Speakers

Guido Appenzeller

Co-Founder and CEO, Big Switch Networks

Guido is the Co-Founder and CEO of Big Switch Networks. Before co-founding Big Switch Networks, he was a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University and head of the Clean Slate Lab where he led the research team that developed the OpenFlow v1.0 standard and the reference switch and controller implementations. Guido previously was CTO of Voltage Security, an enterprise software company that he co-founded and grew from zero to profitability and over 1000 Enterprise customers. He was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a MS in Physics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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Amr Awadallah

Founder and CTO, Cloudera

Amr is Co-Founder and CTO of Cloudera since it was formed in Oct 2008. Before that he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners for about 3-months. Prior to joining Accel he served as Vice President of Product Intelligence Engineering at Yahoo!, and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence. Amr joined Yahoo after they acquired his first startup, VivaSmart, in July of 2000. Amr holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

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Joe Baguley

Chief Cloud Technologist, VMware

Joe Baguley is VMware’s Chief Cloud Technologist in EMEA. He develops VMware’s strategy with customers and partners, using his experience to help organizations reduce costs and support business needs. In VMware’s Office of the CTO, Joe assists customers in understanding how emerging technologies deliver real business impact as well as R&D processes. Joe is a leader within the cloud community. He has played a key role in CloudCamp and other events. Previously, he spent 10 years at Quest Software where he was CTO of EMEA. Joe is also on the Industry Expert Group at SIENA and a founding committee member of the Data Centre Specialist Group at the British Computer Society, shaping the European Code Of Conduct for Data Centres.

Ruediger Baumann

CEO, Zimory

Ruediger Baumann is the CEO of Zimory, where he is responsible for company vision, finance and global market execution. With more than 30 years of experience within IT and communication industries Ruediger Baumann combines valuable expertise which laid the vision of global cloud computing marketplace based on standardization. Prior to Zimory, he served in well-known enterprises like Philips and ADC, and start-ups that have included British Telecom spin off companies. Previous management roles included CEO, Managing Director and VP Sales & Marketing.

Pim Berger

Managing Director, Schuberg Philis

Pim Berger, one of the three founders of Schuberg Philis, has over 15 years experience in the field of mission critical outsourcing. In 2000 he joined forces with Gerwin Schuring and Philip Dries to set up the Benelux subsidiary of MFN and went on to become senior vice president for the company’s European region, covering Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. In the years before, Pim held several executive positions at Pink Elephant and PinkRoccade. He was responsible for providing PinkRoccade with a clear vision and strategy, and for developing the business. Pim believes that technology should serve a meaningful purpose and, when present, should be used to the maximum. Business, he says, is about skilled personalities, relations, trust and fun.

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Pim Bilderbeek

Partner and Principal Analyst, the METISfiles and Analyst, GigaOM Pro

Pim is leading the METISfiles Elastic Enterprise research theme. The METISfiles is an independent market research and consulting firm focused on the ICT industry. Pim helps telecommunications and technology professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. Before establishing the METISfiles, Pim was Vice President European Telecommunications Consulting at research firm IDC. Pim also worked for TNO as senior business consultant.

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Damian Black

CEO, SQLstream

Damian started his career at HP in their European research labs, eventually running a European-wide middleware solutions business. At HP he led the team that pioneered IP Mediation - a real-time technology for analytics and billing in Telecomm, becoming market leader. He moved to XACTT as VP Product Management, acquired by Amdocs to power its real-time data mediation. Damian was also VP Sales and Business Development for Followap, a Sequoia funded company, market leader in mobile Instant Messaging and Presence until acquired by NeuStar, powering Vodafone's IM service, continuing Damian's career in real-time middleware. Damian is the author of ten patents and founder of SQLstream, a parallel engine executing continuous SQL queries against streaming big data in a cloud-based architecture.

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Ditlev Bredahl

CEO, OnApp

Ditlev Bredahl is an Internet and hosting industry veteran, with more than 15 years’ experience leading hosting and technology companies. Before founding OnApp, Ditlev led UK2 Group’s hosting companies as MD and CEO, and spearheaded the launch of VPS.NET, which now operates one of the world’s top 5 public clouds. He has founded numerous successful hosting brands and, earlier in his career, had a number of roles working for the European Parliament.

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Tate Cantrell

CTO, Verne Global

As Chief Technology Officer for Verne Global, Tate Cantrell's responsibilities include product design and development and data centre operations. Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Cantrell acted as VP of Data Centre Technologies at Dupont Fabros Technology. He was responsible for development and execution of operational strategies critical to the start-up of the Dupont Fabros Development Wholesale Data Centre business model, the first of its kind in the industry. Mr. Cantrell also provided technical support for marketing and key business strategy expansion opportunities, and directed and managed strategy for all IT systems. Mr. Cantrell has been involved in data centres and other high tech facilities for more than 15 years, starting as a research programmer for computational modeling on biomedical applications.

