GigaOM Announces First Annual Net:Work Conference on The Human Cloud

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 12, 2010

GigaOM, a leading business media company, today announced that the first annual GigaOM Net:Work 2010 conference will take place December 9, 2010 in San Francisco. This inaugural event is the only conference to focus on how broadband and mobile technologies are shaping the future of work fundamentally changing the way companies run their businesses and how employees collaborate. Leading speakers include top executives from Cisco, Polycom, Jive Software, Google, LiveOps, NetSuite, Elance, oDesk, and many more.

Technologies like broadband wireless, mobile email, Skype, web videoconferencing, corporate wikis, virtual private networks, cloud computing, and other web-enabled corporate collaboration tools have transformed the way people work impacting not just how, and where, employees spend their days, but altering the entire culture of work and management, said Matthew Ingram, chair of Net:Work and GigaOM editor. Ten years ago, working from an airport, a coffeeshop, or home was unimaginable, both technically and culturally. Today, the human cloud is a 24×7 global workforce powered and connected by cloud, social, and mobile technologies.

Net:Work will take place December 9, 2010 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. The one-day event will gather GigaOM editors and research analysts alongside leading CEOs, CIOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and journalists to debate the technologies impacting enterprise collaboration, HR and recruitment, remote working, operational and office design, training and retention, and other critical aspects to running a business in the networked age. Net:Work speakers and attendees will engage in a lively debate about how technology is rapidly changing the world of enterprise collaboration, and discuss ways companies can harness these innovations to become more productive and profitable.

Top tier speakers include Rebecca Jacoby, CIO of Cisco; Andy Miller, CEO of Polycom; Dave Hersh, Founder of Jive Software; Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management at Google; Maynard Webb, Chairman and CEO of LiveOps; Zach Nelson, President and CEO of NetSuite; Fabio Rosati, president and CEO of Elance; Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk; and many others. Speakers will share case studies and lessons learned, and invite participants to engage in an open dialogue about the most important challenges to creating a modern business infrastructure.

Themes covered at Net:Work will include:

GigaOM Announces First Annual Net:Work Conference on The Human Cloud