Florida Technology Summit Agenda

Marcus is an Experienced Vice President of Information Technology with a demonstrated history of working in the airlines/aviation, higher education, and healthcare industries . Skilled in Network Engineering, System Administration, IT Service Management, IT Strategy, and IT Leadership. Strong information technology professional with a Masters of Science focused in Management Information Systems from University of South Florida - College of Business Administration.

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In the midst of shifting the Information Technology and Security industry to prepare for the upcoming decade, professionals question where our role stands for the 4th Industrial Revolution. Marcus Session, VP of IT Services at HCAA, has significant insight as to how our skills as an IT/S professional can be an asset to all field demographics. With his extensive years of working as a VP and executive leader in multiple companies, he shares his career journey and provides valuable advice to the leading generation about how we can propel our career to further Information Technology and Security.

Sandy Caiado is a Solutions Engineer at Oracle Dyn, an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure global business unit. She is part of the sales team and her focus is working with customers, partners and prospects in connecting and protecting their web assets with our secure edge services (DNS and Web Application Security). She has over 18 years of work experience in helping clients solve their business challenges. Before joining Dyn, she worked as a Solutions Engineer at Progress Software. Sandy graduated from Merrimack College and lives in NH with her family.

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The Bots are Coming! Actually, they are here. They now represent over 50 percent of internet traffic. But not all bots are bad. There are many good bots, such as chat bots and search engine bots, that we rely on in our day-to-day digital lives. You do need to know the difference and take control of your bot traffic—they cannot be ignored and you cannot just block them all. In this presentation, we will look at the growth of bots, good bots versus bad bots, what to look for in a bot mitigation solution and a few use cases.

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In this world of technology and for any corporation the most important and valuable assets are the intellectual property and electronic records A.K.A “The Data”. Datacore SANSymphonyV address this issue directly and provide your corporation with a constant real time MIRROR of your data, and also bringing you a snapshots platform , off-site replication and constant data protection (live backup in time) functionalities.

For the last 15 years Abe has been Producing B2B IT and Security Events for local markets across the US. His passion is educating and helping IT and Security Professionals excel within the organizations they work for. Abe takes great pride in connecting with Executives and Organizations that are change leaders and continuingly helping the IT/IS industry and market move forward. With huge technological changes on the horizon, he is excited to broadcast this to the events Machaon produces.

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This roundtable is for executives with VIP badges ONLY. Abe 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.

For the last 15 years Abe has been Producing B2B IT and Security Events for local markets across the US. His passion is educating and helping IT and Security Professionals excel within the organizations they work for. Abe takes great pride in connecting with Executives and Organizations that are change leaders and continuingly helping the IT/IS industry and market move forward. With huge technological changes on the horizon, he is excited to broadcast this to the events Machaon produces.

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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.

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Journey to the Cloud and Beyond Agenda:

Quick Statistics

Why Cloud?

Before We Begin

First steps

Migration Process

Data Integrity

Ancillary Products and Services

Cody Reagan is a Cyber Security Executive at Darktrace, the world’s leading cyber AI company. At Darktrace, Cody works with leading organizations across a range of industries, including BioTech, financial services, and the public sector. Cody helps organizations deploy and operationalize cutting-edge AI for threat detection and autonomous response, enabling them to defend against advanced and machine-speed cyber-threats. During Cody’s tenure at Darktrace, the company has grown to over 3,000 customers and has been the recipient of numerous achievements, including: Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2018, Forbes Cloud 100 2018, and the CNBC Disruptor 50 2018. Cody holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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In a world that is increasingly digital, cyber-attack has become the most significant risk confronting today’s businesses, smart cities, and critical infrastructure. Online crime cost the world more than half a trillion dollars last year, while recent attacks have managed to influence the U.S. presidential election and disrupt the Ukrainian power supply. This troubling state of affairs is the product of several fundamental weaknesses with the traditional approach to cyber defense, which relies on predefining what threats look like at a time when criminals launch never-before-seen attacks on a daily basis. Moreover, these attacks increasingly strike at machine-speed, preventing security professionals from responding before their damage is done. As a fundamentally unique approach to security, cyber AI systems need not predict tomorrow’s attacks based on yesterday’s threats. Powered by recent advances in artificial intelligence, the latest cyber AI security systems instead continuously refine their defenses by learning ‘on the job’ to differentiate between normal and abnormal behavior in an enterprise, enabling them to flag even subtly malicious activity. Thus, whereas traditional cyber security technologies are blind to unknown threats, self-learning cyber AI systems detect such novel attacks by spontaneously drawing connections that human programmers can’t see. And as ready-to-deploy exploit kits and advanced malware packages spawn new cyber-threats around the world, the challenge of securing the digital realm can only be met with AI security systems that can learn, evolve, and fight back. In this session, you will learn:  Where cyber-criminals have found weaknesses in legacy approaches to security  Why only self-learning AI can detect and stop never-before-seen attacks  How to protect your network from machine-speed attacks  What gaining 100% network visibility of your entire digital estate — including cloud environments and IoT devices — can reveal the latent vulnerabilities that advanced attackers are targeting today

