Joe Weinman leads the Communications, Media, and Entertainment segment globally for Hewlett-Packard's Business Solutions organization, with a team spanning the Americas, EMEA, and Asia/Pacific. Hewlett-Packard is the world's largest high technology firm by revenue, with FY10 revenues of US$126.03B. His current focus is leading the strategy, development, and marketing of compelling HP Enterprise Business Solutions for communications services providers, network equipment providers, and media and entertainment companies.

He is known in the cloud computing community as the founder of Cloudonomics, a rigorous, multidisciplinary analytical approach leveraging economics, behavioral economics, statistics, calculus, computational complexity theory, simulation, and system dynamics to characterize the sometimes counterintuitive multi-dimensional business, financial, and user experience benefits of cloud computing and other on-demand, pay-per-use business models. He is the author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, which will be available from John Wiley & Sons in Spring, 2012.

• According to TechTarget, he is one of the "Top 10 Cloud Computing Leaders."
• George Gilder, best-selling author and tech luminary, has called him "a brilliant strategist."
• TelecomTV has described him as "one of the most visible telco cloud evangelists."
• According to IDG, he is "one of the nation's leading cloud computing strategists.".
• Light Reading has called him "undoubtedly one of the keenest cloud evangelists you could ever meet."
• Search Cloud Computing / "The Daily Cloud" has called him a "serial deep thinker" and "cloud brainiac."
• Yankee Group has said he "brings instant credibility" and "has long been at the forefront of cloud computing thought leadership."

He is a frequent global keynote speaker, a prolific inventor that has been awarded 14 U.S. and international patents, and an author who contributes to numerous on-line and print publications. He has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development.

He received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison respectively, and completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Mr. Weinman has been awarded 14 U.S. and international patents in areas such as line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, telecommunications, and distributed computing. He has more pending in cloud computing, homomorphic encryption, IP unicast/multicast error correction, Internet search results ranking algorithms, digital imaging, and software applications.   He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and multiple AT&T Distinguished Speaker Awards.

He is currently or has been a member of a well-known Silicon Valley Venture Capital Technology Advisory Board, the IBM Advanced eBusiness Council, the Cisco Global Customer Advisory Board, the Intel Communications Board of Advisors, the Veritas (now Symantec) Utility Computing Advisory Board, the Hitachi Technology Advisory Council, the EMC Customer Advisory Council, the Technology Manager's Forum Corporate Advisory Board, where he has been a Best Practice Awards judge, the Technology Advisory Board of a Silicon Valley start-up, and supported initiatives and events of the World Economic Forum, the United Nations / International Telecom Union, the United States FCC and State Department Public-Private Partnership U.S. Telecom Training Institute He is a past Chairman of the joint National Science Foundation / Industry Advisory Board of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and serves on the program planning committees of a number of cloud computing conferences, the Pacific Telecommunications Council, the Board of Directors of the University of Southern California Institute for Communications Technology Management, and the 4G Americas Board of Governors.

He has been Master of Ceremonies, keynoted, moderated, judged, presented, and/or been a panelist at numerous events globally, including:

He has had a variety of articles and talks published in the print and/or on-line editions of The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, CNN, Money, Business Communications Review, Global Telecoms Business, BillingOSS Magazine, Information Week, GigaOM, Salon, VON, the ACM, the IEEE, CIO Magazine, and the AT&T Technical Journal, as well occasionally contributes to his own blogs, Cloudonomics.Com and The Network Effect. He has also appeared multiple times on Asian, U.S., and European television, been quoted in the U.S. and international magazine, newspaper, and online media, and appears in a number of on-line videos.

While at AT&T, he led the assessment and creation of strategic solutions and new offers based on emerging technologies and next generation business models, such as high definition immersive video conferencing, utility, grid, and cloud computing, unified communications and collaboration, web services, application services, IP Video, Display over IP, Radio Frequency Identification / Electronic Product Codes, advanced optical networking, storage and information lifecycle management, intelligent networking, next generation management, and application-aware networking; developed alliance relationships; and evaluated firms for possible M&A or equity investments.

Previously, he led engineering and operations for AT&T's Business Continuity organization responsible for the end-to-end process of ensuring IT continuity, reliability, availability, and performance for AT&T and its customers. This included analysis, architecture, engineering, planning, implementation, operations, and incident management. In addition, he has developed advanced simulation tools and object management software to support risk management, DR planning, process engineering, reliability, SLA engineering, and financial analysis.

Until 1996, he led the Quality, Process, and Business practice of AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he led a team of over 100 consultants in business process reengineering, quality, ISO 9000, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, software quality assurance, and project management. This team supported AT&T's unprecedented success in winning three Baldrige awards and Japan's Deming Prize. Prior to that he headed the global sales efforts for AT&T Bell Labs consulting services, where he successfully initiated global consulting for AT&T through engagements with European banks, IT service firms, and telecoms.

He has consulted, trained, and lectured industry and government clients and audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America, Western Europe and Scandinavia, the Middle East, India, Mainland China / Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and Australia. He has led teams and initiatives spanning business development, strategic alliance development, global sales, mergers and acquisitions and equity investments, strategic planning, product marketing and management, engineering economic analysis, software development, systems engineering, operations planning, business strategy, technology strategy, business continuity and disaster recovery, systems and business unit integration planning, and process engineering and reengineering consulting, training, and/or automation projects for domestic and international paper, metals, computer, retail, banking, and telecommunications companies as well as postal, defense, and communications agencies in the U.S. government.