Conference: Networking Track
As recently as a couple of years ago not much was happening relative to the deployment of either new networking technologies and services or new network management functionality. Suddenly that has all changed. Driven in part by the virtualization of servers, the traditional data center LAN design is rapidly becoming obsolete. In addition, new technologies are being deployed to drastically improve the price performance of Internet based services and to improve the ability of MPLS to provide application assurance. At the same time that new networking technologies and services are being deployed, a wide range of new network management tools is being brought to market. The Networking track will address the tools targeting both traditional network management problems as well as the new generation of problems created by virtualization and cloud computing.
| Tuesday, April 27 | |
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Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers. There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical. So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place. Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN. Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there? In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions. The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense. The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Doug Gourlay, VP, Marketing, Arista Networks, Inc. As Vice President of Marketing Douglas Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Doug was the VP of Data Center Marketing at Cisco Systems where he held key roles in sales, product development, and marketing. Doug has filed or holds more than twenty patents in networking technologies. Prior to his work in the technology sector Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer. Speaker - Manish Muthal, Director - Enterprise Solutions, LSI Manish Muthal is director of marketing for Enterprise Networking Solutions, LSI Corporation. Muthal brings deep knowledge of the enterprise networking business with focus on switching and services architecture for the enterprise and data center. Most recently he was Founder, Vice President of Hardware at Nevis Networks, where he led the architecture development and technology marketing for service aware enterprise switches. Prior to Nevis, he led networking silicon development at Juniper Networks and Amber Networks (Nokia), and high end server platform architecture at Intel. Muthal has a master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Speaker - Thomas Scheibe, Director, Datacenter Switching and Services Group, Cisco Thomas Scheibe joined Cisco in 1998 and is currently Director for datacenter systems in Cisco’s System Architecture and Strategy Unit. During his time at Cisco he managed Cisco’s transceiver portfolio and worked with customers in the cable and Metro Ethernet service provider space. Thomas represents Cisco on the Board of Directors of the Ethernet Alliance. Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley. Speaker - Ken Ferderer, Chief Technology Officer, LineSider Technologies, Inc. Speaker - Rick Kagan, VP of Marketing, Infoblox Speaker - Ken Oestreich, VP, Marketing, Egenera Inc. Currently, Ken is VP of Marketing for Egenera Corp., a leading provider of Converged Infrastructure software. There he has helped remake the company’s image and visibility as a visionary multi-platform software vendor. Prior to Egenera, Ken led Product Marketing at Cassatt Corp., who defined the market for utility computing and internal cloud computing. Previously, he held a number of positions at Sun Microsystems, including business management for an incubator services unit, coordinating Java marketing strategy, driving Developer Marketing, and growing the SI/ISV partner marketing organization. Speaker - Larry Hart, Sr. Global Manager, Product Planning/Management/Marketing, Dell Inc. Speaker - Paul Congdon, HP Networking Chief Technologist and HP Fellow, HP ProCurve Paul Congdon is Chief Technology Officer for HP ProCurve and an HP Fellow, one of the elite HP employees recognized as pioneers in their fields. He is responsible for specifying, architecting and designing ProCurve network infrastructure and software products. In his 25 years in the networking industry, he has become widely esteemed as an inventor and leader in driving networking industry standards. Congdon is the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and Technical Advisor for the IETF RADIUS Extensions Working Group, and his long-time activities with the IEEE 802 standards efforts involved him in the creation of the Ethernet LAN. He is co-inventor of the commonly used TCP checksum offloading, a program for accelerating the networking performance of TCP/IP within servers. He also architected the method of distributing ProCurve software onto multiple processors, enabling ProCurve switch software to scale between low-cost, single-chip solutions and high-end, multi-modular chassis systems. After completing internships with IBM, Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols within HP-UX. He expanded his focus to infrastructure architecture issues and has been involved in the design of a wide range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, SNA, X.25, FDDI, Ethernet, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X. Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University, Chico. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. He currently holds ten patents related to the networking industry and has several more in process. Speaker - Dhritiman Dasgupta, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies, Juniper Networks Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business. | |
| Wednesday, April 28 | |
