TheSpringConferencethemed“
End-to-EndReliability–TheData
Revolution
”willbeheldJune1-4attheBocaRatonResort&Club.The
Conferencewill featurecompellingkeynotes,high levelspeakers,
concurrentsessions,anenduseronlyforum,awomen’sforum,aspouse
shoppingshuttle,aspectacularsponsoredevent,andmore…
JohnSculley,
FormerCEOofAppleandFormerPresident
ofPepsiwillkickofftheconferencewithasessionentitled
“
TheHighTechTsunami that isChangingtheWorld
”.
Threeexplosivehightechnologies,Cloud, Internet-of-
Things,andUnstructuredDataScienceareconvergingatan
amazingpace.Theirderivativeeffectswillbethatevery
major industrywillbedisrupted, reshapedorevenreinvented.Sculley
willexplainhowcompanies likeAmazonarecombiningexceptional
customerexperience,disruptiveprice,andsamedaydeliverybytaking
advantageofadvancedhightechnologysupplychainsystems.New
businessmodels likeAmazondon’trequirea largenumberofhigher
skilledmiddlemangersthatmoretraditionalcompaniesdependon.
Sculleywilldiscussthepossibilityofmiddlemanagersbecomingan
endangeredgroupasheavy liftingrobotsare joinedbysmartrobotsand
the Internet-of-Things.Howcancorporationsadapttothisfastchanging
world?JohnSculleyhasauniquepositionasa leader indisruptivehigh
technologies,aglobal investorandsuccessfulentrepreneurwho is
mentoringCEOs inhisowncompanies inthefieldsof: theconsumerera
ofhealthcare,nextgenerationmobiletechnologies, ITsupplychain,and
bigdataanalytics.Johnwilldrawonexamplesfromhiscurrent
experience intheUSandSouthAsia.
OurseconddaywillopenwithaKeynoteentitled“
eBay–Quantitative
ComparisonofCriticalFacilityElectricalSystemArchitectures
”byDean
Nelson,VicePresidentofGlobalFoundationServices,eBay;James
Monahan,SeniorDatacenterDesignEngineer,eBayandSteveFairfax,
President,MTechnology.
Theclosingkeynote isentitled“
State–of-the-ArtFieldTechnologiesand
Lifecycle InfrastructureManagement inDataCenters
”andwillbe
deliveredbyYueMa,SeniorProductManager,SIEMENSandAaron
Carman,WorldwideCriticalFacilitiesStrategyLeader,HP.
Additionalpresentationswill
bedeliveredoncompelling
missioncritical industry topics
suchas:
• GM’sNewWorld-ClassEnterprise
DataCenters–TheDawnofa
NewEra
• KaiserPermanente -Convergence
of IT inHealthcare:OneSizeDoes
NotFitAll
• DigitalRealty–AKit-of-Parts
DataCenter
• EnergyRegulatoryPolicies:
Researchand Implications for
DataCenters inNorthAmerica
• DeliveringaHealthcareData
Center
• TheNational ScienceFoundation
Center forEnergySmart
ElectronicSystems (ES2)and
7x24Exchange:APartnership for
EnergySustainableDataCenters
• Uptime Institute–Startwith the
End inMind
• TELUSSuper IntelligentData
CentreProgram
• TransformingTraditionalOffice
Space intoaHighDensityData
Center
2014SPRINGCONFERENCEHIGHLIGHTS
