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Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Dion HinchcliffeFor episode 21 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we'll be talking about the new AI era, how it impacts the future of work, and how CIO's should be dealing with this new challenge, with a well known, well respected, and influential analyst. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Dion Hinchcliffe of Futurum. We'll be discussing how you navigate these rapid shifts, about the impact of AI-driven development platforms, and about what's coming next.
2024-07-0929 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum Presents TWF! Season 2024 episode 20 with Tara HallidayFor episode 20 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we will be talking about people rather than tech. We'll be talking about being successful, and being a high achiever. About good and bad challenges, about psychology and neuroscience. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Imposter Syndrome specialist Tara Halliday, talking about her company Complete Success. She'll explain how she helps leaders and entrepreneurs, and how she wants to eliminate imposter syndrome for good!
2024-06-1414 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Erika JacobiFor episode 19 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are talking about Organisational Design, and adaptive organisational design. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Dr. Erika Jacobi the Founder, President, and Managing Director of LC GLOBAL Consulting, beaming in to us from New York. She’s both an entrepreneur and a recognised expert in adaptive organisation design. She'll explain the experiences which led her to the topic, what it is, why it's important, and how AI changes things.
2024-06-0634 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Dean and Sarah-Jane GrattonFor episode 17 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are talking about the technology topic that will, possibly, make the most significant and fundamental changes to both our business and personal lives since the dawn of the Internet. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Dean Anthony Gratton and Sarah-Jane Gratton, well known tech influencers who have just published their book Playing God with Artificial Intelligence. I'm guessing it will be both controversial, and illuminating.
2024-05-3037 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! 2024 state of the cloud reportFor episode 16 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are focusing on the primary research from Cloud Industry Forum published 13th May. This is our annual "state of the cloud" report. This year it's called "Tough times, but innovation springs internal" with the subtitle of "How cloud is the key technology enabler helping businesses innovate in a turbulent period". Instead of the usual interview, our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will summarise the report and its themes, which highlight cloud's ubiquity, the amazing rate of adoption of GenAI, and the importance of cloud s...2024-05-2013 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Jay PatelFor episode 15 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are getting the Cloud customer perspective. We're talking to someone with in depth experience of enterprise level public cloud adoption and management, from his time at some major well-known brands. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Jay Patel, Head of Public Clouds at Citi, and before that Senior Engineering Manager at Maersk. We'll be understanding his strategy with cloud, how he selects suppliers, how important people and process is over technology, and getting his 2.0 approach to digital transformation.
2024-05-1530 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Fanny BoutonFor episode 14 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are talking to one of our Forum members about an emerging technology that has profound and enormous potential, but needs some explanation to make sense of it. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Fanny Bouton, OVHcloud's Quantum Lead. She'll explain what Quantum Computing is, how it can be applicable to almost any sector, and how it can calculate answers beyond the capability of classical high performance computers.
2024-05-0330 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Nick PowellFor episode 13 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), instead of talking about technology, we'll be exploring the people factors, performance coaching, and leadership needed to get it right. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Nick Powell, who will explain biohacking, his book Limitless, and we'll discuss how his experience as a UK MMA champion and Judo Black Belt influences his approach and thinking.
2024-05-0127 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Duane JacksonFor episode 12 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are talking about cloud, business software, and the startup scene with a serial entrepreneur who has founded, grown, and then sold two successful software as a service businesses. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Duane Jackson who has an inspiring back story, will give us great advice, insights, and experience that he'll relate about the cloud space from before we called it cloud, to now, and what's next.
2024-05-0127 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Emily BarrettFor episode 11 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are talking about all things AI. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing the AI lead for one of our members, Lenovo. Emily Barrett has just started hosting her own AI show with Disruptive Live, which we heartily recommend. We'll talk about her background with high performance computing, her approach as a solution architect, and her practical take on the AI explosion and how to make the most of it for your company.
2024-05-0131 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Dr Joshua StantonFor episode 10 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are talking about the metaverse. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will set the scene with his perspective on why this immersive technology is important, and then he'll interview Dr Joshua Stanton of Disruptive Live explaining their open standards, portable, browser based approach with new platform Spaces Metaverse. Josh will explain the thinking, and show practical use cases.
