David Forman is the Director, Government Relations with TechnologyOne, an ASX100 homegrown software business operating through the ANZ and Pacific region and the UK, where he is responsible for engagement with policy makers and guiding the business’s research program. TechnologyOne proudly considers itself an “R&D shop” and reinvests 20-25 percent of revenue into R&D in Australia annually.

Prior to joining TechnologyOne, David worked with numerous leading Australian ICT businesses in telecommunications, IT and cyber security. In these roles, he has worked at the interface of policy and changing technology and has been involved in policy and regulatory discussions involving most of the major technological advances in IT and Communications in the past 25 years, from Cloud First to the NBN and competition law related to the communications and technology sectors, and contributed to policy thinking in areas from procurement to productivity to taxation.