Steve Rubinow,
EVP and CIO of NYSE Euronext
http://www.nyse.com/
Steve Rubinow, executive vice president and Co-Global Chief Information Officer of NYSE Euronext, which runs the NYSE and other trading exchanges around the world.

Ric Telford
Vice President, IBM Cloud Services
Ric Telford's professional business career highlights 25 years of product and service development experience and is noted for bringing innovative approaches to the design and development of key technologies. During his tenure at IBM, Telford has played a number of key roles in various software and service initiatives for IBM, including e-mail and document management, networking, security software, systems management, and IT infrastructure services. Ric tends to be at the forefront of emerging technologies at IBM. He served as Director of Technology for the IBM CIO, responsible for the development, implementation and adoption of technologies that hastened the transformation of IBM into an e-business. Ric was the Director of Technology for Intelligent Infrastructure, the precursor in IBM to "e-business on demand." Ric went on to become VP of Autonomic Computing, where he was responsible for defining and driving the Autonomic Computing initiative for IBM. In this capacity, Ric worked across IBM, as well as the industry and academia, to promote the adoption of open-standards based self-managing technologies.

Liam Sean Lynch
Marketplaces – Senior Director/Chief Security Strategist
Liam joined eBay in May of 2002, where he was Security Architect in the Architecture group. He served as Chief Security Architect for eBay marketplaces and consulted for marketplaces adjacencies. He created the security framework for the Java platform, Payment Gateway, Billing, and Customer Support systems. Liam also presents architecture presentations and labs at the eBay developer’s conference and will speak at industry forums throughout 2009.
In June 2007, he moved to Marketplaces Information Security to work for Dave Cullinane (CISO) to create programs for predictive security for the world’s largest e-commerce platform.
Prior to joining eBay, he worked in Security Architecture at Sybase and in Security Architecture in Military, Government, Health Care, and Telecommunications industries.
Liam received degrees in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at St. Lawrence College in Ontario, Canada. He lives in San Jose with his wife and 4 children one of which is in University. He loves wine, winemaking, hiking, gardening, and travel.
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Reuven Cohen
Founder & CTO at Enomaly
The leader of IGT2009 CloudCamp & the head of the IGT2009 Interoperability Panel

Dr. Bob Marcus
The Head of IGT2009 SEEDING THE CLOUDS Track

Dr. Robert Marcus led the Cloud Computing activities at the Network Centric Operation Industry Consortium (NCOIC.org). In this role, he organized several major Cloud events focused on government and enterprise requirements. These included a Cloud Standards Summit that led to an ongoing Standards Coordination activity. He recently initiated a CloudSeeding Google Group focused on Cloud application development.

His previous experience includes Director of Technology Transformation and Deployment at General Motors, CTO of Rogue Wave Software, VP of Technical Strategy at the MCC Research Consortium, Director of Object Technology at American Management Systems, Coordinator of Object Technology at Boeing, Senior Research Engineer at SRI, and Knowledge Systems Engineer at HP. In 2003, he published a book on “Great Global Grid: Emerging Technology Strategies”.

Hal Stern
Vice President, Global Systems Engineering, Global Sales and Services
Sun Microsystems Inc.

Hal Stern is a Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of Global Systems Engineering at Sun Microsystems. His responsibilities include technical leadership, training, and management of Sun's customer engineering teams in Global Sales and Services. Hal's current projects include security architecture, cloud computing design patterns, and large-scale analytics and data management.

Hal was involved in both the Sun ONE and Liberty Alliance Project architectures from their formative stages, and has been working with teams open sourcing Sun software projects. Hal's current technical interests include content delivery networks, privacy and security of large-scale systems, digital rights management, network identity, structured data management, reliability and software quality measurement, large-scale data centers efficiency, and virtualization technologies from the chip to the filesystem levels.

