Overview
The 7th Annual Rocky Mountain Technology Summit will be held on Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 at the Embassy Suites Denver Downtown (1420 Stout St, Denver, CO 80202) from 9am-4pm. This year's theme: Cultivating the Human Touch in the Age of AI.
This B2B event is targeted for the Technology and Security community. Attendees consist of IT/IS Executives and Direct reports across all verticals within the state of Colorado interested in Networking, Researching/Learning, Career Advancement, and Purchasing. Attend the Rocky Mountain Technology Summit to get the right tools and make vital connections to best prepare your company for the broad spectrum of ever-changing technology trends.
Sponsors
We would like to thank our all of our sponsors for being a part of this year's Rocky Mountain Technology Summit. From being a sponsor, you will be recognized for the education and mission your company contributes to our tradeshow, panels, and sessions. Many of our sponsors have been a part of our annual summit for many years and we are proud to support them. See below for a list of our present and past sponsors.
Gold Sponsor
Splunk helps make organizations more digitally resilient. Leading organizations use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Organizations trust Splunk to prevent infrastructure, application and security incidents from becoming major issues, remediate threats and disruptions faster, and adapt quickly to new opportunities. Splunk helps SecOps, ITOps and engineering teams deliver these outcomes with comprehensive visibility, rapid detection and investigation, and optimized response, all accelerated by AI and at the scale necessary for the world's largest organizations.
Lunch & Learn Sponsors
DVL is your local source for Vertiv critical infrastructure in data centers big and small. Including the legacy brand of Liebert precision cooling, power conditioning, and power distribution; we’ve been delivering resilient, scalable, and efficient products for 40 years. With Vertiv, DVL can support your mission-critical environments with experience and innovation across the Rockies and beyond. Our tailored solutions ensure critical systems perform flawlessly from Edge deployments to Data Halls.
For over 40 years, Sentinel Technologies has been a trusted partner with over 450 engineers in cyber security, data center, cloud, collaboration, and consulting. Our diverse portfolio provides both tailored in-house and vendor solutions. Our mature managed infrastructure and security services offering helps our customers focus on their core business while providing 24/7 support. Our award-winning managed security brand ( SOC, MSSP), Fortis by Sentinel, safeguards our customers against ever-evolving modern threats and hazards.
Happy Hour Sponsor
Comcast Business keeps businesses ready for what’s next with powerful connectivity, advanced cybersecurity solutions, and the right people at your side. From the carrier that built the nation's largest Gig-speed network, we bring you insights, updates, and the latest offers on business data, video, voice, connectivity (Internet, Ethernet, SDN/ SD-WAN), and other technology solutions.
Silver Sponsor
As a global leader in cloud software, Nutanix transforms the way organizations do business. We offer a single platform to run all your apps and data across on-premises, public clouds, hybrid environments, and at the edge, while simplifying operations and reducing complexity. Our hybrid multicloud platform unifies management with one-click, applies intelligent AI-driven automation, and helps ensure always-on availability. Building on our legacy as the pioneer of hyperconverged infrastructure, we’ve earned a reputation for customer satisfaction, powering hybrid multicloud environments consistently and cost effectively. This enables companies to remain focused on achieving successful business outcomes and new innovations.
Stop Ransomware! ThreatLocker® improves enterprise-level server and endpoint security with Zero Trust controls, including Allowlisting, Ringfencing™, Elevation, Storage, Network Control, Configuration Management, and Detect EDR and MDR solutions.
Presentation Sponsors
C1st Technologies is a leading Information Technology solutions provider based in Denver, Colorado where C1st stands for Customer First! As a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider for Office 365 and Azure, we offer comprehensive and tailored solutions that optimize productivity and streamline business operations. Our expertise extends beyond software solutions, as we also provide managed networking and security services, ensuring robust and reliable connectivity while safeguarding valuable data. Additionally, our capabilities encompass IT hardware and software procurement, enabling us to deliver end-to-end solutions that meet our clients' specific needs. With our extensive knowledge and experience, C1st Technologies stands out in the marketplace as a trusted partner, dedicated to empowering businesses with cutting-edge technology solutions.
CyberFOX is a global cybersecurity solutions provider focused on identity access management (IAM) for IT professionals. Our two flagship products – Password Boss for password management and AutoElevate for privilege access management – supply two critical elements of a comprehensive IAM security strategy. This ability to monitor, manage and mitigate risks by controlling user access to critical information ensures organizations can tighten security defenses for themselves and their end-users. Built for the unique needs of today’s IT professionals, CyberFOX solutions simplify and improve the end-user experience by providing affordable, practicable security. To learn more about how CyberFOX helps protect businesses in more than 175 countries, visit www.cyberfox.com.
Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a Fortune 500 solutions integrator helping organizations accelerate their digital journey to modernize their business and maximize the value of technology. Insight’s technical expertise spans cloud and edge-based transformation solutions, with global scale and optimization built on 33+ years of deep partnerships with the world’s leading and emerging technology providers.