Kathryn Eckhart is a Regional Manager at Darktrace, the world’s leading AI company for cyber defense. At Darktrace, Kathryn works with leading organizations in a range of industries from healthcare to media and entertainment to deploy and operationalize cutting edge technologies. During Kathryn's tenure at Darktrace, the company has grown to 3000 customers and has been the recipient of numerous achievements, including: Fast Company Most Innovative Companies 2018, Forbes Cloud, and CNBC Disruptor 50. Kathryn holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and is based in Darktrace’s Atlanta, GA office.

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In a world that is increasingly digital, cyber-attack has become the most significant risk confronting today’s businesses, smart cities, and critical infrastructure. Online crime cost the world more than half a trillion dollars last year, while recent attacks have managed to influence the U.S. presidential election and disrupt the Ukrainian power supply. This troubling state of affairs is the product of several fundamental weaknesses with the traditional approach to cyber defense, which relies on predefining what threats look like at a time when criminals launch never-before-seen attacks on a daily basis. Moreover, these attacks increasingly strike at machine-speed, preventing security professionals from responding before their damage is done. As a fundamentally unique approach to security, cyber AI systems need not predict tomorrow’s attacks based on yesterday’s threats. Powered by recent advances in artificial intelligence, the latest cyber AI security systems instead continuously refine their defenses by learning ‘on the job’ to differentiate between normal and abnormal behaviour in an enterprise, enabling them to flag even subtly malicious activity. Thus, whereas traditional cyber security technologies are blind to unknown threats, self-learning cyber AI systems detect such novel attacks by spontaneously drawing connections that human programmers can’t see. And as ready-to-deploy exploit kits and advanced malware packages spawn new cyber-threats around the world, the challenge of securing the digital realm can only be met with AI security systems that can learn, evolve, and fight back. In this session, you will learn:  Where cyber-criminals have found weaknesses in legacy approaches to security  Why only self-learning AI can detect and stop never-before-seen attacks  How to protect your network from machine-speed attacks  What gaining 100% network visibility of your entire digital estate — including cloud environments and IoT devices — can reveal the latent vulnerabilities that advanced attackers are targeting today

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CenturyLink’s SD-WAN service meets these evolved requirements. It’s an enterprise network created, defined, and controlled by a central software platform that remotely configures and monitors CPE connected by a mix of network technologies (MPLS, broadband internet, wireless). As a managed solution, CenturyLink SD-WAN removes the risk of new technology adoption, providing the design, implementation and ongoing management support needed to ensure high service levels and reliability.

Krishnan Natarajan is Senior Director for Malwarebytes, based in Santa Clara California. He has experience with multiple areas of information security: web application security, user and entity behavior analytics, insider threat, data loss prevention, and endpoint security. Prior to Malwarebytes, Krishnan has held leadership roles at several S.F. Bay Area companies including Whitehat Security, Dtex Systems, and Hewlett Packard. Krishnan is also active in the security community as the manger in the 400,000 member Information Security Community on Linkedin. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from M.I.T.

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Malware has become one of the biggest threat challenges faced by security and IT teams. Malwarebytes Labs conducts extensive proprietary research and analysis. The findings are periodically published to help security teams better understand the nature and evolution of these threats. This presentation will cover key findings from our newly released annual report. It will highlight malware category trends and discuss new and emerging threats to be on the watch for. There will also be a discussion of industry best practices and technologies that can help your business to prevent, detect, and remediate these threats. Attendees will leave with insight into the current malware threat landscape, as well as an understanding of steps they can take to mitigate breaches.

Digital transformation is a fundamental transformation of businesses that put customers in the center. Digitizing processes and introducing new technologies are enablers, not the goal. Digital Transformation is a new value chain, from the understanding of customers to increased number of customers. This new value chain and supported technologies both require a fundamental change in management approach to deal with a complex, unexpected and fast-changing environment. There are few emerging practical, exciting and thought provocative new management systems based on ideas taken from non-deterministic science, such as chaos theory and complex adaptive systems. Management systems that based on concepts and understanding of how complex system are working are better suited to deal with complexity. Therefore, they rise as better management solutions for growing complexity introduced by digital transformation. Understanding the basic concepts of non-deterministic science, the available non-deterministic management systems, and the toolset available today to analyze, improve and operate organizations is the fundamental goal of this session.

