Speakers
Cliff Grossner, Ph.D
Chief Innovation Officer,
Open Compute Project Foundation
At OCP Cliff leads market intelligence and drives new programs for early-stage companies, setting strategic direction and building awareness of OCP, and establishing new alliances. Before joining OCP, he headed the Cloud and Data Research Practice at Informa Tech, where he researched cloud services, data center compute and networking, and data center infrastructure. He previously held senior positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, and Nortel. He earned his PhD at McGill University (Canada) and holds over 10 patents in networking and telecommunications.