The club is based in London and organises an annual dinner series with speakers on a wide range of topics from ICT, technology and science.
In its early years the Real Time Club engaged actively in lobbying and policy making to help setting the scene for a thriving IT industry in the UK.
[3] As part of its effort to foster a successful technology sector in the UK, the Real Time Club also took a keen interest in IT education in school and university.
[5] The founding members were entrepreneurs who turned to the financial institutions for venture capital and as clients for their early network applications.
Recently, high performance computing, security and system integrity are topics that draw a growing number of IT professionals from the finance sector, entrepreneurs and investors to the RTC dinners.
Every year the Real Time Club runs a series of dinners with speakers on a broad range of topics related to technology.
[6] A selection of offices held by former RTC chairmen: Geoff McMullen and Stanley Gill served as president of the British Computer Society.