Tim Myers is a Business Solutions Architect on the Americas Systems Engineering team, focusing on providing thought leadership in regards to the Veeam Technologies and Solutions available today, and also relating to the evolution of our solutions going forward. Tim joins us most recently from NTT Data, where he was the Hyperscale Cloud Product Owner for Healthcare and Life Sciences. Before that, Tim was a Principal with the Office of Global Strategy at Sphere 3D (Parent company of Overland Storage and Tandberg Data), and then the CTO for Cloud2Spec, a services and integration company he co-founded. Tim has also spent more than a decade in roles at VMware and Hewlett-Packard. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, he brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, relationships, and unique perspective to the Veeam organization. Tim brings to Veeam, experience via our partnership with NTT Data, and was also a co-presenter at VeeamON 2018 around Veeam Availability Console Usage Scenarios. Tim was born and raised in Tampa, where he resides today with his wife Lisa, and their seven children. He loves the outdoors and the Florida sun. Hobbies include (attempting to play) golf, hiking, serving at his local church, and spending time with his family.

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Digital Transformation (DX) must include many things, not the least of which is an improved Data eXperience (DX). Better data management, and specifically a mature cloud data management practice can be a critical component in your business' DX efforts. This session will examine the Why, the What, and especially the How of looking at DX from a data perspective, where availability and optimization of infrastructure & operations can yield better business outcomes through: analytics, automation, hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud, and improved cybersecurity resilience. Improve your customer connection and your business processes through improved cloud data management to realize your digital potential.

Kiran has over 30 years of experience in IT and management. He started building AI-based expert systems for financial analysis in the mid-80s. He has a Ph.D. in AI & Machine Learning from the University of Florida's business school. He is the author of three books for executives and managers - two in business process management and the latest one on AI+Blockchain (with a foreword by Vint Cerf, one of the co-founders of the Internet). His books have been adopted as supplemental texts for graduate and executive MBA programs in many universities worldwide. He is a keynote speaker and advisor to executives in over 20 countries. Formerly, he was Global CIO for a GE company and a VP/Chief Evangelist in BPM for Software AG. At KoreConX, he leads the strategy and development of an AI-based blockchain application, built on Hyperledger Fabric, for the global private capital markets. He is also an adjunct faculty at the University of South Florida where he teaches data mining/analysis, as well as helping USF launch a Blockchain Center.

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Public blockchain provides us with a lot of entertainment with its drama, scams, frauds, forks, fake deaths, and fights with the regulators. However, there is a quiet evolution in the enterprise space where the story is not as entertaining but much more important and relevant for businesses. Join Dr. Kiran Garimella, Chief Scientist & CTO of KoreConX, as he reveals the story behind the story and helps you determine sensible ways to adopt enterprise blockchain technology.

In this session, engage in a discussion with Kiran about the types of business problems that could benefit from blockchain. Hear about examples of blockchain deployments. Kiran will also share tips, traps, do's, and don'ts when evaluating, adopting, or developing blockchain solutions.

This roundtable is for attendees for executives with VIP badges ONLY. The Moderator will introduce and begin discussion on the topics specifically related to security and how to get our organizations ready for the future. The discussion will be on Risk Exposure, Privacy Laws, Breaches, Identity, and Access. This session is intended for audience participation so be ready to discuss, receive valuable information, and connect with others for further discussion.

Ted has worked with web and network security technologies for more than 20 years. He began his career in technology as a full-stack engineer in web development and design. As Chief Operating Officer, Ted guides the overall operations of Sentinel IPS, the CINS Active Threat Intelligence System, and all other supporting technologies. You may also find him presenting at an information security conference or trade show, spreading the word about shared threat intelligence.

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The term 'Threat Intelligence' is getting a lot of buzz these days, but what does it mean? And, more importantly, how can it help protect your network? In this presentation, we answer these questions within the context of a layered security approach that integrates Threat Intelligence with existing security methodologies. We also use real-world examples to examine how Threat Intelligence improves a network's defenses at the perimeter and allows administrators to gain more visibility on the inside.

Mike leads the Product, Solutions and Technical Marketing teams at Pivot3. In his role, Mike’s team defines product and solutions strategy and deliverables for Pivot3 customers, channel partners and technology alliance partners. Prior to joining Pivot3, Mike was the worldwide leader of Solutions Marketing for the HP Storage Group where his team was responsible for a variety of infrastructure solutions initiatives. He has worked in high tech for over 30 years in both large and small companies and held roles in business development, channel development, product management, sales and marketing. Koponen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University (Go Bison) and a Master’s in Business Administration from Colorado University (Go Buffs).

