| Tuesday, April 29 |
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| 2:00 pm–3:15 pm |
Conference Sessions
 Network Services: Which Ones and Where? (Location: Breakers F) There has been so much written in the last few years about the need to focus less on network technologies and more on network provided services. However, very little has been written about what services should be offered and where those services should reside. For example, should QoS be implemented in the router or in a stand-alone device? Should policy and control be exerted as part of the LAN infrastructure or by the firewall? In this session, leading vendors will describe their vision of which services belong where and why. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Andre Kindness, Americas Director of Security Solutions, ProCurve Networking by HP
Speaker - Michael Frendo, Senior VP, High End Security Systems, Juniper Networks Michael Frendo, senior vice president, High-End Security Systems (HSS) Business Unit at Juniper Networks, has more than 20 years of technology, engineering, and product partnership experience. In his current role, Frendo is responsible for the leadership of the current and next generation security and network traffic visibility technologies and products . Prior to joining Juniper, Michael was responsible for leading system architecture, worldwide product development and customer engagements for the entire product line at McDATA Corporation. Previously, Frendo was the vice president for Systems and Software Engineering at Cisco Systems. Frendo holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering form McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
Speaker - Morgan Gerhart, Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Citrix
Speaker - Sangeeta Anand, VP, Product Management, Cisco
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| 3:45 pm–4:45 pm |
Conference Sessions
Gotchas When Choosing and Implementing MPLS Services (Location: Breakers F) MPLS promises benefits including lower cost, any-to-any connectivity, and inherent quality of service capabilities. However, IT organizations looking to implement MPLS have numerous issues to evaluate. This session will detail the issues including: the use of a Layer 2 vs. a Layer 3 solution, the number of service classes offered by the service provider, whether or not to use a managed service offering, which advanced services (i.e., Internet access) make sense, the various ways that service providers charge for a class of service profile and exactly how helpful is the provider's web portal functionality.
Moderator - Johna Till Johnson, President and Founding Partner, Nemertes Research Johna Till Johnson is president and chief research officer of Nemertes Research, where she sets research direction and works with strategic clients. She has decades of experience in IT structure, processes, and organizations and has worked closely with senior IT executives at leading organizations across a broad range of industries. A widely regarded expert, Ms. Johnson regularly speaks at numerous trade shows, conferences, and seminars, and writes an insightful weekly column in Network World. Ms. Johnson relates to the challenges senior executives face, as she?s managed large technology operations. Before founding Nemertes, she served as senior vice president and chief technology officer at Greenwich Technology Partners, a $60 million infrastructure consulting and engineering firm. At GTP, she secured $5 million in funding, managed strategic technology investments, partnerships, and acquisitions, and ran the technology practices to which GTP?s consultants and engineers belonged. She also managed the laboratory services, oversaw training, and performed consulting for strategic clients. Prior to joining GTP, she headed the $12 million Global Networking Strategies Service business unit of META Group, where she advised Global 2000 IT organizations, vendors, and service providers. As senior technology editor of Data Communications magazine, Ms. Johnson managed the lab-testing program, and in the early ?90s was one of the first experts to accurately predict and justify the rise of the commercial Internet. Ms. Johnson also has designed and developed security, speech-synthesis, and free-space laser products at companies including Mosler Security Systems and Digitus Corp. She holds a BSEE (CS) from The Johns Hopkins University, has completed graduate work in nuclear and particle physics at the University of Rochester, speaks three languages, and published a science fiction novel in 1995.
Speaker - Danellie Young, Executive Director, Global Data Product Marketing, Verizon Business Danellie Young leads the global product marketing team for Verizon Business, responsible for go-to-market efforts, cross-product solutions, and product strategy for the entire global data and IP product lines. She provides oversight and vision to a team of experts around the world responsible for managing and marketing the most comprehensive data product portfolio on the market. As the visionary for these product lines, Young provides oversight and direction to a team of global experts responsible for managing and marketing Verizon Business?s products to ensure a lead position in the marketplace. Young continues to guide her extensive portfolio of services for Verizon Business by driving its market strategy, global network expansion, feature enhancements, and customer surround. Young?s group has been instrumental in bringing new innovative services and strategic enhancements to market by driving more intelligence into Verizon Business?s network and delivering more flexibility to our customers. Young has a unique blend of technical knowledge, marketing savvy, and focus on customer needs required for the leader of a product line so visible and strategic. She has consistently delivered market-leading services with innovative features, including application-aware networking capabilities, converged voice/video/data packages, and flexible QoS and disaster recovery options for Verizon Business.
