Mathieu Mazerolle is the Product Manager for Cloud at Foundry.  Athera was a trial cloud service platform that made it possible for content creators of all sizes to get access to the production and rendering abilities that are often limited to the big production houses.  At The International Future Computing Summit, Mathieu shared Foundry’s story in the client-to-cloud ecosystem and what the industry can learn from it.

If you are responsible for your organization’s strategy and roadmap in compute, network architecture and telecommunications, immersive technology, or innovative content and applications, you are part of the Client-to-Cloud Revolution. Join TIFCA and help enable what’s next.

Cloud gaming and cloud gaming platforms are all the rage these days, and there was a stellar games panel at the International Future Computing Summit. Speakers included Bill Rehbock; Content Partnerships at Blade Group / Shadow, Jen Maclean; Head, Worldwide Business Development for Small and Mid-sized Studios at Game Tech at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Nick Thomas; Vice-President Commercial Partnerships at Hatch Entertainment, and Kevin Robertson; Head of Business Development at AccelByte.

Some points of discussion included different mindsets of how cloud gaming could and should work, the perception of the industry (is there an industry?) in cloud gaming, what this all means for game developers, and much more.

If you are responsible for your organization’s strategy and roadmap in compute, network architecture and telecommunications, immersive technology, or innovative content and applications, you are part of the Client-to-Cloud Revolution. Join TIFCA and help enable what’s next.

Each year, the International Future Computing Summit runs a Futurists Panel hosted by leading media. This year’s moderator was Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat.

Dean’s panelists included Jen Maclean; Head, Worldwide Business Development for Small and Mid-sized Studios in Game Tech at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Gary Radburn; Director of Virtualization and Commercial VR and AR at Dell, Jeffrey Shih; Lead Product Manager of Artificial Intelligence at Unity Technologies, Bebo White; Department Associate (Emeritus) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, and Bill Rehbock; Content Partnerships for Blade Group / Shadow. Read More

This is the International Future Computing Summit Visionaries Panel featuring Neil Schneider; Executive Director of TIFCA, Dr. Jon Peddie; CEO of Jon Peddie Research, Arvind Kumar; Senior Principal Engineer & Architect for Intel Corporation plus ACT Chair Representative in TIFCA, and Daryl Sartain; Wordlwide Head of XR, Displays, Wireless Ecosystems at Advanced Micro Devices and ITA Chair in TIFCA. Read More

A Visionary Class Speaker at the International Future Computing Summit, Daryl Sartain is Director and Worldwide Head of XR, Displays, and Wireless Ecosystems for the Radeon Technology Group at Advanced Micro Devices. He is also Chair of the Immersive Technology Alliance in TIFCA.

While the other opening presentations focused on vision and the workings of the Client-to-Cloud Revolution, Daryl focused on the experiential considerations and the uniqueness of what different kinds of users need and want and how the whole ecosystem will have a shared responsibility in delivering on those needs in the developing Client-to-Cloud Revolution.

Special thanks to Advanced Micro Devices for also being a Silver Level sponsor for the IFC Summit.

Arvind Kumar is Senior Principal Engineer for Intel Corporation – the Chair company for the Alliance of Computing Technologists in TIFCA. As a Visionary Class Speaker at The International Future Computing Summit, Arvind explained the workings of the Client-to-Cloud Revolution and that its importance goes well beyond empowering devices with cloud computing. He also discusses the write-once, reach-many ecosystem.

TIFCA is also proud to share that Intel was a Platinum Sponsor of the International Future Computing Summit. If you are responsible for your organization’s strategy and roadmap in compute, network architecture and telecommunications, immersive technology, or innovative content and applications, YOU are part of the revolution.  Join TIFCA and work with us to enable what’s next.

Dr. Jon Peddie is CEO of Jon Peddie Research, arguably one of the most influential research firms in the graphics and computing industries. During this opening session at The International Future Computing Summit, Dr. Peddie gave a pointed outlook on where things are heading next and what things could look like in the next generation of computing. TIFCA as an organization deemed Jon’s vision compatible with our efforts in the Client-to-Cloud Revolution which is why his session was promoted to a Visionary Class level.

Featuring a wide assortment of speakers and ecosystem in the Client-to-Cloud Revolution, The International Future Computing Summit was a big success.  Presented by Neil Schneider, Executive Director of The International Future Computing Association, this opening presentation details the client-to-cloud ecosystem and how modern computing is changing.  It also outlines some short term objectives that TIFCA is working on with its membership.

Mark Morrison
Director of Sales for Media, Sports, and Entertainment
Magic Leap

Running November 5-6, 2019 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, The International Future Computing Summit is proud to welcome another industry-leading speaker.

Mark Morrison is Director of Sales for Media, Sports, and Entertainment at Magic Leap. Mark is going to talk about how we are getting closer to merging our digital experiences with our physical reality and ways to enhance the potential of spatial computing for entertainment and enterprise by reducing market segmentation.

Registrations close THIS FRIDAY!