IT Roadmap Denver Conference Sessions
7:45 am - 4:30 pm
Join us for these confirmed conference sessions. Check back to this space often, as new sessions are added every week.
Please note: Session presentations will be posted to this site after the event but will only be available to IT Roadmap attendees. You must attend IT Roadmap Denver to gain access to these session presentations
7:45 am - Registration Opens. Breakfast is served.
Keynote Presentation
Bill Chapman, VP - IT Global Services & Operations, Arrow Electronics, Inc.
Since joining Arrow Electronics, Inc. about a year ago, Bill Chapman, VP and CIO of Global Services and Operations, has focused on creating a composite solution for this global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. With a global network of more than 390 locations in 53 countries, with some 15,700 employees worldwide, Arrow has been growing even bigger with acquisitions, making integration and consolidation no small feats. In this insightful presentation, Chapman will share how he has been consolidating and rationalizing IT’s alignment with the company’s business drivers, including implementing an ERP deployment; linking dynamic CRM to a hybrid cloud based solution; building a pipeline to stream innovations into the company and creating high-performance, nimble teams that support the enterprise’s ambitious business goals.
Strategies for Retaining Reference Data for Analytics and Big Data
Bob Cone, Product Specialist, Spectra Logic
Big data and data mining initiatives have created an unparalleled need for data storage. More and more companies are reporting their data retention period as, “forever.” The good news is hardware and software technologies are helping to bridge the storage gap between needed storage and available storage. However, this good news brings its own set of challenges. Our concepts of “primary” and “secondary” storage are coming into question as the line between these historic designations is being blurred. This presentation looks deeply at the types of storage available, analyzes the viability of different attributes of each and helps the data storage professional make the move from data storage to data management.
A Wi-Fi Revival
GT Hill, Director of Technical Marketing, Ruckus Wireless
Passionately explore current and future Wi-Fi technologies and design techniques that will provide consistent, steadfast wireless access for your enterprise.
Morning Sessions
The Service Management Challenge
Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research
Service management is a necessary tool for the real time enterprise Virtualization, mobility, unified communications and consumerization have created an IT environment that is dynamic, scalable and allows for customization on a per user basis. Never before has IT had this much flexibility when deploying corporate applications. However, all of this flexibility has raised the bar on complexity and legacy management tools are no longer up to the task of being an effective IT management tool. This presentation will investigate the need for real time service management, how it differs from legacy "bottoms up" frameworks and provide strategies for IT leaders to gain control over the ever changing technology environment.
2012 and the New Normal: the Security Challenge
Christian Christiansen, Program Vice President, Security Products & Services, IDC
What is the New Normal? Richard Clarke, former Counter Terrorism Czar, says, “Every major company in the United States has already been penetrated.” The reality is that all companies can expect attacks and exploitation. Threats like cyber privateers are a dangerous new development, but solutions are available, both for traditional and new attack platforms like mobile and cloud. Based on customer stories, this session will suggest strategies to counter and even predict new IT security problems in order to fortify the enterprise.
The Intersection of Cloud and Identity
Ginny Roth, Analyst, ESG
Your CIO has come to you and said you’re moving your applications to the cloud. One of your first thoughts is, “How am I going to manage my users in the cloud?” You’ve already been through a painful identity management deployment internally that took years, and cost way too much. This can’t be good news. Fortunately, times have changed. Come join an open discussion on how vendors are changing identity solutions in the cloud and how you can make the transition for your organization and reap the benefits from this new service model.
The New Enterprise Network in the Era of the Cloud
BYOD and the Consumerization of IT
Rohit Mehra, Director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC
At a time where the drive towards virtualization and cloud computing is all but certain, the enterprise network is evolving rapidly to ensure it meets IT and business needs. The converged enterprise is transitioning from legacy infrastructures to a newer, efficient, and intelligent network. As deployment models for mobility and edge access, campus and the datacenter start to diverge, what are the key enterprise network technologies and deployment models that IT and network managers need to be looking at? With voice, video and wireless increasingly important at the edge, what are the key requirements for unified wired/wireless, the remote branch and the WAN? How important is a simpler, flatter 10G architecture in the datacenter, and when does poor application performance become a barrier to cloud adoption?
The Road Ahead for Mobility in the Enterprise
Rick Nicholson, Group Vice President, IDC
Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments
Paul Ayers, Offer Manager, HBN Networking Solutions, APC by Schneider Electric
No matter how the IT landscape changes, protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical and unpredictable. Distributed networking and computing spaces frequently go unmanaged despite their importance. Are you responsible for branch IT environments? Are you challenged with maintaining access for remote users? Are you deploying IT equipment in the cloud or at a co-location facility? Join us as we discuss the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability, energy cost savings opportunities and dealing with a lack of onsite technical resources.
Jeff Uphues, Vice President, Cloud Solutions & National Sales, Cbeyond
This session will delve into the benefits of connecting cloud services to a secure network, and the risks involved in public networks. This session will hit on what keeps business owners and CIOs up at night – the security of their mission-critical data. While nobody is arguing that cloud is a more secure IT investment, many businesses are making a mistake when it comes to investing in cloud on a public network, thus leaving enormous risk to the business. This session will highlight the many benefits coupling cloud and network including performance, cost improvements, ease of use, flexibility and most importantly the highest levels of security and reliability.
Kevin Capp, CIO, Town of Castle Rock, Colorado
Kevin Capp, CIO of Castle Rock, Colorado, will share how he has aggressively turned his IT strategy away from laptops and desktops to the world of smartphones and other mobile devices. He will show how he has successfully focused on converting a staff of more than 400 employees to this new virtual, collaborative and continuously connected world, and how he has reached a cost benefit analysis for why this is a winning strategy. He will also share some of the challenge of keeping people connected as well as the mobile device management solutions he is using to effectively blend the desire for consumerization of IT, the virtual desktop goal and how not to lose security and functionality.
