Cliff Grossner

IHS Markit

Senior Research Director

Cliff Grossner, Senior Research Director, Data Center, Cloud, and SDN Technology, IHS Markit, has more than 25 years of telecommunications industry experience covering market analysis, corporate and product strategy, product management and marketing, and scientific research. A recognized thought leader, Dr. Grossner is also a frequent expert judge for industry and technology innovation awards and an invited speaker at industry conferences and is frequently quoted in technical publications such as Light Reading, Fierce Telecom, eWeek, Network Computing, and Lightwave Online. He joined the company in December 2014, when IHS Markit acquired Infonetics Research where he led the firm’s data center networking, cloud, and SDN research coverage. During his tenure at Infonetics, Dr. Grossner launched the SDN practice. Previously, he held a range of senior positions in the information and communications technology industries including heading strategic marketing for Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise network business unit, tenures at Bell Labs, Sesame Networks, NewStep Networks, and Nortel. He has also worked as a research scientist and faculty lecturer at McGill and Concordia universities, specializing in artificial intelligence, distributed computing, and computer architecture. Dr. Grossner holds multiple patents in computer networking, networking embedded security and telecommunications applications. Dr. Grossner earned his Master of Science in Computer Science at Concordia University, and his Doctor of Philosophy at McGill University, both in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Sessions With Cliff Grossner

Wednesday, 13 March

09:00am - 10:00am (CST) / -
Life on the Edge: The Next Computing Revolution

Panel Technology/Innovation

Edge computing enables computation to be performed on distributed devices, moving computing power closer to the user. Combined with artificial intelligence techniques and machine learning, the new paradigm is unleashing a new set of applications that is limited only by the imagination. How will the cloud – along with distributing compute to the telco and enterprise edge – create new disruptions in business and industrial processes? How quickly are these being deployed, and where? How will these together enable digitized businesses?
- Speakers:
- Cliff Grossner
- Sujit Kumar
- Casey Coleman
- Bill Vass
02:00pm - 05:50pm (CST) / -
Lyceum Labs: Afternoon Labs
- How Cloud Delivered AI- and ML-Based Services Are Set to Disrupt the Energy Sector. 03:00pm - 03:50pm (CST)/ -
  - Speakers:
  - Cliff Grossner

Cliff Grossner

IHS Markit

Sessions With Cliff Grossner

Wednesday, 13 March

09:00am - 10:00am (CST) / -

Life on the Edge: The Next Computing Revolution

02:00pm - 05:50pm (CST) / -

Lyceum Labs: Afternoon Labs

How Cloud Delivered AI- and ML-Based Services Are Set to Disrupt the Energy Sector. 03:00pm - 03:50pm (CST)/ -