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I&O leaders are facing a new challenge – evolving their infrastructure to support not only traditional datacenter workloads, but also deriving business value from IoT and data analytic initiatives. This places significant demands on the IT staff and I&O leaders are tasked with creating a flexible infrastructure that remains manageable at scale to support this broad set of workloads from core to cloud to edge.

Keith Frederick has over 25 years experience as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in three different companies with hands-on information security systems design and analysis to include Cybersecurity Engineering, Risk Management Framework (RMF), Authorization and Assessment (A&A), FedRAMP (Cloud Technology), Security Control Assessor (SCA), Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), Risk Management Framework (RMF), Authorization and Assessment (A&A), FedRAMP (Cloud Technology), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Industrial Control Systems (ISC), SCADA, Payment Card Industry (PCI), and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Outstanding customer service skills. He has strong analytical, problem resolution, and organizational skills. Effectively manage and prioritize multiple concurrent projects while meeting aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Keith has willingness to participate in cross-functional training and support.

Serge Findling's Bio

Serge Findling is Vice-President of Research with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP) and the CIO Agenda program. Serge focuses on digital transformation leadership for business and technology executives. He also manages IDC's Information and Data Transformation practice, helping organizations successfully weather and capitalize on the changes brought about by today's disruptive transformation in information management. Serge is a transformational global business leader with over 35 years of leadership experience in Fortune 50 technology environments, forging pioneering changes in outcomes and organizational cultures. In his previous position at Hewlett-Packard, Serge directly supported eight CIOs and EVPs of global operations and led their most critical initiatives. Prior to HP, Serge had executive responsibility at Compaq, Digital Equipment, and Spie-Batignolles, an international construction leader.

Natty Gur's Bio

Natty Gur is a thought leader and practitioner of better ways to organize and motivate people (manage organizations). Leading self-managed teams based on non-deterministic management principles and a true believer in decentralized, distributed and autonomous organizations. Running a non-profit organization that provides free, new and practical non-deterministic management system based on concepts of complex adaptive systems. Serve as executive leadership of technological organizations by a focus on business and harness different emerging technologies to contribute to the business and humanity. Experienced in developing and executing technical strategies in a variety of industries. An amateur photographer with a passion for nature and landscaping. A devoted practitioner of daily meditation as a way to be calmer yet more productive.

Robert Harris's Bio

Robert N. Harris has more than 15 years’ experience building and leading successful technology teams, with the last 8 years as a senior executive. Drawing on his strong technical background as a software developer, and his ability to translate fluently between business leaders, software developers, and system administrators, Robert grows and empowers teams to achieve big results in growing companies. With his highly practical approach to problem solving and design, his teams consistently deliver cost-effective and timely solutions to technology problems.

Jerry Longsworth's Bio

Jerry Longsworth has over 25+ years IT industry experience from venture-backed startup technology companies to multinational corporations. Previously COO of a boutique HPC consultancy where he was responsible for managing the operations infrastructure, service delivery and sales teams, Mr. Longsworth is now responsible for leading Compugen’s expansion into the U.S. market. Mr. Longsworth completed his MBA in Information Technology Management from Western Governors University and holds a BBA in Management with a minor in Finance from Texas A&M University Mays Business School. He is currently on the SIM Houston Board of Directors, a Past President of Houston Chapter of The Association of Information Technology Professionals, and an Advisory Board Member of the Computer Information Systems Program at DeVry University.

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The roles of IT & Security are changing rapidly. In order to stay align in business, IT Departments must adapt to embrace this change. How do we do that? Come join our panel discussion to learn more about this topic.

Heman Smith is an expert helping leaders get crystal clear on their digital initiatives - what matters most, what to discard, how to find, hire, inspire and retain top talent, including Millennials and "Gen-Z", and how to accelerate team capabilities and digital innovation.

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Many IT leaders are given rapid-fire directives from business leaders who are on the "digital" bandwagon, but who don't really understand what it means, what it takes, and what outcomes are best for them. IT leaders need a model to use in guiding the business' adoption of digital initiatives so that they can deliver the best result - every time - and the business sees IT as the best digital reinvention partner. This is a working session where each attendee will map out and take home a Digital Services Broker ReInvention Model framework. The framework covers essential factors of reinvention in the following areas: 1. Leadership & Teams - Making Sure You Can Execute on Your Vision 2. Digital Services Operating Model - Accelerating Innovation & Delivering Radical Results 3. Technology Decisions are Different in Digital Services - It's Not IT as Usual