Ian Forrester, BBC Backstage

Ian Forrester heads up the BBC's Backstage, a developer and designer network. His role as head of BBC Backstage includes working with internal and external developers and 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.

Moreover, Forrester is 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.

He also writes on his personal blog cubicgarden.com.