Jerry
Fishenden
MPhil BSc
FBCS CITP FRSA FIMIS FIAP
Jerry Fishenden is
Microsoft UK's lead technology advisor, strategist and spokesman. Since being appointed to the role in 2005,
Jerry has been responsible for helping to guide Microsoft's vision for how
technology can transform the way we learn, live, work and play. He plays a
key role in an international team of technology officers who work closely
with
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer. Jerry's
popular blog on
issues of technology and policy can be found at
http://ntouk.com.
Prior to
being recruited by Microsoft in 1997, Jerry worked in some of the UK's most senior
IT positions including as Head of Business Systems for the UK’s chief
financial services regulator in the City of London; as an Officer of the
House of Commons, establishing the Parliamentary data and video Network at
the Houses of Parliament; and as a Director of IT in the National Health
Service (NHS).
As Microsoft UK's senior technology officer, Jerry works closely with key individuals and organisations across the UK, the media, analysts and professional associations, as well as with Microsoft product groups – to help ensure that Microsoft's vision, innovation and future technologies exceed expectations. He also regularly advises overseas governments and organisations on effective ways of using technology to enhance policy and services - and to accelerate innovation enabled by technology.
Jerry draws upon many years of firsthand, senior practical experience envisaging, managing and leading the development, implementation and maintenance of major IT change programmes. This has included work ranging from all aspects of IT staff management and development in both private and public sectors through to the delivery of multi-million pound new systems initiatives impacting millions of users. Amongst other projects, Jerry was the Lead Product Manager for the original development of the UK Government Gateway, an 11 million+ user system that provides the UK Government’s authentication and transaction handling services. He also put the UK Parliament on the Web and led the team that developed the first ever integrated data and video network, and associated services, for the House of Lords and House of Commons.
Jerry is
the author of numerous Microsoft global strategies and Whitepapers, including
A Vision for Parliaments, released as part of the 2007
Government Leaders Forum in Scotland. He was
also responsible for
Government Interoperability: Enabling the Delivery of e-Services
(2005),
Advancing with Technology, A Vision for Local and Regional Government
(2004), and
The Foundation for e-Government Services, presented at the Government
Leaders Conference in Seattle (2002). He is also a co-author of
The
New World of Government Work Whitepaper (2006), which aims to
stimulate discussion on some of the most profound challenges confronting
government and society - that of a global connected world and an ageing
society.
Jerry's
articles appear frequently in numerous mainstream and trade publications. He
has appeared regularly on national television and radio programmes, including BBC
News 24, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5.
Recent public and conference appearances include:
presenting and participating in an expert panel discussion at the NHS Confederation Conference on the topic of 'Spotting Key Innovations';
speaking at the Oxford Internet Institute on 'Convergence and the Internet';
speaking at 'Who do they think we are? Privacy, the State and the Corporation', chaired by the author and journalist Simon Jenkins and with fellow speakers Nick Herbert MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Justice), Henry Porter (novelist and columnist), Simon Davies (Director of Privacy International) and Jill Kirby (Director of the Centre for Policy Studies);
speaking at the launch of 80/20 Thinking;
chairing an expert panel discussion at the UK Innovation Day in central London;
participating in an expert panel on identity, privacy and cybercrime with David Davis MP (Shadow Home Secretary), Damian Green MP (Shadow Minister for Immigration), Gareth Crossman (Liberty) and Simon Chorley (Stop the Traffik);
presenting and participating on the expert panel "Building tomorrow´s world: Information security and e–government" at the Hitachi Inspire event with Phil Willis MP (Chairman of the House of Commons, Innovation, Universities and Skills Committee), Andrew Miller MP and John Suffolk (HMG CIO);
presenting and debating at the Oxford Internet Institute's and Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology's event "Gov 2.0, or Truly Transformative Government", hosted at the House of Commons.
Jerry
provided
the
Keynote at the WorkTech 07
Conference hosted at the British Library, looking at emergent technologies
and their impact on the way we work, live, learn and play. Jerry also
participated in the expert panel on future technologies and their impact on
broadcasting at
Broadcast Live!
at Earls Court; gave the plenary address at the 450th anniversary conference of the
Worshipful Company of Stationers and
Newspaper Makers on the impacts of technology by 2020; provided the plenary Keynote at
BAPCO
2007; presented at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum
in Athens; and won the audience vote at a debate on "fantasy identity
cards" at the Digital ID Forum in London. Jerry also provided the
closing Keynote at
Biometrics 2006 and the Keynote on "technology adoption"
at the NCC's 40th anniversary conference.
Jerry has led Microsoft's evidence to the Houses of Parliament on
numerous occasions - including providing written and oral evidence to the
House of Lords
Science
and Technology Committee inquiry into personal Internet security and the
House of Commons
Science and Technology Committee inquiry
into
scientific advice, risk and evidence and
the extent to which it impacts public policy. He represents Microsoft on a
variety of policy-influencing bodies, including the DTI/Intellect
Grid Computing Now! Advisory Board
(shaping the UK's development of grid computing), the
EURIM
Personal Identity and Data Sharing Subgroups, and the UK's
Knowledge Transfer Network dedicated to Trusted Computing.
Jerry recently participated in horizontal, horizon scanning: technology and learning, as part of a small group of technology innovators looking at the world of 2025 and the role technology would play then in order to inform how we should behave now (sample video here). He sat in an independent capacity on Oxford University's ICT Steering Group (designing the strategy for the next generation federated ICT structure for the Oxford colleges) and was a member of the e-Smart 2006 Scientific Committee, as well as appearing on the expert panel on the future of the smartcard industry. He has also been active in leading Microsoft's Founder membership and activities with the Enterprise Privacy Group. Jerry is an occasional guest lecturer at the London School of Economics, a non-Executive Board Member of Phoenix Arts (helping plan for the new Digital Media Centre to be hosted in Leicester's new Cultural Quarter) and was a judge in the first ever Machinima Festival Europe. He is also sits on the 80/20 Advisory Group. Jerry is a member of the Scientific Committee for e-Smart 2008.
Jerry holds a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to composition from City University (London), from where he also obtained his BSc(Hons). He is a Fellow with Chartered status of the British Computer Society (FBCS CITP), a Fellow of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (FIMIS) and a Fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers (FIAP). He is also a professional Member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. In 2007, Jerry was invited by the Board of Trustees of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce to become a Fellow (FRSA). Jerry is also currently undertaking research into new media composition at the UK's Institute of Creative Technologies.
Jerry is married with one son and in his spare time relaxes by composing music and
enjoying time with his family.
(C) 2004/2008
