Houston Agenda |
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 | ||||
8:00 am - 4:30 pm | Registration Open | |||
8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast and Conversation | |||
9:00 am - 9:15 am | IT Roadmap: Overview and Opening Remarks Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development and Strategy, IDG Enterprise Events | |||
9:15 am - 9:45 am | Becoming a Data-Informed, Data-Driven Business Link Alander, Vice Chancellor, College Services, Lone Star College System | |||
9:45 am - 10:15 am | The Future of Communication Michael Costantino, Regional Vice President , Vonage Business | |||
10:15 am - 10:45 am | Five Forces of Change for IT Infrastructure Teams: A Look at What’s Coming Nancy Swanson, Senior Principal Product Marketing Director, Oracle | |||
10:45 am - 11:00 am | Morning Networking Break | |||
11:00 am - 12:05 pm | Morning Breakout Sessions | |||
11:00 am - 11:30 am | The Future of Work: How AI Transforms Personal Productivity, Team Collaboration and Business Processes Alan Lepofsky, Analyst, Constellation Research, Inc. | 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 | |
11:35 am - 12:05 pm | Connecting Your Workforce to Empower Your Business David West, Sr. Account Executive – Major Accounts, RingCentral, Inc. | Transforming Your Data Center Network to be Cloud-Ready Steve Shalita, VP of Marketing , Pluribus Networks | ||
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | Editor's Panel of Industry Experts Karla Nussbaumer, Director of Technical Marketing, 8x8 Eric Feldman, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Flexera Software Steve Shalita, VP of Marketing , Pluribus Networks Khalid Raza, CTO, Viptela Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development and Strategy, IDG Enterprise Events | |||
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Networking Lunch | |||
2:00 pm - 3:05 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | |||
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Network Analytics: Getting a Grip on the User Experience Jeff Haydel, Senior Systems Engineer, Nyansa | Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN): The New Way to Build a Better WAN Derek Granath, VP, Product Marketing, Silver Peak Systems | ||
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm | Realizing the Many Benefits of Moving from Waterfall to Agile Scrum Grady Ligon, SVP and CIO, HSF Affiliates LLC | Moving Beyond the Firewall: The Next Frontier of IT Leadership Ken Piddington, CIO, MRE Consulting | Emerging Technologies to Watch in the Year Ahead John Burke, CIO and Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research | |
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm | Augmented Everything: How IT Can Reshape the Future of Work Wayne Sadin, COO & CTO, Affinitas Life | |||
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo | |||
4:15 pm | Event Concludes |