TEC community members register now and receive 25% off your ticket and a free report from GigaOM Pro on cloud and infrastructure. 

Where: San Francisco, CA
When: June 22 & 23, 2011
TEC-Only discount registration: http://structure2011-tec.eventbrite.com/?discount=TEC

This year, we will be looking at the next wave of cloud technology and services. Anyone with a vested interest in cloud computing won’t want to miss this chance to hear about its future from the people who are making it happen. 

Topics covered at Structure 2011 include: 

• A Tale of Two Clouds: Private and Mobile
• Faster, Faster, Faster: The Memory, SSD and Flash Craze
• Cloud Storage: Moving Beyond Backup?
• The Next Frontier: Cloud Databases
• PaaS: Potholes Ahead?
• Dedicated in More Ways Than One: The IaaS Panel
• The Instrument of Cloud Monetization: The API

The schedule is now live at http://event.gigaom.com/structure/schedule/.

The Structure 2011 speaker lineup will feature top executives from leading companies including:

• Werner Vogels of Amazon
• Paul Maritz of VMware
• John Stankey ofAT&T
• Jonathan Heiliger ofFacebook
• Jason Hoffman ofJoyent
• Teresa Lunt of PARC
• Marten Mickos of Eucalyptus Systems
• Simon Crosby of Citrix Systems
• Pradeep Sindhu of Juniper Networks
• Lew Tucker of Cisco
  

See the full speaker list here: http://event.gigaom.com/structure/speakers/.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of new businesses are formed - and nearly as many head to the deadpool.

How to take your business beyond the choppy waters of a startup and into the calmer seas of a multi-million dollar global business? How to became the industry leader, bringing millions of users (and dollars) to your business?

Join us to learn how oDesk overcame common startup challenges to become a multi-million dollar global company. Co-founder Odysseas Tsatalos and CEO Gary Swart will be sharing their insights on growing a business from early-stage startup to more than $16M in earnings each month.

oDesk is the largest and fastest-growing global employment platform where employers can hire, manage, and pay a flexible online workforce.  With more than 1.2 million contractors in 150 countries, oDesk (www.oDesk.com) is the industry leader in remote work.

Date:Thursday, April 28, 2011
Time: 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: SNR Denton,1530 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto

Speakers’ Bios:

Gary Swart, CEO,oDesk

Gary brings to oDesk a passion for helping small businesses succeed and more than 17 years of experience in the enterprise software market. Before oDesk, as the VP of Worldwide Sales for Intellibank, he was responsible for building the sales organization, but Gary's enthusiasm for small businesses was born during his tenure as a Business Unit Executive for IBM's Rational Software Product Group, where he led Small and Medium Business sales for the Americas. Gary came to Rational through its merger with Pure Software, where he held sales, management and leadership positions.
Gary holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland.

Odysseas Tsatalos, Co-founder ,oDesk

Odysseas has more than a decade of experience in designing and managing research and development operations for Internet-based applications. He co-founded Intacct Corporation and, as CTO, oversaw the development of all phases of the Intacct web-based enterprise accounting system. He was also CTO and co-founder of BroadQuest Inc., where he led the transformation from an enterprise software contractor into a B2B infrastructure enabler. Previously, Odysseas was a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center.
Odysseas received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a diploma in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece.