Tim McLaine is group director of Data Center Services for Perot Systems.  He is responsible for data center facilities, operations, support services, storage, data compliance, capacity planning, disaster recovery and business continuity worldwide.  He provides operational support, strategic direction, evaluation of emerging technologies, and strategic technology guidance to customers. 

Experience
Tim is a 30-year veteran leader in the technology services industry, and a 20 year veteran of Perot Systems.  He has spent his career in technical and leadership roles, including Director of Infrastructure Solutions supporting individual clients within the Transportation, Telecommunications and Financial Services industries. He also served as the director of North American Operations.

Qualifications
Prior to joining Perot Systems, Tim worked at EDS for over 10 years. He has earned a BS in Accounting.

Jim Smith is CTO at Digital Realty Trust where he oversees data center development, the company's efficiency & green strategy, and power procurement & energy management. In the past four years, Jim and the Digital Realty Trust team have delivered more than 300MW of UPS capacity on over 60 datacenter projects in North America and Europe. This portfolio includes the industry's first LEED Gold certified data center and the UK's first BREEAM certified Excellent datacenter. Jim has a BSc in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and an MBA from London Business School. He was named an InfoWorld top 25 CTO of 2008.

John Bennett is worldwide director for Data Center Transformation solutions for the Technology Solutions Group at HP. Bennett is focused on helping customers transform their data centers into strategic assets that support business growth and innovation. His team helps customers adapt new infrastructure, modernize applications and implement service management practices. Bennett has been with HP for nearly 30 years, with a career ranging from engineering through product management, product marketing and program management. He has a bachelor of science in mathematics and a master of science in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., as well as an MBA from Clark University in Worcester, Mass.

Lennart Jonsson is Vice President Technology for Eaton Corporation, Power Quality Division. He has served in his current position since 2004 and is responsible for the global development of all Power Quality Division products. Early in his career he held several positions as a power electronics design engineer and project manager in Denmark and Sweden before joining Fiskars Power Systems in Helsinki, Finland, in 1987 as Director of Product Development. This position included responsibility for engineering sites in both Finland and Sweden. In 1996, Jonsson moved to the United States to take a position as Vice President Engineering at Deltec Electronics Corporation, San Diego, CA. He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology.

Greg Kovich brings 20 years of experience in information technology to his position as Senior Account Director at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role, Mr. Kovich serves as a business development specialist for the higher education and K-12 market in North America, working closely with education customers to more closely align Alcatel-Lucent's product portfolio to their needs. Prior to the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies, Mr. Kovich was the Product Marketing Manager in Alcatel's Enterprise Solutions division. Greg Kovich holds a bachelor of arts degree in accounting from Indiana University.

Jim Simonelli is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of APC. Jim is responsible for technology direction, product platform roadmaps and system architectures devoted to Power, Cooling, Rack and infrastructure management software. Prior to his role as CTO, Jim held multiple executive engineering positions with APC including Vice President, System and Platform Architecture and Vice President Solutions Delivery Group. Jim is a frequent speaker at power electronics and information technology conferences. Jim received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and holds 8 US patents.

Stephen Elliot is Vice President of Business Unit (BU) Strategy for CA in the Infrastructure Management BU, focused currently on virtualization and data center automation. Previously, Mr. Elliot was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. Mr. Elliot also was a Product Marketing Manager at Inteq, a venture-backed start-up. Additionally, Mr. Elliot holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California with graduate work at American University. He has also completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.

Tim McLaine is group director of Data Center Services for Perot Systems.  He is responsible for data center facilities, operations, support services, storage, data compliance, capacity planning, disaster recovery and business continuity worldwide.  He provides operational support, strategic direction, evaluation of emerging technologies, and strategic technology guidance to customers. 

Experience
Tim is a 30-year veteran leader in the technology services industry, and a 20 year veteran of Perot Systems.  He has spent his career in technical and leadership roles, including Director of Infrastructure Solutions supporting individual clients within the Transportation, Telecommunications and Financial Services industries. He also served as the director of North American Operations.

Qualifications
Prior to joining Perot Systems, Tim worked at EDS for over 10 years. He has earned a BS in Accounting.

Brad Minnis is responsible for the development, implementation, operation and management of Juniper's worldwide EHS programs. His leadership emphasizes prevention and early intervention and programs under his guidance have received recognition and awards from organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency. Minnis has been with Juniper since 2001; his 25 years of international security and EHS experience includes similar senior positions at 3Com and National Semiconductor. Before becoming an EHS professional, Minnis served 10 years in the U.S. Navy. He holds certificates in Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health from University of Connecticut, and continues studies in these areas.

John Engates joined Rackspace in August of 2000 and currently serves as Chief Technology Officer . As Chief Technology Officer, John Engates brings deep technology expertise to the company working closely with customers to develop customized hosting solutions to optimize their applications. Engates also collaborates with the R&D teams to evaluate new technologies and develop industry leading service level agreements to better serve Rackspace's customers. Engates has worked in several areas of Rackspace including Operations, Professional Services and Customer Care. Most recently, Engates has been responsible for managing the ongoing development of Rackspace's Intensive segment. Engates was one of the leading forces behind Rackspace's Microsoft Gold Certification. Engates joined Rackspace in 2000. In 2002, Engates led the launch of Rackspace's highest service level division, serving customers such as Hershey's, Miller Brewing and Hawaiian Airlines. In 1995, Engates co-founded Internet Direct, one of the oldest and largest Internet service providers in Texas and one of the first companies to bring the Internet to the public. Engates is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio and holds a B.B.A. in Accounting.

