Speakers list and profiles


Professor Pedro Veiga
FCCN 		Professor Pedro Veiga is the president of the Portuguese Foundation for National Scientific Computing, and he’s also a Ph.D Professor at the Lisbon University. His extraordinary experience in the IT and computer science technologies will provide an excellent starting point for our discussion on the “Cloud Identity”.
Luis Alves Martins
Microsoft		 Luis Martins will bring us all the details about the way Microsoft is positioning its Azure Platform on the Cloud Computing field. The Azure platform and its different components are for the time being one of the greatest examples of how the big players are viewing the Cloud Computing paradigm
Carla Pinheiro
Clarke, Modet & Co.		 Carla Pinheiro, will use all the Clarke, Modet & Co. expertise in the Intellectual Property and Patents management to demonstrate how the protection of our data on the Cloud must also be done using well known examples.
Robin Daniels
salesforce		 Robin joined salesforce.com in October 2007 as a senior manager, product marketing.
Having worked in the tech industry for 10 years for companies such as Veritas and Vignette, Robin has extensive knowledge in the areas of enterprise software, internet technologies, and marketing innovation.
Most recently, Robin worked at Vignette as a senior product marketing manager where his job responsibilities included messaging and positioning, interaction with customers, press and analysts, and sales and management training.
Prior to this, Robin was a senior product marketing manager at Portwise, a leading security company based in Sweden. Before Portwise, Robin spent nearly five years in California, USA, working for Veritas as product marketing manager.
Thomas Lenggenhager
SWITCH
Esmeralda Camara
FCCN 		The AAI platform for Swiss Higher Education has been operational since spring 2004 and includes more than 95% of Swiss higher education users, staff and students. Thomas will bring us all his experiences on this project. Together with Esmeralda Camara, that’s working on a Portuguese AAI project at FCCN, they will demonstrate how Identity Management structures are fundamental to Internet user experience.
Nat Sakimura
NRI Japan and OpenID Foundation		 Nat is a Senior Researcher at NRI Japan and has been recently elected for the OpenID Foundation community board members. He’s one of the most active and notable members of the Identity Management experts group. His practical examples and his clarifying views about Web Identity and user centric Identity will be fundamental to the “Cloud Computing Identity”.
Alberto Yepes
Citrix
Eugenio Gil
Wyse		 Alberto Yepes and Eugenio Gil will put together all the power of the Citrix platforms and the WISE devices to show how we can already start taking benefit from the Cloud. Their presentation will show how well known technologies together with innovative solutions will enhance the power of the cloud.
Hugo Magalhães
InfoAnchorage		 Hugo Magalhães is an entrepreneur that is using Open Source tools. He has been concentrating his works on the SaaS paradigm and on the Ruby on Rails developing platform. SaaS is nowadays considered a part of the Cloud Computing paradigm, and consequently, all the work done by Hugo is an excellent way to understand how the “Cloud Identity” has been formed.
Nuno Godinho Nuno is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professionals), his exceptional contributions to technical communities worldwide, and all the work that he has done advising companies on its projects, will provide examples of how SMB companies could take direct benefit from the Cloud.
Simone Brunozzi
Amazon Web Services 		Amazon is one of the surprising players on the Cloud Computing paradigm. Many of us are used to buying products from Amazon, namely books, CDs, DVDs. Now we all have another innovative set of products. Simone Brunozzi will show how these products are a fundamental part of Cloud Computing, and how they are contribution to transform the cloud computing paradigm into a reality.