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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Professionals with the following expertise are encouraged to attend:

• Domain Name Management
• Marketing and Sales Development
• Product Management
• Business Strategy

CONTACT US

Contact namingevents@verisign.com with any questions.

Join us in Texas at the world-famous San Antonio River Walk. One of the largest cities in America, San Antonio is alive with history, art, food and fun! The culture in this friendly city spans Western Rodeo to the historical Alamo. San Antonio offers many unique experiences that cannot be imitated anywhere else and it is a short trip from almost anywhere in the United States.

Mokara Hotel & Spa
212 West Crocket Street 
San Antonio, TX 78205
United States
Phone: 866-605-1212

The Mokara Hotel & Spa will be the host hotel for this event. Located in the heart of the River Walk, this luxury hotel is San Antonio’s only Forbes Four-Star Hotel and offers top of the line accommodations, dining and a full-service spa on site.

HOTEL INFORMATION

Verisign has reserved a block of rooms at the Mokara Hotel and Spa at a deeply discounted rate of $209*. Please reserve you room by calling Omni Reservations at 1-800-785-1400 and referring to the group and meeting name, Verisign Registrar Day. The room reservation deadline for this room block is Wednesday, September 12, 2012.
* Advertised rate is exclusive of appropriate state and local taxes, fees and assessments.

JEFF KAPLAN

Founder of THINKstrategies & Cloud Computing Expert

Kaplan has over twenty-five years of experience and recognized expertise in IT/network management, SaaS, managed services, cloud computing, telecommunications and outsourcing trends. He helped to launch IDC's Communications Industry Research (CIR) program in 1983; Dataquest's Worldwide Services Research program in 1990; and Meta Group's Benchmarking program in 1995. He then went on to have successful 'real-world' experiences at INS and InterOPS Management Solutions.

Kaplan founded THINKstrategies in 2001 to address the unprecedented IT management and sourcing issues facing enterprise organizations, solutions providers and venture capital firms as the technology industry shifts from a product-centric to a services-driven business model.

In 2006, Kaplan founded the SaaS Showplace and Managed Services Showplace online directories and best practice resource centers which have now been merged into a new Cloud Computing Showplace, the largest vendor-independent listing of solutions and insights in the rapidly growing 'on-demand' services marketplace.

Kaplan is also a senior advisor to Triple-Tree, LLC and a member of Pacific Crest Securities' Mosaic Expert Network. He has served as the chairman of the CloudWorld and Cloud Futures conference. He also serves as a member of the SaaScon Advisory Board and On-Demand Conference steering committee of the SIIA; and the chairman of the SaaS/cloud computing/managed services track of NetworkWorld's IT Roadmap and Interops. He has also served as a member of the AMR Research Board of Directors.

He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributing columnist for BusinessWeek Online, Mass High Tech Journal, Financial Times of London, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, Datamation, eCommerce Times, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and Web Host Industry Review on topics including managed services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud computing, outsourcing strategies; network and systems operations, service level management (SLM); and IT ROI and TCO calculations. Kaplan is also a contributor to the Seeking Alpha portal of stock market opinion and analysis from blogs, money managers and investment newsletters, and the Internet Evolution blog.