Business Technology Workshops
Sunday - Monday, April 25-26, 2010,
8:30 am-4:30 pm
Attend full-day Workshops to dive deep into key IT topics—including virtualization, mobility, IT management, networking, VoIP, security and much more—in the days preceding the Interop Conference and Expo. BEST VALUE—Register for a Flex Pass to attend the Conference plus your choice of Workshops.
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As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day One of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world. Instructor - Thornton May, Futurist Executive Director, IT Leadership Academy Thornton May is America's leading CIO career doctor, tirelessly researching the environmental and psychological diseases that destroy IT leadership careers. On the road over 250 days a year making 'house calls' with leading CIOs, Thornton has assembled one of the world's most respected medicine chests of empirically tested job-saving, business-growing remedies in the IT business today. In addition to career doctoring, Thornton teaches Executive Education at four major universities, writes columns on technology for two leading publications, advises major organizations and government agencies on how to think differently about the future, all the while conducting seminal anthropological field research into technology use behaviors of the various tribes comprising modern society. Thornton brings a scholar's patience for empirical research, a second-to-none gift for storytelling and a scathingly honest sense of humor to his audiences. His exuberance is infectious. After prolonged exposure you go home and wring the personality out of your clothes. Most importantly you will be refreshed, revitalized and re-armed to win the career wars in front of you. Thornton was recently voted one of the world's 100 most influential leaders in IT. Speaker - Bruce Barnes, President and CEO, Bold Vision LLC Mr. Bruce Barnes has over thirty-six years of experience as a senior level officer in the technology arena, including very influential roles in Fortune 100 companies. He has received numerous industry accolades, including having been recognized by the industry press as one of this country's most noted CIOs. He is a recognized voice at national industry events and in major industry publications. He is an ongoing advisor and retained coach for a number of successful senior level corporate leaders. Currently, Mr. Barnes is the founder and CEO of BOLD VISION®, a senior management consulting consortium comprised of "C Level" executives, which operates as a trusted advisor and consultant to a number of noted CIOs and other I/T leaders, as well as to several large I/T product providers. Prior to this current role, Mr. Barnes served as the Vice President of I/T Strategy and Planning for the Nationwide Enterprise, a $200B international insurance and financial services company. There, he was responsible for the overall technology strategy, I/T architecture, information security, and I/T governance processes for the global enterprise. Prior to that, Mr. Barnes served as VP and Chief Information Officer for Nationwide Financial Services, a $100B international financial services company, where he oversaw all facets of technology services and operations within that publicly-held organization. Prior to that, he served as Chief Information Officer for Ohio's largest privately owned HMO, and he also held various management positions with an international library/information services company, the Washington (DC) office of a major technology vendor, and as an officer in the United States Army. He is a co-founder for the nationally acclaimed "CIO Solutions Gallery" at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business. He is a graduate in five sciences from The Ohio State University. Speaker - Tom Mantz, Managing Director, MNL Associated, LLC Tom Mantz served as the first Chief Information Officer for Praxair, a global provider of industrial gases. In this role, he led the development of a virtual, global IT resource from previously independent country-based IT organizations. His efforts led to the adoption of global IT standards and the implementation of a common, global communications infrastructure. Working with business partners, Mr. Mantz provided IT direction for global ERP initiatives. Prior to joining Praxair, Mr. Mantz served as Vice President and co-founder of the Renaissance Strategy Group, a global consultancy focusing on the application of the Balanced Scorecard methodology to issues associated with the development and implementation of business strategy. While at Renaissance, he applied Balanced Scorecard techniques to the development of IT Strategy. Mr. Mantz began his career at Nolan, Norton & Co., a leading IT strategy firm. Over 14 years, he served in a number of roles, eventually becoming Partner with responsibility for the firm's IT executive education programs. Mr. Mantz now serves as Managing Director of MNL Associated, where he consults with major organizations on improving the return from information technology. His practice specializes in the design of benefits-focused IT implementation programs. During his more than 25 years of IT leadership and management, Tom has concentrated on the development of business aligned IT strategies, the implementation of IT human resource processes and the delivery of executive education programs. Speaker - Robert Rennie, VP, Technology & CIO, Florida State College at Jacksonville Dr. Rob Rennie has been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Vice President, Technology for Florida State College at Jacksonville, Florida since 1997. Prior to taking his current position, he was the CIO for Mt. San Antonio College in Los Angeles, is a former principal of the technology strategy practice of Xentrek Systems, Inc. and held a visiting scholar faculty appointment in Information Systems at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Rob has been a CIO for over twenty years and is known for building the reputations of organizations on a foundation of innovation, value creation, excellence and technology leadership. Dr. Rennie serves on Software AG's