CloudCamp North-East England, Mar 24, 2009
About CloudCamp:
CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
Following on from the great success of the first two London CloudCamps, and various other CloudCamps around the globe, this is the turn of the North East of England to host it’s first CloudCamp and it’ll take place in Beehive at Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Tuesday, March 24th 2009. You can find a map to the Beehive here:
http://tinyurl.com/czs4dp
Here is a summary of the event:
What is CloudCamp? It’s free and it’s an unconference where early adopters and industry leaders of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you have the opportunity to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
The North-East England CloudCamp format will be very similar to the London format, starting with 6-8 five minute ‘Lightning Talks’ followed by a panel discussion. Finally you get the chance to do some serious networking over beer and pizza - all free!
Check out www.cloudcamp.com/london2 for details of the last UK event.
Agenda
18h15 Registration
19h00 Lightning Talks
20h00 Panel Discussions
21h00 Networking - Beer and Pizza
22h00 Relocation to a local Pub (optional)
Lightning Talks
The following talks are confirmed:
- ‘Bootstrap and Transition, cloud computing to get your business started’ — Ross Cooney, founder of EmailCloud.
- ‘Private Clouds, is there a real need?’ – Tony Lucas, CEO of XCalibre and creator of FlexiScale,
- ‘Taking Control in the Clouds’ – Chris Purrington from CohesiveFT
- ‘Cloudcomputing for service providers’ – Arvid Fossen of Aserver
- ‘Cloud Routemaster’ - Alex Heneveld, CTO of CloudSoft
- ‘How Do You Obtain Quality Of Service from a Cloud?’ — Steve Caughey, CEO of Arjuna
- TBA - Duncan Malcolm of EveryCity
- TBA – Stewart Townsend from SUN
- TBA — Steven Tron from KnowledgeIT
Unconference discussion tracks and proposed topics
To be determined. Tracks will be defined and exact topics discussed will be driven by the group on the night. We will capture advance suggestions here.
Please send your suggestions to ross-at-rozmic-dot-com.
Our Sponsors…
CloudCamp would not be possible with out the generous support of its sponsors. These are:
FlexiScale, RightScale, CloudSoft, Sun Microsystems, Aserver, emailcloud, Arjuna, Sunderland Software City, RedHat, KnowledgeIT, Microsoft.
