Thomas Gobeille, CEO & President, NCA

8:10AM - 9:00AM

Keynote: John McAdam, President, Chief Executive Officer, F5 Networks

IT staff are being asked to do more with less-provide more flexibility and align itself with the business-but do so at a reduced cost. These pressures are pushing organizations to adopt virtualization and cloud computing at an increased rate—a rate that makes them uncomfortable because of critical unknowns: security, performance, and control.

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

What does it take in today’s sluggish economic climate to get an idea funded? Not only has the venture capital landscape changed radically over the past decade but the very nature of start-ups has also fundamentally evolved. What makes a public tech company a successful investment for an institutional investor?  Moderated by Senior Editor of Technology for OTR Global, John Harrington, this panel will explore what type of start-ups, VCs and angel investors are looking to fund, how equity investors see the technology landscape and how the latest trends in enterprise technology continue to fuel the search for the Next Big Thing.

10:00AM - 10:45AM

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.

F5 Networks: Deploying an application ready network for the Microsoft platform

11:00AM - 11:30AM

ShoreTel: Unified IP Communications Exposed: Simple vs. Complex UC Solutions

EMC & RSA Security: Securing the Virtualized Datacenter

11:30AM - 12:00PM

McAfee: Next Generation Firewalls: Real Time Protection via Predictive Threat Intelligence

Ruckus Wireless: Wireless LANs and Dealing with RF Ambiguities

Lunch Sponsored by: NCA,  F5 Networks & McAfee

Special Guest: Dr. Phyllis A. Schneck, Vice President and CTO, Public Sector, McAfee Inc.

Squashing the Cyber Adversary
Cyber security, interlocked from silicon to satellite, is the nexus of all critical infrastructure, keeping the lights on, banks open and water clean and available.  Security will be sharply redefined in the next decade as what is currently known as “cyber security” evolves into secure communication that enables cross-sector resiliency throughout critical infrastructure and key resources such as electric power, gas/oil, finance and water. 

Panel Discussion: Smart Credentials, Verified Identity and Online Trust

Stewart 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.

Qwest: Cloud Computing: The Evolution from Best-effort Cloud to Enterprise-class

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.