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Vijay Bhagavath is in technology equity research at Deutsche Bank Securities, working on names in the telecom, wireless, and data networking coverage universe. Prior to DB, he was in the CTO Office at Siemens Communications and also a telecom analyst at Forrester Research and a senior staff at AT&T Labs / AT&T Bell Labs. His 15year work experience spans the breadth of IT hardware and software landscape.  He has 20 US patents awarded, is a CFA Level 2 candidate, and holds the Series 86/87/63/7 registrations. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Univ. of Texas and a B.E. (with distinction) from Osmania Univ. 

Robin is a software entrepreneur and investor. He invests in cloud computing applications, open source, virtualization, and security sectors in enterprise software.

Prior to joining Mayfield in 1999, Robin was a founder and/or key member of several successful software startups including CATS Software, Infinity Financial Technology, acquired by SunGard (SDS) and Risk Management Solutions.

Robin earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A.S. dual degree in industrial engineering and economics from Stanford University.

Robin has been recognized as the Top Open Source investor by Infoworld magazine and is a frequent speaker at technology and venture industry events.

Ping joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on Information Technology Infrastructure and Digital Media platforms. His specific areas of interest also include cloud computing (see below), datacenter virtualization, distributed data management/storage, internet datacenter scalability and gaming. He currently is an investor/Board Member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Ludic Labs, Mu Dynamics, Raptr, Verivue and YuMe; and he is actively involved in Imperva. Ping was also responsible for Accel’s investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco) and Mochi Media (acquired by Shanda).

Prior to Accel, Ping worked at Juniper Networks as a Senior Product Line Manager for their flagship M-series router products, as well as Director of Corporate Development. Ping was actively involved in Juniper's multi-billion dollar acquisition of Netscreen Technologies and led all subsequent security and routing product and R&D integration activities. He also served as a strategy consultant for Mckinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies.

Ping has extensive international experience as well. At Singapore Telecom, he served directly for the executive management team in operating and investing in Asian growth opportunities. Prior to SingTel, Ping worked at Goldman Sachs Asia, transacting technology IPOs and M&A. Ping continues to be active internationally by working closely with Oak Pacific Interactive (Xiaonei) and IDG-Accel China Fund.

Ping holds an A.B. from Harvard University, with honors, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Recent presentations and articles:
# GigaOM: The Future Is Big Data in the Cloud - Oct ‘09
# Presentation: CLOUD COMPUTING: BIG DATA IS THE FUTURE OF IT - Oct ’09

As a General Partner at Gemini, Adi draws on his start-up, VC and scientific background to make seed investments.  Since joining Gemini in 1999, he has specialized in seed investments in the areas of enterprise IT software and systems, and financial software. He was the first VC in Itemfield, sold to Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA), Diligent sold to IBM, and Traiana sold to ICAP. Some of the world’s leading VCs joined Adi in investments including Sequoia, Accel, Foundation, Matrix, Battery and Lightspeed. Adi was also CEO of Sphera, sold to Parallels. Adi sits on the boards of a number of Gemini portfolio companies including CloudShare, dbMotion, Neocleus, Metrolight,  OpTier and TaKaDu. “Boards have a tendency to delay decisions to the last possible minute – but we try to supply adequate financing in a timely fashion - even with uncertainty.  For example, a few years ago, one Gemini company was facing a major Board decision to support the company or to shut it down.  The company had changed markets three times and did not have an enormous technology barrier – just strong management and a good idea.  I felt that the caliber of the management was different – and I felt that they could do what they said they would do, which is to re-define themselves.  They had a domain expert and identified a set of customers that their technology could serve. They needed a bridge loan and the Board was delaying the decision.  We convinced the Board to support the company.  Less than 6 months later, they had a viable product in the market and a further investment from Sequoia.” Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Adi held business development and marketing positions with Nexus Telecommunications (NASDAQ:NSUSF), joining as one of the company's first employees.  Nexus develops wireless technologies for messaging and location services. “Working at Nexus was the best kind of start-up experience.  You felt it was a privilege to work there.  You could do what you were good at with none of the politics or bureaucracy of a big company.  People worked all the time – often straight through the weekend – and they were brilliant.  I’d venture to guess that more than 20 of my colleagues at Nexus went on to start or lead new companies.   I learned two very important lessons there.  1. Know what you don’t know.  Admit it and hire people that are better/ smarter/ more experienced than you to do the things you don’t know how to do.  2. Everyone is better than you at something – figure out what that is and learn from your colleagues what you don’t know.” Prior to Nexus, he was an engineer at ECI Telecom (NASDAQ:ECIL), a Global provider of networking infrastructure solutions, in the early days of the company’s SDH (a standard for communicating digital information over fiber-optic cables) business unit.  His team developed the first SDH system.  Earlier in his career, Adi served in the Israeli Navy as a project engineer for Naval Underwater Systems. Adi is a graduate of the INSEAD MBA program. He holds two degrees from Ohio State University, a BSc with honors in Electrical Engineering and a BA with distinction in Mathematics.  He studied for over two years towards a M.Sc. in vision-computer science at the Weizmann Institute but ultimately decided that business, not academia, was his true calling.  Adi is a frequent speaker in Israel and Europe on VC and high tech topics. Adi was chosen by Yale University as a Yale World Fellow. See what Adi has to say on Gemini's blog and on his personal blog.  

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.

Welcome to Porticor. I'm Gilad Parann-Nissany, Founder and CEO. I've worked on Cloud Computing for medium and small enterprises at SAP (CTO Small Business); and on Cloud Computing for consumers at G.ho.st (http://g.ho.st). Based on the experience in these varied markets, now at Porticor we are working  on Cloud Computing security. All types of applications and data can and should make use of the cloud. Security is the current much-touted barrier to acceptance, and we are working to solve that with rich control and powerful defenses - made simple and usable. The goal is ever to create a ubiquitous computing experience. The future will be a world were security and privacy can be fully respected whenever a user or business entity need it to be, without stopping anyone from participating in the brave new world. See you at Cloud Connect.

Sam Charrington is responsible for the company's overall marketing efforts, including marketing and brand strategy, product marketing and product management. Formerly, Sam was an early employee at Plumtree Software, where he made pivotal contributions in a variety of sales and marketing roles as the company grew from pre-revenue to over $80 million in annual income. Most recently, as Director of Business Development, he was responsible for defining and executing the company's technology partnering strategy. Previously, Sam held sales and marketing positions in AT&T's Business Multimedia Systems organization.

Sam holds a bachelor's degree in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University.

Sunil oversees product development at reQall and contributes to the company’s product vision.
 
Prior to reQall, Sunil worked at France Telecom and Apple Computer. Sunil’s interests include Human Memory Assistance, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Information Visualization, Knowledge Acquisition, Organizational Memory, Speech Recognition, and Interface/Interaction design. He has three patents and his research has been extensively covered in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek, CNN, and MIT Technology Review.
He received his Ph.D. from MIT’s Media Lab, his Masters Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and his Bachelors Degree in Cybernetics from UCLA.
 

