| 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM |
Virtualization rules the cloud. No longer do we discuss servers, CPUs, and disks, but instead instances, v-cores, and ephemeral volumes. Software abstractions have already replaced hardware appliances… More ▶
Speaker - Steve Riley, Technical Director, CTO Office, Riverbed Technology 
Steve Riley is a Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Riverbed Technology. His specialties include the performance and security aspects of enterprise and cloud computing. Steve has a long career of public speaking, having participated in hundreds of events around the world. He is co-author of Protect Your Windows Network, contributed a chapter to Auditing Cloud Computing, has published numerous articles, and conducted technical reviews of several data networking and telecommunications books. At Riverbed, Steve concentrates on high-performance architectures that span multiple clouds, public and private; advises field teams and customers about secure deployments; and contemplates the future of networking. Before Steve joined Riverbed, he was the cloud security strategist at Amazon Web Services and a security consultant and advisor at Microsoft; in both capacities, he developed patterns and practices for secure deployments and operations. Steve is a member of the Kubuntu Team (which maintains Ubuntu’s KDE-flavored distribution) and is a global moderator of its community forum. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture.
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| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM |
Networking and virtualization vendors have launched numerous overlay virtual networking solutions in the last 18 months as a response to the rigidity and scalability failures of traditional VLAN-based… More ▶
Speaker - Ivan Pepelnjak, Chief Technology Advisor, NIL Data Communications  Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354 Emeritus, is the chief technology advisor at NIL Data Communications. He has been designing and implementing large-scale service provider and enterprise networks as well as teaching and writing books about advanced technologies since 1990. He’s author of several Cisco Press books, prolific blogger and author of a series of highly successful webinars.
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| 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM |
Software Defined Networking (SDN) has revolutionized the networking industry through its capability to facilitate direct, real-time programming of network functionality. It is considered one of the mo… More ▶
Speaker - Dan Pitt, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation  Dan Pitt is Executive Director of the Open Networking Foundation, joining on its public launch in March 2011. Dan spent twenty years developing networking architecture, technology, standards, and products at IBM Networking Systems in North Carolina, IBM Research Zurich in Switzerland, Hewlett Packard Labs in Palo Alto, and Bay Networks in Santa Clara, Cal., where he was vice president of the Bay Architecture Lab. When Nortel bought Bay Networks, Dan became vice president of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions Technology Center, spanning nine cities on four continents.
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| 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM |
The facts are unambiguous: half of the world has depleted its public IPv4 address allocation pool, with the other half facing the same fate in the next few years. You might think you don't need to… More ▶
Speaker - Ivan Pepelnjak, Chief Technology Advisor, NIL Data Communications Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354 Emeritus, is the chief technology advisor at NIL Data Communications. He has been designing and implementing large-scale service provider and enterprise networks as well as teaching and writing books about advanced technologies since 1990. He’s author of several Cisco Press books, prolific blogger and author of a series of highly successful webinars.
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| 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM |
The use of packet-based monitoring for IT operations and security is on the rise, and increasingly these tools are deployed behind network monitoring switches (a.k.a network packet brokers). But there… More ▶
Moderator - Jim Frey, Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates  Jim Frey has been working in the network management sector for over 20 years, and currently leads the network management practice at EMA. His regular activities include conducting primary research, advising practitioners and technology vendors, speaking at conferences and on webinars, and writing about network management tools, technologies, and best practices. Panelist - Ran Nahmias, Sr. Director, Virtualization and Cloud Solutions, Net Optics, Inc.  Ran's background includes over 15 years of experience in networking, security, desktop and server virtualization in engineering, product management and deployment roles for market leaders such as Check Point Software Technologies, Nice Systems, Microsoft and Net Optics. Ran currently serves as the Director of Virtualization and Cloud Solutions at Net Optics, Inc. which is based in Santa Clara, California. Panelist - Huy Nguyen, Sr. Director of Product Management, Gigamon  As Sr. Director of Product Management and Marketing for Gigamon, Huy Nguyen drives the strategy and direction for the company's Visibility Fabric architecture. He is responsible for planning and execution of Gigamon's hardware and software platforms across Enterprise, Data Center, and Service Provider markets. Nguyen brings over 20 years of experience in various leadership positions in the areas of product management, product and technical marketing, solutions marketing, business development, and editorial reviews with organizations including Extreme Networks, Bay Networks, and Ziff-Davis Publishing. Panelist - Mo Rozenhart, Worldwide Systems Engineering Manager, Ixia  Maureen (Mo) Rozenhart is the Systems Engineering Manager/Technology Evangelist for Ixia Network Visibility Solutions. Ms Rozenhart has extensive experience working with customers to define and implement Network Management and Network Monitoring solutions. Prior to her current position at Ixia, Ms Rozenhart worked at T-Mobile, Cisco, SynOptics, Bay Networks and Boeing Computer Services. Mo enjoys finding creative solutions to complex problems and developing effective and motivated teams that are empowered to do the same. Panelist - Ahmed Abdelhalim, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, NetScout Systems, Inc.  Mr. Abdelhalim brings many years of networking and systems experience in both service provider and enterprise. At NetScout, he is responsible for driving end-to-end network and application visibility solutions comprising highly scalable monitoring fabrics and intelligent data sources and analytics. Prior to his work at NetScout, Mr. Abdelhalim held director of product management and marketing roles at Brocade Communications Systems for service provider products as well as for enterprise and data center products. During his tenure at Brocade he helped create and evangelize award-winning products including multi-service backbone and metro routers, high-end data center switches, and campus switches. He also played a key role in evangelizing and driving several solutions and architectures that are now widely accepted in the industry like Carrier Ethernet, All-IP/Ethernet architectures for CDNs and IPTV distribution, and infrastructure virtualization using MPLS/VRF for high security campus and data center applications.
