Arizona Technology Summit Agenda

Joe is an accomplished CIO with more than 20 years of versatile experience in leveraging strategic business planning, project management, and infrastructure architecture. He has a proven track record of success in utilizing strong analytical thinking as well as problem-solving skills to eliminate risk, maintain operations and systems, and create high-impact solutions for all critical issues. With an in-depth knowledge of analyzing business requirements to determine technology needs combined with a strong integrity and business acumen, he is eager to master new challenges and contribute to the exponential growth of the industry.

Mark Wittenburg's Bio

Mark is a motivated leader that can transform teams and processes to leverage technology and manage change to meet or exceed business expectations. As an effective communicator he has the unique ability to translate technical jargon to common tongue. He is also a tactical planner that can recognize industry trends, develop strategy, and drive innovation through organizational change. He is also adept as using Smart Cities technologies to solve real-world problems. With over 30 years of technology experience in multiple disciplines Mark possesses the ability to quickly adapt and learn new skills.

Shannon Wilson's Bio

Shannon is an innovative technology professional with marked success aligning technology with key business objectives to achieve bottom-line results. His diverse background spans IT leadership/management, application/software development, business operations, marketing, project management, finance, financial analysis, budgeting and sales. He is a strong team builder and coach who is effective at building confident, loyal, high-performance teams committed to quality. His responsibilities include teams as large as 100 and budgets in excess of $65 million.

Brian Grayek's Bio

Mr. Grayek has more than 40 years of experience in Information Security, has been a CISO, CTO, a Vice President of the 7th Largest Software Company, and has held executive positions in several Fortune 100 and 500 companies. He has been the featured speaker in many world-wide Security events such as RSA, the White House, Secret Service, ISSA, Infragard, and has given presentations in England, Germany, Italy, Australia, China, South Korea, and France, to name a few. Mr. Grayek has been a part of security incident investigations teams that have involved the FBI, the Secret Service, and several State Attorney General’s offices.

Mr. Grayek builds and leads company’s security products, services, compliance, and teams. His efforts have focused on Applications Security, Threat Management, Vulnerability Management, and Security Operations Centers for some of the largest enterprises on the globe, including Cognizant, CGI, Computer Associates, Verizon, Apollo Group, and Motorola.

Mr. Grayek possesses strong capabilities in managing Security Architecture and Engineering, Security Operations, Cyber Security Incident Response (SIRT/CIRT), SIEM, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Risk Assessments, Governance (SOC2, PCI, CMMC, HIPAA/HITRUST), Vulnerability Management, NAC, DLP, DRP, BCP, MDM, web traffic monitoring, security investigations, forensics, and physical security.

Recently for a Top 5 Security Consulting company, Mr. Grayek created a Security Operations Center from the ground up including recruiting and building the team, initiating operations, policy, and procedure development, and established all functions to handle over 250 clients’ security.

Mr. Grayek’s previous company was just acquired, so he’s looking at options for his next great opportunity in InfoSec.

Mr. Grayek presently maintains the following designations:
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• CMMC Registered Practitioner (CMMC-RP)
• Certified Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)
• ITILv3
• FBI InfraGard TUF Member

Synopsis

This panel will discuss the key trends that are currently shaping the workforce. Join our speakers to hear about strategies you can employ to navigate the current environment and make your team more successful. This session will include audience Q&A.

Steve joined Arcserve as a Solution Consultant in June of 2011. Prior to joining Arcserve, Steve spent five years working as an IT Manager for a Contract Manufacturer in the biotech industry (San Diego, CA) and before that spent seven years as a Sr. Systems Engineer between two local San Diego value-added resellers. His primary focus over the past decade has been educating and enabling customers and partners on the Arcserve portfolio of data protection solutions—including backup/disaster recovery, business continuity and high availability.

Synopsis

When it comes to cyberattacks, catastrophe is just around the corner, and even data security best practices may not be good enough for today’s onslaught of evolving threats. The only way to ensure IT systems and data are safe is to use a multi-layer solution that includes anti-ransomware and other threat prevention technologies and DR for protection against data loss.

Learn how you can prevent cyberattacks and immediately restore business-critical data – no ransom required.

As Director of Product Management, Shyam is responsible for understanding the needs of Unitrends and Spanning Backup’s customers and defining the future of the company’s innovative line of products for protecting data on-prem, off-prem and in the cloud. Shyam brings 10 years of experience managing, marketing, designing, delivering and supporting enterprise software products. Over the years, he has done everything from teaching video game design and transforming legacy enterprise business models to fully taking advantage of SaaS technology and Agile methodologies. Shyam graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a B.A. in Information Systems and holds a CSPO® (Certified Product Owner) certification from the Scrum Alliance.

