About Us

From the first time you see a social post about Cloud Wars Expo through to registering for the event and joining us in San Francisco, our mission is to reset your expectations.  What you expect from a physical event post pandemic, what you expect from an education & conference program, what you expect on the “expo floor” at Moscone Center and more!  The world has changed and so has business, and the beauty of launching this event in 2022 is we do not have legacy expectations like other events—we are new, we are different, and we are not bound by old school tradeshow stuff.

So, we have designed four guiding principles for the event—so that everything we do revolves around your ability to reimagine, optimize, accelerate and dazzle—we put some context around this below:

We call them the growth accelerators—those people that are defining the future office of the CXO.  They are not tethered by legacy, but they do respect it and are looking for new ways to grow off the foundation their business has built.    But with this comes some drama, technical debt and the need to ”sell” new ideas to established boards and investors that have gotten very used of making money the way they have always made money.

This is where Cloud Wars Expo enters the picture, with 40+ hours of education programming, a CXO lounge on the experience floor, in-depth keynotes from people recreating the world in front of our eyes and more.  Yeah, there are a whole lotta reasons why growth accelerators want to be a part of this event, and we are so thrilled to create this current environment for them.

It is about time!

The traditional conference program at an expo is tired, boring, mostly irrelevant—and that was the state of the art before the pandemic! Our attention spans have plummeted and our parallel desire for insights and relevance has proportionately soared—today we expect more. We demand more. And we deserve more. Instead of the old model of a speaker droning on for 60 minutes (and in these crazy times, what the heck do we devote 60 whole uninterrupted minutes to??), today we want the deep insights and key points in 20 minutes so we can digest and pursue related thoughtful discussions that drive us toward powerful ideas and decisions.

And that new model is exactly what the Cloud Wars Academy will deliver across 3 days of programming. Day one will feature a 101 and 201 set of courses that last 120 minutes each and are organized into “sessions” within the 2-hour time blocks, featuring expert panels, workshops and roundtables at varying levels of expertise per the time of day and topic.  Day two is Cloud Tech day, with a series of tracks featuring 3-hours of programming with individual sessions lasting 25 minutes each.  Followed by Day three where the same 25-minute sessions approach is taken, but here each track is focused on a different vertical Industry Cloud.  Day one has its own registration as a preconference option, while Days two and three are included in the conference & expo pass where attendees can mix and match across any of the tracks and sessions during the day!

Gone are the boring, snoring, and unrewarding tech conference sessions…. Welcome to a new era of accelerating growth decisions to optimize your digital future with Cloud Wars Academy.