Dynamo Board Meeting Minutes

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1 Dynamo Board Meeting Minutes Date & Time: Location: 10 th July pm Accenture, Café on the 3 rd floor, 9c, 5 Quicksilver Way, Cobalt Business Park, NE27 0QQ Attendees: Anne MacDonald, Anthony McMenzie, Hans Moller, Charlie Hoult, Chris Wade, Deni Chambers, Jane Turner, Phil Jackman, Mark Larsen, Matt Oakley, Bob Paton, Simon Roberson, Rebecca Strachan, Neil Hemming, Paul Watson, Minute taking: Sarah Thackray Apologies: David Carroll, Jen Hartley, Graeme Fletcher, Alan English, Alastair Irons, Rob Hamilton, Stu Lynn, Janet Ross, Graham Jordan, John Hunt, Richard Waterhouse, Giselle Stewart, Lindsay Phillips, Keith Dickson, Alison Shaw, Mike O'Brien Board Updates Welcome Hans Moller and Sandra Thompson, EY to the Board Funding update Finance Overview and update Looking positive at the moment. The two major annual events will contribute 30k this year to the Dynamo budget. Action: Sarah will be looking at the update cashflow for 2017 and 2018 will report back at next Board meeting. Cashflow looking positive. 40k in the bank currently. Clusters & Special Interest groups Any updates from clusters and special interest groups. Shared service centres (update from 2017 session at Dynamo): From Steve Attwell In a show of hands only two businesses used or serviced shared service centres (Newcastle Building Society & Sage) A number of attendees were Further Education establishments who were interested in how they feed/support shared service centres addresses and contact details were gathered from attendees and the actions captured will be circulated w/c 10th (see attached flip chart notes) SA to discuss the future of the Shared Services sub-group with Charlie Hoult Who leads it?, How do we target the right businesses/stakeholders? Objectives? Frequency of meeting? Note: We need to find a lead for this cluster Simon at BT has expressed interest in colleagues getting involved.

2 Action: Simon at BT has a colleague who d be happy to lead. Sarah and Charlie with the contact details. Cyber resilience: Update attached from Alastair Irons Action: Anthony and Alastair will update the board further on progress. Digital construction: Update attached from Anne Macdonald. The group have done a SWOT analysis of the region s DC sector and where opps are for the region. Feedback from the group about networking and socialising with the sector. Newcastle College are hosting a business breakfast event in September. Sunderland Software City they are interested in the feedback from the initial work carried out. They are interested in the public sector investment and how that can go further. Notes: Centre for Connected Construction Innovation possibly an event in the Houses of Parliament sponsored by an MP to launch the NE digital construction to politicians and media. October event. Possibly we should hold an industry group event with Tech UK and others pitching the NE sector to others outside the NE. Action: Bob to ask Jacqueline de Rojas if Tech UK would host us for a London based Dynamo event. NE LEP update from Hans. Local Growth Fund 50m of which 45m is going into IAMP in Sunderland. They have allocated 5m to fund proposals to support bids to make the region competitive. 1m for project support fund. Dynamo could put a request for funding in for around 100k to develop a really competitive bid for the International Centre for Digital Construction region. Access to the funding will be available from September. Paul Watson updated on the NICD and the fact that they are looking for involvement from across the sector/academia, not just led by Newcastle University. Different set of skills from across the region to involve. Skills: Update from Bob Paton, Alison Shaw, Graham Jordan Careers event held at Sunderland RTC North. Use that as a catalyst to relaunch the skills group. Talking to Baltic Training about another apprentice hub started September 2017 time. North East Futures UTC Made good progress towards the criteria. Approve the funding to start the construction of the building. Sept 2018 on target to open. Incubator space included. Recruitment for UTC is underway. Use Dynamo employer links to go to employees to tell them about it. Target is year olds. Need to focus on student recruitment. Most important thing is engagement with employers. Bob confirmed that there will be materials to promote the UTC available soon. Note: Strategy is important to think around diversity and how to attract girls into the UTC as it s very difficult to get girls to leave their peer groups at school at 14 and move to a different environment.

