In February, 2010, Joe Weinman participated on the panel "Leadership Speaks" moderated by former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Kevin Martin, at the Argyle Executive Forum's "2010 Deal Making in Media & Telecom," in New York City. Panelists included David Messenger, Chief Administrative and Corporate Development Officer, Virgin Mobile USA, and SVP, Sprint Prepaid Group, and Prem Parameswaran, Managing Director and Americas Head of Telecom, Global Telecommunications & Media Group, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. More Photos...

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In January, 2010, Joe Weinman presented and was a panelist addressing "Cloud Computing: What It Means for Carriers" at the Pacific Telecommunications Council's 32nd Annual Conference, "Embracing the Cloud: Enabling Connectivity and Innovation," held at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu. The panel was moderated by Richard Martin, Editor-in-Chief of VON. Panelists included Don Macneil, VP, XO Carrier Services Operations, Michael Rouleau, SVP, Business Development Strategy, tw telecom, and Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource.

In December, 2009, he presented and was a panelist reviewing "Cloud Computing 2.0: The role for telcos" at Telco 2.0's 8th Executive Brainstorm, held at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando. The panel was moderated by Thomas Rambold, CEO of DESS. Panelists included Steve Zimba, CMO of C-Beyond, and Andreas Koch, Senior Director of Service Provider Marketing and Strategy at Juniper Networks.

In November, he presented and was a panelist on "Optimizing the Customer Experience in the Cloud: What are the Vital Considerations" at TM Forum's Management World Americas at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel in Orlando. The panel was moderated by Roger Pilc, Corporate Senior Vice President and General Manager at CA. Panelists included Mike DiPetrillo, Chief Cloud Architect, VMware, and Andrew Higginbotham, VP IT Operations, CenturyLink.

Also in December at the TM Forum he presented at the VIP Executive Roundtable with Eric Pulier, Executive Chairman of ServiceMesh, and was a panelist addressing "Head in the Clouds but Feet on the Ground: How can Service Providers be Part of the New Cloud/SaaS Value Chain" at . The panel was moderated by Nava Levy, Head of SaaS/Cloud Computing Program, Amdocs. Panelists included Debra Osswald, Global Communications Industry Strategy Leader, IBM, Steve Mannel, Media & Communications Director, Salesforce.com, and Elisabeth Rainge, Program Director NGN Operations, IDC.

In November, 2009, Joe Weinman presented and was a panelist addressing "Monetising Cloud Computing" at Capacity Media's Capacity Europe 2009 at the Hilton Amsterdam. The panel was moderated by Joel Stradling of Current Analysis. Panelists included Interoute's Matthew Finnie, Verizon's Chris Kimm, and VozTelecom's Xavier Casajoana.

Also in November, at Interop NYC he presented "Enabling Your Applications through IP"

He also was a panelist at Riverbed's Cloud9 product launch event at Chelsea Piers in New York. The panel was moderated by Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President, Yankee Group. Panelists included Steve Schmidt, General Manager, Amazon Web Services, Scott Cain, Head of Infrastructure Optimization, BT Global Services, Dennis Jansson, Chief Security Officer, Lantmannen, Meg Selfe, VP of Sales, IBM, Jean Critcher, Director, Orange Business Services, and host Eric Wolford, VP, Marketing, Riverbed.

He also participated in VoiceCon San Francisco 2009: "Unify Your Enterprise Communications,"

where he was a panelist at the closing "Summit: Cloud Computing's Role in Enterprise Communications," co-moderated by VoiceCon Program Co-Chair and No Jitter Editor Eric Krapf, and the Yankee Group's Senior Vice President of Enterprise Research, Zeus Kerravala. Panelists included Cisco's James Urquhart, Ribbit's Greg Goldfarb, and Skype's Chris Moore.

In October, 2009, he spoke at Atlantis Pavilions in Toronto at a special pre-Olympics event with X-games Gold Medalist and Olympic hopeful ski cross champion Aleisha Cline.

Also in October, he spoke at a private event held just outside of Brussels at Michelin 3 Star restaurant Hof van Cleve, with Chef of the Year Peter Goossens.

He also spoke in Valencia at the 50th Anniversary meeting of Guide Share Europe.

He presented in London at the Four Seasons Canary Wharf and in Tokyo at the Four Seasons Chinzan-So at the Technical Leaders' Forum. View the presentation here.

A special guest appearance was made by Formula 1 driver Kazuki Nakajima.

In September, 2009, he presented at Sibos, the prestigious financial services event, held at the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Center, as part of the SWIFT Innotribe stream.

