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Cloud computing has come a long way since we explored opportunities in 2009 and 2010. Whilst others are discussing the basics, we believe that the topic has matured enough to have a sensible discussion on ecosystems emerging around major cloud computing technologies and providers.

Previous speakers included Microsoft (Bindi Karia) and Amazon Web Services (Simone Brunozzi) representing IaSS; Salesforce.com (Tim Barker and Mujibur Choudhury) representing PaSS; and Paypal (John Lunn), Xero (Gary Turner) and Capsule CRM (Duncan Stockdill) representing SaaS, and Venture Capitalists on investment opportunities (Ed French from EV Group and Ivan Farnetti from Doughty Hanson).

SPEAKERS

	Matt Wood - Amazon Web Services Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you’re trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com’s global computing infrastructure that is the backbone of Amazon.com’s multi-billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over a decade.
	David Peto - Aframe Aframe is a private cloud system built for the creative industries - mass storage, transcode, metadata handling and more (as well as a lovely front end to access it if you don't want to use the API). David will speak about the challenges and opportunities facing "cloud" in the creative industries
	Simon Thurman - Microsoft Azure Windows Azure™ is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters

Special 20 minutes

We are privileged to welcome, Iain Gray, CEO of Technology Strategy Board to ecosystem for northern tech companies. Please make most of this event to have a constructive dialogue with TSB.

Iain Gray - Technology Strategy Board The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is the UK’s national innovation agency. It's goal is to accelerate economic growth by stimulating and supporting business-led innovation. TSB works right across government, business and the research community - removing the barriers to innovation, bringing organisations together to focus on opportunities, and investing in the development of new technology-based products and services for future markets.

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