Afternoon sessions – Masterclass, The Reform Club and Accenture site visits

Masterclass: Opportunities for safe, self-sovereign digital identity management – facilitating trust and privacy across sectors in a disruptive digital world.

Bunhill Row Room: 2005

Wider Team is a consultancy at the cutting edge of shaping strategies for self-sovereign personal identity data management in healthcare and other sectors. It is a partnership of experts and business consulting leaders influencing new strategies and solutions to address trust and privacy between businesses, services, consumers and citizens.

Michael Shea is co-founder and MD at Wider Team Ltd and The Dingle Group LLC, and founder of the Vienna Digital Identity Event.  Michael has over thirty years of experience in the software and manufacturing industries in roles ranging from engineering to sales and delivery. Michael has led people and organisations in the delivery of solutions to challenging problems on a global stage. He has integrated teams of different cultures with a focus on growth and is advising start-ups and SMEs on business model definition, strategy and organisational culture. He has direct experience with Blockchain and decentralized technologies and Digital Identity (Sovrin Foundation).  He is the Chair of the Self-Sovereign Identity IoT Working Group for the Sovrin Foundation, and IEEE/UL P2933 Clinical IoT WG - Trust & Identity SubGroup Co-Chair.

Damian is co-founder of Wider Team, a consultancy focused on helping organisations leverage high-assurance digital identity to establish digital trust and unlock process, data and business transformation. His 17-year consultancy career includes extensive experience within healthcare and life sciences, logistics, packaging, energy and high-tech manufacturing. A Financial Times-trained former journalist & Economist report author, Damian serves alongside Michael Shea on the Sovrin Foundation’s Self-Sovereign Identity IoT working group.

Damian Glover & Michael Shea

Business Visit - The Reform Club, Pall Mall (25 people maximum)

Address:  104 Pall Mall, St. James's, London SW1Y 5EW

Visit to the Reform Club, one of London’s oldest and most culturally important private member’s clubs. As well as being a lively social community and a place of outstanding architectural importance, the Reform Club is a reminder of the country’s advance towards democracy in the nineteenth century. It was founded in 1836 for the benefit of those Radicals and Whigs pledging support for the Great Reform Act of 1832 who subsequently developed the Club as the political headquarters of the Liberal Party. Today the Reform is politically neutral, yet remains true to its founding principles. In this spirit, it continues to be a place for progressive thinking, social change and the championing of reform.

The visit will begin with a talk by Chris Rofe, the Club’s CEO, where he will discuss how the club has endured change, challenge and historical events from war to pandemic, and the membership business model that helps it endure and play a meaningful role in business and culture. It will continue with a physical and historical tour of the club itself.

Business Visit – The Accenture London Innovation Centre (15 people maximum)

Address:  Accenture's London Innovation Centre, 30 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 3BD

Bring your photo ID for security reasons

Accenture is one of the world’s largest consultancy and business technology integrators, working with companies and sectors to transform their businesses and the experience their customers and employees have, using digital and process innovation.

This visit allows MBAs to see the way they engage with clients in the process of imagining new futures, experiences and services, in their purpose-built innovation centre. This visit is open to students working in all sectors but has some competitive consultancy restrictions on registration.

The Accenture London Innovation Centre Lead: Khalid Hamdan.