Keynote Speakers

 Dave Donatelli

Change the Rules of Networking to Enable the Cloud

The convergence of traditional IT, virtualization and cloud computing are combining with mobility and emerging social trends to reshape the technology industry. These trends are also fueling a revolution of business innovation across all industries. HP networking is at the forefront of helping organizations transform with Converged Infrastructure to harness the business potential of these powerful trends. Join HP Executive Vice President and Genera lManager Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, David Donatelli as he reveals industry-first technologies designed for the data center of the future that change the rules of networking and accelerate your path to the cloud.

 Mark Templeton

User Expectations Drive New Approaches

Consumerization and the potential of the cloud are the latest forces requiring IT to think differently about their role in the enterprise and the services they provide. Requests to use personal smart phones, tablets and laptops interchangeably with corporate resources grow daily. The amount of data users depend on for both business and personal use has exploded, with music, video, pictures and text being used and shared in previously unthinkable volumes. Expectations for applications have changed –from enterprise driven behemoths to simple and inexpensive micro-apps. Always provocative, President and CEO of Citrix Systems, Mark Templeton will share his thoughts on how IT must continue to evolve how it delivers services to users – including more from outside the datacenter – yet in a way that is managed and secure. He'll share insights from forward-thinkers who are moving beyond network infrastructure planning to consider frameworks for service delivery. Ultimately, you'll hear his vision for what the transformed enterprise will look like and the implications for what every IT professional must start thinking about and doing today, to keep pace.

A Conversation with Vinton Cerf

In honor of Interop's 25th anniversary, Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf will explore the past, present and future of the Internet with Interop Founder, Dan Lynch. Our guests will revisit the key innovations, personalities and events that drove the commercialization of the Internet and look ahead to the future developments and policies needed to ensure the Internet continues to thrive as a global network.

The Network: Control Point for Convergence

Join Cisco Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Rebecca Jacoby and Brett Galloway, Senior Vice President of the Wireless, Security and Routing Technology Group, as they discuss the significance of network convergence for IT practitioners. Today, more than ever before, IT is responsible for making a profound business impact through technology services. Rebecca and Brett will share new innovations that simplify IT operations by embedding intelligence and automation in the network, delivering greater visibility and control.

They will also share their own experiences and predictions for network architecture, providing real-world examples of the network as the control point to enable cloud-based services, the use of video and integrated policy. With the ability to deliver a new level of functionality, IT practitioners are using the network as the platform to provide a competitive advantage to their businesses that is repeatable, flexible, scalable, and fast.

 Zane Adam

Public Cloud: The Transformational Opportunities Ahead

As the industry moves past how to define the cloud and squarely focus on the benefits cloud can deliver, the results are eye opening. Economies of scale in the public cloud are reducing costs in impressive ways and also leveling the playing field for both businesses and their customers. During this keynote, Zane Adam, General Manager of Azure and Middleware at Microsoft will discuss the cost savings and agility public cloud is already delivering today, and the transformational opportunities these benefits offer businesses and their customers.

 Alex Gray

Enabling the Exponential Data Center

The rapidly evolving world of the data center has created a need for innovative, new network architectures to deliver on the promise and potential of the cloud and enterprise data centers. Today's modern data center requires a new architectural approach to unleash the power of the virtualized data center - one that not only solves the increasing problems of scale, economics, and complexity in the data center, but has the potential to enable dramatic new levels of computing for years to come. Join Juniper's Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Campus & Branch Business Unit as he offers technical insights into key data center challenges and solutions that are applicable now and in the long-term.

 Scott Hopkins

Re-thinking IT. Re-inventing Business

How do you drive innovation and growth while addressing increased demands on core IT -- all with a flat budget? Delivering the full value of information, access, and insights to a growing user base requires experience and business insight. Learn how IBM helps deliver flexibility and financial value while laying the foundation for driving new business outcomes. Scott Hopkins, General Manager of IBM's Global Technology Services, will detail how clients can link business and IT with strategies like the integration of cloud with traditional delivery models. Scott will also explore how entrusting delivery of IT capabilities to those providing ‘as a service’, like IBM's SmartCloud can speed the delivery of IT services tuned for your business. Finally Scott will explain how IBM is leveraging data, deep analytics, and industry expertise across all IT delivery models to help clients take full advantage of cloud and shift their IT operations from a cost center to a business asset with clear ROI.

 Kirk Skaugen

Driving the Data Center Infrastructure for the Next Decade

Kirk Skaugen, Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Group, will describe Intel's vision to create and extend computing technology to connect and enrich people's lives, and discuss the impact this will have on Data Center Infrastructure for the next decade. He'll talk about the opportunity to transform the economics of computing and services with cloud computing and provide insights into Intel's product and technology directions for next generation data centers, with a focus on improving security and enhancing datacenter efficiency.

 Steve Bandrowczak

The New IT Paradox: Are Users Driving Anarchy or Progress?

User demands on the IT organization are at an unprecedented level…is it all-out anarchy or is it progress? Join Avaya Data Solutions Vice President & General Manager and veteran CIO of four global companies, Steve Bandrowczak, as he addresses the challenges facing modern IT organizations and shares guiding principles and new technologies that will allow IT organizations to operate in a leadership position within their organizations.