Date: Wednesday 21 Oct 2015
Time: 18:00 – Refereshments from 18.00 for a 18.30 AGM start – talk starting 19.00
Speaker: Mark Pickering, – Director of Development (retd), Warwick Manufacturing Group
Location: Main IMC Auditorium (002) – IMC block – University of Warwick
Abstract:Mark Pickering recently took early retirement from WMG, and has been devoting himself to a project that gets older folk online. He gets them skyping each other, managing electricity, etc all online. Mark will briefly introduce himself and will then discuss
- The Aims of the organisation (emphasising Loneliness and cost)
- Investigating/identifying the need
- Designing the solution
- Building the partnerships
- Getting resources
- Launching & Running the programme
- Feedback, responses, findings
- Developing the solution and reach,
to finish he’ll throw the meeting open to questions, comments and discussion.
Mark’s Slides: Neighbours_OnLine_MarkPickering