Tom Raftery is lead analyst of GreenMonk, the Energy and Sustainability practice of industry analyst firm RedMonk. As such, Tom leads the research into all aspects of energy, Green IT and Sustainability. Tom is also director and co-founder of Cork Internet eXchange, a hyper energy-efficient data center based in Cork, Ireland. Having co-founded and risen to CTO in a number of IT companies, Tom has a very strong tech background. Having helped design and build out Cork Internet eXchange - a hyper energy-efficient data center, Tom has demonstrated his commitment to and expertise in energy efficiency. Tom speaks regularly at international conferences on Energy and Sustainability, blogs at GreenMonk.net and is on Twitter at twitter.com/tomraftery.

Bill is a Principal and the Green Business Technology (BT) Director for HP's Critical Facilities Services. Kosik is a licensed professional engineer, LEED Accredited Professional, and a Certified Energy Manager. As the Green BT Director, he is responsible for research, development, and implementation of sustainable, energy-efficient, and environmentally responsible design strategies for data centers, specifically focusing on the integration of power/cooling, ICT systems, and operations and control software. Also an expert on high-performance computing, Kosik is also collaborating with multiple Super Computing 500 clients, developing innovative design strategies for scalable, energy efficient cooling in ultra- high density environments. Among Kosik's 50+ articles and speaking engagements are presentations to AFCOM, the American Institute of Architects, ASHRAE, Data Center Dynamics, Hollywood Goes Green, IFMA, Labs21, NeoCon, ULI and 7x24, as well as articles in the ASHRAE Journal, Energy & Power Management magazine, Building Operations Management, Engineered Systems, Consulting Specifying Engineer, Pure Power, R&D Magazine, and Zero Downtime magazine. Kosik has presented at multiple USGBC conferences, as well as at the World Forum for Building Innovation in the UK and the Sustainable Buildings Conference in Finland. He also worked with the city of Chicago in developing city-specific environmental criteria. Kosik is on the editorial advisory board for Consulting Specifying Engineer magazine and is currently consulting on a new program sponsored by the California Energy Commission defining environmental performance criteria for data centers. He is also the co-developer of the upcoming ASHRAE publication, Green Tips for Data Centers. His most current initiative is with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a new program for certifying data center energy specialists, where he sits on the steering committee.

Ric Telford's professional business career highlights 25 years of product and service development experience and is noted for bringing innovative approaches to the design and development of key technologies. During his tenure at IBM, Telford has played a number of key roles in various software and service initiatives for IBM, including e-mail and document management, networking, security software, systems management, and IT infrastructure services. Ric tends to be at the forefront of emerging technologies at IBM. He served as Director of Technology for the IBM CIO, responsible for the development, implementation and adoption of technologies that hastened the transformation of IBM into an e-business. Ric was the Director of Technology for Intelligent Infrastructure, the precursor in IBM to "e-business on demand." Ric went on to become VP of Autonomic Computing, where he was responsible for defining and driving the Autonomic Computing initiative for IBM. In this capacity, Ric worked across IBM, as well as the industry and academia, to promote the adoption of open-standards based self-managing technologies. In his prior role as VP of IT Optimization, Ric was responsible for defining complete IBM solutions for customers looking to transform their IT infrastructure. Leveraging IBM's vast software, hardware and services assets, the IT Optimization business unit provides offerings focused on such transformation topics such as Cloud Computing, Consolidation/Virtualization, Energy Efficient Data Center and Service Management. In his current position, Ric is responsible for defining and coordinating delivery of IBM's broad portfolio of Cloud services. IBM has a clear vision for what is required to make Cloud Computing accessible and valuable to the enterprise, and provides Cloud consulting, Cloud implementation and Cloud-delivered services to deliver on this vision.

Jack Pouchet, BA, MBA Business Administration, Director Energy Initiatives for Emerson Network Power / Liebert is based in Southern California and works closely with major OEMs in the server market, large data center users, and leading mission critical engineering firms to help define, architect, and create opportunities for advanced power and cooling technologies that improve day-to-day operational efficiencies. Jack brings over twenty years of related OEM power supply, power generation, distribution, and power product sales and marketing experience to Emerson Network Power giving him a unique end-to-end perspective of the entire AC and DC power path. An active member of several industry and sustainability associations including The Green Grid and the Union of Concerned Scientists, Jack is frequently engaged with Federal and State agencies in research and legislation centered on alternative / renewable energy as well as energy efficiency including support of the EPA in their report to Congress on data center operations under H.R. 5646. As a scientist/inventor Jack has corporate IP and patents pending for alternative/renewable energy components, systems, and architectures specifically addressing the IT, networking, data center, and electric utility markets.

