IT Roadmap Conference & Expo Denver 2011

Thursday, April 28 Printable agenda

8:00 am - 8:45 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.
8:45 am - 9:00 am	IT Roadmap: Welcome and Overview John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World
9:00 am - 9:45 am	The Evolving Role of IT – Inspiring “Crazy Loyalty” Chris Laping, Senior Vice President of Business Transformation and Chief Information Officer, Red Robin Now more than ever, IT has the opportunity to create game-changing outcomes that inspire “crazy loyalty” amongst team members and in the marketplace. IT can contribute to the building of a great brand but will require some fundamental mind shifts to be successful. This keynote will focus on the steps IT leaders can take to become transformative change leaders and to evolve IT’s role in business today.
9:45 am - 10:15 am	Identity in the Mobile World Paul Hooper, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Extreme Networks
10:15 am - 10:35 am	Networking Break
10:35 am - 12:30 pm	Morning Technology Tracks
10:35 am - 12:30 pm	The Public and Private Cloud	The Connected Enterprise	The Modern Network	The New Data Center	The Evolving Threat Landscape
10:35 am - 11:20 am	CLOUD: Calculated Leap or Unplanned Detour? Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research	An Overview of Today's Key Enterprise Network Technologies Rich Costello, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC	Virtualization and Consumerization Evolve the Modern Network Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President and Distinguished Research Fellow, Yankee Group	IT Transformation and Digitization: Key Drivers For Virtualized and Converged Data Centers Richard L. Villars, Vice President, Storage and IT Executive Strategies , IDC	Protecting Your Mobile and Virtual Environment From Emerging Security Threats John Burke, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research
11:25 am - 11:55 am	Cloud Computing: Integrating The “Human” Component Jim Kane, CIO, JRDC program, MDA	The Anywhere Enterprise Bill Ferguson, Enterprise Application Services Deputy Director, Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado	The Aware Network Paul Hooper, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Extreme Networks	Architecting an Agile Data Center Tim Hayes, Director of IT , Lextron, Inc	Security in a Changing Enterprise Christopher Steffen CISSP, CISA, Principal Technical Architect, Kroll Factual Data
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Growing the Enterprise in the Cloud Jim Kane, CIO, JRDC program, MDA Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research	The Connected Enterprise: Extending the Vision Bill Ferguson, Enterprise Application Services Deputy Director, Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado Rich Costello, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC	Solutions for a Modern Network Paul Hooper, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Extreme Networks Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President and Distinguished Research Fellow, Yankee Group	Building an Effective Data Center Approach Tim Hayes, Director of IT , Lextron, Inc Richard L. Villars, Vice President, Storage and IT Executive Strategies , IDC	Protecting Against Growing Enterprise Threats Christopher Steffen CISSP, CISA, Principal Technical Architect, Kroll Factual Data John Burke, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research
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
2:10 pm - 4:00 pm	Track Moderator: Richard L. Villars, Vice President, Storage and IT Executive Strategies , IDC		Track Moderator: John Burke, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research		Track Moderator: Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm	Problem-Solving Technical Tutorial: The Windows 7 and Office 2010 Imperative: Are You Ready? Anne Hager, Dell KACE		Taming the Information Explosion William Tolson, Director of Product Marketing / Archiving Solutions, Iron Mountain		Problem-Solving Technical Tutorial: Demystifying the Cloud With a Look at Hybrid Hosting and OpenStack Robert Collazo, Manager of Professional Services, Rackspace Hosting
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm	IT Transformation Richard L. Villars, Vice President, Storage and IT Executive Strategies , IDC		DLP Implementation Strategy John Burke, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research		Problem-Solving Technical Tutorial: Bringing Cloud Security Down to Earth Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Build My Case Study Workshop: Technology Risk Management - Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Automation - Integrating ESM with Network Access Control Darrell Hawkins, Managing Director, Bank of New York Mellon Attend this session and learn how Darrell Hawkins, Managing Director, has lead the establishment and implementation of an automated GRC policy where the integration of network access control with security event and incident management (SEIM) provides a greater insight into suspicious activity across the network. Darrell will discuss how removing the burden of manually monitoring compliance issues allows his team to focus proactively on countering threats.		How to Leverage the Cloud For Real World Business Requirements – Private, Public and Utility Cloud Computing Andy Nichols, Enterprise Technologist, Dell Inc.		Developing an Effective IT Posture for the Modern Threat Landscape Kris Braun, Threat Operations Manager, Sophos
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Cocktail Reception and Prize Passport Drawing In The Expo (You must be present to win.)

"IT Roadmap Conference & Expo is well worth the time from a busy week. I learned both which directions to move in and what was most important in terms of quick and critical next steps to improve ROI and conserve our limited IT resources. I will definitely make it a point to attend the next conference!"

- M. Kobar, CTO, Lymeware Corporation

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