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Experts agree that the IPv4 address space will be depleted in about two years. In this session, John Curran, the president and chief executive officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will identify the challenges that IPv4 depletion presents to networks and the Internet community as a whole, and how organizations can prepare for these challenges. The session will discuss the considerations for IPv6 adoption, as well as how to get involved in the community-driven public policy process that dictates how the remaining IPv4 address space is allocated. Speaker - John Curran, President & CEO, ARIN John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region, which includes Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception in 1997 through early 2009. John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, CTO for XO Communications, and CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking. | |
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Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market. The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies. Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Martin Casado, Co-Founder and CTO, Nicira Networks
Martin Casado received his PhD from Stanford University in 2007 where his dissertation work led to the technology on which Nicira is based. He received his Masters from Stanford University in 2005. While at Stanford, Martin co-founded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006. Prior to attending Stanford, Martin held a research position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on network security in the information operations assurance center (IOAC). Speaker - David Christophe, Director, Marketing, Alcatel Lucent Dave has over 20 years experience with WAN solutions globally. His focus is on mission-critical energy, government and transportation communications. Dave is the Broadband Forum ambassador program vice chair focusing on the development of tutorials for industry education, and was previously the IP/MPLS Forum education working group chair. In this capacity he was involved in the development of 9 half day tutorials and their presentation at industry conferences. Dave recently presented at the Utilities Telecom Council annual conference on the lessons learned by several European and Asian Utilities that deployed a converged IP/MPLS WAN. His most recent technology whitepaper addresses the next steps with Ethernet WAN communications at power utility substations. Speaker - Charlie Kawwas, VP Marketing & Sales, Semiconductor Solutions Group, LSI Charlie Kawwas is the vice president of sales and marketing for the Network Components Division within the Semiconductor Solutions Group of LSI Corporation. Prior to his current role, Dr. Kawwas was the Senior Director for Enterprise and Service Provider Marketing at LSI. Before coming to LSI, he was the Leader of Product Line Management for Optical Multi-service Edge portfolio at Nortel Networks. Dr. Kawwas received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, and a doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Speaker - Andy Gottlieb, Founder and CEO, Talari Networks Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University. Speaker - Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP Product Marketing, Packet Design Alex Henthorn-Iwane joined Packet Design in September 2004 and brings 19 years of systems engineering, product management and marketing experience in network infrastructure, management and security technologies and products. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at CoSine Communications, a maker of virtualized edge routing and security infrastructure equipment for the Service Provider market. Previously, Henthorn-Iwane was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises (acquired by Lucent); and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. | |
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Video conferencing could be the toughest application your enterprise network has to support. It places significant bandwidth demands on the network, while simultaneously demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its acceptance as a business tool. This two hour session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence communications with deep dives into security, LAN QoS and WAN QoS issues. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Speaker - William Choe, Director, Product Management, Ethernet Switching Technology Group, Cisco William Choe is the Director of Product Management for the Ethernet Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc. In this position, Choe leads a team in the development of market leading fixed configuration Ethernet switching and energy management solutions for the mid-market, enterprise campus and data center. Choe is a fifteen-year Cisco veteran and has played a number of key roles in business strategy and product development across the company. This includes the development of Cisco’s first billion dollar fixed configuration product family, the Catalyst 3500XL platform. Choe was responsible for Senior Product Management of the Cisco ONS 15454, the central product of Cisco’s next generation optical networking platform. Prior to joining Cisco, Choe was an Engineer at Grand Junction Networks, which was acquired by Cisco in November 1995. At Grand Junction, he provided technical support and management of the company’s ground-breaking switched Ethernet and Fast Ethernet products.Choe received his Bachelor of Science from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California and his Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. Speaker - Matt Sherrod, Senior Director, Product Management, CA As Senior Director of Product Management for CA, Matt Sherrod helps define product direction and strategy for the company’s portfolio of integrated Service Assurance products that show how well the infrastructure is delivering business services. He spent the last eight years in a number of field and management positions at NetQoS, prior to its recent acquisition by CA. Previously, Sherrod spent ten years as the Director of Communications for ARCO Alaska, where he was responsible for delivering Voice, Video and Data services for the Alaskan Oilfields. His major projects included next-generation high-speed networking and Linux Beowulf supercomputing. Sherrod has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math/Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University. Speaker - Mauricio Sanchez, Chief Security Architect, HP Speaker - Seamus Hourihan, VP of Marketing and Product Management, Acme Packet | |
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By adopting server virtualization we’ve reduced the number of physical servers in the data center but the proliferation of separate storage, data, management and VMotion networks has made the back of our server racks look like an explosion in a spaghetti factory. Now that 10Gigabit Ethernet is widely available several solutions have arisen to consolidate network and storage I/O onto a smaller number of higher bandwidth connections. With consolidated networking users can stop playing the game of one cable, two cable, orange cable, blue cable. This session will explore the solutions available to server and storage administrators for reducing cable clutter and consolidating network and storage I/O. Ranging from Fibre Channel NPIV and using vLANs to segregate data traffic to cutting edge technologies including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and PCIe extension, We’ll look at the technologies, the players, the politics and how users can integrate new technologies into their short and long term planning. Topics include: · I/O virtualization for management and security · The state of FCoE · End of Row vs. Top of Rack configurations · External I/O virtualization solutions · 10Gig Ethernet, CEE, DCB, DCE – Ethernet for the Data Center Speaker - Howard Marks, Contributing Editor, Network Computing Howard Marks is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Networks Are Our Lives, Inc! a Hoboken NJ based networking consultancy. In over 25 years of consulting he has designed and implemented networks, management systems and Internet strategies at organizations including American Express, JP Morgan, Borden Foods, US Tobacco, BBDO Worldwide and Foxwoods Resort Casino. Mr. Marks has been a speaker at industry conferences including Comnet, PC Expo, Neworld+Interop and Microsoft’s TechEd since 1990 on topics including LAN and WAN infrastructure, systems management and web hosting. He is the author of Networking Windows and co-author of Windows NT Unleashed (Sams) along with over 100 articles in publications including PC Magazine, Network Computing and Network World. He is currently the "Backup and Business Continuity" blogger at InformationWeek.com | |
| Thursday, April 29 | |
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Most IT organizations are taking IT resources such as servers, applications and storage out of branch offices and placing them in centralized data centers. This raises some critical questions: How can IT organizations overcome the impediments to the broad deployment of virtual desktops? Should the next generation branch office be serverless? What type of device(s) needs to still be in the branch office and how is it managed? What techniques can be used to overcome the performance issues? The speakers on this panel will answer those questions and will present alternative designs for your next generation branch office. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Apurva Dave, Vice President of Product Marketing, Riverbed Technology Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives. Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Abhinav Bisarya, Product Marketing Manager, Juniper Networks Speaker - Shashi Kiran, Senior Manager, Cisco As part of Cisco’s Borderless Networks Initiative, Shashi Kiran heads the Enterprise Routing and WAN Optimization Marketing team for the Network Systems and Security group at Cisco. In this position he is responsible for defining the vision and strategic execution for the network as a platform focusing on various technologies that have a play in the branch and WAN. In his 15-year career, Shashi has held various roles in the areas of Product Line Management, Marketing, Business Development, Sales and Network Engineering focusing on areas of Security, Routing, Metro Ethernet and hi-touch services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Prior to Cisco he has worked with Nortel, Euclid Networks and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Dept.of Electronics, India). He also was an honorary consultant and columnist for the Network Magazine, Indian edition from 1997-2001. To propagate Network awareness in the 1990s, he devised India’s first e-mail based course on Internetworking that was subsequently syndicated in leading IT magazines. Kiran has been involved in contributing to standards bodies primarily in security and routing areas and frequently speaks at Industry events. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration in addition to a few industry certifications. Speaker - Mark McReynolds, Principal Technology Specialist, Microsoft Mark McReynolds, MCSE, CISSP is a Principal Technology Specialist with Microsoft. Mark has 15 years of industry experience and ten years of experience working with Microsoft Consulting Services and Microsoft’s Enterprise Product Group delivery Windows Server based solutions. For the past five years Mark has focused on virtualization technologies and has worked extensively with Microsoft’s enterprise customers delivering server and client based virtualization solutions. In addition to his technical work, Mark speaks at dozens of customer, partner and industry events each year, including the recent Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 product launch. | |
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The role of network management has fundamentally changed. It is no longer just about the availability of networks. In now includes managing the performance of networks and applications. In addition, the continued deployment of new functionality, such as mobility and the virtualization of just about every component of IT, is making the task of network management significantly more challenging. Thankfully there has been a lot of investment in network management and the panelists in this fast paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising of the emerging network management technologies. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Jesse Rothstein, CEO, Extrahop Networks Jesse Rothstein is the CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, where his technical vision and expertise in enterprise networking give ExtraHop a competitive edge in the industry. With a world-class team under his leadership, Jesse is responsible for the technical architecture of the innovative ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance platform. Jesse co-founded ExtraHop after a six-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. Jesse was the architect and project lead for the BIG-IP v9 development effort and the technical lead for frameworks, clustering, and performance. Prior to F5, Jesse worked in product development at Motive Communications and the Trilogy Development Group. Jesse specializes in designing and implementing high-performance networking products. Jesse graduated from Rice University with bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Speaker - Matt Sherrod, Senior Director, Product Management, CA As Senior Director of Product Management for CA, Matt Sherrod helps define product direction and strategy for the company’s portfolio of integrated Service Assurance products that show how well the infrastructure is delivering business services. He spent the last eight years in a number of field and management positions at NetQoS, prior to its recent acquisition by CA. Previously, Sherrod spent ten years as the Director of Communications for ARCO Alaska, where he was responsible for delivering Voice, Video and Data services for the Alaskan Oilfields. His major projects included next-generation high-speed networking and Linux Beowulf supercomputing. Sherrod has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math/Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University. Speaker - Richard Whitehead, Director of Product Management, EMC Ionix Richard Whitehead is Director of Product Management at EMC Ionix. Richard is in charge of Ionix for IT Operations Intelligence, EMC's solution that automates service and infrastructure root-cause analysis, monitoring, and reporting across both physical and virtual environments. Richard brings to EMC Ionix more than 20 years' experience in the systems and network management marketplace. He also has a broad background in communications and security. Prior to EMC, Richard has worked for and advised a range of Silicon Valley startups - in addition to having been an advisor to Splunk and the CTO at Clarus. In addition, Richard was the Vice President of Strategic Technologies, which was later acquired by IBM. Richard served at Micromuse for nearly eight years. Speaker - Russ Currie, Director, Product Management, NetScout Systems
It’s finally time to stop thinking of wireless as “the other network”, and instead to begin enjoying the benefits of a unified wired/wireless network infrastructure. Wired and wireless share broad areas of commonality, but wireless does indeed introduce new concerns inherent in signals that propagate unpredictably and new benefits in terms of location-based services, user convenience, and more. We’ll look at opportunities to take advantage of the unification of wired and wireless into a single network, with a focus on unified network management strategies that lower operating expenses while providing great visibility to the enterprise. Moderator - Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. The company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a wide variety of topics. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the INTEROP conferences(Las Vegas and New York) and is also the Program Chair for the Mobile Business (MB) conferences. He serves as a monthly columnist for SearchMobileComputing.com and InformationWeek.com, and ardent blogger (“Nearpoints”) for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Chris Kozup, Senior Manager Mobility Solutions, Cisco Chris Kozup is a Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions at Cisco. He is responsible for market development and strategy for Cisco’s portfolio of enterprise wireless networking products and solutions. Speaker - Scott Lindsay, Sr. Director Global Product Line Management, Mobility and Voice Products, HP Scott Lindsay serves as the Sr. Director of Global Product Line Management for 3Com’s mobility and voice products. He is responsible for global product strategy, direction and implementation as well as go-to-market strategy and strategic partnerships for 3Com’s mobility and voice businesses. Prior to 3Com, Mr. Lindsay has held several sales, marketing and business development roles for companies focused on networking, and has led two start-up networking communications companies to successful acquisitions by Hewlett Packard and by 3Com. Previous leadership roles include VP of Marketing for Engim, a developer of wide-band Wi-Fi chip sets, and VP of Marketing and Business Development for Scope Communications, which developed hand-held networking test and measurement equipment, as well several other companies focused on networking communications, wireless and sensor solutions. Mr. Lindsay has also spent time working in the VC community with Granum Partners. He received a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Speaker - Rad Sethuraman, Senior Director Product Management, Motorola Rad Sethuraman brings more than 20 years of experience in product development and marketing to his current role of Senior Director of Product Management, Wireless Network Solutions, Motorola. In this role he leads product management and technical marketing for the company’s Enterprise WLAN solutions. Prior to Motorola, he was responsible for bringing to market a wide range of wireless LAN, networking and security products from companies including Nortel, Alteon Websystems, and Intel. Sethuraman holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University. Speaker - Manav Khurana, Head of Industry Solutions, Aruba Networks Manav is the head of solutions marketing at Aruba Networks, where he is responsible for technology and vertical solutions strategy and go-to-market efforts. No stranger to enterprise mobility and security applications, his involvement dates back to the pre-standard days of wireless LANs. Manav has firsthand experience with mobility implementations at large education, healthcare, government and Fortune 500 organizations. Prior to Aruba, he was the senior product manager at Symbol Technologies (Motorola) and Meru Networks. Manav holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester. | |
