OUTLINE AGENDA cont...
Thursday 16th February
7:30 – 8:30am
NetEvents registration desk open — Location: Hayes Foyer
7:30 – 8:30am
8:40 — 8:50am
Day Two: Welcome, conference commences — Location: Hayes 2
8:50 — 9:10am
Guest speaker , fireside chat: Building Hyperconnected Ecosystems- What's Next for the Enterprise Ramesh Marimuthu – VP & Head of Americas, Tata Communications ‘Fireside Chat’ led by Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst, ZK Research Organisations must pivot to a ‘digital first’ future where technology enables people and machines to communicate and collaborate with each other, seamlessly and in real time. These new ecosystems require solutions that work across disparate areas such as connectivity, collaboration, IoT and security, at the same time as making sense of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud complexities.
9:10 — 9:50am
Conference Debate Session IV: Fresh thinking to fight back a rising tide of cyberthreats
Introduced and chaired by Roy Chua, Founder & Principle, Avid Think New ideas are needed to protect against ransomware and other high destructive malware across all industry sectors. Data and networks are under threat as never before. We use this session to examine some of the cutting-edge work being done in the security space. Who are the vendors helping to make tomorrow’s commerce safe? What innovations are we seeing in the area of EDR, MDR and XDR? Panellists: Matt Lourens, Office of the CTO, CheckPoint Dr Srinivas Bhattiprolu, Global Head of Advanced Consulting Services, Nokia Cloud and Network Services; Jason Rolleston, VP & GM of Security Business, VMware; Ken Levine Chief Executive Officer Xcitium Conference Debate Session V: The Future of the Datacenter – and Finding the Right Cloud Balance Introduced and chaired by Steve McDowell, Principal Analyst & Founding Partner, Nand Research The datacenter is going through radical change as it evolves towards greater agility, programmability and flexibility. The traditional approaches of yesterday are history. We also consider the latest thinking in the debate about where data really belongs – in the cloud or on- prem. Is ‘cloud first’ thinking changing in favour of a retreat to the datacenter ? Or are we just seeing a cloud reset and a shift to more hybridised approaches? Panellists: Manish Mehta, CTO of Security, ServiceNow; Yousuf Khan, Vice President, Technical Marketing, Cisco Data Center & Provider Connectivity, Cisco; Michael McNerney, Marketing VP, Supermicro; Prof. Martin Curley, Chair of the UN Digital Health Symposium
9:50 – 10:30am
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