| Washington, D.C. Agenda |
| Thursday, December 7, 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 | Why Biometrics are the Future of Security Brian Cobb, CTO, Brown Advisory | |||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | The Future of Communication James Roth, VP of Sales, Vonage | |||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Modernizing Infrastructure with Software Defined Approaches Gerard Svartz, Sr. Solution Marketing Manager, Dell EMC | |||
| 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 | Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Stop Today’s Threats Kerry Albert, Channel Sales Engineer , Sophos | DNS Power Tricks: Rethinking DNS to Improve Application Performance and Resiliency Gary Sloper, Head of Global Sales Engineering & Customer Success, Edge Cloud, Oracle Dyn | |
| 11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Improving Customer Satisfaction with Digital Innovation Goutam Kundu, CIO, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority | DataOps: Where is Data in Your DevOps Value Chain? Jason Anders, Technology Director, Fannie Mae | Transforming the Customer Experience with IoT Vennard Wright, CIO, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission | |
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | IT Roadmap Panel of Industry Experts Jeff Wootton, Presales Manager, East & Federal, Delphix Richard Eskelund, Principal Systems Engineer , Extreme Networks Mike Warstler, Account Executive, Zerto | |||
| 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 Regis Dean, Account Executive, Extreme Networks Jarrod Tsukada, Federal Principal Engineer, Ixia Kerry Albert, Channel Sales Engineer , Sophos | |||
| 2:00 pm - 3:10 pm | Afternoon Breakout Sessions | |||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | IT Infrastructure Trends: From On-Prem to the Enterprise Cloud Juan B. Giusti, Senior Systems Engineer , Nutanix | Connecting Your Workforce to Empower Your Business Eyal Novotny, Sales Engineer, RingCentral Inc. | Why You Need to Know About Composable Infrastructure Steve Conner, VP of Sales, Cloudistics | |
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Leveraging RFID and the Internet of Things for Secure Document Management Michael Hoffman, VP, Innovation and Growth Strategy Leader, Bank of New York Mellon | |||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Reception and Passport Prize Drawings in Expo | |||
| 4:00 pm | Event Concludes | |||
