| Chicago Agenda |
| March 14, 2017 | ||||
 7:45 am - 5:00 pm | Registration Open | |||
| 7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast and Conversation | |||
| 8:30 am - 8:45 am | Opening Remarks and Overview John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | |||
| 8:45 am - 9:15 am | Supporting Members Through Technology in a Changing Health Care Environment Steve Betts, SVP & CIO, Health Care Service Corporation | |||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Time for Internet 3.0: Networking Only Provable Cryptographic Identities Erik Giesa, VP, Products, Tempered Networks | |||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Building Momentum with Virtual Network Functions Rodney Godwin, Director, AT&T Product Manager, AT&T | |||
| 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 | From Data to Decisions: The Path to an AI-Driven Smart Service R. Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman, Constellation Research, Inc. | IT Agility that Leverages DevOps is Key to Digital Transformation Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research |
| 11:05 am - 11:35 am | The Keys to Repelling Ransomware Jeremy Smolik, Systems Engineer , Kaspersky Lab | Five Forces of Change for IT Infrastructure Teams: A Look at What’s Coming Tammy Bednar, Director, Product Management, Oracle Database Appliance | New Approaches for the Modern Data Center Network Steve Shalita, VP of Marketing , Pluribus Networks | Transforming Enterprise Communications to Streamline the Customer Experience Sanjay Srinivasan, PhD, Vice President and Chief Technology Architect Business Engineering, Vonage |
| 11:40 am - 12:10 pm | The Agile Journey at Anixter Ram Narain, VP, Enterprise PMO and M&A Integration, Anixter | Emerging Technologies to Watch in the Year Ahead John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | Creating the Workplace of the Future Rob Franch, CTO, Cushman & Wakefield | Using Segmentation to Secure IoT Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research |
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | How Cloud Object Storage Can Help Your Digital Business Russ Kennedy, VP Strategy & Customer Success, IBM Cloud Object Storage | |||
| 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 Mark Bleecker, Regional Sales Manager, ExtraHop Networks Gregory Gigiel, Account Executive, Extreme Networks Scott Stevens, Senior Director, Sales, Ixia Jeremy Smolik, Systems Engineer , Kaspersky Lab | |||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Editor's Panel of Industry Experts Chris Pyne, VP North America Operations, EfficientIP Patrick Sack, Regional Vice President, Enterprise Sales, Flexera Software Manan Shah, Director of Product Management, Viptela Marc Kreppel, Account Executive, Zerto Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development and Strategy, IDG Enterprise Events | |||
| 2:40 pm - 3:50 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | |||
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Bringing Web-scale IT Principles to Your Data Center Network Kevin Witherstine, Sales Engineer, Cumulus Networks | Connecting Your Workforce to Empower Your Business Mike Andrews, Regional Vice President, Enterprise Sales, RingCentral, Inc. | The 4th Era of IT Infrastructure: Beyond Hyperconverged to the Composable Cloud Juan Giusti, Principle Solution Architect, Cloudistics | Industry Perspective Presentation |
| 3:20 pm - 3:50 pm | How Collaboration as a Service is Driving Costs Down Julian Phillips, EVP, Whitlock | Cognitive WiFi: Using Automation and Network Intelligence to Maintain Highly-Optimized WiFi Networks Brian White, VP of Product Management, Mojo Networks | Industry Perspective Presentation | Industry Perspective Presentation |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Attracting the Best and Brightest: A Panel Discussion with Computerworld's "Best Places to Work” Winners Jason O'Sullivan, VP, Technology, Cars.com Katie Rose, Senior Director, User Services, University of Notre Dame John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | |||
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo | |||
| 5:00 pm | Event Concludes | |||