Synopsis

More than 75% of organizations using SaaS tools have experienced data loss due to human error and malicious threats like phishing and ransomware. As we adapt to today’s hybrid work environment, it is critical to remain vigilant against the omnipresent threats to our data and our businesses.

Did you know that nearly 90% of data breaches start with a phishing email? Cyberattacks like phishing are increasing at a rate of 400% per year. With an additional six billion attacks anticipated in 2022, it has become apparent that it is no longer a matter of “if,” but “when.”

Join Director of Product Management Shyam Oza, for stories of real-world security and data loss incidents as well as proven strategies on how to effectively respond to and prevent these threats when they come after your business.

We’ll cover:
• Understanding how common social engineering tactics have evolved in the era of remote and hybrid work
• Best practices for securing your data and building a successful business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan
• Real-world war stories from the field and understanding how you can survive

Hope to see you there!

Justin Windsor leads all Channel business for Splashtop as Splashtop’s Channel Chief of the America’s. Justin began the Splashtop Channel program in September of 2021 after leaving as a Channel lead at Zadara. Prior to that Justin worked as the National Channel Manager for Cloudistics. Justin also spent nearly 12 years with a National Systems Integrator and IP Packet Capture solution provider based in Hanover, Maryland in Alliance Technology Group. Justin lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his 11-year old son Liam Sebastian and they are both big LSU, Liverpool and Baltimore Ravens fans.

Synopsis

Learn how Splashtop supports 85% of Fortune 500 companies globally with Enterprise, Secure solutions for Remote Access and Support featuring their newest offering Splashtop Augmented Reality.

Russ Kennedy drives product innovation at Nasuni, leading the company’s product management, planning, and roadmap efforts. He has a maniacal focus on ensuring Nasuni customers derive maximum benefit from our technology.

Russ is a well-known and highly regarded storage industry executive, with more than 25 years of experience developing software and hardware solutions to address exponential data growth. Before Nasuni, Russ directed product strategy at private cloud object storage pioneer Cleversafe through its $1.3 billion acquisition by IBM. While Russ was helping transition the product to what is now IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS), he began working with IBM partner Nasuni, and became convinced Nasuni’s cloud-native global file system is the only data management technology that truly exploits the strengths of object storage.

An avid cyclist and hiker, Russ resides in Boulder, Colorado with his family. He has a BS degree in Computer Science from Colorado State University and an MBA degree from the University of Colorado.

Synopsis

As organizations continue to support a distributed workforce, one of today’s biggest challenges for data storage is the ability to make files accessible to users no matter where they are. Network Attached Storage (NAS) does not offer a great user experience with file access and creates data silos that make collaboration tedious. And while many companies have adopted VPN for security, it can become expensive when deployed at scale and is known to have performance issues. Attend this session to learn how with the right tools, your organization can strategically address the security and performance needs of hybrid and remote workers.

Cassie Souza is a Commercial Sales Engineer at Harness, formerly a DevOps Engineer with Lockheed Martin. She is always looking to "automate everything" but when she isn't working, enjoys spending time with her dogs and fiance.

Synopsis

Testing in production used to be a joke. In fact, it was a popular "Most interesting man in the world" meme. But as life imitates art, this meme became reality. It turns out the best tests to learn from are the ones that match production. So when looking for feature flag solutions, developers and software delivery teams find themselves looking for ways to test their code and deployments in prod!In this talk we will dip our toes into the world of feature flags. We'll begin with an overview of what they are, how to think about them, and why both engineers and business users find feature flags valuable. In addition, you’ll learn how to get started with continuous delivery, and the key things to look out for once you "Do it live!"

Damian Chung is a cybersecurity leader with over ten years of experience focused in healthcare. As the Business Information Security Officer at Netskope, Damian is responsible for overseeing corporate security tools and processes and acts as the subject matter expert in the healthcare vertical. He also serves as an adjunct professor for the cybersecurity program at the University of Advancing Technologies in Tempe, AZ. Prior to Netskope, Chung was the Sr. Director, Cybersecurity Engineering at Dignity Health where he implemented multiple cybersecurity controls and helped mature their security program by developing a healthcare-focused security roadmap. Additionally, Damian has held the role of VP of IT, Cloud Security & Compliance for a healthcare technology company where he built a HIPAA compliant cloud service. Damian has an MSc from Arizona State.

Synopsis

Building trust and resilience across infrastructure and security teams is key to defending the enterprise. As companies execute zero trust strategies, the partnership between CIOs, CISOs, and their teams is more important than ever.

Join this session to learn about:
• The critical components of a modern zero trust strategy
• Proven practices for infrastructure and security collaboration
• Improving internal stakeholder relationships to make the right investments and fuel business outcomes

With over 24 years of sales and account management experience in the hardware and software technology sector, Mark provides both leadership and channel sales expertise to StorageCraft. He was the first sales rep hired at StorageCraft over 10 years ago and continues to lead and drive its success. Prior to joining StorageCraft, Mark was involved in various leadership, account management, channel development and sales roles at companies such as Ingram Micro, 3Com Corporation, NextPage and Parvus Corporation. Specializing in company growth and profitability he is skilled in technology related hardware and software systems, solutions and applications and is known for excellent leadership, customer service, and training skills.

