| 12/1/2015 | ||||||||||
 8:00 am - 4:00 pm | Registration Open | |||||||||
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Continental Breakfast and Conversation | |||||||||
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | |||||||||
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Transforming IT in a Rapidly Changing Industry Hugo Vasquez, Deputy CIO, The AES Corporation | |||||||||
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | How Organizations are Transforming Their Digital Business Environment with Windows 10? Steve Birgfeld, Vice President, Global Workspace Services, Unisys | |||||||||
| 10:30 am - 10:40 am | Morning Break | |||||||||
| 10:40 am - 12:30 pm | Morning Breakout Sessions | |||||||||
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | The Cutting Edge of Cloud & Next Generation Apps Guy Courtin, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research | Reducing Risk: The Evolution of Security Pete Lindstrom, Research Director, Security Products, IDC | BYOD? Not Without a Framework for Enterprise Mobile Security Shawn McCarthy, Research Director, IDC | DevOps Success: Making the Business Case Stephen Elliot, VP, Research, IDC | What’s Driving Adoption of Today’s Collaboration and Unified Communications Technologies? Rich Costello, Senior Analyst, Entperise Communications Infrastructure, IDC | |||||
| 11:20 am - 11:50 am | Stopping Tomorrow’s Attacks Today: A Next-Generation Approach for Advanced Threats Matt Hickey, Director, Sales Engineering, Sophos | |||||||||
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Leveraging Mobile, Cloud and Collaboration Technologies at the World Bank Group Cesar Baldeon, Chief Enterprise Architect, World Bank Group | Building Award-Winning, High-Performance Infrastructure Brian Ensor, AVP, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, The George Washington University | Leveraging DevOps and Agile to Create a Culture of Rapid Design and Delivery Chad Sheridan, Chief Information Officer, Risk Management Agency, Department of Agriculture/USDA | DevOps: Accelerating Maturity & Business Outcomes Stephen Elliot, VP, Research, IDC | ||||||
| 12:35 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:15pm) | |||||||||
| 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Expo Hall Theater | |||||||||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | The New IT Imperative - Build Software Abner Germanow, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing, New Relic | Leveraging Cloud Connected Storage for Limitless and Backup-less NAS Warren Arnold, Sales Engineer, Nasuni | ||||||||
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | 5 Laws of Modern Applications Lizzie Epstein, Director, Application Platform, Appian | The Evolution of Operational Intelligence: Wire Data Analytics Matt Cauthorn, Vice President Systems Engineering, ExtraHop Networks | ||||||||
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Attracting the Best and Brightest: A Panel Discussion of Computerworld's "Best Places to Work” Winners Anna-Marie Consor, Manager, Program Management & Methodology , Navy Federal Credit Union Terry Fernandez, Senior Director, Customer Service & Support, American University John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | |||||||||
| 3:45 pm | Closing Remarks | |||||||||
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Reception and Prize Passport Drawing (in the Expo) | |||||||||
