Cloud Panel
As the Cloud continues to thrive and evolve, the value proposition it provides continues to grow. From scalability, reliability, multi-tenancy and security - find out from top Cloud experts the keys to a robust cloud strategy. Learn how the Cloud can be used to both reduce costs and increase revenue. Learn why business continuity and distribution planning don’t always get the focus they should. Get the latest trends and best practices on what's going on in the Cloud and find out how to take advantage of this growing sector.
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Bhavesh C. Bhagat
Chairman, EnCrisp
Bhavesh C. Bhagat is Co-Founder of Confident Governance and is Chairman at EnCrisp LLC. Confident Governance is the Enterprise Cloud Governance company delivering the assurance of safe and sustainable governance and trust over the Cloud for enterprises of all sizes. EnCrisp is a global leader in Resilient Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) solutions. Bhavesh is Founding Chairman of the Board at Cloud Security Alliance Washington DC. He is a globally recognized visionary on CyberSecurity, Risk Management and Governance subjects and their impact on business and social issues surrounding emergiong technologies. Bhavesh also founded non-profit Global GRC Exchange which encourages research and idea sharing between practitioners around the world. He served appointments as a member of the Board of Directors for the ISACA DC Chapter and the Board of Advisors to The Commonwealth of Virginia Joint Commission on Technology and Science. Bhavesh has been recognized as a TiE-Smith University of Maryland Fellow in Entrepreneurship and under his leadership EnCrisp has been selected in INC.5000 as one of the fastest growing private companies in America. |
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Patrick Svenburg
Director, Platform Strategy, Microsoft Corporation
His team is responsible for driving early adoption and awareness of next-generation technologies among customers and partners. He is particularly passionate about community and technologies related to cloud, social and mobility. Patrick is the co-founder of “Random Hacks of Kindness,” a collaborative effort between industry leaders Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google, NASA and the World Bank seeking to harness the power global volunteer technical communities (VTC) to create interoperable solutions and approaches to mitigate the impact of humanitarian crisis.
He has over 15 years’ experience within the international software industry and have previously held executive positions at Precise Biometrics, Oracle Corporation and the Swedish Trade Council. |
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Nick Hayes
Director of Compute & Storage, Savvis
Nick Hayes is a Director of Compute & Storage within Savvis' Solutions Consulting Practice. Nick’s and the practice's role is to provide advisory services to enterprise customers and help create a strategic roadmap for infrastructure optimization opportunities leveraging technology solutions such as Virtualization, ILM and Cloud Computing.
Prior to joining Savvis, Nick’s 20+ year career has seen him hold leadership and lead architect positions at IBM, Tyco, Siemens, Morgan Stanley and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. |
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John Nicholson
Attorney, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Mr. Nicholson is an attorney in Pillsbury's Global Sourcing group. Mr. Nicholson helps clients structure, negotiate and document complex sourcing transactions. He is also a lead member of the firm's Privacy and Data Protection practice and an active member of the firm’s multidisciplinary Social Media, Entertainment & Technology team.
Mr. Nicholson's practice includes negotiating and preparing software licensing, development, and implementation agreements; data center, information technology (IT), and business process (BPO) outsourcing relationships, including help desk and back office outsourcings; offshore outsourcing arrangements; IT consulting agreements; software, hardware, and outsourcing requests for proposals (RFPs); hardware and software procurement transactions; enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation and licensing agreements (e.g., SAP and Oracle); and Internet technology matters, including web site hosting, cloud computing, content, and Terms of Use agreements. |
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Kapil Bakshi
Chief Architect & Strategist, Cisco Systems
Kapil Bakshi works for Cisco Systems Inc. Kapil is responsible for leading and driving data center and cloud computing strategy and initiatives in Cisco Public Sector. Kapil has extensive experience in strategizing, architecting, managing, and delivering data center and cloud solution. During his career, he has held several architectural, consulting, and managerial positions within the industry. Prior to Cisco, Kapil worked for Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), where he spent a decade working with U.S. federal government and service provider customers. Prior to SUN Microsystems, he worked for Hewlett-Packard and several government system integrators in consulting and product development roles. He also holds U.S. patents for data center and related solution sets. |
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