International Executive Committee, is a member of Apple's University Executive Forum and is a board member of Curriki. Florida State College has won numerous awards for its highly innovative and successful technology environment having been ranked first in the Nation three of four years by the Center for Digital Education, rated 'Most Wired' by Yahoo, and having been featured by several major technology firms for best practices and successful innovations. In 2004, Dr. Rennie was honored as one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT leaders. Rob received his Bachelors degree from Rollins College, Masters from The University of Oklahoma, and Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Speaker - Bette Walker, CIO Emeritus, Delphi Bette Walker most recently served as vice president and chief information officer for Delphi Corporation, a leading global automotive supplier. In this position, Walker was responsible for global strategic and operational information technology. Walker served as a member of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company’s top policy-making group, and as a key member of the Global Transformation and the Transition Services restructuring boards. Walker joined Delphi in 1997 as chief information officer for the company’s then largest division, Delphi Engine Management Systems before becoming chief information officer for Delphi’s global entity. Walker previously served as the vice president of Information Technology with AlliedSignal, Inc. in the Automotive and Aerospace sectors. Prior to AlliedSignal, she held several positions with Digital Equipment Corporation including director of Information Technology for Latin America. Walker earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of New Hampshire and attended the Executive MBA Program at Boston University. In 2000, she completed the Global Leadership Executive Development Program at Harvard University. Walker served on the Research Board and Oakland University Board of Visitors for the School of Business Administration from 2004 through 2009. She has been recognized by ComputerWorld as one of the Premiere 100 Information Technology leaders and by Automotive News as one of the 100 Leading Women in the North American Automotive Industry. Walker’s leadership received five consecutive CIO 100 designations and the InformationWeek 500 ranking of innovative information technology organizations for five consecutive years. Walker is recognized as an expert in the areas of restructuring and vendor management and is a frequent speaker in Information Technology and leadership forums. Speaker - Mark Greenlaw, CIO, Cognizant Speaker - John Dohm, CIO, True Religion Apparel John Dohm is a distinguished executive with extensive experience in most aspects of information technology, strategy development, and business management. Dohm is currently the VP of IT at True Religion Apparel and is focused on the key company objectives of retail expansion, product line expansion, and international expansion. In support of the business strategy, John has initiated a three element model for IT at True Religion - implementing foundational systems, focusing on business processes, and driving Lite IT. John was previously CIO and VP of E-commerce at American Standard. In this role, he managed a worldwide IT organization and was a member of the corporate Strategy & Planning team. Dohm has numerous accomplishments at American Standard, including supporting global supply chain initiatives, driving a global SAP deployment, negotiating vendor agreements, improving productivity within the IT function across 13 countries, and instituting structured portfolio and program management techniques. Before American Standard, Mr. Dohm was a Partner and founder of the Distributed Computing Infrastructure practice for Deloitte & Touche. During his tenure, the practice grew at a 300% annual growth rate and was one of the fastest growing practice areas within the Firm. Dohm remains the fastest tenured partner in the history of the firm, being promoted from Senior Consultant to Partner in under four years. Another notable experience was the foundation a software and services company that concentrated on enabling organizational accountability. The concept was to link business strategies to projects, then track the return on the projects and tie rewards to accomplishments. John's interest in computing started early when he did assembler programming for Timex Sinclair machines in the late 1970s. Afterward, he developed software for a variety of platforms, including the original IBM PC. Dohm also started one of the early Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) in 1982. His interest in business began during the mid 1980's when he founded a software development firm focused on call centers. Mr. Dohm received his MBA from the Northwestern Graduate School of Management (Kellogg) and a combined MS/BS in Computer Science from Loyola University. He has published articles on topics ranging from computer science to organizational design and has been a key speaker at industry conferences and events. Once an organization has completed the initial server virtualization/consolidation phase, it becomes clear that the right advanced management tools along with the right policies and processes are required to better monitor, manage, secure, troubleshoot and tune this new virtual infrastructure, to reap the full benefits of operational efficiency and IT agility. IT managers have to sift through the plethora of virtualization management solutions to identify which products are really ready for prime time, and then how to match their particular needs with available solutions. In addition, many shops with traditional Enterprise Systems Management solutions are wondering how new management tools integrate with/utilize what they already have. In addition to operational management, successfully moving towards full virtualization requires optimization and automation of the virtual infrastructure – creating a self-managing compute factory. Add self-service provisioning and a service catalog to the mix and you have a private cloud, which may extend to public/hybrid