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Agenda
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
7:45 am - 4:30 pmRegistration Open
7:45 am - 8:30 amBreakfast and Conversation
8:30 am - 8:45 amIT Roadmap: Overview and Opening Remarks
John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World
8:45 am - 9:15 amWhere Customer Centricity and Technology Converge at McDonald’s
Deb Hall-Lefevre, Vice President, Global Enterprise Solutions, McDonald’s Corporation
9:15 am - 9:45 amLeveraging the Hybrid Cloud Renaissance to Accelerate Business Transformation
Rene Bostic, Vice President, Cloud Technical Sales & Solutioning, IBM Cloud
9:45 am - 10:15 amThe Evolving WAN Landscape: SDN and NFV
Rupesh Chokshi, Director, Product Marketing Management, AT&T
10:15 am - 10:30 amMorning Networking Break
10:30 am - 12:10 pmMorning Breakout Sessions
10:30 am - 11:00 amDevOps: 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 amStaying 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 pmAgile: 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 pmBuilding 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 pmLunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm)
1:15 pm - 1:45 pmExpo Hall Theater
2:00 pm - 3:10 pmAfternoon Breakout Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:30 pmWhat 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 pmThe 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 pmAttracting 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 pmReception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo
4:30 pmEvent Concludes