Senior Backstage Producer at BBC
London, United Kingdom
Senior Backstage Producer at BBC
London, United Kingdom
Ian Forrester heads up the BBC's Backstage, a developer/designer network like no other. His role as head of BBC Backstage includes working with internal and external developers/designers to express their creativity through BBC feeds and APIs. Backstage makes available as much BBC data as possible for any member of the public to republish, remix and mash-up under a non-commercial license.
Ian is also well known for geek social events, including London Geekdinners, BarCampLondon, Hackday, Mashed, Edinburgh TV Un-Festival and recently Over the Air. He's currently master minding plans for something which will raise the profile of development and geeks in the UK, a series of Backstage outreach events and is a founder of the dataportability.org group. Somehow, Ian finds time to blog online regularly at his personal blog cubicgarden.com
Dataportability
(Internet industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
September 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
April 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 6 months)
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
August 2001 — March 2004 (2 years 8 months)
1999 — 2001
BBC Backstage