Agenda |
Wednesday, March 23, 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 John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | |||
8:45 am - 9:15 am | Where Customer Centricity and Technology Converge at McDonald’s Deb Hall-Lefevre, Vice President, Global Enterprise Solutions, McDonald’s Corporation | |||
9:15 am - 9:45 am | Leveraging the Hybrid Cloud Renaissance to Accelerate Business Transformation Rene Bostic, Vice President, Cloud Technical Sales & Solutioning, IBM Cloud | |||
9:45 am - 10:15 am | The Evolving WAN Landscape: SDN and NFV Rupesh Chokshi, Director, Product Marketing Management, AT&T | |||
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 Johna Till Johnson, CEO and Founder, 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 Guy Courtin, Vice President 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 | Staying One Step Ahead in the Changing Business Environment Ken Greene, Sr. Director, Market Development, Comcast Business | Leveraging Internet Performance Management to Solve Business Delivery Issues Kyle York, Chief Strategy Officer, Dyn, Inc. | Live Demo: Mobile Apps Made Ridiculously Easy Luis Gasca, Senior Solutions Engineer, OutSystems Paul Squyres, Senior Director, OutSystems | How Advanced Infrastructure Enables Companies to Transform Joe Vidal, Director, Americas Hybrid IT Channel Architecture Team, Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Agile: How to Leverage It Far Beyond Development! Cathie Kozik, Senior Vice President and CIO, PSAV | Efficient App Development for a Highly Mobile Workforce Kevin Glynn, CIO, DSC Logistics | Leveraging Data to Optimize IT and Business Performance Edward Marchewka, Director, Information Technology, Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network | From Mobile Apps to Analytics to Security: Lessons Learned for Any Industry Tom Barnett, VP, Health Information Technology, NorthShore University HealthSystem |
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | Building the Next Generation Enterprise: An Editor’s Panel of Industry Experts Joy Beatty, Vice President, Seilevel Jim Bahn, Senior Director of Products, Load DynamiX Phil Gormley, Regional VP, Strategic Services, Apptio | |||
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 | |||
2:00 pm - 3:10 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | |||
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | What It Takes to Make Mobile Projects Succeed Mark Borowski, Cloud Technical Sales Leader North America, IBM Cloud | A New Way to Store, Protect and Access Unlimited File Data Chris Sledz, Senior Director of Account Management, Nasuni | Improving Application Performance in the Age of SaaS, Mobility and Hybrid IT Mark Casey, President & CEO, CFN Services | |
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | The Software-Defined WAN: How an Application-Centric Approach Improves Performance Ricky Lin, CTO, Riverbed | Malware Attacks and How to Protect Your Company Dean Shroll, Director Sales Engineering, Sophos | How Next-Gen Storage Technologies Can Increase Your Competitive Advantage Steve Kenniston, Vice President of Product Marketing, Infinidat | |
3:20 pm - 4:00 pm | Attracting the Best and Brightest: A Panel Discussion of IT Recruitment Experts and Computerworld's "Best Places to Work” Winners John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World Glenn P. Schneider, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Discover John Pollak, Senior Director, People Resources, Enova International Mike Louer, Managing Director, Randstad Technologies | |||
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo | |||
4:30 pm | Event Concludes |