Best described as a one-stop expo, the Connections Conference will unleash its prowess as the penultimate and pioneer in cross-platform events.  Mobile, cloud and virtualization will be this conference’s centerpieces, taking on the burgeoning areas of enterprise. Encompassing the triumvirate of the tech sphere will without a doubt make this event more interesting and relevant. Penton Media, an independent publisher of trade magazines and industry-specific web sites, will be responsible for the launch that is expected to hit Las Vegas on April 17-21, 2011.

While industry buzz around the industry surges up along with growing anticipation, Dave Smith, Mobile and Cloud Communications Market Leader at Penton Media, relates the relevance of multi-platform collaboration and its potential, saying, “the future of apps and the Internet will not be dominated by any single technology, platform, or player. In order to succeed, developers, IT professionals and business strategists must have an understanding of all the platforms popular today and tomorrow.”

According to most tech predictions, 2011 is going to be a tougher battleground for the industry’s established organizations and neophytes and that collaborations between companies will be rampant. These forecasts are what Pention Media will capitalize on as they bring together developers, IT professionals, and business executives to evaluate time and money-saving opportunities and learn best-practice solutions.

This is event is going to be big, as key players of the industry will participate. Confirmed speakers at Connections Conference include Joe Belfiore for Microsoft, Jay Freeman of Cydia, Aaron Hillegass representing Big Nerd Ranch, Tyler Lessard of the Blackberry maker RIM, Nils Puhlmann for gaming monster Zynga, Jinesh Varia speaking for Amazon Web Services and Ric Telford for Cloud Services of IBM.