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Managing Your Enterprise Collaboration Platforms

August 19, 2021
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST

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The work-from-home revolution has raised the profile of enterprise collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams and Slack.
While a boon for productivity, these platforms introduce a host of management challenges such as integration with internal systems, managing groups, and security. Attend the virtual trade show to learn the latest tips and tricks for managing and securing your enterprise collaboration platforms.

August 19, 2021
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST

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AGENDA
KEYNOTE 1
  • 11:00am – 11:45am EST
REINVENTING THE MODERN WORKPLACE

Giving employees the choice to work remotely or in the office was literally “off the table” during the global pandemic. Reinventing and reimagining the modern workplace as part of your digital transformation strategy is oftentimes overlooked. Join Omdia’s Digital Workplace practice leader, Tim Banting, to learn why returning to what was the status quo may be a costly mistake for many organizations and why IT’s choice of collaboration and communication platform is a strategic imperative.

Presented by: Tim Banting, Sr. Principal Analyst, Omdia
  • 11:45am – 12:00pm EST

Q&A with Tim Banting

Presented by: Scott Wotring
Sponsored by
Presented by
Tim Banting
Sr. Principal Analyst, Omdia
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Andrew Wertkin
Chief Strategy Officer, BlueCat Networks
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NETWORKING BREAK
  • 12:00pm – 12:15pm EST
Spotlight Video
Sponsored by: Bluecat Networks
DISCUSSION
  • 12:15pm – 1:00pm EST

Adopting the Right Collaboration Tools in The Age of Remote Work

Moderator: Sue Troy

Panelists:

  • Prachi Nema, Principal Analyst | Enterprise Communications, Omdia
  • Zeus Kerravala, ZK Research
  • Greg Brown, Product Management Fellow, Onshape, PTC

At the start of the pandemic, many companies rushed to implement collaboration tools to support their hybrid workforce. 18 months later—and with many employees still working remotely—the same companies are starting to contemplate how these tools can support their long-term strategic plans. Join ITPro Today editor Susan Troy and a panel of collaboration experts to learn key factors for adopting the right collaboration tools in the age of remote work.

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Panelists:

Prachi Nema
Principal Analyst | Enterprise Communications, Omdia
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Zeus Kerravala
ZK Research
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Greg Brown
Onshape Product Management Fellow PTC
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Daniel Fukuba
CTO, Hyphen
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NETWORKING BREAK
  • 1:00pm – 1:15pm EST
Spotlight Video

Sponsored by: 

PREMIER SESSIONS
  • 1:15pm – 1:45pm EST

Managing Cloud Collaboration Apps for eDiscovery

Presented by: Trae Wiles, Solutions Architect, Onna

From Slack and Microsoft Teams, to Google Workspace and Zoom, cloud-based apps are the lifeblood of remote and hybrid working. While their “anytime, anywhere” functionality enables people to do their best work from afar, it also causes data to proliferate fast, posing new challenges for IT & legal teams. Join us as we dive into the eDiscovery implications of emerging technology and how to best control data within the ever-evolving workplace.

In this session, you’ll learn about:

  • Explore the challenges of data fragmentation
  • The importance of a proactive approach to eDiscovery
  • Data and technology inventories & data hygiene
  • Legal & IT collaboration
Sponsored by
Presented by
Trae Wiles
Solutions Architect, Onna
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NETWORKING BREAK
  • 1:45pm – 2:00pm EST
Spotlight Video
Sponsored by: Onna
PREMIER SESSIONS
  • 2:00pm – 2:45pm EST

