Jennifer Pigg Clark

Principal Analyst at Heavy Reading

Speaker

Jennifer Pigg Clark leads the research into Cloud Infrastructure & Edge Computing for Heavy Reading. She provides insight cloud based network infrastructure, examining the challenges and opportunities facing network operators as they shift from physical to virtual infrastructure. She examines the products and technologies that will meet the demands of mobile networking and cloud computing. These technologies include Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), OpenStack, open source, container networking, and edge computing and the impact of distributed architectures on equipment design and management systems
Prior to Heavy Reading, Jennifer was the founder and General Manager of Battle Green Research, a Lexington, MA based market research and consulting firm. Jennifer started her industry research career with the Yankee Group, where she held the title of Sr. Vice President. Yankee Group was acquired by 451 Research in 2013. Prior to joining Yankee Group, Clark was Manager of Network Planning and Strategy for Wang Laboratories' corporate data network. She began her career at Wang with responsibility for the domestic and international roll-out of Wang's packet network, connecting more than 250 locations in 14 countries. Before joining Wang, she was a member of the IT research and development division of Commercial Union Insurance Companies.

Clark is a highly regarded speaker at industry seminars and conferences, and is frequently cited by the commercial and trade press. She has been a guest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is a member of the IEEE. She holds a B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College.