Bill McGee, VP Products & Technology, and founder of Third Brigade, leads product strategy and product development within the company. Bill identifies trends and technologies to accelerate deployment of Third Brigade security software on critical systems around the world and has led the effort to extend Third Brigade protection from physical servers to the virtualization and cloud computing platforms being adopted in dynamic datacenters. Previously Bill was SVP Product Development at Entrust, 1996-2002. As a member of the cryptographic systems group at Nortel Networks, Bill did pioneering work applying public-key technologies to communication systems. Bill McGee has a B.A.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from Queen's University and has completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Growing Companies.

David Bernstein is a VP/GM in Cisco's Office of the CTO, working on Cloud Computing His team runs Cisco's Cloud Lab, is responsible for Cisco's Cloud Gateway products, and heads development for Cisco's Cloud Security, Interoperability and Standards initiatives. David's experience includes executive positions in AT&T, Siebel Systems, Pluris, 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 Advanced Technology Executive Forum. 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.

Drew has 18 years in the Software, Social Marketing, and Business Risk fields with companies such as BroadVision, salesforce.com, The Hartford, and United Technologies. Drew has written and lectured extensively on Internet and technology business trends over the past decade. He was a participating author in the Brookings Institution book on technology and economics, Unseen Wealth (published in 2001). He is currently a board member of the Online Reputation Management Association and has also worked extensively with Europe's OECD on the During the Web 1.0 and Personalization decade of the Internet, Drew worked extensively with the following organizations' e-commerce initiatives: GE Capital, Home Depot, UBS, Barclays, Walmart, Bank of America, Blue Cross, Nike, Maidenform, Time Warner, Fox, MTV, Telecom Italia, Primedia, GE Supply, Citigroup, e-Trade, Bear Stearns, and Credit Suisse. During the Web 2.0 evolution Drew has already underwritten the risks of emerging models such as social networks, video advertising, and data privacy liability. Drew is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and has an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is currently working on the book, Unseen Liability, The New Economics of Technology Risk, due in 2009.

Dwight is responsible for driving the strategic vision of 10gen, a cloud computing database company. In 1995, Dwight co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Dwight is co-founder, Chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express, a content distribution network (CDN) which serves hundreds of thousands of objects per second. He is also a board member of the web photo/video sharing company Phanfare. Dwight received a B.S. with honors in Systems Analysis from Miami University of Ohio.

Geva Perry has 15 years of experience as an executive in the enterprise software industry. His blog on cloud computing is widely read and he is a frequent speaker on the topic at corporations and industry events. He is an advisor to a number of companies, small and large, on cloud computing related strategy. Until recently Geva spent 5 years at GigaSpaces Technologies where he played a variety of executive roles. His latest position was General Manager Cloud Computing. In this role, Geva was responsible for all global go-to-market activities at GigaSpaces related to cloud computing, including strategy and positioning, product marketing and strategic alliances. Prior to this role Geva was Chief Marketing Officer, EVP U.S. Operations, and EVP Business Development. Prior to joining GigaSpaces, Geva was Chief Operating Officer at SeeRun, a developer of real-time business activity monitoring software. In 1999, Geva co-founded and became General Partner of Synergy Ventures, a New York-based venture capital fund focused on enterprise software start-ups. Prior to founding Synergy, Geva worked at Earthweb, an online publisher of content for the developer community, before, during and after its highly successful IPO in 1998. Early in his career, Geva was a technology and business journalist. Geva received a Bachelor's degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He holds an MS from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

James advises IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals as a leading expert on IT infrastructure consolidation, x86 servers and server infrastructure, data center futures, cloud computing, and application-specific infrastructure trends and technologies.

As a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps developers take advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the way we think about computer applications, and the way businesses compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 50 conferences/UserGroups. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers on 1:1 basis in implementing their own ideas using Amazon's innovative services. Jinesh has over 7 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. He plays tennis and loves to trek.

Mike Repass is a product manager on the developer team at Google, where he focuses on App Engine. He has also worked on Google Checkout, supporting the developer APIs used for e-commerce. Prior to joining Google, Mike worked in the server and developer divisions at Microsoft. Mike has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Kentucky.

Peter Coffee, former Technology Editor of enterprise IT journals PC Week and eWEEK, works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com: the salesforce.com cloud computing platform. He has 26 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 been a keynote speaker, moderator or presenter at IT events throughout the U.S. as well as in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico and Singapore. Peter was previously the first manager of PC planning at The Aerospace Corporation, and before that was a Senior Engineer in arctic project management and chemical facility construction for several divisions of Exxon Corporation; he holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, and has been a faculty member at Pepperdine and also at UCLA (computer science) and Chapman College (business analytics). He is the author of two books, How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs.

Peter Laird is the Platform Architect for Tendril's Smart Energy Grid platform. Tendril offers Smart Grid technology in a SaaS model. Peter previously worked for Oracle/BEA Systems, recently as Chief Architect of the BEA SaaS Platform and for many years with the WebLogic Portal product.

