PICTFOR

• Parliamentary “Twitter Teach-in” and Awards Ceremony to be held Weds. 12th June at 5.00pm, Portcullis House
• Steve Summers, UK Partnerships at Twitter, to lead Parliamentary “Twitter Teach-in”
• Paul Waugh, Editor of PoliticsHome, to serve as Master of Ceremonies

We are delighted that Make IT Happy, the annual primary schools competition delivered by e-skills UK and PICTFOR with support from the IET and Nominet Trust, has been awarded first runner-up prize in the CyberSmart Awards 2013.

e are delighted to confirm that Charles Roxburgh, Director General, Financial Services at Her Majesty’s Treasury, will be joining the PICTFOR cybersecurity panel on Tuesday the 23rd April.

Edging even closer to PICTFOR’s event on cybersecurity, we are glad to present our fourth speaker, Paul Martin, Parliamentary Security Director.

As we get one week closer to PICTFOR’s event on cyber security, we introduce out third speaker, Andrew Little, Head of Partnerships and Public Policy at GetSafeOnline, to address the consumer protection side of the issue.

Second in line of our speaker profiles for the PICTFOR event on Cybersecurity on April 23rd, this week we take the Business approach. Introducing George Quigley, Partner at BDO and incoming Chairman of the ICAEW IT Faculty.

Meet our first speaker at the 23rd April Cybersecurity briefing in Parliament.
- Cath Goulding currently works as Head of Information Security for Nominet UK, a not for profit company running the Internet Registry Service for .uk. Cath comes with a strong background in cyber security, having also held a variety of relevant positions for 10 years at GCHQ, in areas as diverse as in Intelligence analysis, Intrusion Detection research and Data Mining research. (read more)

– Greatest ever number of early registrations for the competition
– 597 schools already registered
– Registrations span schools across 241 parliamentary constituencies

PICTFOR is delighted to announce its next event, Tuesday the 23rd of April, on cybersecurity.

– PICTFOR Co-Chairs Chi Onwurah MP and Stephen Mosley MP led proceedings in Westminster Hall

– Panel speakers included Rory Stewart MP and representatives from BT, EE, Vodafone, B4RN and Gigaclear

– Issues discussed included infrastructure competition, planning regulations, superfast speeds and the digital divide