| IT Roadmap Boston Agenda |
| Wednesday, May 20, 2015 | |||||
 8:00 am - 4:00 pm | Registration Open | ||||
| 8:00 am - 8:45 am | Continental Breakfast and Conversation | ||||
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | Welcome & Opening Remarks John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||||
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | The Role of the CIO: Supporting a Fast Growing Business Jack Wood, CIO, Wayfair | ||||
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Dynamic Networks Powered by SDN Rupesh Chokshi, Director, Product Management, AT&T | ||||
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Thriving in a Hybrid World Dean J. Marsh, VP, IBM Cloud Solution Sales, IBM | ||||
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Morning Break | ||||
| 10:45 am - 12:35 pm | Morning Breakout Sessions | ||||
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | The Cutting Edge of Cloud & Next Generation Apps Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research | Connecting the Future: Trends in the Internet of Things Laura DiDio, Director, IoT Research and Consulting, Strategy Analytics | DevOps Success: Making the Business Case Stephen Elliot, VP, Research, IDC | The New Mobile Network Edge in the Era of the Cloud Nolan Greene, Research Analyst, Network Infrastructure, IDC | Reducing Risk: The Evolution of Security Pete Lindstrom, Research Director, Security Products, IDC |
| 11:25 am - 11:55 am | Industry Perspective Presentation | Ethernet, the Power Behind Data Center Integration Mark Twomey, Enterprise Sales Manager, Comcast Business | Today’s Threat Landscape and Advanced Defenses Matt Hickey, Director, Sales Engineering, Sophos | The New IT Imperative - Win With Software Abner Germanow, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, New Relic | 5 Laws of Modern Applications Lizzie Epstein, Director, Application Platform, Appian |
| 12:05 pm - 12:35 pm | Security: The Changing Risk Landscape Paul Brady, VP & CIO, Arbella Insurance Group | Managing Applications, Delivery and Confidential Information Mark Staples, CIO, Wentworth Institute of Technology | Agile Project Management Techniques for Enterprise IT Chad Wright, Sr. Director of Information Technology, Kiva Systems | The Future of Cloud: Migration and Management Marc Wood, Sr. Director, GSIT Software Engineering & PM, Liberty Mutual Group | Building a High-Capacity Wireless Network for the Future Steve Snyder, Chief Information Officer & Chief Technology Officer, Massachusetts Convention Center Authority |
| 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 | Physical Security and Converged Network Infrastructure Vince Ricco, Business Development Manager – Technology Partner Program, Axis Communications Fredrik Nilsson, General Manager, Axis Communications | Managing Hybrid Clouds: Linking Your Legacy to Your Future Heath Newburn, Trianz Director of Technology , IBM | Making Network Monitoring Tools More Effective Sam Cook, Sales Engineer, Network Visibility Division, Emulex | How the Cloud is Changing the Deployment of Wi-Fi Jason King, Director of Marketing, ADTRAN |
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Industry Perspective Presentation | Leveraging Cloud Connected Storage for Limitless and Backup-less NAS Fred Pinkett, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Nasuni | Next Generation Ethernet Nick DeMaria, Director, Systems Engineering Americas, QLogic Corporation | IT Talent Skill Shortages Drive Evolving Delivery Models Bryan Denman, Vice President, Application Services, Randstad Technologies | Role of Hyper-convergence and Web-scale in Enterprise Datacenters Michael Berthiaume, Senior Solutions Engineer, Nutanix |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Your IT Career Roadmap: What You Need to Know for the Journey Ahead Martha Heller, President, Heller Search Associates | ||||
| 3:45 pm | Closing Remarks John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||||
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Reception and Prize Passport Drawing (in the Expo) | ||||
