It’s been a year since the Cloud Industry Forum was acquired and morphed in to Tech Industry Forum (TIF). For our second year of operation we are doing some things differently. Here’s one of them. To help with our strategic guidance, as well as our fantastic board of directors, we’ve decided to put together an advisory council we’ve called the STAR Group. This group will help influence our direction, what content we should be producing, what research we should undertake, the emerging tech we should focus on, the causes and themes we’ll be championing, and the regulation and policies we should or shouldn’t be supporting. So, STAR stands for Strategy, Advisory, and Research. The first three STARs that have agreed to help us are:
Richard Simon – is a well-known cloud native and open source advocate, who is experienced, respected, versatile, and opinionated! He is CTO of T-Systems, but also a content creator with his Cloud Therapist YouTube channel.
Paul Bevan – who’s background started with the mainframe, and he’s been in the sector through all of the shifts and disruptions to now. He’s both an an experienced IT marketer and a tech analyst, describing himself as poacher turned gamekeeper. Most recently he was a research director for Bloor Research, and we plan to keep him out of full retirement.
Andrew McLean – Tech influencer, producer, broadcaster and Managing Director at Disruptive LIVE, who are our core partner for creating live streams, shows, and virtual events. His technical background includes being co-founder of AppLayer, but he also has a Masters in neuroscience and psychology.
Their in depth experience, varied expertise, and differing technology perspectives combine together to give the strategic input and guidance that we need. They’ve all been made lifetime TIF members too. We hope to announce more members of the group very soon.
For more information use our contact page, or email info@techindustryforum.org