Groups & associations
I am a member of the following groups, either personally or via Memset Ltd.:
- - Intellect UK (the UK's high-tech trade association)
- - BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
- - The Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures & Commerce
Board / committee memberships
I am also priveliged to have recently been selected for a number of positions to help represent local & national business, through which I hope to represent local & IT businesses.:
- - Main & Operations board member of Intellect UK
- - Chair of Intellect's Climate Change Group.
- - External Relations Officer of BCS's Data Centre Specialist Group.
- - Advisory committee member of the Grid Computing Now! Knowledge Transfer Network.
Charity
- - Member of the Surrey Community Foundation's donor developent group
- - Trustee of the Gender Identity Research and Education Society.
Education
While not a position as such, I am also currently undertaking a collaborative PhD with Surrey University in the field of Cloud Computing and national digital infrastructure.
Online networking
I also use some online networking tools. For those of you who are like-minded I have profiles on LinkedIn as katecraigwood. I experimented with SoFlow and Xing/OpenBC but did not find them to be well-used by my contacts.
