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Joe Weinman Strategic and Business Development VP, AT&T
Joe Weinman leads global portfolio strategy and business development for AT&T, the world's largest telecommunications and information technology firm. A 28-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development.
He has a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.
His current focus is on the overall product portfolio, business strategy, partner ecosystem, and emerging technologies to support AT&T's business customers, which range from small offices to the largest global enterprises, which provide roughly half of the US$124.0 billion in revenues for the "new" AT&T, comprising SBC, BellSouth, Cingular, and other acquired entities. Mr. Weinman helps assess, create, and solution strategic emerging technologies and next generation business models, such as high definition immersive video conferencing, utility/grid/cloud computing, unified communications and collaboration, web services, application services, IP Video, Display over IP, Radio Frequency Identification / Electronic Product Codes, advanced optical networking, storage and information lifecycle management, intelligent networking, next generation management, and application-aware networking, into AT&T's offer portfolio; develop alliances; and evaluate firms for possible M&A or equity investments.
Mr. Weinman has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in areas such as line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, and telecommunications, and has many more pending in areas such as software technology, telecommunications consumer premises equipment, network services, wireless devices, web browsers, graphics compression, distributed storage architectures, and Internet search engine algorithms. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and the AT&T Distinguished Speaker Award.
He is currently or has been a member of a well known Silicon Valley Venture Capital Technology Advisory Board, the IBM Advanced eBusiness Council, the Veritas (now Symantec) Utility Computing Advisory Board, the Hitachi Technology Advisory Council, the EMC Customer Advisory Council, the Technology Manager's Forum Corporate Advisory Board, where he is also a Best Practice Awards judge, and the Technology Advisory Board of a Silicon Valley start-up. He is a past Chairman of the joint National Science Foundation / Industry Advisory Board of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. He is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He also serves on the program planning committees of a number of cloud computing conferences.
