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Dr. Chris Holmes, Editorial Director, Asia, Foundry
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Dr. Chris Holmes

Editorial Director, Asia Foundry

As Editorial Director, Asia, Chris keeps track of the latest happenings in the IT industry, directing editorial coverage across the region, and serving the communities of IT leaders and professionals through Foundry’s flagship brands of CIO, CSO, Computerworld, Network World Asia, and Channel brands. Through interviews, in-depth analysis, and opinion from leading CIOs, Chris and his team address the top concerns faced by leading IT professionals every day, including leadership, managing budgets, business alignment, security and transformation.

Prior to Foundry, Chris was Managing Director for IDC’s Industry Research team across the Asia Pacific region, leading industry research across multiple different industry verticals. Chris has held a number of roles in industry and research, including working for a Singapore research institute where he focused on the development and application of technology road mapping and started his career in the aerospace sector in the UK.

A well-known keynote speaker, Chris has produced many publications across his career in market research, academia and media. He has led many research programs for both technology buyers and vendors and was a pioneer in the development and application of the process of technology road mapping.

He holds a Doctor of Engineering degree from Warwick University, UK, focused on lead time reduction in the product development process for flight control systems.

Follow Chris on Twitter @drchrisholmes.

Upcoming and recent events

CIO 100 Awards & Conference India
The DPDP Act Compliance Toolkit: Lessons learned from the first phase of enforcement.
Thursday, September 17, 2026
16.00 PM - 17.00 PM
The “wait and watch” period for the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act is officially over. As the Data Protection Board of India (DPBI) begins its oversight and the industry nears the final year of the implementation glide path, the focus has shifted from legal interpretation to operational reality. This…
Modernizing the Datacenter: Strategies for retrofitting legacy facilities for high-density AI workloads.
Friday, September 18, 2026
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM
The AI revolution is hitting a physical wall: the legacy datacenter. While software evolves at lightning speed, the brick-and-mortar infrastructure power, cooling, and floor loading is struggling to keep pace with the massive thermal and energy demands of 2026 GPU clusters. For most CIOs, building a new “greenfield” site isn’t…
The Captain's Table - The Evolving Role of the CIO: New Strategies for Managing Risk and Building Resilience
Friday, September 18, 2026
16.00 PM - 16.20 PM
The CIO of 2026 is no longer a “Service Provider” to the business; they are a “Risk Architect” and “Resilience Officer.” As the boundaries between technology, legal compliance, and core operations vanish, the mandate has shifted from maintaining uptime to ensuring survival in a volatile, AI-driven landscape. This panel of…
Closing the Expectation Gap: Aligning AI FOMO with Enterprise Technical Debt
Friday, September 18, 2026
17.30 PM - 18.30 PM
The biggest barrier to the “AI Revolution” isn’t a lack of vision; it’s the weight of the past. As Boards of Directors push for rapid, autonomous AI deployment, CIOs are navigating an “Expectation Gap” fueled by decades of accumulated technical debt. You cannot build a 2026 AI-native enterprise on a…
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