cloud computing. Instructor - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Windows 7 is set to inherit the XP kingdom: attend this session and lean the security tricks needed to keep your kingdom safe. You'll understand Microsoft's new security model and how to make it work for you. Be dazzled by over 300 diagnostic tools built in Win 7, which can make you a Diagnostic Demon! Understand where the hidden folder system is that your files and programs are installed and where the registry hides your setting. (Hint: they don't exist in XP!) You'll learn unique optional security setting to really secure Win 7 so you comply with the Federal security regulations. None of these setting are on by default, all are deep screened and all increase your security for Free. Finish by constructing a self booting USB copy of Win 7 that can be used for enterprise rollout, diagnostic or just a great OS on a stick. Using information gathered from multiple sources - including private discussions with developers, inside MS sources and personal investigation — this workshop will help you understand the next generation of Microsoft clients NOW! Instructor - Brad Smith, Director, Computer Institute of the Rockies The proliferation of web-based applications has increased the enterprise's exposure to a variety of threats. There are overarching steps that can and should be taken at various steps in the application's lifecycle to prevent or mitigate these threats, such as implementing secure design and coding practices, performing source code audits, and maintaining proper audit trails to detect unauthorized use. This workshop will enable students to test the security of web-based applications from the perspective of the end user. Security testing helps to fulfill industry best practices and validate implementation. Security testing is especially useful since it can be done at various phases within the application's lifecycle (e.g. during development), or when source code is not available for review. The most popular threats and their potential impact will be covered via the OWASP "Top Ten". Demonstrations will be used to teach the tools and techniques needed to remotely detect and validate the presence of these threats. Instructor - David Rhoades, Senior Consultant, Maven Security Consulting, Inc. David Rhoades is a senior consultant with Maven Security Consulting Inc. (www.mavensecurity.com). Maven Security Consulting Inc. is a Delaware corporation that provides information security assessments and training services to a global clientele.David’s expertise includes web application security, network security architectures, and vulnerability assessments. Past customers have included domestic and international companies in various industries, as well as various US government agencies. David has been active in information security consulting since 1996, when he began his career with the computer security and telephony fraud group at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). This two day tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve your IT organization, business model, tools, staffing and skill levels, as well as your policies and operational procedures. In an environment of constant change, IT accountability has taken on new levels of urgency. IT departments regularly struggle with staffing levels, turnover, burnout, lack of credibility, or end-user and managerial dissatisfaction. If you're questioning how to satisfy the end user, control or cut costs, and still offer a balanced and fulfilling career progression to IT professional staff, we have answers for you. Instructor - Thomas Randall, Operations Vice President, BT Americas
Tom Randall is a Vice President with BT Americas. Having been both a CIO as well as running a data center on Wall Street, he understands what it takes to make IT successful in supporting enterprise business objectives. Morning Focus Instructor - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates Inc
Network utilization and error monitoring, throughput measurement, and device monitoring - these can all be done using free Open Source tools available today on the Internet! This workshop focuses on a handful of tools that can be used for troubleshooting a wide variety of network and application problems. Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
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As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world. Instructor - Thornton May, Futurist Executive Director, IT Leadership Academy Thornton May is America's leading CIO career doctor, tirelessly researching the environmental and psychological diseases that destroy IT leadership careers. On the road over 250 days a year making 'house calls' with leading CIOs, Thornton has assembled one of the world's most respected medicine chests of empirically tested job-saving, business-growing remedies in the IT business today. In addition to career doctoring, Thornton teaches Executive Education at four major universities, writes columns on technology for two leading publications, advises major organizations and government agencies on how to think differently about the future, all the while conducting seminal anthropological field research into technology use behaviors of the various tribes comprising modern society. Thornton brings a scholar's patience for empirical research, a second-to-none gift for storytelling and a scathingly honest sense of humor to his audiences. His exuberance is infectious. After prolonged exposure you go home and wring the personality out of your clothes. Most importantly you will be refreshed, revitalized and re-armed to win the career wars in front of you. Thornton was recently voted one of the world's 100 most influential leaders in IT. Speaker - Bruce Barnes, President and CEO, Bold Vision LLC Mr. Bruce Barnes has over thirty-six years of experience as a senior level officer in the technology arena, including very influential roles in Fortune 100 companies. He has received numerous industry accolades, including having been recognized by the industry press as one of this country's most noted CIOs. He is a recognized voice at national industry events and