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There's a common misconception that hyper-scale clouds are being built using open source software and commodity hardware.

Open Source Software and Commodity Hardware are Dead

Co-founder, AWS

Meet Peter

Meet Mårten

geek.ly/mmickos

Open source is still going very strong, as is the x86 architecture, but neither is revolutionizing the industry as it used to.

In A Cloud World, What Changes?

All the commercial cloud providers make security their number one job.

The Role of IT in the New Cloud Economy

Architect & Trainer

geek.ly/jgallagher

Meet Jon

Meet Daniel

Two major ecosystems have emerged in addition to Docker's own suite of products: Mesos and Kubernetes.

Containers and the Power of Ecosystems

Trust-production is being revolutionized by the use of machine learning and big data technologies around the world.

Trust at First Sight: How FinTech Is Doing It

Meet Jike

Meet Laura

geek.ly/lmather

Johnson and Johnson reacted more productively, calling for unity and reaffirming their commitment to creating welcoming workspaces for all employees, no matter their political or personal beliefs.

Why Values-Based Hiring Will Become Companies’ Greatest Asset

In today's day and age, scalability isn't a technology issue, but more of an automation challenge.

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in the Cloud

CIO & Architect

Meet Adhir

Meet Ujjal

Serial Entrepreneur

It's hard to follow your passion if you don't know what it is, or even what it looks like.

Follow Your Passion... Or Should You?

Ultimately, I believe nearly all devices will be connected to the Internet using cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth and coming future connectivity technology.

Gauging the IoT Market Opportunity

geek.ly/tberquist

Meet Tom

Meet Mark

geek.ly/mriggins

Cloud providers have only one mission: to be a cloud provider.

How Secure is Your Cloud?

The problem is that packet control doesn't need to be performed in every data center switch.

Simplifying Data Center Networks through Edge Processing

Meet Anil

Meet Ashmeet

Venture Capitalist

geek.ly/asidana

The ratio of humans to machines flipped when we moved to minicomputers and then workstations.

The Future of the Data Center

We're currently at a major turning point in the evolution of APIs: out of the early adopter phase and into the mainstream.

APIs: The Foundation of the Digital Economy

Founder, ProgrammableWeb

geek.ly/jmusser

Meet John

Meet Julie

VP, Cloud Operations

If system failure could happen to a major airline, it can happen to any business.

Keeping Up with Uptime

Adoption becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. Access to a wider user base brings down costs, and lower prices result in an uptake in adoption.

The 'Enterprise-Ready' Cloud

geek.ly/ebrescia

Meet Erica

Meet Mark

SVP & CTO, NetApp

geek.ly/mbregman

Today's model has free agents, new barriers to entry and highly networked innovators who collaborate globally.

Free Agents, Capital and the Cloud: Why We're Innovating Faster

Blockchain technology would improve EMR security in at least two major ways

Blockchain Approaches to Electronic Medical Record Security

Dr. Chris Stout

Professor & Researcher

Meet Chris

Meet Doug

Venture Capitalist

geek.ly/ddooley

Criminals can monetize stolen data fairly easily, and the criminal success rate has steadily improved over the past decade.

How to Fight Crime with Machine Learning

Every automation requires a pre-flight check, just like what a pilot does prior to take off.

A Simple Guide to Zero Touch Automation

Sridhar Chandrashekar

geek.ly/schandrashekar

Meet Sridhar

Meet Ronjon

INVENTOR & TECHOLOGY PIONEER

System called "Deep Patient" looks through millions of patient records to determine correlations and causations.

Don't fall for the assumption that your existing IT staff will simply embrace the cloud.

Cloud Empowerment Should Not Stop at Highly Skilled Developers

Global Head of Market Development, Strategy & Planning, Equinix

geek.ly/jstaten

Meet James

Meet Steve

Dr. Steve Clarke

CEO, AquaMetals

geek.ly/dclarke

The ability to effectively store and transport electrical energy is going to define the next era of human existence.

Everything You Think You Know About Batteries Might Be Wrong

The buy decision is what the gig economy is all about. It's now more pervasive and more attractive for every corporate function.

The Secret Way our "Gig Economy" Is Powering Huge Corporate Profits

CEO, FreeAgent Software

geek.ly/dstephens

Meet Dave

Meet Vishy

Vishy Venugopalan

Venture Capitalist

geek.ly/vvenugopalan

data exhaust can be the means to convert the data lake from a cost center into a strategic asset.

Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly: The Road To Enterprise AI

Innovation platforms damage incumbents and foster innovators. That’s their nature.

Blockchain: The Next Innovation Platform

geek.ly/bgolden

Meet Bernard

Meet Steve

CCO, AquaMetals

geek.ly/scotton

Electricity consumed by data centers will increase to roughly 140 billion kilowatt-hours annually by 2020, emitting nearly 100 million metric tons of carbon pollution per year.

The Cloud Isn't The White Fluffy Place You Might Think It Is

The process behind seemingly simple money transfer is much more complex and it's all done in the cloud.

Western Union: Spanning the World With Hybrid Cloud

CTO, Western Union

geek.ly/dthompson

Meet David

Meet Jono

community strategist

This steady growth in the value of community is changing the dynamic of how companies and organizations are approaching their users, customers, and audiences.

How to build powerful and productive online communities

The timing to implement changes at the infrastructure level is sometimes impacted by the lease contract(s) on which the current gear is financed.

Capturing Cloud Customers in the Emerging Markets

Lawrence McDaniel

Emerging Markets Entrepreneur

geek.ly/lmcdaniel

Meet Lawrence

Meet Michael

Founder, openchannel.io

geek.ly/mkovacs

Platforms work because it is a case where everybody wins.

Your Product Will Lose to a Platform

Cloud represents a shift in how we think about delivering value by allowing us to focus on value creation.

Keys to Creating an Effective Cloud Strategy

VP Engineering, Heroku

geek.ly/jwarner

Meet Jason

Meet Karen

In 2017, the cryptocurrency market grew to $100B in market cap, larger than the market cap of Starbucks, a brand name company that started over 45 years ago.

Living in a Multiple Blockchain World

Co-founder, AWS

There's a common misconception that hyper-scale clouds are being built using open source software and commodity hardware.

Open Source Software and Commodity Hardware are Dead

Open source is still going very strong, as is the x86 architecture, but neither is revolutionizing the industry as it used to.

In A Cloud World, What Changes?

Architect & Trainer

All the commercial cloud providers make security their number one job.

The Role of IT in the New Cloud Economy

Two major ecosystems have emerged in addition to Docker's own suite of products: Mesos and Kubernetes.

Containers and the Power of Ecosystems

Trust-production is being revolutionized by the use of machine learning and big data technologies around the world.

Trust at First Sight: How FinTech Is Doing It

Johnson and Johnson reacted more productively, calling for unity and reaffirming their commitment to creating welcoming workspaces for all employees, no matter their political or personal beliefs.

Why Values-Based Hiring Will Become Companies’ Greatest Asset

CIO & Architect

In today's day and age, scalability isn't a technology issue, but more of an automation challenge.

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in the Cloud

Serial Entrepreneur

It's hard to follow your passion if you don't know what it is, or even what it looks like.

Follow Your Passion... Or Should You?

Ultimately, I believe nearly all devices will be connected to the Internet using cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth and coming future connectivity technology.

Gauging the IoT Market Opportunity

Cloud providers have only one mission: to be a cloud provider.

How Secure is Your Cloud?

The problem is that packet control doesn't need to be performed in every data center switch.

Simplifying Data Center Networks through Edge Processing

Venture Capitalist

The ratio of humans to machines flipped when we moved to minicomputers and then workstations.

The Future of the Data Center

Founder, ProgrammableWeb

We're currently at a major turning point in the evolution of APIs: out of the early adopter phase and into the mainstream.

APIs: The Foundation of the Digital Economy

VP, Cloud Operations

If system failure could happen to a major airline, it can happen to any business.

Keeping Up with Uptime

Adoption becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. Access to a wider user base brings down costs, and lower prices result in an uptake in adoption.

The 'Enterprise-Ready' Cloud

SVP & CTO, NetApp

Today's model has free agents, new barriers to entry and highly networked innovators who collaborate globally.

Free Agents, Capital and the Cloud: Why We're Innovating Faster

Dr. Chris Stout

Professor & Researcher

Blockchain technology would improve EMR security in at least two major ways

Blockchain Approaches to Electronic Medical Record Security

Venture Capitalist

Criminals can monetize stolen data fairly easily, and the criminal success rate has steadily improved over the past decade.

How to Fight Crime with Machine Learning

Sridhar Chandrashekar

Every automation requires a pre-flight check, just like what a pilot does prior to take off.

A Simple Guide to Zero Touch Automation

INVENTOR & TECHOLOGY PIONEER

System called "Deep Patient" looks through millions of patient records to determine correlations and causations.

Global Head of Market Development, Strategy & Planning, Equinix

Don't fall for the assumption that your existing IT staff will simply embrace the cloud.

Cloud Empowerment Should Not Stop at Highly Skilled Developers

Dr. Steve Clarke

CEO, AquaMetals

The ability to effectively store and transport electrical energy is going to define the next era of human existence.

Everything You Think You Know About Batteries Might Be Wrong

CEO, FreeAgent Software

The buy decision is what the gig economy is all about. It's now more pervasive and more attractive for every corporate function.

The Secret Way our "Gig Economy" Is Powering Huge Corporate Profits

Vishy Venugopalan

Venture Capitalist

data exhaust can be the means to convert the data lake from a cost center into a strategic asset.

Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly: The Road To Enterprise AI

Innovation platforms damage incumbents and foster innovators. That’s their nature.

Blockchain: The Next Innovation Platform

CCO, AquaMetals

Electricity consumed by data centers will increase to roughly 140 billion kilowatt-hours annually by 2020, emitting nearly 100 million metric tons of carbon pollution per year.

The Cloud Isn't The White Fluffy Place You Might Think It Is

CTO, Western Union

The process behind seemingly simple money transfer is much more complex and it's all done in the cloud.

Western Union: Spanning the World With Hybrid Cloud

community strategist

This steady growth in the value of community is changing the dynamic of how companies and organizations are approaching their users, customers, and audiences.

How to build powerful and productive online communities

Lawrence McDaniel

Emerging Markets Entrepreneur

The timing to implement changes at the infrastructure level is sometimes impacted by the lease contract(s) on which the current gear is financed.

Capturing Cloud Customers in the Emerging Markets

Founder, openchannel.io

Platforms work because it is a case where everybody wins.

Your Product Will Lose to a Platform

VP Engineering, Heroku

Cloud represents a shift in how we think about delivering value by allowing us to focus on value creation.

Keys to Creating an Effective Cloud Strategy

In 2017, the cryptocurrency market grew to $100B in market cap, larger than the market cap of Starbucks, a brand name company that started over 45 years ago.

Living in a Multiple Blockchain World

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