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Mike Martin

Senior Vice President, Solutions & Services

  • Technology Trends
  • As a Service
  • Global Viewpoint
  • Service Defined Enterprise

Central

Ed Konopasek

VP Vertical & Services Sales

  • The business case for cloud computing and how the cloud computing distribution model is changing the way the IT industry delivers IT.
  • Traditional data center blocking and tackling, i.e., moves, migrations and collocations and all the technology that goes on inside the data center.
  • The changing role of sales in IT: from taking orders to asking questions, from pitching products to providing strategic services.
  • The role of the economy in driving fundamental change in the way organizations implement and pay for IT.

Central

Ron Temske

Vice President, Security & Network

  • Security
  • Software Defined Networking
  • Mobility
  • Collaboration solutions, including the role of mobility in collaboration
  • The Internet of Everything (IoE) and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Central

Eric Brooks

Principal Architect

  • Comparing/contrasting the Logicalis Enterprise Cloud with its public cloud competitors

  • Explaining the cloud infrastructure – from the high-level concepts of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS to the more specific ways cloud can be used, such as backup and disaster recovery as services

  • Defining the hybrid cloud and the business scenarios in which a hybrid strategy makes sense

Eastern

Kevin Clark

Business Solution Consultant

  • Managed Services
  • Cloud Computing
  • How to use the cloud for disaster recovery.
  • Developing a comprehensive strategy that spans the entire infrastructure, including private and public clouds.
  • Implementing service management best practices across your IT environment.

Eastern

Brian Day

VP Platform Strategy & Services

  • How enterprise customers can develop a service-defined enterprise by relying on strategically outsourced professional and managed services.
  • Defining and managing the lifecycle of professional and managed services.
  • Developing a workable business model for hybrid cloud solutions.
  • Migrating existing applications to private and public cloud environments.
  • Using lean/agile software development techniques and tools to rapidly produce applications that leverage self-provisioning and other cloud computing capabilities.
  • Leveraging PaaS capabilities for application development.

Eastern

Dwight Goble

Sr Solution Architect

  • Weighing the options: Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud
  • Disaster Recovery (DR) in the cloud
  • Transforming Traditional IT to a Converged Cloud Experience
  • End User Computing

Central

Mike Henderson

Business Solution Consultant

  • Managed Services
  • Cloud Computing
  • The best uses for public and private cloud solutions
  • Managed services and how they meet business needs
  • Discussing case studies involving complex customer engagements

Eastern

Renae Johnson

National Cisco Alliance Senior Director

  • Cisco Solutions
  • Security Reference Architectures for the Full Attack Continuum
  • National and Global Partner/Channel Relations
  • New IT Consumption Models

Eastern

Kevin Gruneisen

Business Solution Consultant

  • Cloud computing and managed services
  • IBM midrange solutions
  • Virtualization

Eastern

Girish Shah

Business Solution Consultant

  • Assessing business processes and information technologies to identify deficiencies and recommend improvement initiatives.
  • Defining future-state processes, organizational change management, and information technology strategies.
  • The role of business process outsourcing for IT organizations.
  • Defining IT strategy for business enablement.

Central

Chuck Farrow

Vice President of Strategic Partner Alliances

  • Strategic and long-term planning.
  • Managing and nurturing vendor and supplier relations.
  • Best practices in business technology policy formulation.

Eastern

Bob Chapp

Sr Dir Service Desk - End User Support

  • Managed services and IT service desk
  • Strategic and tactical planning
  • Organizational development
  • Business/vendor relationship management

Eastern

Paul Abram

Product Manager - Power Systems

  • Enterprise computing that encompasses on-premise and cloud ecosystems.
  • Enterprise storage, backup and recovery systems and hyper-converged infrastructures.
  • Designing efficient processes and workflows that integrate multiple IT specialties in an end-to-end solution.
  • Collaboration between technical experts, vendors and customers across the full lifecycle of an enterprise-quality solution.

Central

Walt Braeger

VP Cloud & Service Management

  • Business transformation
  • Strategic partnering
  • Cloud computing
  • Value creation and client experience
  • Business development
  • IT strategy

Central

Wendy McQuiston

Dir Business Development - Microsoft

  • The complete Microsoft stack from the data center to the cloud
  • Aligning technology with business objectives
  • Consuming and managing cloud services as part of a long-term business strategy
  • Empowering end-user productivity with appropriate technology

Eastern

Laura Vaupel

Business Development Manager - Global Sales

  • International Sales and Operations
  • Consistency in the Delivery of Solutions and Services on a Global Scale
  • Domestic and International Sales Enablement
  • Process and Operational Improvement Initiatives

Arizona