Agenda |
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 | |||||
7:30 am - 8:15 am | Registration and Breakfast | Connect Breakfast: Meet one-on-one with your fellow attendees! Schedule meetings and send messages through IT Roadmap Connect to enhance your networking before, during and after the event. | |||
8:15 am - 8:30 am | IT Roadmap: Welcome and Overview John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||||
8:30 am - 9:15 am | Executive Keynote: Top 15 Priorities For Successful IT Leaders Chad A. Eckes, Chief Information Officer, Cancer Treatment Centers of America | ||||
9:15 am - 9:45 am | The New Network Abner Germanow, Director of Enterprise Marketing, Juniper Networks | ||||
9:45 am - 10:15 am | A Wi-Fi Revival John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World Karthik Chakkarapani, IT Director, Technology Solutions & Operations, American Hospital Association Tomasz Chowanski, IT Leader, Security Architecture and Operations, GE Capital Retail Finance and Restructuring Operations Rob Zelinka, Former Director of Infrastructure, TTX Company Passionately explore current and future Wi-Fi technologies and design techniques that will provide consistent, steadfast wireless access for your enterprise. | ||||
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Networking Break | ||||
10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Morning Technology Tracks | ||||
10:30 am - 12:00 pm | The Public and Private Cloud | The Connected Enterprise | The Modern Network | The New Data Center | The Evolving Threat Landscape |
10:30 am - 12:00 pm | With virtualization and “as-a-service” offerings paving the way for efficient investments, we’ll explore how companies adopt public, private and hybrid clouds. | Savvy enterprises are weaving together VoIP, unified communications and dynamic WAN. We’ll explore how mobile technologies are supporting the distributed enterprise. | New technologies are flattening networks and modernizing communications by moving data traffic more efficiently. We’ll examine the path to cloud-friendly environments. | Data storage remains a key challenge for today’s IT leaders. We’ll look at how the move to blade servers, utility computing, unified fabrics and pooled storage creates agility for today’s dynamic business environments. | We’ll take a close look at how to defend the corporate fortress against new threats from today’s sophisticated cybercriminals and attacks. |
10:35 am - 11:20 am | Cloud Strategies For Addressing IT Challenges Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. | The Struggle to Unify Communications Art Schoeller, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research | Virtualization and Consumerization Evolve the Modern Network Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President and Distinguished Research Fellow, Yankee Group | Architecting for Data Center Agility Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | Protecting Your Mobile and Virtual Environment From Emerging Security Threats John Burke, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research |
11:25 am - 11:55 am | A Successful Strategy for Enterprise Collaboration in the Cloud Karthik Chakkarapani, IT Director, Technology Solutions & Operations, American Hospital Association | Business Technology Briefing Ron Zanardo, Director of IT, Telecommunications and Data Center Operations, United Stationers Supply Co. | Executive Panel with Zeus Kerravala Jackie Lucas, VP & CIO, Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. Paul Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing, A10 Networks Michael Erickson, Corporate Director of Infrastructure & Security, Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. | Executive Panel with Ted Ritter Rob Zelinka, Former Director of Infrastructure, TTX Company Robert Lewis, Network Architect, MotoBlur Operations, Motorola Mobility Abner Germanow, Director, Enterprise Marketing, Juniper Networks | Avoiding the Common Pitfalls in Information Risk Assessments Tomasz Chowanski, IT Leader, Security Architecture and Operations, GE Capital Retail Finance and Restructuring Operations |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Latency: The Achilles Heel of Cloud Computing David Lorti, Product Marketing Manager, Internap | Executive Panel with Art Schoeller Sergey Chernov PMP, Manager, Enterprise Architecture, NiSource Ron Zanardo, Director of IT, Telecommunications and Data Center Operations, United Stationers Supply Co. | Solutions to Modern Application Delivery Challenges Paul Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing, A10 Networks | The Exponential Data Center Abner Germanow, Technology Marketing Leader, Juniper Networks | Executive Interview with John Burke Tomasz Chowanski, IT Leader, Security Architecture and Operations, GE Capital Retail Finance and Restructuring Operations |
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm) | ||||
2:10 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | ||||
2:10 pm - 4:00 pm | Breakout Sessions: Track A | Breakout Sessions: Track B | Breakout Sessions: Track C | Breakout Sessions: Track D | |
2:10 pm - 4:00 pm | Track Moderator: Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President and Distinguished Research Fellow, Yankee Group | Track Moderator: Art Schoeller, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research | Track Moderator: John Burke, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | Track Moderator: Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | |
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm | Implementation Strategy: The Changing Role of Wi-Fi in the Enterprise Brian Mason, Principal Technologist, Xirrus, Inc. | Business Strategy: Demystifying the Cloud With a Look at Hybrid Hosting and OpenStack Robert Collazo, Manager of Professional Services, Rackspace Hosting, Rackspace US, Inc. | Rapidly Connect the Hybrid World of Cloud and On-Premise Applications in Just Days Vidya Chadaga, Senior Product Marketing Manager , IBM Cast Iron | Successfully Managing the Transforming Data Center: A Roundtable Discussion Patrick Rouse, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Quest Software Mattias Sundling, Product Evangelist, Quest Software George Pradel, Director, SC Cloud Automation Platform, Quest Software | |
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm | Business Strategy: Protecting Against the 4 Most Common Ways of Losing Data John Metzger, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Sophos | Implementation Strategy: The Windows 7 and Office 2010 Imperative: Are You Ready? Richard Olson, Senior Sales Engineer, Dell KACE | Business Strategy: Using the Cloud for Faster Apps, Robust Security, & Proactive Management Ron Haigh, VP of Cloud Architecture & Services, Virtela | Business Strategy: Stable and Available IT Infrastructure: Five Keys to Increasing ROI – A Guide for IT Organizations George Bradley, Global Software Business Development Manager, Hitachi Data Systems | |
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Business Strategy: Technology Risk Management - Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Automation - Integrating ESM with Network Access Control Gary Portnoy, Global Operations and Technology Risk Manager, Bank of New York Mellon Rodney Richardson, Technology Risk Management - Information Security, Bank of New York Mellon | Breakout Session: The Top 5 Things You Should Monitor on Your Network Matt Bolton, DVP, Product Development, Network Management Group, Quest Software | Implementation Strategy: How Duff & Phelps Keeps their Business Always On, and Always Available Frank Jablonski, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Data Management, CA Technologies Kevin Tuffner, Sr. Storage Architect, Duff & Phelps | Implementation Strategy: Get Your Wi-Fi Ready for the iPad Donald Meyer, Senior Manager, Products, Aruba Networks This session will run from 3:30pm - 4:15pm | |
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Cocktail Reception and Prize Passport Drawing In The Expo (You must be present to win.) |