Maribel has more than 18 years of  professional experience focusing on the telecommunications and networking industry.  Currently she analyzes how disruptive forces such as mobility, collaboration and social software, virtual currencies and Clean Tech will change the future. Most recently, Maribel spent over 10 years at Forrester Research analyzing multiple topics related to the telecommunications, media and entertainment industries including operator network and service strategies, enterprise communications and consumer markets for voice, video and data. She has also held positions at Motorola, International Data Corporation and Shiva.

Drew Barkiewicz is Vice President of E&O, Cyber and New Media Liability. He is the founder of The Hartford’s business to insure the systemic risks and liabilities associated with The Internet, Technology, Cloud Computing, and Social Media. He is currently a Board Member of ORMA and was an advisor in 2009 to the World Economic Forum’s council on the Future of the Internet. He is also a council board member of The Ponemon Institute and has been published in over 40 publications on the topics of privacy, cyber law, Internet risk and uncertainties. Drew is the author of the upcoming book, Unseen Liability, Blind Spots of the Information Age. Prior to joining The Hartford, Drew founded another line of Technology risk insurance for a company that went public as Darwin Professional Underwriters (DR on the Nasdaq). He previously held senior and executive positions at salesforce.com and BroadVision Software, where he was a also task force author for the 2001 Brookings Institution book, Unseen Wealth. Drew started his career in various management positions at United Technologies US and Europe, and he was a U.S. Army Officer in the 82nd Airborne who served in the Gulf War in 1991. Drew is a graduate of West Point, he holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and he speaks Spanish, French, and Italian. Unseen Liability is due for publication in the Spring of 2010

Mr. Barbin has a lengthy career in the security and compliance industry where he has served in auditor, consultant, and managed service provider roles.  These experiences give Mr. Barbin a comprehensive understanding of the issues facing assessors and service providers.  Doug is alumni of the “Big 4” global and multiple tier one security technology/service organizations, including managed service and SaaS providers.  Doug Barbin is currently a Director at SAS 70 Solutions, a company that provides assurance and technology compliance services to global organizations.  Prior to joining SAS 70 Solutions, Mr. Barbin was the Director of Product Management for VeriSign’s Managed Security Services business, where he was responsible for the MSS “SaaS” platform architecture and lines of business and was the liaison for SAS 70 audits, PCI assessments, and other types of compliance reviews of these MSS.  Mr. Barbin also led product marketing where he published a white paper titled “Leveraging Security as a Competitive Differentiator”, among other works.  Prior to transitioning into the MSS division, Doug was in charge of VeriSign’s western US security consulting practice. Mr. Barbin graduated cum laude with BS degrees in Accounting and Administration of Justice from Penn State University and has an MBA from Pepperdine University.  He is a Certified Pubic Accountant (CPA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), SANS GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), and is also Pragmatic Marketing Certified (PMC).

Current Responsibilities Robert Parisi is a Senior Vice President and Technology, Network Risk & Telecommunications National Practice Leader for the Financial and Professional Services (“FINPRO”) unit of Marsh. His current responsibilities include advising clients on issues related to technology, privacy, and cyber related risks as well as negotiating with the carriers on terms and conditions. Experience Prior to joining Marsh, Robert was the Senior Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer (“CUO”) of eBusiness Risk Solutions of AIG. Robert joined the AIG group of companies in 1998 as legal counsel for its Professional Liability group and held several executive and legal positions within AIG, including CUO for Professional Liability and Technology. While at AIG, Robert oversaw the creation and drafting of underwriting guidelines and policies for all lines of Professional Liability. In addition to working with AIG, Robert has also been in private practice, principally as legal counsel to various Lloyds of London syndicates. Education * Law Degree from Fordham University School of Law * BA in Economics from Fordham College Affiliations * Spoken at various business, technology, legal, and insurance forums throughout the world * Written, on issues effecting professional liability, privacy, technology and telecommunications, media, intellectual property, computer security, and insurance * Admitted to practice in New York and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York * Honored by Business Insurance (2002) magazine as one of the Rising Stars of Insurance * In 2009, honored by Risk & Insurance magazine as a Power Broker

Mark heads Osborne Clarke's  UK Technology Sector Group and is Chair of OC's International Technology Practice Group across Europe. He is a technology transactions lawyer with 11 years of technology experience specialising in digital business and IT projects.  In the past few years here has been involved with numerous SaaS and cloud computing projects in both the EU and US. Mark's core practice focuses on scenarios where intellectual property or technology needs to be leveraged for business success. This involves advising on outsourcing, offshoring, e-commerce, licensing and development deals, open source software, channel and partner relationships. He has considerable experience in privacy and data protection and it the UK contributor to Global Privacy and Security (Wolters Kluwer). Mark was based in Silicon Valley for 3 years and as a result he regularly project manages pan-European legal advice for both European and US technology projects and businesses, often acting as de facto European general counsel for venture-backed technology businesses expanding overseas. In Legal Business's Legal Experts 2009, Mark comes "highly recommended" as a legal advisor in the Information Technology practice area. He comes recommended for technology work by Legal 500 and Chambers. Mark is registered to practise English law in California.  

Bradford Stephens likes to do big things and kick ass.He is co-founder of Drawn to Scale,  who built the first easy, scalable data platform. Their platform is much more than a database: you can process, store, serve, search, and query *all* your data. To *all* your users.He has a love for public speaking, Hadoop, cloud computing, HBase, Lucene, graph theory, Iron Maiden, and using the right tools for problems. Bradford was formerly the Lead Engineer of Data Platforms at Visible Technologies, a social media analytics company. When not writing software or talking to customers, he’s usually playing guitar and drinking wine. He also hosts the popular software blog, Road to Failure (roadtofailure.com).Bradford has spoken at events such as OSCON, Hadoop World, LinkedIn TechTalks, ApacheCon, and many more. You can catch him speaking at CloudConnect, Interop, and GlueCon later this year.He can be contacted at bradfordstephens@gmail.com, and is always happy to give advice or consulting (if you’re really interesting).

Nathan has been working extensively with Hadoop and related technologies such as Cascading since 2008. He is the Lead Engineer at BackType where he is building technology for real-time search and discovery. Previously, Nathan was an engineer at Rapleaf where he led the development of a scalable architecture for Rapleaf's people search engine. He maintains a blog at http://nathanmarz.com/blog.

Chris K Wensel has been a Software and Systems Architect for over 15 years. He is the founder of Concurrent, Inc., and the author of the Cascading data processing and workflow application. Over the last 5 years he has installed large and sophisticated Cascading, Hadoop, and Nutch applications for use by companies providing web content, behavior ad-targeting, and financial data services in both the traditional enterprise data-center and on Amazon Web Services.

