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Our two-day event will provide you with a content-rich look at the next three years of cloud computing. Give us two days, and we’ll give you:

  • 10 keynote speakers and fireside chats including VMware, IBM, Salesforce.com, Facebook, Amazon, CA, Akamai and more.
  • Over 100 session speakers in 25 sessions
  • 18 workshops on topics such as marketing cloud to SMBs, social enterprise, cloud architecture, storage and here.
  • 8 company announcements from companies including Spiceworks and AMD.
  • 11 LaunchPad companies
  • 4+ hours of networking time
  • 50 top-tier press including GigaOM editors
  • 1 research report from GigaOM Pro on industry solutions for private clouds FREE with your registration

Our list of top-tier speakers is growing every day and includes the biggest names in cloud computing including:

  • Paul Maritz, CEO, VMware- Gates, Ballmer, Maritz…Paul was one of the most powerful people at Microsoft. Now, he is laser-focused on the cloud. Will he lead VMware to market dominance in the new cloud market?
  • Erich Clementi, Vice President, Strategy and General Manager, Enterprise Initiatives, IBM – IBM is still one of the most powerful computer services company on the planet – period. Erich heads up IBM’s cloud services division and cloud acquisitions. What are his plans and will he be acquiring more cloud companies?
  • Dr. Donald Ferguson, CTO, CA, Inc. – CA handles many of the Fortune 500 companies’ technology needs. When Donald gets behind a technology, the enterprise computing industry tends to listen.
  • Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com – Salesforce.com was the first billion-dollar revenue SaaS company out there. Now Marc is banking on bringing real-time communications to the enterprise with Chatter and his vision of “Cloud 2.0″.
  • Werner Vogels, CTO and Vice President, Amazon – Werner made the cloud real. Amazon ignited this market by making the first commercially available public cloud service with an API and easy access. Without a doubt one of the godfathers of cloud computing and a technologist’s technologist.
  • Chris Kemp, CIO, NASA Ames – This is the man architecting the first steps toward the “Federal Cloud.” His insights will reveal the opportunities for businesses to capitalize and plan for their government initiatives.
  • Paul Sagan, CEO, Akamai – Akamai made some important annoucements last year about taking the cloud to edge of the network.This year, Akamai is reportedly pushing terabits of data every second due to the growing popularity of video, will cloud traffic exceed that one day?
  • Forrest Norrod, VP and GM of Data Center Solutions, Dell- When it comes to fitting out your data center, there are a few big “go-to” names. Dell is one of them. As a major provider in the space their future product strategy affects many businesses. Forrest is Dell’s man in charge of their data center division. What directions is he planning to take your data center?
  • Nick McKeown, Faculty Director of the Clean Slate Program, Stanford University – The internet is based on 40 year-old technology. Nick is redesigning the Internet from the ground up by rethinking it completely in a breathtaking research program. The aim: An internet that will withstand a future traffic and demands made of it.
  • William Forrest, Principal, McKinsey and Company – William wrote a controversial report about cloud computing. What will he say this year?

Our complete list is here.

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