CMG IMPACT 2019 | Computer Measurement Group, Inc. | 19 February 2019 | Hyatt At Olive 8, 1635 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA

This Years Attendees:
IMPACT will be host to a multitude of world-class speakers, as well as enable one-on-one networking with a variety of professional roles including Executives, Cloud & DevOps, Data Center, and Mainframe Experts, and more!

• Executives & Business Leaders
-Chief Administrative Officer
-Chief Compliance Officer
-Chief Data Officer
-Chief Executive Officer
-Chief Financial Officer
-Chief Information Officer
-Chief Product Officer
-Chief Security Officer
-Chief Technical Officer
+ More!
• Applications, DevOps & Cloud
-Automation Architect
-Cloud Developer
-Cloud Network Engineer
-Cloud Software Engineer
-Cloud Systems Administrator
-Cloud Systems Engineer
-DevOps Evangelist
-Experience Assurance (XA)
-Security Engineer
+ More!
• Network & Data Center
-Data Center Architect
-Data Center Engineers
-Data Center Specialist
-NOC Technician
-Service Specialist
-Systems Administrator
-Systems Engineer
+ More!
• Mainframe 
Professionals
-Application Designers
-Application Programmers
-Capacity Planners
-Perfomance Engineers
-Production Control Analysts
-System administrators
-System operators
-System programmers
+ More!

Content & Activities
• IMPACT conference sessions – Don’t be stuck within a track – there is a lot to learn across industries in the conference sessions.
• Training – Before we kick off IMPACT, take a few hours to learn from the best industry experts out there.
• Peer-to-peer networking – Multiple opportunities both inside and outside the conference to meet with and • learn from your peers.
• Tech Expo – Meet our partners and learn about the latest technologies and hot startups at the Tech Expo.
• Workshops – Solve real-world problems with your peers during special workshop sessions.
• Skills badging – Gain marketable skills and earn digital badges by attending key sessions during the IMPACT conference

2019 Speakers

Mark B. Friedman
Performance and the software development life cycle

Chris Walker
The importance of maintaining capacity planning in the next era of the mainframe

Andre B. Bondi
Building a representative, effective model to randomly generate valid sequences of web page visits for load testing

Todd Voros
Using Excel VBA to tour useful BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization (TSCO) internal public tables

Kingsum Chow
Java performance troubleshooting and optimization at scale

Jonathan Lu
Java performance troubleshooting and optimization at scale

Sanhong Li
Java performance troubleshooting and optimization at scale

Jim Brady
Addressing load generators and how to reduce incorrect system performance results metrics

Scott Chapman
How to analyze and plan for a mainframe upgrade

Charles W. Johnson Jr.
The fine art of combining capacity management with machine learning

Yuri Ardulov
From the move from monolith to microservices. An introduction to DevOps in SaaS tool sets

Rick Lebsack
A new foundation in understanding AI's impact on business and IT

Kingsum Chow
Avoiding Mistakes in Large Scale Performance Analysis

Per Bauer
Effectively using and managing container workloads

Tuli Nivas
Anomaly detection at scale for performance engineers

Gary Little
An introduction to Chaos Engineering for enterprise cloud infrastructure

Paul Calvano
Leveraging HTTP Archiv for better web comparatives and analytics

Mark Cohen Austrowiek
An exploration of z/OS SYSTEM abnormalities

Kevin Crawley
Empathy in modern business. How compassion cannot be containerized

Elisabeth Stahl
Embracing Blockchain. Best practices and recommendations for Blockchain implementation in the enterprise

Brian L Wong
Under cloudy skies. Capacity planning in changing times

Odysseas Pentakalos
An introduction to the world of AI and Machine Learning

Alex Gilgur
An introduction to the world of AI and Machine Learning

Kevin Crawley
How to build a productive cloud-native organization with OpenTracing

Majdi Haroun
Driving innovation in the modern digital enterprise

Silvio Orsini
Achieving continuous availability

Pietro Tiberi
Achieving continuous availability

Marco Capotosto
Achieving continuous availability

Chris Greco
Integrating risk assessment in performance monitoring and capacity management

Alexander Podelko
Context-driven performance testing

Scott Chapman
Demystifying z/OS CPU measurements

Len Wyatt
The motivations and benefits of building a home-grown capacity management system

Karen Hughes
The new dimensions of cloud. IT infrastructure resource planning, optimization and cost

Paul Calvano
A quick-start guide to web performance analysis

Bryan Knouse
The past, present, and future of AI

Elisabeth Stahl
Sushi, beer, and 24-hour work days. An inside view of startup best practices and recommendations

Andre B. Bondi
Queueing laws and understanding weird performance test results

Jamie Baker
Capacity management for the digital and the agile world

Debbie Sheetz
Managing VMware virtual machines and CPUs

Tom Quinn
Machine Learning the demise of static thresholds

2019 Sponsors

• Broadcom
• BMC
• Syncsort
• Helpsystems