Speakers

Tate Cantrell

CTO, Verne Global

Tate Cantrell is the Chief Technology Officer of Verne Global. Tate's primary responsibilities include product design and development and data center operations. Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Cantrell was Vice President, Data Center 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 Center business model, the first of its kind in the industry. Cantrell also provided technical support for marketing and key business strategy expansion opportunities, and directed and managed strategy for all IT systems. Cantrell has been involved in data centers 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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Rebecca Jacoby

CIO and SVP, Cisco

Rebecca Jacoby is Chief Information Officer & Senior Vice President of IT and Cloud & Systems Management Technology Group at Cisco. Her extensive understanding of business operations, infrastructure, and application deployments as well as her knowledge of products, software, and services helps advance Cisco’s business through the use of Cisco technology. Jacoby has two distinct areas of responsibility at Cisco. As CIO, she’s made the Cisco IT organization a strategic business partner, producing significant business value for Cisco in the form of financial performance, customer satisfaction and loyalty, market share, and productivity. At the Cloud & Systems Management Technology Group, she is leading the strategy for how best to manage and orchestrate the delivery of business technology services for customers.

Luke Kanies

CEO, Puppet Labs

Luke founded Puppet and Puppet Labs in 2005 out of fear and desperation, with the goal of producing better operations tools and changing how we manage systems. He has been publishing and speaking on his work in Unix administration since 1997, focusing on development since 2001. He has developed and published multiple simple sysadmin tools and contributed to established products like Cfengine, and has presented on Puppet and other tools around the world, including at OSCON, LISA, Linux.Conf.au, and FOSS.in. His work with Puppet has been an important part of DevOps and delivering on the promise of cloud computing.

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Chris C. Kemp

CEO, Nebula and Co-Founder, OpenStack

When Chris Kemp left his position as NASA’s CTO for IT, he wrote in his blog, “I am leaving the place I dreamed of working as a kid to find a garage in Palo Alto to do what I love.” As Nebula’s CEO, Chris continues a career focused on disruption, innovation and pivotal partnerships. At NASA, where he also served as Ames Research Center CIO, he co-founded the OpenStack project and started the Nebula Cloud Computing project. He helped build partnerships with Google to create Google Moon and Mars, and with Microsoft for the WorldWide Telescope. He was also chairman of the White House Federal Cloud Computing Standards Working Group.

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Aaron Levie

CEO and Co-Founder, Box

Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box, which he originally created as a college business project with the goal of helping people easily access their information from any location. Box was launched from Aaron's dorm room in 2005 with the help of CFO Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind Box's product and platform strategy, which is focused on incorporating the best of traditional content management with the most effective elements of social business software. He has spoken at events such as Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Web 2.0, Dreamforce, Accenture Global Summit, South by Southwest, and Svase. Aaron studied business at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California before taking a leave of absence.

Dave Rosenberg

CEO, Nodeable

Dave Rosenberg is CEO and founder of Nodeable, a systems intelligence platform for managing and analyzing systems data, making it easy for organizations to interact and collaboratively manage cloud-based systems and services. Previously, Dave was co-founder and CEO of open source middleware provider MuleSoft, CIO of financial services research firm Glass Lewis (acquired in 2007) and principal analyst for the Open Source Development Labs (now The Linux Foundation). With more than 15 years of technical and marketing experience he's held roles at Sprint, OmniSky, NorthPoint Communications, Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs. He is an advisor to DataStax, IT Database, and Puppet Labs.

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Bob Toohey

COO, Verizon Enterprise Solutions

Bob Toohey is chief operating officer of the newly formed Verizon Enterprise Solutions, where he leads global sales, service and operations. The company's platform-based portfolio includes integrated wireless and wired products, industry solutions, and professional services for enterprise and government customers globally. Bob was previously president of Verizon Business, where he oversaw the integration of Terremark, and prior to that, was responsible for customer service, delivery and ongoing management of the company’s large-business, mid-tier, government, education and wholesale customers worldwide. He also played a key role in the integration of MCI and Cybertrust. He holds a BS in Finance. Bob also serves as vice chairman for Atlantic Health and is on the Advisors Board of Highroads Inc.

Werner Vogels

CTO and Vice President, Amazon

Dr. Vogels is Vice President & CTO at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance innovation on behalf of Amazon's global customers. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he led several research projects that targeted the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. He was named the 2008 CTO of the Year by Information Week for his contributions to Cloud Computing.

Jinzy Zhu

SVP, Global IT Strategy and Planning, Huawei Technologies

Jinzy Zhu was on an international assignment to China to lead the IBM Cloud Computing Center of Greater China team in a mission to accelerate the adoption of new IBM solutions in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including Cloud Computing and other innovative enterprise solutions built for large enterprise and government clients. Jinzy is an official committee member of the China Institute of Electronics as an expert on Cloud Computing. Jinzy has been on the cover of Staffers magazine and published a series of articles on Cloud Computing in IEEE, at the first International Cloud Computing Conference 2009, in China Electronics News, China Computer Users, New Finance World and other trade magazines. In 2010, Jinzy published Smarter Cloud Computing in China and contributed to Cloud Computing and Software Services Theory and Techniques in the United States. Jinzy completed her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and her Masters of Business Administration at Oxford University. She has working experience in three continents and four countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, India and China.

Derek Collison

CTO, Chief Architect, Cloud Division, VMware

Derek Collison is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, specializing in high performance distributed systems. With tenures at Google and TIBCO Software, he specializes in Distributed Systems Architecture, High Performance Messaging Systems, and Event-Driven Systems. His current focus is Cloud Foundry and the OpenPaaS at VMware Inc.

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Joe Weinman

Worldwide Lead, Communications, Media and Entertainment Industry Solutions, HP

Joe Weinman leads Communications, Media, Entertainment Industry Solutions for HP globally. He is also the founder of Cloudonomics, a multi-disciplinary analytical approach leveraging economics, statistics, calculus, computational complexity theory, simulation and system dynamics to evaluate trends and assess benefits of cloud computing, and writes a blog by the same name, as well as the original article here at GigaOm, “The 10 Laws of Cloudonomics.” (http://gigaom.com/2008/09/07/the-10-laws-of-cloudonomics/) A frequent conference speaker, he holds 14 U.S. and international patents, and has held a variety of executive positions at (AT&T) Bell Laboratories, AT&T, and HP. He has a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison respectively, and completed Executive Education at the Institute for Management Development, Lausanne.

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Satya Nadella

President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft

As president of the Servers and Tools Business (STB) at Microsoft, Satya Nadella is accountable for the overall business and technical vision, strategy, operations, engineering and marketing for Microsoft's $15 billion business. Nadella and his team provide Microsoft’s enterprise and cloud computing technology roadmap, guidance, and solutions for the company’s largest customers and industry partners worldwide. Prior to his role in STB, Nadella was senior vice president of R&D for the Online Services Division where he was responsible for the technical vision and engineering of some of the largest web services and cloud infrastructure in the world. Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992. A native of Hyderabad (India), he has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Mangalore University, a master's degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Joseph Coyle

Capgemini