Hal has been at Sun since 1989, having previously held the titles of CTO for Software, CTO of Sun Services, Chief Architect for Sun Professional Services, CTO of the Sun ONE (iPlanet) infrastructure products division as Chief Technologist of the Northeast US sales area. Hal became the first employee from the field organization promoted to the position of Distinguished Engineer in February 1995. He was one of the creators of the first Java Day, held in New York City in September 1995. He received a Sun President's Award in 1993 for contribution to Sun's product strategies in clustered systems. He is listed as inventor or co-inventor on several patents in the networking and security areas.

Hal is a frequent speaker at industry and technical conferences. He has co-authored two books, "Blueprints for High Availability", published by John Wiley and Sons and "Managing NFS and NIS," published by O'Reilly and Associates. He wrote the system administration column and served as contributing editor for SunWorld Magainze for five years, and was on the editorial staff and advisory board of IDG's JavaWorld magazine. Before joining Sun, Hal developed molecular modeling software for a Boston area start up company and was on the research staff at Princeton University. Hal earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Princeton University in 1984 and was named to the Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi societies.

Hal currently blogs about everything from software economics to his latest nerd toys at http://blogs.sun.com/stern.

He is a member of Princeton's Technology Advisory Council, co-hosted WordCamp NYC in October 2008, hosts Sun's Innovating@Sun podcasts (available at http://blogs.sun.com/innovation and on iTunes) and is a board member of the New Jersey Devils Youth Hockey Club. When he is not traveling he may be found playing ice hockey, reading more science fiction than is considered healthy, aggressive skating, or playing golf very badly.

Les Hazlewood
Principal, Anjin, LLC
Chief Architect, world's largest financial data provider

Les Hazlewood is a senior enterprise Software Architect specializing in large-scale, clustered and cloud-based enterprise software applications. He has consulted for and worked with the world's largest airline and financial corporations to use clustering and grid-computing to process large quantities of data in real time as well as to support large numbers of concurrent users (hundreds of thousands to millions). Also intrigued by application security, Les is one of the original founders of the Apache Shiro project, an application security framework, and remains an active committer. He has used Apache Shiro's unique features to support security operations across the cloud.

100% Uptimefor Financial Services, in the world's largest financial data provider.
Today's financial industry powerhouses have extreme service level agreements which ideally translate to 100% uptime for their clients.

Les Hazlewood discusses how he used grid technologies to support one of the world's largest Flex applications while providing guaranteed application availability, even during application upgrades and maintenance.

Nati Shalom
Co-Founder and CTO
GigaSpaces

Monterey - ‘M’ is for Middleware

Launched in New York in September, Monterey is an Enterprise Class Cloud Platform that provides native support for Cloudsoft® Distributed Mediation (CDM), an application delivery platform that simplifies the development and deployment of complex transactional applications in the Cloud. CDM’s patented technology automatically eliminates network and processing bottlenecks; and CDM optimizes resource management and implements policies such as follow-the-sun to minimize latency and follow-the-moon to compress costs.

Monterey demonstrates that only a middleware platform such as CDM can ultimately bridge the gap between enterprise and the cloud and between cloud services providers. In order to prove this concept Cloudsoft has teamed up with pioneering managed cloud services provider PrimaCloud and built a prototype Monterey implementation with the help of Citrix Systems, Intel Corporation and Super Micro Computer. Participants in Cloudsoft’s beta program can use this environment to road test Monterey.

In this session we deconstruct, EzBrokerage, a Monterey benchmark we’ve created which showcases the ease with which critical business applications, in this case an electronic brokerage service, can be developed and deployed using CDM.

Duncan Johnston-Watt is Founder & CEO of Cloudsoft, a venture backed startup providing software and services that help firms realize the benefits of cloud computing. Cloudsoft's first product Cloudsoft® Distributed Mediation (CDM) is an application delivery platform that simplifies the implementation of electronic exchanges and market places in the Cloud. Duncan has over twenty years experience developing technology for the financial services industry specialising in the development of large-scale distributed systems. A Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate for his pioneering work introducing Java Enterprise to financial services, Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University. Duncan is actively looking for firms interested in participating in Cloudsoft's current private beta program.

