Interop 2020 | Informa PLC | 5 October 2020 | Virtual event

State of IT Report
The role of IT continues to change as new technologies and business models emerge. In addition to keeping systems up and running, IT must facilitate digital transformation and enable modern forms of competitive advantage.

The State of IT Report explores:
• deficits in IT spending and the effects an organization’s ability to meet its goals
• The balance of containing IT costs while achieving business success
• The challenges that prevent IT from innovating
• How IT innovation is tied – or not tied – to financial incentives
• IT purchasing plans do not necessarily include the most-hyped technology trends (IoT, AI, DevOps, containers, software-defined infrastructure)

State of Emerging Technology Report
Many of today's organizations would like to implement the latest technology such as AI, but they face barriers such as lack of funding, management buy-in, and provable return on investment.

The State of Emerging Technology report explores:
• The appeal of emerging technologies tends to be tied to an organization's particular industry, for instance, 3D printing is of great interest in the medical industry, but not so much in other industries.
• Practical interest in AI is strong in two areas that are key to corporate performance: increasing operational efficiency and improving the quality of customer interaction.
• The top barriers to adopting emerging technologies are lack of funds, skills shortage, a desire to see proven success, and management's resistance to change.

2020 Speakers

KEY NOTE SPEAKERS:

Rob Carter
EVP Information Services & CIO, FedEx Corporation

Alysa Taylor
Corporate Vice President, Business Applications & Global Industry Marketing, Microsoft

Greg Lavender
SVP and CTO, VMware

SPEAKERS:

Dr. Jim Metzler
VP, Ashton, Metzler & Associates

Allen Ohanian
CISO, LA County DCFS

Gal Shachor
IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO Trusted Identity, IBM

Jose Rodriguez
Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Scott King
Director of Embedded Security, Zimperium

Tony Howlett
CISO, Securelink

Jim Reavis
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, CSA

Brad Causey
CEO, Zero Day Consulting

Jeff Wilson
Chief Analyst, Omdia, Informa Tech

Eric Wright
Technology Evangelist, Turbonomic

Jayne Groll
CEO, DevOps Institute

Ed Horley
Co-founder and CEO, Hexabuild

Cliff Grossner, Ph.D.
Senior Director Research & Technology Fellow, Omdia, Informa Tech

Lucas Beran
Principal Analyst, Cloud and Data Center, Omdia, Informa Tech

Julian Watson
Principal Analyst, IoT, Omdia, Informa Tech

Jeff Crume
Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM Security - North America; IBM Master Inventor, Academy of Technology Member, IBM

Suzanne Widup
Sr. Principal – Threat Intel, Verizon Enterprise Solutions

Roselle Safran
Founder and CEO, KeyCaliber

Paul Kurtz
Co-Founder and Chairman, TruSTAR

Yaron Levi
CISO, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas City

Maxine Holt
Senior Director of Research, Omdia, Informa Tech

Cate Reich, PMP
Cybersecurity Executive, Accenture Security

Mike Pennacchi
Owner, Network Protocol Specialists, LLC

John Sawyer
Director of Services, Red Team, IOActive, Inc.

Leslie Deutsch
Practice Director, Learning Solutions, TEKsystems

Damien Howard
Executive Vice President, Social Ventures, Per Scholas

Kirk Killian
President, Partners National Mission Critical Facilities

Ben Brennan, M.A.
CEO and Cofounder, QSTAC, Inc.

Robert LaMagna-Reiter
Chief Information Security Officer, FNTS

Roy Illsley
Chief Analyst, IT & Enterprise, Omdia, Informa Tech

Peter Rysavy
President, Rysavy Research

Andi Mann
Chief Technology Advocate, Splunk

Elli Hurst
VP, Global Automation GTM Leader, Global Business Services, IBM

Gretchen Tinnerman
US Network Sales Leader, IBM Global Technology Services, IBM

Michelle Watson
Director & Global Portfolio Leader for Cloud Resiliency & Security; IBM Services WW Global Technology Services, IBM

Priyanka Pant
Vice President Software Engineering, Mastercard

Elysia Lock
Solutions Architect, Flux7, an NTT Data Company

Amélie Koran
Senior Technology Advocate, Splunk

Cassandra Mooshian
Senior Analyst, Intelligence Automation & Enterprise AI, Omdia, Informa Tech

Josh Stella
Co-Founder & CTO, Fugue

David Politis
Founder, BetterCloud

Micah Adams
Lead Consultant for SRE and Ops, Test Double

Eric Zielinski
Director, Cloud Solutions, Nationwide

Jason Edelman
Founder/CTO, Network to Code

David Pearson
Principal Threat Researcher, Awake Security

Eric Poynton
Lead Network Threat Hunter, Awake Security

Samir Saluja
CEO, Deriveone

Cal Escue
Director, Akvelon

Kathy Visser-May
SVP, SAP

Peter Jones
Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems

Brad Peterson
VP of Marketing, Workspot

Andy Knauf
CIO, Mead & Hunt

Israel Sumano
Senior Director of IT Infrastructure, Southland Industries

Roy Atkinson
Group Principal Analyst, HDI and ICMI, Informa Tech

Dave Karow
Continuous Delivery Evangelist, Split Software

Joe Cropper
Senior Technical Staff Member, Power Systems, IBM

Marcel Mitran
CTO, IBM LinuxONE

Tami Reiss
SVP Product Strategy + CPO in Residence, ProdUXLabs

Omer Ansari
Director of Infrastructure Engineering, Salesforce

Tim Banting
Senior Principal Analyst, Workspace Services, Omdia, Informa Tech

JP Morgenthal
VP & CTO for the Americas, Automation Anywhere

Bill Schneider
Sr. Principal Engineer, Optum

Bradley Shimmin
Distinguished Analyst, Omdia | Informa Tech

Helen Beal
Chief Ambassador, DevOps Institute

Colleen White
Director of Product, Fuze

Srinivas Mukkamala
CEO, RiskSense

Kevin Harbauer
Chief Technology Officer, Ephesoft

John Thomas
CEO, Trinzik

Sarah Wheeler
EIC, Fintech Ledger and HousingWire

Syed Hussain
CEO, Liquidity Digital

Pulak Sinha
CEO, OnPepper

Khadija Mustafa
Sr. Director, Head of AI Partner Ecosystem and Autonomous Systems , Microsoft

Danielle Funston
President Sentinel and EVP , BluePrint Technologies

Dharmesh Godha
President and CTO , Advaiya

Justin Sears
VP, Product Marketing, Lucidworks

Jennifer Prendki
CEO, Alectio

Elliott Castillo
Solutions Architect, Apstra

Gert Vanderstraeten
Principal Service Engineer, Microsoft

David Lef
Principal Service Engineer, Microsoft

Autumn Rudolph
Manager GTM Solutions, Cisco

Justin Nguyen
Practice Leader - Data Science, Sense Corp

George Usi
CEO, Omnistruct Inc

Stan Stahl, Phd
President, Citadel Information Group Inc

Carmen Marsh
CEO, Inteligenca

Jordan Fisher
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, XPAN Law Group

Rob Carter
Executive Vice President, Information Services & Chief Information Officer, FedEx Corporation

MODERATORS:

Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief, Dark Reading

Sara Peters
Senior Editor, Dark Reading

Jayne Groll
CEO, DevOps Institute

Jason Edelman
Founder/CTO, Network to Code

Romi Mahajan
CMRO, Quantarium

2020 Sponsors and Partners

• DevOps Institute
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• CIO APPLICATIONS
• TR TELECOM RESELLER
• WITI30
• DHN