in major industry publications. He is an ongoing advisor and retained coach for a number of successful senior level corporate leaders. Currently, Mr. Barnes is the founder and CEO of BOLD VISION®, a senior management consulting consortium comprised of "C Level" executives, which operates as a trusted advisor and consultant to a number of noted CIOs and other I/T leaders, as well as to several large I/T product providers. Prior to this current role, Mr. Barnes served as the Vice President of I/T Strategy and Planning for the Nationwide Enterprise, a $200B international insurance and financial services company. There, he was responsible for the overall technology strategy, I/T architecture, information security, and I/T governance processes for the global enterprise. Prior to that, Mr. Barnes served as VP and Chief Information Officer for Nationwide Financial Services, a $100B international financial services company, where he oversaw all facets of technology services and operations within that publicly-held organization. Prior to that, he served as Chief Information Officer for Ohio's largest privately owned HMO, and he also held various management positions with an international library/information services company, the Washington (DC) office of a major technology vendor, and as an officer in the United States Army. He is a co-founder for the nationally acclaimed "CIO Solutions Gallery" at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business. He is a graduate in five sciences from The Ohio State University. Speaker - Tom Mantz, Managing Director, MNL Associated, LLC Tom Mantz served as the first Chief Information Officer for Praxair, a global provider of industrial gases. In this role, he led the development of a virtual, global IT resource from previously independent country-based IT organizations. His efforts led to the adoption of global IT standards and the implementation of a common, global communications infrastructure. Working with business partners, Mr. Mantz provided IT direction for global ERP initiatives. Prior to joining Praxair, Mr. Mantz served as Vice President and co-founder of the Renaissance Strategy Group, a global consultancy focusing on the application of the Balanced Scorecard methodology to issues associated with the development and implementation of business strategy. While at Renaissance, he applied Balanced Scorecard techniques to the development of IT Strategy. Mr. Mantz began his career at Nolan, Norton & Co., a leading IT strategy firm. Over 14 years, he served in a number of roles, eventually becoming Partner with responsibility for the firm's IT executive education programs. Mr. Mantz now serves as Managing Director of MNL Associated, where he consults with major organizations on improving the return from information technology. His practice specializes in the design of benefits-focused IT implementation programs. During his more than 25 years of IT leadership and management, Tom has concentrated on the development of business aligned IT strategies, the implementation of IT human resource processes and the delivery of executive education programs. Speaker - Robert Rennie, VP, Technology & CIO, Florida State College at Jacksonville Dr. Rob Rennie has been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Vice President, Technology for Florida State College at Jacksonville, Florida since 1997. Prior to taking his current position, he was the CIO for Mt. San Antonio College in Los Angeles, is a former principal of the technology strategy practice of Xentrek Systems, Inc. and held a visiting scholar faculty appointment in Information Systems at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Rob has been a CIO for over twenty years and is known for building the reputations of organizations on a foundation of innovation, value creation, excellence and technology leadership. Dr. Rennie serves on Software AG's International Executive Committee, is a member of Apple's University Executive Forum and is a board member of Curriki. Florida State College has won numerous awards for its highly innovative and successful technology environment having been ranked first in the Nation three of four years by the Center for Digital Education, rated 'Most Wired' by Yahoo, and having been featured by several major technology firms for best practices and successful innovations. In 2004, Dr. Rennie was honored as one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT leaders. Rob received his Bachelors degree from Rollins College, Masters from The University of Oklahoma, and Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Speaker - Bette Walker, CIO Emeritus, Delphi Bette Walker most recently served as vice president and chief information officer for Delphi Corporation, a leading global automotive supplier. In this position, Walker was responsible for global strategic and operational information technology. Walker served as a member of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company’s top policy-making group, and as a key member of the Global Transformation and the Transition Services restructuring boards. Walker joined Delphi in 1997 as chief information officer for the company’s then largest division, Delphi Engine Management Systems before becoming chief information officer for Delphi’s global entity. Walker previously served as the vice president of Information Technology with AlliedSignal, Inc. in the Automotive and Aerospace sectors. Prior to AlliedSignal, she held several positions with Digital Equipment Corporation including director of Information Technology for Latin America. Walker earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of New Hampshire and attended the Executive MBA Program at Boston University. In 2000, she completed the Global Leadership Executive Development Program at Harvard University. Walker served on the Research Board and Oakland University Board of Visitors for the School of Business Administration from 2004 through 2009. She has been recognized by ComputerWorld as one of the Premiere 100 Information Technology leaders and by Automotive News as one of the 100 Leading Women in the North American Automotive Industry. Walker’s leadership