3 Mark L he suggests that UTC gets employers together to discuss the marketing to recruit students. Accenture may decide on a strategy of numbers of apprentices that they will take on through the UTC. Bob to feed back to Alison about that opportunity. Phil Jackman updated that through Geek Talent that there are 3,318 vacancies currently in the North East. Collaboration with schools is key for its success too gender balance across Accenture by Good aim for UTC recruitment. Universities and Colleges are teaching the school kids. College and Discovery school working together to help fill the skills/vacancies gap. Newcastle Uni are talking about degree apprenticeships. Linked with Institute of Coding. Events DynamoNets 11 th September Blackfriars restaurant details to follow w/c 17 th July Need to source hosts for Oct-December. Dynamo to host individual Christmas Social this year Date TBC Think Tanks - Next Think tank will run in Sept/Oct and will focus on Cyber, Accenture are sponsoring. ST has ed Accenture team to discuss. - Think Tank on Shared service centres? Nov/Dec? Dynamo 17 Monday 3 rd July. Hosted by Durham University. Sponsorship: 37,050 Del fees: 10,557 Surplus: 15k + (still being finalised, awaiting all final costs) Last year 17k surplus but 49k sponsorship and 11.5k del fees. Action: - Need to look at diversity of speaker line up for 2018 and be aware of gender balance. - Focus on strong keynotes for Venue for 2018 possibly Newcastle University. Sarah has a visit planned for September to the Urban Sciences building at the Science Central site. Dynamo Hack Took place during the conference. We have received great feedback from the delegates about the new addition this year. We hope to publish a new story about the ideas developed and it d be great to find a way we can take the ideas forward to benefit the sector and the wider region. Hack Team led by Mark Norris, Development Manager: Product Delivery (Banking Cloud and FaaS / Shared Services) at Sage with support from Accenture and Capgemini.

4 Dynamites 17 Awards Taking place on 19 th October at Civic Centre, Newcastle. Sponsorship: BT headline Capgemini category (innovator) and table Sage promised category and table Orchard promised category Baltic training reserved programme sponsor Accenture verbally confirmed they will take a category. Potential: NRG Reed Global Invest south tyneside Other leads being followed up from previous years. Categories Innovator of the Year (sponsored by Capgemini) Collaborator of the Year Skills Developer New Business of the year Growth Explosion - High Growth (from 2 to 5 years trading), Established (over 5 years trading) Project of the year Corporate and Public Sector/Not for Profit International Success Story Rising Star Outstanding Achievement (sponsored by BT) Entries We will launch for entries end July and the deadline for entries will be 11 th September. Judging Stu Lynn is chairing the judging panel. Volunteers to date for judging panel - Phil Jackman, Graeme Fletcher, Anne MacDonald, Simon Roberson, Alan English and Anthony McMenzie, Deni Chambers and Becky Strachan. Action: Clare will confirm full details to judges with key judging dates etc to be circulated w/c 17 th July. Judging meeting will be on Tues 26 th September 2-5pm with entries to judge being circulated the day prior. Membership New members: Totalmobile Newcastle Management Systems Stormcast Chris Wilde

5 Hainton Recruitment Lost members: HPE/DXC Technologies Action: Gary Binns, DXC has cancelled their membership. Neil Hemming has agreed to meet him and will update the board. Action: KyKloud get Ed on as members. Clare to him the details. Dynamo Marketing: Website: Due to go live within the next week. Requesting testimonials from previous event attendees, sponsors and members for the website AOB Skills North East Expo Do Dynamo want to be involved? Yes happy to get involved. Some board member organisations already are. Action: Information was circulated to board. Dynamo will tell them we are happy to curate a Dynamo area if it is at no cost to Dynamo Would the Board be happy to publish the board minutes online? Yes they are. Action: Board meeting minutes archive section will be added to the new website. Capgemini event for Prince s Trust Million Maker programme in August. Details below. The programme is an annual entrepreneurial challenge from the Prince s Trust. Teams compete around the country to turn a business plan and small seeding budget, secured from the Trust, into a minimum donation of 10,000, all to help support and inspire young people to transform their lives. Our team s Dragon s Den pitch centred on how we would harness the power of the generosity of people and organisations in the North East to help showcase our region and help more young people than any other team. I would like to invite you to an informal but critically free Drinks and Nibbles evening to which we are aiming to secure attendance from the North East s biggest organisations. The aim of the evening. to use the collective knowledge and capabilities of the North East to brainstorm additional fund raising ideas and importantly recruit your organisation to join us and extend our fund raising reach! Action: Please Richard.Bodsworth@Capgemini.com if you re interested.