User:Ianforrester

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Ian Forrester


Owner of Cubicgarden.com and self confesed Geek working for BBC Research and Development.

Original from Bristol, he went to Ravensbourne College of Broadcasting and Communication in London. He is one of the founders behind the London Geekdinners which was started in 2004 and forerunner for GirlGeekdinners.

At the BBC R&D, he was responsible for BBCBackstage till it was closed in 2010. During the time he worked with benmetcalfe to collaborated with Yahoo on the first BarCampLondon. Which led to a collaboration with BBC and Yahoo! on the first Hackday London in Alexandra_Palace, the original home of the BBC's broadcasting in the 1930's.

He went on to do BarCampLondon2 at [BT] and BarCampLondon3 at [Google] in Victoria, London.

After Hackday London, he went on to collaborate with [Mobile Monday London] and [Imperial University] in London on a Mobile focused hackday called Over the Air.

After moving to Manchester, for the BBC's move to Salford, he got involved in the local geek scene and organised BarCampManchester2 at the [Contact Theatre].

He later received a bleed on the brain in 2010, which hospitalised him for a few months. Due to his public nature and previous experiences the BBC had to issue a public post about what had happened.

Over a year later, Ian recovered and was back at the BBC working on the idea of Perceptive Media.