Key Symposium Sponsors include:

Commvault

ECS

Intel

VMWare

2012 Symposium Agenda

Symposium - August 7
Symposium - August 8
Symposium - August 9

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Tuesday, August 7

Time	Speaker/Activity
7:30 - 8:00	Registration & Cont'l Breakfast - Symposium Foyer
	Main Ballroom
8:00 - 8:15	Welcome & Introductions John Randall, Vice President Marketing, Nth Generation
8:15 - 8:25	Nth's Role in the Marketplace Mark Gerner, Vice President Sales, Nth Generation
8:25 - 8:45	Symposium Theme & Advanced Technology Showcase Highlights Dan Molina, CTO, Nth Generation
8:45 - 9:20	*Live Performance: BYOD Security Nightmare!* Jeromie Jackson, Security & Mobility Practice Lead, Nth Generation; Jerry Craft, Security Consultant, Nth Generation & the Nth Generation Players
9:20 - 9:50	*Breakthroughs With Unified Communications* Jason Lopez, Microsoft Practice Lead, Nth Generation
9:50 - 10:05 Break
10:05 - 10:55	*The NEW Need for IT Agility* The Nth Players and Leigh Carpenter, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Nth Generation
10:55 - 11:25	*Enterprise Storage, Data Management & Big Data* Jim Russ, Vice President Enterprise Technology, Nth Generation
11:30 - 12:00 Break, General Session Buffet lines open
	Main Ballroom	Trillium Room
12:00 - 1:00	Branding and Marketing IT: Take Control of Your "Brand"- If You Don't Others Will! Joel Manfredo, Senior IT Strategist	Birds of a Feather Luncheon Subject-matter experts serve as your table hosts
1:00 - 1:15 Break
	Main Ballroom
1:15 - 1:50	*"Race to Results" & Formula 1 Racing Simulation: Proactive vs Reactive IT* Luis Burgos, Consultant & Trainer, Arrow Electronics
1:50 - 2:30	*Capitalizing on the Explosion of Human Information* Stephen Reny, Sr. Vice President, Market Development, Autonomy
2:30 - 4:00	Advanced Technology & Cloud Showcase

Wednesday, August 8

Time	Speaker/Activity
7:30 - 8:00	Registration & Continental Breakfast - Symposium Foyer Main Ballroom
8:00 - 8:10	Welcome & Introductions John Randall, Vice President Marketing, Nth Generation
8:10 - 8:20	Nth Generation and Customer Satisfaction Interview with Mark Gerner, Vice President Sales, Nth Generation
8:20 - 8:55	Live Performance: BYOD Security Nightmare! Jeromie Jackson, Security & Mobility Practice Lead, Nth Generation; Jerry Craft, Security Consultant, Nth Generation & the Nth Generation Players
8:55 - 9:30	KEYNOTE Tom Ashbrook, CIO, Bridgepoint Education Bridgepoint's IT Transformation – Part 2
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 - 10:30	*Security & Mobility Panel* Robert Irvin, Director of Systems, Bureau of Sanitation, City of Los Angeles; Julian Hicks, Director Data Center Services and Commodity Computing, CareFusion; Steve Clemons, CTO, San Diego County Office of Education; Mike Stansbury, Vice President, Technology Services, Bridgepoint Education; Sean Azhadi, Vice President IT, San Diego County Credit Union; Rick Roberts, Executive Director, Information & Technology Services, Grossmont Union High School District
10:30 - 11:05	KEYNOTE Kit Colbert, Senior Cloud Strategist, Office of the CTO, VMware The Software-Defined Data Center: The Foundation of Enterprise IT
11:05 - 11:40	KEYNOTE Bill Swales, Vice President-Americas Industry Standard Servers, HP HP Gen 8 Server Innovations & Project Voyager
11:45 - 12:15	Lunch buffet open
	*Breakout A - Trillium Room*	Breakout B - Main Ballroom
12:15 - 1:00	Breakout 1A You're Virtualized, NOW What? Next Steps on Your IT Transformation Path Leigh Carpenter Nth & Jeff Holderfield HP	Breakout 1B Infrastructure & Operations Management with vCenter Operations Kit Colbert, Senior Cloud Strategist, Office of the CTO, VMware
1:00 - 1:15	Break	Break
1:15 - 2:00	Breakout 2A Three Network Technology Trends that Will Accelerate Applications & Operations in Unprecedented Ways Bob Beliles, Network Product Line Manager, HP	Breakout 2B What's new with Windows Server 2012 and HyperV? Jason Lopez, Nth Generation
2:00 - 2:15	Break	Break
2:15 - 3:00	Breakout 3A *Mission Critical Database Computing: Business Critical Systems (BCS) and NonStop Update* Marty Poniatowski, HP	Breakout 3B Critical Trends in Security & Mobility: What Hackers Won't Tell You! Jeromie Jackson & Jerry Craft, Nth Generation
3:00 - 3:15	Break	Break
3:15 - 4:00	Breakout 4A Optimizing Mobile Device Access & Securing Critical Applications Kevin Fletcher, Systems Engineer, F5	Breakout 4B Managing Large Heterogeneous Environments End to End Joe Marcantonio, HP Software and Mark Laughlin, Pepperweed
3:30	Advanced Technology Lab & Cloud Showcase opens
4:00 - 4:15	Break
4:15 - 5:00	Breakout 5A HP Converged Cloud Nondisclosure Roadmap James Havard, Senior Technologist, Converged Infrastructure, HP	Breakout 5B HP Servers Nondisclosure Roadmap Walt Mueller, HP and Marty Poniatowski, Director of Solution Architecture for Business Critical Systems (BCS) and NonStop, HP
7:00	Advanced Technology Lab & Cloud Showcase closes

