Mr. Elron is responsible for defining the Firm’s strategy and offerings in a variety of domains, primarily in the technology space. Most recently he has focused on the impact of cloud technologies on the Firm’s businesses. Previously Mr. Elron was the Managing Partner, Growth and Strategy for Accenture’s Technology Growth Platform and the Managing Partner of Accenture’s Communications Industry. He has advised many of the largest companies in the telecommunications and technology industries in North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Elron is a member of the IEEE and ACM. He also serves as the advisor for the information technology industries for the World Economic Forum. He has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Tel-Aviv and the University of Minnesota. He and his family live in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Frank advises tech industry Vendor Strategy professionals, predicting and quantifying growth and disruption in the technology industry. He analyzes paradigm shifts in the economics of the IT industry caused by the emergence of new infrastructure technologies like cloud computing services and virtualization and new as-a-service business models for pricing and provisioning computing solutions.

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

Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO of CyberRiskPartners. CRP offers Cloud Computing providers and data-intensive traditional businesses the visibility, quantification, and risk transfer solutions to manage cyber risk on an ongoing, targeted, and actionable basis. Through the CRP proprietary platform we deliver risk dispersion market options to enable Cloud clients to grow with emerging applications such as cloud computing, API’s, SAAS, and social media. CloudRisks is a specialty hedging platform networked with various Cyber Insurance companies that enables Cloud Computing companies to deal with the future of financial, technical, and legal aggregation. Www.cyberriskpartners.com

Nolan M. Goldberg is an IP & Technology Counsel in Proskauer's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department and a member of the Patent Law Group, resident in the New York office. As an intellectual property litigator, his practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation and counseling. As a founding member of the Litigation Department's Electronic Discovery Task Force, Mr. Goldberg is often called upon to develop e-discovery strategies to be used in all types of litigations, with a particular focus on managing the overall burden and cost of the electronic discovery process and obtaining often overlooked electronic evidence, including computer forensics. Mr. Goldberg's complete professional bio can be found at http://www.proskauer.com/professionals/nolan-goldberg/

With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman’s experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo Networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award-winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine.

Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).