Lauren Nelson has spent over a decade focused on cloud technology and has partnered with hundreds of companies on perfecting their cloud strategies. Across verticals, company sizes, and maturity levels, Lauren serves as an advisory, advocate, and confidant to the technology leaders that are shaping the cloud industry. She is widely regarded as a top thought leader in cloud. Lauren's specialties are cloud management, containers, cloud, open source strategy, cloud migration, and portability. Most recently she has shifted roles to lead Forrester’s cloud and operations research.