| Wednesday, March 17 |
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| 1:30 PM–2:30 PM |
While cloud computing is transforming every corner of IT, some of the most dramatic changes it's produced have been in the world of startups and new ventures. Because clouds offer pay-as-you-go economics and encourage experimentation, they make it easy for nascent companies to build applications quickly without taking on a lot of investment. What's more, they break down barriers to entry, offering even small players access to huge computational resources for work like genomics, structural analysis, and financial modeling. In this session, we'll hear from startups that have leveraged cloud platforms to get to market quickly and efficiently. Speaker - Ian Rae, CEO, Syntenic Moderator - Allan Leinwand, Venture Partner, Panorama Capital Mr. Leinwand is a venture partner in the firm and focuses on technology investments. Prior to this role, he joined JPMorgan Partners as an operating partner in 2004. From 2001 to 2004, he was President and Co-founder of Proficient Networks, Inc. From 2000 to 2001, he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Telegis Networks, Inc. In 1997 Mr. Leinwand joined Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD) at inception and served as their Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer through the company's IPO and secondary offering. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Leinwand served as Manager of Consulting Engineering and Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. helping to build and engineer service provider and enterprise networks worldwide. He co-authored "Cisco Router Configuration" and "Network Management: A Practical Perspective" and has been granted a patent in the field of data routing. He currently is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches the subjects of computer networks, network management, and network design. Mr. Leinwand holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He presently serves on the board of directors of Vyatta, Inc. He is also a board observer to Belair Networks, Cedar Point Communications and Sylantro Systems. Speaker - Jeremy Edberg, Operations Manager, reddit.com Jeremy Edberg is currently the Operations Manager for reddit.com, an Alexa top 300 web site, whose entire operations are run on EC2. For the 10 years before reddit, he had worked as a Systems Administrator, Programmer, and Security Engineer for such companies as eBay, PayPal, and Sendmail and UC Berkeley. He graduated with a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley. Speaker - Bradford Cross, Co-Founder and Head of Research, FlightCaster Bradford Cross is co-founder and head of research for FlightCaster. He builds Flightcaster's predictive algorithms using statistical learning, as well as the supporting architecture for learning at scale. He has been doing applied research since 2001. His interests are in Maths, Computer Science, Learning Theory, Network Theory, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and engineering at scale. His research background began with automated trading systems for hedge funds. He rounded out his engineering background working on large scale systems at Google and learning agile and lean development approaches at ThoughtWorks.
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| 2:45 PM–3:45 PM |
Enterprises are reconsidering what IT can and can't do in the face of affordable, elastic computing. As they do so, they're redefining what the business can accomplish. Join this panel of enterprise cloud computing users as they discuss early wins such as public-facing web applications, testing, and parallel computing, and learn what's in store for them as they broaden the range of things for which they can use the cloud. Speaker - Doug Harr, Partner, The Stratafusion Group, Inc. Speaker - Matt O'Keefe, Senior Technology Architect, Morningstar, Inc. Speaker - Alan Boehme, SVP & Head of IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture, ING US Financial Services, ING Speaker - David Nelson, Chief Strategist, Cloud Computing, Boeing Company David Nelson is an Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company and is currently the Chief Strategist for Cloud Computing. In this role David is responsible for the long term direction and short term implementation of the internal and external cloud strategy. A 25 year veteran of Boeing, David’s primary work has been around emerging technologies. He has co-authored several books and speaks at industry forums and regional groups. Speaker - Jas Dhillon, General Manager Evidence.Com and TASER Virtual Systems; Chief Strategy Officer, TASER International, TASER International Jas Dhillon is a dynamic leader with 11 years of CEO/GM experience and 14 years of Fortune 100 operational leadership experience (including Microsoft and IAC/InterActiveCorp), the majority in Internet Services and the balance in Strategy Consulting and Wireless Communications. In his entrepreneur role Jas envisioned, founded and operated three successful Internet Cloud based Software-as-a-Service ventures in the Secure Enterprise Video, Social Networking, and Complex Engineering Collaboration spaces. As CEO he drove revenue and managed P&L by building and leading high-performance teams. Jas has also raised $100M+ of equity investment for his ventures, established/managed long term executive level client relationships, and negotiated complex sales/partnership and M&A deals. His second venture was acquired within 13 months of launch by InterActiveCorp, providing founders and investors with a 10X return.