received five consecutive CIO 100 designations and the InformationWeek 500 ranking of innovative information technology organizations for five consecutive years. Walker is recognized as an expert in the areas of restructuring and vendor management and is a frequent speaker in Information Technology and leadership forums. Speaker - Mark Greenlaw, CIO, Cognizant Speaker - John Dohm, CIO, True Religion Apparel John Dohm is a distinguished executive with extensive experience in most aspects of information technology, strategy development, and business management. Dohm is currently the VP of IT at True Religion Apparel and is focused on the key company objectives of retail expansion, product line expansion, and international expansion. In support of the business strategy, John has initiated a three element model for IT at True Religion - implementing foundational systems, focusing on business processes, and driving Lite IT. John was previously CIO and VP of E-commerce at American Standard. In this role, he managed a worldwide IT organization and was a member of the corporate Strategy & Planning team. Dohm has numerous accomplishments at American Standard, including supporting global supply chain initiatives, driving a global SAP deployment, negotiating vendor agreements, improving productivity within the IT function across 13 countries, and instituting structured portfolio and program management techniques. Before American Standard, Mr. Dohm was a Partner and founder of the Distributed Computing Infrastructure practice for Deloitte & Touche. During his tenure, the practice grew at a 300% annual growth rate and was one of the fastest growing practice areas within the Firm. Dohm remains the fastest tenured partner in the history of the firm, being promoted from Senior Consultant to Partner in under four years. Another notable experience was the foundation a software and services company that concentrated on enabling organizational accountability. The concept was to link business strategies to projects, then track the return on the projects and tie rewards to accomplishments. John's interest in computing started early when he did assembler programming for Timex Sinclair machines in the late 1970s. Afterward, he developed software for a variety of platforms, including the original IBM PC. Dohm also started one of the early Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) in 1982. His interest in business began during the mid 1980's when he founded a software development firm focused on call centers. Mr. Dohm received his MBA from the Northwestern Graduate School of Management (Kellogg) and a combined MS/BS in Computer Science from Loyola University. He has published articles on topics ranging from computer science to organizational design and has been a key speaker at industry conferences and events. In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in. On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it. Instructor - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Co-Founder Alistair is a co-founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). Speaker - Randy Bias, Founder, Cloudscaling Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc. Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud. Speaker - Steve Riley, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Web Services Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to address security, privacy, and compliance concerns so that they can integrate the cloud with their existing environments to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, privacy, compliance frameworks, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, IANS, TechEd, and Connections. He co-authored a book about Microsoft security and has published numerous articles. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com, tweets as @steveriley, and emails from steriley@amazon.com. Speaker - Bradford Stephens, Founder, Drawn to Scale Bradford Stephens likes to do big things and kick ass.He is co-founder of Drawn to Scale, who built the first easy, scalable data platform. Their platform is much more than a database: you can process, store, serve, search, and query *all* your data. To *all* your users.He has a love for public speaking, Hadoop, cloud computing, HBase, Lucene, graph theory, Iron Maiden, and using the right tools for problems. Bradford was formerly the Lead Engineer of Data Platforms at Visible Technologies, a social media analytics company. When not writing software or talking to customers, he’s usually playing guitar and drinking wine. He also hosts the popular software blog, Road to Failure (roadtofailure.com).Bradford has spoken at events such as OSCON, Hadoop World, LinkedIn TechTalks, ApacheCon, and many more. You can catch him speaking at CloudConnect, Interop, and GlueCon later this year.He can be contacted at bradfordstephens@gmail.com, and is always happy to give advice or consulting (if you’re really interesting). Speaker - Mark Day, Chief Scientist, Riverbed Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he served as technical lead for content networking product management. A senior member of the Office of the CTO, Dr. Day is part of the team responsible for Riverbed’s technology direction and strategy. He works closely with Riverbed customers, solving some of the most technically complex and challenging issues associated with application acceleration and Wide Area Network optimization. Dr. Day also invented the SSL optimization technique that is a core feature of Riverbed’s flagship Steelhead products. This development has that made it practical for enterprises to accelerate secure SSL traffic. He holds 19 patents in distributed systems, presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony, and has chaired several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995. Speaker - Lori Mac Vittie, Technical Marketing Manager, F5 Networks Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5’s entire product suite. Her role includes authorship of technical materials and participation in a number of community-based forums and industry standards organizations, among other efforts. MacVittie has extensive programming