Conference

BCS HQ, London

This Conference, jointly run by the British Computer Society Configuration Management Specialist Group (BCS CMSG)and the itSMF will be held on the 8 June 2010 at the BCS HQ in central London.

This is the third joint conference run by BCS CMSG and the itSMF UK.

The premier UK event on Change, Release and Configuration Management for ITIL and Service Management.

The main Conference objectives are to share experiences in how to prepare for the recovery with a strong foundation in Change, Configuration and Release Management.

The Conference will bring together managers and practitioners working across the service lifecycle (which incorporates the application lifecycle) together in an open forum.

We are looking for presentations by practitioners to cover a wide variety of topics and encourage the cross fertilisation of ideas between practitioners, vendors and users of the CCRM processes, solutions and tools.

Benefits

The Conference and workshops will provide a unique opportunity to learn from practical experience and how to better communicate the benefits and value of managing your CCRM processes.

Interactive sessions

This conference will encourage dynamic interaction, brainstorming and discussion between users, practitioners and the vendor community in an independent forum. The knowledge gained from the workshops will create a shared understanding of today’s challenges, strategies to cope with these challenges and future needs.

Conference themes

• Preparing for rapid changes (and more changes)

• Optimising services

• Identifying missing essentials (assessment and gap analysis)

• identifying the gaps (process/data/understanding)

• Emerging from tough times

Venue

BCS HQ at 5 Southampton St, in central London (just off the Strand).

Conference Programme

The Conference programme will consist of plenary, parallel and interactive workshop sessions, panel discussions, vendor exhibition, and networking opportunities.

Submissions should be relevant to the Conference themes. Particularly interest will be shown to potential speakers sharing their own experiences.

Submitting papers for the Conference – by 31st January 2010

If you are interested please submit a proposal for a paper/presentation and include sufficient detail to make the audience, meaning and value of the session clear. Please complete a speaker form and one of the proposal forms.

• Template for Speaker Form and a separate picture attachment
• Template for Proposal for Presentation (45 mins)
• Template for Proposal for Interactive Session (2 presentations of 15 mins and interactive time)

Please include your name as part of any filename (e.g. "John Smith Proposal-for-Presentation-CMSG-itSMF-conference-2010.doc") - points will be deducted for bad configuration identification and bad naming conventions!

All works submitted will be assigned to three committee members for peer review. The results of this review will determine whether a work will be accepted for presentation.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by end of February, 2010. Authors retain the copyright to all submitted work and, by submitting, grant permission for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

Materials should be submitted electronically to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadlines and Key dates

31 January 2010 Final submission deadline. Interactive session and workshop proposals due.

28 February 2010 Notification of acceptance.

30 April 2010 Submission date for accepted papers and presentations