Dr. Dunning joins DeepDyve from Veoh, an Internet-based television service. Prior to Veoh, he was Chief Scientist at MusicMatch, (now Yahoo Music) where he architected the company's renowned music management and recommendation system. Prior to MusicMatch he served as chief scientist at ID Analytics, a leading identity fraud detection company, and at Aptex, an HNC/FairIsaac company, where he researched methods for pattern discovery and analyzed symbolic sequences in language, genetic sequences, web-browsing behavior, musical preferences, purchasing behavior and financial transactions. Dr. Dunning also performed academic research at the Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University, investigating computational linguistics and information retrieval. He earned a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado; a MS degree in computer science from New Mexico State University; and a Ph.D. in computing science from Sheffield University in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Shashi Mysore is a Product Specialist at Eucalyptus Systems, the leading open source on-premise cloud computing software provider. At Eucalyptus Systems, his responsibilities include developing the technological know-how and strategies for innovation based on cutting-edge research, and helping a worldwide customer base of large enterprises in domains as diverse as pharmaceuticals and health care, government, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and banking and finance to develop cloud deployment and infrastructure optimization strategies. Dr. Mysore obtained his MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a recipient of several awards at internationally renowned conferences including two IEEE Micro Top Pick awards.

Adrian Cole is the founder of the open source jclouds project and CEO of Cloud Conscious, LLC. Adrian's 16 year career in IT includes design and implementation of mass automation and deployment products for financial, hosting, and education contexts.

George Reese is the founder of Minneapolis-based enStratus Networks LLC, maker of high-end cloud infrastructure management tools. He is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and author of a number of technology books, including MySQL Pocket Reference, Database Programming with JDBC and Java, Java Database Best Practices, and Cloud Application Architectures. Throughout the Internet era, George has spent his career building enterprise tools for developers and delivering solutions to the marketing domain. He was an influential force in the evolution of online gaming through the creation of a number of Open Source MUD libraries and he created the first JDBC driver in 1996—the Open Source mSQL-JDBC. Most recently, George has been involved in the development of systems to support the deployment of transactional web applications in the cloud. George holds a BA in Philosophy from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. He currently lives in Minnesota with his wife Monique and his daughters Kyra and Lindsey.

Mike Mayo is the creator of the Rackspace Cloud and Slicehost iPhone, iPad and Android apps and builds open source software for the Rackspace Cloud.  He is active in the Bay Area cloud computing community and has worked for Coupa Software, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and FedEx.  He holds a BS in Computer Science from Christian Brothers University, maintains a blog at overhrd.com, and actively talks about technology on Twitter as @greenisus.

Mitch Garnaat is the founder and CEO of CloudRight. He is a veteran of more than 20 years in the software world. He was the co-inventor and lead developer of DocuShare, a web-based document management product from Xerox. He was was also a Principal Engineer and Area Manager at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and later the Chief Engineer for Emerging Technologies at Xerox Global Services. He is the developer of boto, an open source Python library for AWS and is active in the AWS community as an author, forum poster and member of Amazon’s Customer Advisory Board.  

Justin Kitagawa is responsible for the original design and development of GoGrid’s API and customer portal.  He is a founding software engineer working at GoGrid from its inception since 2006.  He is currently a senior leader on the engineering team leading GoGrid’s virtualization team. Justin graduated cum laude from UC San Diego with a BS in Computer/ Cognitive Science.  At iSpheres, a previous employer founded by Simon Ramo /Cal Tech Professor, K. Mani Chandy, his work helped embed their event server into Oracle 10G’s Application Server. Justin graduated cum laude from UC San Diego with a BS in Computer/ Cognitive Science.  At iSpheres, a previous employer founded by Simon Ramo /Cal Tech Professor, K. Mani Chandy, his work helped embed their event server into Oracle 10G’s Application Server. He has extensive experience in distributed systems, systems architecture, message middleware, and complex software architectures.  He has a passion for cloud computing, and is extremely excited to be a part of CloudConnect.

Sam brings over 15 years of industry experience in enterprise software, product development, and open source strategy.  Prior to Sonoa, Ramji led open source strategy across Microsoft. He was a founding member of the AquaLogic product team and has built large-scale enterprise and Web-scale applications, leading the Ofoto engineering team through its acquisition by Kodak. Other experience includes hands-on development of client, client-server and distributed applications on Unix, Windows and Macintosh at companies ranging from Broderbund to Fair Isaac. Sam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California at San Diego, and is a member of the Institute for Generative Leadership.

As a Technology Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps businesses take advantage of disruptive technologies like Cloud Computing that are changing the way businesses compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 100 conferences and User Groups and conducted workshops around the world. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers and architects in Start-ups, Enterprises and Universities leverage Amazon’s innovative services. Jinesh has over 11 years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University. 

Thorsten co-founded RightScale, Inc, the leading cloud management platform. Previously, Thorsten was Chief Architect at Expertcity.com and Citrix Online, makers of GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToAssist. He was responsible for the overall architecture of these online services and also managed the 24/7 datacenter operations which allowed him to acquire deep knowledge in deploying and running secure scalable online services. Thorsten received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and was a professor of computer science at Cornell University.

Nati is the CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces. Nati is also a co-founder member of the Israeli Grid consortium. He has 10 years of experience with distributed technology and architecture namely Cloud Computing, SOA, XTP, JEE, Spring, Grid, Jini, CORBA. As a software visionary and industry leader, Mr. Shalom is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and is actively involved in evangelizing Cloud Computing, Space Based Architecture and Data Grid patterns.

Ezra Zygmuntowicz is a founder and developer at Engine Yard. He has been active in the Ruby community for over seven years, and has contributed to many open source projects, including Rails, Merb, Rack and Rubinius. He is co-author of Deploying Rails Applications, published by The Pragmatic Programmers, and speaks at Ruby, Rails and Cloud Computing related events throughout the country.

Abbas Valliani brings more than a decade of experience as a financial innovator and leader in the development of financial accounting and analytic systems. He has extensive experience in accounting for mortgage-backed securities and loan portfolios for secondary mortgage markets as well as retail and commercial lending banks.

At Primatics, Abbas is leading the growth of the risk management practice including the development of the Evolv Risk Platform that will provide on-demand risk analytics to regional and large US banks around credit and interest rate risk. He is also involved in leading company strategic initiatives that involve marketing, Joint Ventures and expansion into international markets.

His prior experience includes development of FAS 91 engines for two large secondary mortgage clients during their financial restatements (more than 1.3 trillion in portfolio size) and during restatements of multiple retail and commercial lending banks.

Abbas has a Bachelors' in Systems Engineering from University of Virginia and graduated with highest honors as a Rodman scholar.

Brian Lucas is Lead Architect of Internet Services at Sling Media and currently manages the Internet team at the company’s Bay Area location.   He introduced Sling Media to the cloud and grid services model  after using it to solve a number of unique challenges at prior companies, and today a large majority of Sling Media’s infrastructure is cloud-based.   Most recently, he led the launch of slingbox.com to replace the client-software model with a web-based experience.

