Information Governance

Morning Keynote: The Future of Information Governance – Protecting and Sharing Information

• The ICO’s new powers to impose monetary penalties and increased audit powers
  
• Compliance with Data Sharing Code of Practice
  
• Ensuring information is handled legally, securely, efficiently and effectively
  
• Information governance – understanding the inherent threat
  
• What does good information governance look like?
  
• Enforcing the revised Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR)
  
• Potential impact of changes to FOI Act and what this will mean for the public sector information governance
  
• Future challenges and changes
  

                                                                                                                                                         
Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office (CONFIRMED)

Open Data: Implications for Information Governance

• Importance of good quality information and data
  
• Turning information into assets
  
• An independent guardian of public sector information?
  
• Investing in skills to manage and use data
  

                                                                                                                                                     
Guy Daines, Head of Policy, CILIP and Chairman, EURIM Quality of Information Sub-Group (CONFIRMED)

Mitigating Risks: Information Assurance and Information Sharing

• Identifying information risks and how to reduce them
  
• Determining where information is held for the purposes of
  freedom of information
  
• Establishing procedures to dispose of redundant or inaccurate
  Information
  
• Assessing what information should be accessible and who has
  responsibility for it
• Improving information and record management using existing tools
  
• Integrating responsibilities for information management
  
• Delivering public confidence in information sharing
  
• Examples of good information and record management
  

                                                                                                                                                     
Clare Cowling, Information and Records Manager, General Counsel, Transport for London, Transport for London (CONFIRMED)

The Future of Freedom of Information in the UK

• Extending the scope of the Freedom of Information Act to provide greater transparency
  
• Potential impact of changes to FOI Act and what this will mean for the public sector
  
• Meeting the transparency challenge
                                                                                                                          

Dr Ben Worthy, Research Associate, School of Public Policy, University College London (CONFIRMED)

Case Study: Delivering Information Governance and Compliance as a Shared Service

• Information assurance in the age of shared services
  
• Overcoming the governance challenge to sharing services
  
• Delivering a shared service that protects data from the risks caused by changing and obsolete technologies
  
• Achieving efficiency savings: cutting annual IT costs by £2m through moving to a shared services model
  
• Working with the private sector to achieve information governance and compliance
  
• Joining up business processes and securing information sharing agreements
  
• Best practice                                                                                                     

Dave Thomas, Information Security Officer, London Borough of Havering (CONFIRMED)

Information Governance in the Cloud

• CC and effective information governance and assurance
  
• Benefits and challenges in the cloud
  
• Preparing, managing and operating from a governance and information assurance perspective
  
• “VAPOUR” in the Cloud: value, alignment and assurance in a risk and performance context
  
• Public and private perspectives
                                                                                                                          

Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher, Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University (CONFIRMED)

The Increasing Threat Landscape and Best Practices for Endpoint Security

• Increased complexity of today's endpoint environments
  
• Agent pollution and increased complexities associated with managing multiple point solutions
  
• Patch management is no longer just a Microsoft problem
  
• Traditional signature based Av solutions struggling to keep up
  
• How can application whitelisting help?
  
• Approaches to Data leakage prevention
  
• Reduced complexity with defence in depth from Lumension
                                                                                                                          

Rob Kelsall, Director, Technical Services, Lumension (CONFIRMED)

Afternoon Keynote: Information Governance and Confidentiality in Health and Social Care

• What are the issues with building information governance for personal health information?
  
• Managing and sharing patient and service user identifiable data
  
• Care Record Guarantee – access and embedded at local level
  
• Establishing a culture that understands the importance of information and the importance of effective information governance
  
• Information exchange – helping professionals deliver higher quality care
  
• Finding the balance between access and security
  
• Improving healthcare outcomes and maximising the benefits that can be gained from high quality information and modern information technologies
  
• Feasibility of enabling patients to know who has accessed their data
  

                                                                                                                                                    
Karen Thomson, Information Governance Lead, The National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care (NIGB) (CONFIRMED)

The Importance of Good Information: Ensuring Quality and Integrity

• A Question of Balance: Independent Assurance of Information Governance Returns guidance
  
• Ensuring a common approach to information governance audits
  
• Integration and embedding data quality into organisational practice
  
• Improving the evidence base: the cost of poor quality data
  
• Assuring IG Toolkit Assessments - Assessments of assurance arrangements and accuracy of data
  
• The use of information, trust and transparency                                     

Phil Walker, Head of Information Governance Policy, Informatics Directorate, Department of Health (CONFIRMED)

Information Governance in Practice: A View from A Caldicott Guardian

• The role of the Caldicott Guardians: Ensuring patient confidentiality
  
• Enabling appropriate information-sharing: assessing when it is appropriate
  
• Clinical Risks vs Information risks
  
• Lessons learned for other sectors
  
• The future role of Caldicott Guardians
  

David Riley, Information Governance Manager and Caldicott Guardian, Royal Borough of Greenwich (CONFIRMED)

Closing Keynote: Future Trends and Directions in Information Governance and Management

• Improving management of information as a valuable asset,
  
• Ensuring information is protected, accessible where appropriate and used effectively to inform decision-making
  
• The importance of the Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) function
  
• Raising core skills in managing knowledge and information across government
  
• Encouraging greater transparency in information management
  Involving the public in the scrutiny and use of data
  
• Keeping government in the digital era
  

Oliver Morley, Chief Executive, The National Archives (CONFIRMED)