| Seattle Agenda |
| Wednesday, April 5, 2017 | |||
 8:00 am - 4:15 pm | Registration Open | ||
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast and Conversation | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | IT Roadmap: Overview and Opening Remarks John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Expedia’s Strategic Journey to the Cloud: An Executive Interview Subbu Allamaraju, VP, Cloud, Expedia John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Time for Internet 3.0: Networking Only Provable Cryptographic Identities Matt Close, VP, Sales, Tempered Networks | ||
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Infrastructure of the Future - Maximizing Value Mark van Oppen, Cloud Sales Executive , IBM | ||
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Morning Networking Break | ||
| 11:00 am - 12:05 pm | Morning Breakout Sessions | ||
| 11:00 am - 11:30 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 | The Future of Work: How AI Transforms Personal Productivity, Team Collaboration and Business Processes Alan Lepofsky, Analyst, Constellation Research, Inc. |
| 11:35 am - 12:05 pm | Transforming Your Data Center Network to be Cloud-Ready Steven Shalita, VP of Marketing , Pluribus Networks | The Keys to Repelling Ransomware John Linzy, Senior Sales Engineer, Kaspersky Lab | |
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | Editor's Panel of Industry Experts Steven Shalita, VP of Marketing , Pluribus Networks Khalid Raza, CTO, Viptela John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World | ||
| 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Exhibit Area (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Exhibit Area open until 4:30pm) | ||
| 2:00 pm - 3:05 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | ||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Three Strategies to Protect Intellectual Property (IP) in an Era of Employee Churn Ty Keller, Enterprise Engineer , Code42 | The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Object Storage John Shubeck, Business Solutions Architect, IBM | Software-Defined Storage: Evolving Trends in the New Era of Storage Gabrielle Schmitz, Pacific Northwest Sales Director , DataCore Software |
| 2:35 pm - 3:05 pm | Why and How We’re Shifting IT’s Focus to the Customer Bill Kehoe, CIO, King County | Finding Contemporary and Affordable Cloud Options Greg Smith, Interim CIO, Western Washington University | The Agile Journey at Continental Mills Tammy Barr, CIO, Continental Mills |
| 3:10 pm - 3:40 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 in Exhibit Area | ||
| 4:30 pm | Event Concludes | ||