Eyal Waldman

President, Chairman and CEO Mellanox

Eyal Waldman is a co-founder of Mellanox, and has served as Mellanox's chief executive officer, president and chairman of Mellanox's board of directors since March 1999. From March 1993 to February 1999, Mr. Waldman served as vice president of engineering and was a cofounder of Galileo Technology Ltd., or Galileo, a semiconductor company, which was acquired by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. in January 2001. From August 1989 to March 1993, Mr.

Waldman held a number of design and architecture related positions at Intel Corporation, a manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Mr. Waldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion

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Eliaz Tobias
CTO for Development & Platform Strategy, Microsoft Israel
Bio: Eliaz Tobias is the Chief Technology Officer for Development Technologies and Platform Strategy in Microsoft Israel. In his role, Eliaz is responsible for driving Microsoft's emerging development technologies to the development community, enterprise customers and partners in Israel. His main responsibilities include technologies research, marketing strategy, leading groups of technology advisors and partners, managing customer engagements and active consulting to technical and business decision makers. His expertise domains include Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Architecture & Technologies, Architecture & Design Tools, Application Life Cycle Management, .NET Development and Visual Studio Innovations. Prior to his current role, Eliaz has been Microsoft's technology advisor for development and architecture strategy for various sectors including the defense, government, finance and ISVs. During that role, Eliaz advised to dozens of mission-critical development projects ensuring their success through optimal adoption of Microsoft's technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Eliaz has been the Director of R&D Division for MDG Medical Ltd. and the R&D Manager for Ezface.com. Before that, he has served in different roles as a projects manager and a software developer for Enterprises and Startups
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Maor David-Pur
Technology Advisor, Development & Platform Strategy Division , Microsoft Israel

Bio: Maor David-Pur is the technology advisor for the Israeli ISVs. In his role, Maor demonstrates the business value of new innovative Microsoft platform technologies by driving early adoption. Maor focuses on ISVs working with top enterprises & startups in Israel providing development best practices and architectural guidance to early adopters of Microsoft .NET and helping customers achieve higher maturity levels with the Microsoft .NET platform. Prior to Microsoft Maor worked as solution architect & consultant. Maor was also the first Israeli who titled as Visual Studio Team System MVP - Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).
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Simone Brunozzi

Simone Brunozzi is a technology enthusiast, involved in IT and computing since an early age. He joined Amazon in May 2008 in the role of Web Services Evangelist, traveling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon Web Services and help developers build businesses and applications.
Of Italian origins, Simone loves traveling, meeting people and connecting with them. He is a Linux and Ubuntu passionate, loves blogging on www.brunozzi.com, and has interests in the environment, clean energies, and technology in general.
Prior to joining Amazon, Simone had his own business focusing on web applications. He also served as a professor of Programming Languages and Compilers at Perugia University and worked as a network and system administrator at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. Simone has a Computer Science degree and spent six months at UC Irvine, California, where he studied the American approach to business. He gained early programming experience at the Ministry of Aerial Defense in Rome, Italy.

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Alistair Croll
Principal analyst for Bitcurrent

Alistair Croll is principal analyst for Bitcurrent, where he covers cloud computing and the convergence of humans and technology. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod; a board member of Visible Government; and the author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O’Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth (1999, Prentice-Hall).
Alistair is the program chair for Cloud Connect; the track chair for Interop’s Enterprise Cloud Summit; the founder of Bitnorth, a contributor for GigaOm, O'Reilly and Techweb; and a presenter and moderator for conferences such as Velocity, Web2Expo, eMetrics, Mesh, and Enterprise 2.0. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded web performance monitoring firm Coradiant and analyst firm Networkshop. He has also worked at 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology

Dani Shomron
SaaS Executive

SaaS executive in the SF Bay Area, with over 28 years of experience in software development and services.
Active in the on-demand arena since 2000.
VP Service Operations at two SaaS companies with substantial achievements
Manager of business and operations of Mercury Managed Services (HP-SaaS) for one of the product lines.
Consulting companies on the transition to on-demand model – Technology, Market and Organization.
Consulting SaaS ISVs on Service Operations Excellence.
Developed a unique adaptation of ITIL for SaaS (including practices, documents, workflows and templates) which was successfully implemented at SaaS companies.
Recognized thought leader on matters of SaaS and the Cloud, lecturing to CIOs and publishing on “Dani’s Perspective on SaaS”.
Co-authored the book “CIO Wisdom” (Kendall Hunt, Nov 2007) contributing the chapter on SaaS. Currently writing the book on SaaS Service Operations.

Well connected to the major players in the SaaS enablement community in Silicon Valley.
BSc. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University. MSc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh.

“60 million years ago the dinosaurs were the best model around, but when the environment changed they were incapable of adapting and are now the stuff of horror movies and dusty museums. The leading ISVs have been running their successful perpetual, on-premise model for so long they are facing a tremendous challenge when the environment is switching to the subscription, on-demand model. The presentation discusses the challenges of transitioning to the SaaS model, how it will affect the organization and what can be done to facilitate the change”

Ronen Nir – partner at Carmel
Joined Carmel in February 2008.

Previously served as Director and VP Product in Verint Systems' ACS division
Served as Director Product Management at Verint, and before that a Project Team Manager in ECtel Ltd, in charge of delivering large scale, multi million dollars projects to North and Latin America regions.
Served 13 years in an elite Israeli Defense Forces' Intelligence Unit where he holds a rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Res.)
Holds a B.A. (Com Laude) in Economics and Middle-East history from Tel Aviv University, Israel, and an M.Sc in Technology Management from the University of Maryland University College (UMUC).
Serves on the BoDs of cVidya, Exact Factor, Kampyle , and Clarizen,

Dr. Lee Hing-Yan
Programme Director, National Grid Office, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Dr Lee Hing-Yan is Programme Director of National Grid Office at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, where he directs, plans and coordinates the national initiative to realise a cyber-infrastructure for sharing and aggregating grid resources for R&D, business and industry. He is concurrently seeding Cloud Computing efforts, including Singapore's participation as a centre of excellence as part of the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Testbed.

Prior to this role, Hing-Yan was Deputy Director of National Grid Office at the Agency of Science, Technology And Research as well as Principal Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research. He was previously Director of Knowledge Lab and Deputy Director of Japan-Singapore Artificial Intelligence Centre at the Kent Ridge Digital Labs. He oversaw and managed industry collaborations and applied R&D in machine translation, spoken language dialogue, expert systems on the Internet, knowledge discovery, and other knowledge-driven efforts.

Daniele Catteddu, CISM, CISA
Risks Analysis and Management Expert at ENISA

Title: ENISA Cloud Computing risks assessment: Benefits, risks and recommendations for information security

Abstract: ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, with the support of an Expert Group comprising representatives from Industries, Academia and Governmental Organizations, has conducted an risks assessment on cloud computing business model and technologies.
The security assessment is based on three use case scenarios: 1) SME migrating to cloud computing services, 2) the impact of Cloud Computing on service resilience, 3) Cloud Computing in e-Government.
The key conclusion of this paper is that the cloud’s economies of scale and flexibility are both a friend and a foe from a security point of view. The massive concentrations of resources and data present a more attractive target to attackers, but cloud-based defences can be more robust, scalable and cost-effective. This paper allows an informed assessment of the security risks and benefits of using cloud computing - providing security guidance for potential and existing users of cloud computing.

