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title: "Speaking at Huddle FutureGov event tomorrow: Government, Cloud, Public, Private"
date: 2011-10-11T16:43:55Z
modified: 2011-10-11T16:43:55Z
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  - Cloud Computing
timestamp: 2011-10-11T16:43:55Z
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  - Cloud Computing
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So I am speaking at an event tomorrow being run by [Huddle](http://www.huddle.com/) and [FutureGov](http://wearefuturegov.com/). Huddle is a UK software company trying to bust the Sharepoint market open, while FutureGov is a social business consulting firm set up by my friend [Dominic Campbell](http://twitter.com/#!/dominiccampbell).

I have been invited to give a view on what the public sector can learn from the private sector about the Cloud. Given the cloud’s current confusion around public, private and hybrid, it seems a reasonable idea to bring me in. I mean to talk about this multi-dimensional matrix, with added confusion in terms… is that a public cloud, or a public sector? Should the public sector only use the private cloud, or is that the wrong way around. I plan to try and make things as clear as I can – which means talking about developers, developers and developers.

The overall agenda looks great – with some really great speakers, notably [Mark O’Neill](http://twitter.com/marxculture), [James Stewart](http://www.ketlai.co.uk/) and [Stuart Lauchlan](http://www.sift.com/about-us/sift-people/stuart-lauchlan) If you haven’t signed up yet I am afraid its [sold out](http://huddlegovconf.eventbrite.com/). But that’s good, right? 😉