Active member of the British Computer Societies Data Management Specialist Group (DMSG). Editor of the Data Management Specialist Groups Data Management Bulletin 1989 - 1998.

Joint Conference Chairman of DM96, at the DB World Conference in London at Olympia on basic data management procedures, standards and functionalities.

Conference Chairman of DM95, at Worcester College Oxford, April 1995 on managing data interfaces.

Conference co-chairman of Extending Database Technology Conference (EDBT 94), St. Johns College Cambridge. Topics in the DM94 (commercial) Stream were CASE, Distribution, Information Resource Management and Objects and Methods.

Conference chairman for DM93 on Information Repositories, held at Churchill College Cambridge.

Conference co-chairman for DM92 on Systems Development Methods In Europe, held at Bristol University. Delegates from across the EU were attendees and speakers at the event.

Conference chairman for DM90 on Data Distribution, held at Royal Holloway College, Surrey.

Conference Chairman for DM89 on Computer Aided Software Engineering, held at Oxford.

Responsible for the editorial production of the proceedings produced, for all six conferences referenced.

Member of the MD8 Message Development Group of the EDIFACT Board of Western Europe. MD8 is concerned with Tourism EDIFACT Messages. Member of the Technical Development Sub Group of MD8 who have the responsibility for defining Interactive EDI (I-EDI) concepts.