Intel fuels innovation by delivering cutting-edge technologies that power the world’s digital infrastructure. From advanced processors to AI and edge solutions, Intel partners with businesses to drive transformation, performance, and sustainability. Together, we’re shaping the future of computing—faster, smarter, and more securely.
Lenovo is focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All. Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (data center, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. |
TPx is a leading managed services provider, redefining the way enterprises grow, compete and communicate. Offering a full suite of managed IT, unified communications, network connectivity and security services, TPx has the experience and know-how to solve even the most complicated IT challenges. TPx’s team of experts help businesses simplify operations, optimize networks, improve productivity, reduce costs and keep environments secure. TPx makes IT easy.
World Wide Technology (WWT) WWT, a $20B, privately held technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution, has over 30 years of experience helping the world's largest organizations make the right technology decisions faster. Commercial enterprise, public sector and service provider clients work with WWT from strategy to execution bolstered by hands-on access to cutting-edge capabilities across infrastructure, data and AI, security, cloud and more through the Advanced Technology Center. |
Rocky Mountain Technology Summit Agenda
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 (see below for the 2024 agenda, the 2025 agenda will be updated spring of 2025}
8:00 AM
Exhibit Hall
Registration Opens / Exhibit Hall Opens
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Main Stage
Opening Keynote Address: Cyberattack Trends, and How to Defeat Them
Debbi Blyth, Former State of Colorado CISO & Executive Strategist
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Main Stage
How to Create Successful Malware and Defend with Zero Trust
Ryan Bowman, VP Solutions Engineering - ThreatLocker
Sponsored by: ThreatLocker
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Tech Theater
AI and Data Security with Microsoft Purview
Sajeel Akram, Microsoft Solution Architect - C1st Technologies
Sponsored by: C1st Technologies
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Security Theater
Browser Isolation – The WD-40 of the Security Industry
Bruce Johnson, Sr. Product Manager, Security - Cradlepoint
Sponsored by: Cradlepoint
Presentation Giveaway: Cradlepoint Yeti Mug
10:00 - 11:00 AM
VIP Theater
CIO Forum: Implementing IT Governance
Moderator: Jonathan Harber, SVP Business & Technology Systems & CISO - HemaSource, Inc.
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Exhibit Hall
Networking / Tour Exhibits
11:30 - 12:30 PM
Main Stage
Special Delivery! Defending and Investigating Advanced Intrusions on Secure Email Gateways
Nader Zaveri, Senior Manager - Incident Response & Remediation - Google
Sponsored by: Google
11:30 - 12:30 PM
Tech Theater
Control Privilege Before it Controls You
Dave Gunther, Regional Manager - CyberFOX
Sponsored by: CyberFOX
Presentation Giveaway: $150 Gift Card
11:30 - 12:30 PM
Security Theater
Data is Everywhere So is User Access
Justin Bortnick, Engineering Manager - Forcepoint
Sponsored by: Forcepoint
11:30 - 12:30 PM
VIP Theater
CISO Forum: Addressing the Top Concerns for 2024
Moderator: Debbi Blyth, Former State of Colorado CISO & Executive Strategist
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Main Stage
Building Digital Resilience - With Unified Security and Observability (Lunch Included)
Matt Olson, Global Strategist - Splunk
Wendel Wurzweiler, Observability Advisory - Splunk
Sponsored by: Splunk
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Tech Theater
Best of Both Worlds: Privileged Access Management (Lunch Included)
Dave Gunther, Regional Manager - CyberFOX
Sponsored by: CyberFOX
Presentation Giveaway: $150 Gift Card
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Security Theater
Defense in Depth - A Cybersecurity Strategy for Resilient Businesses (Lunch Included)
Marcus Victoria, Security Overlay - TPx
Sponsored by: TPx
Presentation Giveaway: $100 E-Gift Card
12:30 - 1:30 PM
VIP Theater
You Inherited an Identity Mess, Now What? (Lunch Included)
Michael Soule, National Director of Enterprise Architecture & Innovation - Sentinel Technologies
Sponsored by: Sentinel Technologies
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Main Stage
Uh-oh! What did I just do? Guidelines and Frameworks for AI Implementation
Scott Magerfleisch, Executive Counselor - Info-Tech Research Group
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Tech Theater
Revolutionizing Physical Security Management with a Hybrid Cloud Solution
Connor Beltran, Enterprise Account Executive - Verkada
Anthony Magliocchino, Enterprise Account Executive - Verkada
Sponsored by: Verkada
2:30 - 3:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Networking / Tour Exhibits
2:45 - 3:00 PM
Exhibit Hall
Sponsor Giveaways
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Main Stage
Panel Discussion: Resilient Critical Infrastructure: Planning for Complex Disruptions
Panelists:
JP Batra, CIO/CTO – Blue River International, Inc.
Sharon Bolding, Founder & CEO - Parsifer
Dr. Georgianna Shea, Chief Technologist - Foundation for Defense of Democracies
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Tech Theater