Thursday, August 9

Time	Speaker/Activity
7:30 - 8:00	Registration & Continental Breakfast - Symposium Foyer Main Ballroom
8:00 - 8:10	Welcome & Introductions John Randall, Vice President Marketing, Nth Generation
8:10 - 8:25	Founders' Welcome – The Copreneurs Jan Baldwin, Co-founder & CEO, Nth Generation and Rich Baldwin, Co-founder & CSO, Nth Generation
8:25 - 9:00	KEYNOTE Marc Demarest, CEO, Noumenal, Inc. Big Data Through the Looking Glass
9:00 - 9:40	The NEW Need for IT Agility The Nth Players and Leigh Carpenter, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Nth Generation
9:40 - 9:55 Break
9:55 - 10:30	KEYNOTE Paul Rettberg, Sr. Technical Director, CommVault The Importance of Unified Data Management in the Era of Big Data
10:30 - 11:05	KEYNOTE John Spiers, Founder & CEO, NexGen Storage; Chris McCall, VP Marketing, NexGen Storage; Ezra Hookano, VP Channel Sales, Fusion-io The Great Solid-state Debate: Cast Your Vote For the Future of Storage!
11:05 - 11:45	Panel: Enterprise Storage, Data Management & Big Data Janae Lee, Senior Vice President, Filesystem and Archive, Quantum Steve Sicola, CTO, X-IO LaMills Garrett, Americas Senior Product Mgr - 3PAR & HP P9000/XP, HP John Spiers, CEO & Founder, NexGen Storage Paul Rettberg, Sr. Director, Technical Services Support and Enablement, CommVault
11:45 - 12:15	Lunch buffet open
	*Breakout A - Trillium Room*	Breakout B - Main Ballroom
12:15 - 1:00	Breakout 1A Improved Economics of Datacenter Operations: A Proven Approach Steve Sicola, Chief Technology Officer, X-IO	Breakout 1B Unified Data Management: A Deeper Dive Greg White, Sr. Product Marketing Mgr, CommVault
1:00 - 1:15	Break	Break
1:15 - 2:00	Breakout 2A Cloudy With a Chance of Big Data Michael Barrow, Solutions Advisor, Quantum	Breakout 2B Storage QoS: Delivering Consistent Storage System Performance for your Applications Ben Bolles, Sr Director of Systems Engineering, NexGen Storage
2:00 - 2:15	Break	Break
2:15 - 3:00	Breakout 3A Redefine What's Possible: Accelerating Application Performance Ezra Hookano, VP Sales, Fusion-io	Breakout 3B The Modern Storage Area Network: Sorting through the Nonsense and Hype AJ Casamento, Senior Solutioneer, Brocade
3:00 - 3:15	Break	Break
3:15 - 4:00	Breakout 4A HP's Innovative Gen 8 Servers & Intel: A Perfect Match Afshin Abadi, Intel	Breakout 4B HP Storage Nondisclosure Roadmap Gary Bergo, Master Portfolio Architect - Field Product Manager, HP and Jim (JR) Richardson, Consulting Storage Strategist, HP
3:30 - 7:00	Advanced Technology Lab & Cloud Showcase