experience as an application architect, as well as network and systems development and administration expertise. Prior to joining F5, MacVittie was an award-winning Senior Technology Editor at Network Computing Magazine, where she conducted product research and evaluation focused on integration with application and network architectures, and authored articles on a variety of topics aimed at IT professionals. Her most recent area of focus included SOA-related products and architectures. She holds a B.S. in Information and Computing Science from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University. Speaker - Dave Mitchell, CTO and Founder, Bungee Labs Speaker - Ken Comee, President and CEO, Cast Iron Systems Since joining Cast Iron Systems in April 2005, Ken has driven a ten-fold increase in revenue and new customers, making Cast Iron the leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration. Integration is critical to the rapid evolution from legacy applications to fully cloud-enabled business solutions. With over 20 years of success as an executive in high-technology companies, Ken continues to drive innovation at Cast Iron with the transformation from a provider of integration appliances to an innovator in cloud computing.Ken's tenure with other pioneering collaborative and on-demand software companies has contributed directly to Cast Iron's success. At CollabNet, the leading provider of solutions for distributed software development, Ken was instrumental in transforming the company's strategy from an Open Source service model to a SaaS application sales model. During his four years at CollabNet, revenue increased over 400 percent and the customer base doubled annually.Prior to CollabNet, Ken served as senior vice president of North American sales for Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), the leader in enterprise Product Data Management (ePDM). Ken led the successful transformation of field sales from a predominately CAD/CAM tool focus to enterprise software selling. Under his leadership, North American sales grew to over $170 million per year. He also served for over 10 years in various executive sales and operations positions in both Europe and the United States with Amdahl Corporation.Ken is an active board member of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) as well as of Child Advocates of Silicon Valley, a non-profit organization focused on improving the lives of abused and neglected children. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the London Business School. Speaker - Umit Yalcinalp, Developer Evangelist, Salesforce.com Ümit Yalcinalp, Ph.D. is a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com. Ümit is a co-author of the book "Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA"; an editor of various WS-* and SOA specifications, including but not limited to WS-Policy, WS-Reliable Messaging and WS-Addressing, SCA Policy; co-spec lead of EJB 2.0; a frequent contributor to SOA, XML, Java and WS specifications; an author of many technical papers concerning software development environments; an architect who managed teams in developing metadata driven frameworks for RIA, WS/Java platforms; speaker at conferences such as SOA Symposium, Java One and Logic Programming. She has Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. Speaker - Christian Schalk, Developer Advocate, Google Chris Schalk is a Developer Advocate and is currently working on the Google App Engine team but also works to promote other technologies such as Enterprise OpenSocial as well as other technologies such as Google Friend Connect, Maps, AJAX APIs and Google Data APIs. Before Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and technology evangelist at Oracle in the Java development tools group. Chris also co-authored the book "JavaServer Faces, The Complete Reference" published through McGraw-Hill-Osborne. Speaker - Ian Knox, Senior Director of Product Management, Skytap As senior director of product management, Ian is responsible for all aspects of Skytap’s go-to-market strategy, demand generation and product management. Ian joined Skytap from Microsoft Corporation where he was group product manager for Microsoft Visual Studio. In this role, Ian led the product management team responsible for building a new $400M enterprise tools business in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) category. Prior to Microsoft, Ian was a Principal Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he led global software delivery projects for Fortune 500 clients. Ian holds a B.Sc. honors degree in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham and an M.B.A from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Speaker - Tom Bishop, CTO, Conformity, Inc. Tom is the CTO at Conformity, where he is responsible for overall technology vision and strategy. Tom is a recognized and award-winning CTO, and brings over 30 years of experience in senior technology and strategy roles at a variety of pioneering systems management solution vendors. Prior to Conformity, Tom was VP of Engineering at Storspeed, a leading storage solutions vendor. Before that he was Chief Technology Officer at BMC Software, where he was responsible for product vision and direction. Tom served as Chief Technology Officer at VIEO, Inc, where he was named “Chief Technology Officer of the Year” by InfoWorld magazine in 2004. Before that, he was Chief Technology Officer at Tivoli and later IBM-Tivoli. Tom began his career at Bell Labs. He holds nine patents in fault-tolerant and distributed computing and led the development of such industry standards as the DMTF’s CIM, the CMDB federation specification, and POSIX. Tom holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University. Speaker - Anders Lofgren, Chief Research Officer, TheInfoPro As the CRO of TheInfoPro, Lofgren leverages more than 16 years of experience in product management, marketing and strategy to ensure that TheInfoPro continues as a leading advisory and research firm for the IT industry. Before joining TheInfoPro, Lofgren served as SVP, Strategy at CA – a $4 billion a year enterprise IT management provider – where he