Synopsis

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. Attend this session to learn how object storage is changing the landscape for IT admin and the technology of the future.

Mark is a motivated leader that can transform teams and processes to leverage technology and manage change to meet or exceed business expectations. As an effective communicator he has the unique ability to translate technical jargon to common tongue. He is also a tactical planner that can recognize industry trends, develop strategy, and drive innovation through organizational change. He is also adept as using Smart Cities technologies to solve real-world problems. With over 30 years of technology experience in multiple disciplines Mark possesses the ability to quickly adapt and learn new skills.

Synopsis

This roundtable is for attendees for executives with VIP badges ONLY. The Moderator will introduce and begin discussion on the topic of Successful Strategies as an IT Leader. This session is intended for audience participation so be ready to discuss, receive valuable information, and connect with others for further discussion.

As the Chief Cybersecurity Strategist for cStor, Andrew partners with clients to help them achieve great accomplishments in their cybersecurity, governance, risk and compliance programs. He is building a successful cybersecurity practice by focusing on client success, sales enablement and partner alignment. Andrew brings a wealth of experience in audit, advisory and cybersecurity leadership and freely shares that knowledge to help put clients on the path to success.

Synopsis

The quantity and value of our organizations’ data is ever increasing, and so are the threats. Nearly all of the common cybersecurity threats today focus on data. Whether the criminals try to steal them, destroy them, or deny your access to them and hold them for ransom, your data are the target. You can help reduce these risks by taking a more data-centric and placing your data at the center of your cybersecurity strategy. This session will discuss the reasons for taking a data-centric approach and some of the best practices you can utilize to better secure your data and your entire organization.

Ken Cunningham is a WiFi veteran and trusted advisor. He joined the Mist Systems team in January 2018 after spending 10 years at Cisco Systems as a wireless specialist. He has expertise in WiFi fundamentals, controller-based networks, cloud management and AI-driven operations. Ken has thorough knowledge of the constraints and complexities of networking and understands the challenges IT administrators face across all verticals. He is adept at developing and supporting solutions that help IT leaders deliver a differentiated experience to their users.

Synopsis

Are you tired of hearing from your users “I can’t connect” or “WiFi sucks!” Are you frustrated by your current network solutions’ lack of innovation and cumbersome upgrade process? Would you like to recover valuable man hours lost to troubleshooting network issues? If so, join us to learn how Juniper’s modern microservices cloud architecture driven by Mist AI is streamlining IT operations and simplifying user device troubleshooting with AI-driven automation. Our mantra is to REDUCE MEANTIME TO INNOCENCE because IT is always guilty till proven innocent and the network is always to blame.

As Managing Vice President of Sales at phoenixNAP, John Hardie is responsible for leading its global sales organization and delivering a broad range of innovative Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions to market. Over his career, John and his teams have helped bring unique solutions to the data center industry. This includes the development of one of the Internet’s earliest peering exchanges, known as MAE-East, for MFS Datanet. Later John led the initiative to develop peering fabrics at Equinix and oversaw the development of high-frequency-trading data center ecosystems for the financial sector. Today, phoenixNAP is a leading provider of data center services, from colocation to infrastructure-as-code.

Synopsis

Although hyperscale Public Cloud continues to be one of the most widely used infrastructure solutions, companies are increasingly pulling their data from it. According to an Uptime Institute Global Survey from 2021, 32% of organizations moved their workloads or data from a public cloud to a private infrastructure or on-premises/colocation environment.

Costs, compliance, performance issues, security concerns, and lack of visibility were quoted as key reasons for cloud repatriation. While most organizations continue to keep some of their workloads in Public Cloud, they are turning to its alternatives to fulfill their more sophisticated needs. To protect their sensitive workloads, increase performance, and optimize costs, they are often combining multiple platforms and data center services.

This model has become known as a Data Center as a Service (DCaaS). It an option that is providing simplicity of implementation, performance optimization, scalability, and low costs without any of the drawbacks of public cloud. DCaaS is also used to create multi-cloud environments where portions of data remain in Public Cloud, while the alternative solutions help organizations avoid capital expenditures, lower maintenance costs, enable automation, etc.

In this session, phoenixNAP experts will define DCaaS and provide details on the available options for organizations looking to optimize their infrastructure. The talk will cover the most important trends in the data center market and provide guidance on choosing the best platform for a particular use case. Attendees will have a chance to learn about the Bare Metal Cloud platform by phoenixNAP, which offers all advantages of Public Cloud in terms of flexibility and scalability, while ensuring stability of a dedicated platform and increasingly important DevOps integrations.

