Speaker panel

	Colin Cluney is part of the Delivery and Innovation Division of the Department of Finance and Personnel. He has worked for the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) since graduating. Since 2001, he has worked alongside NICS Departmental colleagues in the eGovernment/transformational government arena – originally in the Central IT Unit (NI) and more laterally in his current role. From November 2007, Colin’s work has been focused mainly on covering a range of data protection issues – including managing the two data handling review exercises carried out across the NICS Departments and NDPBs, and the many follow-up activities associated with them.
	Dr Godfrey Gaston is the Director of the newly formed £30M Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), Queen’s University Belfast, based in Titanic Quarter. CSIT aims to create the security infrastructure needed to safeguard the trustworthiness of information stored electronically, both at home and in the workplace. UK funding for this collaboration has been provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), industry partners and Queen’s University.
	Jonathan Holbrook is Head of Data Protection Practice at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), United Kingdom. He has responsibility for making sure that organisations which collect and use personal information about individuals are aware not only of what the law requires of them but also of how they can follow (and benefit from) good practice. Jonathan joined the ICO in 2008. A lawyer by profession, he has experience in both the public and private sectors having previously worked for a large City law firm.
	Trevor Steenson is the Director of Data, Information and Systems in the Land and Property Services Agency with responsibility for data collection, data management and IT systems. Prior to taking up this post Trevor was Director of Operations for Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. During his long career in the Northern Ireland Civil Service he has implemented a number of strategic IT projects and is currently the Senior Information Risk Owner for Land and Property Services. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Forensic Science Northern Ireland.
	Alan Taylor is Managing Partner in Belfast for Arthur Cox Solicitors, which operates throughout Ireland and has offices in London and New York. He is a corporate lawyer advising many of Northern Ireland’s leading businesses. Admitted as a solicitor in 1995, he studied law at the University of Dundee and the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queen’s University Belfast.
	John Ward is a Senior Manager in Accenture’s Dublin Office. John leads the Security Service line within Accenture’s Technology Consulting group which is responsible for advising organizations across six main capability areas: strategy + risk management, data protection and privacy, identity and access management, infrastructure security, enterprise application security and business continuity management. John has spent a significant portion of his career working for Public Sector clients. Having come from a development background John is aware that security is about balancing risk; the risk management approach must be flexible enough to enable business growth, but not too rigid to inhibit business processes.
	Ray Wright is a Deputy Director of the Delivery and Innovation Division with responsibility for Modernisation and Innovation Policy. He is a career civil servant with policy experience in Roads, Water, Housing and Urban Regeneration. In the nineties he was Head of Internal Audit and later Head of the Information Systems Unit in the former DoE(NI). In 2000 he moved to the Central Information Technology Unit, later to become the eGovernment Unit, and then most recently DID in the Department of Finance and Personnel. He has been closely involved in the NICS reform and modernisation programmes, leading the strategy development which ultimately led to the introduction of NIDirect. Information Assurance Policy is one of his key responsibilities.