We’ve posted a new highlight video of the Cloud Analytics Summit, along with the recordings of all the presentations and panel sessions on the Agenda page of the Summit website.

You can also click here to view over thirty (30), one-on-one interviews with each of the Summit speakers, produced by DreamSimplicity, and find a number of testimonials from a cross-section of speakers, sponsors and attendees who found the Summit valuable and worthwhile.

We are very pleased that the Cloud Analytics Summit was able to bring together many of the leading innovators — both vendors and CIOs — to discuss how the Cloud is redefining business intelligence (BI), data integration and Big Data.

Because of a combination of factors, we have decided to forgo the second of our 2012 Cloud Innovators Summit series, the Cloud Management Summit, on Tuesday, June 19, and focus our energies … Read More »

I’m pleased to announce that Jane Griffin, a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP responsible for leading the firm’s Analytics practice, will speak at the Cloud Analytics Summit on Wednesday, April 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

The goal of the Cloud Analytics Summit is to provide a meeting place for corporate decision-makers to learn about the latest Cloud solutions aimed at addressing their BI and analytics needs, so they can harness their ‘Big Data’ sources, and integrate their systems and applications into a more productive enterprise-wide resource to satisfy their corporate requirements.

Jane’s keynote will discuss, “Capitalizing on Cloud Analytics to Harness Big Data, Social Media and Mobility”. Her perspective on this important topic is based on more than 30 years of information technology experience focused on information management, business intelligence, data warehousing and master data management.

As Americas Leader of Deloitte Analytics, Jane brings her vast experience to help … Read More »

I’m pleased to announce that Stacy Nethercoat, Tech Data’s Vice President of Software Product Marketing and leader of its TDCloud offering and new StreamOne Solutions Store, will be the opening keynote speaker at the 2012 Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 5, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Launched last November 2011, the Cloud Channel Summit is an executive forum designed to bring together senior business development and channel management executives from leading Cloud, channel companies and others interested in sharing industry best practices for building successful partner relationships in the Cloud. Last year’s inaugural conference attracted 190 attendees, thirty-one speakers, nineteen association and media partners, and seventeen sponsors who participated in eleven interactive sessions during the Summit.

Based on the overwhelmingly positive response to the 2011 Cloud Channel Summit, the second annual event will again target senior executives seeking to learn from their peers the keys to success for partnering in the Cloud, and … Read More »

I’m very pleased with the immediate response we have received regarding our upcoming Cloud Analytics, Management and Cloud Channel Summit conferences.

In order to systematically respond to the steady stream of speaking requests we are receiving, we have established an online submission process to ensure that we can select the best speakers for our events.

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

Cloud Analytics Summit
Cloud Management Summit
Cloud Channel Summit 

We will consider each proposal on a first come, first serve basis. However, preferential treatment will be given to proposals focused on key business issues rather than specific technical topics.

We will also prioritize proposals that suggest CIO speakers for the Cloud Analytics and Management Summits, and channel company executives with first-hand experience working in Cloud environments. Summit sponsors and start-ups with a track-record of success will also receive greater consideration.

Contact me if you have … Read More »

Video recordings of the Cloud Channel Summit sessions, as well as hardcopies of the keynote presentations, are now posted on the Agenda page of the Summit website.  

You can also click here to view a series of thirty-four (34) one-on-one interviews with each of the Summit speakers, produced by DreamSimplicity. 

We are also pleased to have a series of video and written testimonials posted here from a cross-section of speakers, sponsors and attendees who found the Summit valuable. 

I hope you find these videos and presentations interesting.

Based on the overwhelmingly positive feedback we received from the Summit attendees, speakers, sponsors and partners, we are planning to host another Cloud Channel Summit in 2012. We are also planning a second conference focused on an important Cloud market segment of particular interest to organizations of all sizes across nearly every industry.

I’ll let you know our 2012 plans soon. Let me know if you’d like to … Read More »

Our first Cloud Channel Summit was a terrific success yesterday. We had 190 attendees, lots of energy and insights about the opportunities and challenges associated with building successful channel relationships and other partnerships in the Cloud.

Bringing together senior executives focused on this common objective created a positive networking environment which produced immediate business opportunities for a number of the attendees who I talked to at the end of the Summit.

This peer-to-peer professional event also gave the attendees a unique opportunity to compare notes and trade perspectives about what is working and what is not when it comes to partnering in the Cloud. The bottom-line was that there is plenty to be learned and gained by trading these industry best practices, and business cards at an event like the Cloud Channel Summit.

Here is some of the coverage generated by the event,

Google Channel … Read More »

Due to the distractions associated with the planning of the Cloud Channel Summit, I haven’t had time to post my views regarding various industry announcements and trends here as often as I would like. But, I have been writing for other publications about the channel implications of the Cloud movement in anticipation of the Summit. Here are links to those commentaries in case you haven’t seen them already:

ChannelPro Magazine: Finding New Channel Opportunities in the Cloud, 10/26/11 

Channel Tech Network: Channels Ascend From Disintermediation to Cloud Industry Darlings, 10/25/11 

Datamation: Cloud Computing Vendors: New Channel Alliances Are Critical, 10/21/11 

E-Commerce Times: Reinventing Channels in the Cloud, 10/14/11 

Executives from some of the most important companies in the Cloud industry will discuss the changing role of the channel in the Cloud and how Cloud companies should partner for success at the Summit on November 7. … Read More »

The Cloud Channel Summit will be this Monday, November 7 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media. 

Here are the numbers for Monday’s executive forum:

>175 registered attendees
31 speakers
19 partners
17 sponsors
11 sessions
9 hours of valuable insights
1 full day of practical perspectives and interesting people

Registered attendees for Monday’s Cloud Channel Summit now include business development and channel management executives from Adobe, AT&T, BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Comcast, Hitachi Global Technologies, Intel Corporation, McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle, Pitney-Bowes Software, SAP, Savvis, Symantec, VMware, and Zenith Infotech, among others.  Click here to register now and join them!

The keynote presentations during the Cloud Channel Summit will be:  

“Making Rain in the Channel: New Opportunities in Cloud Computing” presented by Stephen Cho, director of channels and business development at Google Enterprise.
“5 Steps to Building a Successful Channel Program in the Cloud” presented by Ron Huddleston, … Read More »