| Seattle Agenda |
| Thursday, April 12 | |||
 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 | Capabilities of Analyzing Hundreds of Millions of Daily Events to Improve the Customer Experience Sean Chighizola, SVP, Information Technology and Engineering, Big Fish Games | ||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Empowering the Citizen Developer to Scale Digital Transformation Across the Enterprise Roy Higgs, Enterprise Technical Specialist, K2 | ||
| 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 Robin Gareiss, President, 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 |
| 11:05 am - 11:35 am | Rethink Beyond Traditional Networking Toward a Secure Digital Perimeter Robin Manke-Cassidy, Director of Product Marketing, Citrix | Better Security Through Understanding the Way Users Work Mike Tran, Systems Engineer, Code42 | Why Cloud Visibility is the Foundation for Cloud Security Nelson Cottier, Senior Solutions Engineer , Ixia A Keysight Business |
| 11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Communications and Collaboration in the Digital Workspace Robin Gareiss, President, Nemertes Research | Modernizing IT Infrastructure for Improved Agility Steve McDowell, CIO, Seattle Housing Authority | Engineering Excellence Delivered Through Program Management Kristin Mauck, Director, Technical Program Management, Nordstrom |
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | IT Roadmap Panel of Industry Experts Robin Manke-Cassidy, Director of Product Marketing, Citrix Jeff Gray, CEO and Co-Founder, Gluware Nelson Cottier, Senior Solutions Engineer , Ixia A Keysight Business | ||
| 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm) | ||
| 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 | An Alternative Approach to DRaaS – No Sweat with Performance Guarantees Max Lindauer, Evaluation Engineer , Unitrends | Solution Provider Presentation |
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Securing Today’s Multicloud and IoT Environments Navneeth Naidu, SVP and Director, Information Technology, Columbia Bank | What is the IT Audit, and Why Does It Matter? Steve Mar, Lecturer, Seattle University; Instructor, University of Hawaii at Manoa; ISACA Expert Speaker | IT Executive Case Study |
| 3:20 pm - 3:50 pm | Technologies to Watch: Machine Learning, AI, Cognitive Computing and More Johna Till Johnson, CEO & Founder, Nemertes Research | ||
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo | ||
| 4:30 pm | Event Concludes | ||
