Get Your Head in the Cloud-2009 Conference on Cloud Computing -- HOME

The Iowa State University and Iowa State Research Park's "Get Your Head in the Cloud" Conference on Cloud Computing will be held September 24-25, 2009.

This conference is a global cloud computing event, covering the latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing. Conference panels and discussions are planned to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud computing both in the private and academic sector with the overall goal of fostering collaboration and innovation between the two.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Jeff Barr, AMAZON.COM

Jeff Barr is focused on furthering awareness among software developers of the opportunity to innovate and build businesses using Amazon Web Services. Launched in July 2002, Amazon Web Services exposes Amazon.com technology and product data that enables developers to build innovative and entrepreneurial applications on their own. Jeff meets regularly with developers in the U.S. and internationally to introduce Amazon Web Services and to help them build businesses and applications with the program's services. He joined Amazon in August 2002 as a Senior Software Developer on the Associates team. He's the author of the forthcoming book, Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2, to be published by SitePoint in the fall of 2009.

Jeff has a longstanding interest in Web services and programmatic information interchange. He has held development and management positions at KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, and Microsoft, and was a co-founder of Visix Software. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from American University and completed graduate work in computer science at George Washington University.

Dennis Quan, IBM, Director of Autonomic Computing Development

Dennis Quan is Director of Autonomic Computing Development, responsible for the user experience of IBM's Tivoli service management products. He launched the IBM/Google Cloud Computing partnership announced in October 2007 to empower the next generation of engineers with Cloud Computing resources and skills. Dennis was also instrumental in the creation of the IBM Blue Cloud initiative announced in November 2007, a multi-year effort spanning software, hardware, and services offerings for supporting clients' adoption of Cloud Computing technologies. His work on Cloud Computing has been widely covered in BusinessWeek, the New York Times, the journal Nature, and major trade publications. Dennis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics, also from MIT.