Washington, D.C
Staten Island businessman speaks at national tech conference in Washington, D.C.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — At DattoCon, 1000’s of the nation’s cybersecurity specialists collect yearly to realize technical perception from trade specialists and find out about new and revolutionary laptop data-saving merchandise. For tech lovers, it’s the Superbowl of the enterprise. And at this yr’s occasion, hosted in Washington, D.C., the group was gifted with recommendation from a Staten Island businessman.
“It was a very nice expertise to be half the convention,” mentioned Mike Bloomfield, “president geek” of Tekie Geek, an Eltingville-based Info Know-how (IT) agency that focuses on community and information safety. “It was much more significant, as a result of, in a small method, Tekie Geek was in a position to spotlight that nice companies and individuals are primarily based right here on Staten Island.”
Bloomfield, who has owned and operated Tekie Geek for 10 years, offered a session titled “Hearth Chat: MSP’s Share Their Pathway To Cloud Safety Methods,” throughout which he mentioned the challenges presently going through Managed Service Suppliers because it pertains to consumer safety and safety.
“I did a panel dialogue along with one other IT proprietor and spoke in regards to the significance of Microsoft 365 safety,” Bloomfield mentioned. “This has turn into an necessary matter because the onset of COVID — years in the past working from residence was not so widespread. Right this moment, some companies have a totally distant employees, making this an important concern.”
Bloomfield mentioned he’s proud to have been given the eye of some 2,000 attendees and to have shared the stage with former NASA engineer and YouTube sensation Mark Rober and Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia and a social media influencer.
“Staten Island has by no means been represented at this convention earlier than,” Bloomfield mentioned. “Whereas we satisfaction ourselves on being closely concerned within the borough group, it was an honor and a privilege to have our voice heard on a nationwide degree.”