#5 TechTalk // How Cloud & Internet of Things is changing the world

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Agenda:

16:00 Opening remarks ReDI School of Digital Integration

16:15 "The changing landscape of a digitized world" by Monique Morrow

16:45 "Building a new architecture for the Internet of Things world" by Claus Schaale

17:45 "Market landscape - Datacenter opportunities in Europe" by Patrick Schmidt

18:15 Keynote: "Cloud evolution and market opportunities" Ken Owens

19:00 Refreshments

Speakers

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Ken Owens (http://blogs.cisco.com/author/kennethowens), Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Intercloud Services Cisco Systems

Ken Owens is Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Infrastructure Services at Cisco Systems. Ken is responsible for creating and communicating technical/scientific vision and strategy for Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) business. He brings a compelling view of technology trends in enterprise IT (e.g., infrastructure, computing, SaaS, virtualization, and cloud) and evangelizes the technology roadmap for the business.

Before joining Cisco in 2014, Ken spent over 7 years at Savvis as the Chief Scientist, CTO, and VP Security and Virtualization Technologies. Prior assignments include 5 years as a network security architect at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., and Edward Jones brokerage firms in St. Louis, Mo, and 10 years in the design and architecture of communications systems and components for Erlang Technologies, Tellabs, and Wilted.

Ken holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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Claus Schaale (https://www.linkedin.com/in/clausschaale), Cloud leader, Datacenter EMEAR,Cisco Systems Inc.

With more than 15 years of international experience in the telecommunications and IT industries, Claus Schaale heads the Datacenter and Cloud Business Development and Strategy in Cisco EMEAR.

Claus has worked primarily in the Service Provider and IT industry, holding sales and management positions in companies such as Telefónica, 3Com and Cisco Systems in Latin America, USA and Europe. His main focus has been the introduction of emerging technologies, starting from broadband Internet access in the 90s to today’s cloud technologies, where he lead projects such as Verizon/Terremark’s E-Cloud. He has been also actively involved in different Cloud, Internet and IoT development initiatives, leading the cloud adoption for government projects at Cisco.

Claus holds a BS and a MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Chile and an MBA in International Business from Florida International University (USA), He’s assistant professor for Cloud Computing at the Masters program at University of Chile. He speaks Spanish, English, German and basic Portuguese.

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Monique Morrow (http://blogs.cisco.com/author/moniquemorrow), CTO, Cisco Services now First CTO-Evangelist-New Frontiers for Development-Engineering. Cisco Systems Inc.

Monique was the first CTO of Cisco Services from June 2013 to November 2014 where she lead the development of Cisco Services Technologies mapped to Services Customer Solution Reference Architecture that is now foundational for Cisco Customer Solutions implementation.

Monique is an inventor with five patents and an author of three published books and in process of writing another.. She was awarded the 2014 IEEE R8 Clementina Award; and, one of six top individual achievers recognized in 2014 by the ITU and UN Women’s organization, for her leadership in Gender Equality Mainstreaming Technology. Most recently, named one of the 2014 Top Ten Most Influential IT Women in Europe.

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Patrick Schmidt (http://gblogs.cisco.com/de/author/paschmid/?doing_wp_cron=1454430810.2529680728912353515625), Managing Director Sales, EBG EMEAR Data Center & Virtualization, Cisco Systems Inc.

In his role as Managing Director Sales, Patrick Schmidt is responsible for the Data Center & Virtualisation organisation in EMEAR leading the next phase of Cisco’s exciting transition with the Optimization of Cloud Infrastructure to include the Cisco ONE Enterprise Suite, Private Cloud and Openstack solutions. His team focuses on Fast Innovation and Hybrid IT, objectives in ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) ensuring that we continue to build on our momentum in Data Center, driving accelerated growth across all parts of the portfolio. He is responsible for go to market with Cisco Technology and Eco-System Partners along with ISVs in EMEAR such as Microsoft, SAP, EMC, Netapp and others. Cisco's goal is transformational: to become a next-generation company and continue to enhance our market position by executing on our growth opportunities.

In 1993, Patrick graduated from the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany, with a degree in Electronic Engineering. He subsequently held several technical and business positions in networking at Sparkassen Informatik GmbH, before joining Cisco in 1998.