I’m very excited to announce some very high-caliber industry speakers to our lineup of great programs in Palo Alto 2011.
- Mr. Ed Walsh will be doing our presentation to kickoff the first day of the event. Unless you’ve been quite busy the past few years (or asleep at the wheel), you may have noticed that Ed has sold 3 significant companies (Storwize to IBM, Virtual Iron to Oracle, and Avamar to EMC) and has made quite a name for himself. He will be telling a few tales and taking some Q&A from the audience. “I have participated in past BDevents and have found that having a laser-focused, dedicated event specifically for executive networking is a great value to me,” said Mr. Walsh. “I look forward to sharing some management and business development strategies learned over the past few years.
- On Tuesday afternoon (pre-cocktail reception), Mr. John Thompson will expound on his view of our technology world. John is presently the CEO of Virtual Instruments, a VC-backed performance monitoring solution that is getting solid industry buzz. John is also the Chairman of the Board for Symantec (as well as their long-time CEO from 1999 to 2009), and sits on the board of Seagate Technology and UPS (go brown).
- Our final keynote (Wednesday afternoon) is by Mr. Ed Bugnion, VP and CTO for Cisco’s Server Access and Virtualization Group. Ed is also the co-founder and former CTO of VMware, as well as a co-founder of Nuova Systems (acquired by Cisco). Cisco is making a major play into the data center, virtualization, storage world so I expect this presentation to be well-attended, interactive and fun.
These are three major players in the technology space and should provide some great insight and value to our attendees. Thank you gentlemen for taking time out of your busy schedules to join us !
Greg