directed strategy for the $150 million Mid-Market and Storage Business Unit. Prior to this position, he was the SVP of Product Management and Product Strategy for CA, where he managed a product management team responsible for a $400 million business. Prior to joining CA, Lofgren was a Senior Industry Analyst at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group, where he was the primary analyst responsible for storage management software. In addition, Lofgren has served as the Director of Marketing for Zetari, a startup organization focused on hosting infrastructure, and was Strategic Marketing Manager at Compaq Computer Corporation. Speaker - Tom Wesselman, Sr. Manager Software Development, Cisco Tom Wesselman is a senior manager in the office of the CTO responsible for the long-term strategy for Cisco's Communication and Collaboration products - building on the foundation of Unified, IP-based communication to add social networking, collaboration, and web 2.0 interfaces and applications. Before that he ran engineering for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, partnerships for the initial release of Cisco Network Admission Control, and engineering for Cisco Unity Unified Messaging. Speaker - Jason Lochhead, CTO of Hosting Services, Terremark Worldwide, Inc. Jason Lochhead is responsible for the technological development of Terremark’s hosting services. Mr. Lochhead oversees the overall technology direction of the Company’s hosting business. Mr. Lochhead is the architect of Terremark’s acclaimed utility computing platform, Infinistructure™. He is also the architect of Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud, the Company’s innovative cloud computing product. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lochhead was a co-founder of Data Return, a hosting company often rated among the best in the industry. During his 11 years at Data Return, he worked in various positions, including research and development, architecture and technology executive positions. Mr. Lochhead was born in Irving, Texas and currently resides in Frisco, Texas with his wife and child. Speaker - Mark Silber, IT Director, Qualcomm Mark Silber had over 10 years of experience as a consultant working with customer service applications at large companies before joining Qualcomm in 2004. Prior to his current role as IT Architect, Mark was an IT Manager at Qualcomm responsible for the sustainment of numerous on-premise deployments of CRM. He has since led the successful replacement of the original on-premise CRM applications with Salesforce.com and now drives the ongoing success and expansion of Salesforce at Qualcomm across various business units. Mark has a very deep understanding of the Salesforce application and platform and has spoken at various events, including Dreamforce, Salesforce City Tours, ACCE / ICMI Conference and an SSPA sponsored webinar. Speaker - John Stetic, Director of Product Management, Systems and Resource Management (SRM), Novell In his role of Director of Product Management for the Systems and Resource Management (SRM) unit of Novell, John works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including Novell ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. Most companies have already implemented server consolidation projects utilizing virtualization technologies, and have brought significant cost reductions to both capital and operational expenditures. Recent FOCUS research shows that the next priority for virtualization amongst advanced organizations is desktop virtualization. Companies are looking to leverage server, desktop and application virtualization technologies to bring order to the long-standing chaos of enterprise desktop management. But what are the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, and where/how do they apply in your environment? More importantly, how can your IT organization assess desktop requirements across the entire organization and leverage the appropriate technologies to deal with the unrelenting daily demands of provisioning, administering, securing and supporting hundreds or tousands of corporate desktops and applications for a wide variety of user types? Instructor - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. This workshop provides a technology overview of Voice and Video over IP (VoIP), including the protocols, technologies and architectures at the core of VoIP products and systems. These include media transport like the real time transport protocol, quality of service technologies such as differentiated services and the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), signaling through the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), security, as well as firewall and NAT traversal using techniques like the Simple Traversal of UDP Through NAT (STUN) and Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE). The course does not provide a review of products on the markets or network design guidelines. You Will Learn Instructor - Jonathan Rosenberg, Chief Technology Strategist, Skype
: Jonathan Rosenberg is Chief Technology Strategist for Skype, where he is responsible for Skype's technology directions and overall architecture. Prior to that, he was a Cisco Fellow at Cisco, where he set technology strategy for their enterprise PBX product. Jonathan is the principle author of SIP, the lingua-franca of Voice over IP, and has written many of the standards around it, particularly in the areas of NAT traversal, presence and IM. For his work, Jonathan was named one of the top 100 most innovative young technologists in the world by Technology Review magazine. He received a PhD from Columbia University and his masters and bachelors from MIT. This two day tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve your IT organization, business model, tools, staffing and skill levels, as well as your policies and operational procedures. In an environment of constant change, IT accountability has taken on new levels of urgency. IT departments regularly struggle with staffing levels, turnover, burnout, lack of credibility, or end-user and managerial dissatisfaction. If you're questioning how to satisfy the end user, control or cut costs, and still offer a balanced and fulfilling career progression to IT professional staff, we have answers for you. Instructor - Thomas Randall, Operations Vice President, BT Americas
