What: Cloud Computing Revealed (Session One)
When: Wed, Nov 16th, 2011 5:30 PM -- 9:00 PM
Where: Bellevue City Hall

Co-host company: UrbanQ
Event style: Talks, Q&A and interactive discussion
Admission: Registration required
Parking: Free (but limited)
Food: Light snacks/drink provided at hallway
Gifts: Swags from our sponsoring companies are available, including door prize(s).

We are expecting 130+ people from local IT companies, organizations and startups, not necessarily technical people, but maybe marketing, PM, recruiters, investors...

Besides the world-class-expert speakers, there will be 30+ VIP guests from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Zynga, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Hulu, Oracle, SAP, CA, UW, EMC, VMWare, Expedia, Zillow, SEOmoz, Bungie, Intel, Dice, IBM, Salesforce, SGI...

Come on time and print out the confirmation page to guarantee a seat.

===Tentative Agenda =====

We start early this time!

5:30pm - 6:20pm, Snack & social (come early and meet interesting tech guru and investors, besides food)

6:20pm - 6:30pm, Introduction

6:30pm - 7:00pm, Talk

Title: SGI - High Performance Computing in the Cloud

Speaker: Eng Lim Goh, Senior VP and CTO of SGI

7:00pm - 7:25pm, Talk

Title: Cloud Computing Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker: Lijiang Fang, Principal Architect of Microsoft

7:25pm - 7:50pm, Talk

Title: Differences Between Cloud Virtualization--A look into Private and Public Cloud
Speaker: Edwin Kimm, VP and Partner of WowRack

7:50pm - 8:15pm, Talk

Title: Challenges in the Personal Cloud Market
Speaker: Peter Kellogg-Smith, Managing Partner, Planning Innovations (former VP of RealNetworks)

8:15pm - 8:40pm, Talk

Title: International Government Collaboration in Cloud Computing
Speaker: Bob Marcus, CTO of ET-Strategies (world-class Cloud pioneer and leader)

8:40pm, Q/A & Disucssion

9:00pm, Door prize draw

9:00pm - 9:30pm, Social