7000+
Participants
250+
Speakers
200+
Exhibitors
72
Countries
5
Parties
1
Festival
CloudFest 2020 is the second in a three-year theme arc. We began with hyperscale enablement: go big or go home! Now we will explore how AI helps you maximize the potential that hypervisor partnership offers. The Intelligent Cloud allows AI to manage and distribute complex workloads, with smart tools that make interoperability and scale more cost-effective and efficient. It’s a tech paradigm that is coming up quickly, and CloudFest will help pave the way so you can be in the driver’s seat. CloudFest will explore how the cloud industry is preparing for the AI evolution in terms of technology, oversight, economics, and morality.
The Intelligent Cloud: An examination of AI in the Cloud ecosystem
The overall cloud market is $250b and growing at 32% annually. AI is still a relatively small part of this, comprising $202.5 million in 2015—but forecast to reach $11.1 billion by 2024. It’s important to remember that humans have been taking swings at AI for over 60 years, and other technological building blocks had to be arranged—each a milestone in its own right—in order to get us to where we are today, and where we’re poised to reach tomorrow. The amount of processing power and the speed of data throughput required for high-performance artificial intelligence place functional AI right in the Cloud’s wheelhouse.
Hyperscalers are positioned to be the creators of AI products; with AWS, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud as the top four. Service providers can leverage their deep relationships with existing cloud-service clients to provide bespoke AI solutions across the business spectrum. The economic effect is then amplified out into the world by orders of magnitude as costs drop, productivity rises, and data is processed more effectively to surface game-changing insights. Getting ahead of the curve on AI constitutes a prime opportunity to deliver maximum change for your customers.
Theme Tracks
Cybersecurity
AI Driven Uptime
Sales and Marketing
AI Reselling
AI and The Human Brain
Web-Pros in the Cloud: Smart Creativity at Scale
A great website isn’t a product—it’s a service. A website needs continuous upkeep for it to remain compelling, relevant, and secure: that’s your job as a CSP or CSV, and you’ve built a successful business out of it. So as you win more clients, focusing on design excellence grows further out of reach.
Meanwhile, Web Professionals specialize in design and creativity, and do not want to dip their toes too deep into the waters of customer retention and growth analytics. Together you become a powerful force, but first you must meet each other. This year, CloudFest is making that happen by inviting top Web Professionals to the festival.
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Web-Pros
Hackathon
The CloudFest Experience
Bootcamps
Get hands-on as product experts help you master the latest tools and techniques. Walk in as a newbie, walk out with newfound confidence.
Conference Themes
This year’s theme is The Intelligent Cloud. With an eye on practical ideas and solutions, we’re exploring how AI shapes the cloud, and how the cloud shapes AI. We’re also promoting Web Pros in the Cloud, bringing creators of web experiences together with hosting and service providers to form win-win relationships. If you have a hand in your clients’ hosting decisions, you have to be here.
Exhibition
The who’s-who of the Cloud, all in one place. Let the world come to you as you discover the latest innovations. CloudFest has become the hotspot for product and service launches, so keep your eyes open.
Hackathon
Open-source experts from throughout the Cloud gather to solve real-world problems facing the industry. In just a few days, we go from identifying the problem to launching a usable solution.
Main Stages
Our keynote stages feature industry rock stars and actual rock stars. Innovators from within the industry as well as major creative voices from around the world will open your mind to a smarter tech future.
Night Events
When the sun goes down, we turn it up! Hard-rocking bands and major celebrity guests come together to deliver some amazing shows. CloudFest’s concert series could be their own event. We turn an amusement park—complete with luxury hotels—into our playground. Themed events, live DJs, and top-notch food and drink have made CloudFest parties legendary.
Side Events
From Morning Fitness to the Night Talk, with karaoke, Women in Tech, and the CXO Dinner in between, there’s always something going on. Keep your ear to the ground for late additions to the Side Event schedule.
