Inside F3: Building Community And Sharing Knowledge In Digital Forensics
From Forensic Focus by Forensic Focus: Digital Forensics, Incident Response, DFIR
October 20, 2025 · 1h 1m
About this episode
Gareth Davies discusses the impact of the F3 community on digital forensics in the UK and upcoming events.
Gareth Davies, Chairman of F3 (First Forensic Forum), joins the Forensic Focus Podcast to explore how a grassroots, vendor-neutral community has helped shape digital forensics in the UK for three decades. He traces F3's origins in the 1990s, when affordable training and tool-agnostic knowledge-sharing were scarce, and explains why the forum still focuses on byte-level, lab-ready techniques over sales pitches. Looking ahead, Gareth previews F3's 2025 conference in Warwickshire (Nov 18–20), the not-for-profit pricing model, and upcoming trainings on UAVs, software-defined radio, implants/biomed devices, smartwatch and vehicle forensics, and video authentication/deepfakes. He also discusses international growth (including interest in an Australian chapter) and an open call for volunteers to help run events and keep training affordable. #DigitalForensics #DFIR #ForensicsTraining #IncidentResponse #VehicleForensics #CryberCrime #DigitalEvidence #DigitalInvestigtion #DigitalEvidence 👉 Visit Forensic Focus at https://www.forensicfocus.com 00:00 Introducing Gareth Davies 01:09 What is F3? 03:01 Gareth's Journey into Forensics 05:35 PhD and Research Work 06:54 Current Role and…
People in this episode
Host: Forensic Focus
Guest: Gareth Davies
Topics covered
- digital forensics
- community building
- knowledge sharing
- training
- conference planning
Keywords
- digital forensics
- F3
- community
- training
- conference
- UAVs
- software-defined radio
- vehicle forensics
- deepfakes
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: F3
Places: UK, Warwickshire
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