2012 Cloud Business Summit – Additional Speakers Announced

We hope you will be able to join the 150 CIOs, CTOs and senior business leaders that will assemble at our premier executive conference – Cloud Business Summit – to be held November 14 at the Westin Times Square in New York City.

As we have previously shared, we have an exciting agenda planned – with a focus not only on the evolution of the Cloud, but also on the key supporting technologies of Social, Mobile and Advanced Analytics that are driving the new Master Architecture, and enabling what Saugatuck is calling the Boundary-free Enterprise™.

Our line-up of industry experts continues to grow. Find below a partial list of confirmed speakers:

Greg Buoncontri, CIO, Pitney Bowes
Emery Csulak, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Dept. of Homeland Security
Bruce Guptill, SVP and Head of Research, Saugatuck Technology
Will Klancko, Global Data Management Leader, GE Energy Management
Yuvi Kochar, CTO, The Washington Post Company
Mike Lemberger, VP Business Insights, American Express
Gary Lynch, Managing Director, Marsh
Jason Maynard, Managing Director and Sr. Technology Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities
Joe McKendrick, Analyst / Blogger, ZDNet and Forbes.com
William McNee, CEO, Saugatuck Technology
Michael Pearl, Principal, PwC Consulting
Rich Roseman, VP and Corporate CIO, News Corp
Treb Ryan, CEO, Opsource (a Dimension Data Company)
Ali Shadman, SVP, Infor
Evangelos Simoudis, Senior Managing Director, Trident Capital
Scott Skellenger, Sr. Director Global Information Services, Illumina
Colleen Smith, VP, Progress Software
Andrew Stokes, Chief Scientist, Deutche Bank AG
Mike West, VP and Distinguished Analyst, Saugatuck Technology

If you haven’t already checked out our video interview with Rich Roseman, CIO at News Corp – click here. We have several others in the works, including Mike Pearl from PwC and Scott Skellenger from Illumina, among others.

While there are some rules for who can attend the event (as we are fostering a conference program primarily for the benefit of senior IT leaders at large enterprises), note that we have extended our early-bird special until September 15. Use code "EARLYBIRD12" and save $300 on the conference registration fee ($895 vs. $1,195). Click here to register!

For more information about the event, go to www.cloudbusinesssummit.com, or reach out to Chris MacGregor at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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Bill McNee

Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging industry trends and disruptive technologies driving change in enterprise IT. Over the past few years, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing. More recently, he has been actively involved in launching the firm’s CIO-targeted Cloud migration / leadership practice.

Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business / IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business / IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. Prior to this role, he was a lead analyst focusing on enterprise business applications, and asset management strategies. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, financial management and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research.

A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of business and IT executives, and vendor clients around the globe.

Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus, and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University. Since 2001, he has been a Board or Advisory Board member for the Westport Public Library.

Follow Mr. McNee on Twitter at @billmcnee.

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