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Panel Discussion: The Investment Side of Technology
“The Purse Strings of Development”

An idea is just a good thought until it has financial legs to walk on. Join John Harrington, Senior Sector Leader and Research Analyst to OTR Global, and our panel of investment bankers and venture capitalists as they discuss the process of funding technological change, growing an idea from concept to funded project, the financial anatomy of the start-up, and the vital strategies they employ to help their business embrace the bigger picture.

Panel Discussion: Virtualization and the Promise of Self Service Clouds

Virtualization and cloud computing represent two of the most pervasive trends in IT today. Whereas just a few years ago virtualization was still restricted to testing environments, now more enterprise organizations are diving headfirst into the production end of the virtualization pool. Likewise, cloud computing has matured significantly over the past few years from something of a novelty to a core strategic objective for some of the world’s largest enterprises. Our panel of virtualization and cloud computing experts will peer into their crystal balls to better understand how these two trends are impacting companies today and what technologies they’re employing to bring the on-demand computing vision to life in their own organizations.

Panel Discussion: Privacy and Smart Credentials in the Social Age

Stuart Brand, founder of one of the Internet’s first online communities, once famously declared: “information wants to be free”. Never has that been more true than today as social and business networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn have fundamentally changed the way we as individuals think about our private information. For businesses, this also has a wide range of implications as employees and other constituents begin to embrace these and other social sites as part of their daily work life. How do these companies stay on the cutting edge of technology while maintaining their own security posture in the Social Age? Our panel brings a unique perspective to this topic and will explore how businesses today are straddling the blurring line between these two domains.

Applications are the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. As workers become increasingly untethered from their desks, their ability to securely and quickly connect to the applications they rely on has become mission critical. However, as companies make these applications available across the distributed enterprise, they also have to consider important issues such as security, data compliance practices, and disaster recovery. This session will investigate the issue of ‘everywhere applications’, examine how the enterprise is balancing the demands for greater access without compromising security, and identify which tools and technologies they’re using to meet these fast evolving requirements.