Prior to Brocade, he held consulting and systems engineering roles at Siemens Ltd. and Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) where he specialized in scalable, high speed LAN/WAN networks and high-performance computing systems based on UNIX, Symmetric Multi-Processing, and clustering.
Panelist - 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.
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| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM |
Networking is seeing tremendous upheaval. Whether it's dislocation with the intrusion of hypervisor-based virtual networks or consolidation with storage convergence, networks are being grabbed and… More ▶
Moderator - Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst, 451 Research  Eric Hanselman is the Chief Analyst at 451 Research. He has an extensive hands-on understanding of a broad range of IT subject areas, having direct experience in the areas of networks, virtualization, security and semiconductors. Eric helps 451 Research’s clients understand how market and technology trends may impact them, and how they can best capitalize on them.
For more than 20 years, Eric has worked with segment leaders in a spectrum of technologies, most recently as CTO of Leostream Corporation, a virtualization management provider. Prior to that, Eric delivered networking security solutions for IBM and Internet Security Systems. At Wellfleet/Bay Networks, Sitara Networks and NEC, he was involved in the introduction of many new technologies ranging from high-performance image analysis to rollouts for IPv6.
Eric is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and he is a frequent speaker at leading industry events.
Panelist - Les Stuart, Distinguished Architect, HP 
Les Stuart is a Distinguished Architect of Network Management Solutions for HP Networking. As a Global Product Line Manager, he leads a large development team to create and define new and disruptive network management solutions for HP.
Prior to joining HP, Stuart held several positions as a developer, product line manager, and architect in the network management divisions at 3Com, Nortel, and Extreme Networks. Additionally, he held positions with network management standards groups, including the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF
Stuart has worked in the high tech industry for over 22 years in development, product line management and marketing roles. He holds patents for management tools, has authored numerous white papers and spoken at industry events globally.
Stuart is a graduate of California State University at Chico with bachelor’s degree in computer science and business administration.
Panelist - Ajay Gupta, Product Strategy, Huawei Enterprise  At Huawei, he is responsible for the Product Marketing, Product Management and GTM strategy for IP products line including Branch, Campus, WLAN, Security as part of the Global Enterprise Marketing Team. Ajay has been working in Networking and IT industry for over two decades at various Silicon Valley companies including Cisco, Juniper, Digital and multiple venture funded companies in various technologies such as Networking, Security, Cloud & virtualization. Earlier he held the positions of Director of Marketing at Juniper and McAfee where he has been responsible for product vision, go-to-market strategy and product positioning for multiple product lines. At Cisco, Ajay held various marketing and product management position where he was instrumental in building several new security and networking products and has taken them to market from zero to multi-million dollar run rates.
Ajay holds a BS in Engineering, MS in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Panelist - Dev Anand, Director of Product Management, ManageEngine (Zoho Group)  Dev Anand is the Director of Product Management @ManageEngine (ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corp). Dev has a particular interest in simplifying IT operations through product management and has spent 13years in various product management and marketing roles in ManageEngine. He is the product manager for OpManager- a network management platform that competes with HP/IBM/CA tools and www.yourITpulse.com - a social networking site exclusively built for IT admins.
