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Dialpad is the future of business communications and offers unmatched security, reliability and scale, with Dialpad, UberConference, Call Center and VoiceAI. More than 50,000 of the world’s most innovative businesses use Dialpad to be more productive. Customers include: WeWork, Uber, and Xero. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.
Executive Connection

Kaspersky Lab is a global cybersecurity company founded in 1997. Its deep threat intelligence and security expertise is constantly transforming into security solutions and services to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, governments and consumers around the globe. Over 400 million users and 270,000 corporate clients are protected by Kaspersky Lab technologies

  Quick Base is a no-code application development platform that enables enterprise IT teams to blast through their backlog by empowering business users to build their own applications. Quick Base helps organizations accelerate digital transformation by providing all the speed and flexibility the business needs to solve problems fast, without sacrificing on the security and governance standards IT demands. For more information, visit quickbase.com/enterprise.
  RingCentral, Inc. is a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading business apps and enables customers to easily customize business workflows - unifying voice, video, team messaging and collaboration, conferencing, online meetings, and integrated contact center solutions.
Partner Sponsors
BitSight is transforming how companies manage information security risk with trusted, time-tested and actionable security ratings. Founded in 2011, the company built its Security Ratings Platform to continuously analyze vast amounts of external data on security issues and behaviors in order to help organizations manage third party risk, underwrite cyber insurance policies, benchmark performance, conduct M&A due diligence and assess aggregate risk. Seven of the top 10 cyber insures, 20% of Fortune 500 companies, and 3 of the top 5 investment banks rely on BitSight to manage cyber risks.
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) aims to power a world where people, organizations and things are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible. We help customers reimagine the future of work by providing the most comprehensive secure digital workspace that unifies the apps, data and services people need to be productive, and simplifies IT’s ability to adopt and manage complex cloud environments. With 2016 annual revenue of $3.42 billion, Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000 organizations including 99 percent of the Fortune 100 and 98 percent of the Fortune 500.
 
Code42, a leading provider of information security solutions, secures the ideas of more than 50,000 organizations worldwide, including the most recognized brands in business and education. Because Code42 collects and indexes every version of every file, the company offers security, legal and IT teams total visibility and recovery of data–wherever it lives and moves. With real-time alerts and forensics, these teams can easily detect, investigate and rapidly recover from any data incident, such as ransomware, lost or stolen devices and insider threats. Supported by a global state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure, the Code42 platform safeguards hundreds of petabytes of data and helps organizations comply with evolving regulatory requirements.
Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and backed by Accel Partners, JMI Equity, NEA and Split Rock Partners. For more information, visit code42.com.
  Comcast Business has the largest IP network in the nation, serving the needs of small business through large enterprise customers. Technology solutions range from fast, reliable Ethernet and Internet connectivity to voice, video, and Managed Solutions. Comcast Business is powered by an advanced Gig-ready network and 24/7 technical support. Learn more at business.comcast.com/enterprise.
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  Crosscode Panoptics™ lets you accelerate change without compromising quality. It automatically creates a comprehensive enterprise architecture map from your runtime environment down to the code level. With this map, you can estimate the cost and impact of a change, reduce the risk of outages, monitor best practices, reduce MTTR, and audit your environment.

McAfee is the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company. Inspired by the power of working together, McAfee creates business and consumer solutions that make our world a safer place. By building solutions that work with other companies’ products, McAfee helps businesses orchestrate cyber environments that are truly integrated, where protection, detection and correction of threats happen simultaneously and collaboratively. By protecting consumers across all their devices, McAfee secures their digital lifestyle at home and away. By working with other security players, McAfee is leading the effort to unite against cybercriminals for the benefit of all.

Viavi is an application and network management industry leader, providing products that optimize performance and speed problem resolution. Helping to ensure delivery of critical applications for businesses worldwide, Viavi offers an integrated line of precision-engineered software and hardware systems for effective network monitoring and analysis.

Analyst Partner

IDC is the most trusted IT research advisory firm in the market.  IDC's IT Executive Programs support businesses globally in the Digital Transformation (DX) of their organizations.  Our IT advisory services not only advise on the technologies underpinning digital transformation (e.g. cloud, analytics, IoT, mobility, 3D printing), but also on effectively leading and executing Digital Transformation (DX) initiatives across both IT and the line of business.  For over 50 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to enable clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world’s leading technology media, research, and events company. www.idc.com/itexecutive