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Follow on Google News |  Canadian Cloud Council Announces Agenda for Second National Conference “The Cloud Accelerator”National non-profit presents conference schedule featuring 35 cloud technology industry experts, business leaders and policy makers
The Canadian Cloud Council hosted a successful inaugural conference in Edmonton, Alberta in March 2012 which was recently called “Canada’s first national cloud conference” by Shawn Taft, MTS Allstream’s Senior Product Manager for Hosting and Cloud Computing. “I look at the program and speaker lineup of our second national conference and it has the potential of being a game changer,” said Robert Hart, the Canadian Cloud Council’s President and CEO.” “Many of Canada’s most influential leaders in the areas of cloud and enterprise technology will be in the room and together will have the ability to drive forward some monumental progress related to the advancement of Canada’s cloud agenda.” The theme of the event will be Canadian Cloud technology innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialization – and how the convergence of these disciplines will play a major impact on Canadian economic development and its global competitive position. The conference will focus on three major key focus areas: The Business of Cloud Computing, Cloud Transformation Best Practices, and The Case for Government Cloud Computing. Sir Terry Matthews, Chairman of Wesley Clover and David Nicholl, CIO of Government of Ontario are opening the event, which is proudly sponsored by Canadian Cloud Council members: Mitel, Wesley Clover and IBM. The full agenda of “THE CLOUD ACCELERATOR” DAY ONE: THE CANADIAN CLOUD ECONOMIC ACTION PLAN OPENING REMARKS - Sir Terry Matthews, Founder and Chairman – Mitel and Wesley Clover THE STATE OF CLOUD IN CANADA - Shane Schick, Editor –ExpertIP THE BUSINESS OF CLOUD COMPUTING – FILLING THE CANADIAN COMMERCIALIZATION GAP Reuven Cohen, SVP - Virtustream and Founder and CTO - Enomaly Andrew Fisher, Executive Vice President – Wesley Clover Martin Kratz, Head Intellectual Property – Bennett Jones LLP Shahab Khan, Innovation and Wire Director – Startup Canada Eric Warnke, Co-Founder and CEO – Backupbox Peter Lalonde, Founder and CEO -Openera Brian Clendenin, Enterprise Sales Manager – SuccessFactors, an SAP Company TRANSFORMING THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE - Peter Coffee, VP and Head of Platform Research – Salesforce.com CLOUD TRANSFORMATION BEST PRACTICES – DRIVING CLOUD READINESS ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE Doug Jones, Senior Director Cloud Computing – Research in Motion Joe Arteaga, Business Development Executive - IBM Cloud Computing Ian Rae, CEO - CloudOps Ralf Nitsch, Global Sales Engineering Director Cloud Computing - Dell Rodney Rock, Canadian Data Center and Cloud Specialist - VMware Steven Woodward, CEO - Cloud Perspectives and NIST Cloud Reference Architecture Contributing Member Christian Szpilfogel, Chief Architect and VP Patent Licensing - Mitel CLOSING REMARKS – Jim Love, CIO – IT World Canada DAY TWO AM: THE CASE FOR GOVERNMENT CLOUD COMPUTING OPENING REMARKS - David Nicholl, CIO – Government of Ontario ACHIEVING CLOUD PROJECT SUCCESS IN GOVERNMENT - Dan Murphy, President DJM Systems SHARED SERVICES – THE CASE FOR GOVERNMENT CLOUD COMPUTING Alison Brooks, Research Director Public Sector – IDC Canada Jeff Siefert, CTO – Cisco Systems Canada Doug Hodgson, CITO – City of Calgary Ralph Gwin, Cloud Account Executive - IBM Timothy Grayson, Director ePost Product Development – Canada Post John Cousens, Manager Public Sector – Salesforce.com Almin Surani, CIO – Canadian Red Cross THE CLOUD NEXUS - Michael Doucet, CIO Royal Canadian Mounted Police A CALL TO ACTION – RESOLUTIONS FOR ACCELERATED CANADIAN CLOUD ADOPTION Andrew Fisher, Executive Vice President – Wesley Clover David Nicholl, CIO – Government of Ontario Doug Jones, Senior Director Cloud Computing – Research in Motion Reuven Cohen, SVP - Virtustream and Founder and CTO - Enomaly Alistair Croll, Board Director – Canadian Cloud Council Dan Murphy, President DJM Systems CLOSING REMARKS – Alistair Croll, Partner – BitCurrent DAY TWO PM: CLOUD UNIVERSITY CLOUD WORKSHOP ONE – CLOUD ENABLEMENT BEST PRACTICES Enterprise Data in the Cloud - Rod MacPherson – Founder DAMA Ottawa Transforming and Modernizing the High Performance Data Center - Vijai Karthigesu, COO – Cloud Dynamics Best Practices in Cloud Security and Control - Misha Nossik, CTO – AFORE Solutions and Founder – Ottawa Invest Cloud Cluster CLOUD WORKSHOP TWO – THE CLOUD ENTREPRENEUR Start-up Canada! - Shahab Kahan, Innovation and WIRE Director – Startup Canada Built to Sell - A Canadian Cloud Success Story - Reuven Cohen, SVP - Virtustream Technology Incubation and Acceleration - Jaethen Reichel, Co- Founder – Kamloops Innovation Center CLOUD WORKSHOP THREE – THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE The Social Media Revolution - Nik Panter – Director Canadian Operations, Force by Design The Unified Communications Cloud - Mike Desjardins, Director Solutions Architects Canadian Distribution - Mitel The Social Enterprise – Jonathan Molina, VP Marketing and Communications – Canadian Cloud Council For the full conference program or to register for this revolutionary event please visit: www.canadiancloudcouncil.ca or email: info@canadiancloudcouncil.ca ABOUT CANADIAN CLOUD COUNCIL The Canadian Cloud Council is a national vendor-neutral association providing an educational forum for Canada’s cloud computing thought leaders, policy makers and industry advocates. While defining innovative and repeatable methods of enterprise cloud transformation, the Canadian Cloud Council accelerates the speed of Canadian cloud adoption and positions our country as a global leader in the field. Our agenda is supported by a national network of cloud providers and enterprise users and is the preeminent source for Canadian cloud best practices and subject matter expertise. End
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