Opening Keynotes by Chair : State of the Cloud: Roadmap for 2010 and Beyond

Where's the cloud today? While on-demand computing is an outgrowth of data centers,timesharing, and virtualization, cloud computing is now an IT essential. The last year has yielded a more mature cloud marketplace, offering SLAs, a rich range of services and some amount of standardization. Traditional enterprise vendors have launched their cloud strategies, forcing companies of all shapes and sizes to take notice. This opening session looks at where we are today and how corporate IT and cloud computing are quickly closing the adoption gap.

Mr. Gary Moe
Global Leader, IT Infrastructure Practice
McKinsey and Company, US

Executive Panel 1 : Navigating The Cloud

Panel Highlights:

• The CIO and the Cloud - Threat or Opportunity?
• Key challenges and obstacles to implementing Cloud technologies Across their businesses
• Key elements to consider before altering your IT strategy
• Maintaining high motivation levels to bring out the best out of your staff
• Creating Organizational Readiness - Cloud as a Structural Change in Your Business
• Implementation Experiences of the Early Movers: Best Practices and Pitfalls

Tech Insights Keynote 1 : Enterprise Virtualization & Cloud Computing: Driving IT Efficiency & Cost-savings in today's Enterprise

Dennis Quan
Director of Cloud Business Development
IBM China Development Lab

Tech Insights Keynote 2 : Break through into the Cloud

The concept of cloud computing has been touted for some time now. Still, some business and IT leaders are hesitant. This is understandable, as there are a number of practical issues that need to be addressed when moving IT functionality into the cloud. Building out your infrastructure to meet potential increases in demand is no longer cost effective. However, not being able to deliver when it counts can harm your customer relationships and impact your bottom line. You need flexible, on-demand platforms that enable you to do more with existing resources and securely tap into computing capacity when your organization needs it the most.

During this presentation we will address key concerns regarding Cloud Computing, as well as discuss cloud computing approaches that are truly enterprise-ready and how you can leverage an enterprise class cloud computing solution to move your business in the cloud.

Mr. Mark Beaumont
Director - Product Management, International IT Solutions
Verizon Business

Tech Insights Keynote 3 : 3 Future Trends, 5 Internet Predictions, and Cloud Computing

The Internet has fundamentally changed the way people work, live, learn and play. The Net is expanding from a superhighway to a platform that is transforming industries, and the Net will play a significant role in enabling business transformation globally. The advance in computing power and mobile devices, and the popularity of Mobility and Video have driven to a new height of demand of IT services. Cloud will emerge as a service platform to address to the future demand of IT services.

Mr. Charleston Sin
General Manager, Borderless Network & Data Center
Cisco Greater China

Executive Panel 2 : Stories from Cloud Users

Panel Highlights:
There's no substitute for experience. This panel of executives has built cloud-based applications, and we'll learn what they built, how it worked, and what special steps helped them take advantage of the cloud's unique properties.

• Key drivers for implementing Cloud Computing Technologies
• Background of Implemented Project: e.g. Project nature / scope and benefits achieved
• Key challenges and obstacles encountered
• Lesson learned, best practices and future strategies to take advantage of the cloud's unique properties

Tech Insights Keynote 4 : Out of the Clouds and into the Datacenter

What are the real-world challenges being faced by organizations who are early adopters of a cloud computing model? What do the first adopters of cloud computing have in common? What are the required capabilities for a cloud management platform? What types of organizational changes are happening as a result of cloud-computing? This session will answer these questions and more as we detail our experiences with early cloud lifecycle management customers.

Mr. Jason W. Frye, Director of World Wide Technical Marketing for Cloud Computing
BMC Software Inc.

Tech Insights Keynote 5 : Optimizing the Performance of Cloud Computing

As organizations move more to private and public cloud computing models, application performance over the Wide Area Network continues to be a source of pain. In fact, two of the top five top barriers to cloud computing growth include data transfer bottlenecks (latency) and application performance unpredictability. Many enterprises today are realizing that they already have private clouds, or are a short step away from reorganizing their assets into a private cloud format. Private clouds offer the benefits of the public cloud, while enabling enterprises to retain full application performance visibility and control.

The speaker will examine:

• What are private clouds, and why are they a good interim step for migrating to public or hybrid cloud networks?
• Why doesn¡¦t just adding bandwidth solve the application performance problem over the WAN?
• What technologies are best for solving cloud computing performance issues?
• What are the key considerations for integrating your applications into the cloud?

Mr. Robert Healey, Marketing Evangelist, APAC & Japan
Riverbed Technology

Tech Power Panel : The Future of Cloud Computing in the Enterprise

Panel Highlights:
This panel of cloud computing industry leaders will discuss the trends we're seeing in cloud computing, what the next year holds, and how the entrance of new players is changing the cloud ecosystem. We'll look at standards, regulation, and portability, and reveal what cloud issues will be at the top of enterprise IT's list in 2010.

• Current States of Cloud Computing and rends for the next 15 years
• How the entrance of new players is changing the cloud ecosystem
• Reveal what cloud issues wil be the top of enterprise IT's list in 2010

Executive Networking Luncheon Roundtables
Topic : Innovating Collaboration: Cloud Computing and the Enterprise

Today's leading global enterprises seek innovative ways to empower employees to collaborate effectively, and the ongoing revolution in cloud computing enables these businesses to deliver high impact solutions while reducing IT management costs. Join Google to learn how businesses have harnessed the power of these technologies, and how your organization can benefit from the constant innovations in the cloud.