Randy Rowland is responsible for the managed hosting business unit for Terremark. As part of his role, Mr. Rowland oversees the development, delivery and operation of Terremark's Infinistructure and Enterprise Cloud utility computing product offerings, as well as the company's hosting services. Mr. Rowland has more than 14 years of experience in the IT services industry, including eight years with Data Return, where he was most recently responsible for product development. Prior to that, Mr. Rowland previously held senior positions in sales engineering and IT consulting for Data Return and CompuCom. Born in Brawley, California, Mr. Rowland received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University. He lives in the Dallas area with his wife and children.

Robert Holcomb, Director of Product Management, has over 10 years experience in enterprise software with expertise in software business intelligence, technical sales consulting, and performance engineering. At SOASTA, Rob is responsible for product management, performance engineering, and customer support. Prior to SOASTA, Rob was a Product Strategy Manager for Analytic Dashboards at Oracle. Before the PeopleSoft (Oracle) acquisition, Rob was Product Manager and led the sales engineering team at Istante Software. Previous to Istante, Rob held positions at Sagent Technology in sales engineering and consulting. Rob graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.B.A. in Finance, with honors, and an MBA from Santa Clara University, with honors.

Robert A. Parisi, Jr. is the Senior Vice-President & National Technology, Network Risk & Telecommunications Practice Leader for the FINPRO unit of Marsh USA. Mr. Parisi has spoken at various business, technology, legal and insurance forums throughout the world, as well as writing, on issues effecting professional liability, privacy, technology, telecommunications, media, intellectual property, computer security and insurance. In 2002, Mr. Parisi was honored by Business Insurance magazine as one of the Rising Stars of Insurance. Prior to joining Marsh, Mr. Parisi was the Senior Vice-President and Chief Underwriting Officer of eBusiness Risk Solutions as well as Chief Underwriting Officer for Professional Liability & Technology. While at AIG, Mr. Parisi oversaw the creation and drafting of underwriting guidelines and policies for all lines of professional liability, including what has come to be known as cyber insurance. Prior to joining AIG, Mr. Parisi had been in private practice, principally as legal counsel to various Lloyds of London syndicates handling a variety of professional liability lines. Mr. Parisi graduated cum laude from Fordham College with a B.A. in Economics and received his law degree from Fordham University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New York and the US District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of NY.

Before joining RightScale Inc., 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.

WERNER VOGELS, CTO, AMAZON.COM Dr. Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target 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 for journals and conferences, 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 making Cloud Computing a reality.

Amitabh Srivastava is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft with responsiblity for Windows Azure, the company's new operating system for the cloud. He began working on the Microsoft's services platform in November 2006, after playing a pivotal role in shipping Windows Vista. Srivastava joined Microsoft in 1997 as a Senior Researcher and led the Advanced Development Tools group in Microsoft Research that investigated new techniques to build innovative tools and technologies to improve performance and quality of Microsoft software. His vision and energy led to the creation of the Programmer Productivity Research Center (PPRC) in March 1999, which he has led since its inception. Srivastava's PPRC group, now known as Center for Software Excellence (CSE), has produced several tools and technologies that are critical to Microsoft product groups. Srivastava and his team's work was highlighted in the Forbes magazine in May, 2003. In January 2001, Srivastava became one of a select few to be named a Distinguished Engineer, now known as Technical Fellow. Srivastava joined Windows in December 2003 as Vice President of the Windows Core OS development to redefine the engineering process for Windows Vista. He was responsible for the development of core operating system components such as the kernel, operating system architecture, definition of development processes, and development of advanced tools to automate the development processes. Srivastava's work in defining the Windows engineering process was discussed in the Wall Street Journal in September, 2005. In late 2006, with Dave Cutler he started 'project Red Dog' to build the operating system for the cloud. Project Red Dog was announced as 'Windows Azure' at PDC 2008. Before working for Microsoft, Srivastava was the chief technical officer and vice president of engineering at TracePoint Technology Inc., a spin-off company from Digital Equipment Corp.

Chad joined Preferred Hotel Group™ in 2008 as Senior Manager, IT Operations. Based in Chicago, Chad manages the computer operations for 16 global offices. During his tenure, he has developed the infrastructure in three new regional offices, coordinated phone system upgrades and expansion, implemented Tandberg video conferencing, and supervises the technical support team. Chad recently converted the company's entire infrastructure over to Terremark's Enterprise cloud. With more than 15 years IT experience, prior to joining Preferred Hotel Group, Chad worked for Dell Computers, Stromberg, Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH, and implemented the digital x-ray program for the Chicago White Sox following a seven year naval career in submarines. Outside of the office, Chad is the proud father of two girls and somehow finds time to pursue his twin passions for music and cooking.

Dave Nielsen is a Web Services industry professional with over 6 years of experience guiding high profile developer programs for companies such as PayPal, Strikeiron and many others. As a seasoned developer, entreprenuer, technical evangelist and director of partner programs, Dave's experience gives him the experience and credibility to help guide your product strategy and develop a developer marketing plan to help you succeed. Dave is the founder of CloudCamp and author of the book PayPal Hacks. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business (Marketing) from Cal Poly State University: San Luis Obispo (aka Cal Poly: SLO).

