| Wednesday, March 21, 2012 | |||||
 7:45 am - 8:30 am | Registration and Breakfast | ||||
| 8:30 am - 8:45 am | IT Roadmap: Welcome and Overview Andrea D'Amato, Publisher , Network World | ||||
| 8:45 am - 9:15 am | A Strategy for Your IT Roadmap Doug Porter, SVP and CIO, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association | ||||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Leveraging Your Network as a Platform for Innovation and Growth Joel Conover, Director, Enterprise Marketing, Cisco | ||||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | A Wi-Fi Revival GT Hill, Director of Technical Marketing, Ruckus Wireless | ||||
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Networking Break | ||||
| 10:30 am - 11:50 am | Morning Breakout Sessions | ||||
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Unified Communications and VOIP: the Road Ahead Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research | The Consumerization of IT: Should You Worry About It? David K. Johnson, Senior Analyst , Forrester Research | The New Enterprise Network in the Era of the Cloud Rohit Mehra, Director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC | Faster and More Effective Data Recovery: Taking a Single System Approach Richard L. Villars, Vice President, Information & Cloud , IDC | 2012 and the New Normal: the Security Challenge Christopher Christiansen, Program Vice President, Security Products and Services , IDC |
| 10:55 am - 11:25 am | Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments Paul Ayers, Offer Manager, HBN Networking Solutions, APC by Schneider Electric | The New Workspace Experience Joel Conover, Director, Enterprise Marketing, Cisco | A Crate and Barrel Perspective on Tackling PCI Compliance Matt Parquette, WAN Specialist, Crate & Barrel Edwin Solis, Sr. Enterprise Account Manager, SonicWall Bill Waller, WAN Specialist, Crate & Barrel | Next Generation Virtual Networks, Staying In Tune with IEEE Standards Ed Koehler, Senior Data Solutions Architect, Avaya | Kill Two Birds with One Stone –How WAN Optimization and Network Performance Management Ensures Success - Sponsored by Riverbed Technology Andrew Watts, IT Director, Morningstar |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Succeeding in the Cloud Sergey Chernov PMP, Manager, Enterprise Architecture, NiSource | Big Data, Big Opportunities: Using Predictive Analytics to Transform Lives Plamen Petrov, Chief Architect, Blue Cross, Blue Shield Association | Analyzing Your Customers for Business Intelligence: Mobile Applications Bill Swislow, SVP and CIO, Cars.com | Building a Business Value Culture in IT Marian Cook, Sr. Director, Information Services , College of American Pathologists | Building a Mobile Strategy: How to Align with Your Customer Denise Schuster, Senior Vice President, Technology Innovation, Tribune |
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm) | ||||
| 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm | Expo Hall Theater | ||||
| 2:10 pm - 3:15 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | ||||
| 2:10 pm - 2:40 pm | Passive Optical Networking - Bringing the LAN Out of the Closet Al Saxon, Sr. Vice President, Vision Technologies, Inc. | Cloud Storage’s Hazy Security Lining David Schwartzberg, Senior Security Engineer, Sophos | Systems management nirvana: Balancing demands, dollars and the day-to-day Richard Olson, Senior Sales Engineer, Dell KACE | Voice Virtualization Secrets Revealed – It’s not Magic, It’s Mitel Joshua Haslett, Director, Strategic Voice Virtualization Development, Mitel | |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | The Cloud in 2012 Matt Wilbanks, Cloud Solutions Specialist, Rackspace Hosting | How to Securely Enable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in the Workplace Matt Dieckman, Network Security Product Manager, SonicWall Shawn Brooks, Systems Administrator, Sterigenics International | Driving Business Innovation with High-Performance Network Connectivity Ken Greene, Director of Sales Engineering, Comcast Business Services | Technology Presentation | |
| 3:25 pm - 3:55 pm | Career Development: How To Showcase Your Leadership Kristen Lamoreaux, President & CEO, Lamoreaux Search | ||||
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Reception, Closing Remarks and Prize Passport Drawing | ||||
