Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWF

For 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 rapi...

For 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 S...

For 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 org...

For 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 ha...

For 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".  Inst...

For 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 Senio...

For 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...

For 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 B...

For 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,...

For 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...

For 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. J...

For 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...

For 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 issue...

For 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 w...

For 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...

For 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, wh...

For 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 gl...

For 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, a...

For 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 impo...

Our 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...

In 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 #digital...

In 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 age...

In 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,...

In 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 i...

In 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 perspe...