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Snap up an early bird ticket for the CW International Conference (CWIC) 2025: Thursday 27th March 2025 Hinxton Hall Conference Centre - FREE to CW Members (from £85 for non-members) https://lnkd.in/eFabZqWw Now in its 16th year, CWIC 2025 explores the theme of Resilience, with a strong focus on the technological aspects including: - Resilience of business processes - Strategic risk management - Robustness of underlying technologies - Impact of technology failure We'll also explore how emerging technologies and digital infrastructure can recover from disruptions and build future safeguards, driven by factors like: - Geopolitical tensions - Climate change - Increasing interconnectedness of critical industries And we'll tackle challenges like balancing long system lifecycles with the risk of obsolescence, managing decentralised systems while ensuring coordinated responses, and using advanced solutions to strengthen preparedness. #Resilience #TechInnovation #RiskManagement #DigitalInfrastructure #FutureReady #CWConference2025 #EmergingTech Michaela Eschbach, Rachel Kerr, Sally F., Robert Oates - Cambridge Consultants, David Bartlett - u-blox, Daniel Clarke - Greater Cambridge Partnership, Seán Keating - Boldyn Networks

Consider hopping in a session for the Toll Insight event tomorrow and listening to the new advancements and changes in the tolling industry. Thought leaders, including MOJO's CEO and Founder, Alexander Fakeri, will be sharing their insights and advancements in our industry! Kalie Lastagarkov Jakovics #tolling #transportation #tolltalk Toll Talk Podcast

I was really pleased to see some of the recommendations I was strongly advocating at the Democratic Business Summit earlier this month included in the summary findings. While I endorse most of them, the ones that most excite me having explored the success of worker buyouts in other countries and how to increase the use of Co-operative Societies for worker buyouts in the UK are : *Explore the potential to follow the success of Italy’s Marcora Law which provides Corporate Tax relief on profits that are paid into a development fund *Set up a review of the potential tax advantages for democratic businesses, including extending the eligibility of current tax reliefs for the EOT model – such as capital gains tax and employee bonus relief – to co-operatives #coops #workercoops #employeeownership

Counting down the days, hours and minutes until PLANC #PLANC2024

Our latest 'Emergency Services Update', authored by Hugh Giles, Alessandra Gettins, Paul McFarlane FRSA and Sunita Raja, provides those involved in delivering #EmergencyServices with a snapshot of the latest developments affecting the sector. Read our latest update here: https://lnkd.in/dcK4ZZcF

Thanks Tom Grever for your excellent help on the MECC agenda and for linking the regional American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) with our Midwest Environmental Compliance Conference. Your ACOEL panel addressing water quantity issues and the legal and practical ramifications is a perfect and quite timely topic for Region 7 — since we straddle the border between water richness and rapidly declining reserves to the west.

The Fingal Business Sentiment Survey is geared towards discovering the biggest challenges facing businesses, and how local business leaders feel about current business conditions. Fingal Chamber uses the results to develop policy and to lobby on your behalf with Fingal County Council, Government and Public Representatives, giving an accurate picture of the current business climate in Fingal. Have your say >> https://lnkd.in/e_pY87Rh

❗ Don’t miss the 2024 On Think Tanks Sector Survey! In last year's survey, 44% of think tanks told us it’s getting harder to operate. Is it getting easier or harder for think tanks to operate? What is the political and funding context think tanks are contending with? What are their biggest challenges? And what do they need to thrive? Each year we capture data from think tanks worldwide to get a sector snapshot. Survey results inform the annual state of the sector report, helping foster dialogue between think tanks, funders and evidence users on how best to drive the sector forward. Let’s drive the sector forward: https://lnkd.in/gCjZSKc8 #ThinkTanks #ThinkTanksMatter #ThinkTankSector

I became a federal employee as a teenager, and stayed one until I retired. The private sector was mysterious to me. Perhaps the single best piece of career advice I got for solving that mystery: Call Adam S. Lee. I knew Adam from his time as a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). I was the local counterpart ATF SAC. Even back then, Adam was a guy who went out of his way to be a great partner, even when he didn’t have to be. His move into the private sector did not change that about him. Adam, now Chief Security Officer for Dominion Energy, could not have been more gracious. He candidly shared his insights, warned me of pitfalls, and offered practical advice for navigating the transition from public service to corporate America. But he did more than just talk. He introduced me to Donald Upson. The depth of Don’s understanding of the intersection of the public and private sectors is impressive. Don had a vision for strengthening the connection between the two that lead him to co-found the Government Business Executive Forum (GBEF). Like Adam, Don did more than just offer insight and advice. He invited me to speak about the future of law enforcement technology at a GBEF event (held at the French Embassy, no less!). (You can see it here: https://lnkd.in/gu5Dzg7W.) Then he invited me to speak at GBEF’s flagship “EDGE” conference about collaborating across jurisdictional boundaries. (You can see that here: https://lnkd.in/gJytDuvj.) That was years ago. Now I’m well into a successful “Chapter 2.” I was together again with Adam and Don this weekend at EDGE25. I still love going to the conference but now I attend on behalf of SoundThinking (formerly ShotSpotter). It’s mission fits perfectly because, as always, the program highlights innovative, cutting-edge public safety and security technology. It hosts influential thought leadership. There is abundant relevant policy discussion on timely and topical issues. And there is the networking. The connections I have made through GBEF are too numerous to name—I’d exhaust LinkedIn’s character limit trying. But they have been productive, lucrative, and enjoyable. (I also appreciate that there is always an unmistakable thread of patriotism woven through the program.) And it doesn’t hurt that the conference is my favorite city. https://lnkd.in/gdHSeUgH If you’ve never heard of GBEF or EDGE before, I hope this post was helpful. But mostly I wrote it to say thanks to two great guys who do more than talk.

Our latest 'Emergency Services Update', authored by Hugh Giles, Alessandra Gettins, Paul McFarlane FRSA and Sunita Raja, provides those involved in delivering #EmergencyServices with a snapshot of the latest developments affecting the sector. Read our latest update here: https://loom.ly/Ndrgtk0