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UK Business Technology Community

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The UK Business Technology Community brings together technology business professionals from across the UK tech ecosystem to discuss both regional opportunities and global trends. We offer industry leaders the opportunity to gain valuable insight, share best practices and collaborate to showcase how technology and technology companies enable us to solve real business needs and grow their businesses.

What We Stand For

The UK Business Technology Community is a progressive industry group embracing emerging technologies and shaping the future of the channel. As an open, vendor-neutral forum, we help members build and expand their businesses and connect with others to create a stronger, thriving industry.

How We’re Making an Impact

We offer a yearlong program of meetings and initiatives to deliver thought leadership, help and advice through networking, collaboration, peer to peer learning, vendor neutral technology qualifications and sharing best practices in order to:

  • Advancing technology businesses and the customers they serve.
  • Highlighting emerging technologies and business use cases.
  • Promoting organizational diversity to create a fair and equitable workforce, as well as helping fill the many open roles across our industry.

Leadership

Steven Pretlove

Steven Pretlove

Chair

Technical Director,
CCS IT Solutions

Steven Pretlove

Technical Director, CCS IT Solutions

Steven Pretlove is Technical Director at CCS IT Solutions. He has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years building a wealth of experience with large international corporations such as GMAC, Serco and Lloyds, as well as a number of SME's. From desktop engineering to global design and project management, he is dedicated to providing the best IT solutions for businesses and their teams.

Steven is also passionate about nurturing other IT businesses. He leads the historic Thames Valley Small Business Server Community, where he coordinates meetings that share insight and best practice for the mutual benefit of the business owners who attend. In his free time he enjoys a sharp contrast to his busy technical world, with blasts of nature - hiking, cycling and tending his allotment.
Hannah Lloyd

Hannah Lloyd

Vice Chair

VP Channel Sales,
inSOC UK Ltd.

Hannah Lloyd

VP Channel Sales, inSOC UK Ltd.

A former Senior Channel Manager with Inbay, Hannah was responsible for new business generation and ongoing account management for an international client base, which she was instrumental in growing from start-up vendor to global brand. Now VP of Channel Sales at inSOC, Hannah is committed to promoting strategies that can help solution providers grow and is responsible for global business development within her current role. Winner of the CompTIA ChannelChanger award in 2018 and has served on the CompTIA UK Executive Council since 2017, and now Vice Chair from 2020.

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IT Industry Outlook 2020 - International Supplement

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Published : November 15, 2019

CompTIA UK Tech Town Index 2019

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Published : October 1, 2019

International Trends in Cybersecurity - UK

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Published : September 19, 2019

Assessing the IT Skills Gap in the UK

This report examines the IT skills gap in the UK; including the positive and negative impacts of the coming Brexit on the UK tech workforce.

Published : August 14, 2019