Yuvi Kochar, as corporate CTO, collaborates with the major divisions of The Washington Post Company in the areas of technology strategy, architecture and Shared Information Technology Services. Under his leadership, Shared IT Services have rapidly expanded to support key Compliance, Identity Management, Security and Privacy, HR, Benefits, Payroll and Procurement processes across all divisions. The team also supports the corporate Intranet and is currently innovating in the areas of Enterprise 2.0, collaboration and flexible architectures enabling rapid deployment of new solutions to respond to the fast-evolving requirements of the company’s business units. Yuvi constantly evaluates opportunities and threats presented by new technologies. He collaborates with business executives to develop innovative strategies to leverage the rapidly changing technology environment. His current focus is in the areas of open source, collaboration, mobile applications and cloud computing.

Douglas Menefee, a Gulf War veteran, has been involved with technology since the early 1990’s. In 1994, he resigned from the University of Louisiana to become a pioneer in the Internet economy by co-founding Planet Symphony, a website creation and interactive marketing management company. The company gained national attention in 1995 when it staged the first-ever Internet video broadcast of Mardi Gras. To capitalize on the dotcom boom, Planet Symphony split into two distinct entities: Planet Symphony, which was acquired by the Graham Group in December 1995 and StarSeed, which was acquired by Geocities/Yahoo in December 1998.

Sean Kelley is the Global CIO for Deutsche Asset Management and is responsible for worldwide operations and technology. He has spent over 25 years in the technology and financial services field and has experience in a wide range of managerial, financial, operational and technological disciplines including; mergers and acquisitions, securities processing, statistical controls, technical operations management, systems development, quantitative analysis and financial modeling. Based in New York, he has had both small and large organizational management roles as well as leadership responsibilities for numerous overseas locations.

Elisabeth Rainge manages IDC’s research into telecom software and network operations markets and contributes to IDC’s broad portfolio of network infrastructure market research. Currently, she is leading IDC's research of telecom software, focusing on business value. Specific areas of coverage include OSS/BSS, SDP, policy, NGN voice infrastructures and subscriber data management.

Robert B. Cohen, PhD, evaluates how new technologies reshape telecommunications. He consults on business aspects of cloud services. He has been a consultant to RHK. He chaired StreetGrid08 the main Wall Street’s conference on grid computing. He is Area Director for Enterprise Requirements of the Open Grid Forum. He has taught at NYU’s Stern Business School and the Cooper Union.

Bill joined Westcon in April 2008, and is currently responsible for all IT and technology matters in the organization. Prior to joining Westcon Group, he was a Managing Director with Marsh & McLennan for 5 years, where he was Global CIO/CIO Americas responsible for global sales, marketing and finance systems, as well as brokerage systems for the Americas. In addition, he oversaw the development of the company's global internet, intranet and extranet presence. Bill received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from SUNY Albany and has a Masters in Finance from Fordham University.

As Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy, Don Keane is responsible for global marketing and product strategy for all channels. Keane is a marketing veteran with over 18 years successful business and brand building experience at a number of world-class technology, software and Internet companies. Prior to joining Angel.com, Keane was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at RingCube Technologies. Prior to RingCube, he served as VP Marketing at LegalMatch and as Managing Director/Vice President at Earthlink. He has also held marketing leadership positions at Intuit, General Mills, and Rust-oleum. Keane holds a B.A. from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and an MBA from UCLA. He sits on the board at Leadverse, Inc. a lead generation company in San Francisco.

Chris Lomeli is a designer/architect at Intuit Inc. He received an M.B.A degree at Pepperdine University and graduate degree in Information Systems at UC San Diego. He began his career managing document control technologies for complex multi-party litigation, subsequently moving into billing and operational support systems at Deloitte Consulting. He joined United Online, a company with upwards of four million billing accounts, as a principal software engineer, then Director of Software. His latest engagement was as a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft helping to develop the commerce platform for selling Microsoft’s Azure software and platform as a service offerings. Chris has recently joined Intuit where he is once again helping to develop Saas billing solutions for Intuit's array of successful online products.

Paul Hughes is Director of Product Marketing for Oracle’s Communications Global Business Unit. He is responsible for marketing activities pertaining to Oracle’s Billing and Revenue Management solution set in the communications, media/entertainment, and cloud/enterprise verticals. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Hughes worked as a Research Principal for the TM Forum, and spent over 10 years as Vice President of Enabling Technologies Research with the Yankee Group.

Joe Weinman is responsible for managing HP’s unparalled range of technologies, solutions and integration services for the Communication, Media and Entertainment business. A business that leverages HP’s products, services, intellectual property and partners to enable the creation, aggregation, and distribution of communication and content rich solutions and services in an end-to-end approach. Prior to joining HP, Joe led the global portfolio strategy and business development for AT&T Business Solutions. AT&T is the world’s largest communications holding company with US$123 Billion (FY2009) in annual revenue. Joe is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and multiple AT&T Distinguished Speaker Awards.

