Singapore ? October 13, 2015 ? Cloud Expo Asia (CEA), the region's leading cloud conference for business, will be making a return to Suntec Singapore on 28-29 October 2015. Building on years of achievement and record-breaking numbers of attendees, the award-winning event will introduce new cutting-edge themes around innovation in Asia Pacific and the disruptive Internet of Things, specifically designed to meet the emerging needs of IT departments and help shape the future of business.

 

In its third year of collaboration with the IDA Singapore, CEA will host its research and innovation-driven conference CloudAsia 2015. The case study-led programme, powered by exclusive sponsor Amazon Web Services (AWS), will focus on the latest solutions in cloud computing, bringing together a dynamic ecosystem of operators, businesses and industry thought-leaders.

 

Welcoming thousands of IT professionals, users and analysts from around the globe, CEA delegates can take away valuable insights from a world-class conference, incorporating keynote addresses, panel discussions and roundtables. An international line-up of over 200 prestigious speakers includes Alibaba VP Sicheng Yu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor Dr Gul Agha and Barclays Vice President Aman Garg.

 

On the importance of this year's event, Chris Kelly, CEA keynote speaker and Dell (APJ) Executive Director, commented: ?As more organisations in Asia Pacific better understand the value of cloud, the industry is moving into the next phase of adoption, where we will see a growing demand for innovative deployment models [and] emerging technologies to address unique business challenges and application needs, especially for web tech, hosting companies, telecommunications service providers, oil and gas, and research.?

 

Industry-leading suppliers such as blue chip giants Amazon Web Services, CenturyLink, Dell, Dimension Data, HP, Huawei and Softlayer, will be showcasing their latest solutions and vision on the future of cloud computing. Oracle, having this summer launched an all-encompassing suite of cloud services, will head up the popular cloud management theatre presenting in-depth learnings from industry implementations and real-life case studies.

 

CEA Group Event Director Andy Kiwanuka says, ?2014 was a fantastically successful year for Cloud Expo Asia in Singapore, with a staggering attendance over the two days ? over 9,000. This year will be an amazing showcase of the exceptional innovation and growth that we're seeing in the Asia Pacific marketplace.

 

?The exciting addition of Smart IoT in 2015, alongside our strategy-focused Big Data and Analytics theatre, promises to deliver a compelling seminar stream on the revolutionary technology, aimed at supporting businesses whatever their stage of IoT journey, and helping them transform data into meaningful insight and competitive advantage.?