Recent events have led more people than ever to rely on internet infrastructure across the world. Whether for work, play or essential services such as telemedicine, communications technology has become even more central to our lives during this period. Our centralized network architectures have come under pressure from new peak levels of internet traffic, resulting in many questions on how distributed infrastructure can be used to ensure key services stay up and running for extended periods and how new use cases are enabled.
Join Matt Trifiro, CMO at Vapor IO and John Graham-Cumming, CTO at Cloudflare to discuss the future of the internet, of distributed infrastructure and its impact on society in the long term.
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April 8th, 2020 10:00AM CT/11:00AM ET
John Graham-Cumming is CTO of Cloudflare and is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer, he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany, and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.
He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications.
Matt Trifiro is the chief marketing officer of Vapor IO where he leads the company’s global marketing, branding and communications efforts. He is an expert in edge computing, is co-chair of the State of the Edge Report and Chair of The Linux Foundation’s Open Glossary of Edge Computing. He is a technology industry veteran and a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded or led over a half dozen startup companies. Prior to joining Vapor IO, he was entrepreneur in residence at Xseed Capital and chief marketing officer and senior vice president at Mesosphere. Prior to Mesosphere, Trifiro was chief marketing officer at Heroku, a division of Salesforce, and prior to that he served as senior vice president of marketing for Salesforce Desk.com.