Gavin Pearson - iCore Inaugural Workshop Speaker
Gavin Pearson has worked in the Defence Information Systems field for almost 30 years.
He has worked broadly across the field from sensors systems to information systems to intelligence;
taking a systems approach to these areas. For the last 9 years, he has been one of the UK Government
Technical Area Leads for the joint UK/US Network and Information Science (NIS) International Technology Alliance
(ITA) (https://www.usukitacs.com/). This programme, which has 24 academic and industrial partners, is
developing the fundamental underpinnings of network & information science to enhance UK and US capabilities
to conduct coalition warfare.
Talk Title: "A Defence S&T viewpoint on Information and Communications research challenges"
Abstract: The talk will cover three main topics:
a) The broad S&T landscape with a particular focus on the Socio-Technical Information System landscape;
b) An Information Systems challenge framework which results from taking a system view of the development landscape;
c) A (partial) set of core issues and challenges.
During the talk I will discuss how the Defence context differs from, or is analogous to, the wider world of Socio-Technical
Information Systems.