Julie Ouska, VP & CIO, Colorado Community College System
For Julie Ouska, VP and CIO at the Colorado Community College System, the challenge of managing the enterprise technology for 13 community colleges and providing the IT environment for 160,000 students as well as faculty and staff encompasses both a physical and an online environment. To do this, the CCCS operates the Banner ERP system for all 13 colleges, operates Microsoft Exchange for all 13 colleges and the system office and is in the process of implementing VOIP (consolidating all but two of the colleges into one centralized system) and has completed a server virtualization implementation. In order to create a robust online teaching system, the CCCS strategy has also includes a hosted Learning Management System (LMS) for all 13 colleges and CCCOnline, the system's online consortium. In this advice-filled presentation, Julie and Keith Dahl, Director, Network Technology will discuss how they have created a comprehensive plan to support the new mobile student as well as the more traditional campus-based student.
The Balancing Act: IT Customer Centric Model
Mary Denler, Director of IT Enterprise Solutions, Compassion International
The strategy, goals,objectives and maturity of an organization play a significant role in the IT and Business Partnership model. There is a fine balance that is required for success in an IT Customer Centric Model.
Business Intelligence: Building It from the Ground Up....Or Top Down
Mark Adkins, CIO, Leprino Foods
Mining your data for actionable business intelligence requires more than technology – it needs an underlying strategy and a close alignment between IT and the business. In this advice-packed presentation, Mark Adkins, CIO of Leprino Foods, will share how he has taken the avalanche of data coming into the enterprise and turned it into info that propels the business and informs decisions. He will discuss how to build a BI culture and create a mindset that sees data as the basis for growing the enterprise, and how to make sure that IT and business are on the same page.
Colorado Information Marketplace: Creating Data Transparency
Sherri Hammons, CTO, State of Colorado
The Colorado Information Marketplace, a new system by the state of Colorado Office of Information Technology, is a wide reaching project aimed at improving governance around sharing, reusing and analyzing data – with effective security controls. Sherri Hammons, CTO for the state of Colorado, will detail how this complex system will improve how state departments gather and disseminate data, and how it will eventually be made available to the general public – making it valuable for both internal and external information. You will hear how this new and evolving system has been conceived as a “one-stop shop” for data sharing, and how various technologies and business strategies have been deployed to create a safe, secure and effective way for getting more value from the mountains of data gathered daily by the Colorado state government.
Afternoon Sessions
From Cyber Security to Bandwidth Management: The Path to Successful Network Video Surveillance
Vince Ricco, Business Development Manager: Technology Partner Program, Axis Communications
IP video surveillance is inevitable but here’s the good news: it’s established, effective and manageable. The physical security industry is expected to deploy IP video surveillance in a majority of all projects by the year 2020, and IT professionals will soon add surveillance data management to their list of responsibilities. This session outlines the basics of working with IP video surveillance and provides steps to adhere to both physical and logical security standards.
Driving Business Innovation with High-Performance Network Connectivity
Rob Timmons, Director of Enterprise Sales, Comcast Business Class
When you consider the proliferation of cloud-based services, the speed required for data and voice transport and the performance requirements for mission-critical applications, network superiority matters more now than ever. Join Comcast, as they share the latest trends and current thinking among enterprise IT executives of mid-sized companies on what is driving their need for high-performance connectivity. Attendees will gain a fresh understanding of how network connectivity serves as a transformational asset for today's businesses.
Systems management nirvana: Balancing demands, dollars and the day-to-day
Anne Haggar, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Dell KACE
For years IT professionals have been searching for a state of systems management nirvana: creating a balanced response to end-user needs using limited budgets, all while providing a reliable IT infrastructure. Learn how Dell KACE can help you achieve this state more easily and cost-effectively.
Running a Business in the Cloud: Tips, Tricks & Ptifalls
Trey Hoehne, Cloud Consultant & Evangelist, Rackspace Hosting
During the past decade, the adoption of cloud computing, specifically, how computing resources are consumed, has thrived. But the excitement around cloud computing continues to outpace the realities IT owners face in the daily challenges of securing their business while meeting the performance expectations of end users. IT leaders must remain flexible, agile, and cost efficient – no easy feat. Some applications can command light switch portability to cloud, but other, more demanding or legacy applications, will require a comprehensive, consultative, and multidimensional analysis to determine feasibility and the appropriate migration level of effort. Let Rackspace’s Cloud Consultant and Evangelist, Trey Hoehne, educate you on the various cloud offerings and guide you on which are most appropriate for your environment.
Make the Most of Your Endpoint Protection with 4 Easy Ways to Stop Threats
John Metzger, Endpoint Security Expert, Sophos
Today’s threats are more sophisticated and targeted, making the data protection challenge even more difficult for IT managers. And, tight budgets and limited resources mean organizations have to do more with less. Join John Metzger of Sophos to learn 4 easy ways to use your AV to protect your data.
Career Session
Your IT Career Roadmap: What You Need to Know for the Journey Ahead
Rebekah Bill, Senior Associate, Heidrick & Struggles
As an IT professional, you are focused on the many technology and business trends in IT today. But you should also be thinking about your own personal brand and career plan -- as well as the career development of your staff. Come to this session to learn from a seasoned, well known recruiter and career coach on the workforce trends in IT today. Given all the changes and challenges taking place in IT today, should you be specializing in something like mobile or cloud, or should you be broadening your skills? What are some tips for learning more about your organization’s business, and gaining the necessary soft skills, such as leadership? This session will feature tips on how to build your own brand and IT career roadmap. Come to this session for valuable information on how today’s IT leaders build successful careers.
