialist group. 

She has been working as a consultant for nearly 20 years in outsourcing delivery either delivery side or client side of the deals, but the most recent 15 years of this period has led her to focus on the commercial and procurement side of these deals, managing strategic global partnerships and the contracts that deliver these 3rd party services. 

In the dynamic world of IT Asset Management (ITAM), Stuart occupies a pivotal space, defined by vast experience, continuous innovation, and exemplary leadership.

With a career spanning over two decades, Stuart's contributions to the industry are notable for pushing the boundaries of what's achievable through ITAM.

From extending his expertise as a thought leader to architecting and orchestrating pioneering ITAM solutions, Stuart's career is a testament to his relentless commitment to delivering unparalleled business value. Additionally, his mentoring prowess reveals his innate ability to foster relationships, nurturing growth and transformation across both individual and organizational landscapes. 

Ade, our opening keynote speaker, is a visionary leader and a global technology strategist who has been driving digital transformation for over 30 years. As a CTO at Microsoft, he works with some of the most complex and diverse organisations across sectors and regions, helping them leverage the power of artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies. Ade has a wealth of experience in launching and scaling innovative digital startups, as well as leading large-scale IT projects that deliver market-breaking solutions.

He is an avid learner and a personal growth advocate, holding an EMBA, a Postgrad in Organisational Consulting, and regularly taking on charity challenges that push him beyond his comfort zone. Ade is passionate about sharing his insights and expertise with the executive audience of the clients he works with, as well as the wider IT and digital community. 

Claire, our closing keynote speaker, is a highly experienced IT service architect and vice-chair at the itSMF. Claire is passionate about raising the profile and importance of mental health and well-being in the workplace. 

Colin is CTO at Scott Logic, a lively and fast-growing UK-based software consultancy that delivers bespoke software consultancy services to financial services and public sector organisations.

He is a Board Member of FINOS (Fintech Open Source Foundation), a Linux Foundation organisation that fosters open source collaboration within financial services.

Colin is a passionate technologist, author, blogger and speaker on a wide range of topics and a keen advocate of open source software and an active contributor. 

David is an ITAM professional and Principal Consultant for SAM Beast Consulting Ltd, helping customers implement and mature successful IT asset management functions. He has also founded the ITAM Volunteers, which helped organisations struggling during the COVID pandemic through ITAM.

He has implemented successful IT asset management (ITAM), software asset management (SAM) and hardware asset management (HAM) in a large number of organisations. He has also saved tens of millions of pounds via contract renegotiation, internal audits (hardware, software, Cloud & SaaS) and optimising existing technology assets.  

Chris is a hands-on IT & Change leader with extensive commercial experience across multiple industries. He is a specialist in designing and implementing optimal multi-sourced operating models founded in his broad understanding of Service Management and Project & Portfolio Management practices. His focus on the customer, value, and the team, ensures the agile initiatives he leads maximises the return on technology driven investments.  

Richard has over 18 years experience in Service Management and has been the driving force behind many organisations' efforts to implement and embed mature service management processes both as a consultant and CSI manager. 

He is the Chair of the BCS Service Management and IT Asset Management Specialist Group (BCS SM-ITAM SG) and is a public speaker and thought leader, including and has spoken at events for organisations such as Gartner, itSMF, Cherwell and BCS conferences.

Steve specialises in the assessment, design, build and implementation of IT Operating Models, using frameworks such as Service Management (ITSM) and Service Integration & Management (SIAM), to support organisations optimise their technology teams, improve processes and manage complex multi-vendor eco-systems. 

Steph’s experience spans the Telecommunications, Science, and Manufacturing industries both in the UK and internationally.  This experience of learning from frameworks and methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma, has broadened Steph’s knowledge of shared value and good practices amongst a trusted, reliable, and diverse network.   Steph has first-hand experience from new business ventures to well-established large organizations at various stages of their journey and is passionate about building thriving communities. 

Steph understands the benefits that an involved and supportive SIAM community can bring, enabling sharing of invaluable knowledge and good practices to help individuals and organizations gain maximum value end to end.  Steph is the Community Manager for SIAM at Scopism. 

Brian is a director at Anglepoint and has over 17 years experience in the ITAM industry. 

He joined Anglepoint in 2021 with a background in leading teams to design, build and transform successful SAM practices. He has a keen interest in the growing dependency for sound software management to support a secure, cloud centric distributed workforce.​