We are expecting 100+ people from local IT companies, organizations and startups, not necessarily technical people, but maybe marketing, PM, recruiters, investors…

Besides the world-class-expert speakers, there will be VIP guests from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Boeing, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Ebay, Intel, IBM, HP, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, HTC, Hulu, Oracle, SAP, CA, EMC, Expedia, Tableau, Zillow, SEOmoz, Bungie, Nintendo, Disney, Nordstrom, Costco, Alaska Airlines, Dice, Salesforce, SGI, VMWare, Citrix, UW, City University, Seattle University, Puget Sound Energy…

Seattle Technical Forum and Northwest Tech Academy (NWTA) are excited to bring you a panel discussion on Software Defined Storage (SDS). Industry experts will demonstrate use cases, contrast different viewpoints and answer some of the most common questions surrounding SDS.

Panelists: 

Steven Umbehocker, CEO & Founder – OS Nexus

Steve has worked in the enterprise software & storage industry for nearly two decades at Citrix Systems, Symantec, VERITAS Software and now OS NEXUS.

Paul Bibaud, Solutions Architect – Pogo Linux/Pogo Storage

Paul has an enormous amount of experience in SDS and has over 600 deployments in field with some very insightful use cases to talk about.

Moderator:

Scott Gorcester, CEO – VirtualQube

Scott has been working on Storage for over 20 years and is a recognized leader in the IT industry, architecting infrastructure and data hosting solutions built on Microsoft and Citrix technology.

Event Details:

When – Tuesday, Jan 28th, 2014 6:00 — 9:00 PM
Where – Bellevue City Hall
Co-host company – Northwest Tech Academy (NWTA)
Admission – Registration required
Parking – Free (additional parking available in employee garage)
Food – Light food provided for this event

Register – http://www.meetup.com/nwtechacademy/events/156753752/