Jeff Nick, CTO of EMC
Vishal Sikka, CTO, SAP
Kaj van de Loo, Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy, SAP AG
Susie Wee, CTO Client Cloud Services, HP
Matt Thompson, General Manager, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft
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Jeff Nick, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation
Jeff Nick is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With 2009 revenues of $14 billion and approximately 43,000 employees, EMC is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.
Nick leads EMC's Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company's evolving information infrastructure technology vision and strategy. He works directly with customers, EMC's executive team, and leading technologists across EMC's storage platforms, software products and global services divisions to develop future products and solutions.
Nick chairs EMC's CTO Council, which is the company's internal forum for technical collaboration on information infrastructure design initiatives. He also chairs EMC's external Industry Technical Advisory Council (ITAC), a select customer forum for tackling industry technology trends affecting EMC and its customers alike. In his role as CTO, Jeff drives EMC's internal Innovation Network, linking all of EMC's R&D efforts worldwide through the leveraging of Web 2.0 collaboration tools. He also oversees EMC's sponsorship of university research globally as well as EMC's involvement in industry standards bodies. The Office of the CTO also evaluates emerging industry trends and plays a major role in setting technical direction for EMC's M&A activities.
Nick founded and chairs EMC's corporate Fellow and Distinguished Engineer Review Boards, which are responsible for recognizing and leveraging EMC's top technical talent in shaping integrated technology solutions for EMC's customers. He is based at corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and reports to Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products, Executive Office of the Chairman.
Nick joined EMC in September 2004 from IBM, where he held the distinguished title of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor that IBM bestows on its IT innovators. During his 24-year career at IBM, he held a wide range of technical leadership positions with skills developed across a broad array of computer technology disciplines, including software development, microcode, systems architecture, clustered and distributed systems, database sharing algorithms, and transaction processing. Nick was Vice President, Architecture and Design, responsible for IBM's On Demand infrastructure initiative. He also led IBM's Grid Computing strategy. Nick began his IBM career as a software engineer focusing on the System 390 MVS operating system, and he eventually became the lead architect for the S/390 z-series platform and IBM's industry-leading Parallel Sysplex data-sharing platform.
Nick graduated Magna Cum Laude from Marist College. He currently holds more than 80 U.S. patents in computer systems technology.
Surendra Reddy, Former VP Cloud Computing Yahoo! EIR at PnP
Mr. Reddy recently was with Yahoo where he served as Vice President of Cloud Computing and Virtualization business unit. Working in close coordination with the senior executive team and architects, he was responsible for developing and executing organization wide cloud computing strategy and technology initiatives to drive both organic and inorganic growth for the company.
Prior to joining Yahoo, Mr. Reddy was the CTO and VP of Engineering of Amitive, a Supply Chain-as-a-Service company where architected and directed the schema-less transactional data management system (to scale to millions of transactions at Cloud scale) to facilitate the collaboration of transactional documents across the supply chain participants. Prior to Amitive, Mr. Reddy was the founder and CTO of Optena Corporation, a pioneer in data center automation and cloud computing 1.0. From 2002 to 2005, he led the vision, strategy, and growth of the company. During this time he successfully secured venture capital financing, recruited and worked with a senior management team, and served on the Board of Directors. Under his leadership, Optena products were successfully chosen and deployed by industry leaders such as Oracle, Micron Technologies and number of pilots by other financial institutions.
Prior to Optena, Mr. Reddy was with Oracle Corporation for from 1996 through 2003 as the Director of Engineering in Server Technologies. Mr. Reddy was an active participant in IETF and various standards organizations. Mr. Reddy co-authored the RFC 5323 and contributed to RFC 3648. Mr. Reddy currently developing and implementing the Lighthouse, Intercloud metadata access protocol. He is also an active participant in Open Cloud Consortium working on large data sets and data access, security, and integrity issues.
Matt Thompson, General Manager, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft
Matt Thompson, General Manager, Developer & Platform Evangelism, is based in Silicon Valley. He and his team look after the "care and feeding" for the communities of developers, startups and IT Pros across the western US. Matt's passion centers around helping companies (of all sizes) be successful applying technologies that can help solve for scale, robustness, and ease of development.
Mark Trang, Senior Director, Partner Marketing & AppExchange Salesforce.com
Mark Trang is Senior Director of Global Partner Marketing and AppExchange at salesforce.com. He oversees salesforce.com's worldwide alliances programs and is responsible for helping entrepreneurs, ISVs, and systems integrators build successful businesses in the cloud using salesforce.com technologies and going-to-market as a salesforce.com partner. This work includes launching the Force.com cloud platform in 2007, building the initial ecosystem of over 500 commercial partners developing on Force.com, and marketing the AppExchange to salesforce.com's 70,000+ customers.
