July Birmingham Digital & DevOps Meetup (Virtual)

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The virtual session will run using MS Teams.
The link is provided within this page.
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This session will be on the theme of projects delivered in Covid and their challenges. We have Talend joining us to share their experiences so please do sign up!

18:00 - Arrival

18:05 - How Capgemini worked as ‘OneTeam’ with HMRC
Wind back to late - February 2020. We sensed the world was about to change, but didn’t quite understand when or how.
By mid-March it was becoming clear, and as the UK approached lockdown on March 23rd 2020 Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) asked Capgemini to help them deliver nationally critical support to the UK economy.
Her Majesty's Government (HMG) launched two flagship programmes: the Job Retention Scheme and the Self Employed Income Support Service. In this talk I’ll tell the story of the early days and weeks of the pandemic from the view of these critical programmes, and later the Eat Out To Help Out scheme, and describe how Capgemini worked as ‘OneTeam’ with HMRC and their ecosystem to deliver in a time of national crisis.

Dr Michael Osborne, Architecture Director @ Capgemini.
Michael is a leader in Capgemini’s UK architecture practice with over 20 years of experience focussed on Digital lead transformation. His experience covers the entire lifecycle with roles ranging from dedicated engagements within client teams, software development and architecture through to proposition development & sales, and management of large technical teams (10-50-100+).
Michael is an architect that is passionate about business and technology alignment, applying technology in innovative ways that enable our clients to transform.
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/michael-osborne-215848
@MikeyOsb

18:40 - Insight from Talend:
During the Pandemic, it was not only working practices that changed but also the way companies used data. New challenges meant data teams had to become more creative.
Join Talend as they share three stories about how they worked with organisations facing unique challenges and innovations born out of necessity.

Learn how HMRC had to deal with the demands of Brexit and import/export reporting whilst also facilitating financial relief for companies and individuals.
The hospitality business was tricky enough before COVID-19 arrived, but the Pandemic forced Stonegate to rethink its core business and operational models fundamentally.
Learn how Stonegate found and unlocked the power of their data and how SNCF used their data to keep running effectively and their passengers safe.

Bio
Antony Elliott is the Regional Vice President of Enterprise Sales for EMEA North at Talend. In his role, Elliott assumes leadership of the company’s sales development and growth within the enterprise market across the UK, Ireland, Nordics and the Netherlands.
Elliott has over fifteen years of tech, business travel and financial industry experience, nine of which were in a sales and leadership position. He was most recently with SAP, where he managed the growth and direction of sales, partnerships and customers relationships with strategic accounts across all of EMEA.

19:20 - Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS):
How Capgemini & HMRC reacted quickly and effectively in the face of a global pandemic to deliver Digital µServices responsible for paying out over £75billion worth of support to UK Businesses and Employees. Implementing effective working practices, the Architectural & Engineering approach for maximum availability *(24/7 no planned downtime),*building scalable Scala/Play µservices to cope with 65million HTTP request per week, maximising automation with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines, reacting to an ever changing landscape and policy outlook throughout the lockdowns.

Matt Callahan-Page | Tech Lead @ Capgemini
Matt is a Technical Lead (Lead Engineer) within the Digital Delivery Centre at Capgemini. He’s spent the last 6+ years building scalable open source Scala/Play µServices on HMRC’s Multi-Channel Digital Tax Platform (MDTP); most recently, leading the Digital delivery of the Job Retention Scheme (Furlough) as part of the UK Governments response to the global pandemic.
Matt has 13 years of Software Engineering experience across a number of technology stacks primarily working with the Public Sector. He’s a strong advocate for User-Centred design for services, Test/Business Driven Development and automation with Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjcallahanpage/
https://github.com/mjcallahanpage

20:00 - Close
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