North Carolina city announces speaker lineup for Asheville Cloud Computing Day 2011

Grazed from MountainXpress.  Author: Jeff Fobes.

The City of Asheville’s Information Technology Services Department is sponsoring "Asheville Cloud Computing Day 2011," a mini-conference scheduled for Aug. 10, from 9-11:30 a.m. in the Municipal Building (100 Court Plaza, 4th floor)…

The event, which is open to the public, seeks to share cutting-edge ideas about cloud computing, a technology that promises to improve city government, as well as other organizations that adopt it.

The agenda and speaker lineup will include:
– “Servers are Software: The Advantages of Cloud Architecture” – Joe Emison, VP, Research & Development, BuildFax.
– “How Citizens Can Use Open Data To Create New City Services” – Trevor Lohrbeer, CEO, Lab Escape.
– “Beyond the server: the rise of cloud-based desktops” – Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, contributing editor, CBS News and ZDNet.
– “The Playground of Today’s Tech Innovators: How Cloud Computing Changes The Game” – Troy Tolle, CTO, Digital Chalk.

RSVPs from members of the community interested in attending the event are appreciated, but not necessary. RSVPs or questions about the event may be directed to @avlcio on Twitter, or jfeldman@ashevillenc.gov.

For information about Asheville’s Information Technology Services program, visit http://ashevillenc.gov/its.