Prince’s Trust ICT Leaders of the Last 40 Years

Most readers will know of my long association with the Prince’s Trust and that it is our 40^th Anniversary this year. The tech sector has been a huge supporter of the Trust. It is also my 50^th anniversary in computing having started as a computer programmer on 1^st Jan 1966.

To celebrate this, I am organising the ICT Leaders of the Last 40 Years Dinner on 5^th Oct 16 at Merchant Taylors Hall in the City. I have invited as many of the past and present leaders from the UK tech sector as I can and the response has been truly amazing. It is a veritable Who’s Who of the sector. Indeed the ‘Dame/Knight Count’ is now in double figures including Dame Stephanie Shirley (FI) , Sir Robin Saxby(ARM), Sir Colin Southgate (Thorn EMI) , Sir Rod Aldridge (Capita), Sir Peter Rigby (SCC), Sir Charles Dunstone (Carphone/TalkTalk) and Lord David Young (DTI). Many of the founders of our sector back in the 1960s are attending – Philip Hughes (Logica), Philip Swinstead (Systems Designers), Bryan Mills (CMG), Roger Graham (BIS), John Leighfield (ISTEL) .Also many others who have played a significant role in shaping the sector like Geoff Unwin (Hoskyns), Geoff Squire (Oracle etal), Steve Garnett (Oracle, Salesforce etc), Warren East (ARM, Rolls Royce), Andy Green (BT, Logica etc). Current leaders like Stephen Kelly (Sage), Duncan Tait (Fujitsu), Andy Isherwood (HPE) and many others are also attending.

It promises to be a once in a lifetime/never to be repeated event celebrating five decades of our sector with most of the ‘Legends’ attending.

If you would like to be invited, please email me rholway@techmarketview.com in the first instance and, if you meet the criteria,  I will then pass your details to the Prince’s Trust.

I should point out that this is a fund-raiser for the Prince’s Trust. I am personally picking up the tab for this event but equally hope that attendees will, hint hint, generously support ‘the cause’!

Posted by Richard Holway at '10:19'