Cloud World Forum propels industry into new era

LONDON, UK: EMEA's leading Cloud event, Cloud World Forum, thrust Cloud into the spotlight once again last week with thousands of visitors, over 300 speakers and the industry's top providers converging on the Olympia National in London and driving the most comprehensive agenda in the Cloud market.

This year, the event was co-located with Big Data World Congress and Enterprise Apps World. Big Data World Congress saw Watson supercomputer demos, courtesy of IBM, insights into the use of Big Data in weather and climate forecasting from the Met Office, data analytics in the gaming industry, care of Mediatonic and a case study on data infrastructure at Spotify, delivered by Wouter de Bie, Team Lead Data Infrastructure, Spotify.

The evolving role of the CIO came into focus on Day One of the Cloud World Forum conference, with a panel discussion titled ‘Redefining the role of the CIO in the era of the Cloud', which examined the increasingly hot topic of how Cloud is effecting the role and responsibilities of CIOs as companies fight to stay ahead of their competitors and maintain the pace of innovation.

The event boasted an impressive line-up of the industry's technology giants including: Intel, Oracle, HP, Dell, Google and Microsoft and it also featured an exclusive C-level keynote Future Cloud Theatre, with CIOs and CTOs from leading end-users, such as: Coca Cola, UEFA, BBC, BMW, Marks & Spencer, UBS, CERN and Lufthansa.