Senior VP Of Yankee Group Emerging Markets Joins Growing List Of Speakers At The Cloud Computing Wor

Online, August 2, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Mr Swain is Senior Vice President in Yankee Group's Network Research group, and leads the Emerging Markets team which contributes research and consulting deliverables related to both fixed and wireless telecommunications markets. Based in Bogota, Columbia, he maintains continuous contact with various global players to produce his analysis, demand modelling, forecasting and market reports.

His expertise includes mobile telecommunications operations, M&A due diligence, strategic planning and organisation design, alliance management, financial information for management and costing statistics modelling.

Mr Swain will be taking the first topic of the day at the forum, giving an overview of the current cloud computing market place in Latin America. The session will also divulge how cloud computing will impact Brazilian use of technology and how cloud technologies will allow companies to leapfrog their counterparts in the US.

The event will also be bilingual, catering for those that speak English or Portuguese individually. In light of this our website has been translated into Portuguese and can be accessed at www.cloudcomputinglive.com/latin-america/pt or through the English website.

Other speakers include:

- Andre Brasil, Manager for South America, Affinia
- Andre De Souza Doro, Head of IT, Electrolux
- Marcelo Schuch Pereira, Gerente de TI, Grupo Sabemi
- Joao Rufina de Sales, Chefe de Assesoria TI, Exercito Brasileiro
- Jamir Teodoro Lopes, CIO, CEMIG
- Aldo Navarro Zuquini, CIO, Grupo guia Branca
- Eduardo Neger, Chief Executive Officer, Abranet - Brazilian Internet Association
- Pedro Augusto de Oliveira, IT Manager, AngloGold Ashanti
- Bruni Arrial, ICT Consultant, Frost & Sullivan
- Diego Neufert, Head of IT Projects and Systems, ALL - Amrica Latina Logstica
- Nelson Sany Wortsman, Director of Infrastructure and Digital Convergence, Brasscom

The Cloud Computing World Forum Latin America, taking place on the 28th September in Sao Paulo, will also feature a free-to-attend exhibition, to register your place or enquire about speaking or sponsorship opportunities please visit the website or call the team on +44 (0)845 519 1230.

This event follows on from the success of the 3rd Cloud Computing World Forum which took place at the end of June at Olympia, London and was attended by over 3,000 delegates, making it Europe's largest Cloud Computing and SaaS-based event. Other locations the Cloud Computing Series will stop at include India, Hong Kong, Dubai and New York.

For information on any of these events please visit http://www.cloudcomputinglive.com