In this session, you will learn about:

- Key challenges in hyperscale public clouds
- Cloud repatriation trends
- Factors to consider when choosing a cloud provider
- Use cases for Public Cloud alternatives
- Demo of Bare Metal Cloud by phoenixNAP

Steve Taplin has over 25 years of technology experience with a proven track record of success in both the entrepreneurial and corporate world. Steve is also regularly published in Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. Steve has led Sonatafy Technology into an impressive growth trajectory of over 100% YOY. He has also played a leading role in the development of a Linkedin Network Group of over 5000 software engineers and developers from Latin America.

Synopsis

• Identifying Challenges of Hiring and Retaining Senior Software Developers
• Challenges with Retaining Good Software Talent
• Advised Solutions to Overcome Challenges
• Offshore vs. Nearshore In-depth Breakdown
• Nearshore Success Guide - How To Maximize Results

With over 16 years of Product Management experience, Nicholas Clapper has a deep knowledge and understanding of what makes a product successful and what customers want from a Trusted Service Provider. Currently serving as the Director of Product Management for Collaboration, Connectivity, and Colocation Services at TPx, Nick manages all of TPx’s collaboration products like UCx with Webex and Virtual Fax as well as access circuits and data center services. Among his other duties, Nick is responsible for discovering and bringing new products to market that help delight our customers and expand TPx’s addressable market.

Synopsis

As the work-from-anywhere model matures, have you deployed a hybrid work solution that keeps all employees safe, secure, and productive?

The magic formula includes a secure, collaboration toolset that balances rapid innovation with business integration. One that differentiates the way employees and customers interact and get things done.

Will your organization gain or lose employees during the Great Resignation? Your tools can be differentiators, find out how to leverage them.

Alan Kerr has over 25 years of enterprise experience serving as lead visionary, advisor and designer of IT strategy for companies in the Forbes Global 2000 across continents. Mr. Kerr advises companies that are leaders in their industrial sectors such as Insurance, Finance, Defense, Manufacturing, Hospitality and Healthcare. Topics that he frequently assists organizations with are such things as data protection, data and system availability, fault tolerance, business continuity and extreme performance. Mr. Kerr speaks at conferences around the globe most recently for Microsoft in Asia.

Synopsis

In this session, Alan Kerr, senior solutions architect of Stable Path, discusses how public and private organizations are using software-defined storage (SDS) to integrate data protection strategies into their existing storage environments to protect against ransomware, cyber attacks, and other availability threats. Learn how you can leverage your heterogenous storage environment while unifying data protection through easy-to-use, single-pane-of-glass management that extends over dissimilar storage platforms across both production and disaster recovery systems.

Jim West possesses over 28 years’ experience in the Information Technology field with over 18 years focused within Cyber Security. He has worked in the IT and Security industry across many sectors of commercial, space, federal, and defense with expertise in Biometrics, Risk Management, Security Analysis, and Network and Systems Auditing. Jim holds multiple certifications which include; CISSP-ISSEP, ISSMP, CAP, GSLC, GCIH, GSNA, GCWN, G2700, PMP, CIPP, C-CISO, CEH, and many others.

Jim has been invited to speak at Cyber Security conferences and events worldwide to include the NSA IA Symposium, Texas Technology Summit, CSfC Tech Day, TechNet Korea, TechNet Pacific, Cyber Bowl, Best Cyber Ranger, and many others. He was shortlisted as a finalist for Personality of the Year for the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Cyber Security Awards. Jim is also an Award Winning author and writer. Recently Jim’s “Cyber Security and Test Tips” ebook placed in the 100 Best Cyber Security Books of All Time list by Bookauthority.org.

Jim specializes in Cybersecurity strategy and solutions that solve complex problems for National Security systems and networks to include systems and software integration, enterprise-wide and cloud security, network engineering, penetration testing, and more.

Synopsis

Quantum Computing is soon to become a major advancement for the world, but with this huge step forward in compute power comes a real and serious threat to security for everyone. Cyber Security Expert, Jim West, explains the threats that both commercial and government sectors face in our near future where Quantum Computing will be able to easily undermine the fundamental security safeguards we utilize to protect communications and data, as well as, the efforts and programs in place today to counter this threat."

Chad Maskill, Cyber Hero, has two decades of experience in consultation and client management. In his current role, Chad reaches out to assist businesses in hardening their environment preventing ransomware and malicious attacks. Chad has devoted his career to implementing client driven solutions, working with everyone from Ford Motor Company, Tesla, Infinity Ward, as well as numerous municipalities throughout the US and countless SMB’s. Previously, he has worked with local government in designing and sourcing emergency apparatus and can still parallel park a Ladder Truck.

