The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has launched a ‘call for views’ on the security and resilience of the UK’s data storage and processing infrastructure: Data storage and processing infrastructure security and resilience - call for views - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)  

It seeks perspectives and evidence from a wide range of industry stakeholders about data centre operators and their major customers, suppliers, partners.
 
This call for views is a significant milestone in the UK Government's mission to ensure the protection of the data infrastructure upon which our society relies.  Although it won’t be the last opportunity for industry to have its voice heard, it is the earliest and one of the most significant, helping the UK Government to shape the future of your policy environment. 

techUK will be hosting a roundtable with industry and government representatives (including DCMS, NCSC and CPNI) to provide an opportunity to ask questions and discuss some of the themes covered by the call for views.

This will form a base both for direct input to DCMS and help techUK formulate our own response.

 

Matthew Evans

Matthew Evans

Chief Operating Officer & Director of Markets, techUK

Matt Evans is techUK's Chief Operating Officer and leads our Market Programme teams.

The Market Programme teams help techUK members apply innovative technology solutions across a range of sectors, including the Public Sector, Telecoms, Climate, Financial Services and Cyber. Matt also leads our Nations and Regions work. 

Matt sits on a number of industry bodies, including the UKspace Executive Committee and the Task & Finish Group on Industry Resilience for Critical Minerals. Matt has previously represented techUK on the Steering Board of the Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce, Digital Framework Task Group and the advisory board for the Prospering from the Energy Revolution industrial challenge fund. 

Prior to his appointment in early 2019, Matt led techUK’s Smart Infrastructure and IoT work, as well as being CEO of the Broadband Stakeholder Group (now Digital Connectivity Forum). During this time he led the telecoms industry’s approach to lowering the cost of network deployment, played a key role in coordinating it’s response to Brexit and was closely involved in the development of the Government’s Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review. He also assisted in the development of the UK’s first secure by design Code of Practice aimed at consumer IoT, oversaw the publication of a paper outlining the tech sector’s view of future mobility services and drove engagement around the use of digital twins.

Prior to joining techUK, Matt worked in Arqiva's public policy team, across the broadcast and telecoms markets. Before that he was a researcher for an MP at Westminster.

Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
020 7331 2034
Twitter:
@Matthew_evs
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-evans-1349b145/

Read lessmore

Lucas Banach

Lucas Banach

Programme Assistant, Data Centres, Climate, Environment and Sustainability, Market Access, techUK

Lucas Banach is Programme Assistant at techUK, he works on a range of programmes including Data Centres; Climate, Environment & Sustainability; Market Access and Smart Infrastructure and Systems.

Before that Lucas who joined in 2008, held various roles in our organisation, which included his role as Office Executive, Groups and Concept Viability Administrator, and most recently he worked as Programme Executive for Public Sector. He has a postgraduate degree in International Relations from the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow University.

Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
020 7331 2006
Twitter:
@techUK
Website:
www.techuk.org
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-banach-50139650

Read lessmore

 

Return to listing