Florida Technology Summit Agenda

Charles Payne is a dedicated Cybersecurity Executive with more than 25 years of applied experience in Digital Forensics, Governance Risk & Compliance, Penetration Testing, and Vulnerability Management. Charles believes that the correlation of expertise, progressive insights, and preemptive measures enable organizations to limit, reduce, or mitigate risk establishing developmental trust with key stakeholders.

Charles also serves on the advisory board of vital organizations, providing business-critical experience to achieve defined business objectives. As a professor, Charles is passionate about fostering the cybersecurity community by teaching in an interactive lab setting and mentoring the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.

Synopsis

The past two years rapidly accelerated digital initiatives that saved jobs and entire companies. IT & IS leaders demonstrated their value by making organizations flexible and resilient in the face of unprecedented times. Come and learn how to continue this momentum as we talk about what the next steps of transformation entail that will make you and your company succeed in 2023.

Adam Marget serves as the Product Marketing Manager at Unitrends, a leader in data center backup and disaster recovery solutions. An experienced technical marketing professional, Adam has been a member of the Unitrends team since 2016, during which time he’s held several roles at the company. Driven by a love and curiosity for technology, he’s been delighted to have been afforded the opportunity to help both end users and channel partners solve challenges around disaster recovery and business continuity. Prior to joining Unitrends, Adam worked with national IT solutions provider CDW where he leveraged a variety of partner solutions to help his customers achieve their goals across backup, networking, security, power & cooling, endpoint and data center technologies.

Synopsis

Data is the lifeblood of all businesses, and each day IT professionals are tasked with protecting more of it all while maximizing uptime for their organizations. In an ongoing battle against cyber threats and attacks on your data, one of the most impactful investments any organization can make is in its employees. An end user who’s educated and empowered plays an integral role in defense of your networks and data. At Unitrends, we’ve integrated our backup and recovery solutions with powerful security tools to provide protection beyond simple backup and restore capabilities.

A modern BCDR solution enables complete data protection, whether it lives on-prem, across remote endpoints, or in clouds and SaaS applications. If you're ready to embrace a solution complete and agile enough to address all workloads while injecting automation and artificial intelligence to simply complex systems, you've come to the right place.

Glenn Stewart is a Senior Systems Engineer at Cohesity and has been with the company for almost four years. In his current role, he is working Cohesity’s enterprise customers and prospects in North/Central Florida. Glenn has a degree in Computer Science from Royal Military College of Canada. He has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, focusing on storage and data management solutions.

Synopsis

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.

Matthew Bailey is an Account Executive at Darktrace. Based out of Miami, Matthew works with leading organizations across the TOLA region in a range of industries to help them confront cyber risk. During Matthew’s tenure at Darktrace, the company has grown to over 6,500 customers and has been the recipient of numerous achievements, including ‘Security Trailblazer’ at the annual Microsoft Security 20/20 Awards and being named one of TIME Magazine’s ‘Most Influential Companies’ 2021. Matthew holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Assumption University.

Synopsis

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.

Larry Blakely is a proven IT leader experienced in high volume, global environments implementing innovative and cost effective business solutions. Larry brings a proven track record and unique vision to each opportunity assuring strategic alignment of business goals. Larry specializes in bridging the gap between IT and business, video conferencing implementation & adoption, process improvement, innovation, vendor management and specialist assistive technologies (research & implementation).

Moderator's Bio

Ramin Kouzehkanani is a senior executive with significant years of experience in leading large organizations in both public and private sectors. Ramin has extensive experience in management and technology consulting, transformation of service delivery systems, statistical analysis, Lean Sigma, and the delivery of solutions that have impacted the growth of vibrant and evolving organizations. As a strategic Chief Information Officer, Ramin has demonstrated success in aligning technology departments, platforms, and budgets with overall organizational goals and objectives. Ramin serves as a principal advisor to Health & Human Services agencies on the implementation of Federal rules through the establishment of strategic roadmaps for interoperability of data systems and processes, data exchanges, and predictive modeling in Child Welfare and Human Services. Ramin served in Florida Governor Crist’s Administration until 2011 and continued service in Florida Governor Scott’s Administration until September of 2011. Ramin has also served as senior advisor to Assistant Secretary George Sheldon at the United States Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children & Families, the State of Illinois Department of Children & Family Services, and the State of Florida Department of Children and Families and its Community-Based Care agencies.

Synopsis

This roundtable is for attendees for executives with VIP badges ONLY. This session is intended for audience participation so be ready to discuss, receive valuable information, and connect with others for further discussion.