John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Opscode, Willis founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. A leading infrastructure management architect in the enterprise systems management category, Willis has delivered more than 10,000 hours of training on IBM Tivoli products around the world and is recognized as an industry expert in enterprise systems management and monitoring.  Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems. He is also known internationally for his IT Management and Cloud blog, johnmwillis.com, and is the co-host of the Redmonk, IT Management Guys‚ podcast series as well as hosting two additional podcasts on cloud computing: Cloud Cafe‚ and Cloud Droplets.

Duncan is Founder & CEO of Cloudsoft Corporation, a provider of cloud middleware and services that radically simplify the development, deployment and policy-based runtime management of enterprise applications in the cloud. Prior to Cloudsoft, Duncan was Founder & CTO of Enigmatec Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise data center automation tools. Duncan has over twenty years industry experience with a particular focus on distributed systems. A Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate for his pioneering work with Java in Financial Services, Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University.

Mark Hinkle has been the force behind Zenoss' remarkable community adoption and involvement, growing community membership to over 75,000 members since joining the company in 2006. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration." (Thomson, 2006) Mark has also held executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including Earthlink (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software. Mark holds a BS degree in Management from York College of Pennsylvania and has completed undergraduate work in Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Mark blogs about open source and technology trends at <a href="http://www.socializedsoftware.com">Socialized Software</a>

Alex Honor is a developer and project-leader for the ControlTier open source project. Alex has been designing and implementing automation and administration solutions for over 15 years. He was head of architecture and system engineering at E*TRADE, where he led the scaling of infrastructure from one app on 3 nodes to dozens of apps across thousands of nodes in multiple datacenters. Alex has held engineering and operations management positions in government and startups always focussing on distributed systems. His current focus is on next-generation automation frameworks, for system and application administration. Alex also provides design consulting to DTO Solution's SaaS and ecommerce customers to optimize their software development life cycle.

Michael Crandell is the CEO and a founder of RightScale, where he provides the vision and direction for the company as it pioneers innovative ways to bring the power of cloud computing to any organization. Crandell is a frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, and he has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com. Crandell received his B.A. from Stanford University and completed graduate studies at Harvard University.

George Reese is the founder of Minneapolis-based enStratus Networks LLC, maker of high-end cloud infrastructure management tools. He is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and author of a number of technology books, including MySQL Pocket Reference, Database Programming with JDBC and Java, Java Database Best Practices, and Cloud Application Architectures. Throughout the Internet era, George has spent his career building enterprise tools for developers and delivering solutions to the marketing domain. He was an influential force in the evolution of online gaming through the creation of a number of Open Source MUD libraries and he created the first JDBC driver in 1996—the Open Source mSQL-JDBC. Most recently, George has been involved in the development of systems to support the deployment of transactional web applications in the cloud. George holds a BA in Philosophy from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. He currently lives in Minnesota with his wife Monique and his daughters Kyra and Lindsey.

Ken Owens is currently the Vice Present of Security and Virtualization Technologies at SAVVIS Communications. He has made significant contributions in security and virtualization architecture and strategies. Prior to SAVVIS, Mr. Owens spent 2 year as a Network Security Architect at AG Edwards & Sons, Inc. and Edward Jones Investments respectively. Prior to Jones, Mr. Owens spent 10 years in Architecture and Design of Communications Systems and Components.

Denoid Tucker is responsible for the strategic expansion of StrataScale’s entire service portfolio including IronScale, StrataScale’s flagship hosting service. As chief architect of IronScale, he brings more than 20 years of experience in network systems architecture and deployment of large-scale IT environments, giving him a unique understanding of how to build innovative physical and virtual IT infrastructure for small business and enterprise companies with vastly different business models. Prior to StrataScale, Mr. Tucker served as senior director of engineering at parent company RagingWire, which he helped develop into a world-class colocation and managed service provider. Previously, Mr. Tucker worked for Photronics, Inc., the industry leader in the design, development and production of reticles and photomasks for semiconductor and microelectronic applications. In various corporate management roles at Photronics he engineered enterprise-class IT systems and a global infrastructure that powered photo-masking processes for Motorola, AMD, and other semiconductor manufacturers. Mr. Tucker studied computer science at California State University at Northridge, and in 1996 he joined CRL Networks in a senior systems administrator role. He subsequently served as a senior engineer for several leading ISPs.

Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990.  He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc.   Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers.  The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month.  In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud.

Killian has 16 years technology industry experience within startups and Fortune 100 IT organizations in roles encompassing engineering, management and strategy. As a Director in IT at Credit Suisse in New York for over 5 years, he was responsible for developing, integrating and deploying their internal cloud with over 20,000 virtual servers. The technology his team developed became the foundation of a successful Boston-based startup, DynamicOps. Following the success of this large scale deployment Killian managed cloud strategy in the CTO office until his departure in June 2009. During his work delivering an internal cloud at Credit Suisse, Killian pioneered important areas of internal cloud computing environments, including:     * Extensive end-to-end automation     * Business requirements for security, billing and organizational or regulatory infrastructure silos     * A self-service portal with fine-grained entitlements

John Treadway is he Director, Cloud Computing Portfolio at Unisys. He's a senior enterprise technology marketing and business development executive with significant experience across horizontal IT and financial technology markets. John has founded or co-founded three companies and currently consults to a variety of technology businesses on marketing, strategy and cloud computing opportunities.

Joe Weinman leads global portfolio strategy and business development for AT&T Business Solutions, which serves business customers ranging from small offices to large global enterprises, wholesale customers, systems integrators, and local, state, and federal government. AT&T (www.att.com) is the world's largest telecommunications and information technology firm as of YE08, with US$124.0 billion in revenue. A 29-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mr. Weinman has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in a broad variety of technologies. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and multiple AT&T Distinguished Speaker Awards. He has keynoted, MC'd, presented, and been a panelist at numerous analyst, vendor, publisher, industry, university, and trade association events on five continents. He has had a variety of articles and talks published in the print and/or on-line editions of The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, CNN, Money, Business Communications Review, Information Week, GigaOM, Salon, the ACM, the IEEE, CIO Magazine, and the AT&T Technical Journal. He has also appeared on U.S., European, and pan-Asian broadcast television, been quoted in the U.S. and international print and on-line media, and appears in a number of on-line videos. Links to articles, videos, and simulation tools may be found at http://www.joeweinman.com/

Lew Tucker is Vice President and CTO of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. His focus today is on the evolution of computing as it moves into the cloud, but his contributions span several waves of technology innovation over the last twenty years. Tucker was an early member of the JavaSoft executive team at Sun driving adoption of the Java platform, and later Vice President, Internet Services. Prior to re-joining Sun Microsystems, he was a Vice President at Salesforce.com where he created the AppExchange, and CTO at Twine.com, a semantic-web based Internet service for tracking interests. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has a background in Artificial Intelligence, Neurobiology, and large-scale parallel algorithms.
 

Art Wittmann is VP and director of InformationWeek Analytics, where he is responsible for the business operations and content strategy of InformationWeek’s analyst group.  He is also an editor of InformationWeek, where among other things, he pens the weekly Practical Analysis column. Prior to joining the InformationWeek team, Art was Editor-in-Chief of Network Computing, and IT Architect. He began his career as the as the associate director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin.
 

Simon Crosby was founder and CTO of XenSource prior to the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix Systems. Prior to XenSource, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Previously, he was the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. Before joining the private sector, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs.

Rich Miller is President of Telematica, Inc., a consulting firm and holding company with a practice in product strategy and business development for utility computing and networked services.  Miller most recently served as CEO of Replicate Technologies, Inc., a provider of management technology for the networks that support virtual machine environments (VMEs).  Prior to Replicate, he co-founded and served as COO at Univa Corporation (now Univa UD), a provider of high performance ('grid') computing and datacenter management systems.  For the bulk of his career, Miller has focused his efforts on messaging technologies and distributed applications, first as a technologist and product strategist, and then as a business strategist and operating executive.  As VP of Strategic Partners at General Magic, he enlisted some of the world's leading carriers to implement consumer oriented data services based on the company's Telescript mobile agent technology.  Miller’s career as consultant, executive, and an early investor, has focused on overseeing the formation and funding of technology companies that provide security applications, wireless network infrastructure technologies, and service infrastructures for networked services.

Mr. Reddy recently was with Yahoo where he served as Vice President of Cloud Computing and Virtualization business unit.  Working in close coordination with the senior executive team and architects, he was responsible for developing and executing organization wide cloud computing strategy and technology initiatives to drive both organic and inorganic growth for the company.  Prior to joining Yahoo, Mr. Reddy was the CTO and VP of Engineering of Amitive, a Supply Chain-as-a-Service company where architected and directed the schema-less transactional data management system (to scale to millions of transactions at Cloud scale) to facilitate the collaboration of transactional documents across the supply chain participants. Prior to Amitive, Mr. Reddy was the founder and CTO of Optena Corporation, a pioneer in data center automation and cloud computing 1.0. From 2002 to 2005, he led the vision, strategy, and growth of the company. During this time he successfully secured venture capital financing, recruited and worked with a senior management team, and served on the Board of Directors. Under his leadership, Optena products were successfully chosen and deployed by industry leaders such as Oracle, Micron Technologies and number of pilots by other financial institutions. Prior to Optena, Mr. Reddy was with Oracle Corporation for from 1996 through 2003 as the Director of Engineering in Server Technologies. Mr. Reddy was an active participant in IETF and various standards organizations. Mr. Reddy co-authored the RFC 5323 and contributed to RFC 3648. Mr. Reddy currently developing and implementing the Lighthouse, Intercloud metadata access protocol. He is also an active participant in Open Cloud Consortium working on large data sets and data access, security, and integrity issues.

Glenn Dasmalchi is the Technical Chief of Staff in the CTO's office at Cisco Systems.  In this role, Glenn helps identify and collaborate on strategy around significant technology disruptions. He joined Cisco in 1998, and served in a variety of engineering management roles working on Cisco's high-end switching platforms. Glenn has held a variety of engineering and management positions at companies including Cisco, Apple, and HP.  His previous experience also includes Silicon Valley startups, as well as technology consulting. Glenn holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.  

Robert Grossman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Open Data Group, which provides management consulting and outsourced analytic services, including cloud-based analytic services.   He is also the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Computing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Laboratory for Advanced Computing performs research in data intensive computing and develops open source computing infrastructure, such as the UDT protocol for high performance data transport and the Sector system for cloud computing.  He is also the Chair of the Open Cloud Consortium.

Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives.  Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi.  He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. 

Robert Grossman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Open Data Group, which provides management consulting and outsourced analytic services, including cloud-based analytic services.   He is also the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Computing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Laboratory for Advanced Computing performs research in data intensive computing and develops open source computing infrastructure, such as the UDT protocol for high performance data transport and the Sector system for cloud computing.  He is also the Chair of the Open Cloud Consortium.

Steve Hanna is a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. As co-chair of the Trusted Network Connect Work Group in the TCG and the Network Endpoint Assessment Working Group in the IETF, Steve has a deep and broad understanding of network security. He is the author of many papers, an inventor or co-inventor on 34 issued U.S. patents, and a regular speaker at industry events.  

Lew Tucker is Vice President and CTO of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. His focus today is on the evolution of computing as it moves into the cloud, but his contributions span several waves of technology innovation over the last twenty years. Tucker was an early member of the JavaSoft executive team at Sun driving adoption of the Java platform, and later Vice President, Internet Services. Prior to re-joining Sun Microsystems, he was a Vice President at Salesforce.com where he created the AppExchange, and CTO at Twine.com, a semantic-web based Internet service for tracking interests. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has a background in Artificial Intelligence, Neurobiology, and large-scale parallel algorithms.
 

Joe Weinman leads global portfolio strategy and business development for AT&T Business Solutions, which serves business customers ranging from small offices to large global enterprises, wholesale customers, systems integrators, and local, state, and federal government. AT&T (www.att.com) is the world's largest telecommunications and information technology firm as of YE08, with US$124.0 billion in revenue. A 29-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mr. Weinman has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in a broad variety of technologies. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and multiple AT&T Distinguished Speaker Awards. He has keynoted, MC'd, presented, and been a panelist at numerous analyst, vendor, publisher, industry, university, and trade association events on five continents. He has had a variety of articles and talks published in the print and/or on-line editions of The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, CNN, Money, Business Communications Review, Information Week, GigaOM, Salon, the ACM, the IEEE, CIO Magazine, and the AT&T Technical Journal. He has also appeared on U.S., European, and pan-Asian broadcast television, been quoted in the U.S. and international print and on-line media, and appears in a number of on-line videos. Links to articles, videos, and simulation tools may be found at http://www.joeweinman.com/

Bernard Golden is called a “cloud guru.” He is CEO of HyperStratus, a Silicon Valley cloud consulting firm that helps its clients plan, design, and implement cloud initiatives. HyperStratus clients include the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, HelloWallet, Sun Microsytems, and Hewlett-Packard. Bernard is the Cloud Computing Advisor for CIO Magazine. His widely-read CIO.com blog on cloud computing has been called “brilliant and incisive.” His blog's influence was recognized when it was named a “Top 25 Cloud Computing Blog” by CloudTP. He is the author or co-author of three books on virtualization and cloud computing, including Virtualization for Dummies, the most popular book on the subject ever published. Bernard is a popular and engaging presenter, speaking throughout the world at conferences like CloudWorld, Cloud Connect, Structure, and EDUCAUSE.

Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a strategy consulting and subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging IT markets. Most recently, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing and open. Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business/IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business/IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of user and vendor clients over the years, throughout the world. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, business development and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research. Mr. McNee is a Board or Advisory Board member for a number of emerging and established technology companies as well as the Westport Public Library. Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University. Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a strategy consulting and subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging IT markets. Most recently, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing and open. Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business/IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business/IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of user and vendor clients over the years, throughout the world. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, business development and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research. Mr. McNee is a Board or Advisory Board member for a number of emerging and established technology companies as well as the Westport Public Library. Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University.Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a strategy consulting and subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging IT markets. Most recently, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing and open. Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business/IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business/IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of user and vendor clients over the years, throughout the world. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, business development and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research. Mr. McNee is a Board or Advisory Board member for a number of emerging and established technology companies as well as the Westport Public Library. Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University.Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a strategy consulting and subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging IT markets. Most recently, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing and open. Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business/IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business/IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of user and vendor clients over the years, throughout the world. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, business development and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research. Mr. McNee is a Board or Advisory Board member for a number of emerging and established technology companies as well as the Westport Public Library. Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University.Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a strategy consulting and subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging IT markets. Most recently, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing and open. Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business/IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business/IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of user and vendor clients over the years, throughout the world. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, business development and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research. Mr. McNee is a Board or Advisory Board member for a number of emerging and established technology companies as well as the Westport Public Library. Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University.

Ariel Kelman is Vice President of Force.com Product Marketing at salesforce.com where he is responsible for the go-to-market strategy for the company’s Force.com cloud platform.  Since joining salesforce.com, Kelman has helped evangelize the power and innovation of cloud computing, as customers have built more than 135,000 custom applications and more than 400 partners have developed over 800 SaaS applications on the Force.com cloud platform.   Previously, Kelman founded Ventaso, a venture-backed marketing content management SaaS company, where he served as vice president of Marketing.  Before that, Kelman held various sales and professional services positions at MicroStrategy, a leading business intelligence software company.  Kelman holds a degree in economics with honors from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dianne O’Brien is Microsoft Corporation’s Senior Director of Business Strategy and Global Operations for Windows Azure, Microsoft’s recently launched platform for cloud computing.  In this role Dianne is responsible for all long term business planning, worldwide data center development and global pricing and licensing.  During her ten year Microsoft tenure she has held senior leadership positions in the corporate planning and finance functions including leading the Global R&D finance team and serving as IT Controller. Prior to joining Microsoft Dianne owned a private CPA practice, and was the Assistant General Manager of a public utility service in San Diego county where she was responsible for the implementation of major technology initiatives. Dianne holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of San Diego. She lives with her husband on Whidbey Island near Seattle, and enjoys fishing and watching baseball. 

Steve Oberlin is a VP/Distinguished Engineer at CA working on cloud architecture and strategy.  Steve has been innovating in large-scale computing for over 30 years, most-recently as co-founder and Chief Scientist at cloud computing pioneer Cassatt before its purchase by CA.  Prior to Cassatt, Steve was founder/CEO of Unlimited Scale, a distributed computing management software company purchased by Cassatt, VP Software for SGI, VP Hardware for Cray Research, Chief Architect of the Cray T3x series of massively parallel processors (for which he holds 15 patents), and designer/engineer on Seymour Cray’s Cray-2 and Cray-3 supercomputer projects.

Jitendra is a Principal Architect with Infosys technologies and leads the technical strategy and business development for Infosys Cloud Computing Practice. Infosys Cloud Practice provides consulting services and solutions to its Global 2000 enterprise customers to  help them leverage cloud platforms, identify and migrate candidate workloads  and address the associated challenges from a business and technology standpoint. Jitendra has 14 years of experience in the IT industry consulting, architecting and selling solutions. He has worked as presales architect role for selling Infosys IP and solution around Grid, Virtualization, BI and Mobility. Prior to this, he has worked across multiple large enterprise customers and domains including Financial, Energy and Manufacturing in roles of solution architect for highly transacted scalable and mission critical systems. He also led efforts in building and rolling out Infosys application development frameworks and Software factory for predictable software development.  

As a Technology Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps businesses take advantage of disruptive technologies like Cloud Computing that are changing the way businesses compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 100 conferences and User Groups and conducted workshops around the world. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers and architects in Start-ups, Enterprises and Universities leverage Amazon’s innovative services. Jinesh has over 11 years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University. 

Bob Lozano is serial entrepreneur, author, and co-founder of Appistry, the leading provider of cloud application platforms. Bob serves as Chief Strategist, after being the founding CEO. Bob previously founded and led PaylinX, a pioneer and leader in ecommerce payments (acquired by CyberSource {CYBS} in 2000). Prior to Paylinx Bob founded several additional companies, and held positions with SBC (AT&T), Monsanto, Sandia National Laboratories, and Intelligent Computer Systems. Bob holds a BSEE from the University of Missouri and a MSEE from Stanford, and has lectured on artificial intelligence at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the co-author of Executive’s Guide to Cloud Computing (Wiley, April 2010). twitter:    boblozano blog:     www.thoughtsoncomputing.com  

Shmuel Kliger is the founder and CEO of VMTurbo, a new venture founded in 2009 developing easy-to-install and easy-to-use management automation solutions to deploy, monitor, and control virtualized environments.
 
Prior to found VMTurbo, Shmuel served as Vice President of Architecture and Applied Research in the EMC CTO Office. Prior to joining the CTO Office, Shmuel was the Chief Technology Officer of EMC’s Resource Management Software Group.

Shmuel joined EMC with the acquisition of SMARTS. Shmuel was a Chief Technology Officer and member of the SMARTS founding team. As CTO of SMARTS Shmuel Kliger was responsible for setting SMARTS vision and strategy, managing SMARTS R&D organization, as well as Professional Services, Technical Support and Technology Partner Development.

Prior to joining SMARTS, Shmuel was a member of the Distributed Systems Software Technology department at IBM Research developing middleware technologies.

Shmuel holds a B.S. in mathematics from Bar Ilan University, an M.Sc.and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Mr. Pulier is recognized as among the leading and most successful entrepreneurs in government and enterprise technology. The best-known venture capital groups in the world have financed companies that Mr. Pulier has founded or co-founded. These include rich media presentation (IVT), Enterprise Professional Services (US Interactive), virtual desktops (Desktone), and service oriented infrastructure (SOA Software). Named one of 30 e-Visionaries by VAR Business, Mr. Pulier is a popular public speaker at premier technology conferences around the globe. Pulier is member of Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative, the Center for Telecommunications Management, and is the Executive Director of the Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council.

David Bernstein is VP and Special CTO for the Software Division of Huawei R&D, North America. In this role he is Huwei’s top Cloud Computing Executive in North America and is responsible for overall corporate R&D in Cloud Computing. Previous to Huawei, David served as VP/GM in Cisco’s Office of the CTO where his team ran Cisco’s first Cloud Lab, and was responsible for Cisco’s University, Research, and Industry activities in Cloud Computing. He headed development for Cisco’s Cloud Security, Interoperability and Standards initiatives. David’s previous experience includes executive positions in AT&T, Siebel Systems, Pluris, InterTrust, and Santa Cruz Operation. David holds nearly a dozen patents in software and communications, publishes research regularly in IEEE, ACM, and IARIA conferences, and is a member of the IEEE Cloud Computing SSG (Standards Study Group). He was a key author/contributor to many industry standards such as OpenSOA.org, OASIS SCA, WS-I, JCP/J2EE, and IEEE POSIX. David holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics from University of California where he was awarded the UC Regents Scholar designation for his work for the Office of Naval Research.

