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Overview
The 11th Annual Texas Technology Summit will be held on February 12, 2020 at the Houston NRG Center in Room 300 from 7am-4pm.
As we reach the 11th annual show, the Texas Technology Summit has been the top leading IT & Security conference and exhibit hall in Houston. With over a thousand registrants, VIPs, and renowned speakers come together to network, advocate, and create opportunities for the IT & Security industry. With technology constantly changing, this event is a must attendl. With this year's focus on "2020: The Age of SkyNet".
As the technology revolution starts picking up speed we are faced with more IT decisions than ever before. Are new technologies truly terminating the old way of IT and Security? How do we responsibly embrace this new era in order not to incubate a real and living SkyNet? And most importantly, what can we learn from a day at the Texas Technology Summit to take back and use effectively at our current companies? Join us for an insightful day packed full of educational sessions, top-notch IT and Security Sponsors, and Peer2Peer Networking for Executives and all others interested in learning more about how to make your companies more successful.
Sponsors
We would like to thank our all of our sponsors for being a part of this year's Texas 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.
Gold Sponsors
Darktrace is the world’s leading AI Company for cyber defense. With over 7,000 deployments worldwide, the Enterprise Immune System is relied on to detect and fight back against cyber-attacks in real time. The self-learning AI takes one hour to install, works across the cloud, SaaS, corporate networks, IoT and industrial systems, and protects against the full range of cyber-threats and vulnerabilities, from insider threats and ransomware, to stealthy and silent attackers. Darktrace has 800 employees and 39 offices worldwide, with headquarters in San Francisco, and Cambridge, UK.
Lunch & Learn Sponsor
Code42 is the leader in next-gen data loss protection. Native to the cloud, the Code42 Next-Gen Data Loss Protection solution rapidly detects insider threats, helps satisfy regulatory compliance requirements and speeds incident response — all without lengthy deployments, complex policy management or blocks on user productivity. Security, IT and compliance professionals can protect endpoint and cloud data from loss, leak, misuse and theft while maintaining an open and collaborative culture for employees.
Fortinet provides network and content security, as well as secure access products that share intelligence and work together to form a cooperative fabric. Our security fabric combines Security Processors, an intuitive operating system, and applied threat intelligence to give you better visibility and control-while providing easier administration.
VIP Sponsor
Genuent believes in straightforward principles and approaches. Our beliefs help us define our customer’s problems and create clear, effective solutions. Our technology recruiters stay focused on the IT space to ensure that our efforts are relevant to you and your mission. Genuent is a national expert in delivering Talent and resource solutions, producing a partnership between our Consultants and clients, which help them solve complex technology and business challenges.
Happy Hour Sponsor
ServerMonkey delivers IT hardware, maintenance, and IT services to businesses of all sizes. Our team of experts offers you efficient and flexible solutions from a wide variety of servers, storage, and networking products. Our datacenter services provide secure ITAD solutions that remove risks, protect your Data, and ensure the highest return on your investment.
Silver Sponsors
For more than 25 years, APCON has consistently delivered smart, stable and scalable technology solutions that provide an unparalleled level of confidence to organizations seeking total visibility and security of physical, private and public cloud networks. With customers around the world, APCON provides adaptable and flexible solutions to organizations ranging from midsize companies to Fortune 100 enterprises. APCON assures superior network monitoring while supporting traffic analysis and streamlined network management and security.
Datrium, the multicloud data platform company, provides the leading software platform for disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI) and disaster recovery done right. Datrium accelerates and consolidates heterogeneous workloads and delivers instant recovery with 100% point-in-time data and virtual machine consistency without the expense and risk of using separate tools for primary data, backup, disaster recovery, mobility and encryption. Datrium maintains fast performance at any scale while protecting against ransomware and other technological or natural disasters and enables frictionless, no-cost software and data portability between public clouds and on-premises data centers. Automatrix™ technology provides consistent data services across clouds and automates resource orchestration so applications run at peak performance while liberating IT from managing data infrastructure.
