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The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team were compelled by events to deviate from their usual light-hearted approach to enterprise business-to-business technology in the first few months of the year. They discussed the war in Ukraine with the help of Computer Weekly’s security editor Alex Scroxton on a couple of podcasts, one of which is highlighted in this list. The cyber warfare aspect of the conflict was to the fore in these episodes, along with the general IT industry boycott of Russia.
Otherwise, women in UK technology, alongside diversity, was, again, a huge topic for the team, discussed across the year and culminating in Clare’s presentation of the announcement of the 2022 list of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology, and its associated event, Diversity in Tech, which Computer Weekly runs in collaboration with Nash Squared.
Caroline’s two main topics of focus on the podcast were the ongoing saga of the IR35 reforms and the energy crisis, as it pertains to the datacentre market (as well as green IT more generally, including the launch of the Computer Weekly Green IT think tank that she masterminds and shepherds).
And Brian was back in the air in 2022, attending Dreamforce in San Francisco, Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas, and an SAP press trip to the Bay Area coterminous with SAP’s TechEd.
This year, Cliff Saran, Computer Weekly’s managing editor (technology) did a series of episodes within the framework of the podcast. These featured one-to-one interviews with leading IT industry thinkers and executives on topics ranging from quantum computing, through the metaverse, and on to developer well-being.
One of these featured, as a case study, The National Archives’ deployment of a semantic data platform, provided by MarkLogic, to support the UK government’s drive to improve transparency in the justice system.
Cliff closed out his podcasting for the year with a conversation with Stewart Buchanan, a research vice-president…
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