OnDemand 2011 is where the top Internet companies disrupting the enterprise square off with the incumbent players pioneering cloud computing and SaaS. This two-and-a-half day executive event features high-level debates on how the Internet is disrupting how companies—from small businesses to large enterprises—create, store, distribute, analyze, and take advantage of their mission-critical data. OnDemand also showcases the top entrepreneurial CEOs who are revolutionizing the way the enterprise is radicalized by the Internet.
Sponsored by HP Startup Central
The SaaS and Cloud sectors represent one of the hottest startup markets on the planet. The best and brightest VCs focusing on this sector will talk about which on-demand sectors are hot, and how trends in social networking, mobile, and the cloud are still driving new company formations.
Now that the alwayson-on generation is joining the corporate ranks, workers are now demanding that enterprise applications and services look-and-feel more like the consumer social media sites they grew up with. New startups are filling this need with a vengeance.
Fireside Chat with Léo Apotheker, CEO, HP
Large technology companies are hoarding historic levels of cash, and are hungry to snap up SaaS and Cloud startups showing traction and pioneering new, cutting edge solutions. This session takes a holistic view of the best practices in buying and selling a on-demand company in 2011.
As consumers and enterprises upload their data into the cloud at stratospheric rates, data security has become increasingly challenging, creating huge revenue opportunities for the companies that can me us feel more secure.
This distinguished panel will dissect how the VC rules for backing new companies selling into the business computing space, and the profile of the OnDemand entrepreneur are different from those in the consumer Internet space. Host: Sam Angus, Partner, Corporate Group, Fenwick & West
Several companies are vying to go beyond offering a more than just a single web service, and position their companies to create a broader, more open platform that other applications can run on. Learn how these entrepreneurs are working to make the “platform-as-a-service” happen.
Most big enterprise software companies are faced with the task of balancing their existing franchises against the trend towards cloud services. Executives from the best and brightest big technology companies debate how to manage this transition, while staying competitive.
One of the most robust new areas of startup opportunity is in the automation of marketing and sales. These top-tier CEOs will debate and dissect the best way to provide customers a competitive advantage in this burgeoning new service area.
This panel of top Seed Capitalists will review and comment upon the presentations provided by a select group of AlwaysOn's Top 15 OnDemand Companies to Watch.
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