By Maria Esteves – June 18, 2016
The 18th International Cloud Expo New York (CloudExpoNY 2016) commenced June 7-9, at Javits Center, NYC. Produced by SYS-CON Media, annually presents the world’s most innovative cloud technologies, IoT (Internet of Things), Big Data, Analytics, Web RTC (Web Real-Time Communication) and DevOps (Development and Operations); along with keynote presentations; conference sessions; panel discussions; workshops; exhibitors show floor; special events and opening night reception.

This year’s CloudExpoNY included Cloud Container and Microservice technologies to support DevOps environment; exhibitors show floor; opening keynote presentation Introduction to Blockchain with speaker Andrew Keys, CEO, ConsenSys Enterprise; conference sessions Creating Horizontal IoT Marketplaces and Democratizing Apps and Services with Esmeralda Swartz, VP, Marketing Enterprise and Cloud, Ericcson; Configuring Database as a Service with SoftLayer and Bluemix with speaker Ryan Tiffany, sales engineer, SoftLayer, an IBM company; and the launch session of Zero to Cloud in 60 Minutes (Accelerite CloudSense) with speaker Nara Rajagopalan, CEO, Accelerite.

The first day of the conference began with a memoriam tribute video honoring the legacy of former Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan (1957-2016) presented by Roger Strukhoff, @CloudExpoNY, @ThingsExpo, SYS-Con Media editor for Cloud Computing, Big Data, and IoT journals.

CloudExpoNY 2016 Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff
@CloudExpo and @ThingsExpo.

CloudExpoNY 2016 Opening Keynote Speaker Andrew
Keys, co-founder, ConsenSys Enterprise, Introduction
to Blockchain.

CloudExpoNY 2016 Conference Session, speaker Esmeralda
Swartz, VP, Marketing Enterprise and Cloud, Ericcson, Creating
Horizontal IoT Marketplaces and Democratizing Apps and Services.

CloudExpoNY 2016 Conference Session, speaker Ryan
Tiffany, sales engineer, SoftLayer, Configuring Database
as a Service with SoftLayer and Bluemix.

CloudExpoNY 2016 Launch Session, speaker Nara
Rajagopalan, CEO, Accelerite, Zero to Cloud in 60 Minutes.