Opportunities between China + US in Cloud Computing

IN-DEPTH PANEL DISCUSSION
Kexue (Kay) Wei, Ali Cloud USA
Nikita Ivanov, GridGain Systems
Dani (Ravindra Dani), Oracle TimesTen
Dave Nielsen, Redis Labs
Moderated by Stephen Turner

The discussion will start with larger trends in Cloud Computing in light of the recently averted global trade war, especially pronounced between the U.S. and China. Introductory remarks by Stephen Turner start with a focus on geopolitical dynamics and their impact on Cloud Computing. He will then moderate an in-depth panel discussion drilling down to more technical trends seen around the Valley and the World: In-memory computing, big data, AI, web services (MSA + SOA), and APIs.

SPONSORED BY GRIDGAIN
CO-PRESENTED WITH CLOUD MAFIA SF + BAY AREA IN-MEMORY COMPUTING MEETUP

AGENDA:

• 6 p.m. — Food, beverages & find your seats!
• 6:15 p.m. — Panel Discussion
• 7:45 p.m. — Raffle drawings (Nintendo Switch! Get an early jump by entering the raffle now: http://bit.ly/2IIFCi9
• 8 p.m. — Finish

BIO SKETCHES

Kexue (Kay) Wei is Chief Cloud Solution Architect of Alibaba Cloud USA and Chair of CEA China City Org. Alliance with more 20 years architect design and management experience. Prior joining Alibaba, he was head of Huawei US SPO Big Data team, Vice President of ID5(A Startup invested by KPCB and Softbank), Principal Enterprise Architect of Microsoft, Chief Architect of Oracle/BEA China and manager of HP/Agilent OSS Team.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaywei/

Nikita Ivanov is founder and CTO of GridGain Systems, started in 2007 and funded by RTP Ventures and Almaz Capital. Nikita has led GridGain to develop advanced and distributed in-memory data processing technologies. Nikita has over 20 years of experience in software application development, building HPC and middleware platforms, contributing to the efforts of other startups and notable companies including Adaptec, Visa and BEA Systems. Nikita is an active member of Java middleware community, contributor to the Java specification, and holds a Master’s degree in Electro-Mechanics from Baltic State Technical University, in Russia.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nivanov/

Dani (Ravindra Dani) has worked at Oracle in various roles ranging from compiler development, build and release engineering, IT management, software life cycle engineering, etc. He led the Exadata image and life cycle engineering team since Exadata product conception to its growth to mature product. He was one of the leads for the Exadata cloud service. These days he is helping TimesTen Scaleout with focus on an Autonomous Cloud Service.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravindra-dani-93319b2/

Dave Nielsen is Head of Ecosystem Programs, Redis Labs and co-founder of CloudCamp. He specializes in cloud computing, continuous delivery, DevOps, NoSQL, big data, open data, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), free APIs and commercial web services. Previously, he was a Technical Program Manager at Intel for BigDL, a Deep Learning library for Apache Spark. With over 15 years of developer & Ecosystem marketing experience, Dave has helped companies like Intel, Redis Labs, PayPal, Strikeiron, Mode Media and Cloud.com create and run their own developer programs.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dnielsen

Stephen Turner is a Cloud Mafia organizer, Practice Leader of Enterprise Value Integration (EVI), as well as Sr. Advisor to Yingfluence, Inc. EVI focuses on measuring the value created for customer segments measured down to each individual microservice. His expertise revolves around BPM, SOA, MSA, APIs, REA, and marketing automation. He also is an instructor of the course Cloud Computing Sales on the learning platform Udemy. Yingfluence is a next-gen consulting firm for tech companies aspiring to grow internationally.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveturner26/

This is part of a series on 2050. See more: https://vimeo.com/271763795