In his current role Jas is a member of the TASER International (TI) Leadership Team and responsible for developing and implementing the strategy for transitioning TI from a high technology manufacturer of HW devices to an Internet Cloud based Information Systems Solutions Service Provider. Jas is also the General Manager of Evidence.Com and Taser Virtual Systems (TVS) in Santa Barbara, CA. TVS was established in January 2009 and in 14 months designed, developed, launched and now operates a beta version of www.Evidence.Com, an Exabyte scale, secure, enterprise SaaS video platform for capturing, storing and streaming evidence video from global law enforcement (LE) professionals and fixed/mobile video surveillance assets. Evidence.Com also enables LE Agencies to establish virtual collaboration networks to share and act upon information at local, state, and national levels. Additionally, Evidence.Com makes evidence video actionable through GPS tagging and advanced analytics thus enhancing officer and public safety, improving officer accountability, and reducing down-stream litigation.
Moderator - Carl Stjernfeldt, General Partner, Castile Ventures Carl Stjernfeldt has an investment focus on wired and wireless communications technologies and services, on advanced mobility solutions that provide secure high quality access to content and applications, and on next generation video delivery capabilities. Prior to joining Castile, Mr. Stjernfeldt was a partner at Battery Ventures where he spent seven years investing in leading IT companies. He currently serves or participates on the boards of Agito Networks, Funambol, and VisibleGains (formerly PermissionTV). He has served on the boards of Arbor Networks, Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola), Cedar Point Communications, and Tejas Networks, and was a board observer of Optium (NASDAQ: OPTM, acquired by Finisar). Prior to Battery Ventures, Mr. Stjernfeldt was a client partner and project manager for Cambridge Technology Partners, delivering large mission-critical system implementations for Fortune 100 clients. Mr. Stjernfeldt started his career as an engineer at Summa Four, developing telecommunications solutions for domestic and international service providers, later rising to engineering management before starting an application development department. Mr. Stjernfeldt holds a dual MS in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and Northeastern University in Boston, and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. Mr. Stjernfeldt is active at MIT serving as a Catalyst for the Deshpande Center, judging MIT's 100K competition, and teaching an entrepreneurial finance class at the Sloan School. He is also a Charter Member with TiE and serves on the University of Michigan's Technology Transfer National Advisory Board. Mr. Stjernfeldt is the Treasurer of the New England Venture Capital Association and as a board member for the Massachusetts Networks Communications Council he leads the Innovators Summit committee.
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| 4:00 PM–5:00 PM |
Government has been called the killer app for cloud computing. Clouds flatten the world, offering open, democratic access to entire nations and better connecting citizens to leaders. In this session, we'll hear from governments, open access groups, and advocates about how ubiquitous computing is changing the way we govern ourselves and provide wide, easy access to public information. Speaker - Gretchen Curtis, NASA Speaker - William Maguire, VP for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer, San Jose State University Speaker - Rick Knode, Director, San Diego Data Processing Corp. Rick Knode has over 35 years of experience in the Information Technology field, with the last 28 years at San Diego Data Processing Corporation. As Director of Computing and Communications Infrastructure, Rick is responsible for delivering computing and network services to the City of San Diego and other government agencies. His responsibilities include data center operations, systems administration, data and voice networking, messaging and directory services, as well as desktop and help desk services.
Over the years, Rick has led his organization through the transformation from mainframe centric computing to distributed computing, and most recently to virtual computing.
Moderator - Kamesh Pemmaraju, Cloud Research, Sand Hill Group Kamesh Pemmaraju heads cloud research at the SandHill Group. In his current research project, the results of which are being released at the cloud connect conference, Kamesh has surveyed more than 500 executives and conducted in-depth interviews with nearly 40 CIOs (across 11 industries including the federal government) and vendor executives to obtain a clear picture of the cloud computing initiatives, strategies, challenges, and best practices taking hold in enterprises today. With more than 20 years experience in the tech industry, Kamesh has held senior executive roles of global Vice President and Director of Engineering and Quality positions at Apani Networks, Solidworks, Pegasystems, and Siemens. He has brought to market several leading technology products in Enterprise Security, 3D-CAD software, High-Transaction Websites, Enterprise BPM, and real-time embedded systems. He also consulted on Technology, Security, and Quality strategies at Fortune 1000 companies including GE, GM, Motorola, HP, Microsoft, NASD, Sun Microsystems, and Siemens.
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