UCISA23 Leadership Conference

John Hemingway was appointed as CIO of Durham University in 2019. At Durham, John has dual responsibility for strategic direction and oversight of digital services, alongside directing the core information services provider and co-ordinating other providers (e.g. Durham has an advanced Computing Group, which manage high performance computing)

John has led King’s approach to operating models and frameworks to professionalise IT. This has been key to our transformation and journey towards service excellence. Now BTS and HERM are here, King’s no longer “build our own” but we adopt frameworks supporting collaboration and accelerated service excellence within King’s and across the HE sector.

Rob O'Donohue is a Senior Director, Analyst in Gartner's Executive Leadership Research Group focusing on Leadership, Culture, Talent, and DEI. Here, he advises Executives on Future of Work topics, hybrid work design, culture change, solving talent challenges, advancing leadership effectiveness, how to create of high performing teams, and enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organization.
Rob creates evidence-based actionable research to empower Executive Leaders lead more effectively and is the research lead on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Executive Leaders.
Rob also runs workshops and client briefings covering Future of Work concepts, overcoming talent challenges, culture, leadership, how to avoid common DEI mistakes, and coaching effectiveness. He holds is a certified Executive Coaching with the ICF and uses his experience to help leaders think differently.

With decades of international experience in higher education, financial services, e-commerce and defense, Brian has a track record for conceptualizing, delivering and transforming business and IT growth strategies, new business models and end-to-end operations using digital solutions and technology platforms. Brian’s strategy-first approach sets the direction for our overall product and architecture and the way we define, develop, manage and deliver our products.

Peter brings over 15 years of experience at large government and private software development companies. As an experienced IT leader, he is passionate about building relationships, solving real-world problems and delivering quality outcomes for clients. At CourseLoop, Peter is responsible for leading successful implementations for our clients.

Dave Wright is ServiceNow's chief innovation officer. He's helped thousands of organizations implement technologies that create efficiencies, streamline business processes, and reduce costs while creating excellent employee and customer experiences. Prior to joining ServiceNow in 2011, Dave spent more than six years at VMware as vice president of technical services for EMEA. From 2003 to 2005, he headed the technical division for Northern and Southern Europe at Mercury Interactive. Prior to that, he spent six years at Peregrine Systems, where he held a variety of senior technical and marketing positions.