Tales from the customer, Rafal Waligora of Twitter!!!!!!

Tales from the customer, Rafal Waligora of Twitter!!!!!!

METAMORPHOSIS: EVERYTHING MUST GO FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!

In this prized talk we get key insights from LinkedIn's top technologist on the massive and complete overhaul of its infrastructure over a few months for one reason: Its customers and the business world demanded it. The world has gone to real time, and so must it. Learn about the challenges and decisons it faced in starting from scratch while still serving 100 million customers.

Speakers:

Kevin Scott - SVP Engineering, LinkedIn

MAKING "AS A SERVICE" REAL AT SCALE!!!!!!!!!!!!

As the world moves to a more mobile and more real-time environment, hard decisions will have to be made about your infrastructure strategy. At the frontline of this transition will be the high-value services that are being pulled to the new world by their customers. Ryan Granard, the VP of Platform Engineering at PayPal, will talk about how PayPal has made infrastructure delivery as a Service a reality and how this has been key in product evolution. He will also discuss where PayPal is driving its platform in the future and what others can learn from the trails blazed by PayPal.

Moderated by:
Jo Maitland - Research Director, GigaOM Research
Speakers:
Ryan Granard - VP of Platform Engineering, PayPal

INSIDE THE BOX OF BOX!!!!!!!!!!

The modern business context has changed. The PC is not coming back, and the modern workforce relies more and more on mobility as its primary screen. This changes the way you build infrastructure to support an application. In this chat we talk to Sam Schillace about his choices in technology and architecture at Box and how he is allowing people to collaborate concurrently on a global scale on mobile.

Moderated by:
Derrick Harris - Senior Writer, GigaOM

Speakers:
Sam Schillace - VP of Engineering, Box

THE RISE OF THE APP ECONOMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New business initiatives are focused on building interactive customer experiences through the web and mobile apps. Applications and developers are gaining in power and prominence in this new world where the app developer is now viewed as part of the business team. Learn more from this interactive discussion between New Relic CEO and founder Lew Cirne, known as the Coding CEO, and Red Monk analyst Stephen O'Grady, the author of "The New Kingmakers, How Developers Conquered the World."

Moderated by:

Barb Darrow - Senior Writer, GigaOM

Speakers:

Lew Cirne - Founder and CEO, New Relic

Stephen O'Grady - Partner and Principal Analyst, RedMonk

CONSTANT PROGRESS: KEEPING ONE BILLION USERS HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Facebook continues to be the leading consumer web application out there, leading many to quip that the world wide web has evolved into Facebook. With over one billion users, Facebook continues to push the edge of scalable web technology, pioneering and disrupting the infrastructure value chain for the industry. We talk to its chief about his perspective on some of the critical decisions that will act as a pattern for the rest of the industry.

Moderated by:

Stacey Higginbotham - Senior Writer, GigaOM

Speakers:

Jay Parikh - VP, Infrastructure Engineering, Facebook

BEHIND GOOGLE'S EVOLUTIONARY LEAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeffrey Dean architected the key technology and architectural leaps that have propelled Google to the top of the pile. Dean is not often outward-facing but is much admired internally, and we are privileged to have him talking about the challenges of constantly innovating to what technologies come next for Google to keep its competitive advantage.

Moderated by:

Derrick Harris - Senior Writer, GigaOM

Speakers:

Jeffrey Dean - Google Fellow, Google

THE ANNUAL CLOUD BUYERS SURVEY BY GIGAOM RESEARCH AND NORTH BRIDGE VENTURE PARTNERS!

GigaOm Structure 2013 was an amazing conference, I enjoyed the annual cloud buyers survey.

Each year GigaOM Research partners with North Bridge Venture Partners on an industry survey, tracking the needs and desires of IT buyers and practioners in the industry. To deliberate over the findings being announced, we have assembled some of the key voices in the industry for this panel to discuss future implications for buyers.

Moderated by:

David Card - VP Research, GigaOM Research

Speakers:

Gaurav Dhillon - Chairman and CEO, SnapLogic

Kash Rangan - Senior Analyst, BofA Merrill Lynch

Duke Skarda - CTO, SoftLayer

Michael Skok - General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners