Individual Speaker Profile

• Blue Box, an IBM Company - From 2015-09-25 (Current)
• Blue Box Group, Inc. - From 2003-08-01 (Current)

Integrate and contribute back to community upstream as part of a Private Cloud product suite.

• OpenStack
• CloudFoundry

In 2003, technology entrepreneur Jesse Proudman parlayed his passion for the “plumbing” of the Internet into the creation of Blue Box Group, a Seattle-based private cloud hosting company. As Founder and CTO, Proudman has guided the company’s rapid growth and multiple successful funding rounds. He received GeekWire’s 2014 Young Entrepreneur of the Year honor,  and is a member of the 2013 class of Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. A regional semifinalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, Jesse is a well-regarded speaker, writer and contributes as a leader and coder in various open source projects. In mid-2015, Blue Box was acquired by IBM to become a cloud innovation hub in Seattle.

• IBM: The Open Cloud: A Platform of Possibilities
• Operations as a Service: Lessons Learnt Operating Multiple Cloud Foundry on OpenStack Deployments

• IBM- OpenStack for Beginners (Putting OpenStack to Work for your Business)
• IBM- Gazing into the Crystal Ball, market insights and futures with IBM
• Hybrid is the Road to a Fast & Furious OpenStack Public Cloud Future

• Ask the Experts: Are Containers a Threat to OpenStack?
• The Entrepreneur's Challenge: The Realities of Starting an OpenStack Company
• What Your Customers Don’t Know About OpenStack Might Hurt You
• Mad Stacks: Beyond Thunderdome

• The OpenStack Thunderdome
• Ask the Experts: OpenStack as a Service or as a Distribution?
• Great Expectations – The New Enterprise Stack

• Scaling Out OpenStack Clouds in the Enterprise

• English