Ft. Worth Agenda |
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 | ||||
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 | Weathering Today’s Disasters by Hardening Mission-Critical IT Lynn Gibson, VP and CTO, CHRISTUS Health | |||
9:15 am - 9:45 am | Time for Internet 3.0: Networking Only Provable Cryptographic Identities Matt Close, VP, Sales, Tempered Networks | |||
9:45 am - 10:15 am | The Future of Communication Michael Costantino, Regional Vice President, Vonage Business | |||
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Morning Networking Break | |||
10:30 am - 12:10 pm | Morning Breakout Sessions | |||
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Reimagining Your Network and Infrastructure for the Cloud-Powered Enterprise Irwin Lazar, Vice President and Service Director, Nemertes Research | Achieving World Class Information Security John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | From Data to Decisions: The Path to an AI-Driven Smart Service Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research | IT Agility that Leverages DevOps is Key to Digital Transformation Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research |
11:05 am - 11:35 am | Transforming Your Data Center Network to be Cloud-Ready Steve Shalita, VP of Marketing , Pluribus Networks | Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Stop Today’s Threats Arnie Rice, Enterprise Sales Engineer , Sophos Dean Shroll, Director Sales Engineering, Sophos | Connecting Your Workforce to Empower Your Business Chris Hutson, Sr. Account Executive, Enterprise, RingCentral, Inc. | |
11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Migrating to the Cloud to Mitigate Risk Tony Caesar, VP IT & CIO, PrimeSource Building Products | Emerging Technologies to Watch in the Year Ahead John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | Key Success Factors in Delivering Digital Products Rashmi Kumar, CIO, McKesson | Driving Innovation with Mobile-First and Cloud-First Strategies Karl Hightower, VP, Transformational Business Solutions, Rent-A-Center Mike Santimaw, VP, Information Security, Innovation Labs and Corporate Solutions, Rent-A-Center |
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | IT Roadmap Panel of Industry Experts Karla Nussbaumer, Director of Technical Marketing, 8x8 Jacek Materna, CTO, Assembla, Inc. Aater Suleman, CEO, Flux7 | |||
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 Jacek Materna, CTO, Assembla, Inc. Gerard Svartz, Sr. Solution Marketing Manager, Dell EMC Dane Felicien, Senior Account Executive, Extreme Networks Aater Suleman, CEO, Flux7 Kristi Thiele, Sr. Manager, Systems Engineer, Ixia Dean Shroll, Director Sales Engineering, Sophos | |||
2:00 pm - 3:10 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | |||
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Are Your Headphones Really Spying on You? Charlie Niemi, System Engineer, Kaspersky Lab | Modernizing Infrastructure with Software Defined Approaches Gerard Svartz, Sr. Solution Marketing Manager, Dell EMC | Creating a Digital Transformation Strategy for your Business Phone System Vincent Paquet, Chief Product Officer, Dialpad | |
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Augmented Everything: How IT Can Reshape the Future of Work Wayne Sadin, COO and CTO, Affinitas Life | |||
3:10 pm - 3:20 pm | Closing Remarks Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development and Strategy, IDG Enterprise Events | |||
3:30 pm - 4:00pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo | |||
4:00 pm | Event Concludes |