Cloud Industry Forum Presents TWF
A weekly, live-streamed news and interview show. The show will provide up-to-the-minute news on cloud computing, followed by a 10-minute interview featuring prominent industry thought leaders. This show aims to keep viewers informed and inspired by the latest trends and insights. We’re looking for speakers across the industry to get involved.
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Episodes

Jan 10, 2024
Jan 10, 2024
24 min
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, 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 newest member of the Cloud Industry Forum board. Steph MacLeod, co-owner and director of technology PR firm Kaizo, will explain why she's joined the CIF family, and how she can help, refine, and expand what we do for our members

Jan 10, 2024
Jan 10, 2024
17 min
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 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 the landmines in the AI landscape.
Jan 10, 2024
Jan 10, 2024
20 min
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 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
Jan 10, 2024
Jan 10, 2024
14 min
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 #sourcecodeescrow #sourcecode #businesscontinuity #disasterrecovery #data #dataholding #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #digitaltransformation

Jan 10, 2024
Jan 10, 2024
24 min
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 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 to the Cloud.
Jan 10, 2024
Jan 10, 2024
28 min
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 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 #cloudmigration #GenAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #digitaltransformation
Jan 9, 2024
Jan 9, 2024
17 min
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 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 their progress.

Jan 9, 2024
Jan 9, 2024
20 min
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.

Nov 16, 2023
Nov 16, 2023
16 min
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'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 today's world of complexity.