SUSE Linux is a computer operating system. It is built on top of the free and open source Linux kernel and is distributed with system and application software from other open source projects. SUSE Linux is of German origin, basically an acronym of “Software und System-Entwicklung”, and was mainly developed in Europe. Modernize your infrastructure with SUSE Linux Enterprise servers, OpenStack cloud technology for IaaS, and SUSE's software-defined storage.
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 delivers exceptional end-to-end network and application performance visibility, for control over the best possible user experience. Since 2005, Accedian has helped service providers and enterprises make the most efficient use of digital assets to realize business goals and strengthen their competitive position.
Auth0 is the first identity management platform for application builders, and the only identity solution needed for custom-built applications. With a mission to secure the world’s identities so innovators can innovate, Auth0 provides the simplicity, extensibility, and expertise to scale and protect identities in any application, for any audience. Auth0 secures more than 100 million logins each day, giving enterprises the confidence to deliver trusted and elegant digital experiences to their customers around the world.
ForgeRock®, the leader in digital identity, delivers modern and comprehensive Identity and Access Management solutions for consumers, employees and things to simply and safely access the connected world. Using ForgeRock, more than a thousand global customer organizations orchestrate, manage, and secure the complete lifecycle of identities – consumable in any cloud or hybrid environment.
GDT is an award-winning, international IT solutions provider and network integrator. For 24 years, we’ve partnered with leading OEMs and IT Industry thought leaders to digitally transform customers’ organizations and ensure they’re getting the very most from their technology investments. Our solutions architects and engineers design, build, deliver and manage IT solutions and services for customers of all sizes and from a wide variety of industries. They maintain the highest certification levels in the industry, which enables them to transform the latest technological innovations into customer solutions that help them become more competitive in the marketplace, deliver an enhanced end user experience, and enjoy greater profitability.
Kudelski Security is the premier advisor and cybersecurity innovator for today’s most security-conscious organizations. Our long-term approach to client partnerships enables us to continuously evaluate their security posture to recommend solutions that reduce business risk, maintain compliance and increase overall security effectiveness. With clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations in Europe and across the United States, we address the most complex environments through an unparalleled set of solution capabilities including consulting, technology, managed security services and custom innovation.
Nasuni® is a file services platform built for the cloud, powered by the world’s only global file system, UniFS®. Nasuni consolidates Network Attached Storage (NAS) and file server silos in cloud storage, delivering infinite scale, built-in backup, global file sharing, and local file server performance, all at half the cost of traditional file infrastructures.
Scale Computing integrates storage, servers, and virtualization software into an all-in-one appliance based system that is scalable, self-healing and as easy to manage as a single server. The result is a data center solution that reduces operational complexity, allows a faster response to business issues, and dramatically reduces costs.
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.
Simplar is a collaborative group of faculty and researchers. We advance knowledge and practice in the following areas: Procurement and Supply Chain, Project Management and Delivery, Organizational Change Management, Benchmarking and Performance Assessments, and we integrate with organization to implement our advanced tools.
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.
Veeam® is the leader in backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management™. Veeam Availability Platform™ is the most complete backup solution for helping customers on the journey to achieving success in the 5 Stages of Cloud Data Management. Veeam has 355,000+ customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 67% of the Global 2,000, with customer satisfaction scores at 3.5x the industry 9 average, the highest in the industry. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 66,000 channel partners; Cisco, HPE, NetApp and Lenovo as exclusive resellers; and 22,500+ cloud and service providers. Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, Veeam has offices in more than 30 countries.
2020 Texas Technology Summit Agenda
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Wednesday, February 12 2020
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Main Stage
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Main Stage
Keynote: AI-Based Autonomous Response: Are Humans Ready?