Finding the Hybrid Collaboration Balance

Presented by: Paul Robichaux

Enterprise collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Slack enabled enterprises to shift to a mostly-remote model during the COVID-19 pandemic—but now we’re starting to move into a post-pandemic world where business, social, and economic imperatives are starting to push us back towards a hybrid of in-person and remote working. In this session, we’ll look at how Microsoft is shifting their Office 365 platform to better enable hybrid work and what new challenges we’ll face in management, security, operations, and adoption. Attendees will learn how to improve the security, usability, and flexibility of their hybrid workforce using these new enhancements along with field-proven tips.
The Top-3 Tips for Securing Hybrid IT
Presented by: Frederico Hakamine, Group Product Marketing Manager, Okta
Today, 69% of organizations run their apps in multiple cloud and on-prem environments*. This creates an extensive Hybrid IT threat surface, with organizations struggling to consistently secure access consistently. In this webinar, we will explore the best practices for approaching and securing access to Hybrid IT. You will learn about:
  • How organizations should approach cloud and on-premise resources
  • The value and benefits of delivering security from a unified identity platform
  • The best practices for securing the Hybrid IT at scale
  • How all of this correlates to modern security frameworks like Zero Trust and BeyondCorp.
Sponsored by
Presented by
Paul Robichaux
Chief Technology Officer, Quadrotech Solutions
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Frederico Hakamine
Group Product Marketing Manager, Okta

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SPOTLIGHT SESSION
  • 2:45pm – 3:15pm EST
Four Ways to Bridge The Network And Cloud Team Divide
Presented by: Andrew Wertkin, Chief Strategy Officer
New research by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) finds that as cloud adoption accelerates, only 28% of enterprises consider themselves fully successful at realizing the benefits of their cloud investments. Why? Dysfunction between cloud and network teams. In this session, you will get the latest statistics on the state of collaboration between cloud & networking teams, the high cost of dysfunction for enterprise cloud initiatives, and how to bridge the divide between these critical teams
Sponsored by
Andrew Wertkin
Chief Strategy Officer, BlueCat Networks
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Shamus McGillicuddy
Vice President of Research, Network Management, EMA
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NETWORKING BREAK
  • 3:15pm – 3:30pm EST
Spotlight Video
Sponsored by: Fortinet & Onshape
SPOTLIGHT SESSION
  • 3:30pm – 4:00pm EST
The COVID-19 Conundrum: Deep Dive into Cloud Threats
Presented by: Matt Chiodi, CSO, Public Cloud, Palo Alto Networks

Utilizing real world (not honey pot) data pulled from our global array of sensors, Unit42 elite cloud threat researchers analyze the cloud security impact and opportunity forged by the COVID-19 global pandemic. The correlation between the increased cloud spend due to COVID-19 and security incidents lead to the conclusion that rapid cloud scale and complexity without automated security controls embedded across the entire development pipeline are a toxic combination.

Join Matt Chiodi, CSO, Public Cloud at Palo Alto Networks to discuss the findings of the research, what the impact might be to your business, and our key recommendations about what actionable steps you can take to reduce the security risks associated with your cloud workloads.

Sponsored by
Matt Chiodi, CSO
Public Cloud, Palo Alto Networks
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Jon Owings
Principal Solution Architect, Pure Storage
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DISCUSSION
  • 4:00pm – 4:30pm EST
Adopting the Right Collaboration Tools in the Age of Remote Work
Moderator: Sue Troy
At the start of the pandemic, many companies rushed to implement collaboration tools to support their hybrid workforce. 18 months later—and with many employees still working remotely—the same companies are starting to contemplate how these tools can support their long-term strategic plans. Join ITPro Today editor Susan Troy and a panel of collaboration experts to learn key factors for adopting the right collaboration tools in the age of remote work.
Sponsored by
Presented by
Jon Hirschtick
EVP of PTC and founder of Onshape
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João-Pierre Ruth
Senior Writer, InformationWeek
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Prizes & Interaction

Attend the live conference on August 19th, 2021 and win! The more you participate, the more points you earn! It’s that simple. You’ll earn prize points for each activity you participate in throughout the virtual conference. Points will be calculated at the end of the live event day.

*Giveaways are limited to North American residents only. Winners are limited to one prize per calendar year for Informa Tech sponsored events.

