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Finalising a Move to the Linux Foundation

December 2, 2025

Last month I wrote about the opportunity the ITAM Forum has to join the Linux Foundation as a stand-alone, self-funded project. I’m pleased to report that during October 2025, the ITAM Forum’s Trustee Board unanimously approved this move, which ITAM Forum members also support. We’re now working to finalise this move from the 1st February 2026 onwards.

About the Linux Foundation

Created in 2007, the Linux Foundation is a vendor-neutral ‘home’ for open-source projects and communities, providing back office, shared services to help projects grow. Examples include the FinOps Foundation, OpenChain, and SPDX. The Foundation is designed for neutral, cross-industry collaboration with projects retaining their own governance. It also offers a recognised pathway to international standards through the Joint Development Foundation.

This is an exciting opportunity for us. During 2020, we began – as a spin-out of ISO 19770 (the ISO ITAM Family of Standards) – and built the ITAM From from the ground up. It’s been a brilliant journey, and we’re excited about our next chapter. Our mission – to promote the business practice of IT Asset Management – stays the same, supported by operational scale that will enable us to deliver more and faster. Besides our mission, we’ll keep our website, logo, branding, events, and our vibrant member community and members’ portal.

What Members Told Us

During October 2025, we surveyed ITAM Forum members to gauge their feedback on this move. Of those who gave their feedback:

  • 76% supported/strongly supported the move
  • 15% were neutral/unsure
  • 10% opposed/strongly opposed the move

We’ll continue to provide updates to our members about the ITAM Forum joining the Linux Foundation, including timings and how the membership experience may change and for the better.

Plans for 2026

Besides the move to the Linux Foundation, we’re working on several new and expanded activities for 2026, including new:

  • Special Interest Groups – with identified outputs – launching in January
  • In-person events schedule – including Australia
  • Industry research on topics of most important to ITAM professionals (yes, you told us those topics).

2026 will be an exciting year for the ITAM Forum. We’re thrilled that all of you will be coming along with us!

2025 ITAM Excellence Awards Finalists Announced

September 9, 2025

We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2025 ITAM Excellence Awards! The winners will be announced on the 6 November 2025. Join us on the night (Newbury, Berkshire; U.K.) to celebrate with your colleagues, your peers, and the world-wide ITAM community.

This year, we received more than 100 award entries from around the world, from India to Australia, Canada, and Türkiye!

To recap, here are this year’s award categories:

  • ITAM Project of the Year
  • ITAM Professional of the Year
  • ITAM Specialist/Consultant of the Year
  • ITAM Rising Star
  • ITAM Partner of the Year
  • ITAM Technology or Service Innovation of the Year

In addition, the legendary ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ will be handed out on the night.

New for 2025, ITAM professionals could enter the following categories on a regional basis, with the winners from each region advancing to the finals:

  • ITAM Professional of the Year
  • ITAM Project of the Year
  • ITAM Partner of the Year
  • ITAM Rising Star

The Finalists

ITAM Professional of the Year 
  • APAC: Premnadh Karekatt, Flexera (India)
  • EMEA: Mustafa Celen, Turk Telekom (Turkey)
  • North America: Jerry Frazier, Toyota Motors (U.S.A.)
  • Judges Choice (co-finalist): Kaustav Sen Gupta, Accenture (India)
  • Judges Choice (co-finalist): Jigna Shah, Accenture (India)
ITAM Project of the Year
  • APAC: L&T Technology Services (LTTS) (India)
  • EMEA (co-finalist): Flexera – Thames Water (U.K.)
  • EMEA (co-finalist): Vodafone Global SAMaaS – Flexera (U.K.)
  • North America: Anglepoint – Boeing (U.S.A.)
  • Judges Choice: Synyega – HMRC Managed Services (U.K.)
ITAM Technology or Service Innovation of the Year
  • CloudEagle.ai
  • MOS Academy & Intertech: Intelligent IIS Discovery & Application Classification
  • Gaurav Mittal : Modern Asset Intelligence Framework (MAIF)
  • Turk Telekom: Unified Visibility Architecture
  • ServiceNow: AI Agents for ITAM
ITAM Partner of the Year
  • EMEA: Synyega
  • North America: Pellera Technologies
  • Judges Choice: MOS Academy (EMEA)
ITAM Consultant of the Year
  • Aamer Trambu, SoftwareOne (Canada)
  • Rich Gibbons, Synyega (U.K.)
  • Meesha Nayan, The Mastermind Group (Australia)
  • Latoya Taylor, SIE Group (U.S.A.)
  • Erin McClean, Synyega (U.K.)
The ITAM Rising Star
  • APAC: Seshagiri Rao J, L&T Technology Services (India)
  • EMEA: Chloe Mackay, Vodafone (U.K.)
  • North America: Katherine Caruso, The SIE Group (U.S.A.)
  • Judges Choice (co-finalist): Djordje Kaludjerovic, GeminiSix (EMEA) (Serbia)
  • Judges Choice (co-finalist): Norbert-Daniel Puja, E.ON (EMEA) (Romania)

A big congratulations to all of the finalists! Good luck!

 

Inaugural (in-person) India Chapter Meeting

November 13, 2024

During October, I visited Bengaluru for the first ITAM Forum India chapter meeting. It’s the first time I’ve been to India for 10 years. I first visited back in 2014 when I was presenting SAM and ITAM related topics at an itSMF conference.

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Welcome Kelly Yip!

July 16, 2024

We’re thrilled to welcome Kelly Yip to the ITAM Forum team! Kelly has more than 13 years of ITAM experience. She started her career at Microsoft (within the SAM team) before moving to Flexera. and then, joining us. And how lucky are we! She’s only been with us for a few weeks, but she’s already making valuable contributions to our LISA course content and thought-leadership projects.

AI, AI and More AI

What excites Kelly about ITAM’s future? You guessed it: AI.

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The ITAM Forum acquires The ITAM Review and LISA

ITAM Forum Acquires The ITAM Review and LISA

March 18, 2024

By: Martin Thompson, Founder of the ITAM Forum

Today is a milestone for the ITAM industry and profession. The ITAM Forum has acquired the ITAM Review and LISA. Together, we’ll be able to create a strong, engaged, and passionate world-wide ITAM community that drives ITAM adoption and maturity. We’ll also help to shape and redefine ITAM for the future.
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EOY Blog 2023

2023 Year in Review

December 21, 2023

What a year 2023 has been for the ITAM Forum! We grew in numbers and activities, and we achieved one of our key objectives: To create – and be a caretaker of – the world’s first ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification scheme.

You’ll find more details about this below along with a highlight of some of our other 2023 achievements.

First things first. We couldn’t have done any of this without you, the global ITAM community. Thank you!

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DP blog 12 2023

The Dutch Police gains ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification

December 20, 2023

We’re thrilled for the Dutch Police, which today, became the world’s first public sector organisation to gain ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification! It received its certificate today from Brand Compliance, the certification scheme auditor, after successfully meeting all requirements.

The Dutch Police’s Marc Goedhart, Audit Coordinator, and John Haenen, Software Asset Consultant, lead the project with support from Rosalie Kramer,  IT-Sector Head.

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