2024-05-0120 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Georgina OwensFor episode 9 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are talking to someone who has been in the UK CIO 100, and the UK's Top 50 most influential women in IT. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Georgina Owens, the CTO of William Hill. She'll explain how she is digitally transforming a well known, 90 year old brand on the UK High Street. We'll find out about her approach to that transformation, and she'll be giving us great ideas about how you future proof your organisation.
2024-05-0128 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Garfield SmithFor episode 8 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are talking to a law firm which specialises in technology and data. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Garfield Smith. He's the founder and managing director of the firm, and we'll explore legal issues for tech start-ups, larger corporates, all aspects of dealing with data, and how those legal issues are changed by the AI wave that we are all experiencing.
2024-05-0122 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Silvia CambieFor episode 7 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum), we are talking to an AI evangelist and Partner at Wipro Consulting within Talent & Change. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Silvia Cambie. She's a published author, has a journalism background, and is an ex-IBMer .We'll explore the importance of linking AI to your digital and data strategy, and we'll zoom in on some exciting use cases.
2024-05-0119 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! with guest Tony LockFor episode 6 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum) we're talking to a well-known analyst with a deep knowledge of the tech landscape and its history. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Tony Lock of Freeform Dynamics. We'll talk about some of the history, good and bad, in the development of the cloud technology landscape, and see what lessons we learned that might apply to the explosion (and hype) around AI that we're all experiencing since ChatGPT came on the scene 15 months ago. Like David, our guest has direct experience of...2024-05-0127 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Hutton HenryFor episode 5 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum) we're talking to someone who works in the field of mergers and acquisitions in the technology sector. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Hutton Henry who will talk about technology due diligence, his back story, and how he's built up his expertise and approach. We'll ask how he assesses a businesses, what he thinks about the impact of AI, and we'll definitely learn something from his particular viewpoint on what makes a successful tech company.
#growth #startups #coaching #m...2024-02-2115 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Harry BergFor episode 4 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum) we'll be talking about both the tech startup scene, and the explosion in AI technology we are all experiencing, with somebody who connects the two. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Harry Berg, who has already exited two startups, and started his third a few months ago. His new venture Parapet turns global Ivy League graduates into technical founders. We'll get his view on where AI is headed next, and find out more about his community of graduate entrepreneurs.
2024-02-0719 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Professor Sue Black OBEFor episode 3 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum) we'll be talking to one of the World's top 50 women in tech, according to Forbes. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Professor Sue Black OBE about some of her history, how she saved Bletchley Park, how she got in to software engineering, her role as a technology evangelist, her research on bias in AI, and she'll have plenty to say about equality, diversity, and inclusion in our space.
2024-02-0727 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Dr. Ems LordFor episode 2 of the 2024 season of our weekly show, TWF! (Tech Wave Forum) we're coming at technology from the perspective of mathematics. Our host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Dr. Ems Lord, Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and Director of NRICH, the award winning mathematics outreach programme. As well as explaining what NRICH does, we'll be talking about the importance of number sense, problem solving, thinking skills, AI (of course), and women in tech and STEM subjects.
2024-01-1718 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Andrew GrillOur host and CIF CEO David Terrar will be interviewing Andrew Grill who is a former IBM Managing Partner, an in demand keynote speaker, a TEDx presenter, and a technology advisor to major corporations. Andrew is the Actionable Futurist®, so as well as getting his take on how GenAI, mixed reality, quantum computing, 5G, and edge computing will develop, he'll give you some homework - five actions to try straight away to help change your thinking.
2024-01-1020 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! - 2023 In ReviewIn this episode of our weekly show, TWF! - Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar will explain why 2023 has been a pivotal year and the start of a new tech wave. He reviews this year's season of shows, and then gives us his 7 tech trends to watch for 2024. #Cloud #leadership #multicloud #hybridcloud #cloudmigration #mainframe #data #collaboration #GenAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #digitaltransformation
2024-01-1013 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Miguel ClarkeIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar, will discuss his take on Meta's latest announcements of their Quest 3 headset, Ray-Ban Smart glasses, and the collection of AIs that you can access from their various message and chat services. The interview guest is Miguel Clarke, Cybersecurity Evangelist from Armor Defence. He has an ex-FBI agent's perspective on the security and threat landscape that includes applying military thinking to counter the bad actors.