Synopsis

The Zero Trust framework is based on the principle of "never trust, always verify." Join us to learn about Zero Trust, how to adopt it for applications, and the technologies you need to take control of your environment in the fight against ransomware.

Boyd Stowe is a senior solutions engineer at Couchbase, the premier provider of distributed noSQL cloud databases and solutions. Boyd has over 25 years of experience in multiple disciplines including Capacity Planning, Performance Analysis, Customer Experience Analytics, Database Performance, and many others. He has delivered creative solutions to business problems in all major verticals like Finance, Travel, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Telcom on four continents. He has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada.

Synopsis

Over the last 10-15 years there has been a revolution in how applications have been designed, developed, and deployed. They must be designed to deliver great experiences – not just for customers, but for employees, partners, and suppliers – Always available, mobile-friendly, and available anywhere. Access to data must be modernized to support this application revolution.

Cloud offers a new model to support agile application development, but managing the data in the cloud brings in a whole new set of challenges in managing the data associated with these applications, such as:

• 24 x 7 Availability is a must
• Do you deploy on private, public, or hybrid cloud
• Fast and consistent access
• How do you distribute the data regionally and globally
• How do you secure and protect the data
• How do you manage data sprawl and the associated costs
• How do you search and parse the data
• How do you analyze and consume the data for other audiences outside of the application
• How do you avoid cloud lock-in
• Is mobile a requirement? Mostly, yes.
• Developers are a scarce resource - can you develop faster and with less cost, with your existing team

How do you solve these problems cost-effectively? Join us at our lunch and learn to find out!

Emilee Tellez is a senior systems engineer for Veeam Software. She has 10 years of IT experience with over seven years working directly for Veeam®. Based in Mesa, AZ, she supports both commercial and public sector customers in the desert region, spanning from New Mexico to Hawaii. In her role, she helps customers work on their data protection and disaster recovery strategies for the ever-changing modern datacenter. She is a graduate of Arizona State University, and holds certifications in AWS, VMware and Veeam.

Synopsis

According to Veeam’s® 2022 Data Protection Report, 90% of organizations can’t recover data to meet their service level agreements (SLAs). This is compounded during a ransomware attack, where you have to verify that your data is clean before starting the restore process. We believe that having a software-driven approach to backup and recovery that also verifies your data is safe is the last line of defense against ransomware. Catch up on-demand and learn:
• The current state of ransomware recovery
• How you can flip the script on attackers and avoid becoming a victim
• Building effective planning for disaster recovery

Philip Woudenberg is the HPE Channel GreenLake Territory Sales Manager, and has been in the business of technology sales for the past 30 years. He started as a sales rep and manager in a regional computer retail store in Michigan and eventually moved into an executive sales role with a channel partner for HP located in Chicago. Since then, Phil has had a long selling relationship with Hewlett Packard, starting with HP9000 and HP-UX solutions to corporate accounts while working for a several Chicago based resellers. After many years as a sales rep, VP of Sales, and Sales Director for partners, he became a regional OEM sales leader for StorageTek, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems, and finally Oracle. Later, he joined the HPE team as a Partner Manager for HPE Financial Services managing key partners in the West, and in that capacity became a strong and vocal proponent of the HPE Flex Capacity program which is now known as GreenLake.

Synopsis

The HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform will put your mind at ease and help you control costs with your own secure, private cloud environment. We will present the updates to our edge-to-cloud architecture designed for today’s hybrid cloud operating model that will give you unprecedented levels of velocity and flexibility, accelerating time to revenue for their hybrid IT environment.

Ted has worked with network security and web technologies for more than 20 years. He began his career as a full-stack engineer in web development and design, before 'full-stack engineer' was a thing.

One of Sentinel’s first employees, Ted guides the overall operations of Sentinel, the CINS Active Threat Intelligence System, and all other supporting technologies, and although he doesn't do it as often as he used to, he's not afraid to get his hands dirty supporting Sentinel customers or lending a hand in Sentinel software development.

He is also a well-regarded public speaker, presenting at cybersecurity conferences across the country, spreading the word about shared threat intelligence and cyber hygiene.

Synopsis

In this discussion, we'll walk through several of the CIS Controls, review the changes to the new V8, and provide real-world case studies to illustrate how different security tools and services can work together - sometimes in not-so-obvious ways - to reduce risk, and keep your network safe and secure.

As a vendor, we witness first-hand the tangible effect that best practices like the CIS Controls have on our customers' network security. From our perspective, it's easy to see who is on top of their security game ... and who could really benefit from the guidance these controls provide.

Sean brings more than 18 years of information security and IT experience to his role at Netskope. Prior to Netskope, Cordero served as Senior Executive Director, oCISO, at Optiv, where he provided executive-level advisement to the company’s Fortune 100 clients. Cordero has been a key driver in the cloud adoption space; since 2011 he has led creation of the industry standard control framework for cloud security, the Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). For his contributions to cloud security and adoption, the CSA awarded him the 2013 Ron Knode Service Award for North America and he was inducted in 2016 by the CSA as an Inaugural Research Fellow.

Synopsis

The cloud has changed how we do business, making work more intuitive, connected, open, and collaborative. This change has presented new security risks, unlike what enterprises have seen before. As enterprises continue to adopt new clouds, with or without the involvement of IT and Security, new ways of defending, responding to, and technical control capabilities are required to succeed in this new reality. In this talk, practitioners will hear from Cloud industry leader, Sean Cordero, who will provide tips, lessons learned, and recommendations on how to defend from these new vectors of attack and share the lessons learned from defending some of the largest public and private organizations in the world. Attendees will learn: 1. Common challenges & cloud sourced risks facing organizations in a cloud-first world and how to address them. 2. Technological innovations which have enabled large enterprises to securely adopt cloud services while protecting their core data assets. 3. Real-world examples of modern attacks used to damage public and private organizations which leverage the cloud.

Mike Lettman is a recognized technology leader with over 30 years of experience in government information, security and technology. Mike currently serves as a Cyber Security Advisor to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Prior to working with the CISA Mike served as the CISO for the State of Arizona where he provided strategic direction for information security to over 130 public agencies. Mike is also instrumental in building relationships with a variety of partners including the MS-ISAC, Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI.

Prior to his work for the State of Arizona, Mike served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the State of Wisconsin and previously as the Chief Technical Officer for the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Justice. In addition, he was the State of Wisconsin’s advocate for security awareness representing a variety of industry committees including Wisconsin’s Cyber Terrorism task force.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Management and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and remains an active member of the Arizona Fusion Center and the co-chair of the Multi State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) SCADA work group.

Synopsis

This roundtable is for attendees for executives with VIP badges ONLY. The Moderator will introduce and begin discussion on the topic. This session is intended for audience participation so be ready to discuss, receive valuable information, and connect with others for further discussion.

As a do-it-all engineer with over 10+ years of IT battlefield experience, Wayne started Stellar in 2014 with the vision of offering superior IT customer service while being a trusted partner to organizations of any size. With his recent transition into the role of CEO of Stellar, and with the help of his prior experience as CTO, he's leveraging his unparalleled expertise to direct Stellar into the one of the best Cloud & IT services companies in the world.

Synopsis

At Stellar, we make it easy to experience the security and operational benefits of the cloud at your pace.

Recent events have created new challenges for businesses. End users are demanding work-from-home solutions and IT Departments are struggling to adopt practical ways to deploy them. Organizations must deliver the right tools to their employees wherever they may be in order to succeed within the new norms of a modern workplace. Using desktops powered by the cloud, you empower users to securely work from anywhere while streamlining your business’s onboarding, continuity, and security.

In this session you will learn about:

- Key challenges businesses face when establishing a remote workforce strategy and how to solve them
- How to deploy Cloud Desktops rapidly and securely.
- Live demo of Stellar’s Cloud Desktop Service.

Adam Carroll is a nationally recognized speaker, author and documentary filmmaker. Having presented at over 1,000 events in his speaking career, Adam is highly sought-after for keynotes, breakouts and as an emcee for leadership, sales, and entrepreneurial organizations.

Adam’s favorite audiences are those with a passion for inspirational leadership, and in 2021 he took over as lead facilitator for Paragon’s IT Leadership Forum. He regularly speaks about building a bigger life for yourself and your employees by providing exemplary service, educational opportunities, and an environment that fosters personal and professional growth. Audiences typically leave Adam’s events talking about how inspired they are to take action and about the strategies he shared to look at life’s challenges differently.

Adam is a two-time TED talk speaker and is featured on the TED.com website as a “notable money talk”. His TEDx talk from the London Business School has been viewed over 5 million times, putting it in the top 5% of most viewed TED talks of all time. Adam’s documentary on the student loan debt epidemic was aired on CNBC throughout 2017 and has been seen by millions of people who call it “life-changing”, “eye-opening”, and “something every family must watch together.”

Speaker's Bio

Amy Walters is the Vice President of Product Operations at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, where she has the privilege of helping patients navigate their cancer journey by enabling cutting-edge technology to enhance their overall experience.

Amy is honored to serve as a board member for Arizona Assistance in Healthcare (AIH), committee member for Make-a-Wish, an Information Technology Committee member for the YMCA Valley of the Sun, a Big for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program and a volunteer for the Nick Lowery Foundation (Champions for the Homeless).

She received a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Northern Illinois University. In addition, she minored in Spanish and had the opportunity to study abroad in Toledo, Spain. Amy obtained a Master of Global Management Degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and currently sits on the Thunderbird Global Alumni Network Advisory Council. Lastly, Amy was chosen as a Most Admired Leader (2021), Outstanding Woman in Business (2020) and 40 under 40 (2019) for the Phoenix Business Journal, one of the Top 25 Women in Technology by Mission Critical Magazine (2021), 40 over 40 Women to Know for the Know Women Magazine (2022), and one of the Most Influential Women in Arizona for AZ Business Magazine (2022).

