| September 14th, 2010 - Dallas Convention Center | |||||
 8:00 am | Registration Opens & Continental Breakfast | ||||
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | IT Roadmap: Welcome and Overview John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||||
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Executive Keynote Presentation: Getting Lean and Green at Schneider Frederic Chanfrau, Senior VP IT - Governance, Quality & Vendor Management, Schneider Electric | ||||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Morning Panel Discussion: Reality Check - Sorting Through the Hot vs. the Hype Moderator: John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World Kevin Dunn, Vice President of Network Operations, First Command Financial Services, Inc Simon Dunning, Managing Director, Demand Manager, Applied Materials John Burke, Chief Information Officer, Ambit Energy | ||||
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Networking Break | ||||
| 10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Cloud & Virtualization Roadmap | Convergence & Wireless Roadmap | Data Center Roadmap | Managing, Controlling & Optimizing Application Delivery Roadmap | The Secure Enterprise Roadmap |
| 10:30 am | Cloud Computing and Virtualization: How the Global 2000 Are Evolving Their IT Infrastructure Ken Male, Executive Vice Chairman and Founder, TheInfoPro | Crucial Intersection: IT Converges Applications, Services, & Infrastructure to Support the Distributed Enterprise Robin Gareiss, Network World Columnist; Executive Vice President and Sr. Founding Partner, Nemertes Research | Architecting for Data Center Agility Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | Managing, Controlling and Optimizing Application Delivery Jim Metzler, Network World Columnist; President, Ashton Metzler & Associates | Securing Against the Evolving Threat Landscape Andreas Antonopoulos, Network World Columnist; Senior Vice President & Founding Partner, Nemertes Research |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Clouds, Open Automation and How the Network Can Help Ken Won, Director, Product Line Marketing, Force10 Networks Inc. | Windows 7 and Office 2010 are coming (soon), are you ready? Sampson Jordan, Enterprise Solutions Account Executive, Dell KACE | |||
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Enabling Enterprise Mobility and Collaboration Through IP Convergence Mike Argy, Global Converged Solutions Manager, Sprint Business Markets Group, Sprint | The Role of Networking in a Virtualized World Kevin Ryan, Director, Data Center Solutions, Extreme Networks | Hope is Not a Strategy – Top 5 Biggest Network Management Mistakes Matt Gowarty, Product Marketing Manager, Infoblox | Delivering IT Security and Compliance as a Service Matthew Clancy, Technical Account Manager, Qualys | |
| 11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Into the Cloud Simon Dunning, Managing Director, Demand Manager, Applied Materials | Leaping from Paper to Wireless Pamela Rucker, VP of IT, PSC | Surviving Hurricane Ike Spencer Parker, Network Analyst, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP | Saving the Canary: Moving from Reactive to Proactive in Infrastructure Management Kevin S. Dunn, Vice President of Network Operations, First Command Financial Services Inc. | Keeping Compliant in an Open Environment Dr. Denise Walker, Chief Emergency Management Officer (former CSO), Lonestar College System |
| 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Lunch and Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm) | ||||
| 2:10 pm - 4:00 pm | Implementation Strategy Session & "Help Me Build My Business Case" Workshops | Implementation Strategy Sessions | Problem-Solving Technical Tutorials & New Technology Demonstration | Moderated Table Discussions in the Expo | |
| 2:10 pm - 2:40 pm | Application Delivery: Adding Scalability and Flexibility While Reducing Costs Todd Harcourt, Senior System Engineer, South Central Region, A10 Networks | Protecting against the 3 most common ways of losing data John Metzger, Security Technologist, Sophos | HVAC & Power Optimization Andreas Antonopoulos, Network World Columnist; Senior Vice President & Founding Partner, Nemertes Research | 2:10pm - 2:50pm: Getting to Proactive Infrastructure Management Kevin Dunn, Vice President, Network Operations, First Command Financial Services, Inc. | 2:10pm - 2:50pm: From PCI to HIPAA: Best Practices for Keeping in Compliance Dr. Denise Walker, Chief Emergency Management Officer (former CSO), Lonestar College System |
| 2:50 pm - 3:20 pm | Implementation Strategy Session Reducing Network Tiers Flattening the Network Kevin Ryan, Director, Data Center Solutions, Extreme Networks | The Laws of Vulnerabilities: Patching Progress and how to Expedite It Matthew Clancy, Technical Account Manager, Qualys | Discussing the Top 25 Problems Lurking in your Network Today Tim Connelly, Director, Systems Engineers , Infoblox | ||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Making the Data Center Build vs. Buy Decision Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | Maximize Network Visibility with NetFlow Technology Andy Wilson, Senior Systems Engineer, Lancope Inc. | Bringing Cloud Security Down to Earth Andreas Antonopoulos, Network World Columnist; Senior Vice President & Founding Partner, Nemertes Research | 3:20pm - 4:00pm: Best Practices for Disaster Recovery Spencer Parker, Network Analyst, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP. | 3:20pm - 4:00pm: Secrets to Success when Going Wireless Pamela Rucker, VP of IT, PSC |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Cocktail Reception and Prize Passport Drawing in the Expo (You must be present to win.) | ||||
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