You are in: Information > About the Organizers

About the Organizers

Event Organizers

Forum Global www.forum-global.com

Forum Global specialises in policy focused conferences and events, providing a platform for discussion and debate on topical issues across a variety of different sectors. These events are organized with clients and partners and aim to progress ideas and actions on important issues, all within a balanced and neutral setting.

Forum Global is the international arm of Forum Europe, which was founded by Giles Merritt, columnist for the International Herald Tribune, and is widely recognized as the leading EU dedicated event provider.

Headed by a team of events specialists with over 19 years of experience, Forum Global works successfully with businesses, institutions and governments alike. Its strategic services can maintain and develop your key policy networks, and also deliver forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

Platinum Sponsor

Park Legal LLC

Park Legal LLC is an Indianapolis-based law firm that assists clients in the areas of data privacy, security and records management. Unlike many other firms, our lawyers have decades of experience as in-house counsel as well as experience as regulators. We also have information security experts working side-by-side with us. As such, we offer a next generational approach to the practice of law by integrating technology into our operations and by providing materials to clients in a format that is business-focused and prioritized to address key risks. We also eliminate the use of multiple associates and generalists who are not fully immersed in this specialized and continuously evolving area of law—and who therefore may overlook critical factors in providing counseling to you, or increase your bills unnecessarily as you pay for their research and training.

We offer end-to-end services to our clients though an affiliated on-line training company and a software company, making it easier, faster and more economical for your organization to ensure a solid level of compliance. In addition, we collaborate with an international law firm with 21 offices across Europe and Asia, as well as external security experts in the U.S. and globally. These resources can be added as needed in a seamless, cost-efficient manner to provide full service to your organization.

Our team of professionals includes Joan Antokol, a former Vice President and Global Head of Data Privacy for the 260 companies in the Novartis Group; Matt Light, a former Indiana Deputy Attorney General who previously assisted in managing the security breach division of the Indiana Attorney General’s Office and who drafted some of Indiana’s security breach laws; and Susan May, an attorney with an international Masters in Business Administration who has over 20 years of in-house counsel experience in privacy and healthcare compliance. Our training and software affiliates include Monica Brown, a former director of training for Eli Lilly, as well as a former global head of enterprise risk management for a Fortune 100 global database hosting company. You may reach us at +317-616-3350.

Knowledge Partners

Access Partnership www.accesspartnership.com

Access Partnership devises government relations, regulatory affairs, and market access solutions for ICT organizations.  The firm’s clients come from a broad range of industry stakeholders including cloud service providers, broadband operators, content providers, hardware manufacturers, governments, industry associations, investment banks and investors.  The firm provides an experienced, multi-disciplinary, multilingual staff to devise and implement strategies for resolving political, regulatory, and technical barriers to trade on five continents, and operates from offices in London, Washington DC, Abu Dhabi, and Brussels.

Cloud4Growth www.cloud4growth.com

Cloud4Growth (C4G) is a business enterprise devoted to the new “Third Cycle of Computing,” which is being driven by the rapid proliferation of mobile devices and the acceleration of internet-connected machines. C4G works with its clients to help them harness the potential of cloud-enabled technology solutions—and especially the “big data” that is facilitated by the cloud—to address today’s most pressing business challenges and societal needs. The company is focused on leveraging the highly scalable and efficient resources of cloud architecture toward maximizing opportunities associated with rapidly growing economies and populations across the U.S. and abroad.

Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies www.c-pet.org

C-PET, the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, is a nonpartisan Washington, DC, think tank focused on innovation and the long-term policy implications of emerging technologies. As part of its program of events, C-PET has hosted conferences and roundtables addressing the future of the Internet – including the Internet of Things, cloud, privacy, and the Government 2.0 and Business 2.0 impacts of social media.

Grayling www.grayling.com

Grayling is the second largest independent Public Relations, Public Affairs, Investor Relations and Events consultancy in the world. Our vibrant communications network comprising 70 offices in 40 countries works seamlessly in the US, Western and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, the Middle East and Asia Pacific to create tailored and effective programmes which deliver on our promises to clients.

Media Partners

BigData Startups www.bigdata-startups.com

BigData-Startups is the online big data knowledge platform, which aims to become the central point of big data on the web. BigData-Startups.com is a platform with trends, best practices, information, open source tools and big data startups. The objective is to help organisations develop a big data strategy and to find the right big data technology vendor for that strategy.

CloudCow cloudcow.com

CloudCow is an online publication dedicated to the next generation data center environment.

CloudCow is a comprehensive resource for cloud computing news, analysis and information.  The online publication provides IT professionals and executives with access to the latest information needed to make cloud computing and IT business decisions within their respective organizations.

Learn who the key players are in the industry, which products stand out above the rest, how the various technologies work, and how cloud computing is being used today in real-world environments.  Hear from industry experts and executives, and access the latest news, articles, tips, white papers and Webinars covering all aspects of cloud computing.  And get free access to CloudCow Hoofer, a comprehensive cloud computing database of information.  Find out if cloud computing and virtualization technology is appropriate for your environment.