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30 Points

Session Viewed

25 Points

Zone Visits

20 Points

Location Chat Attended

10 Points

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Managing Your Enterprise Collaboration Platforms

August 19, 2021
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST

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Natalie Silvanovich
Security Researcher,
Google

Natalie Silvanovich is a security researcher on Google Project Zero. Her current focus is messaging applications and video conferencing. Previously, she worked in mobile security on the Android Security Team at Google and as a team lead of the Security Research Group at BlackBerry, where her work included finding security issues in mobile software and improving the security of mobile platforms. Outside of work, Natalie enjoys applying her hacking and reverse engineering skills to unusual targets and has spoken at several conferences on the subject of Tamagotchi hacking.

Tim Banting
Sr. Principal Analyst, Workspace Services, Omdia

Tim Banting is a Senior Principal Analyst in workspace services within Omdia’s enterprise services team and focuses on unified communications and collaboration research. Tim provides Omdia’s clients with insights and intelligence to help them compete more effectively in the collaboration and unified communications market.

Tim joined the company in 2019 and has extensive experience in the unified communications and collaboration field, having held presales, technical, competitive marketing, business development, and senior product management roles. Before joining Informa Tech (now Omdia), Tim worked at GlobalData. He started his career in sales and training roles relating to unified communications and worked as a contact center consultant at Rockwell and in business development and market intelligence roles at Cisco during the industry’s transition from digital to IP PBXs. He has also held positions as a senior product manager for Microsoft and the head of business development at NextiraOne.

Andrew Wertkin
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), BlueCat

As Chief Strategy Officer, Andrew works closely with BlueCat’s CEO and executive team to chart BlueCat’s course as it continues to build market share. Previously BlueCat’s Chief Product and Technology Officer, Andrew also works with leading enterprises and technology partners as BlueCat creates more value for its current and prospective customers.

Prachi Nema
Principal Analyst, Enterprise Communications, Omdia

Prachi specializes in enterprise communications and collaboration technologies, including video conferencing equipment and services. She brings over 15 years of telecoms industry experience and expertise in fixed and mobile convergence, service provider strategies, and next-generation technologies. Prachi has authored market share and forecast reports and analysis on a range of topics across the enterprise collaboration landscape.

Prachi has worked as a software engineer with various companies, including Idea Cellular, AT&T, and Motorola. She then moved into research and analysis, working as telecoms analyst with several boutique firms, including GSMA, where she researched strategies for increasing youth employment opportunities through mobile technologies and services. She holds an engineering degree in electronics and telecommunications from SGSITS in India and an MBA from the Henley Business School, part of University of Reading. Prachi is fluent in English and Hindi and is based in London.

Greg Brown
Onshape Product Management Fellow PTC

Teaching innovators and engineers how to design products right the first time is a passion for Greg Brown. Leveraging his expertise in simulation, security and collaboration, Brown has helped hundreds of companies’ design products in real time — saving them millions of dollars in the process. Currently he is the Onshape product management fellow at PTC.

Brown joined PTC in 1997 as a simulation specialist, supporting pre-sales and post-sales teams in Asia-Pacific. He then moved to PTC’s Tokyo office to manage a team of simulation experts located across Asia. Next, Brown
represented PTC’s CAD (Computer Aided Design) segment and was responsible for driving and developing its Creo business and strategy, worldwide. In 2008, Brown was responsible for PTC’s product management across its CAD
and PLM portfolio, focusing on new technology evaluation, long range strategic planning, mergers and acquisition analysis.

Greg left PTC for six years to join HKS/Abaqus and was responsible for managing the planning and product management of Abaqus/CAE and other interactive finite element analysis solutions within in the Dassault
Systemes portfolio. The company was acquired by Dassault Systemes’.

Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (Honors) and a graduate degree in business from University of Adelaide, Australia.

When Greg is not working, he enjoys restoring and riding old motorcycles, building guitar amplifiers and spending time outdoors with his family.

