The Cloud Crowd: Photos from Xconomy’s June 24 Cloud Computing Forum

Bob just finished a writeup of our June 24 forum, “The Promise and Reality of Cloud Computing,” which was held at Akamai Headquarters in Kendall Square and was a huge success, with over 150 people in attendance. But we also wanted to offer you a few photos from the event, which had a stellar lineup of speakers from some of the country’s leading providers and users of cloud computing services, including Akamai, EMC, EnterpriseDB, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Stylefeeder, and Sun.

Below are a few of the shots captured by our own Erik Mellgren, a visiting Innovation Journalism fellow from the Swedish technology paper Ny Teknik. You can click on the photos to see larger versions with captions. You can also click here for a longer slide show with all of Erik’s pictures from the event.

The crowd gathers in Akamai\'s lobby
John Landry, Lead Dog Ventures, panel moderator
Keynote speaker Nicholas Carr
Matthew Gray, software engineer, Google
Andy Champagne, Cheif Technologist, Engineering, Akamai
The crowd for the cloud
Irvin Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of Technology
Phil Jacob, CTO, Stylefeeder

Click here for the complete Cloud Computing forum slide show.

Author: Wade Roush

Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco. Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.) I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia. I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats. My personal site: waderoush.com My social media coordinates: Twitter: @wroush Facebook: facebook.com/wade.roush LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waderoush Google+ : google.com/+WadeRoush YouTube: youtube.com/wroush1967 Flickr: flickr.com/photos/wroush/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/waderoush/