Ian Forrester

Current
  • Founder at DataPortability.org
  • Senior Backstage Producer at British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Senior Backstage Producer at BBC
Past
  • Software Engineer at BBC
  • Designer/Developer at Ravensbourne College
Education
  • Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
Connections
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Industry
Internet
Websites

Ian Forrester’s Summary

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

Ian Forrester’s Specialties:

Dataportability


Ian Forrester’s Experience

  • Founder

    DataPortability.org

    (Internet industry)

    2007Present (1 year)

  • Senior Backstage Producer

    British Broadcasting Corporation

    (Public Company; Internet industry)

    2006Present (2 years)

  • Senior Backstage Producer

    BBC

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

    September 2006Present (1 year 11 months)

  • Software Engineer

    BBC

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

    April 2004September 2006 (2 years 6 months)

  • Designer/Developer

    Ravensbourne College

    (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    August 2001March 2004 (2 years 8 months)


Ian Forrester’s Education

  • Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication

    19992001


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Ian Forrester’s Groups:

BBC Backstage


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