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- Guide Dogs' approach to hybrid work & redesigning the workplace for collaboration and innovation
- Gerard's experience working in IT for Getty Images, including during the FIFA World Cup in South Africa
- How the mindset shift to using video conferencing has made accessing services easier at Guide Dogs
- Gerard's work on data strategy and organizing around a single source of truth
- Accessibility features in iOS
- Guide Dogs' Tech for All program -- Providing every visually impaired child in the UK with iPhone or iPad
- Windows 11 first impressions
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Gerard McGovern is a highly experienced and commercially astute Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer, with over 20 years of managing technology, information governance, digital and transformation in international business. Passionate, innovative and committed to delivering solutions that are always centred on people not technology. Highly experienced in creating, implementing and delivering strategies across a wide range of industries and sectors.
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