| Boston Agenda |
| Tuesday, August 8, 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 | Leveraging an Innovative Culture to Modernize Infrastructure James Fairweather, SVP, Technology, Pitney Bowes | |||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Building Momentum with Virtual Network Functions Rodney Godwin, Director, Product Marketing Management, AT&T | |||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | The Future of Communication James Roth, VP of Sales, 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 Irwin Lazar, Vice President and Service Director, Nemertes Research | Achieving World Class Information Security John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | The Future of Work: How AI Transforms Personal Productivity, Team Collaboration and Business Processes Alan Lepofsky, Analyst, Constellation Research, Inc. | DevOps: Best Practices for Improving Speed and Quality Stephen Elliot, VP, Research, IDC |
| 11:05 am - 11:35 am | Transforming Your Data Center Network to be Cloud-Ready Steve Shalita, VP of Marketing , Pluribus Networks | The Keys to Repelling Ransomware Guyton Thorne, Sr. Mgr. Pre-Sales Engineering, Kaspersky Lab | The Next Evolution of Protection: Machine Learning Chris Chaves, Channel Sales Engineer, Sophos | SD-WAN Use Cases and Technology Donna Johnson, Director of Product Marketing , Citrix Systems, Inc. |
| 11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Modernizing for the Future with a Cloud-First Approach David Nero, CIO, Perkins School for the Blind | Balancing Privacy and Innovation in Today’s Cloud-Based Enterprise Steve Smith, CIO, Cambridge Public Schools | Delighting Customers with Customer-Centric Agile Development Marc Wood, VP, Information Technology, Liberty Mutual Group | |
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | IT Roadmap Panel of Industry Experts Tim Richter, Director Product Marketing – Call Center, 8x8 Mark McArdle, Chief Technology Officer, eSentire Harry Smith III, Technology Evangelist, Zerto Mike McGoldrick, VP, Events, IDG Enterprise | |||
| 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Networking Lunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm) | |||
| 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Expo Hall Theater Ryan Pillans, Sr. Brand Marketing Manager, Dell EMC Joe Kekejian, Regional Sales Manager, Extreme Networks Ben Gale, Sr. Regional Sales Manager , Ixia Guyton Thorne, Sr. Mgr. Pre-Sales Engineering, Kaspersky Lab Chris Chaves, Channel Sales Engineer, Sophos | |||
| 2:00 pm - 3:10 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | |||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Modernizing Infrastructure with Software Defined Approaches Ryan Pillans, Sr. Brand Marketing Manager, Dell EMC | Best Practices in Implementing Vulnerability Management Mark McArdle, Chief Technology Officer, eSentire | ||
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | How Collaboration as a Service is Driving Costs Down Julian Phillips, EVP, Whitlock | Why You Need to Know About Composable Infrastructure Carmelo McCutcheon, VP of Pre-Sales Engineering and Services, Cloudistics | ||
| 3:20 pm - 3:50 pm | Emerging Technologies to Watch in the Year Ahead John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | |||
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings | |||
| 4:30 pm | Event Concludes | |||
