Joe Weinman leads global portfolio strategy and business development for AT&T Business Solutions. AT&T is the world's largest communications holding company with US$123 Billion (FY2009) in annual revenue.

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."

He is a frequent global keynote speaker, a prolific inventor that has been awarded 13 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 has a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.

His current focus is on the overall product portfolio, business strategy, partner ecosystem, and emerging technologies to support AT&T's business customers, which range from small offices to large global enterprises, wholesale customers, systems integrators, and local, state, and federal government.

Mr. Weinman helps assess, create, and solution strategic emerging technologies and next generation business models, such as high definition immersive video conferencing, utility/grid/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, into AT&T's offer portfolio; develop alliances; and evaluate firms for possible M&A or equity investments.

Mr. Weinman has been awarded 13 U.S. and international patents in areas such as line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, and telecommunications, and has many more pending in areas such as software technology, telecommunications consumer premises equipment, network services, wireless devices, web browsers, graphics compression, distributed storage architectures, and Internet search engine algorithms.   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 the World Economic Forum. 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) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and serves on the program planning committees of a number of cloud computing conferences.

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 on-line media, and appears in a number of on-line videos.

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 in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America, Western Europe and Scandinavia, the Middle East, and throughout India, China / Hong Kong, and Japan. 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.