| “Shinning Through the Dark Clouds” Next Generation Software - SaaS and Cloud Computing Venue: Radisson Hotel and Suites Chelmsford, 10 Independence Drive, Chelmsford, MA Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, Saturday March 28th, 2009 RSVP: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=180308 (Free for members; $15 for general public; breakfast & lunch included) Technology leaps always bring back confidence to current economy (think Google in last recession). What would be the next breakthroughs that would shed new light through the economic dark clouds over technology and our community? Come to meet and participate in a panel discussion with investor, innovators, entrepreneurs, technologists in SaaS and Cloud Computing from Highland Capital, CloudSwitch, EMC, NetApp, and iSoftStone. Traditional software application deployment cycles inside companies can take years, and consume massive resources. Considering current economy condition, it seems making more sense to subscribe software monthly based on usage instead of large up-front payment. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a software deployment model where an application is licensed for use as a service provided to customers on demand. Cloud computing is another emerging computing model where users can gain access to their applications and data from anywhere through their connected devices. Some industry analysts think SaaS is a subset of cloud computing and some think cloud computing is one enabling technology for SaaS and provides ideal infrastructure for SaaS to run. All major IT vendors have rolled out their cloud computing service/product lines or strategies. Amazon expects its EC2 and S3 cloud platforms to be the company’s next major growth point. IBM announced its “Blue Cloud” computing initiative. IBM believes that cloud computing could help IT managers dramatically reduce their complexities and costs. Microsoft has made cloud computing as one of five top priorities for 2009. EMC created new cloud computing division based on its two recent acquisitions. Google has struck a deal allowing Saleforce.com to use Google Apps service as a platform for SaaS delivery. If you’re engineers, entrepreneurs, or users in the software industry, you may still have these questions: What are the areas entrepreneurs will likely build SaaS applications competing with traditional packaged software? Why are SaaS and cloud computing so hot today? How can entrepreneurs be part of it? What are the market opportunities? What are the options to address the concerns around SaaS and cloud computing? What kinds of applications make sense to offer through SaaS? From the users’ side, what are the enterprise IT organizations’ strategies for cloud computing and SaaS? What are the benefits from adopting cloud computing and SaaS based application? What are the obstacles and challenges? Please come to join the discussion with technologists, entrepreneurs, users, and investors to look at the emerging opportunities in SaaS and cloud computing and how you can be part of it. Agenda: 9:00 – 9:30am Registration & Networking (breakfast provided) 9:30 – 10:15am Keynote: “Liberating the Data Center: How Cloud Computing Is Changing Enterprise IT”, John Considine, CTO and Founder, CloudSwitch 10:15 – 11:00am Keynote: “Next Generation Software – SaaS and Cloud Computing”, Neill Occhiogrosso, Principal, Highland Capital Partners 11:00 – 11:10am Break 11:10am – 12:00pm Panel Discussion Panelist: Feng Zhang, Senior Technologist, EMC CTO Office Michael Zhang, Senior Product Manager, NetApp Bruce Ferland, President of iSoftStone Inc. (North America & Europe) Neill Occhiogrosso, Principal, Highland Capital Partners John Considine, CTO and Founder, CloudSwitch Moderator: Kevin Wang, Director of Engineering, ITA Software 12:00 – 2:00pm Lunch & Networking Conference Committee: Kevin Wang, Committee Chair, Kevin.Wang@... Hui Huang, NECINA Technology Center Director, Hui.Huang@... About Speakers John Considine, CTO & Founder, CloudSwitch John Considine brings two decades of technology vision and proven experience in complex enterprise system development, integration and product delivery to CloudSwitch. Before founding CloudSwitch, John was Director of the Platform Products Group at Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the 69xx virtualized block storage system, 53xx NAS products, the 5800 Object Archive system, as well as the next generation NAS portfolio. John came to Sun through the acquisition of Pirus Networks, where he was part of the early engineering team responsible for the development and release of the Pirus NAS product, including advanced development of parallel NAS functions and the Segmented File System. John has started and boot-strapped a number of start-ups with breakthrough technology in high-performance distributed systems and image processing. He has been granted patents for RAID and distributed file system technology. John began his career as an engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Neill Occhiogrosso, Principal, Highland Capital Partners Neill Occhiogrosso is a Principal at Highland focusing on software and infrastructure technologies investments. Prior to joining Highland in 2007, Neill was a Product Manager at InnaPhase Corporation, a venture-backed vendor of laboratory information management systems.. Prior to InnaPhase, Neill was the Director of Information Technology at Tangerine Technologies, a venture-backed enterprise software firm. He also was a consultant for The Chapel Hill Group, a technology education start-up. Neill holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Bruce Ferland, President of iSoftStone Inc. (North America & Europe) Mr. Ferland has more than 30 years' international business management experience through working with world renowned companies such as Marsh & McLennan, Fidelity Investments, American Express and Electronic Data Systems. Before joining iSoftStone, Mr. Ferland worked for DarwinSuzsoft, an international offshore IT services and consulting company, as Chairman, CEO, President and COO. Before then, Mr. Ferland was a principal in Marsh & McLennan, MMC Capital, CEO of its Internet portal company and Chairman of its International Banking Unit. Mr. Ferland also worked in Fidelity Investments in a number of executive and senior management roles including EVP in charge of Fidelity Telecommunications and E-Commerce, SVP and CIO of the Fidelity Retail Group, SVP of Global Applications Development, and SVP and CIO of Fidelity Investments Operations Group. At American Express, Mr. Ferland's responsibilities included SVP and CIO of First Data Corporation; SVP and CTO of Boston International Fiduciary Systems and Shearson Lehman Brothers. Mr. Ferland holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from University of Maine, Orono. Feng Zhang, Senior Technologist, EMC Feng Zhang is a Senior Technologist at EMC. Feng joined EMC in June 1998. Feng is a member of the Advanced Technology Ventures Group inside EMC Office of the CTO, where Feng is responsible for new strategic initiatives like cloud computing as well as identifying and articulating new technology opportunities for investment consideration. During his time at EMC, Feng also worked in a variety of roles in the areas of engineering, field operation and management. Prior to joining EMC, Feng worked for China Telecom and Beijing Chemical Group. Feng holds a MBA from Babson College, Master in Computer Science from SUNY at stony brook and Bachelor of Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. Mike Zhang, Sr. Product Manager, NetApp Mike Zhang has been Sr. Product Manager with NetApp since 2006, responsible for NetApp storage virtualization solution and caching solution. Past experience includes product management of Storage Resource Management software at EMC and 8 years experience on Oracle/DB2 and storage performance analysis in general. Sponsors Diamond Sponsor: Brown Rudnick Platinum: EMC, Charles River Ventures, Sigma Partners, iSoftStone, Boston Power Gold: Highland Capital Partners, K&L Gates Silver: Deloitte, Cheng Wu, Kepha Partners, GotoBus, Ningbo National Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone About NECINA The New England Chinese Information and Networking Association (NECINA), a non-profit and non-political organization, was founded in March 1996 by a group of Chinese professionals from network computing industries. Originally founded to serve the needs of professionals by advocating leading-edge technologies and identifying new business opportunities, the organization has expanded in scope and influence to become one of the most vibrant professional organizations in New England. Today NECINA works across a diversity of industries including software, telecommunications, networking, bio-informatics, medical devices, clean technologies, venture capital, finance and law. For more information, visit http://www.necina.org. |
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