What, aside from a professional passion for the Enterprise IT possibilities of cloud computing, do IBM's Cloud CTO Dr Kristof Kloeckner, Amazon's VP & CTO Dr Werner Vogels and Sun's Cloud SVP David Douglas have in common?

The answer is that all three are giving a major keynote address at SYS-CON' 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo being held next month in New York City (March 30-April).

IBM, Sun and Amazon headline a technical program of the very highest excellence, with top industry speakers from the industry's leading companies such as HP, Yahoo!, Salesforce, Intel, 3tera, Trend Micro, Cisco, Keynote Systems, VIRTERA, AppSense, ParaScale, ExactTarget, Corporate Technologies, RightScale, Cordys, 3Leaf Systems, Egenera, Elastra, CohesiveFT, Kadient, eyeOS, Zeus, Dataline, Cloudscale, Blue Mountain Labs, Cumulux, Unisys, Intuit, Aria Systems, Canonical, Cloud9 Analytics, Vertica, Xeround, Zuora; from analysts like The 451 Group; and from end users like Stanford University, the Ohio State Dept. of Transportation, Quark, and Forbes.com.

Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2009 East features a compelling lineup of executive speakers from the leading industry players, representing all of the main layers of the Cloud ecosystem - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications and services.

The individual speakers from these companies represent a Who's Who of Cloud Computing in 2009. Our distinguished Speaker Faculty includes, among others:

• Dr Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com (Day 1 Keynote)
• Dr Kristof Kloeckner - VP of Cloud Computing Platforms, IBM (Day 2 Keynote)
• Davis Douglas, Sr. VP, Cloud Computing, Sun (Day 3 Keynote)
• Vik Chaudhary - VP of Corporate Development, Keynote Systems
• Peter Coffee - Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com
• Russ Daniels - CTO of Cloud Services Strategy, HP
• Doug Tidwell - Senior Software Engineer, IBM
• Ajay Anand - Director of Grid Computing, Yahoo!
• Martin Ingram - VP of Strategy AppSense
• Prasad Rampalli - VP, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel
• Brian H. Prince - Architect Evangelist, Microsoft
• Ronnie Thomson - Sr. Vice President of Engineering, Quark
• Tim Crawford - Director of IT Operations, Stanford University
• David Bernstein - VP & GM of Cloud Computing, Cisco
• Glenn Brunette - Chief Security Architect, Sun
• Sajai Krishnan - CEO, ParaScale
• Ken Oestreich - Vice President, Egenera
• Stephen Elliott - Vice President of Strategy, CA
• Warren Wilbee - Director of ISV Evangelism, Microsoft
• Lucian Lipinsky de Orlov - Director of Business Strategy, VIRTERA
• Patrick Kerpan - CTO, CohesiveFT
• Jim Rymarczyk - Chief Virtualization Technologist, IBM
• Thorsten von Eicken - CTO and Co-Founder, RightScale
• Owen Garrett - PM and Technologist, Zeus
• Scott Sanchez - Chief Technology Architect, Unisys
• Scott Wiener - Co-Founder & CTO, Cloud9 Analytics
• Jeff Bauer - Creative Director, Forbes.com
• Anthony Arrott - Special Assistant to the CTO, Trend Micro
• Stuart Charlton - Chief Software Architect, Elastra
• David Bressler - Principal Architect, Progress Software
• Clod Barrera - Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Strategist, IBM
• Tien Tzuo - CEO, Zuora
• Raghavan Srinivas - Technology Evangelist, Intuit
• Brian Zanghi - President & CEO, Kadient
• John Trembley - Vice President, Xeround
• Ranjith Ramakrishnan - Co-Founder & CTO, Cumulux
• John Barr - COO & VP Engineering, Yieldex
• William Fellows - Principal Analyst, The 451 Group
• Kevin L. Jackson - Director of Business Development, Dataline
• Bob Quinn - Founder, Chairman & CTO of 3Leaf Systems
• Pau Garcia-Mila - Founder, eyeOS
• David Linthicum - Editor-in-Chief, Virtualization Journal
• Bryan Wade - Director of Channel Partnerships, ExactTarget
• Bill McColl - Founder & CEO, Cloudscale
• Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
• Jon Pyke - Chief Strategy Officer, Cordys
• Daniel Beveridge - Director of Virtualization Strategy, VIRTERA
• JP Morgenthal - IT Architecture Consultant
• John Gauntt - Founder, Media Dojo
• Ed Sullivan - Founder & CEO, Aria Systems
• Raghavan Srinivas - Technology Evangelist, Intuit
• Brian Zanghi - President & CEO, Kadient
• Simon Wardley - Software Services Manager, Canonical
• Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
• Michael Hill - VP Enteprise Initiatives, Sales, Services & Business Development, IBM
• Mike Jordan - Senior Software Architect, Ohio Dept. of Transportion
• Prof Rich Wolski - University of California, Santa Barbara

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