Bio

Joe Weinman (http://www.joeweinman.com/) is a frequent global keynote speaker and noted authority on cloud computing economics and the business value of IT. He has spoken at well over 400 events on 6 continents. He is the author of Cloudonomics (Wiley, 2012), available in English and 2 Chinese editions, and Digital Disciplines (Wiley CIO, 2015) also available in Chinese. He is also a contributor to Regulating the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015) and the Cloud Economics editor for IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine. He is currently a member of several technology advisory boards, conducts expert network consulting for financial institutions, is chair of the IEEE Intercloud Testbed executive committee, and is an analyst for GigaOm Research. He was, until recently, SVP at Telx, where he led cloud business development and strategy for Telx. Before that, he was the worldwide lead for HP's communications, media, and entertainment business solutions. Before that, he led overall portfolio strategy and overlay sales at AT&T Business, and held several key roles at Bell Labs. An experienced executive with a background spanning Bell Labs, AT&T Business, Hewlett-Packard, and Telx, he has led global teams spanning strategy, business development, systems engineering, software development, economic analysis, consulting, global sales, product management, engineering, operations, and business continuity / disaster recovery. He has been awarded 27 patents in diverse technologies such as pseudo-ternary line coding, homomorphic encryption, distributed and cloud computing and storage, search algorithms, mobile telephony, and consumer products. Specialties: He has led strategic planning, engineering economic analysis, software development, systems engineering, operations planning, innovation process development, business strategy, technology strategy, systems and business unit integration planning, and process engineering and re-engineering consulting, training, and/or automation projects.