In less than six months, the world has changed beyond recognition. Homeworking is the new norm – certainly in the short-term. With such a high percentage of people working from home, improving the collaboration of your workforce is likely to be one of your top priorities.

Our cloud collaboration services let you deliver a more connected, visual workspace where everyone can get access to the latest collaboration tools – IM, presence, desktop sharing, video or team spaces – making decision-making quicker and working easier. No matter where your people are. 

Our approach to migration means that multiple technologies, legacy systems, and varied infrastructure can be easily managed to create a single, seamless, secure global structure that optimises your operations. 

We can help you connect smoothly and securely to the collaboration applications, data and third-party cloud providers you need globally, including Microsoft and Cisco. And we’ve got a wealth of knowledge and expertise from defending our own network and corporate assets to help you secure yours.

Our innovative commercial models mean you can manage your costs as users migrate to new platforms. A single global price per user allows you to predict costs and you can flex up and down on users, so you only pay for what you use. This means you can realise and demonstrate return on investment more quickly, allowing a clearer view of the value and a stronger business case for future transformation. And that’s really important right now.

Coronavirus completely transformed the way organisations enable their workforces. The pandemic has accelerated the shift to creating an effective digital office and utilising collaboration tools, with video meeting usage increasing more than 300%. As many organisations continue to rely heavily on remote working, they face the challenge of how to provide an engaging, effective and productive meeting experience for their workforces. 

Join us as we explore the trends, insights and expertise behind enabling a brilliant remote meeting experience.

Speakers:
- Dr Nicola Millard, Principal innovation partner, BT
- Binita Jilka, Senior manager, User adoption, BT 
- Chris Moss, Vice president & sales CTO, Poly
- Karl Evans, Senior specialist, Digital workplace, BT (host)

Do more brilliant remote meetings - and less time on mute

Is your office ready for the future? As the new workplace emerges, you’ll need to combine more agile remote and home working with a safer approach for those returning to the corporate space. All with inherent flexibility to deal with whatever happens next. Join BT and Cisco to explore how you can make this happen:
- connecting your teams, no matter where they are working 
- creating resilience through a more responsive infrastructure 
- securing your new world approach
- the questions you need to be asking to ensure you’re making the right infrastructure choices to support this.

Speakers:
- Dr Nicola Millard, Principal innovation partner at BT
- Dom Elliot, Segment leader service provider EMEAR at Cisco
- Rehana Smith, Senior manager, Edge Solutions at BT

How to create a connected, secure office, ready for your return

Coronavirus has dramatically changed working lives, and with it the attitudes and methods of collaborating beyond the office. What does this mean for global organisations?

We’ve partnered with Cisco to research how businesses can make the most of these changes. Over 800 business executives and 400 IT decision-makers took part and shared their views on the future of collaboration. Interestingly we found: 
•	on average, a person now uses 3.5 collaboration tools (30% using six tools each)
•	85% of business executives want a better way of integrating different collaboration tools
•	three in four IT decision-makers suggest security is more important than user experience
Using the findings we’ve identified six priority building blocks which businesses should consider as they transition to a new working environment. 
Join us on 8 Dec to explore these building blocks.

Speakers:
Andrew Small, director, digital solutions, BT
Dominic Elliott, CTO service provider, Northern Europe, Cisco
Dr Nicola Millard, principal innovation partner, BT
Ruth Holland, Digital Workplace Marketing lead, BT

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