| Agenda |
| Wednesday, April 6, 2016 | |||
 8:00 am - 4:15 pm | Registration Open | ||
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast and Conversation | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | IT Roadmap: Overview and Opening Remarks John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Leveraging Digital Transformation to Become the 60-Second Airline Veresh Sita, CIO, Alaska Airlines | ||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | How Advanced Infrastructure Enables Companies to Transform Jim Gray, Principal Hybrid IT Solutions Architect , Hewlett Packard Enterprise | ||
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Using Analytics to Improve the Student Experience Kelli Trosvig, VP, UW Information Technology & CIO, University of Washington | ||
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Morning Networking Break | ||
| 11:00 am - 12:05 pm | Morning Breakout Sessions | ||
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | The Network is the Enterprise: Building Your Next Generation Enterprise Network Irwin Lazar, Vice President and Service Director, Nemertes Research | Getting From Virtual Data Center to Real Private Cloud John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | How Artificial Intelligence, Data and the Internet of Things Will Help Us Get Work Done Alan Lepofsky, Analyst, Constellation Research, Inc. |
| 11:35 am - 12:05 am | Making Datacenter Infrastructure Invisible: Demystifying Hyperconvergence and the Cloud Lucas Clara, Sr. Systems Engineer, Nutanix | Taking Windows Applications Beyond Hardware Limits Don Clemmons, Sr. Systems Engineer, Parallels | The Software-Defined WAN: How an Application-Centric Approach Improves Performance Brett Hill, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Riverbed Technology, Inc. |
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | The Next Generation Enterprise: Digital Transformation at Scale Mike Rosen, VP, Strategic Architecture Research, IT Executive Program, IDC | ||
| 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Networking Area | ||
| 2:00 pm - 3:05 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | ||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Leveraging Analytics for Proactive End-User Support Tim Flower, Director of Customer Success, Nexthink | Understanding Ransomware and How to Repel It Mark Villinski, Director, Field Marketing, Kaspersky Lab North America | Malware Attacks and How to Protect Your Company Greg Bennett, Sales Engineer, Sophos |
| 2:35 pm - 3:05 pm | Leveraging DevOps and Clouds for Business Agility Peter Garbes, Director of IT, Big Fish Games | Attracting the Best and Brightest: An Executive Interview with One of Computerworld's "Best Places to Work” Winners Rafat Naqvi, VP, Enterprise Applications, Avande John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | How Flexible IT Infrastructure is Advancing Medical Research Tom Skillman, Director, Research Technology, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason |
| 3:10 pm - 3:40 pm | The GPS for Career Success! How to Navigate in the New World of Career Management Kim Batson, The CIO Coach | ||
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo | ||
| 4:15 pm | Event Concludes | ||
