As the world transitions to the cloud era, the convergence of private, enterprise clouds and public cloud services offers exciting new possibilities to IT teams and businesses.
| Giles Sirett.CEO, ShapeBlue. Giles has a unique insight into both the service provider cloud and private enterprise cloud spaces. He is CEO and founder of ShapeBlue, a globally leading builder of public and private clouds. His company have helped design and build some of the world’s largest public clouds as well as many private clouds for different use-case’s. |
| Ravi Gururaj,Vice President, Cloud Platforms, Citrix Systems.Ravi is a member of the Citrix CTO Office, is responsible for regional coordination of the Citrix Startup Accelerator Program in India and serves on the Citrix India R&D engineering leadership team. |
| Shashank Likhite.Sr. Director, Product Engineering at SunGard Availability Services Shashank heads the product engineering teams at SunGard’s Pune development center and has been part of various cloud solutions developed by SunGard. In past career, he has been an entrepreneur, leader and developer in the cloud, mobile, consumer and enterprise software space. |
Time: 10:00 – 13:30
Location: Matthan Hotel, Bengaluru, Bangalore
| Agenda | |
| 10:00- 10:30 | Registration & coffee |
| 10:30 -11:00 | “Key Cloud Trends For 2013”Giles Sirett. CEO, ShapeBlue |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | “Citrix’s Cloud Vision For 2013”Ravi Gururaj. VP-Cloud Platforms at Citrix Systems |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | “Overview of cloud solution and technology choices”Shashank Likhite. Sr. Director, Product Engineering at SunGard Availability Services |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Panel discussion and Q&A |
| 12:30-13:30 | Business networking lunch |
Giles is CEO and founder of ShapeBlue and is responsible for overall company strategy, strategic relationships, finance and sales.
He is also a committer and PMC member of the Apache CloudStack project and Chairman of the European Cloudstack User Group, actively helping promote brand awareness of the technology.
Giles can regularly be heard speaking at events around the globe, delivering visionary talks on cloud computing adoption and more specifically on Cloudstack technologies.
Before ShapeBlue, Giles held C-Level technology positions for 15 years including founder and CEO of Octavia Information Systems, a leading UK Managed Service Provider.
Giles holds a BSc in Engineering Physics from Sheffield Hallam University. Outside work, Giles is married with two teenage children. He coaches children’s rugby, is a competitive masters swimmer and can regularly be seen crying when his beloved Tottenham Hotspur lose.