2024-01-1018 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ John HaydenIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar, will be commenting on the things that weren’t covered by the news stories about Google’s 25th birthday. Our guest is John Hayden of Ctrl O, talking about their product Linkspace. It’s a secure, trusted business process management and productivity tool aimed at replacing spreadsheets as databases, or as work around applications. John will talk through how and why customers like the MoD and MoJ are using it.
2024-01-1025 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ George AthannassovIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar, will be commenting on the four Chinese tech companies that launched generative AI, Large Language Model chatbots last week - Baidu, SenseTime, Baichuan Intelligent Technology, and Zhipu AI. The buzz around the AI topic has been with us for 10 months, and it wont be dying down any time soon. Our interview is with George Athannassov, CTO of TAVA Discovery. The product is aimed at knowledge workers giving them a one-stop cloud-based productivity tool to find, organise, store and share information...2024-01-1046 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ David TebbuttIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar, gives his viewpoint on Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter as X.com. He is also joined in the studio by special guest David Tebbutt, who he describes as the best technology writer and editor that he knows He relaunched Personal Computer World back in 1979 and so will share some of his unique perspective on the tech scene. David has just launched The Messagery - a company that helps organisations with the clarity of their strategic messaging. That's something that a...2024-01-1022 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Benjamin EllisIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar will use the news and opinion section to talk about the amazing Sam Altman saga at OpenAI, with him being fired, and then reinstated within 5 day, and particularly the role that Satya Nadella played in the resolution. His interview guest will be Benjamin Ellis, CEO of SocialOptic. They'll talk about the importance of data driven decisions, data visualisation, psychology, and the impact of culture on the bottom line.
#Cloud #communications #data #decisionmaking #planning #healthcare #healthcareinnovation #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #digitaltransformation2024-01-1022 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Mark OsbornIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar, gives you the latest and greatest news on cloud computing. David is also joined in the studio by special guest Mark Osborn of IBM. Mark will tell us all about data, AI and his new team. We'll also discuss this year's ChatGPT/Generative AI explosion and we'll recognise that we are at a pivotal moment in tech. We'll talk about how insanely powerful generative AI tools are, and Mark will touch on use cases his team are working on.
2024-01-1020 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Gregory LebourgIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar will use the news section to explain Cloud Industry Forum’s position on the recently announced Competition and Market Authority’s investigation in to the practices of the dominant cloud players, AWS, Microsoft, and Google. The interview guest is Gregory Lebourg, from CIF member OVHcloud. We'll be having an in depth discussion on the vital topic of Sustainability, and OVHcloud's comprehensive approach to it
2024-01-1025 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Cécile RénierIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar will discuss artificial general intelligence (AGI), that's artificial intelligence that surpasses human intelligence in almost all areas, triggered by Softbank's CEO suggesting, this last week, that it will be here within 10 years. David believes it will be gradual, inevitable, and sooner than you think. The interview guest is Cécile Rénier, Wolters Kluwer's VP Customer Service. She will discuss their approach to customer service, customer engagement, and how they use it as a competitive advantage. She will explain the ch...2024-01-1025 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ R. Michael AndersonIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar will use the news section to give some thoughts on the YK's recent, ground breaking AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park. We'll discuss some of what was achieved, and the use of the "Frontier AI" terminology. The interview guest is R. Michael Anderson, a much sought after keynote speaker and expert on leadership. We'll be discussing his evidence-based approach and techniques rooted in psychology and neuroscience. We'll talk about his latest book Leadership Mindset 2.0 and more.
