Groups & associations
I am a member of and take an active role in 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
- - The Aldersgate Group.
- - Cloud Industry Forum.
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:
- - Chair of Intellect UK's Climate Change Group.
Education
While not a position as such, I am also currently undertaking a collaborative PhD with Surrey University researching the energy efficiency of network delivered (cloud) services, specifically attempting to answer the question of whether Moore's Law (which has accurately predicted that computational power will roughly double per unit of cost or unit of energy every two years for some time) will mitigate the Jevons Paradox (that improvements in efficiency of utilisation of resource counter-intuitively tend to result in an overall increase in the resource's consumption) in relation to energy efficiency of ICT thus allowing ICT to be an enabler of the green economy.
For more information please see my blog post: Energy-efficient cloud computing: Jevons Paradox vs. Moore's Law.
Charity
I care about and support two main charitable areas: improved care for transgendered children and "Hidden Surrey" - those who are deprived in my home county but overlooked because we are percieved as a wealthy county.
I used to hold charitable trustee positions and was actively involved in the Community Foundation for Surrey's work, but unfortunately my other areas of responsibility (see above) have meant that I no longer have time for those. Further, I believe that I will best serve two of my key interest areas (trans-kids and girls into IT by being a visible and successful role model, and in terms of local charity I have delegated that to my staff via our community foundation fund which we contribute £6,000/year and they administer.
Online networking
I also use some online networking tools. For those of you who are like-minded I have profiles on LinkedIn as katecraigwood and am a keen Twitter user as @Memset_Kate.
