JOE WEINMAN

Keynote Speaker        Advisor        Author        Digital Strategist

Speaking and Writing

He has written 5 books and over 100 articles on information and communications technology, digital strategy, and digital transformation, and co-edited or contributed chapters to additional books from CRC Press, Springer, MIT Press, and Wiley.


He has spoken at nearly 450 events, keynoting audiences of up to 10,000 people on 6 continents, for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, ABB, AT&T, Akamai, (Nokia) Alcatel-Lucent, Autodesk, Avasant, BEA, CenturyLink, Charter / Spectrum Enterprise, Cheetah Mobile, Cisco, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, COLT, Credit Suisse, Dassault Systèmes, (Dell) EMC, EdgeConneX, EDJX, Equinix, the European Union, Flexential, Gartner, Hainan Airlines, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, IDC/IDG, IEEE, Intel, Microsoft, Milken Institute, Mirantis, NASSCOM, (Time Warner Cable) Navisite, Netscout, NTT, (Parallels) Odin, OpenText, Oppenheimer & Co, Pegasystems, Riverbed, SAP, SIBOS, Sonus, Telstra, Telx (Digital Realty), Tencent, the United Nations and UN International Telecommunications Union, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Postal Service, and scores of other companies and organizations.

He has contributed to the print or online content of the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, CIO, InformationWeek, Entrepreneur, the New York Times, Wired, and others; contributed to various academic journals as author and reviewer; and was the editor of the cloud economics column for IEEE Cloud Computing magazine for 5 years.

Advisory and Innovation

He currently serves on the strategic advisory boards of EDJX, Syntropy Networks, Bit Trap, and RampRate, companies at the leading edge of technology focused on areas such as Internet routing, edge computing, cybersecurity, crypto / DAO, and sustainability.


He is also on the advisory boards of Pace University Lubin School of Business, Seton Hall Stillman School of Business, and the Pacific Telecommunications Council, as well as being a member of the IEEE Fog/Edge Industry Advisory Board, and Vice Chair of the IEEE 5G Industry Advisory Board.


He has been awarded 27 U.S. and international patents in areas such cloud computing, wireless and wireline  networking and cellular telephony, distributed storage, media and gaming, Internet Search algorithms, homomorphic encryption, and consumer products.


Citations

He has been cited well over 1,000 times in academic / research papers, print and online trade and popular newspapers and magazines, broadcast and online television, financial analyst and industry analyst reports, TED talks, patents, and U.S. Supreme Court amicus curiae briefs.


This includes Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, Gartner Research Board, Forrester, Oppenheimer and Co., GigaOm, Forbes, InformationWeek, Valor Econômico, and over a hundred other publications.

Main Research and Speaking Topics

Digital Strategy and Transformation

Digital Disciplines explores four generic business strategies that leverage digital technologies such as cloud, edge, big data/AI/ML, IoT, and 5G.  They include:


  • Information Excellence -- using IT to improve customer journeys, processes, resources, and organization structure, through techniques such as digital-physical fusion and omnichannel integration, asset-light business models, and exhaust data monetization.


  • Solution Leadership -- creating platforms and ecosystems via smart, digital, connected products and service delivery elements.  New business models can be created by linking real-time data acquisition at the edge to innovative pricing schemes.


  • Collective Intimacy -- moving beyond anonymous transactions, standard customer relationships, and even traditional customer intimacy to algorithmic collective intimacy for personalized recommendations and upsell/cross-sell.


  • Accelerated Innovation -- moving past traditional closed innovation and skunkworks to open innovation and then cloud-mediated idea markets, innovation networks, contests and challenges, and machine innovation.
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Cloud and Edge Architecture and Economics

Cloudonomics is widely viewed as the seminal book on cloud and edge economics.  It delineates and quantifies the strategic and economic value of cloud computing, clearly explaining the trade-offs between private and public clouds and hyperscale centralized vs. distributed edge architectures.  It details:


  • cost drivers to consider in the private vs. public decision, and why a variety of hybrids can be optimal for most enterprises.


  • how cost, performance, and workload demand characteristics drive the economics of the public-private-hybrid decision.


  • the strategic value of IT in pursuing better processes and resource use, better products, better customer relationships, and better innovation.


  • the importance of provisioning intervals in meeting demand


  • balancing cloud vs. edge based on the response time needs and characteristics of a network-based application


  • understanding the impact of behavioral economics and cognitive biases on "rational" decision-making by enterprises


  • the pitfalls that can arise, ranging from cybersecurity vulnerabilities to misbehaving algorithms


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