Prior to joining salesforce.com, Mark co-founded CogentWare, a SaaS startup, serving as VP of Product Management. Previously, he was a founding employee and led product marketing at SupplyAccess, a venture-backed supply chain software company. He began his career at Deloitte Consulting where he implemented enterprise software technologies at Fortune 500 companies. Mark graduated as a Regents Scholar with a B.A. in political science from UCLA and a M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mark serves on the board of directors for the SIIA Software Division and is an accomplished speaker, having recently presented at some of the industry's most popular business and technology conferences including Web 2.0 Expo, TieCon, SIIA On-Demand, Cloud Connect, SaaS Economics, and Dreamforce.
Declan McCullagh, Senior Correspondent CBSNews.com and Contributor, CNET News
Declan McCullagh is a senior correspondent for CBSNews.com and a contributor to CNET News. An award-winning journalist, Mr. McCullagh writes and speaks frequently about technology, law and politics. From 1998 to 2002, he was the Washington bureau chief for Wired News.
Previously, he was a reporter for TIME magazine, Time Digital Daily and The Netly News, as well as correspondent for HotWired. His articles have appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and he has also appeared on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, ABC News' Good Morning America, NBC Evening News, Court TV and CNN.
He moderates Politech, a well-known mailing list looking broadly at politics and technology that he founded in 1994, and has been online since 1988. He was the first online reporter to join the National Press Club; he participated in the first White House dot com press pool; and was one of the first online journalists to receive credentials from the press gallery of the U.S. Congress.
Nicole Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California
Nicole Ozer is the technology and civil liberties policy director at the ACLU of Northern California, working on the intersection of technology, privacy and free speech.
Ms. Ozer graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College, studied comparative civil rights history at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and earned her J.D. with a certificate in Law and Technology from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.
Before joining the ACLU, Ms. Ozer was an intellectual property litigator at Morrison & Foerster LLP. She was recognized by San Jose Magazine in 2001 for being one of 20 "Women Making a Mark" in Silicon Valley.
She has written on civil liberties and technology issues for the Daily Journal, San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle. Her legal publications include No Such Thing as Free Internet, New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy (forthcoming 2009); Companies Positioned in the Middle: Municipal Wireless and Its Impact on Privacy and Free Speech; Rights "Chipped" Away: RFID in Identification Documents; Under the Watchful Eye: The Proliferation of Video Surveillance Systems in California.
Tim Mather, Co-author, Cloud Security & Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance
Tim Mather consults on information security, and specifically cloud computing. He is co-author of "Cloud Security & Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance," published by O'Reilly.
Most recently, he was the Chief Security Strategist for RSA, responsible for keeping ahead of security industry trends, technology and threats. Prior to that, he was the VP of Technology Strategy in Symantec's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, responsible for coordinating the company's long-term technical and intellectual property strategy. He also previously served as CISO at Symantec for seven years. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree in information assurance.
Vishal Sikka, CTO, SAP
Dr. Vishal Sikka is the chief technology officer (CTO) of SAP, leading the company's technology and innovation strategy across its product portfolio. Sikka is responsible for ensuring a clear and harmonized road map for SAP products to deliver ongoing innovation and long-term value to customers worldwide. Furthermore, Sikka leads the company's forward-thinking efforts around emerging technologies using design thinking to build SAP next generation products. He is responsible for SAP's global research efforts and is chartered with SAP's architecture governance and standards.
Prior to his role as CTO, Sikka was the senior vice president of architecture and chief software architect at SAP, responsible for the road map and the direction for the architecture of SAP's products and infrastructure. Before that, he was head of the advanced technology group responsible for strategic innovative projects.
Before joining SAP, Sikka was area vice president for platform technologies at Peregrine Systems (Remedy), responsible for application development and integration technologies and architecture. He joined Peregrine following the acquisition of Bodha, Inc., where he was founder and chairman/CEO. Bodha developed technology for non-invasive, service-based integration of enterprise applications and for semantic information integration.
Vishal holds a doctoral degree in computer science from Stanford University in California, and his experience includes research in automatic programming, information and application integration, and artificial intelligence at Stanford, at Xerox Labs in Palo Alto, and at two startup companies.
Rama Sekhar, Senior Associate NVP
Rama focuses on early to late stage venture investments across a wide range of sectors at NVP. Before joining NVP in 2009, Rama was an Associate at Comcast Interactive Capital where he conducted due diligence on early and growth stage investment opportunities in the Digital Media, Internet, and Communications Infrastructure sectors.
Prior to Comcast Interactive Capital, Rama was a Product Manager at Cisco Systems, where he defined product strategy and roadmaps for $1B revenue products including the GSR 12000 Series and CRS-1 routers. Rama's clients included international telecom and cable service providers including Verizon Business, British Telecom, and several providers in the Indian telecommunications market. Previously, Rama was a Sales Engineer at Cisco Systems supporting AT&T, where he sold the core and edge networking equipment that comprises AT&T's national IP backbone.
