Speaker
Peter Coffee
Description
"Cloud Computing: More than a Virtual Stack"
Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research, salesforce.com
Peter Coffee, former Technology Editor of enterprise IT journals PC Week and eWEEK, works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com: the salesforce.com Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). He has 26 years' experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies and practices as a developer, consultant, educator, and internationally published author. He has provided expert analysis of IT industry issues and events including Internet security, the Microsoft antitrust case and the HP/Compaq acquisition for major news publications and broadcast media; he has been a keynote speaker, workshop leader, moderator or presenter at IT events throughout the U.S. as well as in England, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China, Singapore, India and Australia.
Peter was previously the first manager of PC planning at The Aerospace Corporation, and before that was a Senior Engineer in arctic project management and chemical facility construction for several divisions of Exxon Corporation. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, and has been a faculty member at Pepperdine and also at UCLA (computer science) and Chapman College (business analytics). He is the author of two books, How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs.