Overview
The 12th Annual Arizona Technology Summit was held on September 8th, 2021 at The Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch in Scottsdale, AZ.
This B2B conference is targeted for the Technology and Security community. Attendees consist of IT/IS Executives and Direct reports across all verticals within the state of Arizona interested in Networking, Researching/Learning, Career Advancement, and Purchasing. Attend the Arizona Technology Summit to get the right tools and make vital connections to best prepare your company for the broad spectrum of ever-changing technology trends.
Governing Body Members
Sponsors
We would like to thank our all of our sponsors for being a part of this year's Arizona Technology Summit. From being a sponsor, you will be recognized for the education and mission your company contributes to our tradeshow, panels, and sessions. Many of our sponsors have been a part of our annual summit for many years and we are proud to support them. See below for a list of our present and past sponsors.
Gold Sponsors
Trend Micro™ XDR collects and correlates deep activity data across multiple vectors - email, endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and networks - enabling a level of detection and investigation that is difficult or impossible to achieve with SIEM or individual point solutions. With a combined context, events that seem benign on their own suddenly become meaningful indicators of compromise, and you can quickly contain the impact, minimizing the severity and scope.
Happy Hour Sponsor
At BlueInk, our mission is to help our clients embrace greater transparency, security and efficiency in their document review and eSignature processes. BlueInk is up to 50% less expensive than DocuSign, providing businesses and organizations with an affordable way to track, manage and complete documents electronically.
Lunch and Learn Sponsors
Allot LTD (NASDAQ: ALLT) is a leading global provider of innovative network intelligence and security solutions. Thanks to its 25 years of domain expertise, more than 1,000 worldwide Enterprise customers from a variety of industry verticals have chosen to leverage Allot’s Traffic Intelligence Platform. In doing so, they’ve guaranteed a consistent and cutting-edge Digital Experience for their end-users, while ensuring their network and application performance aligns with their business priorities.
At Couchbase, we believe data is at the heart of the enterprise. We empower developers and architects to build, deploy, and run their mission-critical applications. Couchbase delivers a high-performance, flexible and scalable modern database that runs across the data center and any cloud. Many of the world’s largest enterprises rely on Couchbase to power the core applications their businesses depend on.
An HPE Gold/HPI Platinum partner and woman-owned business headquartered in Castle Rock, CO, Milestone is a global IT procurement experience curator and solution provider. We specialize in enterprise and cloud services, hardware refresh and e-solution development and deployment. Relationship-focused and solution-driven, we give customers and partners unrivaled end-to-end solutions that integrate into their business processes—every time. Our expert team is comprised of solution engineers, procurement professionals, product creators and financial way-makers. We build innovative technologies and strategies that make life easier for customers—customized for one but globalized to many.
Silver Sponsors
GTS is a one-stop consulting and brokerage firm for all things related to telecom and cloud connectivity. GTS works with 100+ providers to find the best solution for your client, while providing exceptional services to businesses of all sizes. GTS is proud to be one of the fastest growing master agencies nationwide.
NFINIT is a leading provider of enterprise-class cloud, connectivity, colocation, and technology services. As a full stack technology services company, we maintain a consultative approach that ensures complete understanding of our clients’ unique challenges and requirements to help place their workloads in the most optimal environment.
Zadara is agile, secure enterprise cloud storage, built to meet the demands of hybrid IT. We help organizations eliminate the cost and complexity traditionally associated with enterprise data storage, by providing industry-leading enterprise data storage solutions as a fully-managed service, with a 100%-uptime SLA and consumption-based pricing. Zadara uses a combination of industry-standard hardware and patented Zadara software to deliver the power of enterprise-class data storage and management — with the convenience of the cloud. Any data type. Any protocol. Any location. Zadara is available via public clouds (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and more), managed service providers, data centers, colocation partners, and on premises in customers' data centers.
Presentation Sponsors
Accedian is the leader in performance analytics, cybersecurity threat detection, and end user experience solutions, dedicated to providing our customers with the ability to assure and secure their digital infrastructure, while helping them to unlock the full productivity of their users. We are committed to empowering our customers with the ability to see far and wide across their IT and network infrastructure and a microscopic ability to dive deep and understand the experience and security of every user, helping them to delight and protect their own customers each and every time. Accedian has been delivering solutions to high profile customers globally for over 15 years.
Darktrace (DARK:L), a global leader in cyber security AI, delivers world-class technology that protects over 5,000 customers worldwide from advanced threats, including ransomware and cloud and SaaS attacks. The company’s fundamentally different approach applies Self-Learning AI to enable machines to understand the business in order to autonomously defend it. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the company has 1,500 employees and over 30 offices worldwide. Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine’s ‘Most Influential Companies’ for 2021.
https://www.glasswallsolutions.com
Glasswall is a British cybersecurity company that keeps businesses moving with instant file protection. Its leading CDR technology instantly removes potential file-based threats, so organizations can trust every file. Deployed by intelligence agencies and loved by businesses, Glasswall is the simple way to protect against sophisticated file-based threats. Learn more at Glasswallsolutions.com |
Juniper Networks challenges the inherent complexity that comes with networking in the multicloud era. We do this with products, solutions and services that transform the way people connect, work and live. We simplify the process of transitioning to a secure and automated multicloud environment to enable secure, scalable, AI-driven networks that connect the world.
Malwarebytes is the most trusted endpoint security company in the world. Malwarebytes proactively protects people and businesses against malicious threats, including ransomware, that traditional antivirus solutions miss. The company's flagship product uses signature-less technologies to detect and stop a cyberattack before damage occurs.
Morpheus Data is a powerful self-service engine to provide enterprise agility, control, and efficiency. Quickly enable on-premises private clouds, centralize public cloud access, and orchestrate change with cost analytics, governance policy, and automation. With more built-in integrations and native functionality than any other platform, Morpheus can be up and running in under an hour including hooks to ITSM, ID Management, Infrastructure, IPAM, DNS, Backup, Logging, Monitoring, Load Balancers, and more.
Netskope, Inc. is an American software company founded in 2012 that helps companies protect data and protect against threats in cloud applications, cloud infrastructure, and the web. Netskope is in a category of technology classified by Gartner as cloud access security brokers.
Nix United is custom software solutions built on a committed end-to-end development cycle. Functioning as your extended team, our technical knowledge and years of experience will help you become the industry leader.
Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their organization. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform delivers the agility, pay-as-you-grow economics and operational simplicity of the public cloud, without sacrificing the predictability, security and control of on premises infrastructure. Nutanix solutions leverage web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution that delivers any application at any scale.
Sentinel solutions have deflected literally billions of threats, from ransomware and malware communications to targeted brute force and exploit attempts. Our customers range from Fortune 100 firms to government and municipal agencies, from financial institutions to a diverse mix of small and mid-sized businesses in almost every industry.
Managing storage continues to be complex, and often expensive. Something needs to change, and it certainly won't be a dramatic increase in staffing. Fortunately, object storage is the answer. By eliminating the use of legacy RAID, object storage, can be the foundation for a scale-out converged storage solution that solves both data protection and primary storage challenges. Want to recover a multi-TB VM in less than a second? No problem. Want to protect files from ransomware? No problem. Need an enterprise file serving, archiving, or virtual server storage solution? No Problem. |
TPx provides access, communications, collaboration and managed service offerings such as firewalls, Microsoft 365, SD-WAN and endpoint security. Delivering IT solutions and services across the U.S. to approximately 25,000 customers in more than 50,000 locations, TPx keeps customer service at the core of everything we do. We manage our customer’s technology needs, so our customers can do what they do best – run their business. For more information, visit www.tpx.com. |
Veeam Software is a privately held information technology company that develops backup, disaster recovery and intelligent data management software for virtual, physical and multi-cloud infrastructures. The company’s headquarters are in Baar, Switzerland. |
2021 Arizona Technology Summit by Machaon Agenda
September 8th 2021
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Main Stage
Opening Keynote Address: Everything Old is New Again - A 21st Century Approach to Balancing Data Usage and Data Security
Kim Jones, Director, Security Operations - Intuit
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Main Stage
Modern Day Ransomware - Methodology, Tools, IoCs, and Mitigation
Steven Allison, Principal Cyber Security Strategist and Architect - Trend Micro
Sponsored by: Trend Micro
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Tech Theater I
Protect the Next Data Explosion from Ransomware
Steven Nalick, Solution Consultant - StorageCraft
Sponsored by: StorageCraft
Seminar Giveaway: $100 Amazon Gift Card
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Tech Theater II
IT Security Cornerstones: Time-Tested Tips and Best Practices for your Business
Minal Patel, Director of Business Development - NIX United
Sponsored by: NIX United
Seminar Giveaway: Mini Projector for iPhone
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Security Theater
Extend the Experience First Network to Remote Employees Securely
Curtis Reid, Sr. Territory Account Manager - Mist Systems
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks
9:00 - 10:00 AM
VIP Theater
CIO Forum: "2020" is Hindsight - Leadership Strategies Moving Forward (Breakfast Included)
**For IT Executives with VIP Badges**
Moderator: J.R. Sloan, CIO - State of Arizona
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Exhibit Hall
Networking / Tour Exhibits
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Main Stage
Moving Beyond the Hype of Ransomware. Data Protection without the Hype.
Ryan Deemer, Enterprise System Engineer - Veeam
Sponsored by: Veeam
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Tech Theater I
CIS Controls in the Real World
Ted Gruenloh, Chief Operating Officer - Sentinel IPS
Sponsored by: Sentinel IPS
Seminar Giveaway: Stress Relief Backpack
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Tech Theater II
What your IT Strategy Should Include
Jared Martin, VP, Solutions Engineering - TPx
Sponsored by: TPx Communications
Seminar Giveaway: $100 Amazon Giftcard
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Security Theater
Protecting Your Organization from the Business of Ransomware
Jarryd Boyd, Senior Engineer - Malwarebytes
Sponsored by: Malwarebytes
11:00 - 12:00 PM
VIP Theater
The Real Threat of Quantum Computing
Jim West, CIO, Award Winning and best Selling Author, well known International Speaker, Cybersecurity Expert
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Main Stage
Top Considerations for Application Data in the Cloud
Boyd Stowe, Senior Solutions Engineer - Couchbase
Sponsored by: Couchbase
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Tech Theater I
Your Cloud Strategy with HPE Greenlake
Steve Sayles, Technology Services Sales Manager - HPE
Sponsored by: Milestone
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Tech Theater II
Maximizing the Digital Experience Through Informed Decision Making
Bob Beler, AVP Enterprise Sales, North America - Allot
Sponsored by: Allot
Seminar Giveaway: $50 Amazon Gift Card
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Security Theater
Aligning Security and Technology Goals for a Hybrid Workforce
Mike Manrod, CISO - Grand Canyon Education
Matt Clark, CCSK, GPEN, Sr. Cloud Security Engineer - Netskope
Sponsored by: Netskope
Seminar Giveaway: $150 Amazon Gift Card
12:00 - 1:00 PM
VIP Theater
CISO Forum: How to Prepare your Organization for the Future
Jim West, CIO, Award Winning and best Selling Author, well known International Speaker, Cybersecurity Expert
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Main Stage
Restoring Trust & Integrity to Cybersecurity Standard Best Practices with CDR
Jessica Lynn, Partner Sales Director, North America - Glasswall Solutions
Greg Rhein, Solutions Architect - Glasswall Solutions
Pete Newman, US Sales Director - Glasswall Solutions
Sponsored by: Glasswall
Seminar Giveaway: Marvel LEGO Set
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Tech Theater I
Why You Don’t Need An Insider Risk Management Program (Yet) And What To Do Instead
Stacey Champagne, Founder & CEO - Hacker in Heels
Sponsored by: Accedian
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Tech Theater II
Unlocking Hybrid Cloud with Automation
Martez Reed, Director of Technical Marketing - Morpheus Data
Sponsored by: Morpheus Data
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Security Theater
Autonomous Self-Learning AI
Pui Yu Chan, Senior Cybersecurity Account Executive - Darktrace
Sponsored by: Darktrace
2:00 - 2:45 PM
Exhibit Hall
Networking / Tour Exhibits
2:00 - 2:45 PM
Main Stage
2:45 - 3:00 PM
Exhibit Room
Vendor Prize Giveaways
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Main Stage
Panel Discussion: Balancing the Virtual / In-person Workforce
Moderator: Debbie Christofferson, Director ISSA International Board
Panelists: J.R. Sloan, CIO - State of Arizona | Jim West, CIO, Award Winning and best Selling Author, well known International Speaker, Cybersecurity Expert | Brian Grayek, vCISO - Cosant Cybersecurity | Joe Hennessey, Systems & Technology Director - RideNow
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Tech Theater I
Securing the Hybrid Cloud: Security Best Practices for Hybrid & Multicloud Environments along with other Zero Trust Strategies
Tom Boehmer, Region Director for the SLED Markets - Nutanix
Sponsored by: Nutanix
4:00 PM
Main Stage