With a diverse background as both a technical executive and an internationally known leader in open source software, Geir comes to us from cloud technology provider 10gen, where he was the VP of Engineering. Prior to 10gen, Geir ran software development for Joost, where he had responsibility for platform architecture, implementation and delivery. Prior to Joost, he held positions as Director of Middleware Architecture and Open Source Technology at Intel, and Vice President of Products and Strategy at Gluecode, an open source application server startup that was acquired by IBM. He was VP, Engineering and Chief Architect of Adeptra, an innovating communications service provider, and as CTO, guided technology FitLinxx during its rapid growth years. Geir began his commercial career as an architectural and product lead at Bloomberg Financial Markets where he developed the company's real-time, multi-platform financial data delivery and presentation system. He is also a member of the board of advisors for WSO2, an open source SOA middleware vendor. In addition to his commercial software experience, Geir is a Director of the Apache Software Foundation, currently represents the ASF on the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process, the organization that governs the evolution of the Java platform, and helped found major open source projects, including Apache Geronimo and Apache Harmony, and has been recognized for his work in the Java ecosystem through a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award.

As Senior Manager of Enterprise Marketing for Cisco's WebEx Technology Group, Grace is responsible for strategic communications and product marketing for mobile applications. In her four year tenure initially with WebEx and now with Cisco, Grace managed marketing for on demand applications for sales, marketing, support and training. In addition to her experience at Cisco, Grace has extensive marketing background in CRM and Business Analytics. Grace holds a bachelor of arts degree from Columbia University and a masters in business administration from Hass School of Business, UC Berkeley.

As Senior Director of Product Management, Ian Knox is responsible for all aspects of Skytap's product management and go-to-market strategy. Ian joined Skytap from Microsoft Corporation where he was group product manager for Microsoft Visual Studio®. Prior to Microsoft, Ian was a principal consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers where for seven years he worked on global software delivery projects for Fortune 500 clients.

Jesse Robbins is CEO of Opscode and a recognized expert in Infrastructure, Web Operations, and Emergency Management. He serves as co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O'Reilly Radar. Prior to co-founding Opscode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of "Master of Disaster" where he was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand. Robbins is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina. His experiences in the fire service profoundly influence his efforts in technology, and he strives to distill his knowledge from these two worlds and apply it in service of both.

As Strategy and Business Development Vice President, AT&T Business Solutions, Joe Weinman helps assess, create, and solution strategic emerging technologies and next generation business models into AT&T's offer portfolio; develop alliances; and evaluate firms for possible investment. A 28-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 research and development 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 UW - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne.. He has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in areas such as line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, and telecommunications. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and the AT&T Distinguished Speaker Award. He is currently or has been a member of a well known Silicon Valley Venture Capital Technology Advisory Board, the IBM Advanced eBusiness Council, the Veritas (now Symantec) Utility Computing Advisory Board, the Hitachi Technology Advisory Council, the EMC Customer Advisory Council, the Technology Manager's Forum Corporate Advisory Board, and the Technology Advisory Board of a Silicon Valley start-up. He is a past Chairman of the joint National Science Foundation / Industry Advisory Board of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE, and serves on the program planning committees of a number of cloud computing conferences.

Since 2006, Mr. Beck has managed the sales and client services organization at OpSource leading triple digit growth and a three fold growth in customer base that includes leading SaaS companies Adobe, Business Objects/SAP, Xactly, Cast Iron, Boomi and Symplified. An industry veteran of fifteen years, he brings experience shaping the growth of IP infrastructure and communications industry. Mr. Beck has held positions of increasing responsibility with leading infrastructure companies such as Critical Path, Netcom (acquired by EarthLink), Global Center (acquired by Exodus), Genuity (acquired by Level 3 Communications) and as Chief Operating Officer at Pandora Networks, a leading VoIP messaging company where he managed marketing, sales and field support in the U.S. and U.K. Mr. Beck has managed zero to multi-million dollar growth, multi-national product launches and field operations across North America, Central-Latin America, Asia-Pacific and European regions. He frequently lectures to corporations and business schools on ethics and integrity in the workplace. He was recently selected by the SIIA as the Council Chair for the SIIA Software Division Sales & Services group. Mr. Beck earned his BA in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on several non-profit boards and is an active volunteer for the National Multiple Sclerosis and is a working member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Josh Litwin founded Memento Press in 2004, the world's first photobook store. Memento pioneered "do it for me" custom designed, higher quality photobooks. Before Memento, Josh served as Chief Operating Officer for Ofoto, now Kodak Gallery. From 1998 to 2000, Josh was a key executive for Babycenter, then a startup, now the largest baby-related website in the world, and a division of Johnson & Johnson. During his tenure, Babycenter won top industry awards including the 2000 Webby Commerce award, ending Amazon's three-year run. Before online, Josh helped turn around Davis Wire Corp, a heavy manufacturer then in bankruptcy. Davis is now the most successful steel wire maker in America. As general manager of the Teamster-unionized steel mill, Josh is credited with conceiving and building the world's fastest steel wire machine. He also holds two e-commerce patents. Josh earned an MBA from Stanford University and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University. Josh is director for Surfline, the company that pioneered surf prediction, changing the sport. A national award-winning photographer, Josh routinely irritates his wife, young son and daughter with the camera.

