The Canada Cloud Council and Boast Capital Announce The Cloud Factory with Focus on Women in Tech
August 1, 2013
Grazed from The Canadian Cloud Council. Author: PR Announcement.
The Canadian Cloud Council and Boast Capital have just announced a 2-day mega conference titled The Cloud Factory to be held from April 7 and 8, 2014 in the beautiful resort town of Banff. This enterprise focused conference will bring together senior executives, corporate M&A teams, venture capitalists, enterprise startups, industry disruptors, technology thought leaders and global media to discuss disruptive innovations in cloud computing, big data and enterprise technology.
Day 1 of the conference is specifically focused on Democratizing the Enterprise and Women in Technology. Featured tech women leaders include Linda Cureton, Former CIO of NASA; Theresa Payton, Former CIO of the US Federal Government; Paula Long, Founder and CEO of Data Gravity; Whitney Bouck, GM at Box; Cynthia Stoddard, CIO at NetApp; Perry Hewitt, Chief Digital Officer at Harvard University; Michelle Zatlyn, Cofounder of CloudFlare; Janet Wood, EVP at SAP; Shelley Kuipers, CEO of Chaordix; and Tori MacLean, Cofounder of BeauCoo…
“It is an honor to participate in this event alongside so many powerful women and discuss disruptive innovations in the enterprise,” said Linda Cureton, Former CIO of NASA. Linda just retired from NASA following a 34-year career as a civil servant and has started a new venture.
"Many companies today are beginning to apply analytics to support specific parts of their business. However, significant efficiency gains remain for those organizations able to leverage their unstructured data to improve business processes." said Paula Long, Cofounder and CEO of DataGravity. Paula recently raised $30 million in Series B funding from Andreessen Horowitz, and previously was the Cofounder of EqualLogic, which was acquired by Dell for $1.4 billion. Paula will share techniques for making smart investments in analytics to gain competitive advantage and explosive growth…
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