Keynote Speakers
Hear from industry leaders with unique perspectives on business technology.
Wednesday Keynotes (9:00 - 10:45 AM)
Thursday Keynotes (1:30 - 2:30 PM)
Wednesday, November 18, 9:00-10:45 AM
Transforming Enterprise IT: From the Datacenter to the Desktop
 Mark Templeton President, Chief Executive Officer and Director Citrix Systems, Inc.  |
Today's business environment is forcing the enterprise computing model to continually evolve. IT departments are challenged to create a flexible yet low cost computing architecture, one that balances installed software with SaaS offerings, while providing users a high definition experience on any device, over any network connection, in any location. The need to understand and separate the reality from the hype of in-demand technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing further challenges IT leaders as they strive to innovate, while keeping costs under control, maintaining information security and remaining agile to support the needs of the business. Come hear Mark Templeton share his vision for transforming IT including:
- Simplifying computing by empowering IT to manage one instance of everything in a central location -- one desktop OS, one copy of each application, one instance of each server workload
- Harnessing the power of virtual appliances to deploy network load balancing, acceleration and security capabilities on-demand; removing limits posed by legacy hardware-only approaches
- Using desktop virtualization as the mainstream way desktops are delivered to all workers, from mobile knowledge workers to centrally located task workers and everyone in between
- How to leverage cloud services in enterprise computing today, and which areas are not yet ready for prime time
Mark B. Templeton, 55, is President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director for Citrix Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ:CTXS), a $1.6 billion leader in virtualization, networking and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide.
Under Templeton's leadership, Citrix has become one of the world's top technology companies. In the 1990s, he was responsible for Citrix's marketing strategy in server-based computing, a strategy based on the company's ground-breaking application virtualization technology, helping the company to achieve market leadership with approximately 80 percent market share.
Over the past few years, Templeton has led the evolution of Citrix from a company with a single product, customer segment, and go-to-market path to a global powerhouse with multiple products, business models, customer segments, and go-to-market channels. In that time, Citrix has also grown to more than 4,600 employees who help hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide – including the world's largest Internet companies, 99 percent of Fortune 500 enterprises, and small businesses and prosumers worldwide.
Business Transformation in a World Without Borders
 Marie Hattar VP of Network Systems and Security Solutions Cisco  |
The consumerization of technology is changing the way we work and interact, more dramatically than ever before. Borders that once existed around location, device, or application are disappearing—or at the very least, blurring. Our workspace is no longer defined by walls in the office. In addition, applications are more pervasive and complex and video usage is on the rise.
Marie Hattar, Cisco VP of Network Systems and Security Solutions, will discuss how a borderless network architecture can help business and IT transform, and how processes based on mobility, video, collaboration and virtualization can be accelerated in secure, game-changing ways.
In addition, Marie will unveil the latest Cisco security innovation that helps IT professionals ensure network security in a borderless world.
As Vice President of Network Systems and Security Solutions at Cisco, Marie Hattar is responsible for setting and developing a strategic vision for the Borderless Network Architecture, which comprises products and services that span switching, routing, mobility, security, and application acceleration. Under her guidance, her organization creates and advances solutions to help employees, partners, and customers—essentially anyone—connect securely, reliably and seamlessly, regardless of location or device.
Throughout her career, Hattar has held leadership roles in product marketing, product management, software engineering, competitive intelligence, and finance. She has been instrumental in building security and network architectures for leading Fortune 500 companies.
When not thinking about technology and networking, Hattar enjoys the latest sci-fi movies and the wines of her adopted home state of California.
Dave’s Mobile Show-and-Tell
 David Pogue New York Times Technology Columnist  |
David Pogue reviews over 200 products a year for the New York Times. If anyone can identify the breakthroughs, he can.
In this lively presentation--half talk, half magic show--David will present and actually demonstrate the latest and most amazing mobile gadgets, and offer his mini-critiques of each. The assortment changes monthly, of course, but past presentations have included the cellphone that offers unlimited free calls via Wi-Fi; the pocket camera that beams photos instantly onto Flickr (the photo-sharing Web site); the music player that downloads wirelessly from a catalog of 2 million songs; a folding memory card for cameras that eliminates the need for wires or card readers; the secret of getting Directory Assistance for free on your cellphone (rather than $2 per call from your carrier); the latest breakthroughs in speech recognition; and, of course, the iPhone.
Prepare to have your mind blown--and your credit card stressed.
David Pogue is the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. Each week, he contributes a print column, an online column, an online video and a popular daily blog, "Pogue's Posts."
David is also an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News, and he appears each week on CNBC with his trademark comic tech videos.
With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the world's bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "for Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes over 100 titles.
David graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with distinction in Music, and he spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Shenandoah Conservatory.
He's been profiled on both "48 Hours" and "60 Minutes." He lives with his wife and three young children in Connecticut. His web site is www.davidpogue.com.
Thursday, November 19, 1:30-2:30 PM
Enterprise Cloud Summit Panel
Cloud Computing is gaining traction. But what about your legacy apps and infrastructure? Enterprise Cloud Summit invites you to an innovative program where leading purveyors of cloud computing will conduct a mock “customer visit” with IT executives to focus on how best to leverage existing investments while getting the benefits of the cloud.
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