Douglas Menefee, a Gulf War veteran, has been involved with technology since the early 1990’s. In 1994, he resigned from the University of Louisiana to become a pioneer in the Internet economy by co-founding Planet Symphony, a website creation and interactive marketing management company. The company gained national attention in 1995 when it staged the first-ever Internet video broadcast of Mardi Gras. To capitalize on the dotcom boom, Planet Symphony split into two distinct entities: Planet Symphony, which was acquired by the Graham Group in December 1995 and StarSeed, which was acquired by Geocities/Yahoo in December 1998.

Alan Conley is the Chief Technology Officer for the Network Management Technology Group and is responsible for the technology strategy and direction for NMTG. Alan’s current areas of focus include Cloud Computing, Data Center Management, Network Management, Service Management and product manageability. Prior to taking on the CTO role, Alan was a member of the select group known as Distinguished Engineers – a title reserved for those who exhibit superior leadership, responsibility and accomplishment in technical and strategic areas critical to Cisco's success.

As VP of Strategy in the Rackspace Enterprise Services division, Andy Schroepfer's goal is to quicken the pace that businesses see, and act on, the reality that the future of computing is not about servers, but about service. He calls this the Road to ACE (All Cloud Enterprise), where ACE is a business that operates powerfully without servers, by leveraging the most efficient hosting platform (dedicated or cloud) for their custom apps and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications for the rest. To that end, Schroepfer has led the launch of AppMatcher.com, an matchmaking service for business applications with their targeted subscribers.

Joe Graves was named Stratus CIO in 2002. During his tenure, Joe has been a champion of innovation and change. He has recreated the Stratus IT environment by upgrading the existing legacy environment using innovative approaches such as virtualization and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Mr. Zubarev is a founder and the president of Parallels’ Service Provider division worldwide including sales and operations for hosting and software-as-a-service (SaaS). Since the company’s founding in 1999, he has held multiple leadership roles within the company including chief operating officer, sales engineering, product marketing and business development. Zubarev has been instrumental in building the company from its start to today with more than 700 employees. Zubarev was also a founder of Acronis and helped establish the storage management company’s sales and marketing organizations in the United States. Previously, he handled product marketing for Pervasive Software and brought its first Linux product to market. Zubarev holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Michael Crandell is the CEO and a founder of RightScale, where he provides the vision and direction for the company as it pioneers innovative ways to bring the power of cloud computing to any organization. Crandell is a frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, and he has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com. Crandell received his B.A. from Stanford University and completed graduate studies at Harvard University.

David Nelson is an Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company and is currently the Chief Strategist for Cloud Computing. In this role David is responsible for the long term direction and short term implementation of the internal and external cloud strategy. A 25 year veteran of Boeing, David’s primary work has been around emerging technologies. He has co-authored several books and speaks at industry forums and regional groups.

Marc Ferrentino, Chief Technical Architect for Salesforce.com. Marc joined Salesforce.com in February 2007. His responsibilities included early stage product development and marketing, evangelism of the Force.com platform, and promoting Salesforce.com's open source initiatives. Mr. Ferrentino is also involved with developing Salesforce.com's Collaboration and Platform strategic direction. Prior to Salesforce.com, Marc served as the Vice President of Engineering at Vettro Corp, a global leader in mobile on-demand applications. Mr. Ferrentino was responsible for the development and launch of Vettro's applications and was the creative force behind Vettro's core technology. Prior to Vettro, Marc served as Vice President of Development at InternetCash.com where he was instrumental in developing a prepaid spending card for the Internet and a real-time transaction network. Over the course of his career, Mr. Ferrentino has held technology positions at Goldman Sachs and Westinghouse/Cutler-Hammer. Marc holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and has participated in the Masters of Statistics with a Concentration in Finance program at Columbia University.

Enrico is a Senior Project Manager at Telecom Italia. He covered the role of Team Leader for both eTOM and SDF Programs, and was awarded as “TM Forum Distinguished Fellow” in 2005. His current interests are on Cloud Computing standardization - he represents Telecom Italia in the DMTF Cloud Management Working Group - , and on software platforms innovation for vertical markets.

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Jenny is responsible for the OSS and BSS standards strategy development for AT&T, influencing the adoption of critical IT, Business and Service Management standards that unite next-generation infrastructure and next-generation operations and business best practices to facilitate the creation and expansion of new services for the Communication Service Providers. Jenny brings more than 25 years of hands-on OSS/BSS architecture design and implementation experience to the industry, she is a TM Forum distinguished fellow and the Chair of the Service Providers Leadership Council.

Cliff Meltzer is Chief Development Officer for one of the CA Technologies Centers of Innovation. His team focuses on developing Infrastructure Management, Application Performance Management and Business Service Analytics products and solutions. He joined CA Technologies in November 2009 from Apple Computer where he was vice president of CPU software, responsible for leading the development of platform dependent software across all Macintosh products.

Dr. Sunil Lingayat is a practicing service delivery professional with several years of experience in the Telecommunications and IT industry. He has consulted and supported customers in several countries on Telecom and IT service delivery efficiencies, and the infrastructure, tools, and capabilities needed to become an efficient and profitable service provider. He has previously served as the CTO in a large Govt organization and headed professional services practices in the commercial Telecommunications and IT service industries.

