Atlanta Agenda |
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 | ||||
7:45 am - 4:30 pm | Registration Open | |||
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast and Conversation | |||
8:30 am - 8:45 am | IT Roadmap: Overview and Opening Remarks Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development and Strategy, IDG Enterprise Events | |||
8:45 am - 9:15 am | Creating a Global Strategy for Digital Transformation Heather Miller, VP Global Technology, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG®) | |||
9:15 am - 9:45 am | Time for Internet 3.0: Networking Only Provable Cryptographic Identities Matt Close, VP, Sales, Tempered Networks | |||
9:45 am - 10:15 am | The Future of Communication Amanda Johnson, Regional VP, Vonage | |||
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Morning Networking Break | |||
10:30 am - 12:10 pm | Morning Breakout Sessions | |||
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Reimagining Your Network and Infrastructure for the Cloud-Powered Enterprise Robin Gareiss, President, Nemertes Research | Achieving World Class Information Security John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | From Data to Decisions: The Path to an AI-Driven Smart Service Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research | IT Agility that Leverages DevOps is Key to Digital Transformation Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research |
11:05 am - 11:35 am | Transforming Your Data Center Network to be Cloud-Ready Steve Shalita, VP of Marketing , Pluribus Networks | SD-WAN Use Cases and Technology Donna Johnson, Director of Product Marketing , Citrix Systems, Inc. | Modernizing Infrastructure with Software Defined Approaches Gerard Svartz, Sr. Solution Marketing Manager, Dell EMC | |
11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Digital Transformation Organizational Guidelines and Technology Primer Robin Gareiss, President, Nemertes Research | Emerging Technologies to Watch in the Year Ahead John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | Reshaping the Business Landscape through Strategic Transformations Tyler Bennett, VP, Information Technology, Aflac | The Journey to More Agile IT Dean Johnson, COO, Georgia Technology Authority |
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | IT Roadmap Panel of Industry Experts Matt Cauthorn, VP, Security & Network Analytics, ExtraHop Networks Eric Feldman, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Flexera Ferrol Macon, VP, Architecture and Product Strategy, VeriStor Gene Perry, VP Services & Support, Zerto | |||
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm) | |||
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Expo Hall Theater Donna Johnson, Director of Product Marketing , Citrix Systems, Inc. Gerard Svartz, Sr. Solution Marketing Manager, Dell EMC Linda Arnold, Southeastern Regional Government Business Development, Extreme Networks | |||
2:00 pm - 3:10 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | |||
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Evolving the WAN for Business Agility and Profitability Taka Yamada, Regional Director, Silver Peak Systems | Why You Need to Know About Composable Infrastructure Jonathon Makela, Principal Solutions Architect , Cloudistics | ||
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Infrastructure as Code Gray Salladay, Solutions Architect, VeriStor | IT Infrastructure Trends: From On-Prem to the Enterprise Cloud Todd Mace, Sr. Systems Engineer – Southeast , Nutanix | ||
3:20 pm - 3:50 pm | Finding New Ways to Address the Digital Transformation Talent Gap Walt Carter, CIO and CMO, Primary Capital Mortgage | |||
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo | |||
4:30 pm | Event Concludes |