Get Your Head in the Cloud: Conference on Cloud Computing

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.

Conference tracks will be divided such that each audience can receive the full benefit from our speakers/panels. Our keynote speakers are Amazon.com’s Jeff Barr, Cloud Computing expert as a speaker. We also have confirmed Dennis Quan, PhD and Director of Autonomic Computing, from IBM’s software group. This conference is an open/free event with sessions specifically tailored for the following groups.  

• From the Academy: professors/lecturers/students at ISU
• From the Industry: large/small/Iowa based companies
• From the entrepreneurial sector: software/innovators/collaborators

QUICK VIEW SCHEDULE

Thursday,September 24^th  
Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
PublicSessions

10am -10:50am                      What is Cloud Computing? 

                                                Reasons to use it now, how this new model works, and visions for futureapplications  

10:50 am -11am                     Break

11:00 am-Noon                      What is Cloud Computing? Part Two

                                               Reasons to use it now, how this new model works, and visions for futureapplications  

IndustryWorking Sessions (by invitation)

1pm- 4pm                               Working Meetings, CPMI Events Center, ISUResearch Park


Friday, September 25th 
CPMI Events Center,
ISU Research Park

PublicSessions

9:30 -10am                             Registration/Check In

10am -10:50am                      How to Leverage Cloud Computing  for Optimal Results–Open to the Public

10:50-11:00 am                      Break

11am-Noon                            Leveraging Cloud Computing Examples,Demonstrations–Open to the Public

ORGANIZERS:

The Iowa State University and Iowa State Research Park’s “Get Your Head in the Cloud” Conference on Cloud Computing event is jointly hosted by the ISU Research Park and the Iowa State University College of Engineering's Virtual Reality Applications Center and the CyberInnovation Institute.

We also have sponsorship/support from the following partners:

• Iowa Department of Economic Development
• Technology Association of Iowa
• Iowa State University
• Des Moines Partnership
• Ames Chamber of Commerce/AEDC 

FORMAT:

The morning of September 24, we will host an open seminar at Iowa State University's Howe Hall Auditorium hosted by the CyberInnovation Institute, and several academic departments. Our presenters from Amazon.com, and IBM will present to the academic community on challenges, potential points of collaboration and research.  The session will also include a networking and question and answer session at the end to entertain further ideas/sharing.

In the afternoon, Get Your Head in the Cloud will host a more focused group by invitation only  that span a range of industry constituents from some of the largest, most influential companies in Iowa, and the speakers from our morning session. The session is intentionally small, so as to maximize the one on one time and collaborative nature of the event.

Our goal for this session is to dive deeper and more strategically on cloud computing, both from a technology and business perspective. We believe this session will be of great value to both the IT and CTO leaders of some of Iowa’s most influential companies, as well as give the leaders from both Amazon and IBM an opportunity to further explore opportunities for growth in the cloud as well as collaboration.

The morning of September 25, our speakers will engage the entrepreneurial sector/community and developers in a similar conversation, although this portion will be a panel discussion, and exercises that invite collaboration, question and answer sessions following brief targeted presentations by each industry expert.

This session is open and free of charge it is our goal to bring together software companies, developers and technical minds together, engage them in a series of discussions and activities and ultimately foster communication between these organizations and the Amazon.com and IBM teams.

REGISTRATION:

Registration is required, but the events are all FREE of charge.  The events both the morning of September 24 and September 25 are open to everyone.  The event the afternoon of September 24 requires an invitation.  

All questions regarding registration should be directed to Alison Doyle, ISU Research Park, 515-296-4204 or via email at: adoyle@iastate.edu

SPEAKERS:

JEFF BARR, AMAZON.COM

Jeff Barr is focused on furthering awareness among softwaredevelopers of the opportunity to innovate and build businesses using Amazon WebServices. Launched in July 2002, Amazon Web Services exposes Amazon.comtechnology and product data that enables developers to build innovative andentrepreneurial applications on their own. Jeff meets regularly with developersin the U.S. and internationally to introduceAmazon Web Services and to help them build businesses and applications with theprogram’s services. He joined Amazon in August 2002 as a Senior SoftwareDeveloper on the Associates team. He's the author of the forthcoming book,Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2, to be published by SitePoint in thefall of 2009.

Jeff has a longstanding interestin Web services and programmatic information interchange. He has helddevelopment and management positions at KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, and Microsoft,and was a co-founder of Visix Software. He earned his bachelor’s degree incomputer science from AmericanUniversity and completed graduate workin computer science at George Washington University.

DENNIS QUAN, IBM

Dennis Quan is Director of Autonomic ComputingDevelopment, responsible for the user experience of IBM's Tivoli servicemanagement products. He launched the IBM/Google Cloud Computing partnershipannounced in October 2007 to empower the next generation of engineers with CloudComputing resources and skills. Dennis was also instrumental in the creation ofthe IBM Blue Cloud initiative announced in November 2007, a multi-year effortspanning software, hardware, and services offerings for supporting clients'adoption of Cloud Computing technologies. His work on Cloud Computing has beenwidely covered in BusinessWeek, the New York Times, the journal Nature, andmajor trade publications. Dennis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as degrees in Chemistry andMathematics, also from MIT.

AGENDA:

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Howe Hall Auditorium 10 a.m.

OPEN INVITATION/ALL WELCOME

Jeff Barr/ Dennis Quan will present and engage in a discussion about the latest in Cloud Computing as it relates to the academic sector.

*Who should attend? Researchers, academics, students, entrepreneurs and business leaders

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ISU Research Park/CPMI Boardroom 1 p.m.

Join an elite group of invited guests to engage with Jeff/Dennis and other IT CIO’s and CTO’s in a high level roundtable discussion. *By invitation only

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Friday, September 25, 2009

ISU Research Park/CPMI Boardroom 10 a.m.

OPEN INVITATION/ALL WELCOME

Join Jeff/Dennis and a panel of several Iowa businesses who are currently engaged in projects in the “cloud” for a discussion and informative Q/A.

*Who should attend? Programmers, developers, IT services managers, entrepreneurs