Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWF

In 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 abo...

In 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 mom...

In 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...

In 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...

In 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...

In 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,...

In 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 T...

In 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 s...

In 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 #...

In 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...

In 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...

In 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 M...

In 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.

In 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...