Ellen Rubin is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in leading strategy, market positioning and go-to-market for fast-growing companies. Prior to founding CloudSwitch, Ellen was Vice President of Marketing at Netezza (NYSE: NZ), the pioneer and global leader in data warehouse appliances that power business intelligence and analytics at over 200 enterprises worldwide. As a member of the early management team at Netezza, Ellen helped grow the company to over $125 million in revenues and a successful IPO in 2007. Ellen defined and created broad market acceptance of a new category, "data warehouse appliances," and led market strategy, product marketing, complementary technology relationships and marketing communications. Prior to Netezza, Ellen founded Manna, an Israeli and Boston-based developer of real-time personalization software. Ellen played a key role in raising over $18 million in venture financing from leading US and Israeli venture capital firms, recruiting the US-based management team and defining product and market strategy. Ellen began her career as a marketing strategy consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Harvard College.

Wesley J. Chun, MSCS, is the author of Prentice Hall's bestseller, "Core Python Programming" (http://corepython.com), its video training course, "Python Fundamentals" (LiveLessons DVD), co-author of "Python Web Development with Django" (http://withdjango.com), and has also written for Linux Journal, CNET, & InformIT. In addition to being a software architect & Developer Advocate at Google, he also runs CyberWeb (http://cyberwebconsulting.com), a consultancy specializing in Python training & engineering. Wesley has over 25 years of programming, teaching, and writing experience. While at Yahoo!, he helped create Yahoo! Mail & Yahoo! People Search. In addition to Yahoo!, Wesley previously held engineering positions at Sun Microsystems, IronPort/Cisco Systems, EMC/Legato Systems, Hewlett Packard, and Rockwell Network Systems. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California.

Ken Owens is Vice President of Security and Virtualization Technologies at Savvis, where he has made significant contributions in security and virtualization architecture and strategies. Prior to joining Savvis, Owens spent two years as a Network Security Architect at AG Edwards & Sons, Inc. and Edward Jones Investments, respectively. Previously, he spent 10 years in Architecture and Design of Communications Systems and Components.

Eric Hyman is director of product management at XO Communications. In this role, he oversees the product development, lifecycle management and marketing strategy of XO Communication’s Applications & Converged Services portfolio which includes Managed & Professional Services, Hosted IVR, Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, VoIP, Local Services, Long Distance and Unified Communications & Collaboration. While at XO, Eric led the launch of XO’s award winning business VoIP offerings of XO IP Flex, XO Interactive, and XO iPBX. Eric has more than 15 years of marketing, product management and strategic planning in the telecommunications industry. Previously, Eric led the marketing efforts and product development for local services for AT&T Business Services. Eric launched CERFtone, AT&T’s first integrated bundled solution that combined local, long distance and data services. He received a Bachelor’s degree in both Economics and History from Emory University and attended Georgia State University for post-graduate studies.

Mr. Chakrapani is currently the Chief of the Integration Engineering Division of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Global Information Grid (GIG) Engineering Center. The Integrating Engineering division is a focal point in the synchronization and integration of existing Command and Control (C2) applications, GIG Enterprise Services and NetOps/Information Assurance (IA) applications and services across multiple programs into a joint GIG architecture to achieve a network-centric vision. Currently, Mr. Chakrapani is leading DISA efforts in assessing evolving technologies in the area of Policy-based Enterprise Management (PBEM) and implementing a standards based approach in the areas of Network Perimeter Defense and Satellite Communications (SATCOM).

Ed Laczynski is responsible for driving Datapipe’s cloud computing strategy and architecting new cloud platforms and integrations. Ed recently joined Datapipe, a leading global managed IT and hosting services provider, after spending years as founder and CTO of a cloud computing pioneer in the delivery of software and infrastructure services to the enterprise. Ed has a background in high-availability web infrastructure and development for media, financial services, and telecommunications industries, and is an alumnus of New York University.

Rene Sotola is the Global Telecommunications marketing lead in CGI. He provides strategic direction for the next generation offering development. He has extensive business, innovation, architecture and development experience, serves on CGI’s Technology Council, chairs CGI’s International Telecom Sector Council and CGI’s Mobility Council. A noted expert within the industry, he is a regular speaker at numerous US and international events and contributor to various publications and analyst briefings. His experience includes senior management and technical roles in Europe and the US, serving as CTO and Business Unit Manager at various times. He is a Chartered Engineer in IEEE, a Chartered Member of the British Computer society and holds two M.S. degrees.

Humera Malik is the Director for Product Management at Redknee. She is responsible for defining product strategy, developing product roadmap, driving profitable growth of Redknee’s product portfolio. Humera has been in the telecommunications industry for the more than a decade working for Bell Canada and AT&T Wireless where she was responsible for defining innovative mobile & wireless productized solutions targeting several key industries – Financial Services, Health Care, Retail and High Tech. She built several strategic business & technology alliances to build revenue momentum and to streamline solution delivery platforms. Prior to AT&T she has held various global product leadership positions in the industry with Clarus and Xcelerate. Humera holds a Bachelors in Science and a Masters in Business Administration