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Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of the venture backed company Telerik , a leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools. He is the co-founder and executive director of AcceleratorHK, Hong Kong's first start-up accelerator. Involved in several start-ups, he was the co-founder...

Last chance for SecTor early bird pricing! Security Education Conference Toronto Oct 7- 9, 2013 MTCC Toronto   Soon the first round of SecTor 2013 speakers and keynotes will be announced, but not before the price goes up. You've got until May 15th to save on this year's premier security education...

I am heading out this week: Vancouver, Toronto, Frankfurt, Geneva. In Geneva, I am speaking on Thursday May 16th starting at 9h00 (Geneva time, 12am PDT, 3am EDT) at the ITU/UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).   The session theme chaired by IFIP IP3 board chair Brenda Aynsley is,...

Robert Deutsche Principal Architect/Systems Engineer — Enterprise Cloud Solutions, SOA, IT Transformation & Data Center Consolidation Bob Deutsche provides business and technical advisory services as well as thought leadership to mid-level and senior-level executives in the Global 50 and...

I got back from board and related meetings in San Francisco and earlier in the year Paris where I spoke at the UNESCO WSIS+10 Review . Next week I leave for Geneva where I am speaking at the ITU/UN WSIS Forum . The week after I leave for Astana in Europe/Asia for the Astana Economic Forum ASTEX 2013...

The International Telecommunication Union is proud to present its Young Innovators Competition 2013 edition , offering young and talented social technopreneurs the opportunity to present their ideas to industry leaders on a global stage at ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand, from 19 -22 November...

Frans van der Reep (1954, LinkedIn, http://twitter.com/fvdr ) is a thought-leader renowned worldwide for his accurate and early forecasts of business and technological trends, valued highly for his ability to unveil hidden assumptions and relate directly to genuine underlying issues. Having witnessed...

There's never been a better time to build for Windows. Attend the Virtual Summit and listen to Steve Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President and Chief Evangelist of Microsoft Developer Platform & Evangelism, talk about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips, partner development...

The Microsoft Research Machine Learning Summit will be streamed live from Paris on April 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT (1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. GMT) . This free online event offers highlights from the Machine Learning Summit, providing keynotes from machine learning experts and enlightening discussions...

Ron McLaren has long-term practical IT industry experience, having worked extensively with the development, introduction and marketing of new technologies, products and techniques since 1966. This has involved the management of technical people in customer-facing, product development and service delivery...

Joanne is the global practice lead for Continuous Delivery at ThoughtWorks, a company that is devoted to the art and science of delivering custom software. Joanne's professional passion is for finding practical ways to implement processes in IT that provide enough control to give visibility and transparency...

Register TODAY to attend the next complimentary ACM Webcast, "Engineering Software as a Service," presented on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at 2 PM ET (1 pm CT/12 noon MT/11 AM PT/6 PM GMT). Join David Patterson, Director of the Parallel Computing Lab (ParLab) at UC-Berkeley (and a former ACM president...

David Alan Grier is the 2013 President of the IEEE Computer Society. He has served the society as its Vice President of Publications, Director of Magazines, and Editor in Chief of the IEEE Annals. He writes on the subject of technology and its social implications. His books include: " When Computers...

Learning. It’s one of those things that we know is good for us, but we can never seem to do it. It’s good for the job that we’re currently in and it’s helpful in building your skill set, which could lead to career advancement. And yet we can’t seem to find the time. In...

Paul Orlando [ about.me/porlando ] runs a lean startup bootcamp called Startups Unplugged [ startupsunplugged.com/bootcamp ] and is also co-founder of AcceleratorHK [ acceleratorhk.com ], a mobile startup accelerator. Previously, he co-founded a startup in New York and worked in telecom in China. He...

We often work with Anthony, Pierre and Mitch, the evangelists from the IT Pro team at Microsoft Canada. They asked us to share this important message with you. The team at Microsoft Canada is focused on ensuring that they help set you up for success by providing the information and tools you need in...

Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in in 90% of schools: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi...

On April 9 th & 10 th , Unity and Microsoft will be hosting a Building Windows Games with Unity event . This event is a free, two-day training being held in Mountain View, California in the United States but will also be live streamed online on Channel 9 . The event is intended to help game builders...

Office 365 Home Premium went on sale worldwide a couple of weeks ago and here are great videos to get you going. Go to each product and choose the Getting Started Videos: Get started with the new Office (Videos)

Register TODAY to attend the next free ACM Webcast, "Internet’s Future Social Implications: Upheaval or 'Trek’s' Promise?", presented on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at 1 PM EDT (12 noon CDT/11 AM MDT/10 AM PDT/5 PM UTC), part of the ACM Learning Webinar series. The talk will be followed by a live...

I just received this report from Dave O’Leary on his experiences with the Microsoft Surface Pro: “My early experience with my Microsoft Surface “Laplet” has been positive. I now have to pack only one tool when traveling and that tool takes up much less space than my old laptop and tablet combination...

Watch the video on the ACM Queue website, and watch for more Queue Portrait videos in the future! ACM Queue, the popular website for practitioners, is continuing its series of video interviews of today's leading computing innovators who are also members of ACM, with a spotlight on a young security researcher...

Speaker, author, jazz musician, software development manager http://www.linkedin.com/in/2xbass Adrian Cho is well-qualified to draw parallels between the worlds of business and the arts. His diverse career in business includes extended stints in consulting, research and development, finance, and intellectual...

Murray Goldberg was a tenured faculty member in the department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, when he left to become the president and founder of WebCT, a company which grew to be the world's leading learning management system (LMS), serving 14 million students in 80 countries...

The Shanghai Jiao Tong Rankings of the world’s top universities is recognized and influential. You can get rankings of the World’s Top 500 Universities; Top 200 in domains such as science, engineering, medicine; Top 200 is specialities such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science and economics...