Barclays Command Centre is looking to work with those who can build game changing solutions to help shape the future of financial services. They have identified their top four interesting topic areas and want to work with yourselves to help them develop what we need.

This is an opportunity for companies/individuals like yourselves to develop innovative ideas that you can then pitch directly to one of the world’s largest banks. It is a unique opportunity to demonstrate your skills and fast track into a new market.

Not only is it a business opportunity it is also an excellent way to raise your profile.

The Event

The event will be a two day ‘hackathon’ based at Launch22. You will be given four project briefs to choose from which you can work on in teams, as an individual or collaborate with other attendees. At the end of the second day you will have the opportunity to privately pitch your idea to the Barclays Team.

The order of the event is as follows:

Thursday 26th May

9.30am-10.00am – Sign up and registration for event

10.00am-10.30am – Introductions by Barclays & explanation of challenges

10.30am-11.00am – Introductions by Barclays Business Banking Team

11.00am–5pm – Companies are welcome to stay and work on the challenges or go away and work on them. (Barclays staff will be located in Launch22 for the duration to advise and assist if needed)

Friday 27th May

9am-3pm – Companies return to work on the challenges or go away and work on them

3pm-5pm – Individual private presentations back to the Barclays team

5pm – Drinks on the rooftop

The Briefs 

Brief 1 – Callout Tool 

During incidents, we are often slow to engage the relevant support teams. This is due to support teams holding their callout rotas in numerous different locations and on different platforms, making it difficult for the TCC to find them, our tools are difficult to use and cumbersome to setup. We also have no integrated method of “pulling” people into conference calls via the current tools we use that can hold callout rotas. 

We need to engage technical support teams, service managers and business managers (taking into account many of these teams have a rota based callout model). 

Brief 2 – Application Dashboard Monitor 

We have 47 LCD screens designed to hold various monitoring dashboards, all of bespoke design. These are used to monitor the services Barclays offers. Even with 47 screens, there is still not enough space to hold all the dashboards we need. And with this many screens, it is very difficult to actually spot ones that are reporting an issue. We need the ability to reduce the amount of dashboards we need to monitor. 

Problems show up within these 47 screens but with the amount of detail the Command Centre has to monitor critical things can be missed. Creating an overall dashboard almost as a manager for the 47 screens will ensure things aren’t missed.
Brief 3 – Virtual Command Centre – wallboard remote monitoring and severity matrix 

At present, we have a physical dependency on the Command Centre Wallboards – we have to be physically located at Radbroke Hall to view them. 

We need a tool to be able to view the CC Configuration in Real-time remotely. 47 LCD Screens across 9 Workstations (8 Screen Video Cards) – The display is dynamic so the tool needs to also be dynamic. 

2 5×2 Set up

1 9×3 Set up

Needs to be separate from the Locked-Down screen configuration software

Brief 4 – Comanji

Advertisement and use of the Command Centre – Return on Investment. 

The Command Centre has a variety of different methods of advertisement within its 2016 Vision and Strategy. What we’d like to do is bring all of this together under one banner in the form of a Digital offering that explains what the Command Centre is, report on our Major Incidents, launch it’s Academy, add details for new starters plus a few other things. This will then be used to advertise the Command Centre internally and offer advice and guidance about all of it’s offerings.

Who should attend?

The event is open to anybody who would like to get involved. We think those will get the best from the Command Centre Challenge are:

Developers– to explore the data and speak with Barclays technologists

Technologists – to speak to Barclays about their priorities

Anyone else – attendance is not restricted

You can attend as a team, an individual or as a whole company!

There are limited spaces available so confirm your attendance as soon as possible.

What next?

Barclays will invite successful teams to visit the Global Command Centre to pitch and demonstrate their idea and to discuss how you could develop a commercial relationship with Barclays moving forward.

Paul Kennerley (Barclays Command Centre Manager) is located in Launch22 each month and spends time in the Baltic Creative looking for the next big thing in banking or innovative ideas that might be a game changer for Barclays. Whilst also being one of Launch22’s in house mentors.

Eventbrite: Barclays Tech Challenge