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Max Cooter

Editor, Cloud Pro

Max is the editor of Cloud Pro, the UK’s first dedicated cloud publication. He has been covering cloud computing and virtualisation for a number of years, following a long career in tech journalism, He founded and edited IDG’s Techworld and prior to that was editor of the UK’s first networking weekly newspaper, Network Week and has edited several telecommunications titles. As a freelancer, he has contributed to Computer Weekly, Computer Reseller News, Internet magazine, PC Business World and many others, including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. He has also spoken at many conferences and has been a commentator for the BBC, ITN and computer TV channel CNBC.

Bart Copeland

CEO, ActiveState

As ActiveState Software’s President and CEO since 2006, Bart Copeland brings more than twenty-three years of leadership, management, finance, and technology business experience to his role. With a passion for technologies that help people lead more productive and enjoyable lives, Bart is currently focused on Stackato, ActiveState’s private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. Bart views PaaS as an enabler to accelerate cloud adoption and deliver value in enterprises, and is actively involved in Stackato strategy, business development, and evangelism. Bart is also an active angel investor and serves as a director for a number of other tech companies. He holds an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix and a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of British Columbia.

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Julien Coulon

Co-Founder and GM, Cedexis

Julien started career in 1992 at France Telecom’s Hosting Division. Back in France after two years in New York, he headed the Internet and Minitel sector of worldcup “France 98”, then successfully developed their Hosting activity. In 2000 he helped set up “Langages Virtuels”, a web conferencing start-up later bought by Genesys Conferencing. Julien joined Akamai International in 2002, to launch their E-commerce, Digital Media & Telecom activities in France. He remained Industry Director with Akamai until 2009, having assured the company’s dominance in the French market. Mid-2009, he launched Cedexis with Marty Kagan. Cedexis is a neutral benchmarking evaluator of Cloud/CDN/datacenter, synchronized with a real-time load-balancing SaaS platform resulting in significant performance improvement, delivery and Cloud cost optimization.

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Mark Cravotta

SVP Worldwide Sales, Tier 3

Mark Cravotta is vice president of channel strategy for Tier 3, the enterprise cloud platform company. By developing strategic technology and channel partnerships, Mark is accelerating Tier 3’s vision to be the most comprehensive cloud management platform for the enterprise. In addition to 15 years of sales executive experience in enterprise IT and cloud at leaders such as Datapipe and NaviSite, Mark has extensive consulting and technology experience. Mark is a graduate of West Point and achieved the rank of Captain in the U.S Army before joining the private sector

Bernard Dalle

General Partner, Index Ventures

Bernard Dallé is a Partner at Index Ventures, which he joined in 1997. His areas of investment focus currently include enterprise infrastructure, applications and services. Bernard serves as a Director for several companies including Mimecast, OpenX, Optier, Pentaho and StorSimple. He was previously on the boards of Assistly, B-hive, DimDim, FilesX, Gluster and Worklight.Prior to joining Index, Bernard spent six years with McKinsey & Company and Procter & Gamble. While with Procter & Gamble, Bernard was responsible for the implementation of financial, accounting and logistics ERP systems. He has a MSc. in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Business.

Ruben Daniels

Co-Founder and CEO, Cloud9 IDE

Ruben Daniels is the CEO and co-founder of Cloud9 IDE, a leading cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that enables web and mobile developers to work, code and collaborate together in remote teams anywhere, anytime. Cloud9 IDE is an online development platform for JavaScript, Node.js, Ruby, PHP and Python applications, which offers syntax highlighting support for HTML, CSS and 37 additional programming languages. Ruben is responsible for overall leadership of the company, execution of the company strategy, external relations and investor relations. Prior to founding Cloud9 IDE, Ruben was CEO of Javeline, a professional services company focused on AJAX technology. Prior to Javeline, Ruben co-founded Helder Hosting, a hosting and cloud services provider for thousands of customers in The Netherlands, which he successfully exited and sold.

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Barb Darrow

Senior Writer, GigaOM

Barb has covered technology and high-tech companies for longer than she’d care to admit. She started out as a reporter for InfoWorld, covering Boston-area software companies; then moved over to CRN where she managed the news staff and covered the business both in terms of technology and how technology is sold. She was also news editor for TechWeb and senior news director at TechTarget before joining GigaOM. Barb enjoys seeing how old-school IT companies are (mis)managing their transition into the cloud computing era. She has won several ASBPE awards for her news coverage. Outside of work, she loves gardening, movies and baseball.

Johan den Haan

CTO, Mendix

Johan den Haan is the Chief Technology Officer at Mendix, the App Platform company for the enterprise. In this role he is responsible for the company’s research and development strategy, cloud deployment and product delivery. He is also a frequent speaker and renowned blogger in the field of Platform-as-a-Service, enterprise architecture, cloud technology and software engineering. Den Haan holds a Master’s of Science in Information Architecture from the Delft University of Technology.