Lew lead Rackspace's move into cloud hosting and cloud applications in 2006 by spearheading the launch of Mosso, now The Rackspace Cloud, and driving the acquisition of webmail.us, now the backbone of Rackspace's Cloud Applications offer. As the hosting and cloud computing market evolves, Lew is responsible for leading Rackspace's efforts into new models to meet customer needs and maintain market leadership. Along with talented teams, Lew has built the cloud offers into the fastest growing piece of the business and home to more than 40,000 customers. He joined the company in April of 200 and has served a variety of strategy, product and marketing roles throughout the company's growth. Before joining Rackspace, Lew held several positions at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, advising a variety of high technology clients on critical strategic issues. Lew received a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Mike Repass is a product manager on the developer team at Google, where he focuses on App Engine. He has also worked on Google Checkout, supporting the developer APIs used for e-commerce. Prior to joining Google, Mike worked in the server and developer divisions at Microsoft. Mike has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Kentucky.

Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application delivery services. In his role, he sets the go-to-market strategy for positioning this line of managed services towards strategic IT initiatives within the enterprise such as web-enabled business processes, software-as-a-service, cloud computing, virtualization and service oriented architectures. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.

Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS), is Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board at Nominum, Inc. His mission is to help guide DNS and IP addressing to the next stage. Paul created DNS in the 1980s at USC's Information Sciences Institute where he was later the Director of ISI's High Performance Computing and Communications Division. Throughout his career, Paul has contributed to the computing research community and to the evolution of the Internet. His earliest work at UC Irvine on distributed systems and LAN technology preceded the commercial Ethernet and Token Ring designs. At ISI, after working on the design of the SMTP protocol for email and its first implementation as part of the birth of the Internet in 1983, Paul took on the challenge of designing DNS, and then operated the original "root servers" for all Internet names. After the formal creation of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1986, DNS became one of the original Internet Standards; the IETF continues to be the focus of new applications and extensions to DNS. Paul has been associated with the IETF since its creation, chaired several DNS and non-DNS working groups, and was Chair of the IETF from 1994 to 1996. Paul was program manager for networking at ARPA in the early 1990s, supervising efforts such as gigabit and optical networking. From 1995 on, Paul held leadership roles at several Silicon Valley networking startups, including @Home, Software.com (now OpenWave), Fiberlane (now Cisco), and Siara (now Redback Networks). Paul's mission at Nominum is to help guide DNS and IP addressing to the next stage. Paul has dual BS degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT, and a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine. Paul continues to believe that the future of the Internet is ahead of it.

Mr. Dym brings to OpSource 25 years of successful marketing, business development, and technical operations experience gained from the senior executive positions he has held at fast-paced technology companies ranging from venture backed start-ups to global public enterprises. His broad experience includes active involvement in successful liquidity events including IPO, acquisitions, and sale. Prior to re-joining OpSource, where he previously served as Chief Marketing Officer, he held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at AXS-One Inc., a leader in the records compliance management space. At AXS-One, Mr. Dym was responsible for Marketing, Technical Support, Documentation, QA, Training and IT. He has also served as Senior Vice President of Marketing for Metromedia Fiber Networks (now Abovenet); Senior Vice President of Marketing and Vice president of International Operations at ParcPlace; General Manager of the Multimedia Division at Autodesk; and Director, Graphics and Decision Support products for Ashton-Tate. Prior to working with technology and technology-related services companies, Mr. Dym was a Senior Economist and regional manger with Chase Econometrics, Inc. (a subsidiary of Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.), as well as a cofounder of Dym, Frank & Company, a quantitative money management firm. Mr. Dym holds a B.A. in Economics from the Franklin & Marshall College and a M.A. in Economics from American University.

Dr. Fontecilla, a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, has over 25 years of professional experience in the design, development, implementation, and management of Large Information Management Systems. He is an expert in the field of Computer Science within the federal government and private sectors. Dr. Fontecilla has Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and previously served as a Professor at the University of Maryland Computer Science Department before entering the consulting industry. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the University of Maryland Computer Science Department. He has also been invited to several universities and government agencies for presentation. Furthermore, Dr. Fontecilla wrote numerous publications for Computer Science and Applied Math Journals in the University of Maryland.

Scott Clark - Director Engineering Infrastructure, Broadcom Corporation Scott Clark has been designing, building, managing, and supporting high performance computing environments for more than 18 years. His experience has been primarily focused on semiconductor design environments, encompassing all facets of infrastructure, system, network, security, and process management. Mr Clark currently serves as the Director of Engineering Infrastructure for Broadcom Corporation. Prior to Broadcom, Mr. Clark served similar roles for Conexant Systems, and Western Digital Corporation. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics from California State University at San Diego.

Stuart Charlton is a Software Architect with Elastra, provider of Cloud Computing software infrastructure. Stuart specializes in the areas of architecture, SOA, data warehousing, and is an avid student of lean & agile approaches to business processes and product development. Prior to joining Elastra, he was an Enterprise Architect with BEA Systems Worldwide Consulting, was the lead integration architect for a major Canadian telecommunications company, and has been a consultant and trainer for over a dozen organizations in the United States, Canada, and Japan. He is the co-author of CodeNotes for J2EE, published by Random House in 2002, and has written for leading online publications. Stuart resides in San Francisco, California.