William is the product architect of JINSPIRED's innovative application performance management and resource metering solution - JXInsight. JXInsight is the first production-ready activity based costing and multi-resource metering & charge back solution that spans the complete application lifecycle supporting enterprise, grid and the cloud computing platforms. He has previously worked for Borland and has provided technical advisory consultancy to many of the leading JVM & IT management vendors in the area of performance management, software runtime visualization, application deployment tooling and CMDB design.

Mr. Ziskin joined IBM in 1997 and has worked in IBM Global Services, IBM Sales & Distribution, and Corporate Strategy.   Mr. Ziskin joined IBM Corporate Strategy at the end of 2006.   His responsibilities include developing strategies for new business opportunities/business models and improving operations focusing on service delivery, service platforms, and ecosystems.   Prior to his current position he was Vice President for IBM’s Global Telecommunications Industry.  He was responsible for Solutions Development, IBM strategy for the Telecom Industry and development of IBM growth initiatives for Telecommunication service providers and business partners.  He continues to lead IBM’s efforts in telecom standards, business development, & growth initiatives.  These efforts include strategic alliance development and driving industry investment and corporate development strategies.    Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Ziskin spent over 10 years as a strategy consultant with Ernst & Young/Whinney, Coopers & Lybrand, and The MAC Group. Mr. Ziskin was also Vice President, Strategic Planning for Technology for The Bank of New England. He is a member of IBM’s Corporate Standards Advisory Council and is the executive sponsor of Industry Standards and Solutions Council.   Mr. Ziskin is a Board Member and Officer of the TM Forum.  

James Watters is currently the Sr. Manager of Cloud Solutions Development at VMware where he is responsible for developing partner run public cloud computing solutions. He is active in the SF Bay Area cloud computing community and organizes the SF Cloud Club while blogging for Silicon Angle. Prior to VMware James held positions in sales, corporate strategy, product management and engineering at Sun Microsystems and Level 3 Communications. Over his career James has focused on strategic issues around scaled data-center infrastructure and open source and virtualization software.

A Director in the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), Cisco’s  strategic consulting arm, Sailesh Yellumahanti helps service provider partners successfully combine technology investment and business impact.

As IBSG’s lead for one of world’s largest service providers, Sailesh drives industry thought leadership and conducts customer engagements, collaborating with a team of management and technology professionals. His focus areas include cloud computing, convergence, and connected home/ life strategies. Sailesh recently conducted demand-side research for cloud computing, interviewing more than 80 enterprise cloud decision makers.

Prior to Cisco, Sailesh was a Senior Manager in Accenture’s Strategy Practice, focusing on communications and high-technology clients.
 

Valerie oversees Business Development for Dell’s Cloud products Division and manages the marketing team for their new cloud-focused offerings.  A 10 year veteran of Dell,  Val joined the cloud team last summer from Dell’s Global Accounts group where she managed strategic relationships with Google, LinkedIn and Facebook.   Prior to Dell, Valerie held positions in sales and marketing in the semiconductor industry. She moved to the Silicon Valley from her hometown of Montreal, quickly establishing herself as a top producer.  She holds a Bachelors degree from McGill University.  Valerie and her family live in the Bay Area.

Scott McClellan is currently Vice President and Chief Technologist of Cloud Services at Hewlett-Packard. In this role, Scott drives the technology strategy for HP’s Cloud Computing products, solutions, and services. Prior to his current role, Scott was Vice President and Chief Technologist for HP’s Scalable Computing and Infrastructure organization. SCI is responsible for developing and delivering market leading solutions for scale-out computing. After the merger between HP and Compaq, Scott became a Chief Technologist within HP’s Enterprise Servers and Storage business unit. Immediately post-merger, Scott was named Chief Technologist for the High Performance Computing (HPC) Division. During Scott’s tenure, HP established a strong HPC business (#1 in market share according to IDC). In 2005, Scott was recruited to become Vice President and Chief Technologist for the Business Critical Systems global business unit. In that role, Scott provided strong technical leadership and played a critical role in a new roadmap and long-term vision for the organization. The first half of Scott’s career at HP revolved around MPE (an HP proprietary operating system) and the HP3000 family of minicomputers. Over a twelve year period Scott designed and implemented many different parts of the operating system. Ultimately, Scott became one of the lead architects for MPE, responsible for all design and implementation issues related to scalability and capacity across the entire operating system (and related system level software). From MPE lead architect, Scott became the high availability architect for a carrier grade HW business within HP. In this position, Scott was responsible for developing the overall high availability strategy to meet exacting telco requirements (>99.9999% service availability).  

Archie Reed is HP's Chief Technologist for Cloud Security in the HP Security Office. He has 20 years of experience in leadership, architecture, product development and R&D roles in high profile environments. He is currently working on a new 2010 book “The Concise Guide to Cloud Computing.”

Winston Bumpus, Director of Standards Architecture at VMware, has had over 40 years of experience in the computer industry. He is currently the President of the DMTF. He has chaired activities in other standards organizations including, OASIS, and The Open Group. Prior to VMware he was Director of Systems Management Architecture at Dell and he was also Director of Open Technologies at Novell, Inc. He is co-author of the books "Common Information Model" and "The Foundations of Application Management." He has participated in the DMTF for over 16 years and worked on its early development of the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards and founded and chaired its Application Management Working Group.

Krishna Sankar is currently a Distinguished Engineer with Cisco Systems Inc, part of the CTO's Office, and working on various aspects of Cloud Computing. He been developing systems for the last 20+ years - from C/CPM to Cobol to Ada to Java to .. lately working on the cloud domain internally and externally. He has been participating in cloud interface efforts incl SNIA and DMTF. He is the co-chair of the DMTF Cloud Incubator group as well as the chair for the Cloud Service Provider Security sub-group. He also has contributed as elected member of OASIS TAB, JCP and ETSI STF on electronic signature. His interests include NOSQL, BigData Clouds, highly scalable Web architectures, social graphs and intelligent inferences. Occasionally he writes about them at http://doubleclix.wordpress.com. He also writes books - works include Cisco Wireless LAN Security and the latest one Enterprise Web 2.0 <http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Web-2-0-Fundamentals/dp/B0026Q803A/>. His other passion is Lego Robotics and is fortunate enough to participate as technical judge in local and Lego world competitions.

Shlomo Swidler is a prominent cloud computing developer, trainer, and consultant. He is among the top experts contributing to the Amazon EC2 Developer Forums. His blog is a highly-regarded source of practical techniques for developers, and has served as the inspiration for a number of features in commercial products. Shlomo is also an active participant in the Oped Grid Forum's Open Cloud Computing Interface working group, providing an open, community-developed interface to cloud computing resources. Shlomo was an early adopter of cloud computing, when, in 2007 as CTO of MyDrifts, he architected and implemented a large-scale deployment completely hosted in the cloud, designed to scale itself automatically according to load. Prior to founding MyDrifts, Shlomo led a team of developers at Sun Microsystems in the Java ME Developer Tools division, where he managed development efforts both for internal and for customer-facing projects. Shlomo also led development teams at a number of startups during the dot-com era. He has an Engineering degree from The Cooper Union in New York.

