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Leading Industry Innovators and CIOs Speaking at Second Annual Cloud Analytics Summit

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11th March

Executives from AppFirst, Domo, Datadog, Indicee, Sailthru, SoftServe and Big Data Boston Ventures are the latest industry innovators who have agreed to speak at the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in New York City.

These executives will join Jeanette Horan, IBM’s CIO; Bill Krivoshik, SVP/CIO at Time Warner; Michael Hickins, Senior Editor, Wall Street Journal CIO Journal; Stephen David Spears, SVP, Application, ADI & IT Management, SAP AG; and Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Strategic Advisor and 37-year veteran at IBM, as speakers at the peer-to-peer networking event.

The Cloud Analytics Summit is a one-day, executive forum focused on the latest innovations which are enabling organizations of all sizes to address their Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Integration challenges in the Cloud.

In addition to the leading innovators who are speaking at the Summit, a growing number of IT and corporate decision-makers from prominent businesses are also registering … Read More »



SAP AG Senior Vice President to Speak at Second Annual Cloud Analytics Summit, May 2 in NYC

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19th February

Stephen David Spears, Senior Vice President & General Manager of SAP AG’s Application, Development, Integration and IT Management Software Organization, will kickoff the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit, Thursday, May 2 at the Apella Conference Center in New York City.

The Cloud Analytics Summit is the first of the 2013 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forum series hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media. The series is aimed at helping corporate decision-makers better understand how they can leverage the latest Cloud innovations to achieve their business objectives. The second event of the Cloud Innovators Summit series will be the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Stephen directs SAP’s solution strategy and manages a diverse portfolio of SAP and third-party software solutions sold through the SAP Database and Technology Sales organization on a global basis. Stephen has also served in many other executive management … Read More »



CEOs From Innovative Companies Returning to Second Annual Cloud Analytics Summit

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11th February

David Roth, the Co-Founder and CEO of AppFirst, and Mark Cunningham, Founder and CEO of Indicee, are returning to speak at the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit at the Apella executive center in New York City on Thursday, May 2.

David and Mark will join Michael Hickins, the senior editor of the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal, and Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a 37-year veteran at IBM, at the peer-to-peer networking executive forum. The Cloud Analytics Summit will provide an intimate opportunity for CIOs and other corporate executives to learn about the latest innovations and industry best practices regarding Cloud BI, Big Data and data integration from their peers and leading solution providers.

The Cloud Analytics Summit is the first of the 2013 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forum series hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media. The series is aimed at helping corporate decision-makers better … Read More »



Oracle, enStratus, Centerbeam & Chipita America Executives to Speak at Cloud Management Summit

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29th April

THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media are pleased to announce the latest round of senior executives who have agreed to speak at the Cloud Management Summit on Tuesday, June 19, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

The Cloud Management Summit will provide an intimate opportunity for corporate decision-makers to learn about the latest Cloud management solutions and share industry best practices for acquiring and administering today’s rapidly evolving Cloud alternatives to achieve their business objectives.

The following executives have agreed to speak at the Summit on June 19 to date:

Sushil Kumar, Vice President of Product Strategy and Business Development at Oracle
Scott Martin, CIO at Chipita America
Shahin Pirooz, EVP of Engineering Operations and CTO at CenterBeam
James Urquhart, Vice President of Product Strategy, enStratus
Michael Crandell, Founder and CEO of RightScale
David Roth, CEO & Co-founder, AppFirst
Feyzi Fatehi, CEO, Corent Technology
Russell Hertzberg, VP SaaS and ISV Solutions, SoftServe
Joseph R. Szmadzinski, CEO, IT Management … Read More »





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