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Scott Dietzen

CEO, Pure Storage

Scott Dietzen is a three-time successful entrepreneur with WebLogic, Zimbra, and Transarc. Most recently, he was President and CTO of Zimbra (now part of VMware), a vendor of open source messaging and collaboration software. Prior to Zimbra, Dietzen was CTO of BEA Systems, where he helped craft the technology and business strategy for WebLogic that drove BEA from $61m in annual revenues prior to the WebLogic acquisition to over $1B. Prior to WebLogic, Dietzen was Principal Technologist of Transarc (acquired by IBM). Scott currently serves on the board of big data trailblazer Cloudera. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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David Drai

Akamai

Christian Echeyne

Director IT Infrastructure Technologies and Engineering, Orange Business Services

Christian Eychene began his career as research engineer in France Telecom R&D department, where he was active in the Minitel program launch in France. He then worked in the Business division and created the EDI practice. He successively occupied several managing positions within the Orange-France Telecom group, including Managing Director and CEO of several subsidiaries in the Internet or Services business. His last position was VP IT Services Operations at Orange Business Services. He now leads the IT Infrastructure Engineering department for the Group, and as such is in charge of driving the internal IT transformation initiatives around Cloud computing and efficient infrastructure.

Mat Ellis

Founder and CEO, Cloudability

Mat Ellis is CEO and Founder of Cloudability, a cloud management company that helps businesses save money on their cloud costs by reducing unintentional spending and eliminate waste. As a hands-on executive with over 20 years experience scaling and growing technology platforms, Ellis spent the nineties overseeing IT operations for global companies like Goldman Sachs, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola. He has held executive positions with four startups since 2000, including three with successful exits. The fourth, Adknowledge, is the largest privately held ad network in the world. He also served as VP of Technology for Connexus Corp. More recently, he founded the cloud computing consultancy Tecnh in 2009, where his main focus was to help move companies onto the cloud.

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Mats-Olov Eriksson

Director of Data Warehousing, King.com

Mats-Olov has a background in analytics and data architecture in online environments, from digital marketing and online games. Devoted to the challenge of creating a lean reporting architecture that will impact the game and the creative process as little as possible, still maintaining full analytics capacity in a business that is extremely data-driven and agile. Responsible for data storage and processing for all King business units and maintaining an environment to facilitate analytics he heads up the team that is building a Hadoop data warehouse for the vast amounts of data coming from 100M games played per day. Mats-Olov is pro open source, lean processes and last but not least; metadata-driven data warehouse technology.

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Phil Francisco

VP, Big Data Product Management, IBM

Francisco brings over 20 years of experience in global technology development. As VP of Product Management, he fosters new busness and product strategies and directs the product portfolio. Francisco came to IBM from the Netezza acquisition. Prior, Francisco was the VP of Marketing at PhotonEx and VP of Product Marketing for Lucent Technologies. He has more than 10 years of experience in software, hardware and systems engineering at AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories. Francisco holds a patent in advanced optical network architectures. He received B.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.S. in Computer Science degrees magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Duke University.

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George Gilbert

Principal, TechAlpha Partners and Analyst, GigaOM Pro

George is co-founder of TechAlpha Partnersk, a management consulting and research firm that advises clients on the technology and business implications of the shift to data-driven services delivered by cloud computing. Previously, George was the lead enterprise software analyst for Credit Suisse First Boston, one of the leading investment banks to the technology sector. During 7 years as an analyst, he advised institutional investors on Microsoft, Oracle, BEA, Veritas, SAP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, i2 Technologies and Siebel, among others. George advised numerous companies in the capital raising process including Actuate, Baan, CommerceOne, E.piphany, i2 Technologies, JDEdwards, Retek, and Selectica.

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Nick Halstead

Founder and CTO, DataSift

Nick Halstead is the Founder of DataSift Inc., the real-time social media data-filtering platform. During the past five years, Nick has been a foremost technical visionary on the power of social data to revolutionize information delivery. Nick founded TweetMeme, the leading platform delivering social news, which quickly built an audience of millions in 30 countries. TweetMeme also invented the highly successful Retweet button, which serves more than 30 billion clicks per month and drives high volumes of traffic for Twitter. Nick is a regular speaker at events such as TechCrunch Disrupt, Le Web, Future of Web Apps, The Next Web and Strata and has spoken at SXSW and FOWA.

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Derrick Harris

Senior Writer, GigaOM

Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for GigaOM since 2009. He has written the words “cloud” and “Hadoop” possibly more than any other person on the planet. Derrick lives in Las Vegas and has a law degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Away from the office, Derrick trains in muay thai and is active in animal welfare issues.

Stacey Higginbotham

Senior Writer, GigaOM

Stacey is happy when immersed in SEC filings, tech specs or poking through a data center. She has spent the last 11 years covering technology and finance for publications such as The Deal, the Austin Business Journal, The Bond Buyer and BusinessWeek, and works remotely from Austin, Texas. At GigaOM, Stacey covers broadband, data center infrastructure, policy and regulation, and entrepreneurs/startups, and is particularly excited to discover news ways technology is changing the world.

Jason Hoffman

Founder and CTO, Joyent

Jason is the founder and head coach at Joyent, where he is responsible for company vision and execution. He is also responsible for research and advanced development, technical outreach, evangelism, consultative efforts for partners and business units, and manages Joyent’s intellectual property portfolio including involvement in open source projects, licensing, technology transfer, assessments of potential partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. Jason earned a BS and MS in Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA and a PhD in Molecular Pathology at The Burnham Institute and UCSD School of Medicine. Jason taught at the university level for more than a d