Speaking at Wavefront Wireless Summit, Vancouver Feb 5, 2014

Mobile solutions is where I spend the most of my time developing new systems. The back end is the cloud.  HTML5 is the browser for PC or Tablet.  The Samsung Galaxy Note is our preferred hardware device.  Big Data and Analytics are features.  Social is there as well.  We launched on Jan 13, 2014 and for now I don’t plan on discussing any specifics as I don’t think I can write as freely if I am trying to promote a for profit service on the same blog.  What our service does is known by a few of the readers of this blog, but not many.

What I do like to discuss is ideas I figure out and are worth sharing.  GigaOm’s David Card, VP of Research invited me to speak at the Wavefront Wireless Summit on Feb 5, 2014.  Given our service was going live and I now spend time in operations in Seattle and SF it is hard to find time for conferences.  But, given the conference is all about Mobile and Wireless and the event is Vancouver (a 3 hr drive from Redmond, WA) I decided to confirm my attendance. 

Here is the event.

The session I am speaking on is this one.

What’s Real at the Nexus of Forces: Mobile, social, data, cloud?

This time, change is coming from four directions. Post-web computing harnesses disruptive technologies in the cloud and on mobile devices, and puts social media and big data to work. While consumer-driven tech leaks into the enterprise, line of business management and IT must collaborate to get the most of these four critical technologies. But hold off the hype, and keep the futurists focused: this session will zero in on what’s realistic in the next 12-24 months. What’s pie-in-the-sky and what’s driving 12-24 month decisions that can show payoff?

Oh, didn’t realize that M2M is part of the conference too.

M2M Summit – Machine-to-Machine technologies are changing the way we do business. Learn from the top players in the M2M ecosystem at this marquee event.

• M2M brings together people, process, data and things to generate big data and new capabilities
• Consumer applications – the next wave of opportunity
• Solving industry specific problems: How is M2M transforming Canada’s core industries?
• The global evolution of standards & specifications
• Security – a technologist’s look at the safe guards and threats in M2M
• The maker movement – where are the business opportunities?

Forgot to mention our service supports M2M as well.   

No wonder I have a hard time with an elevator pitch.  Our service is a mobile, cloud, HTML5, big data, social, M2M, industrial operations Platform. :-)

So glad my schedule works out to go to Wavefront Wireless Summit

OCP Summit 2014, people I am looking forward to seeing

From a green data center perspective the Open Compute Summit is where I see a lot of people that are good to connect with.

Here are some of the people I am looking forward to catching up with.

There is a Renewable Energy Discussion.

"Exploring Renewable Energy Solutions for Datacenters" - Bill Weihl (Manager of Energy Efficiency and Sustainability, Facebook); Vince Van Son (Data Center Energy Manager, Facebook); Gary Cook (Senior Policy Analyst, Greenpeace); Rob Bernard (Chief Environmental Strategist, Microsoft); Melissa Gray (Senior Director of Sustainability, Rackspace)

Jon Koomey has a panel.

"Bringing Integrated Design, Mass Production, and Learning by Doing to the Datacenter Industry" - Jon Koomey (Research Fellow, Stanford University); others to be announced

I just moderated a webinar with LSI and met Greg Huff.

To be announced - Greg Huff (CTO, LSI)

The Open Networking discussion has familiar names.

"Opening Up Network Hardware" - Najam Ahmad (Director, Infrastructure, Facebook); JR Rivers (Co-founder and CEO, Cumulus Networks); Martin Casado (Chief Architect, Networking, VMware); Matthew Liste, (Managing Director, Core Infrastructure Platform, Goldman Sachs); Dave Maltz (Microsoft)

And it will be interesting what Tom Furlong gives as his DCIM update since DatacenterDynamics where he shared his DCIM vision.

"Update on Facebook's DCIM Solution"- Tom Furlong (VP, Infrastructure, Facebook)

Picking events to attend with Smart People and Social

I just got back from 7x24 Exchange in San Antonio.

And one of the simple reasons I like the conference is there are smart people attending and they are social.  There are conferences that have smart people, but it is hard to socialize or the attendees aren’t very social.  And, there are even more conferences you can go to where the people are social (aka sales people & business development), but the attendees are not some of the smartest in the industry.

A simple way to look at what conferences I attend is whether there are smart people attending and are they social.  So far my favorites are 7x24 Exchange and GigaOm.  I work for GigaOm Research as a freelance researcher now, but before that I found the conferences met the bar which is part of why I accepted the invitation to work with the research group.

7x24 Exchange Fall 2014 achieves over 800 attendees, continuing a steady growth of DC events

One of the friends I have made in the data center industry is David Schirmacher who is the new President of 7x24 Exchange.  I had heard about 7x24 Exchange, but was busy attending Uptime, DataCenterDynamics, Gartner, and AFCOM in 2011.  David convinced another top DC executive and myself to give 7x24 a try.  We did and we’ve been going twice a year since. 

Why is 7x24 different?  Because, it puts the users needs first, and given it is a non-profit the organization is more transparent then the rest.  How  transparent?  Here is the attendance for the last 10 years.  What other organization shares their attendance?  7x24 hit 819 attendees this event.

I’ve written about 7x24 Exchange each time, and when the number 819 was up there it felt good to know I’ve helped get more people to attend.  One of the groups I’ve reached out to his the high tech crowd who would tend to go to SF/SJ events.  Here are some of the tech companies who attend - Apple, Dell, EMC, Facebook, Google, Intel, HP, Microsoft, Oracle.

I’ve already made plans on how my schedule will align in 2015 as I figure I’ll keep on this roll and be attending twice a year in the future like I have in the past.

Open Compute V Registration is Open, Jan 28-29, 2014 San Jose Convention Center

Registration is now open for Open Compute V.

OCPSummitV

We are pleased to announce the dates for the next Open Compute Project Summit on Tuesday, January 28 and Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at the newly expanded San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA.

At the last summit, attendees came from the technology sector in addition to finance, government, and consulting. These attendees represented executive-level roles of vice president or higher as well as IT directors and managers.

The Open Compute Project Foundation would like to thank these sponsors for making this event possible!

Venue

San Jose Convention Center - 150 West San Carlos Street, San Jose, CA 95113

Registration

Please register HERE by Monday, January 20, 2013