Thursday, December 12, 2013 Printable agenda
7:30 am - 8:15 am	Registration and Breakfast
8:15 am - 8:30 am	Welcome and Overview John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World
8:30 am - 9:00 am	Running Toward the Future: This is Not a Sprint, It’s a Marathon Noah Broadwater, Head, Digital Products & Technology, Special Olympics
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Noisy Times in Wireless: Getting Wi-Fi to Stink Less Dave Wright, Technical Marketing Engineer, Ruckus Wireless
9:30 am - 10:00 am	Industry Shifts, Customer Demands, Shrinking Resources—How can Converged Infrastructure Help? Steve Koretsky, Product Line Manager, Americas, HP
10:00 am - 10:10 am	Morning Break
10:10 am - 12:00 pm	Morning Breakout Sessions
10:10 am - 10:40 am	The Mobile Advantage: Gateway to Digital Business R. Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman, Constellation Research, Inc.	BYOD? Not Without a Framework for Enterprise Mobile Security Shawn McCarthy, Research Director, IDC	Network From Edge to Core: The Path to the Future Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research	The Big Picture in Data to Decisions – It’s Who, Not How that Counts J. Bruce Daley, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research, Inc.	The Cutting Edge of Cloud & Next Generation Apps Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
10:50 am - 11:20 am		Keys to Infrastructure Consolidation and Improved End-User Performance Eric Carter, Director, Granite Product Marketing, Riverbed Technology Chris Pinckney, Director, Global Customer Programs, Riverbed Technology	Ethernet or T1: A Review of Metro Networking Alternatives Mohammad Shatat, Senior Enterprise Manager, Comcast Business Class
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	How Mobility and Collaboration Drive Innovation Gautam Roy, Vice President of Infrastructure, Operations & Field Services, Waste Management	Creating an Effective Insider Threat Program: The Challenges and Opportunities Michael Theis, Chief Counterintelligence Expert, CERT Insider Threat Center	IPv6 - Now is the Time! Geof Lambert, IPv6 Pioneer, IPv6 Forum Stu Mitchell, Chief Network Architect, Department of the Interior	Unreliable Systems: Reversing a Downward Spiral Rob McFeaters, Chief Technology Officer, PHH Corporation	Leveraging the Cloud to Modernize and Transform Your Organization Pradip Sitaram, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Enterprise
12:05 pm - 12:35 pm	Addressing Today’s Data Center Challenges with SDN & Ethernet Fabrics Duke Butler, Principal Engineer, Brocade
12:35 pm - 2:10 pm	Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm)
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm	Expo Hall Theater
2:10 pm - 3:20 pm	Afternoon Breakout Sessions
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm	The Rising Tide of Ransomware John Shier, Senior Security Expert, Sophos	Are You Ready for 802.11ac? Dave Wright, Technical Marketing Engineer, Ruckus Wireless	The Hybrid Cloud: Separating Semantics & Reality Mark Mitchell, Cloud Solution Manager, Cbeyond
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm	Solving Application Delivery Challenges Paul Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing, A10 Networks	Lessons Learned: Moving from a Traditional Onsite Data Center to a Remote Lights-Out Colocation Facility Gregg Brown, Senior Administrator, Data Center Operations, Choice Hotels International	Curing the Mobile Madness Tom Millea, Director of Sales, Novell
3:25 pm - 3:55 pm	Your IT Career Roadmap: Success Strategies to Build Your Personal Brand and Advance Your Career Renee Baker Arrington, Senior Vice President, Pearson Partners International, Inc.
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm	Closing Remarks John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Reception & Prize Passport Drawing (in the Expo)