It’s true. Take cloud computing, for instance. It’s a hot trend, so you’ll get lots of search results, but it’s still a fledgling industry, making it tough to discern what is noise and what is credible. That’s why, rather than googling, we should be heading to panels led by industry pioneers whose real-life experiences can help depolarize definitions, substantiate growth stats, and dispel the myths that go along with any new technology.
Fortunately, one such panel, “The Next Game Changing Technology”, will be held next week, September 24th, 2009 at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott North, 6650 North Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Industry experts from Research in Motion, Quantum MD, Linxter, and Terremark will shed light on the cloud computing cross sections of mobility, healthcare, transactions, and infrastructure.
Organized in partnership by the South Florida Technology Alliance and ITWomen, the goal of this event is to go beyond what cloud computing is, and explain what it can provide. Moderator Michael Richtberg, founder of BluTech Innovations and VP of programs at SFTA, will lead four South Florida technology officers to discuss not only how cloud computing has improved their industries, but suggest how it can be applied to others. For example, while getting diagnostics to physicians’ smart phones is specific to the health care industry, the technology used to move data securely from systems to devices will serve a wide range of businesses.
SFTA and ITWomen are non-profit organizations that provide ongoing networking and technology industry learning events to a South Florida audience, and collaborate yearly. Their 2009 panel was designed to, as moderator Michael Richtberg puts it, “bring together experts to talk about new challenges and solutions that affect how we will interact in the future. The trends in leveraging shared computing resources, high performance pocket size computing, and ways we can more efficiently power cost-effective healthcare all hit contemporary topics that are still at early stages of adoption.”
Now is the time to leverage cloud computing. If you want to learn a thing or two about it, I encourage you to attend this panel. For more information and to register, visit ITWOmen.org's event page. There is a fee (online registration: $15 members/$45 non-members; at the door: $20 members/$50 non-members), but keep in mind that the panelists are South Florida rockstars, knowledge is priceless, and there will be great networking opportunities.