Speaker's Bio

Amanda Crowley is the Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Workiva Inc, where she leads global talent attraction strategy and teams. Before starting at Workiva she held various talent attraction leadership roles across multiple industries including SaaS, FinTech, business services, retail, and healthcare. She lives in Northern Arizona, enjoys the outdoors and being a Mom to her two boys.

Speaker's Bio

Bradley Pristelski is a Chief Information Officer leading technological strategy and service in CommonSpirit Health’s Southwest Division. Focused on authentic and servant leadership, collaborative coalitions and strategic communication as key pillars of leadership, Bradley is a tested and proven leader and change strategist known for anticipating adversity with a calm demeanor, cool under pressure. He has shaped 50+ leaders across a dozen industries as an executive leadership coach and spent the last decade as a professor at Arizona State University.

In addition, Bradley spent 12 years in the United States Air Force serving as a contingency combat operations officer throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He holds a BA in Legal Studies from the United States Air Force Academy, an MA in Philosophy from Holy Apostles College & Seminary, and an Executive MBA from Arizona State University. A Wisconsin native, Bradley now splits his time across Arizona, Nevada, and Texas.

Speaker's Bio

Craig Jackman, President of Paragon IT Professionals (Paragon), founded the company with his brother, Joel, in 1997 in Des Moines, IA. As a staffing firm focused solely on IT, the two were determined to be more than a service provider and were committed to providing exceptional service with consistency and authenticity. With a strong foundation and a lot of hard work, the company established the Paragon Proven Process that businesses across the country have come to rely on to find contract, contract-to-hire and full-time tech talent.

Craig’s career in technology began in 1993 as a computer hardware sales rep where he quickly understood the opportunities and needs companies would have for decades to come. With a deep desire to grow, the Jackmans expanded to Minnesota and Nebraska before setting their sights on Arizona.

Craig serves as a board member for the Technology Association of Iowa, is a member of the Arizona Tech Association and a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. In his free-time he enjoys playing golf, traveling, reading and spending time with his wife and three college-aged sons. Craig is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a degree in economics.

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Paragon IT Professionals will moderate an interactive session with a panel of tech and talent acquisition experts on the frontline of hiring and retaining tech talent. We’ll discuss the job market, how it’s impacting organizations, and what leaders can do to keep great employees engaged.

Herb is a Field Technical Director at Cohesity and has been with the company for almost 6 years. He works with some of Cohesity’s largest customers and prospects on the West Coast. He has over 25 years of experience in IT and has held several different positions over the years. He is passionate about technology and how we can leverage it.

Herb earned a Master's degree from Florida Tech and a Bachelor’s from Portland State both in Computer Information Systems. He has received numerous certifications from companies like VMware, Microsoft and Cisco.

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Your data is a uniquely valuable resource and can be a significant competitive advantage. But the more data you have, the more complex it is to manage. And with rapidly increasing ransomware and other cyber threats, your data – and business – is more vulnerable than ever.

At Cohesity, we believe that technology should work harder and smarter for you, whether it’s reducing complexity, keeping your business secure, or delivering more value.

Come listen to what you should be looking for in a modern-day backup solution and how your backups should be providing you much more than a point in time to restore too.

• Immutable backup
• WORM
• RBAC
• Encryption framework
• Air-gap
• Machine learning anomaly detection
• Restore at scale
• Quorum
• Data Resiliency
• Scalable

Michael Lyon has been with Scale Computing over 11 years, on the support, product management, and pre-sales solution design teams. Prior to joining Scale, Michael was involved in IT management in higher education, and financial services for 15 years. While at Scale, he was involved in the design and launch of Cloud Unity, Scale’s cloud-based DRaaS offering, and pushing for automation in the product, like RESTful APIs and Ansible modules.

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With the pending acquisition of VMware, what does that mean for existing customers? There are a lot of unknowns, and in this session, we will discuss alternatives to VMWare, how the hypervisor is a commodity, and how hyperconverged infrastructure can revolutionize your infrastructure from the edge to the core.Join senior systems engineer Michael Lyon to discuss a new approach to hybrid infrastructure.In this session, we will cover:

• Feedback from real customers about the acquisition and what it means
• Hyperconverged Infrastructure and how it streamlines and simplifies your IT and infrastructure operations
• A spectrum of compute offerings from the edge to datacenter deployments
• How centralized management and orchestration saves time and money
• A Live Demo of HCI in action