Tom Randall is a Vice President with BT Americas. Having been both a CIO as well as running a data center on Wall Street, he understands what it takes to make IT successful in supporting enterprise business objectives. improved security technologies constantly emerge, but some technologies become increasingly prevalent, whereas others fall by the wayside. Furthermore, many information security experts believe that we have been using the same basic security measures over the last 20 years and that this is one of the major reasons for the growing gap between actual risk and managed risk. The technology arena is not excepted from this view. Because technology is so critical in mitigating information security-related risk, keeping in touch with security technologies (especially new and emerging ones), understanding their real functionality, capabilities, limitations, and potential for improvement despite all the hype that surrounds them, understanding environments and contexts in which they are most likely to be successful, and learning how to develop an effective strategy for deploying and phasing in these technologies is essential. This one-day course will cover four extremely critical security technologies: network security in the 21st century, cloud computing, virtualization, and SIEM technology. The course will present a realistic view of each technology and will then will delve into security issues related to each one. Instructor - Eugene Schultz, CISM, CISSP, Chief Technology Officer, Emagined Security Dr. Eugene Schultz, CISM, CISSP, is the Chief Technology Officer at Emagined Security, an information security consultancy based in San Carlos, California. He is the author/co-author of five books, one on Unix security, another on Internet security, a third on Windows NT/2000 security, a fourth on incident response, and the latest on intrusion detection and prevention. He has also written over 120 published papers. Gene was the Editor-in-Chief of _Computers and Security_ from 2002 - 2007, is currently on the editorial board for this journal, and is an associate editor of _Network Security_. He is also a SANS instructor, member of the SANS NewsBites editorial board, co-author of the 2005 and 2006 Certified Information Security Manager preparation materials, and is on the technical advisory board of three companies. Gene has previously managed an information security practice as well as a national incident response team. He has also been professor of computer science at several universities and is retired from the University of California at Berkeley. He has received the NASA Technical Excellence Award, the Department of Energy Excellence Award, the ISACA John Kuyers Best Speaker/Best Conference Contributor Award, the Vanguard Conference Top Gun Award (for best presenter) twice, the Vanguard Chairman's Award, and the National Information Systems Security Conference Best Paper Award. A Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Gene has also been named to the ISSA Hall of Fame and has received ISSA's Professional Achievement and Honor Roll Awards. While at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory he founded and managed of the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC). He is also a co-founder of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. He is currently a member of the accreditation board of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). Dr. Schultz has provided expert testimony before committees within the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on various security-related issues, and has served as an expert witness in legal cases. This intensive workshop offers a critical, independent evaluation of SharePoint, detailing the platform's strengths and weaknesses culled from customer experiences and hands-on testing. Through presentations and discussion, the workshop helps you figure out how, where, when, and why to use SharePoint -- and reviews how well SharePoint "fits" into different types and sizes of enterprises with different business objectives. Instructor - Tony Byrne, President, Real Story Group Tony Byrne is the President of the Real Story Group and oversees all of the technology streams and properties, which include CMS Watch, Enterprise Information Watch, and SharePoint Watch. In 2001, Tony founded CMS Watch as a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies and publishes research comparing different solutions head-to-head. Over time, CMS Watch evolved into a multi-channel research and advisory organization, spinning off similar product evaluation research in various areas of Enterprise Content Management. As a result of this natural evolution, in 2010, The Real Story Group became the parent company of CMS Watch and its sister entities, EI Watch and SharePoint Watch. Tony is the original author of The Real Story Group's Web Content Management research, a former journalist, and a 20-year technology industry veteran. Prior to 2001, he managed an engineering team at a systems integration firm. He now focuses his own research on Enterprise Community and Collaboration software, SharePoint, and Web Content Management. During the last decade, Tony has advised clients such as the US Dept. of the Treasury, the American Association of Retired Persons, MBC Television of Dubai, The Canadian Cancer Society, and The Seattle Children's Hospital. Wireshark® has become one of the most popular protocol analyzers available to network administrators today. While it provides an easy means to capture packets, it is not always easy to interpret the contents of those packets. In this session we will take a detailed look at how to reliably capture and analyze network traffic. We will use trace file examples to demonstrate a number of common network protocols. Examples will be given of how the network traffic should look when it is working properly and what it looks like when it is not working properly. Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
