IBM’s CIO, Jeanette Horan, is the latest industry executive who has agreed to speak at the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in New York City.

Ms. Horan’s organization supports IBM’s transformation agenda by ensuring that its technology strategy is aligned with its business objectives so the company can attain the goals established in IBM’s 2015 roadmap which include annual sales from analyzing business data of $20 billion in 2015. Since 2005, IBM has spent over $16 billion on 35 acquisitions to boost its analytics capabilities.

Ms. Horan was appointed CIO of IBM in May 2011. Previously she was the Vice President of Enterprise Business Transformation at IBM and was responsible for worldwide product development for the Information Management business in Software Group, and General Manager of IBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory. Prior to joining IBM, Ms. Horan spent four years with Digital Equipment Corporation … Read More »

Tim FitzGerald, Avnet Services  – Vice President of Cloud Solutions, will kickoff the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

The Cloud Channel Summit is part 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 first event of the 2013 Cloud Innovators Summit series is the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 at the Apella Executive Conference Center in New York City.

Tim FitzGerald oversees the development and growth of Avnet’s Cloud Solutions business building an ecosystem of leading providers and partners to address the demand for market-ready cloud solutions. With more than 25 years of experience, FitzGerald joined Avnet in 1989 and has held positions of increasing … 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 »

Salesforce.com, Oracle, SAP/Sybase, Iron Mountain and CallidusCloud are the latest companies to become sponsors of the second annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 5, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace, and Rising Tide Media.

These companies join IBM, Alteva, AppDirect, Aryaka, Corent Technology, CorSource, GoodData, SoftServe and TechData as sponsors of the Summit.

The Cloud Channel Summit provides an intimate, peer-to-peer networking forum for industry executives to share perspectives, best practices and insights about how to build successful partnerships in the Cloud.

Stacy Nethercoat, VP of Software Product Marketing at Tech Data, will be the kickoff keynote speaker at the Summit. Stephen Cho, Director of Software Partner Business Development for Google Enterprise, is also returning as a keynote speaker at this year’s event.

The following executives have also agreed to speak at the Summit:

David Hoff, CTO and Co-founder, Cloud Sherpas
Nick Pegley, VP Marketing, All Covered
Joe Panettieri, Editorial Director of the … Read More »

THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media are very pleased to announce that Stephen Cho, Director of Software Partner Business Development at Google Enterprise, has agreed to return to the second annual Cloud Channel Summit as a keynote speaker on Monday, November 5 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Stephen’s keynote talk is entitled, “Strategies and Tactics for Building Productive Cloud Partnerships.”

During his presentation he will discuss how Cloud apps (SaaS) and Cloud computing (PaaS, IaaS) are evolving; how ISVs and solution providers are forging new relationships; which relationships are most important; what drives partner success for solution providers, ISVs and product vendors; and how customer needs inform the best partnerships.

Stephen is responsible for Google Enterprise relationships with software partners across Google Apps, Google Cloud Platform products, and the Google Apps Marketplace. Previously, Stephen was Director of Google Apps Channels, growing its partner … Read More »