BT DEFENCE
Technology transformation at BT Howard Watson , the Chief Technology Officer for BT , worked very closely together with Cole and his team to drive digital transformation across the company . Now , the company is increasingly looking at how it can go cloudfirst with many products and services , and also explore strategic partnerships in order to deliver cutting-edge technologies .
Another beneficial aspect of the relationship is the research and development labs located at Adastral Park , where they ' re able to develop patents – many of which have recently been placed around Artificial Intelligence as well as the visualisation around AI focused on Cybersecurity .
“ We have people who are worldleading experts , who are invited to speak at conferences around the globe , and to write academic articles around some of these topics ,” says Cole .
“ Now , of course , a lot of this is protected by intellectual property rights , but as a company , we ’ re able to take those technologies and put them into our own internal transformation . The most important thing is to find out how we can use that to partner with our various customers along our vertical segments to actually drive those products and services into their businesses and help them deliver their own digital transformation outputs .
“ So , in the defence context , what we need to do is to work very closely at a defence level with the MoD ’ s Chief Information Officer , as well as with the Single Service Chief Information Officers , regarding their individual and collective transformations , to make sure that we ’ re partnering with them to ensure that they can get the best value for money , the highest productivity and can really be cutting-edge , delivering quicker , faster and cheaper – which I think is what any taxpayer would ask for .”
106 October 2022