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An Intimate Gathering for the Leaders in Edge Computing

January

24

-

26

,

2018

The edge is upon us. The edge is real. Join us.

Setting the Course for the Future of Edge

Join us for three exceptional days of powerhouse brainstorming and high-impact networking with an intimate group of edge computing’s most visionary builders, influencers and ecosystem partners—including you.

Together we will shape the future of edge computing. Discuss your requirements. Learn what others are doing. Map out a strategy and meet your future partners.

Bringing the Edge to Aspen

Earth's perfect location for combining work and play. A world-class destination for skiing and snow-boarding, Aspen is also the place where great minds meet.

Work hard. Play hard.

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Bringing the Edge to Aspen

Join us in Earth's perfect location to combine work and play. A world-class destination for skiing and snow-boarding, Aspen is also the place where great minds meet. We'll convene each morning at Edgecon HQ, a luxury cabin we've converted into an event space, walking distance from the slopes. We'll have presentations, roundtable discussions, and networking through lunch.

In the afternoons, we'll hit the slopes with skis and snowboards, or you can do your own thing.

We'll meet up again in the evenings for cocktails and dinner.

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Bringing the Edge to Aspen

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CO

Join us in Earth's perfect location to combine work and play. A world-class destination for skiing and snow-boarding, Aspen is also the place where great minds meet.

We'll convene each morning at Edgecon HQ, a luxury cabin we've converted into an event space, walking distance from the slopes. We'll have presentations, roundtable discussions, and networking through lunch.

In the afternoons, we'll hit the slopes with skis and snowboards, or you can do your own thing.

We'll meet up again in the evenings for cocktails and dinner.

A Few of Our Participants

Cole Crawford

CEO and Founder, Vapor IO

Cole is one of the leading thinkers in edge computing today. With 20+ years of data center experience, and numerous patents for edge technologies, Cole is a sought out speaker and instigator, and is the founder of Edgecon.

Jim Young

COO, Crown Castle

Jim is part of the executive team at Crown Castle, the nation's largest provider of shared wireless infrastructure. He will share his company's vision for deploying edge compute across Crown's portfolio of more than 40,000 cell towers and 60,000 route miles of fiber.

Ihab Tarazi

Entrepreneur in Residence, Sutter Hill Ventures

Ihab was most recently the CTO of Equinix, the world's largest IBX data center & colocation provider. He is now EIR at Sutter Hill Ventures and will share his expertise in core and edge data centers.

Yuval Bachar

Principal Engineer, Data Center Architecture at Linkedin

Yuval is leading LinkedIn's edge computing efforts and will explain his use case for edge computing. He is also President and Chairman of the Board at Open19 Foundation, which has as one of its goals to make edge data center deployments easier.

Don Duet

President & COO, Vapor IO

As the former head of global technology at Goldman Sachs, Don is using his extensive operational and management experience solve some of the largest computing challenges on the edge.

Paul Mockaptris

Director and Chief Scientist at Threatstop

Best known as the creator of the Domain Name System (DNS), Mr Mockapetris also wrote the first implementation of SMTP, the Internet’s mail protocol. He was chair of an ICANN Strategic Panel and is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame. He will share his expertise for scaling the internet for edge and IoT.

And... Our Very Special Guest

Bo Bridges is a world renowned advertising and fine art photographer whose passion for adventure drives the dynamic imagery he produces.

The Lineup

If you are here, you are the lineup

January 24

You'll arrive Aspen in the afternoon.

After settling into your accommodations, meet us for a 5PM happy hour and an then head to a group dinner.

January 25

The day starts at 8AM for a group breakfast, then proceed into a half-day of high-impact keynotes, roundtable discussions and networking.

After lunch, we'll hit the slopes for skiing and snow boarding (or, you can do your own thing).

January 26

We again start at 8AM, then proceed into more keynotes, followed by lightning talks and breakout sessions.

We'll finish the conference at lunch—some of us will head to the slopes and others will get an early start home.

The Line Up

If you are here, you are the line up.

Wednesday January 22, 2018

Arrival, Registration, Networking, and Dinner

5:00pm –

Registration and Networking

Location: TBD

6:00pm–

Group Dinner

Location: TBD

Thursday January 23, 2018

Framing the opportunities and identifying the challenges

8:00am –

Breakfast

Location: Edgecon HQ

8:30am –

Opening Keynote

Ihab Tarazi, EIR Summit Ventures, former CTO Equinix

9:30am –

Lightning Talks & Roundtable Discussions

Use cases, reference architectures, business models

12:00pm –

Lunch

Catered lunch

1:00pm –

Play

Hit the slopes or do your own thing.

6:00pm –

Cocktails, Networking and Dinner

Location: TBD

Friday January 24, 2018

Tackling the challenges and next steps

8:00am –

Breakfast

Location: Edgecon HQ

8:30am –

Day 2 Keynote

Surprise Guest

9:30am –

Breakout Sessions

TBD

11:00am –

Guided Discussion: Next Steps

Group planning

12:00pm –

Lunch & Closing Remarks

Cole Crawford & Jim Brown

1:00pm –

Play or Depart

Hit the slopes, do your own thing or get a jump on travel home.

Because of who you are and who you represent, Edgecon is on us.

Just grab your flights and hotel (or tell us you want to stay in our cabin), and then everything else—food, meals, lift tickets—is on us.

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Travel and Accommodations

With an airport three miles from town, Aspen is easy to get to.

Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (ASE) has regularly scheduled flights by United, Delta and American.

Edgecon participants should plan to arrive in time for dinner on January 24, 2018 and depart the afternoon of January 26, 2018.

Guests may book their own hotels or we also have a limited number of beds and rooms in our luxury cabin where we will assemble each day. If that's more your style, just let us know your preference.

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-Hunter S Thompson, Journalist, Author (and former resident of Aspen)

Don't miss this exclusive event. It will be the talk of 2018.