Panel Topic: Cloud Computing & Governance.

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
Panel Description: This panel will address the difficult Governance questions as it relates to Cloud Computing. How does Cloud Computing impact information security? Do current contract models break with Cloud Computing? Where is my data and does it matter? Come to the panel session and learn what you can do to drive Governance change in the Cloud Computing world of today and tomorrow.

Panelists:

Nick Abrahams
Partner at Deacons Law Firm

Nick Abrahams is the Chairman of the Sydney Office and the national leader of Deacons’ Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group. Nick does corporate and commercial work including large scale M&A transactions for a wide cross section of clients.

Nick is a corporate and commercial lawyer who is recognised for his breadth of knowledge and understanding of all aspects of technology, media and telecommunications, he regularly advises on IT/IP issues, outsourcing, regulated telecommunications matters and M&A.

Michelle Dennedy
Chief Governance Officer, Cloud Computing
Sun Microsystems Inc.

Michelle Dennedy is Chief Governance Officer for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Michelle works with Sun's business, technical and legal teams to develop and adhere to the best data governance policies and processes possible for cloud computing to build trust for cloud environments.

Malcolm Crompton
Managing Director, Information Integrity Solutions and former Privacy Commissioner, Australian Federal Government

Malcolm Crompton is Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions P/L, providing high level advice to private sector and public sector organisations on building trust through excellent data governance, particularly in their collection and use of personal information. He is also is the Asia Pacific based Director of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and is Foundation President of iappANZ, the Australia New Zealand affiliate of IAPP and is its foundation President. He was Privacy Commissioner of Australia until 2004.

Peggy Eisenhauer
Privacy & Information Management Services

Peggy Eisenhauer is the founder of Privacy & Information Management Services, and leader of the PIMS global privacy and information management practice. She was identified as one of the Top 25 American Privacy Law Consultants by COMPUTERWORLD in March 2006, October 2007, and December 2008.

Peggy's practice focuses on privacy, security and fair information practices. She works with companies in all industries to develop and implement policies and procedures governing the collection, use and distribution of consumer, customer and employee records. She also works with aggregators of public and non-public data.

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