| Agenda |
| Tuesday, October 25, 2016 | ||||
 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 Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development and Strategy, IDG Enterprise Events | |||
| 8:45 am - 9:15 am | Transforming IT to Support an Intelligent Transportation System Nicole Fontayne-Bardowell, CIO, Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) | |||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | It’s Always Cloudy on the Internet: Why It Matters to Your Cloud Strategy Mikel Steadman, Director of Sales and Solutions Engineering, Dyn | |||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | The Next Generation Enterprise: Digital Transformation at Scale Mike Rosen, Research VP, IDC | |||
| 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 | Leveraging Cloud Hosting Strategies to Change IT's Competitive Position Stephen Elliot, VP, Research, IDC |
| 11:05 am - 11:35 am | How to Outsmart Rootkits, Ransomware, and Zero-Day Attacks Dean Shroll, Director Sales Engineer, Central North America, Sophos | Five Forces of Change for IT Infrastructure Teams: A Look at What’s Coming Tammy Bednar, Director, Product Management, Oracle Database Appliance | Business Process Integration and Your Bottom Line Tyler Dool, District Manager, Vonage Business | |
| 11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Securing Infrastructure and Applications for the Largest Utility in Texas Lamont Hill, Director, Infrastructure and Application Management, Oncor | Getting Started with Software Defined Networking (SDN) Arthur Brant, Director of Enterprise Infrastructure, Abilene Christian University | Leveraging Data to Make Smart Technology Choices Anthony Mustoe, CIO, Compass Professional Health Services | Building a Scalable Technology Platform to Transform Franchise Growth Satish Dave, SVP & CIO, Vision Source |
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | Cloudsourced Network Analytics Meets Enterprise IT GT Hill, Director of Technical Marketing, Nyansa | |||
| 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:00pm) | |||
| 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Expo Hall Theater Kevan Higgins, Director of Sales, CDS Global Cloud Daren Dulac, Corporate Development & Business Development, Extreme Networks Blake Franke, Regional Sales Director , Gigamon Dean Shroll, Director Sales Engineer, Central North America, Sophos Tyler Dool, District Manager, Vonage Business | |||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | |||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Driving Digital Transformation With Low-Code App Platforms Jorge Sanchez, Director of Product, Appian | Monitoring Business Critical Apps in Cloud and SaaS Environments Zack Belcher, Product Manager, Enterprise, NETSCOUT Systems | Evolve Your WAN with Broadband: Adopting a New “Broadband” WAN Architecture Trevis Edgeworth, Manager Systems Engineer, Silver Peak Systems | Industry Perspective Presentation |
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Attracting the Best and Brightest: A Panel Discussion of Computerworld's "Best Places to Work” Winners Steve Black, Software Development Manager, Inspirus Melody Lenox, VP, Human Resources, Axxess Melodi Tripp, Director, Human Resources, BNSF Railway Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development and Strategy, IDG Enterprise Events | |||
| 3:20 pm - 4:00 pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo | |||
| 4:00 pm | Event Concludes | |||
