IT Roadmap 2016

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 Printable agenda

7:45 am - 4:30 pm	Registration Open
7:45 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast and Conversation
8:30 am - 8:45 am	IT Roadmap: Overview and Opening Remarks John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World
8:45 am - 9:15 am	Building an IT Strategy for the 21st Century Enterprise Juan Perez, Vice President, UPS Information Services
9:15 am - 9:45 am	The Evolving WAN Landscape: SDN and NFV Rupesh Chokshi, AVP, Product Marketing Management, AT&T Business Solutions and International
9:45 am - 10:15 am	Why Managing Your Users’ Digital Experience is Strategic: Understanding the Impact of Internet Performance on Digital Transformation Scott Hilton, EVP of Products, Dyn
10:15 am - 10:30 am	Morning Networking Break
10:30 am - 12:10 pm	Morning Breakout Sessions
10:30 am - 11:00 am	DevOps: From Buzz to Building Block Irwin Lazar, Vice President and Service Director, Nemertes Research	The Network is the Enterprise: Building Your Next Generation Enterprise Network John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research	Data, Analytics, and the Internet of Things Natalie Petouhoff, VP and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research	Key Considerations For An Effective Cloud Computing Strategy Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research
11:05 am - 11:35 am	Business Process Integration and Your Bottom Line Amanda Johnson, Regional Vice President, Vonage Business	Today’s Threat Landscape Ken Swain, Security Threat Engineer, Sophos	Industry Perspective Presentation	Deliver on Your Innovation Goals with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Carl Osipov, IT Executive, Senior Advisor, IBM Cloud
11:40 am - 12:10 pm	Delivering Personalized Customer Engagement with Modern Information Technology Theresa Grier, Senior Director, Information Services Customer Technology , UPS	Modern IT Security: A Practitioner’s Perspective Jamil Farshchi, CISO, The Home Depot	Leveraging Data for Growth Beach Clark, VP Data Science and Data Acquisition Technology, Georgia Aquarium	Migrating from Legacy Data Centers to the Cloud Steve Rubinow, Chief Technology Officer, Catalina
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm	Editor's Panel of Industry Experts John Perkins, Senior Vice President, Global IT, PGi GT Hill, Director of Technical Marketing, Nyansa John Fomook, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, 8x8 Inc. Harry Smith III, Technology Evangelist, Zerto
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm)
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm	Expo Hall Theater Howard Solomon, Partner Account Manager, ESET North America Mike Ernst, Systems Engineer Manager, ExtraHop Networks Art Cederberg, Sr. Account Manager, Extreme Networks Ken Swain, Security Threat Engineer, Sophos
2:00 pm - 3:10 pm	Afternoon Breakout Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Cloudsourced Network Analytics Meets Enterprise IT GT Hill, Director of Technical Marketing, Nyansa	Evolve Your WAN with Broadband: Adopting a New “Broadband” WAN Architecture Andrew Powers, Systems Engineer, Silver Peak Systems, Inc.	Leveraging the Cloud to Manage Your Data Applications James Cho, Senior Technical Staff Member and Chief Architect for IBM dashDB, IBM
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm	Survival Guide to the Deployment of Unified Communications and Collaboration Paul Barrett, CTO, Enterprise, NetScout Systems	Understanding the Business Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Vikram Belapurkar, Sr. Manager, Product and Solutions Marketing, Pivot3	Driving Digital Transformation With Low-Code App Platforms Jorge Sanchez, Director of Product, Appian
3:20 pm - 3:50 pm	Attracting the Best and Brightest: A Panel Discussion of Computerworld's "Best Places to Work” Winners Allana Cummings, CIO, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Megan Grove, VP, Human Resources, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Bart Wood, VP, Enterprise Planning & Strategic Support, Southern Company John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo
4:30 pm	Event Concludes