London Regional ICT Champion

Calling London Riders

If you’re an accidental techie, a circuit rider or someone who supports the ICT of voluntary sector organisations in London  – this is the network event for you to connect with others in the field.  It’s FREE and everyone’s welcome – but please confirm your place at http://londonriders.eventbrite.com to give us an idea of numbers, etc.

**What’s On**
Following suggestions from London riders we’re looking at databases / CRMs with our presenters giving us some insight into why these tools were selected, collaboration, migration, project roll-out, successes, and lessons learned for successful technology projects.

* CiviCRM – Michael Mc Andrew (Westminster CVS)
* Salesforce – Nicole Aebi-Moyo (BOND)
* How (and how not!) to run open source -based systems procurement – John Davies (IT4Communities)

Mike Veitch will also be giving us a demo of Tech Book and how it can help organisations better manage their ICT resources.

* My Tech Book – Mike Veitch (HAVS)

The good folks at Lasa will be updating London’s rider community with:

* Circuit Rider standards and skills guide – Ian Runeckles
* Lasa’s ‘Building Bridges to ICT Excellence’ project – Ian Goodman

And lastly, there’s time at the end for you to share with us your ICT project or wish list for next time.

**Book Your Place**
3-5pm Wednesday 24 September 2008
Community Action Southwark, 8th Floor, Hannibal House, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6TE

Google map of venue.
Please confirm your place at http://londonriders.eventbrite.com

**Transport**
Tube: Elephant & Castle (Bakerloo & Northern)
Train: Elephant & Castle (Thameslink)

If you know of colleagues who’d also be interested in coming along – please pass this invite on to them.

We’ll also be blogging the forum, so follow the latest here: http://www.lasa.org.uk/ictchampion/

**Anything else?**
As with the previous network event, we’ll be continuing the networking at a local hostelry, so please join us afterwards.

See you all there!