#Cloud #leadership...2024-01-1023 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Steph MacleodIn this eighth episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar, will discuss how we humans have lived through waves of technology from the agricultural revolution, to the printing press, to the four industrial revolutions, and then today's sophisticated information landscape, and how it's affecting democracy. He'll touch on issues around generative AI, climate change, and a post truth world, culminating in a book recommendation that he believes is the most important book on the AI topic that will be published this year.
Our interview guest is the...2024-01-1024 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Frank JenningsIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar will explain that, in a time of chip shortages, major technology companies are looking to develop custom silicon optimised for generative AI and LLM models. Good for business, good for the planet, but hard to do. The interview guest is our good friend Frank Jennings, The Cloud Lawyer, partner at Teacher Stern LLP. We'll be quizzing Frank on the legal and ethical implications of AI and training data it uses. Frank will give us the lowdown, and how to avoid...2024-01-1017 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Steven DickensIn this episode of our weekly interview show, TWF! - Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar will interview Steven Dickens, VP and Practice Leader at The Futurum Group. They'll be talking about why the cloud landscape is necessarily hybrid, matching workloads to technology, how Gen AI has changed the game in 2023, the continuing importance of the mainframe, the Open Mainframe Project, the success and growth of Futurum, and what's next for cloud in 2024, 5, and 6.
#Cloud #infrastucture #multicloud #hybridcloud #cloudmigration #mainframe #openmainframe #linux #linuxone #opensource #GenAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #digitaltransformation
2024-01-1020 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Evan LeverIn this episode of our weekly interview show, TWF! - Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar will interview our member Escrow London's founder and CEO Evan Lever. They'll be talking about how and why he started the business, the important topic of software escrow, as well as data, cybersecurity, malware, legal stuff, the cloud software landscape, and going global.
#Cloud #softwareescrow #sourcecodeescrow #sourcecode #businesscontinuity #disasterrecovery #data #dataholding #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #digitaltransformation
2024-01-1014 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Jez BackIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar, comments on the PSNI data leak, the Oxford Internet Institute research on use Facebook and wellbeing, and controversy around Zoom's recent change of terms and how they are using your data (for machine learning and AI). David is joined in the studio by special guest Jez Back, the well-known expert on cloud economics and cloud cost control. They'll be explaining FinOps, the current state of the FinOps landscape, and how you should be approaching and managing your company's journey in...2024-01-1024 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Paul BevanIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar will use the news section to discuss two recent events he attended. PICTFOR's talk triggered by the Online Safety Act titled Tackling Online Toxicity and Misogyny. The second event was Envision London 2050, and he'll discuss futurist Amelia Kallman's great keynote, and wonder how Smart London will be in 27 years. Our interview guest is Bloor Research analyst Paul Bevan, covering the current cloud landscape, the impact of GenAI, and asking what comes next?
#Cloud #infrastucture #multicloud #hybridcloud #c...2024-01-1028 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Pollyanna JonesIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar will use the news and opinion section to connect the word of the year with recent ChatGPT announcements by OpenAI, and changes for creators at YouTube to combat the AI generated fake news and impersonation that does harm. Our interview guest is Pollyanna Jones, Health and Life Science Partner at Monstarlab, previously NHS England Commercial Lead. We are going to be talking about a Tech For Good, NHS England success story called FutureNHS, and launching the Agile Elephant report on...2024-01-0917 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Ian JeffsIn this episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar, will complete his three part review of the key tech stories of 2023 so far, including what he believes is a game changer. David will then be joined in the studio by special guest Ian Jeffs of Lenovo, the newly appointed Chair of the Cloud Industry Forum.
2024-01-0920 min
Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWFCloud Industry Forum presents TWF! w/ Céline SchillingerIn this first episode of our weekly news and interview show, Tech Wave Forum, host and CIF CEO David Terrar, gives you the latest and greatest news on cloud computing. David is also joined in the studio by special guest Céline Schillinger, acclaimed author of “Dare To Unlead”.
Céline will tell us the story behind the book, explain the philosophy of the book and tell us why leadership matters. We'll also cover the power of the network, explain how corporate culture stifles creativity, and talk about a different style of leadership to cope with to...2023-11-1616 min