Joseph Tucker is a Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam and has been with the company for almost five years. He is currently working with Commercial, State and Local Government, and Education accounts within Florida and South Georgia. Joseph has more than 25 years’ experience assisting customers design, architect, deploy, and support enterprise IT solutions including servers, storage, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions.

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

Bill Morgan is a veteran of the SMB community and has spent the last 20+ years helping the IT community solve their technology issues and educating them to better understand the “Why” of technology. Bill has spent time in various Sales, Support and Consulting roles throughout his career while working for CA Technologies, CorTechs, ConnectWise, Liongard and CyberFOX. Bill has always taken a genuine interest in helping the IT community achieve their desired goals and is passionate working with other IT professionals. He provides subject matter expertise regarding technical issues and advises customers on suitability of products and solutions based on their technical needs. A veteran of hundreds of IT industry events and expert panels, Bill is always happy to share thoughts, ideas and expertise on how to improve technology business practices.

Synopsis

Gain the insights and deeper understanding to the importance of having a privilege access management (PAM) solution in place as an IT professional. Learn how you can further protect your organization and end-users from various cyber attacks that many of today’s IT professionals face daily with privilege access management.

Mark Benson is a tenured system engineering manager with over twelve years of running large national programs including healthcare at NetApp, Federal Sales at EMC and currently state, local and education at Nutanix. Prior to his sales career Mark was on the customer side for fifteen years at locations such as Florida State University, Florida Dept. of Health and John Deere.

Throughout both phases of Marks career successful project outcome has always been a driving factor. With wide knowledge across the data center stack as well as cloud services, Mark continues to drive innovation into the world of IT through the balance of successful technologies and efficient usage of funds.

Synopsis

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?

Danny Jenkins, CEO & Co-Founder of ThreatLocker, a cybersecurity firm providing zero-trust endpoint security, is a leading cybersecurity expert with over two decades of experience building and securing corporate networks, including roles on red and blue teams. Danny is dedicated to educating industry professionals about the latest cyber threats and frequently speaks on the topics of ransomware and zero trust.

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 endpoints, and the technologies you need to take control of your environment in the fight against ransomware.

Tom started his Scale journey back in 2014 as a Tier 1 Support Engineer. He spent 3.5 years in Support and earned several promotions until he was recruited by the Sales team. He spent time as the dedicated Channel SE where he traveled all over North America, evangelizing the Scale brand. When he wasn't doing that, he was onboarding and training new partners, and even headed up the Technical Training curriculum in the Scale Partner Portal. In February of 2020, Tom was promoted to the field and given the territory of the US Southeast where he and his team have been extending and growing Scale's reach in the region.

Synopsis

Scale Computing can simplify your environment with our truly Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Gone are the days of single points of failure, multiple vendors who all point their fingers at each other when something breaks, not to mention the complexities of managing and patching an environment with multiple vendors. Scale Computing consolidates all of this down into a single solution architecture that is more robust and easier to manage than anything else on the market today.

For over 40 years, David Hagen has always been on the forefront of innovative technology. His deep experience encompasses; Software Development, IT Consulting, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Software-defined networking, Business Continuity Planning, VoIP, and Sales Leadership.

David's passion in the industry has allowed him to witness and experience the digital transformation of technology and delivery of services in this emerging market.

Synopsis

Let’s look at identifying most common gaps in our information security posture. No matter how sophisticated, advanced technology will always be constrained by human factors. Understanding vulnerabilities and your risk is the first step to putting the necessary measures in place to secure these weakest links.

Andrew Moore has a history of building great operational systems. He has worked in the IT arena for over 17 years and has been instrumental in the successful building of several businesses into multi-million dollar companies.

Synopsis

Businesses need to be aware of the changing threat to their organizations posed by cyber security criminals. This presentation walks business executives through the current issues facing companies, approaches on how to solve these issues and real world tactics employers can utilize for a safer network.

Charles Payne is a dedicated Cybersecurity Executive with more than 25 years of applied experience in Digital Forensics, Governance Risk & Compliance, Penetration Testing, and Vulnerability Management. Charles believes that the correlation of expertise, progressive insights, and preemptive measures enable organizations to limit, reduce, or mitigate risk establishing developmental trust with key stakeholders.

Charles also serves on the advisory board of vital organizations, providing business-critical experience to achieve defined business objectives. As a professor, Charles is passionate about fostering the cybersecurity community by teaching in an interactive lab setting and mentoring the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.

Synopsis

This roundtable is for attendees for executives with VIP badges ONLY. This session is intended for audience participation so be ready to discuss, receive valuable information, and connect with others for further discussion.

