The Internet's New Palette - Changing the Art of Cancer : Gary Thompson at TEDxWeldQuay 2013

Gary brings to CLOUD and the creation of a new Internet over twenty-five years of experience in business development and strategic leadership with emerging growth and leading global technology companies. His core passion and mission is "to unleash the power of people. to allow all to dream; to allow all to harness their dreams; and to collect the power of those dreams to transform lives and society." That personal mission is the foundation behind CLOUD -- the Consortium for the Local Ownership and Use of Data, Inc -- a US-based nonprofit.
CLOUD was born from Gary's front line view of the battle with cancer. His own wife's breast cancer made him mad; Kethan's cancer changed him. Gary spoke of Kethan at his first TED talk at TEDxAustin in 2011. Kethan's recent passing after a 7-year battle with leukemia sparked this TEDx World Tour in his honor to tell the next chapter in the story of CLOUD and how together we can beat "The Emperor of All Maladies."

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