Evening Un-Conference
(This is FREE to attend choose the appropriate ticket type above)

The forum event is followed by an evening un-conference an opportunity to have your say. The event is organised by Joe Baguley, EMEA Cloud lead for VMware who has lined up the following speakers to date:

"Big Data in the cloud: elastic and sticky"
Tim Moreton
CEO,
Acunu

"Situation Normal, Everything Must Change"
Simon Wardley
Researcher
LEF

"Notes from the field: People, politics and Price"
Simon Gallagher
Freelance Infrastructure Architect,
vINF Consulting.

"The User Cloud - who's enabling the business user"
Chris Purrington
CohesiveFT

"Re-architecting for the ‘green’ cloud and lower costs"
Justin Cormack

"Cloud Contract Terms"
Kuan Hon,
Cloud Legal Project,
Queen Mary University of London School of Law

To help shape the agenda go here

The Forum

This highly interactive event is for organisations who are done thinking about the cloud but need a practical toolkit to implement, deploy and most importantly get practical next steps.

While we have fantastic line up of speakers the DNA of this event is you. Through interactive sessions with other attendees around the Covent Garden area you will be able to benchmark, share experiences and collaborate to create new ideas and deployment solution for your future IT.

Our speakers have agreed to give up their time to be at the event for the whole day to share their knowledge, engage with you and participate in the evening un-conference:

You can see the full agenda for the two days here.

Your chance to network with:

Jon Collins ex Lead Analyst at Freeform Dynamics is the Tech Maven Community Director, Jon is not only your facilitator and compere for the event he is also a fountain of knowledge on future IT and brings a practical approach to IT through his years as an Infrastructure Architect.

Andy Tait, the former deputy director of the G Cloud programme at the Cabinet Office joins the programme and will share his views on delivering cloud and PaaS for the public sector.

Adian Seaccombe former CISO and Enterprise Architect at Eli Lilly, A Board Member of the Jherico Forum & Co founder of the Global Risk register. Adrian is by far one of the most engaging and knowledgeable speakers on how to approach and secure the cloud.

Mark Baker – Canonical – Server Product Manger will talk about the next iteration of open source innovation and share learning from 10 years of working in open source environments.

Michael Newberry – Azure Product Manager at Microsoft UK formally UK HPC Product Mangers, Michael can engage an audience from taking code, low latency compute through to high level architecture and conceptual It frameworks. If you get the opportunity ask him about the compute power behind AVATAR.

Rob Jenkins - Director, Director Cloud Solutions EMEA, VMware is responsible for driving VMware’s Private and Hybrid Cloud Computing vision across EMEA

James Gardner is the former Director of Future Design and CTO at the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions. He was also the former Head of Innovation and Investment at Lloyds Banking Group, At Lloyds, he and his team created 2008’s most innovative banking application – Innovation Market – which is featured as a case study in his book Innovation and the Future Proof bank.

Joe Baguley former CTO Quest software and now EMEA Cloud Lead for VMware is another passionate technologist who is at the cutting edge of cloud thinking and has seen it all before.

Clare Patterson - Principal advisor for Information Protection at KPMG, her passion is information and data protection, in particular how this changes in the cloud environment.

Nigel Beighton is the Vice-president of Technology at Rackspace and former CTO at Silicon.com is a champion of open source public clouds, tech that can save millions, with stints at Cap Gemini and Lastminuite.com he is a passionate technologist ready to talk tech.

Fraser Kyne Technology specialist for Citrix Systems and with industry experience at Xerox, British Gas, and GlaxoSmithKline, Frazer brings a real life perspective to the technology landscape.

Matt Deacon Founder In Think and former Chief Architectural Advisor at Microsoft he is widely regarded as one of the industry experts on Cloud Computing with over 20 years’ experience in delivering many mission critical enterprise solutions on both Microsoft and Java platforms.

Trefor Davis – CTO – Timico Has just built a brand new cloud datacentre for the company we thought he would be the perfect person to share his experiences and challenges on the journey to the cloud.