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Risk Evaporation: Cyber Risk in the Cloud at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

CloudInsure CEO Drew Bartkiewicz to predict how events may make the cloud the only safe place to insure data and business risk

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As the cloud grows to a broader platform of business continuity and data security, the inevitable question will remain: who owns the cost of failure?

In his session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO and Founder of CloudInsure, will present the last five years of Cyber Risk in order to predict how events may make the cloud the only safe place to insure data and business risk within the next five years.

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Speaker Bio:
Drew Bartkiewicz is the CEO and Founder of CloudInsure, a specialty risk analytics and cloud insurance platform for the Information Age. He specializes in quantifying cyber and technology risks in emerging areas such as Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, and the systemic risks involving the Internet. He has 20 years of experience in the IT and Business Risk fields with companies such as BroadVision, salesforce.com, The Hartford, Darwin Underwriters, and United Technologies. He is the author of Unseen Liability, the Collision of Business Risk and the Cloud. In 2001 he was a task force author on the Brookings Institution book, Unseen Wealth.

Bartkiewicz holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
Cloud Expo 2011 Silicon Valley, November 7-10, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in Santa Clara, November 7-10, 2011.

The recent Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley will attract more than 10,000 delegates from 48 countries and over 200 sponsors and exhibitors!

All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented at the 9th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network.

"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will be attending Cloud Expo."

Sponsorship Opportunities
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Cloud Expo 2011 Silicon Valley "show prospectus" has shipped. Sponsorship, exhibit, and keynote opportunities can be obtained from Carmen Gonzalez by email at events (at) sys-con.com, or by phone 201 802 3021.

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About SYS-CON Media & Events
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com) has since 1994 been connecting technology companies and customers through a comprehensive content stream at www.sys-con.com - featuring over forty focused subject areas, from Cloud Computing to Web Security - interwoven with market-leading full-scale conferences produced by SYS-CON Events. The company's internationally recognized brands include among others Cloud Computing Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.VirtualizationConference.com), Government IT Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com), Cloud Computing Bootcamp (www.CloudComputingBootcamp.com), and UlitzerLive! New Media Conference & Expo (http://events.sys-con.com).

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Salvatore Genovese is a Cloud Computing consultant and an i-technology blogger based in Rome, Italy. He occasionally blogs about SOA, start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, open source and bleeding-edge technologies, companies, and personalities. Sal can be reached at hamilton(at)sys-con.com.

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