Dan LaMay is a Systems Engineer and industry veteran. With over 3 decades of experience he has designed a multitude of RF networks that are scalable, secure and easy to manage. Dan's specialties include: Security, Wi-Fi, CBRS, Analytics & Management tools, BYOD design & implementation, Virtualization, Performance analysis & networking.

Speaker's Bio

Keri Roberts helps organizations build their Network for the Next Decade. She and her team are pioneering the the first AI driven WLAN. Utilizing AI delivers an amazing indoor experience that makes Wi-Fi predictable, reliable and measurable.

Synopsis

The best enterprise campus networks are only as good as the underlying WLAN. Too often business, operations and constituent services doesn’t go as planned because employees and visitor devices fail to connect or connect poorly to campus WiFi. Furthermore, IT staff struggle to quickly solve these issues as legacy WLAN architectures and their network tools primarily focused on the condition of the network and NOT on the quality of the end-user experience. This is no longer the case. Now AI, Cloud, Machine Learning and Natural Language technologies are bringing real and disruptive benefits to operators using the next generation of WLAN to proactively deliver predictable, reliable and measurable WiFi for a great user experience not possible with earlier generations of WiFi. In addition, by leveraging WiFi AND Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), government can now open new and customizable location views of its facilities, assets, devices and human interaction with amazing analytics both real-time and over time providing new opportunities for location-based services, safety and facilities management and planning.

Jessica Lynn has held various roles in the cybersecurity industry for the past 9 years. Moving from distribution to channel development to enterprise sales – she has a pulse on the threat landscape that businesses face today in the age of digital. She thrives on helping partners and businesses solve their biggest problems. Today Jessi is Director of Partner Sales with UK based cybersecurity company Glasswall and loves her life at home with soon to be husband-to-be, her 13 yr old son, her 2 cats and a dog.

Speaker's Bio

For the last 5 and a half years Greg Rhein has been one of Glasswall’s Solutions Architects and is currently based out of our Reston VA office. Prior to this he was Security products Sales Manager and Technical Lead of an Arizona based Distributor. Previously to this he has held positions as an Enterprise Product Manager at HP/Compaq and Contract Product Support lead at Apple Computer. He has also worked as a Technical lead while consulting for MGM Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Studios, SunAmerica (AIG) as well as a number of Bi-Coastal Law firms.

Speaker's Bio

Pete Newman is US Sales Director for Glasswall based in the NYC area and has a background in financial and regulatory technology, software and market data. As a Sales Executive, Product Manager and software entrepreneur, Pete has helped large investment banks, wealth management firms and leading online brokers solve business problems with best of breed technology solutions. His company Gotham Software, a provider of compliance solutions for the fixed income market was acquired by Ipreo (IHS Markit) in 2004.

Synopsis

Real time prevention strategy is key to staying ahead of cyber criminals and to keep up with digital transformation and globalization trends. Come learn about an emerging technology – Content Disarm and Reconstruct (CDR) – which aims to restore trust to digital collaboration and give your security and business operations teams a fighting chance to operate in today’s climate. CDR is the next defacto standard to prevention based cybersecurity strategy by shifting from looking for potential bad to what a known good file content looks like. Trust your files again.

Angie Rothen is a Technology Executive, Entrepreneur, and avid college sports fan. She has held executive roles in Cybersecurity, IT, and Corporate Strategy and Governance. She is the CEO/President of CybrDynamix, a cybersecurity strategy company. Angie advises other boards and business leaders on cybersecurity strategy and is on the Board of Directors with Impact 211.

Larry Blakely's Bio

Larry Blakely is a proven IT leader experienced in high volume, global environments implementing innovative and cost effective business solutions. Larry brings a proven track record and unique vision to each opportunity assuring strategic alignment of business goals. Larry specializes in bridging the gap between IT and business, video conferencing implementation & adoption, process improvement, innovation, vendor management and specialist assistive technologies (research & implementation).

Sridhar Kocharlokota's Bio

Sridhar Kocharlakota brings more than 22 years of hands-on experience Technology Architecture areas specializing in Infrastructure and Security Areas. As the Director of Technology at Energy Insurance Mutual, Sridhar oversees the architecture and implementation of operational and business support systems that the organization uses to operate and manage the business. Sridhar is also the lead technologist for creative and innovative technology solutions at EIM. Over the last two decades Sridhar has spent significant time designing and architecting Content Delivery Networks for AT&T and running Disaster Recovery programs at Obamacare. Sridhar holds a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and holds a Master's in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey. Also, Sridhar is currently in the last semester of a dual master’s program at Stevens working towards his MBA.

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.