Speakers and Panelists
| For the 2013 Developing Cloud Services Symposium which will be held on April 6th, we selected speakers who bring practical information on Developing Cloud Services. We are covering both Marketing and Technical topics so that when you leave you have a tool kit to develop your cloud service. These speakers are all industry experts in Tampa Bay and you’ll get a chance to meet and network with them during the symposium. | ||
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 Alfred Goldberg |
Mobile Strategy (Marketing)Click on the link above to read bio of Alfred Goldberg.A mobile product without a mobile strategy is like a bicycle without handlebars – you will wobble and wobble and go everywhere except where you want to go until you fall over. Having an app is not a mobile strategy. It’s just having an app. Why do you need mobile? What must your mobile strategy achieve? How does mobile enhance your customer experience? How can mobile help your customers or employees? What mobile platforms will be most effective for your purpose? This presentation will give you the steps to create a winning mobile strategy. |
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 Dino Eliadis |
Inventor to Business Owner (Marketing)Click on the link above to read bio of Dino Eliadis.Turning Your Vision Into Reality Inventors frequently struggle to turn their ideas into cash because they don’t have a basic understanding of what gives “value” to an idea. Value comes from a desire to purchase an idea in the marketplace and the ability to grow that desire into demonstrated cash flow! Without a market and cash flow an idea is a risky proposition for a good and competent investor. Thus the reason many ideas go unfunded. In order to take an idea and to turn it into demonstrated cash flow requires a shift in an inventor’s mindset. Until they can make this personal change they will continue to struggle to turn their idea into cash! The purpose of this presentation is to help the participant:
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 Russ Miller Co-Founder of Sunview Software |
What Every Startup Should Know About Microsoft’s Windows Azure (Technical)Click on the link above to read bio of Russ Miller.Startups need to build quickly and cheaply but produce reliable results. For startups where the developers are new to cloud services or have prior Windows development experience, Azure is the quickest, cheapest, most reliable option for building a cloud service, especially considering Microsoft’s BizSpark program. The Windows Azure platform is mostly known as Microsoft’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. However, recently Microsoft has complimented the PaaS with an Intrastructure-as-a-Service offerings and web site hosting, as well. As a result, it is the most well rounded cloud platform out there, and an option every startup should be aware of. Whether you are building a full blown cloud service, or just a mobile app that needs to store user data in the cloud, Azure has powerful options. This talk will inform you of the many options and give practical guidance not only on applying Azure, but also answer related architectural questions that naturally arise. Also, the reasonable fear of lock in to the Microsoft Azure platform will be addressed by highlighting the available open source alternatives, like MongoDB and Node.js. |
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 Semiha Caliskan |
Mobile GIS (Geographic Information Systems) (Technical)Click on the link above to read bio of Semiha Caliskan.
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 Jesse Curry |
Scaling in the Cloud: From Lean to Mean (Technical)Click on the link above to read bio of Jesse Curry.How can a company transition from start-up to major contender without any downtime? This presentation will give you the steps to go from Lean to Mean. |
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 Jody Haneke |
Top 3 Mistakes in Mobile UI Design (Technical)Click on the link above to read bio of Jody Haneke.Every project presents its own set of unique design challenges and technical requirements. This presentation will help you develop intuitive and graphically pleasing user interfaces, both for existing applications in need of makeovers and for brand new projects. These interfaces will engage users and encourage widespread adoption from launch day forward. |
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 Malcolm Teas |
Which Device Platform? Just Web? IOS, Adroid, Windows? (Technical)Click on the link above to read bio of Malcom Teas.When developing a cloud computing solution we need to provide access to it for our users. Today that often means some mobile solution. But which mobile platform? Where are your customers? And how should you develop it? This talk answers the questions of where your customers are and where the money is. I’ll also talk about the relative merits and costs of development approaches and some viable and tested strategies for multiple-platform development. |
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 Bip Pramanik |
Present and Future of Apps and Cloud Services ModeratorClick on the link above to read bio of Bip Pramanik. |
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 Kiran K. Patel |
Present and Future of Apps and Cloud Services ModeratorClick on the link above to read bio of Kiran K. Patel. |
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