René Bostic is the Technical Vice President of Innovation and New Technologies for IBM Cloud. She is an expert in cloud computing, DevOps and emerging cloud technologies to include Blockchain. Cloud Expo named René a faculty member for both their 2017 & 2018 Conferences. In addition, she was a speaker at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference (New York), Cloud Expo Europe (London), AdTech (London), Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Germany (Berlin), Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia (Moscow), Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Prague (Czech Republic), Armenia Blockchain Forum (Yerevan, Armenia), Blockchain Shift (Miami, Florida) and IBM Think Roadshows (USA/Canada). René is a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and a member of the Society of Information Management (SIM).