When: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Where: Auditorium, Lois Pope Center of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1095 Northwest 14th Terrace Miami, FL 33136-1060

Overview:
Cloud Computing is usually an overused buzzword that leaves entrepreneurs scratching their heads as to its practical use. We know better though and we see the real value, which is why the MIT Enterprise Forum is dedicating an entire event to the topic. On March 25th, we will be exploring the real practical uses behind Cloud Computing such as:

• How Cloud Computing reduces cost by making infrastructure a variable cost instead of a huge up front fixed cost. Example: Entrepreneurs can start technology companies for $20 in up front costs instead of needing to raise $2 million.

• How cloud computing reduces IT overhead costs to almost nothing with on-demand delivery of software via the web browser? Example: Google Apps allow an organization to have on-demand office applications that are available immediately via the web browser and upgraded automatically without the need for expensive IT administration.
• How cloud computing allows anyone to do business development deals with each other just by having an “open API”. Example: Any company in the world can interface their startup’s application with the data sources of major companies such as Twitter, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, and more for free by simply accessing their APIs.

Come join us for presentations by leaders in the field, followed by a panel discussions, and questions from you – the audience.

REGISTER NOW AND SAVE $10.00 PER TICKET ($25.00 online before March 4th)

The LIVE Panel Includes:

Chris Drumgoole is Senior Vice President of Client Services at Terremark where he has responsibility for customer service, sales enablement and support. Previously, Chris served as SVP Product Development and Engineering. Chris brings over 15 years of technology and financial services IT industry experience to Terremark. He has completed design and architecture work for large retail trading platforms, high traffic consumer web properties, computing / storage grids and other complex systems. Chris has also completed significant work in the area of commercial data center design and operations. His prior experience includes both leadership and technologist positions with the Toronto Dominion Bank, IBM, MasterCard International, Cable & Wireless and Exodus/Savvis. Chris studied Information Systems at Pace University in New York.

Matt Heitzenroder is a Co-Founder of Appush, a startup focused on providing developers the server-side resources they need to build apps they can capitalize on. Appush’s initial product release gives developers a simple way to send Push Notifications on the iPhone.

Matt has spent the last 10 years participating in various software startups, most recently and notably, Sugar CRM based in the Silicon Valley. When he’s not geeking-out over building hyper-scalable, high-quality software, he’s probably sleeping, drinking beer, sailing, or scuba-diving.

On March 25th, Matt will be discussing Appush’s vision of cloud computing and how it will affect us.

Thomas Packert is Chief Technology Officer at CareCloud, where he is responsible for identifying technologies and managing implementations of CareCloud’s proprietary systems to maximize the scalability, flexibility and productivity for the physicians and their respective businesses. His mission is to deliver high productivity, secure and compliant systems for all stakeholders. Tom Packert comes to CareCloud with numerous years of experience in developing healthcare billing systems, healthcare supply chain and financial reporting systems for HMOs.

Prior to CareCloud, Mr. Packert was Vice President Information Management for Visible Assets, a proprietary RFID systems vendor with unique low frequency RuBee technology. In this role, Mr. Packert, developed a wide variety of web based visibility solutions based on open source technologies for orthopedic device manufacturers and multiple hospitals that resulted in significant revenue enhancement, supply chain efficiencies and patient safety enhancements.

Prior to Visible Assets, Packert was VP of Information Technology at Neighborhood Health Partnership (NHP) a Miami based HMO where he oversaw an IT department of 50 and budget of $10 million. Implemented Zero Based Budget for IT department, reduced telecomm budget by 50%, reduced software maintenance budget by 15%, implemented HIPAA privacy, security and transaction rules as well as the 2004 Medicare Drug programs, iImplemented work flow tools for printed materials production and approvals.

Akshay Sharma (Moderator) is the Research Director in the Carrier Network Infrastructure Gartner Reasearch, leading the Research Agenda for Converged Infrastructure Worldwide. Current research interests include mobile infrastructure (radio and core), mobile broadband, cloud-based Telco 2.0 initiatives, WiMAX/Wi-Fi, White-Fi, PacketCable, VoIP, IMS, FMC, and trends in core network distributed softswitch architectures.
Mr. Sharma joined Gartner from Calypso Wireless, where he held the position of CTO and spearheaded the implementation of Calypso’s patented technology on a Wi-Fi/GSM-GPRS VoIP smart cellular phone for fixed mobile convergence (seamless voice, video, data session continuity) applications. He has 20 years of experience in the telecom industry, where he has held multiple leading vendor and carrier positions in R&D, product management, application development and business development, always focusing on next-generation technologies, signaling and applications. At Siemens Mobile, now Nokia-Siemens Networks, Mr. Sharma was instrumental in Siemens’ putting together the UMTS, IMS solution with Cingular, and was awarded an Outstanding Contribution Award for work on Alcatel’s Spatial Softswitch and Tekelec’s Media Gateway. He helped win the Cingular GGSN switch deal with Cisco, as the Siemens chief architect for the Core UMTS 3G project and UMTS Core rollout. He also was the chief architect who defined the mobile enterprise solutions converging the Siemens IMS platform with the Siemens Openscape Enterprise platform. He has worked as a manager of Networks Engineering – Bell Canada, worked for SDS-WindRiver (now Intel), and Telelogic (now IBM).

About the MIT Enterprise Forum of South Florida
The MIT Enterprise Forum is a 25-year-old organization affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose purpose is to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation around the world. MIT Enterprise Forum of South Florida is the newest chapter incorporated in the fall of 2003. The organization is actively creating a community of entrepreneurs, product and market innovators from local companies, business managers, investors and corporate leaders by bringing them together in a stimulating, interactive setting. The organization serves as a resource to assist individual entrepreneurs and innovators in addressing issues involved in a particular stage of their company’s development.

About the University of Miami School of Business
The University of Miami School of Business Administration has been committed to fostering student entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thought leadership for more than 60 years. Through its unique results-driven approach to entrepreneurship education, the School offers a robust entrepreneurship curriculum, supports programs to nurture student-run businesses and provides a research environment where entrepreneurial thinking flourishes.