During the course of his career, David has participated in a number of professional associations:

• Former Board Member of the Brand Registry Group

• Regular speaker at internet conferences and events

• Former Council Member of The Institute of Information Scientists (for two years - now called The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)

• Former Committee member of EIRENE, the European Information Researchers Network (for three years) - now defunct but see archive 1997 IWR article on EIRENE (PDF) plus see here

• Member of the Advisory Committee for the 2008 Online Information conference - (and previously in 1999 and 2000)