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Houston Agenda
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
8:00 am - 4:30 pmRegistration Open
8:00 am - 9:00 amBreakfast and Conversation
9:00 am - 9:15 amIT Roadmap: Overview and Opening Remarks
Derek Hulitzky, VP, Content Development and Strategy, IDG Enterprise Events
9:15 am - 9:45 amBecoming a Data-Informed, Data-Driven Business
Link Alander, Vice Chancellor, College Services, Lone Star College System
9:45 am - 10:15 amThe Future of Communication
Michael Costantino, Regional Vice President , Vonage Business
10:15 am - 10:45 amFive 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 amMorning Networking Break
11:00 am - 12:05 pmMorning Breakout Sessions
11:00 am - 11:30 amThe 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 pmConnecting 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 pmEditor'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 pmNetworking Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:05 pmAfternoon Breakout Sessions
2:00 pm - 2:30 pmNetwork 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 pmRealizing 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 pmAugmented Everything: How IT Can Reshape the Future of Work
Wayne Sadin, COO & CTO, Affinitas Life
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmReception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo
4:15 pmEvent Concludes