Benny Schnaider
Vice President of Business Development
RedHat
From virtualization to cloud federation

Benny Schnaider joined Redhat as Vice President of Business Development through the Qumranet acquisition in September 2008. Benny was Qumranet's CEO and a Co-Founder.
Benny was CEO and Co-Founder of PentaCom Ltd. a provider of networking products implementing Spatial Reuse Protocol (SRP) for IP based metropolitan networks which was acquired by Cisco in 2000.
Benny also co-founded and served on the Board of Directors for P-Cube, a developer of IP service control platforms, which was acquired by Cisco in 2004.
Over the past 30 years, Benny has held senior management, engineering and strategic roles at many Silicon-Valley based companies including Cisco Systems, Amdahl/Fujitsu, Hitachi, IDT, Sun Microsystems and 3Com.
Benny holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, and a BS in Computer Engineering from the Technion (Israel Institute of technology).

John Rollason
Product, Solutions and Alliances Marketing Manager EMEA
NetApp

John Rollason is Product, Solutions and Alliances Marketing Manager EMEA at NetApp. In this role, he not only works closely with the regional and worldwide marketing teams but also with sales and system engineering. His main focus areas are cloud, virtualization and networking.His main tasks include internal and external communication regarding NetApp technologies and solutions as well as messaging and competitive positioning.
John Rollason has been with NetApp since May 2005, initially holding the role of Product Marketing Manager for UK and Ireland. Before joining NetApp, John spent over eight years at Nortel in a variety of positions in system engineering, business development and product marketing.
John speaks regularly at industry events and attended The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne gaining an M. Eng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Vadim Solovey
CTO of We! Consulting group (part of Hilan-Tech Group)
one of the company founders. Vadim is leading the Virtualization in Israel since 2002, much before it was well known. He is an expert in a wide range of fields, including: Virtualization, Backup, Storage, DR, Building and Managing Data Centers etc. Beyond his expertise, Vadim is a great believer of adopting new technologies, fields and trends as the Cloud Computing - which he sees an enormous potential for the efficient and agile business and cost saving for IT departments.

Ranit Zexer
CTO, Matrix
Technology evangelist with a reputation of a guru in the market. Leads Matrix's business oriented technology strategy. Involved in state of the art technology projects with her team and a network of experts at Matrix.
Served in the IDF’s Central Unit for Data Processing. Served in a series of managerial and professional positions at Bashan Systems, including as manager of the Solution Architects group and manager of the IGT (Internet and groupware technologies) area. Holds a BSc degree cum laude in Mathematics and Computer Science from Bar Ilan University.

IT Leaders Workshop: Keep Your Head in the Cloud and Your Feet on the Ground

In a research published on august 2009, Forrester analysts said: "By 2011, CIOs Must Answer The Question, 'Why Not Run In The Cloud?' But Finding A Good Place to Start Is a Challenge for Most Shops".

The workshop will deal with this "Catch 22" situation troubling most IT shops. At the workshop we will discuss how the CIO and other IT leaders can build a pragmatic cloud program, with quick wins today and strategic thinking ahead.

The Cloud Readiness notion will be presented to understand the evolutionary path for infrastructure, applications, IT management and even business. We will demonstrate how Cloud Readiness will allow leveraging of cloud computing for different kinds of business scenarios and why you should start with cloud readiness today, even if you don't know when and how cloud computing will be used for your organization.

Guy Dancig

Guy Dancig joined Ness Technologies in 2003 and served in several positions, including manager of Ness’ outsourcing activity at YES. In 2009, he was appointed vice president and manager of the Outsourcing Division, where he managed a wide range of application and infrastructure outsourcing clients, including Migdal Insurance Company, The First International Bank of Israel, the Israel Securities Authority, and others. Since January 2009 he has managed the outsourcing service line and, in August 2009 he was appointed senior vice president and Chief Delivery Officer. Prior to joining Ness, Dancig served as vice president of R&D at Mobile Economy, a developer of cellular technological solutions. Previously, he held several command positions, including leading large development systems in a number of Israel Defense Force IT units.

Guy, an IDF lieutenant colonel (Res.) and a systems analyst, served in the Computerized Data Processing Center (MAMRAM). He earned a bachelor’s degree (with high honors) in economics and computer science, and an MBA (with honors) from Bar-Ilan University.