Ignition Partners is throwing a party! Along with four of our portfolio companies – Chef, Cloudera, Couchbase and Xamarin – we will host a special reception in connection with the Microsoft Build Developers Conference 2015.
The event will be held on Wednesday, May 29th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Press Club, 20 Yerba Buena Lane, San Francisco, near Moscone Center, where Build is taking place.
With two of our three managing partners at Ignition Partners – Frank Artale and John Connors, having deep roots with both Microsoft and the Seattle area, the idea is that along with our 4 portfolio companies, we will bring a little bit of our Seattle heritage to the party and the conference.
We will highlight the two major Seattle-based enterprise Cloud platforms, Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon Web Services. Ignition is working on behalf of its portfolio companies, especially cloud-oriented companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, to build our profile in Seattle with these cloud market makers.
The networking event will offer an opportunity for open access to the cloud decision makers within Microsoft and to create synergies that may lead to new projects. Attendees will be able to network with thought leaders and gain insight into both the Microsoft and Amazon ecosystems.New companies able to offer products and services that work with or on Azure may leverage new and untapped business opportunities, beyond those found in the San Francisco market.
See you at the Press Club, and remember, it’s all about the build!
About the Author/Rachel Chalmers
Rachel Chalmers joined Ignition as a principal in 2013. She sources deals in enterprise and cloud infrastructure, “big data” and the “Internet of Things”; advises portfolio companies and provides counsel on industry trends.
Prior to Ignition, Rachel worked for 13 years at the 451 Group, an independent technology industry analyst firm focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. She was most recently the company’s vice-president of research, overseeing all work on enterprise infrastructure software. Coverage areas included hypervisors, operating systems, provisioning and automation, application development, performance monitoring and lifecycle management. While at 451, Rachel was among the first analysts to cover Opsware, BladeLogic, VMware, Splunk and Cloudera.
Before becoming a technology analyst, Rachel was a journalist in the U.S. and Australia. She helped launch Computer Week, later PC Week Australia, and was the Internet editor for Computerwire, where she wrote about software and open-source technologies.
Rachel received a BA degree in English from the University of Sydney and a master’s in philosophy, with a focus on Anglo-Irish literature, from Trinity College, Dublin. She is an advisor to the Ada Initiative, a non-profit that supports women in open technology and culture.
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