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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

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Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. SVP at Cloud Technology Partners.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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Ryan Blair: As you know, I sold ViSalus back in 2012, but ended up buying it back in 2014, and then we sold the company to a public company. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. I don't know if you've read my book, but I started my career writing trading systems in a software company.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

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The reason why, is SMS effectively allows you to opt in and select people out of your address book. One of my friends, the CIO of a large healthcare system, did a study with Verizon of their facility, and found that there were 3 million SMS messages sent in a month. If you think about SMS, it''s proliferated very rapidly.

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