At Sibos, he delivered the introductory presentation and participated on a panel moderated by Peter Hinssen, Managing Director, A-Cross Technology, with Jeff Barr, Senior AWS Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, Willy Chiu, Vice President of IBM Cloud Labs & High Performance On-Demand Solutions, Philippe Coullomb, Facilitator, The Value Web, Russ Daniels, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EDS, Hewlett Packard, Nick Davies, Global CTO, Lombard Risk Management, Amir Halfon, CTO Global Financial Services, Sun Microsystems, Stephen Morse, Senior Director - Sales Engineering APAC, Salesforce.com, Clare Porter, Senior Vice-President, Technology Solutions, Sungard, Roland Slee, VP Banking & Capital Markets, Oracle, Neil Vernon, Senior Product Manager, Smartstream,and Stevan Vidich, Industry Technology Strategist, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft. View YouTube clip and related Sibos Videos.

In addition to other events in Beijing and Seoul, he also presented at "Innovation Day," at the Ritz-Carlton, Singapore, held in conjunction with the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix night race.
Here with Alex Burns, COO of the Williams team and Nico Rosberg, Formula 1 driver.

In August, 2009, he participated on the Keynote Panel at IDG's Open Source World/ Next Generation Data Center / CloudWorld, moderated by Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director, ThinkStrategies, together with Cisco's James Urquhart, Timothy Chou, Serial Entrepreneur and Author of "The End of Software" and "Cloud," and Sam Charrington, VP at Appistry. Video Excerpt

The overall conference keynote was delivered by California Secretary of State Debra Bowen.

In mid-August, he reviewed emerging trends in cloud computing and application services in Sao Paulo.

In July, he made a guest appearance in front of just over 10,000 live attendees and 3,000 web attendees at Cisco Live via Telepresence from Lisbon during Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior's Keynote Address.

In June, he presented to the plenary session of about 250 researchers from 26 countries at the 59th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, held at the Hotel Miragem Cascais, in Estoril, Portugal, near Lisbon.

He was also on a panel chaired by Kaustubh Joshi, of AT&T Labs Research, together with Aad Van Moorsel, Reader, Newcastle University, and Farnam Jahanian, Founder and Chairman of Arbor Networks and Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Michigan.

Also in June, he was the Master of Ceremonies for Giga OmniMedia's Structure 09: Put Cloud Computing to Work Conference at the Mission Bay Convention Center in San Francisco. Conference keynoters included: Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com; Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon Web Services; Russ Daniels, CTO, HP EDS; Greg Papadopoulos, CTO, Sun; Paul Sagan, CEO, Akamai; Willy Chiu, VP, IBM Cloud Labs and High-Performance On-Demand Solutions. Flickr Twitter Livestream Nearly 700 people were in the live audience, and the GigaOm TV Livestream Videos were watched live and in replay about 400,000 times.

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In May, 2009, Mr. Weinman was a panelist for "Lots to Love, Less to Use: How Enterprises Can Embrace the Cloud" at Interop, held at Mandalay Bay, in Las Vegas, and at Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit, where he was a panelist addressing "The Case for Cloud Infrastructure: On-Demand Economics" moderated by blogger/consultant John Willis. Co-panelists included noted cloud blogger James Urquhart of Cisco, Paul Mockapetris , co-inventor of the Domain Name System and Chairman and Chief Scientist of Nominium, and Neil Cohen, Akamai's Director of Product Marketing.

He also presented at HP's Communications, Media, and Entertainment CTO Summit, at Red Rocks and the Ritz Carlton, Denver.

Also in May, he led the Think Tank session at the CIO Forum at Miami's Fontainebleau resort.

In April, he was a judge at Dealmaker Media's Under the Radar "Clarity in the Cloud" event, in Mountain View, California. Photo Gallery

In March, he presented at and was a panelist at IDC's Asia/Pacific Cloud Computing Conference 2009, "Preparing for the Next 20 Years of IT," with about 200 attendees, held at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront in Singapore.

Here with IDC analyst and moderator Chris Morris, IDC Asia; Bill Rossi, Google; Hemant Shah, IBM; Frank Feldmann, Red Hat; Ken Pepple, Sun Microsystems; Horst Iblher, T-Systems; and Peter Coffee, Salesforce.com.

Also in March, he was interviewed by Melvin Yong on Channel NewsAsia's Asia Business Tonight.

In February, he presented to an audience of several hundred from throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in Barcelona. and in January, he was the opening International Keynote speaker at the 15th International Handelsblatt Jahrestagung CIO Conference: "Strategisches IT-Management", with about 250 attendees held at the Sofitel Munich Bayerpost. Photo Gallery