Mint Factory just came back from today’s conference “Innovation and e-Business for Wales Roadshow 2010” that took place in Technium CAST, Bangor, North Wales. This initiative is run by Welsh Assembly Government along with partners like Flexible Support for Business, CISCO, FiberSpeed, Microsoft, Symantec, e-Crime Wales, Carrier Wales and more.

This event has been focused on the future of e-Business, Social Networking, Collaboration as well as threats and opportunities that new technologies can bring to small and medium businesses.

Main Topics:

Morning Session (part 1):

1. Real Business Video Case Study – nomad
2. Business Innovation - Wendy Boddington, Senior Innovation Manager . Welsh Assembly Government
3. How to be ‘entrepreneurial’ – Mike Southon
4. e-Crime Wales – Andrea Barnard, e-Crime Wales Business Liaison Officer, Dyfed Powys Police
5. e-Business – Bethan King, Project & QA Manager, ICT Diagnostic Service, Welsh Assembly Government
6. Digitally Networked Businesses – Keri Anne-Davies, DNB Project Manager, Welsh Assembly Government

Morning Session (part 2)

1. FibreSpeed – Simon Koscinski, Director, Advanced Information Systems
2. FiberSpeed– John Prescott, Carrier Wales
3. Cloud Computing– Richard Osborne – CISCO

Afternoon Session -Workshops

1. e-Crime – Martin Lee, Symantec
2. e-Crime – Anne Jones, Information Commission
3. Cloud Security – Sean Hart, Logicalis
4. e- Business – Mark Riley, Teamwork Technology Services
5. e-Business – Ivor Lewis, Principality Consulting.

I have to say the conference was an excellent event and good place to gain and exchange the latest knowledge on emerging technologies, directions for future of digital systems development, security and many more. In between the lectures there was a Demozone filled with presentations of virtual business environments, data protection, management and privacy, Cloud Computing DNB, communication systems and high speed networks.

CISCO Bus at Technium CAST, 4.03.2010

Another interesting feature was the CISCO Bus. The Cisco Bus is a mobile network centre fitted with the latest data processing, networking and communication systems. This is just a small showcase of the technologies that are opening new horizons for digital environments and virtualization to companies like Mint Factory.

On this occasion I’d like to say thank you to all the speakers who delivered excellent lectures providing us with a great deal of knowledge on the topics mentioned.

I would like to send my special thanks to Mike Southon for an exceptional and encouraging lecture. Thank you Mike.

Mike is an international business speaker, weekly columnist for the Financial Times, entrepreneur mentor and co-author with Chris West of “The Beermat Entrepreneur” series of books. To find out more about Mike Southon visit his website, subscribe and listen what he’s got to say. It’s worth it!

So what is the outcome for Mint Factory?

We have learned today:

• how to provide our clients with better quality of services;
• how to implement or become compatible with the latest technologies that are coming to Mint Factory;
• how to provide higher levels of security for our clients
• and whole lot more

We are going to implement all of above into our services, so new systems we build and work with will comply with the newest standards and trends. New ideas have started to grow already…

Related links

1. Innovation and e-Business for Wales Roadshow 2010
2. Flexible Support for Business
3. Business IT Guide
4. Beermat.biz
5. E-crime Wales
6. Fibre Speed
7. Carrier Wales

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