Ed Anuff, Apigee’s SVP of Product Strategy, is a respected technologist and a proven innovator with over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur. In 2010, he founded Usergrid, the open source mobile backend-as-a-service (BaaS) to provide cloud services for powering mobile and rich client applications, which is now at the Apache Foundation. Ed previously was EVP and GM of Six Apart, which is known for creating the Movable Type blogging platform and TypePad blogging service. He founded Widgetbox, a popular marketplace for widgets, and he was also co-founder of enterprise software company Epicentric, a provider of enterprise portal software which was acquired by Vignette. Anuff was also responsible for the launch of HotBot, one of the first large-scale web search engines, when he was an executive at Wired. Ed has spoken at numerous conferences, including Gartner's AADI Summit and Gartner Symposium, SAP TechEd, GlueCon, Cassandra Summit, and Apigee's I Love API's Conference.