Mr. Pulier is recognized as among the leading and most successful entrepreneurs in government and enterprise technology. The best-known venture capital groups in the world have financed companies that Mr. Pulier has founded or co-founded. These include rich media presentation (IVT), Enterprise Professional Services (US Interactive), virtual desktops (Desktone), and service oriented infrastructure (SOA Software). Named one of 30 e-Visionaries by VAR Business, Mr. Pulier is a popular public speaker at premier technology conferences around the globe. Pulier is member of Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative, the Center for Telecommunications Management, and is the Executive Director of the Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council.

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. 

David is working with the Cloud Industry Forum to help develop its Code of Practice and associated scheme for giving certifiable assurance to purchasers about the transparency, capability, and accountability of suppliers.  David has extensive experience in standards, IT industry commercial and operational best practice, and audit.  He is the Convener of the ISO working group responsible for Software Asset Management ('SAM') standards (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 WG21 or ‘WG21’).  He project-managed and contributed extensively to the ITIL SAM Guide; was responsible for writing much of ISO/IEC 19770-1:2006 Software Asset Management Processes; and has developed a guide for license management in outsourcing.  He has also worked extensively for more than a decade in audits of IT resellers and partners for major software vendors. David is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Information System Auditor, and a Chartered Banker (ACIB).  He has worked in the IT industry for over 40 years. He has lived and worked extensively throughout the US, Western and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.  He currently lives in Buxton, Derbyshire, UK, pretending to be retired.  

Peter Coffee joined salesforce.com in January of 2007, after spending 18 years as an analyst and columnist at the enterprise technology journal eWEEK (including time under its former title PC Week). Based in the Los Angeles area, he works with enterprise IT leaders and independent developers to build a community based on Force.com: salesforce.com's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).                                                   Peter has 27 years' experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies and practices as a developer, consultant, educator, and internationally published author. He has appeared on CBS, CNN, NBC, PBS, Fox, India's Network 18 and Mexico's Grupo Fórmula newscasts addressing a broad range of eBusiness issues. He chaired the four-day Web Security Summit conference in Boston during the summer of 2000; he has been a keynote speaker, moderator or workshop leader at technical conferences, business and academic events throughout the U.S. and in India, Singapore, Australia, China, Korea, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the UK, Spain, Italy and The Netherlands.                     Peter was previously the first manager of PC planning at The Aerospace Corporation, where he also worked in space systems project management and in space-asset applications of artificial intelligence techniques. Before that, he was a Senior Engineer working in arctic project planning, chemical facility construction management, and alternative-fuels engineering for several divisions of Exxon Corporation. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, where he also served as a faculty member for the core curriculum in IT management; he has held other faculty appointments in computer science (artificial intelligence) at UCLA and in business analytics at Chapman College. He is the author of two books, How To Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs.  

Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer in IBM’s Emerging Technology group. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and he has been working with markup languages, Web services and SOA (the technologies beneath the cloud) for many years. His presentations have been featured at dozens of conferences around the world, and his JavaOne presentation on cloud computing earned him a Rock Star award in 2009.

His job as a technology evangelist is to explain the standards and technologies behind Cloud Computing and to help customers integrate them into their overall business architectures and strategies. He is the author of many articles on IBM’s developerWorks site (ibm.com/developerWorks), and is the author of O’Reilly’s book on XSLT, a copy of which makes a perfect gift for any occasion.

He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife, daughter and dog.
 

Mark Ryland is 20 year industry veteran with a wide range of experience in distributed computing and standardization. He worked for many years in the 1990s as a senior program manager in the Windows product team, first on the Cairo research operating system, and then as lead program manager of COM/DCOM/OLE system object technology.  Ryland subsequently started Microsoft’s first central standards organization in 1998.  After leaving Microsoft in 2000 and trying his hand at several start-ups, a policy think tank, and some other interesting projects, he returned to Microsoft in 2008 as its National Standards Officer (NSO) for the U.S.  He has subsequently put considerable focus on cloud computing interoperability and standards issues.  As of March 2010, Ryland is transitioning from the NSO role to a job as a principal program manager in Microsoft’s Identity and Security Division, and cloud identity interoperability and standards will be an important aspect of his new job. 

David Bernstein is VP and Special CTO for the Software Division of Huawei R&D, North America. In this role he is Huwei’s top Cloud Computing Executive in North America and is responsible for overall corporate R&D in Cloud Computing. Previous to Huawei, David served as VP/GM in Cisco’s Office of the CTO where his team ran Cisco’s first Cloud Lab, and was responsible for Cisco’s University, Research, and Industry activities in Cloud Computing. He headed development for Cisco’s Cloud Security, Interoperability and Standards initiatives. David’s previous experience includes executive positions in AT&T, Siebel Systems, Pluris, InterTrust, and Santa Cruz Operation. David holds nearly a dozen patents in software and communications, publishes research regularly in IEEE, ACM, and IARIA conferences, and is a member of the IEEE Cloud Computing SSG (Standards Study Group). He was a key author/contributor to many industry standards such as OpenSOA.org, OASIS SCA, WS-I, JCP/J2EE, and IEEE POSIX. David holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics from University of California where he was awarded the UC Regents Scholar designation for his work for the Office of Naval Research.

Archie Reed is HP's Chief Technologist for Cloud Security in the HP Security Office. He has 20 years of experience in leadership, architecture, product development and R&D roles in high profile environments. He is currently working on a new 2010 book “The Concise Guide to Cloud Computing.”

William Vambenepe is an Architect in the Enterprise Manager division of Oracle. His focus is on middleware and application management. Before joining Oracle, William was a Distinguished Technologist in HP Software (OpenView/BTO) where he worked on SOA, CMDB, management protocols and standards. William blogs at http://stage.vambenepe.com/ and tweets as @vambenepe.

Krishna Sankar is currently a Distinguished Engineer with Cisco Systems Inc, part of the CTO's Office, and working on various aspects of Cloud Computing. He been developing systems for the last 20+ years - from C/CPM to Cobol to Ada to Java to .. lately working on the cloud domain internally and externally. He has been participating in cloud interface efforts incl SNIA and DMTF. He is the co-chair of the DMTF Cloud Incubator group as well as the chair for the Cloud Service Provider Security sub-group. He also has contributed as elected member of OASIS TAB, JCP and ETSI STF on electronic signature. His interests include NOSQL, BigData Clouds, highly scalable Web architectures, social graphs and intelligent inferences. Occasionally he writes about them at http://doubleclix.wordpress.com. He also writes books - works include Cisco Wireless LAN Security and the latest one Enterprise Web 2.0 <http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Web-2-0-Fundamentals/dp/B0026Q803A/>. His other passion is Lego Robotics and is fortunate enough to participate as technical judge in local and Lego world competitions.

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.

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.

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. 

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.  

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.