State of Cloud 2019: Panel Discussion

Which cloud service is right for my company? What are the most common cloud mistakes, and how can I avoid them?

Cloud technology is an ever-increasing factor in the landscape of the tech world. Whether you’re a developer building on the cloud, a CEO trying to decide where and how to store and manage your data, or just a tech lover who wants to stay in the know on top trends and technologies, get the answers to common (and some not-so-common) cloud questions from top experts at Microsoft’s Azure, Corestack, and more cloud leaders at the 3rd annual Bellevue Tech Expo. Register now to get your tickets, and stay tuned for more updates!

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Meet the Panelists:

Vanessa Alvarez

Vanessa Alvarez is a technology professional, with over 15 years’ experience in emerging technologies spanning enterprise datacenter infrastructure and cloud computing. She spent time at several startups in Silicon Valley, as well as AWS. She’s currently a Sr Product Marketing Manager on the Azure Infrastructure team at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.

Alvarez holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Rhode Island College and is fluent in Spanish. She is also the co-founder of NEXME, Inc, a real estate marketplace platform. She can be found on Twitter @vanessalvarez1

Jeff Barr

Jeff joined Amazon in 2002, became the company’s first web services evangelist in 2003, founded the AWS News Blog in 2004, and now serves as the AWS’s Chief Evangelist. He has written over 3000 posts for the blog, maintains an active social media presence, and also records weekly AWS update videos.
Jeff holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Communication and Digital Media. Earlier in his career Jeff held positions at Microsoft,
KnowNow, eByz, and Akopia, and was a co-founder of Visix Software.

In addition to writing over 1.5 million words for the AWS Blog, Jeff wrote Host Your
Website in the Cloud in 2010, and has served as technical reviewer for four books on web
services. Jeff can be found on Twitter @jeffbarr

Ezhilarasan Natarajan

Ezhilarasan Natarajan aka Ez (pronounced “easy”) is the CEO of Corestack, an entrepreneur, and an accomplished technology executive with 20+ years of experience in the industry. Ez has been part of building multiple hyper scale cloud platforms in the last decade, including one of the leading hospitality SaaS management platform for the travel world, and has been integral part of building Azure from its infancy stages. Ez had the vision to build a Multi Cloud Governance Platform that could accelerate Enterprises adoption of Cloud technologies, and his deep understanding of enterprise needs hyper-scale cloud systems were instrumental in building CoreStack as a Cloud Governance Platform.

Ez has worked for Nokia Networks, Texas Instruments, JDA, Mindtree and Capgemini group prior to his Entrepreneurship journey. Mr. Natarajan earned his Bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering from India and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from US.

Joe Beda

Joe Beda is a Principal Engineer at VMware. Joe arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a leader
in the cloud native movement and a company that he co-founded. Previously, at Google, Joe co-created
Google Compute Engine and filed the first ever Kubernetes project commit. He remains a
frequent contributor to the open source community.

Todd Bishop – Moderator

Todd Bishop is the co-founder of Geekwire, and brings over 20 years of journalism experience to the panel.