Mr. Taylor is the Founder and Executive Producer of Uptime Institute Symposium, an annual conference of approximately 1,000 delegates that focus on the converging worlds of data center IT and Facilities infrastructures and operations, and the technologies and practices for continuously improving uptime availability, reliability, resiliency, business effectiveness and energy efficiency. Mr. Taylor is a career-long IT media executive as a writer, editor, publisher, and conference producer, including Knowledge Management (KM) World, Imaging World and Human Capital, and the PopTech conference. On behalf of other media owners, he launched and ran Computer Graphics World, HP Professional, and the Canadian franchise publications owned by media giant, International Data Group (IDG).