Sharing knowledge is of second nature for academics but knowledge is often carefully guarded by individuals in business. CSC, a global IT services company, has recognised that sharing our corporate knowledge is vital in an industry where prowess in innovation is crucial.

The presentation will touch on some of the cultural, organisational and technical issues that CSC has addressed over the past five years to realise a culture of knowledge sharing within business communities and global specialist communities There will be a short demonstration of some of the technology supporting the shift from hoarding knowledge to sharing knowledge.

Matthew Doucy Associate Director CSC Computer Sciences Corp - Chief Knowledge Officer CSC UK Division - responsible for providing leadership, strategy development and implementation of Knowledge Management solution to support CSC's UK Divisions Business Objectives. Global Knowledge Community Architect - responsible for developing and shaping CSC's Global Knowledge Community Strategy both within the organisation and with major outsourcing partners and clients. Currently working with a number of UK based and global clients providing Knowledge Management Strategy and Architecture consulting.

Previous roles include - European E-Business Knowledge Manager - responsible for providing leadership, strategy development and implementation of solution to support CSC Europe's E-Business Division. UK Consulting Knowledge Manager- developed strategy for implementation and secured Executive sponsorship for UK deployment of Knowledge Management within CSC's Consulting division - over 4 years practical experience in KM.

Interactive Digital TV (iDTV) has arrived and is already installed in 30% of UK homes. Projections suggest that it will be in 95% of homes within a decade and will overtake home PC Internet use long before that, giving the mass market access to the Web.

The presentation will look at the role of iDTV in financial services and some of the key issues in the take-up. It will also look at how iDTV will work with traditional channels to market and other emerging channels (mobile phone and PDA).

Peter has worked for over 25 years in various areas of IT within the Met Office.

He will describe what the Met Office does, it's customers' needs, the computational techniques and machinery behind a weather forecast, and the telecommunications links that make it all happen.

Prof. Heinz Wolff has over 40 years experience in giving public lectures, TV and Radio programmes, many with the objective of making engineering and science comprehensible and exciting. A degree of "clowning" is often very useful, in order to render some important piece of information memorable. As is Christmas, material will be presented, in Multimedia form of course, culled from the past, some of which may even prove amusing!

Whilst companies selling point solutions are good at describing the particular threat against that which they are targeted. a consolidated view of the overall threat picture is rarely adequately depicted.

The presentation will describe the various threat areas ranging from individual hackers, through commercial electronic espionage to state sponsored commercial espionage. The expanding utilization of IT by organised crime will also be covered. Given the increasingly sophisticated nature of tools available to attack IT systems, pointers to the future of IT protection will be extrapolated.

Local Authorities must be able to deliver all services on line by 2005 (known as the e-gov programme). Our plans for implementing e-gov seek to improve access and enhance the quality and cost effectiveness of service provision by

• improving the communications network throughout Oxfordshire
• increasing the number of public service access points to the web
• developing a contact centre
• making services available 'on line' on the Internet
• helping the local authority to take advantage of new technology applications relating to:
• buying on line
• training on line
• management information systems
• e-learning
• improving partnership working
• ensuring services are available for all (avoiding the potential 'digital divide' ).

David was previously in charge of the County Council's Trading Standards Service - a service which won several quality awards. His role as E-Gov Advisor emphasises the importance the local authority places on ensuring the changes are customer focused for the benefit of service users.

The claim that the Internet cannot be regulated is wrong. The degree to which it can be regulated depends on the way it is programmed or structured. i.e. its built environment.

The three features of the Net that make it difficult to control behaviour are:

1. Users are not always identifiable
2. Data can not always be classified
3. Hence data access can not always be controlled

This is a nuisance for regulators but just because perfect control is not possible does not mean effective control is not possible...

Didcot A Power Station is a 2000MW dual-fired power station owned and operated by Innogy plc.

The tour begins with a brief introductory talk on power generation at Didcot. A short video "Welcome to Didcot" is shown followed by the site tour which includes a visit to the coal plant, boiler house, turbine hall and control room.