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| 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM |
Nothing strikes fear into the heart of an engineer more than the installation of a firewall to achieve the laudable goal of defense-in-depth through network segmentation. Security teams demand the imp… More ▶
Speaker - Michele Chubirka, aka Mrs. Y, Healthy Paranoia Podcast, Packetpushers  Mrs. Y is a recovering Unix engineer most recently assigned to the network security team of financial services provider. Likes long walks in hubsites, traveling to security conferences, and spending extended hours in the Bat Cave. Believes that every problem can be solved with a "for" loop. She also hosts a podcast called Healthy Paranoia, a security feed of Packetpushers.
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| 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM |
Virtualization demands new network designs that move away from the traditional three-tier (fat tree) architecture and break down geographic borders. While large data centers have been deploying the ne… More ▶
Speaker - Ethan Banks, Editor, Packet Pushers Podcast  Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, is a hands-on networking practitioner who has designed, built and maintained networks for higher education, state government, financial institutions, and technology corporations.
Since April 2010, Ethan has also been a host of the Packet Pushers Podcast. The technical program covers practical network design, as well as cutting edge topics like virtualization, OpenFlow, software defined networking, and overlay protocols. The podcast has seen over one million unique downloads, and today reaches a global audience of over 10,000 listeners. Also a writer, Ethan covers network engineering and the networking industry for a variety of IT publications. He is the editor for the independent community of bloggers at PacketPushers.net.
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| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM |
IP, the Internet Protocol, and not IP, Intellectual Property, has long been considered too “heavy weight”, too complicated, too much overhead and just not necessary for sensor networks &nd… More ▶
Speaker - Robert Assimiti, Chief Technology Officer, Nivis  Robert Assimiti is Nivis’ Chief Technology Officer. He has architected and developed highly-scalable, mesh based wireless networks for the last 10 years for both commercial and industrial wireless markets. These networking platforms are part of today’s emerging Internet of Things. He defines Nivis’ current and future technical strategic market position. His responsibilities also include productizing Nivis’ technological offering as well as enriching and maintaining Nivis’ patent portfolio. He is also actively involved in shaping, drafting and editing various standards including the now finalized ISA100.11a standardization effort. He currently serves as the co-chair of the IPSO Alliance Interoperability workgroup. Robert holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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| 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM |
The time is now to consider photonic circuit switching technology in data center networks. Adding photonic circuit switching as an access layer between IP core routers and top-of-rack switches can dra… More ▶
Speaker - Gregory Koss, Chief Development Officer, CALIENT Technologies, Inc.  Koss is the Chief Development Officer at CALIENT Technologies, Inc. where he assisted in developing the company’s new S-Series portfolio strategy, which expanded the use of 3D MEMS technology to Datacenter and Cloud Computing networks. Previously, he served as Senior Advisor and Executive Chairman and CEO at BTI Systems, where he grew company revenues from $10 million to more than $50 million. Before that he was a consultant for Warburg Pincus working to evaluate private / public communications and networking portfolio opportunities centered around cable video on-demand, IP TV and wireless markets. Prior to Warburg Pincus, he was President and BOD Member at Internet Photonics where he focused on repositioning a spin-out from Bell Labs / Lucent into a carrier-grade Optical Ethernet and DWDM network solution provider for incumbent and second tier carriers. Koss demonstrates a solid history of success in the wireline, wireless, software and optical networking industries. Speaker - Daniel Tardent, Vice President of Marketing & PLM, CALIENT Technologies, Inc. 
Tardent is the Vice President of Marketing at CALIENT Technologies, Inc. where he heads all product marketing and management for the company’s revolutionary 3D MEMS Photonic Switching Systems for deployment in next generation Data Centers and Software Defined Networks. Previously he held product and business leadership roles at ADC Telecommunications focusing on the growth of ADC’s FTTN, FTTP, and VDSL automation product lines in EMEA and Latin America. Prior to ADC, he was Director of OEM Business Development at ADVA Optical Networking focused on the expansion of ADVA's Enterprise and Metro DWDM solutions in the U.S. Fortune 500 and Carrier markets. Tardent demonstrates a broad range of business and technical success in service provider and enterprise optical networks.
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| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM |
This session takes a tongue-in-cheek look at one of networking's most hated protocols: Loved by few, hated by most, this protocol that was designed with networks of 20 years ago in mind has caused… More ▶
Speaker - Tony Bourke, Networking Instructor, Independent  Tony Bourke is a networking instructor and former condescending Unix administrator. He holds a Cisco Certified Systems Instructor certification, as well as CCNP Data Center, and is also a pilot, marathon runner, and scuba diver. He lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches around the world.
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