| Chicago Agenda |
| Tuesday, March 20, 2018 | ||||
 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 Communications | |||
| 8:45 am - 9:15 am | Leading Technology Transformation Glenn Schneider, EVP & CIO, Discover Financial Services | |||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | DNS Power Tricks: Rethinking DNS to Improve Application Performance and Resiliency Collin Woo, Solutions Engineer , Oracle Dyn | |||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | The Cloudification of the Enterprise Steven Shalita, VP of Marketing , Pluribus Networks | |||
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Morning Networking Break | |||
| 10:30 am - 12:10 pm | Morning Breakout Sessions | |||
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Adapt, Adopt, and Improve: Pulling Your Multicloud Together John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | Cybersecurity in a Virtual World Johna Till Johnson, CEO & Founder, Nemertes Research | Why Analytics are Critical to IoT Success Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research | Communications and Collaboration in the Digital Workplace Irwin Lazar, Vice President and Service Director, Nemertes Research |
| 11:05 am - 11:35 am | The Next Evolution of Protection: Introduction to Deep Learning Brendan Ginty, Sales Engineer , Sophos Mark Erenz, Enterprise Sales Engineer, Sophos | Rethink Beyond Traditional Networking Toward a Secure Digital Perimeter Donna Johnson, Director of Product Marketing , Citrix | Empowering the Citizen Developer to Scale Digital Transformation Across the Enterprise Bre Huston, Technical Specialist, K2 | Solution Provider Presentation |
| 11:40 am - 12:10 pm | How the NCAA Leverages Clouds and Analytics to Improve Business Outcomes Judd Williams, CIO, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) | Modernizing the Delivery Model: Moving from Project to Product Management Marvin Richardson, Divisional SVP of Applications Development, Health Care Service Corporation | IoT and Your Enterprise: A Framework for Starting the Conversation Jim MacLennan, CIO, IDEX Corporation | Connecting and Inspiring an Agile Business Cathie Kozik, SVP and CIO , PSAV |
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | IT Roadmap Panel of Industry Experts Bert Soto, VP of Sales, Gluware Patrick Cahill, Strategic Account Executive, Logitech Marc Kreppel, Account Executive, Zerto Mike McGoldrick, VP, Events, IDG Enterprise | |||
| 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 Donna Johnson, Director of Product Marketing , Citrix Collin Woo, Solutions Engineer , Oracle Dyn Tim Harron, Regional Sales Manager, Skyhigh / McAfee Mark Erenz, Enterprise Sales Engineer, Sophos Michael Jett, Strategic Account Executive , VIAVI Solutions | |||
| 2:00 pm - 3:10 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | |||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Automating the Enterprise Network to Gain Agility and Compliance Michael Haugh, Director of Technical Marketing, Gluware | IT Infrastructure Trends: From On-Prem to the Enterprise Cloud Paul Boyd, Cloud Solutions Architect, Nutanix | ||
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Application Delivery and How to Streamline the Complexity David Parker, Solution Engineer, VIAVI Solutions Michael Jett, Strategic Account Executive , VIAVI Solutions | Autonomous Cyber Defense: AI and the Immune System Approach Leigh Frederick, Cyber Security Account Executive, Darktrace | ||
| 3:20 pm - 3:50 pm | Putting Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing and Robotic Automation to Work Ken O'Brien, EVP & CIO, RRD | |||
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in the Expo | |||
| 4:30 pm | Event Concludes | |||
