FALL 2018 Sessions

Opening Remarks: Future of Working in an Open Collaborative Enterprise

Speakers: Glenn Gruber, Senior Mobile Strategist, Co-Founder Emerging Technology Council, Propelics | Isaac Sacolick, Consultant, CIO, Author, StarCIO

Keynote Presentation: Business in the Fast Lane - Creating a Real-Time, Know-It-All, Agile Enterprise

Speaker: Ken Piddington, President, CIO, SGR Energy

Description: Practically every company is going through some form of digital transformation and is feeling the pressures of the shifting technology landscape. Today there is extreme focus on innovation and leveraging technology to drive business outcomes.  These shifts are changing the role of the CIO and enabling major business technology transformation.  Hear from our panel of business technology leaders how they have helped drive the business transforms at their organizations.

Keynote Presentation: CloudJumper

Speaker: Robin Brandl, Vice President Strategic Alliances, CloudJumper

Keynote Presentation: VERIZON: Driving Better Business Results With the Network of the Future

Speaker: Danny Johnson, Director, VES Product Marketing, Strategic Enterprise Networks, Verizon

Description: 5G, IoT, Enterprise Mobility and new security solutions are required for delivering successful workplace services and customer engagement. Verizon will discuss how the market is evolving and what are the choices companies should be thinking about and how will new network and security solutions enable new enterprise experiences.

Fireside Chat: Driving Business Technology Transformation

Moderator: Ken Piddington, CIO, SGR Energy

Panelists: Ashish Sharma, Manager, IT & Digital Transformation, Waste Management Inc. | Rick Castro, CIO, Par Pacific

Description: Practically every company is going through some form of digital transformation and is feeling the pressures of the shifting technology landscape.  Today there is extreme focus on innovation and leveraging technology to drive business outcomes.  These shifts are changing the role of the CIO and enabling major business technology transformation.  Hear from our panel of business technology leaders how they have helped drive the business transforms at their organizations.

Vendor Keynote: VANTIQ: Driving Digital Transformation Quickly with Real-Time, Event-Driven Applications

Speaker: Blaine Mathieu, Chief Product & Marketing Officer, VANTIQ

Description: The pressures to become a ‘real-time business’ are building, driven by rapid advances in IoT, machine learning, augmented reality, robotics, and mobility (to name a few). It is fundamentally your people that can and must drive agility and innovation. But only if you enable them to work collaboratively with ‘machines’—the systems that are increasingly at the heart of your organization. In this session, Blaine Mathieu, Chief Product & Marketing Officer at VANTIQ will describe how it is now possible to quickly create truly digitally transformative applications.

Vendor Panel: Security Safeguards: New Priorities and Demands in the Enterprise

Moderator: Glenn Gruber, Senior Mobile Strategist, Co-Founder Emerging Technology Council, Propelics

Speakers: Dan Cheuvront, MaaS360 Product Marketing Professional, IBM | Brian Egenrieder, CRO, SyncDog | John Loveland, Global Head of Cyber Security Strategy & Marketing, Verizon | Michael Cranford, Threat Prevention Sales Manager, Check Point Software Technologies

Description: As organizations expand their technology reach into such areas as IoT, robotics, machine learning and customer-focused portals that allow even more access to the supply chain, they should also prepare for an increase in security threats that could cripple business operations.  This not only involves using a new tools and techniques to safeguard data and operations, but strengthening collaboration and communications between IT and business, and establishing a cyber risk management culture throughout the organization. This session will provide a best-practice approach to cyber-security protection, as well as offer tips on the best application of budgets, people and training procedures as more people in the organization are called upon as a front-line forced to mitigate risks and revenue losses.

General Session Presentation: Modernizing the Mobile Workforce

Speaker: Glenn Gruber, Senior Mobile Strategist, Co-Founder Emerging Technology Council, Propelics

General Session: AI in the Enterprise: Finding Winning Business Opportunities

Speaker: Isaac Sacolick, Consultant, CIO, Author, StarCIO

Description: AI is still in early adoption phases at many enterprises and the algorithms and platforms are becoming more mainstream. This session will focus on tips for getting started with AI, where to find appropriate business opportunities to apply AI solutions, and avoiding early pitfalls.