Before joining RightScale Inc., 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.

Jean Turgeon is currently Director of Enterprise Networking solutions now responsible for all Nortel's Enterprise data portfolio. His current role consists of providing strategic directions for R&D investment in building competitive Enterprise solutions. Prior to this role, Jean was the Director of Campus and Data Center Solutions Enterprise Solutions business unit. He has a broad knowledge with 25 years of experience in networking designs and implementation. Jean also has an MBA which combined with his technical background enable him to lead the Enterprise data portfolio and its future development.

Stephen Garrison has more than 19 years of experience designing strategic marketing programs for the telecommunications and networking industries. Prior to becoming vice president of marketing, Garrison directed the company's corporate marketing and customer activities. Prior to joining Force10 Networks, Garrison was the senior director of marketing at Riverstone Networks, where he was responsible for building customer programs. Earlier, he served as the director of marketing at Cabletron Systems. Garrison received a B.S. in ceramic science from Alfred University and an M.S. in materials science and engineering from MIT. He also holds four patents and sits on the board of directors for the Ethernet Alliance.

Richard Dominach is the Sr. Product Manager responsible for KVM switches and enterprise access products at Raritan Computer. An industry veteran, Richard has held a variety of product management, marketing and business development positions at major telecommunications firms as well as innovative startups in the data networking and wireless software areas. He has spoken widely at conferences and written articles for industry trade magazines. Richard has an MBA from Columbia University and an MS in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Paul Durzan is the Director of Hardware Platform Marketing for Cisco's Unified Computing System. He is responsible for driving Cisco's Unified Computing direction and implementation. Paul has spent 14 years in the high tech industry where has held various roles in finance and in Product Management. He has brought to market several new compute technologies, including Sun Microsystems first CMT servers and Cisco's Unified Computing Systems. Paul has held previous positions at Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Dell. He holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration.

Robert Bunger is Director of Business Development for Data Centers at APC by Schneider Electric. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined it with MGE UPS Systems to form Schneider Electric's IT Business Unit, which recorded 2007 revenue of $3.5 billion (?2.4 billion) and employed 12,000 people worldwide. Since joining APC in 1998, Robert has served in various areas of the company from technical support, technical sales and product management. From 2004 through 2006 he worked in Denmark as the InfraStruXure® product manager for EMEA. He is currently Business Development Manager for Data Centers in North America. Robert holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the U.S. Naval Academy and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Martin Skagen joined the Brocade Competitive Analysis team in 2002, helping to ensure the competitiveness of a wide range of Brocade products and strategies. Since 2004, he runs the technology, standards and strategy team and is responsible for Brocade's Data Center product lines. Skagen has more than 19 years of IT experience, including more than a decade spent at Hewlett Packard, where he held various positions such as managing support/services teams for mission-critical customers. He has a BS in Computer Science from Niels Brock University in Copenhagen Denmark.

Dave Stevens brings more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise networking, security, compute, and data storage industries to his current role as Chief Technology Officer for Brocade Communications Systems. In this position, Mr. Stevens is instrumental in driving Brocade's company-wide technology strategy as the company expands its role in the evolving enterprise network market. Before joining Brocade in 2008, Mr. Stevens was founder and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, a developer of next-generation firewall products. Previously he was a partner at Foundation Capital, and held senior management positions at Atmosphere Networks, Nortel and Microdyne. Mr. Stevens had also worked with Brocade previously, serving as Vice President and CTO of Brocade Transport Systems from 2003 to 2004. He joined Brocade through its acquisition of Rhapsody Networks, where he was Vice President of Business Development. Dave Stevens holds bachelor of science and a master of science degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.

David Yen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Vice President of the Data Center Business Group (DCBG), for Juniper Networks. Dr. Yen came to Juniper from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served in a broad range of executive assignments during his nearly 20-year tenure. In the '90s, his team developed Sun's first- and second-generation multi-CPU SMP servers, which transformed Sun from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. After Dr. Yen took over Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC business by focusing on execution and innovation. His group introduced the industry's first 8-core, 32-thread general-purpose processor in 2005 and developed it into a multi-billion dollar business. He also managed Sun's storage business for one year. Prior to joining Sun Microsystems in 1988, Dr. Yen was a cofounder of Cydrome, Inc., a mini-supercomputer start-up. He also served in engineering roles at IBM Research and TRW, Inc. Dr. Yen earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1973, and received an MS and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980. He also completed a General Management Program at Stanford Business School in 1993. Dr. Yen holds three U.S. patents.

