| Tuesday, April 7, 2015 | |||||
 8:00 am - 8:45 am | Continental Breakfast and Conversation | ||||
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | Welcome and Overview John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||||
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Taking the Leap Frank Daidone, Chief Information Officer, City & County of Denver – Technology Services | ||||
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Powering Big Data – Can the US Cope? Jorge L. Balcells, Director of Technical Services, Verne Global | ||||
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Creating a High Performance Organization Geoff Mansell, SVP/CIO Americas, DB Schenker | ||||
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Morning Break | ||||
| 10:45 am - 12:35 pm | Morning Breakout Sessions | ||||
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | The New Mobile Network Edge in the Era of the Cloud Nolan Greene, Research Analyst, Network Infrastructure, IDC | Where Knowledge is Power, Data is Wealth J. Bruce Daley, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Nucleus Research | Intelligent Collaboration Alan Lepofsky, Analyst, Constellation Research, Inc. | Connecting the Future: Trends in the Internet of Things Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research | |
| 11:25 am - 11:55 am | Industry Perspective Presentation | Plan Your Migration to Next-Gen Communication & Collaboration – Transform Your Business with Hosted Voice & Data Communication Ryan Schwertner, Director of Product Management for West Division, Comcast Business | Enabling a Mobility-Transformed Business Chuck Coffman, CCP-V, Lead Sales Engineer, Arizona/New Mexico, Citrix | Industry Perspective Presentation | |
| 12:05 pm - 12:35 pm | Migrating Data to the Cloud Mahesh Gopalakrishnan, Director of IT, PDC Energy James Gaulke, VP IT, CIO, CISO, PDC Energy | Dev Ops: Faster Deployment at DISH Network Rob Bennett, Director of Architecture, DISH David Downing, IT Director, Development, DISH | Next Gen Technology Without the Hype Dan Parks, Vice President - Technology Operations and Infrastructure, SquareTwo Financial | Cloud Migration: Sending the Right Apps and Processes into the Cloud Jamie C. Cutler, Chief Information Officer, QEP Resources Inc. | |
| 12:35 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:15pm) | ||||
| 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Expo Hall Theater | ||||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Industry Perspective Presentation | The Current Threat Landscape Paul Zindell, Channel Sales Engineer, Sophos | Business Transformation vs. IT Transformation: Which Comes First? Michael Hart, Advanced Services Senior Manager , Datalink | Physical Security and Converged Network Infrastructure Eric McWhorter, Regional Sales Manager, Axis Communications | |
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Industry Perspective Presentation | Making Network Monitoring Tools More Effective Boni Bruno, Technical Director for Network Visibility Products, Emulex | Role of Hyper-convergence and Web-scale in Enterprise Datacenters Michael Harner, Senior Sales Engineer, Nutanix | Industry Perspective Presentation | |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Your IT Career Roadmap: Key Skills You Need for Success Alison Franks, Founder, Owner and Senior Recruiter, GEM Resourcing | ||||
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Closing Remarks John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||||
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Reception and Prize Passport Drawing (in the Expo) | ||||
