Bill Krivoshik, SVP and Chief Information Officer, Time Warner Inc. has agreed to speak at the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in New York City. 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.

As Time Warner’s first enterprise CIO, Bill Krivoshik leads the overall IT strategy at the company, a global leader in media and entertainment with businesses in television networks, film and TV entertainment, and publishing. He also oversees IT shared services. Prior to Time Warner, Bill served as enterprise CIO for Marsh & McLennan, CTO for Thomson Financial, CTO for Citigroup Global Investment Management, and as CIO for AIG and several GE Capital companies. He started his career with Andersen Consulting … Read More »

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 »

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 »

Michael Hickins, the senior editor of the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal, has agreed to moderate a panel at the Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in New York City entitled, “Redefining BI & Analytics in the Cloud.” 

Prior to becoming the head of the CIO Journal’s editorial staff, Michael led the Wall Street Journal’s premium Web aggregation edition, WSJ Professional; managed the Digits technology blog; and was interim editor of CFO Journal. He was also executive editor at eWEEK.

Joining Michael on the panel is Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger who spent 37 years at IBM where he led the company’s initiatives in e-business, supercomputing and Linux. In his emeritus position, he continues to influence IBM’s Cloud Computing and Smart Cities strategies.

The Cloud Analytics Summit will provide an intimate opportunity for CIOs and other corporate executives to learn about the latest innovations and industry best … Read More »

THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media have received a tremendous response to our 2013 Cloud Analytics and Cloud Channel Summit conference plans on May 2 and November 4, respectively. In order to respond to the speaking requests for these upcoming events in an orderly fashion, we have established an online speaker proposal process.

Please go to the following links to submit your speaking proposals for each of the Cloud Innovators Summits:

Cloud Analytics Summit
Cloud Channel Summit

We will consider each proposal on a first come, first serve basis.

Summit sponsors and those companies which propose customers as potential speakers will be given preferential treatment in the selection process. We are also looking for speaking proposals focused on key business issues rather than specific technical topics.

We will consider each proposal on a first come, first serve basis.

Contact me if you have questions regarding the speaking opportunities or have technical problems submitting your … Read More »

THINKstrategies and the Cloud Computing Showplace, in conjunction with Rising Tide Media, are pleased to announce the dates and locations for the 2013 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forums which will focus on the unique business opportunities created by today’s rapidly evolving Cloud Computing services and solutions aimed at capitalizing on the unprecedented BIg Data, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Integration and Channel Partnership opportunities in the Cloud.

Cloud Analytics Summit

We are very excited to be hosting the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit peer-to-peer networking event on Thursday, May 2, 2013, at the beautiful Apella meeting center in NYC.

After bringing together over 150 executives from the leading Cloud-based BI and data integration providers, along with CIOs from innovative companies like Facebook and Splunk at our first Cloud Analytics Summit, we believe the time is right to relocate our event to world’s commercial center where financial services, media companies and others are aggressively pursuing Cloud … Read More »

The second annual Cloud Channel Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, was a tremendous success. The peer-to-peer, executive networking event brought together over 200 attendees, 40 speakers, 23 partners and 19 sponsors. And, now you can view the 10 sessions online!

Click here to view the video recordings of the keynote presentations and panel discussions with key executives from leading Cloud companies like Salesforce.com, Google, GoodData, InformaticaCloud, MuleSoft, Rackspace, SugarCRM and VMware; software and systems vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP and VMware; along with leading VARs/systems integrators and other important channel companies including All Covered, Avnet, Centerbeam, Cloud Sherpas, Ingram Micro, Insight, Spiceworks andTech Data.

As you’ll see in the videos, the sessions examined the following key topics of concern to Cloud vendors and channel partners:

Where’s the Channel in the Cloud? A State of the Industry
What … Read More »