2. The Future: DtF 2015 Preview Dr Andrew Tuson Director of Student Recruitment, School of Informatics The City University, London

3. IT: In ‘Perpetual Becoming’? The professional narrative is changing… Was: technical services Now: business services Web services an example –Worth $11bn worldwide by 2008 What is the next reinvention?

4. Dependable Socio-Technical Systems Increasing user expectations Systems must ‘just work’ Usability no longer an ‘add-on’ Fundamental change in software development: –Now: ‘specify-then-develop’ –Then: ‘find-then-integrate’ Intergenerational issues?

5. Social Ubiquity Happening now –Web 2.0 is just the beginning –E-democracy Civil society: networked community governance Digital media joins creative mainstream Rise of ‘computational thinking’?

6. The IT Business in 2015 Underlying theme of IT helping make sense of a complex world Technology will no longer be the main driver. In 2015, will the IT industry be in the ‘people business’? Skills key to realising this future