The Lasa European Not-For Profit Technology Conference
Will The Cloud Save The Sector? Opportunities for Efficiencies and Innovation
The Garden Museum,London,28 and 29 September 2010
This conference followed on from last year’s discussions on surviving in tough economic time. With the recent announcements of 25% budget cuts (or more…) the not-for-profit sector will need to look at innovative technologies to help with the bottom line. There has been more and more emphasis on cloud technologies for contact management,document storage,collaboration,distributed working,media and networking. Is this the future? Or just a flash in the pan?
Following introductions a lively debate took place on what the cloud means for the organisations we support.
We ran formal breakout sessions on:
- Social tools in the cloud
- Change Management –how do you do to prepare for outsourcing
- Supporting distributed organisations and homeworker
- Data protection
- Learning in the cloud
- Telephony and the cloud
- CiviCRM
Leading cloud service providers and advocates took part in a panel discussion on current and future trends in cloud services. Participants were:
- Robert Epstein,Head of Small Business Sales &Marketing,Microsoft (UK) Ltd
- Richard Ferriman,Chief Executive,appiChar
- John Easton,UK &Ireland Cloud Computing Technical Leader,IBM
- Isabel Kelly,International Director,Salesforce.com Foundation
This year we introduced an “unconference”hour in the first day afternoon where eight participants ran informal sessions related to the theme of the conference.
Get the conference report
A compilation of the debate,discussion and session notes taken by Lasa staff and showcase session facilitators is available for download (pdf 258Kb).
Presentations have been uploaded to Slideshare and can be seen at www.slideshare.net/ukriders but are individually referenced in the report.
Photos of the event can be seen on Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/ukriders
The Twitter hashtag used for the event was #euronfptechconf
Contact us
Email riderconference@lasa.org.uk
Roll the credits
Our thanks to appiChar and CTX for supporting this year’s conference. The Conference is also supported by the Big Lottery as part of Lasa’s Circuit Rider Development and ICT Learning Programme .