 

Daniel Fukuba
CTO, Hyphen

Daniel Fukuba is the co-founder and chief technology officer at Hyphen. He is responsible for all technology efforts, including software development, hardware, infrastructure, operations, and manufacturing. In this role, Daniel led and developed the first fully automated food truck. He also leads the organization’s next-generation strategic initiatives, including transitioning to new food automation, advanced analytics, machine learning, and systems engineering tools and principles.

Before the founding of Hyphen, Daniel was an engineering manager at L2F, a robot integrator in Fremont, California. While at L2F, he oversaw factory automation engineering and commissioning for SpaceX, Tesla, Applied Materials, Sandia National Labs, and Blommer Chocolates. Before that, Daniel had started companies in the renewable energy and real estate industries.

Trae Wiles
Solutions Architect, Onna

Trae Wiles, who joined Onna early 2021 as Solutions Architect, has a wide background in sales engineering field and has utilized his customer-service experience to help organizations in challenging environment to achieve their corporate goals.

Paul Robichaux
Chief Technology Officer, Quadrotech Solutions

Paul Robichaux, an Office Servers and Services MVP since 2002, is currently the chief technology officer at Quadrotech Solutions, where he leads the product development team for Quadrotech’s family of Office 365 migration, automation, reporting, and security products. Paul’s unique background includes stints writing Space Shuttle payload software in FORTRAN, developing cryptographic software for the US National Security Agency, helping giant companies deploy Office 365 to their worldwide users, and writing about and presenting on Microsoft’s software and server products.

Paul Nicholson
Senior Director of Product Marketing

Paul brings 25 years of experience working with Internet and security companies in the U.S. and U.K. In his current position, Paul is responsible for global product marketing, technical marketing, and analyst relations at San Jose, Calif.-based security, cloud and application services leader A10 Networks. Prior to A10 Networks, Nicholson held various technical and management positions at Intel, Pandesic (the Internet company from Intel and SAP), Secure Computing, and various security start-ups.

Michael Krieger
CEO, MRK Technology Marketing

Michael is a 40+ year technology and marketing veteran with managerial and executive experience in IT, product management, product marketing, market research and analysis. In 2008 he founded MRK, a San Francisco Bay area marketing consultancy that focuses on technology, legal and biotech products.

Before launching MRK, Michael spent over a decade as VP of Ziff Davis Market Experts, providing ideation, creation and delivery of integrated marketing offerings for Ziff’s largest clients.

He has held worldwide marketing roles for Hitachi Data Systems, AST and cloud pioneer FutureLink, one of the first ASPs offering virtual desktop services to a global audience of IT and LOB constituents.

Matt Chiodi
CSO Public Cloud, Palo Alto Networks

Matt has spent the last eight years of his career focused exclusively on public cloud security working for some of the most well-respected companies in the Fortune 500. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks by way of the RedLock acquisition, Matt was the Global Head of Cloud Security at Cognizant Technology Solutions, with more than 260,000 associates worldwide.

Jon Owings
Principal Solution Architect, Pure Storage

Starting off in 2007, Jon Owings, Principal SE at Pure Storage, used ESX to save end of life servers when no one knew how to reinstall the applications. Over the next few years was a post sales engineer/architect of VMware & VDI solutions. Jon spends time working in the lab and with customer POC’s at Pure Storage. Today, Jon works with customers transitioning to the next generation of applications, orchestrating cloud native storage as a service for container (Kubernetes/Docker) environments. Jon shares his learning and knowledge on his blog, blog.2vcps.io.

Sue Troy
Managing Editor,
Network Computing

Sue Troy is a senior content director at Informa, where she serves in editorial management roles for ITPro Today. She has spent more than 25 years writing and editing IT-focused content, with long stints at companies such as TechTarget and Ziff Davis Publishing. Before joining Informa in May 2017, her most recent role was as editorial director of TechTarget’s CIO, IT Strategy and Channel Media Group, where she was inspired by emerging technologies such as IoT, blockchain and artificial intelligence.