Rama holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with high honors, from Rutgers University.
Lou Montulli, Vice President of Engineering, Co-founder Zetta
Louis J. Montulli II best known as Lou Montulli is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. In 1991 and 1992 he co-authored a text web browser called Lynx with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac while he was at the University of Kansas. This web browser was one of the first available and is still in use today.
In 1994 he became a founding engineer of Netscape Communications and programmed the networking code for the first versions of the Netscape web browser. He was also responsible for several browser innovations, such as s, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, and encouraging the implementation of animated GIFs into the browser. While at Netscape, he also was a founding member of the HTML working group at the W3C and was a contributing author of the HTML 3.2 specification.
In 1998 he became a founding engineer of Epinions.com external link which is now Shopping.com external link.
In 2004 he became co-founder and CEO of Memory Matrix, which was acquired by Shutterfly Inc. external link in May 2005. Montulli served as Vice President of Client Engineering at Shutterfly through the summer of 2007.
In 2008 he became co-founder of Zetta Inc..
Sebastian Stadil, Founder of Scalr
Nils Puhlmann, Co-founder, Cloud Security Alliance and Chief Security Officer, Zynga Game Network
Nils Puhlmann is the Chief Security Office for Zynga Game Network, the largest social game provider. At Zynga, Mr. Puhlmann is leading a converged security department managing all security risks for the company and chairing the Security Risk Committee.
Mr. Puhlmann is also the co-founder and a member of the board of the Cloud Security Alliance, a community of over 6,000 security professionals with the goal to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.
Susie Wee, Chief Technology Officer of Client Cloud Services in HP's Personal Systems Group
Susie Wee is the Chief Technology Officer of Client Cloud Services in HP's Personal Systems Group. Prior to this, Susie was the founding Vice President of the Experience Software Business in the HP Personal Systems Group. Susie was the lab director of the HP Labs Mobile and Media Systems Lab. Susie was the co-editor of the JPSEC standard for the security of JPEG-2000 images and the editor of the JPSEC amendment on File Format Security. She was formerly an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits, Systems, and Video Technology and for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. In addition to working at HP Labs, Susie was a consulting assistant professor at Stanford University since 1999. At Stanford she co-taught a graduate-level course on digital video processing. Susie received Technology Review's Top 100 Young Innovators award in 2002. She received the Computerworld Top 40 Innovators under 40 in 2007. She received the INCITs Technical Excellence award in 2007. She was selected to be an IEEE Fellow in 2009. She has over 50 international publications and over 50 granted or pending patents. Susie received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Ranjith Kumaran, Founder & CTO, YouSendIt
Ranjith Kumaran manages the Customer Service, IT, and Ops teams to guarantee optimum customer service, and efficiency in the IT and Ops departments.
Prior to YouSendIt, Kumaran held marketing positions at Verisity Design, a key provider of verification process automation (VPA) solutions, where he managed product marketing for the software tools of Access Systems. Previously, he was the director of sales engineering at Celoxica, a leading provider of C-based design and behavioral synthesis tools, where he built the company's sales applications and established its engineering team.
Kumaran also was a software systems engineer at Red Hat, one of the largest and most recognized companies dedicated to open-source software and the largest distributor of the GNU/Linux operating system.
Kumaran received a bachelor of engineering degree in computer engineering from McGill University and is an active member of TiE Silicon Valley.
Kaj van de Loo, Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy, SAP AG.
Kaj van de Loo is Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy of SAP AG. Leading SAP's Technology Strategy team, he is responsible for providing technology leadership and translating business objectives and technology innovation into strategic product and technology directions for the company.
Kaj van de Loo has more than 15 years experience within IT industry and the SAP ecosystem, as customer, partner, as well as within SAP. Prior to assuming his current position at SAP, van de Loo was the Vice President of Engineering at Questra, a provider of Intelligent Device Management solutions that bring real world devices into business processes.
Before that, van de Loo held various development, product management, and technology strategy roles within SAP. His primary focus in development and product management was solutions and applications for discrete manufacturing industries and early e-commerce and marketplace applications. After that he initiated and drove SAP's corporate SOA strategy.
Kaj van de Loo holds a Masters degree in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in Sweden. His experience includes nuclear physics engineering and management at ABB as well as definition and development of business applications and technology for business applications at SAP and a start-up. He is based in SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA.
Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate, Google
Chris is a Developer Advocate at Google who engages both the App Engine and Enterprise OpenSocial communities. He has also worked on Google Friend Connect, Google AJAX APIs, Maps, Gears and Google Web Toolkit. Prior to Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager at Oracle in the development tools group as well as co-author of "JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference". In his spare time, he plays trumpet in local Bay Area symphonies.
