Spokespeople

Vince DeLuca

CEO

• Corporate topics
• Technology trends

Eastern

Mike Houghton

President

• Digital Transformation
• The Value of Professional and Managed Services
• The Importance of Mapping IT Solutions to Business Needs
• The Future of Enterprise IT

Arizona

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

Mike Alley

Business Solution Consultant

• ITSM
• Managed Services
• Managed Service and Cloud Contracts
• Strategic Outsourcing/Rightsourcing

Eastern

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

Central

Kim Garriott

Principal Consultant, Healthcare Strategies

• Enterprise imaging strategy
• Clinical workflow process improvement
• Logicalis’ Five Pillars of Healthcare IT: Infrastructure, Analytics, Imaging, Mobility, Telehealth

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

Adam Petrovsky

Government and Education Practice Leader, Logicalis US

• IT solutions to common issues facing public sector IT decision-makers
• K12 (public, private, charter), Higher Education, Local Government and State Government procurement cycles
• Sales training and management in the public sector
• Public sector contracts, policies and programs – i.e., E-Rate, bond/grant programs

Pacific

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