Kellen Kopf, Cyber Security Executive - Darktrace
Sponsored by: Darktrace
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Tech Theater I
XPD-IT Project Delivery & Adoption: Maximum Speed, Maximum Value
Kenneth T. Sullivan, PhD, MBA - Arizona State University
Sponsored by: Simplar
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Tech Theater II
Modern Data Protection with Veeam 10
Dave Byers, Enterprise Systems Engineer - Veeam
Andy Perkins, SLED Systems Engineer - Veeam
Sponsored by: Veeam Software
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Security Theater
Terminators at the Door, the Importance of IAM
Mary Greenlee, Enterprise Solutions Engineer - Auth0
Sponsored by: Auth0
9:00 - 10:00 AM
VIP Theater
CIO Forum: Successful Strategies as an IT Leader (Breakfast Included)
Moderator: Abe Homan, President -
Machaon
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Exhibit Hall
Networking / Tour Exhibits
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Main Stage
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Tech Theater I
Could Your IT Infrastructure be Both More Reliable and Easier to Use?
Mike O'Neil, Senior Systems Engineer - Scale Computing
Sponsored by: Scale Computing
Presentation Giveaway: $50 Amazon Gift Card
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Tech Theather II
Why Your Managed IT Network and Unified Communication Strategy Might Fail
Trey Anderson, Technology Evangelist - TPx Communications
Sponsored by: TPx Communications
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Security Theater
Network Security is a Team Sport
Ted Gruenloh, Chief Operating Officer - Sentinel IPS
Sponsored by: Sentinel IPS
11:00 - 12:00 PM
VIP Theater
VIP Session: Perspectives on Narrowing the Tech Talent Gap
Jeffrey Frey, Managing Director - Talent Path division at Genuent
Sponsored by: Genuent
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Tech Theater I
Departing Employees = Departing Data
Todd Thorsen, Sr Manager of Information Security, Risk Management & Compliance - Code42
Sponsored by: Code42
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Tech Theater II
6 Steps to Cloud Migration Without Compromising Performance or Visibility
Mike Canney, Business Development, North America - Accedian
Sponsored by: Accedian
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Security Theater
Next Generation Security Strategies Security Based Infrastructure
Christian Barnes, Director Enterprise Architecture Engagement Team - Fortinet
Sponsored by: Fortinet
Giveaway Prize: $50 restaurant Gift Card and a Bottle of Wine
12:00 - 1:00 PM
VIP Theater
CISO Forum: Mitigating the Breach to Breach Response Gap in the Age of SkyNet
Marc Crudgington, CISO & SVP of Information Security - Woodforest National Bank
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Main Stage
"Hasta La Vista, Backup" - 21st Century Global File System with Nasuni on AWS
John Capello, VP Product Strategy - Nasuni
Sponsored by: Nasuni
Presentation Giveaway: Dashcam
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Tech Theater I
Never Pay the Ransom!
Chip Vacek, Enterprise Sales Manager - StorageCraft
Sponsored by: StorageCraft
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Tech Theater Ii
CCPA and the Tangled Privacy Law Web
Dr. Paul L. Kendall, Principal Consultant, Advisory Services - General Datatech, LP
Sponsored by: GDT
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Security Theater
The Impact of Emerging Technologies in the Realm of Identity
Robbie Jones, IoT Solutions Architect - ForgeRock
Sponsored by: ForgeRock
Giveaway Prize: $50 Amazon Gift Card and ForgeRock swag
2:00 - 2:45 PM
Exhibit Hall
Networking / Tour Exhibits
2:45 - 3:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Vendor Giveaways
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Main Stage
Panel Discussion: Bridging the Talent Gap in the Age of Machines Taking Over
Panelists: Jesse Carrillo, SVP & CIO- Hines | Jim West, CIO - TRECIG | Kevin Baker, Managing Director - Experis | Jeffrey Frey, Managing Director - Talent Path division at Genuent | Mark Lennon, CIO Americas & Global RE Insurance - JLT Group
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Security Theater
The Network for the Next Decade: AI Driven. Cloud Enabled. Agile.
Ron Amenta, Partner Account Manager - Mist, a Juniper Company
Sponsored by: Kudeski Security and Juniper Networks
Presentation Giveaway: $100 Amazon Gift Card