{"id":185,"date":"2010-10-18T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openstack.toddmorey.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2010-11-09T00:40:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T06:40:14","slug":"openstack-design-summit-business-track-coming-into-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-design-summit-business-track-coming-into-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack Design Summit Business Track Coming into Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Registration for the Nov 9 – 12, 2010 continues to move along nicely as more and more\u00a0 technologists, business leaders, and developers from companies such as Accenture, Bechtel, BMC Software, Canonical, Cloudkick, Cloudscaling, Cisco Systems, Citrix, Disney, Korea Telecom, NASA, NTT, PWC, Rackspace, and Samsung to name just a few are already registered. I strongly encourage you to consider attending this event and register soon as we do have a 300 attendee quota based on facility maximums. Registration is at http:\/\/openstack.org\/register<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Business Track is taking shape nicely and I want to provide an early preview to further peak your interest in this event.
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\nDAY ONE<\/strong>
\n– General Session:<\/em> Hear from Jim Curry, Chief Stacker of OpenStack and Rick Clark, Chief Architect
\nof OpenStack on the status of OpenStack and its associated technologies. NASA and Accenture are also
\nscheduled to present during the General Session.<\/p>\n

– Afternoon Session:<\/em> Hear from David Lemphers of PWC on the business of deploying cloud solutions as
\nwell as guest speakers from other leading cloud vendors enagaging with OpenStack. The OpenStack marketing team will also present the latest on the Trademark Policy and discuss the OpenStack brand and how the community can work together to gain further momentum for the brand.<\/p>\n

DAY TWO<\/strong>
\n– Morning Session<\/em>: Planning and OpenStack deployment is the focus of the morning sessions. Various
\nspeakers and discussion groups are being assembled to fulfil the agenda and ensure attendees are
\neducated properly in the requirments of deploying the various OpenStack technologies.<\/p>\n

– Afternoon Session:<\/em> Integrating OpenStack with existing IT solutions is the focus of the afternoon
\nsessions. It is critical that the OpenStack solution play in not only the open source sandbox but
\nalso Enterprise solutions for maximum customer flexibility and enablement. Again, this track is
\nbeing planned at this time.<\/p>\n

Confirmed speakers include:<\/p>\n