| Wednesday, July 29, 2015 | |||||
 7:30 am - 4:00 pm | Registration Open | ||||
| 7:30 am - 8:15 am | Continental Breakfast and Conversation | ||||
| 8:15 am - 8:30 am | Welcome & Opening Remarks John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||||
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Creating a High Performance Organization David Kline, SVP & CTO, Viacom | ||||
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Dynamic Networks Powered by SDN Rupesh Chokshi, Director, Product Management, AT&T | ||||
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Managing the Unmanageable: How to Secure the Enterprise Landon Fraley, Principal Sales Engineer, US Enterprise, Citrix | ||||
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Morning Break | ||||
| 10:10 am - 12:00 pm | Morning Breakout Sessions | ||||
| 10:10 am - 10:40 am | Intelligent Collaboration Alan Lepofsky, Analyst, Constellation Research, Inc. | Connecting the Future: Trends in the Internet of Things Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research | DevOps Success: Making the Business Case Stephen Elliot, VP, Research, IDC | Datacenter Network Architectures and the Advent of SDN Rohit Mehra, Vice President, Network Infrastructure, IDC | Reducing Risk: The Evolution of Security Pete Lindstrom, Research Director, Security Products, IDC |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | 5 Laws of Modern Applications Lizzie Epstein, Director, Application Platform, Appian | You are Starting to Look a Lot Like a Software Business. Now What? Abner Germanow, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing, New Relic | The Current Threat Landscape Matt Hickey, Director, Sales Engineering, Sophos | Leadership UnStuck – Break Through Your Leadership Barriers Bob Kantor, Principal, Kantor Consulting Group | Converge for the Third: Reach the Third Platform with HP Converged and Hyper-Converged Systems Craig Saint-Amour, Converged Systems Specialist, East Region - Channels , Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Escalating Network Management & Security Charles Cooney, Director, Infrastructure & Operations, Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. Ronghzong Zheng, Director, IT Security Operation, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Data Center Migration to the Cloud Andrew Cotter, Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Somerset Capital Group, Ltd. | Managing Rapid Expansion: Security as You Grow Ben Harris, VP, Security and Compliance, Rakuten Marketing Rohinee Mohindroo, CIO, Rakuten Marketing | How 'Big Data' is Re-engineering the Future of Data Centers Tate Cantrell, Chief Technology Officer, Verne Global | How to Use the Federal Computer Crime Statute / Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as an Effective Tool to Protect Your Data Nick Akerman, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP |
| 12:05 pm - 12:35 pm | Mobile Can't Be This Easy, Can It? Stacey Levine, Senior Solutions Engineer, OutSystems Sean Allen, Director of Product Strategy, OutSystems | ||||
| 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 | How the Cloud is Changing the Deployment of Wi-Fi Parker Smith, Director, Business Development, ADTRAN | Blended Analytics for IT’s “Unknown Unknowns” Bill Grant, Sr. Director of Technical Sales and Services, Evolven | Making IT Infrastructure Invisible Alan Biren, Senior Systems Engineer, Nutanix | Leveraging Cloud Connected Storage for Limitless and Backup-less NAS Fred Pinkett, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Nasuni |
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Industry Perspective Presentation | Next Generation Ethernet Nick DeMaria, Director, Systems Engineering Americas, QLogic Corporation | Industry Perspective Presentation | Secure Enterprise Mobility Brendan Ehlers, Sr. Sales Engineer, US Enterprise Team, Citrix | The Evolution of Operational Intelligence: Wire Data Analytics Matt Cauthorn, Vice President, Systems Engineering, ExtraHop Networks |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Your IT Career Roadmap: Key Skills You Need for Success Eric Bloom, President & CTO, Manager Mechanics, LLC | ||||
| 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) | ||||
