Thursday 28th April 2011, 4 for 4:30pm start Prodrive, Acorn Way, Wildmere Industrial Estate, Banbury OX16 3ER SOLD OUT Prodrive is one of the world’s largest and most successful motorsport and vehicle technology businesses with annual sales of £100 million and employing more than 500 staff in the UK, India, Australia and China. In… Read more »
Category: Events
Past events at BCS Oxfordshire. For a list of coming events visit our Programme page.
Testing Agile Projects
Dr Stuart Reid FBCS CITP, TSG Thursday 17th February 2011 – 7:00pm Venue: Sophos plc, Abingdon OX14 3YP Agile is quickly becoming the most popular approach to software development, but it is implemented in a wide variety of ways and many ‘agile’ projects forget to include testers in the agile team. This talk… Read more »
Cryptography: From Black Art to Popular Science – Part 2
Professor Fred Piper, University of London Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG Cryptography and Encryption, or the process of hiding secrets as unintelligible codes, has been around for thousands of years. In modern times it has become increasingly familiar, possibly due to the Enigma machine and other coding devices used in the… Read more »
Northampton Branch: IT Skills for the Recovery
Speakers from Large Business, Local Business, Recruitment / HR Agency, University, IT Training provider Skills needed during a recession can differ from those when it’s ‘Business as usual’. Appreciating this difference is essential to surviving in the current climate. We have a new Government which is looking hard at budget cuts and this means redundancies… Read more »
[Event Summary] The Changing Face of Payments
Tim Lambertstock, Payments Consultant, was the speaker at our well-attended January meeting. Tim gave an introduction to payments and payment systems, covering both the UK and international schemes. He went on to describe how this is changing, particularly with initiatives such as the UK Faster Payments scheme and how new entrants – both new banks… Read more »