Based in San Francisco, Brianna is Director of Analysis at Darktrace. She joined the analyst team in 2016 and has since advised a wide range of enterprise customers on advanced threat hunting and leveraging Self-Learning AI for detection and response. Brianna works closely with the Darktrace SOC team to proactively alert customers to emerging threats and investigate unusual behavior in enterprise environments. Brianna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

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In the face of skyrocketing cyber risk, detecting and responding to attacks is no longer enough. Organizations must take proactive steps to prevent threats before they happen, and to recover if compromised. In this session, Darktrace unveil an ambitious new approach to security, with core engines powering AI technologies to prevent, detect, respond, and ultimately heal from attacks. Together, these engines combine to strengthen organizations’ security posture in a virtuous AI feedback ‘loop,’ which provides powerful end-to-end, bespoke, and self-learning solutions unique to each organization.

Mike Lettman is a recognized technology leader with over 30 years of experience in government information, security and technology. Mike currently serves as a Cyber Security Advisor to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Prior to working with the CISA Mike served as the CISO for the State of Arizona where he provided strategic direction for information security to over 130 public agencies. Mike is also instrumental in building relationships with a variety of partners including the MS-ISAC, Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI.

Prior to his work for the State of Arizona, Mike served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the State of Wisconsin and previously as the Chief Technical Officer for the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Justice. In addition, he was the State of Wisconsin’s advocate for security awareness representing a variety of industry committees including Wisconsin’s Cyber Terrorism task force.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Management and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and remains an active member of the Arizona Fusion Center and the co-chair of the Multi State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) SCADA work group.

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Mike will be providing unique insights as to how Arizona is preparing for the upcoming election and Super Bowl 2023. Come and learn how you can apply these same principles in your organization to ensure you and your team will be ready when everyone’s eyes are on you!

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The roles and responsibilities of the IT team have historically been well understood. However, IT of tomorrow needs to be in the driving seat for marketing, intelligence, and insights surrounding the company’s customers and markets. The future IT moves at a fast pace and uses new technologies to respond to changing customers trends/needs quickly – while relying on solid, foundational IT. The evolution of digital technologies enables IT insights and new engagements models, new services, and new products.

Jerry L. Yarborough Sr. SLED Account Executive for Extreme Networks. Jerry is a U.S Army Veteran. He has been with Extreme Networks for nine years. Before Extreme he was the Director of Technology in the Tennessee Education system for sixteen years. Jerry is best known for helping design secure networks across the United States and western Canada. He trains technology teams to use the network to its full potential while reducing down time and producing quicker response times.

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We will discussing how the cloud has advanced, provides more data and why security is so important and what to look for in security.

Sean Brown is the head of Product Management for Rising Cloud. Sean is a certified Offering Management practitioner and has both trained IBM Product Managers and run 8 product lines at IBM over his 19-year career. Sean most recently ran IBM Security’s Identity and Access Management Business and was responsible for all aspects involved in bringing their solution to market and support it’s usage by over 2 billion identities around the globe. Before IAM, Sean was responsible for the integration of IBM Security’s acquisition of Trusteer, and before that ran numerous product lines in IBM Lotus including the Lotus Protector business and IBM Docs product lines. He is currently responsible for setting the overall direction for development, finance, marketing, sales, analyst relations and fulfillment of all his offerings, as well as research and development efforts into new offerings not yet released.  Sean is a published author and spoken at worldwide events on all topics from Employee Collaboration to Security and Identity and Access Management. Before working with IBM, he was the IT Manager for KeyMRO, an IBM acquisition in 2005.

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Intelligent Workloads as a Service - an alternative approach to the cloud that gives developers back more time to code, makes applications faster, and is more available that any single cloud provider…and as a byproduct is cheaper that the Big Box clouds. Join me in this session to learn more about this new and emerging type of cloud platform that’s built to address the pain points of the current cloud platforms; Systematic limitations on code, runtimes and performance, Complexity and developer burden, Cost visibility and control, Expense to create high availability and Loss of performance compared to on-premises servers. IWaaS clouds solve all these problems and more, and don’t require your developers to write any new code. Learn how this new technology can help your company cut costs and be more productive.

Throughout his 29-year career in IT, Tom has served the state, local government, and education industry as a strategic advisor and enabler. He focuses on generating positive outcomes by aligning technology investments against key industry imperatives. Today, Tom serves as the Region Director for the SLED Markets at Nutanix. In this position, he leads and supports the dedicated teams serving the public sector and education institutions throughout the Southwest Central US region.

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Today’s hybrid and multi cloud infrastructures heavily utilize virtualization, software-defined infrastructure and automation. This has provided IT teams with more efficiency and agility but has also compounded security risks. These security threats are more acute for State, local, and education agencies as they carry confidential citizen, student and state information. The agencies and institutions face the constant threat of ransomware and other destructive forms of cyberattacks. Do you have the right infrastructure and processes to improve your security posture across the kill-chain?