Some time in the middle of my Navy career I got over the fear and dread of public speaking[1], and these days I quite enjoy the chance to talk about things that interest me. If you’d like to invite me to your event (and don’t already know my contact details) then I’d suggest contacting me using LinkedIn.

Upcoming events:

9 Feb 2012 – BrightTalk – Online
The State of Cloud Standards

9 May 2012 – European Banking Forum – London, UK
Consumerization: giving up control in mobile computing & cloud based services in the ever changing threat landscape

Past events:

25 Jan 2012 - CloudCamp London #14 - London, UK
Security Information and Event Management – a big data problem. A look at how big data tools are being used for security monitoring

16-17 Nov - Virtualization and Cloud Computing Executive Summit 2011
Security as a Cloud Enabler

10-13 Oct – OASIS International Cloud Symposium
International roadmapping projects: responses from standards bodies

28 Jun 2011 - 451 HCTS, London, UK
Cloud Security – Getting Beyond the FUD

18 Mar 2011 – Forrester Infrastructure & Operations Forum EMEA 2011 – London, UK
How self service beat the grid

9 Dec 2010 – Intellect Financial Services Programme ‘The troubled Relationship of Cloud and Financial Services’ – London, UK
Financial Services – Head in the cloud (and panel)

20 Oct 2010 - CloudCamp London #9 – London, UK
(Unpanel – covering various aspects of cloud economics and interoperability)

14 Oct 2010 - VMWorld Europe – Copenhagen, Denmark
VMware Vision for Platform as a Service: Simplifying Application Deployment in the Cloud (panel)

30 Aug 2010 - VMWorld – San Francisco, USA
VMware Vision for Platform as a Service: Simplifying Application Deployment in the Cloud (panel)

27 Aug 2010 - Cloud Computing Demystified Day – Copenhagen, Denmark
From Financial Services to Finance as a Service – how clouds will transform banking.

30 Jun 2010 – CloudCamp London at Cloud Computing World Forum – London, UK
Potemkin PaaS (also chaired unconference session on Cloud Security)

15 Jun 2010 – 451 Group Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit – London, UK
Enterprise Cloud Adoption (panel)

11 Mar 2010 – CloudCamp London #7 at QCon – London, UK
SaaS – an unintended casualty of the copyfight (video)

4 Feb 2010 – Oracle Higher Education SOA Roundtable – Reading, UK
SOA – from the Enterprise to the Cloud

21 Jan 2010 – CloudCamp London #6 – London, UK
Chaired unconference session on PaaS

4 Nov 2009 – 451 Group Client Conference – Boston, USA
Getting on to the Cloud: What are end users doing? (panel)

24 Sep 2009 – CloudCamp London #5 – London, UK
Real life experiences getting data in and out of the cloud

25 Mar 2009 – e-Crime Congress – London, UK
An illusion of control? Searching for a silver lining in the cloud

23 Oct 2008 – Burton Group Catalyst Europe – Prague, Czech Republic
Persona

30 Sep 2008 – IBDG Conference – London, UK
Considering the Cost, Benefit and Control Issues of Cloud Computing

5 Jun 2008 – 451 Group Enterprise Computing Strategies Summit – London, UK
Enterprise Security in 2011 (panel)

21 May 2008 – STFC Distributed Computing Workshop – London, UK
The Virtual Resource Market – SLAs as derivatives contracts for the data centre

3 Dec 2007 – IGT Annual Event & Exhibition – Hertzelia, Israel
Trusted Virtual Appliances

17 Jul 2007 – Information Age Future of the Data Centre – London, UK
The great virtualisation debate (panel)

11 Jul 2007 – BCS FinSig – London, UK
Software as a Service in the Financial Services Sector

15 May 2007 – Microsoft Architects Summit – Reading, UK
Software as a Service in Finance

7 May 2007 – Open Grid Forum 20 – Manchester, UK
The Virtual Resource Market – SLAs as derivative contracts for the data centre
Workshop on Financial Services Enterprise Requirements

15 Mar 2007 – QCon – London, UK
Business Drivers for IT

30 Nov 2006 – IBM Client Forum – Brooklands, UK
Service Oriented Infrastructure, the foundation of SOA

7 Nov 2006 – ZISC Information Security Colloquium – Zurich, Switzerland
Grid Computing – The Security Angle

31 Oct 2006 – 451 Group Enterprise IT Innovation Summit – Boston, USA
Deployments that enable agility (panel)

10 Oct 2006 – Burton Group Catalyst Europe – Barcelona, Spain
Service Oriented Infrastructure, the foundation for SOA

27 Sep 2006 – Financial Services Technology Summit – London, UK
Grid computing: The Security Angle

18 Sep 2006 – High Performance on Wall Street – New York, USA
The Challenges of Applying FPGA Technology in Investment Banks

17 May 2006 – Dealing With Technology – London, UK
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) Take Off (panel)

26 Sep 2005 – High Performance on Wall Street – New York, USA
Service Grids on Wall Street – How Far Over The Horizon? (panel)

7 Feb 2005 – Web Services on Wall Street – New York, USA
The perfect SOA infrastructure – are we there yet? (panel)

15 Dec 2004 – Finexpo 2005 – London, UK
Where SOA meets grid

12 Oct 2004 – Burton Group Catalyst Europe – Monte Carlo, Monaco
SOA – Delivering on business needs

21 Jul 2004 – Burton Group Catalyst North America – San Diego, USA
SOA Governance

[1] I have one of my predecessors to thank for adjusting the scheme of complement for my job to specify the ‘Presentation techniques’ course in lieu of the usual ‘Instructional techniques’ course. I therefore got to spend 3 days at RNSETT being taught how to do auditorium presentations (on a course usually specified for senior officers in public facing roles and the folk in the schools recruiting team) rather than a whole week of dull as ditch water stuff on how to run a classroom. The course was a brilliant blend of dealing with the mechanics (speaking loudly enough [projecting] and getting Powerpoint to behave) and dealing with the wobbles (having the confidence to stand up in front of 50+ people that you mostly don’t know). If you ever get the chance to do a course like this – do!