John McAdam has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of F5 Networks, as well as on the board of directors, since July 2000. Just after his arrival at F5, McAdam successfully navigated the company through the turbulent post-dot-com era, bringing F5 to profitability and positioning it for further growth. During his tenure at F5, McAdam has grown the company's annual revenue from $108.6 million to over $650 million. He has overseen numerous successful acquisitions, guiding F5 into new and adjacent markets that build on the company's Application Delivery Networking solution offerings. Under his leadership, F5 has been named the ?Best Company to Work for in Seattle' and identified by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 25 hottest tech stocks. Prior to joining F5, McAdam served as General Manager of the Web server sales business at IBM. From January 1995 until August 1999, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end open systems, which was sold to IBM in September 1999. McAdam holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he was technical lead for content networking product management. Dr. Day was previously Senior Scientist at Sight Path, which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. Earlier, he was a Research Scientist and assistant to the CTO at Lotus/IBM, where his work contributed to the creation of Lotus Sametime (now called Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing). Dr. Day has chaired Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups on Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP) and Content Internetworking (CDI). He has three issued patents and multiple pending patents relating to presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony. His other notable work includes contributions to the programming languages Argus and Theta, and to the distributed object database Thor. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995.

Paul McNab is responsible for developing and executing Cisco System's global Enterprise and Mid-Market Solutions and Technology Marketing strategy. This strategy focuses on providing global marketing programs, messages and content that support Cisco's broad portfolio of Foundation, Advanced and Emerging products and technologies in the Enterprise and Mid-Market segments. Such products and technologies include Routing, Switching, Unified Communications, Security, Mobility, Video and Storage across Campus, Branch, Wide Area and Data Center architectures. Paul is also responsible for delivering both horizontal reference architectures as well as scalable industry based solutions in support of Cisco's customer's business strategies. Previously, Paul was Vice President of Cisco's Integrated Network Systems Engineering group, providing verified reference network designs for Enterprise, Service Provider, and Commercial markets. He devloped Cisco's Service Provider Solutions Engineering and Enterprise Solutions Engineering and Commercial Solutions Engineering teams to design, test, and market total customer solutions. Paul joined Cisco in 1996 through the acquisition of StrataCom. Previously, he held management and engineering positions with Cray Communications and Dowty Communications in Watford, England. A hardware and software engineer for the first half of his 25 years in the industry, Paul brings to his role a balanced mix of both Marketing and Engineering skills. Paul has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from North West University in Manchester, England, and holds an international patent for distribution switch matrices.

Russell Stern has served as President and CEO at Solarflare Communications since 2004. In 2006, Mr. Stern led the acquisition of Level 5 Networks, a 10G Ethernet controller company based in Cambridge, UK. With both the leading 10GBASE-T PHY and 10G Ethernet controller technologies, Mr. Stern is establishing Solarflare as the leading supplier of 10Gb Ethernet semiconductors for LAN-on-Motherboard in Servers and 10GBASE-T transceivers for data center switches. To date, he has raised nearly $160M in venture capital for Solarflare and intends to position the company for an IPO in 2010. He was formerly President and CEO at JNI Corporation in San Diego, California which he sold to AMCC. Prior to JNI, Mr. Stern served as COO at Quantum Corporation and for more than 13 years, he held a number of increasingly responsible positions in the disc drive industry including five years at Western Digital Corporation in Irvine, CA, where he held the positions of Sr. VP, R & D, VP, Worldwide Operations and as Co-Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Stern has also held executive engineering and marketing positions with Seagate Technology and Adaptec. He began his career at IBM, where he held various engineering and management positions in the development and manufacturing of the IBM PC / XT / AT and PS/2. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. Mr. Stern is also a Foundation Board member of the Orange County High School of the Arts, a chartered public school in Santa Ana, CA.

As the Avocent Chief Technology Officer, Ben Grimes is responsible for helping to establish the technical direction for the company by proactively evaluating technical companies and technologies pertinent to the future of both the company and the industry. Prior to joining Avocent, Ben Grimes had a 17-year career with IBM, most recently in the appointed position of Distinguished Engineer, an executive position he held from 2002 to 2007. In that role, he served as the lead architect for software development for IBM xSeries and blades. That position overlapped with a two year special assignment in which he worked directly with large financial institutions to develop industry-specific customizations for software products. Grimes' earlier years with IBM included five years as the lead designer and engineer for embedded systems management for xSeries after serving as a programmer in embedded firmware. He was awarded 9 patents for his innovations in systems software. Grimes holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University.

Robert Bunger is Director of Business Development for Data Centers at APC by Schneider Electric. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined it with MGE UPS Systems to form Schneider Electric's IT Business Unit, which recorded 2007 revenue of $3.5 billion (?2.4 billion) and employed 12,000 people worldwide. Since joining APC in 1998, Robert has served in various areas of the company from technical support, technical sales and product management. From 2004 through 2006 he worked in Denmark as the InfraStruXure® product manager for EMEA. He is currently Business Development Manager for Data Centers in North America. Robert holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the U.S. Naval Academy and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Chris Loeffler is the Global Applications Manager for Eaton Corporation, specializing in data center power solutions and services. With more than 18 years of experience in the UPS industry, he has overseen product management of more than 20 UPS products for the data center or industrial applications. Mr. Loeffler has held a variety of positions with Eaton, in roles including service engineering, application engineering, and product management. Mr. Loeffler has authored a number of articles for trade publications and written several white papers concerning energy efficiency in the data center.