Speaker - Matt Gowarty, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Fluke Networks Matt Gowarty is a Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager with Fluke Networks. With over 12 years of experience in telecommunications and networking, Matt has supported the creation and messaging of managed service offerings for MPLS-based networks and VoIP solutions for service providers including AT&T, Global Crossing, Sprint and Verizon Business. Prior to joining Fluke Networks, Matt worked as an offer manager of data products for GTE/Verizon with responsibility including managed services, frame relay and ATM. Matt has been a guest speaker for events including Network World, FutureNet/MPLSCon and Interop and has written several white papers on WAN, MPLS and application performance.
Speaker - Scott Cassell, Director Mktg Product, Qwest
| | Wednesday, April 30 |
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| 11:30 am–12:30 pm |
Conference Sessions
Implementing Policy and Control (Location: Breakers F) There is general agreement that IT organizations need to implement control functions in the IT infrastructure in order to both improve application performance and to provide enhanced security. There is also general agreement that IT organizations require the capability to set policy in an automated fashion. There is, however, wide disagreement as to what type of control functions need to be implemented, where they need to be implemented, and just how automated and granular the policy capabilities need to be. This session will explore those issues and position the attendees to create their company's policy and control strategy.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Haggai Polak, Product Line Manager, Packeteer Mr. Polak currently holds a Product Line Manager position at Packeteer, managing various WAN optimization, traffic management and network management product lines. His experience in network management spans 15 years, 11 of which are with WAN optimization and Traffic Management vendors selling to both the enterprise and service provider spaces. Before Packeteer, Mr. Polak held positions with leading vendors of policy-based network management solutions, starting with NetReality in 1997, moving to Allot Communications following its acquisition of NetReality in 2002.
Speaker - Jeff Prince, Chairman and CTO, ConSentry Networks Jeff has more than 20 years of experience developing networking and ASIC technologies. Prior to becoming Chairman and CTO of ConSentry Networks, Jeff was a founder of Foundry Networks (FDRY), where he led Foundry's hardware engineering group. Prior to Foundry, Jeff was a founder of Centillion Networks, which was acquired by Bay Networks in 1995 and became a billion dollar product line for Bay. Prior to Centillion, Jeff was a hardware engineering manager at Network Equipment Technologies. Jeff holds eight patents related to networking technologies, and he has a BS in Computer Engineering from California State University Chico. Jeff is also a managing partner at Prince Ventures, LP.
Speaker - Steve Mullaney, VP Marketing, Palo Alto Networks Steve Mullaney is vice president of marketing for Palo Alto Networks, and has more than 22 years of marketing, product management and engineering experience in networking and information security. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Steve was vice president of worldwide marketing at Blue Coat Systems where he helped grow the company from $40m to $250m annual run rate. Steve was also the vice president of marketing at Force10 Networks, Growth Networks (acquired by Cisco), and ShoreTel. Prior to that, Steve spent ten years at SynOptics and Bay Networks in various marketing, product management, and engineering roles, and was most recently vice president of enterprise marketing responsible for products contributing over $2B annual revenue. Before SynOptics, he held various design engineering positions at GTE Government Systems.
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| 3:45 pm–4:45 pm |
Conference Sessions
Evaluating New WAN Services (Location: Breakers F) In order to take advantage of lowering costs and new functionality, enterprise IT organizations need to migrate away from Frame Relay and ATM and to adopt new WAN services. Many enterprises have already begun to use MPLS services running at Layer 3. They now have the option of adopting MPLS services running at Layer 2 or of using Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS). They also have the ability to use a new generation of managed services, some of which claim to make the Internet perform as well as a private WAN. The speakers on this panel will identify the pros and cons of the emerging WAN services so that you can choose the services that make the most sense in your environment.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Arnaud Messager, Network Solutions Business Developement, Orange
Speaker - Keao Caindec, Chief Marketing Officer, Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc. Keao Caindec is responsible for Reliance Globalcom Services' marketing strategy and operations, including product marketing and management, business development, and marketing communications and programs. Caindec is a seasoned executive with deep marketing and business development experience in data communications, network optimization and acceleration, content distribution, IP route-control, VoIP, ATM, MPLS internetworking and network security. Prior to joining the Company in 2005, Caindec was a Principal and Founder of Farallon Technology Resources, a solutions provider for advanced network services and technologies. Prior, he was Executive Director of Alliance Development at Internap, a network services provider of high performance IP solutions. Caindec has also held senior management positions in marketing at CyberCash (acquired by Verisign), MCI Communications, ATMnet (acquired by Verio) and British Telecom North America (Tymnet), the early pioneer of packet-switched networking. Caindec has a bachelor's degree in Economics with a Concentration in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Speaker - Neil Cohen, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Akamai Neil Cohen is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Akamai?s Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application acceleration services for enterprise users. In this role, Neil sets the marketing strategy for penetrating this emerging line of business into traditional and new industry segments. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software used in routers, VoIP gateways, wireless basestations and broadband access equipment. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing roles at Conexant Systems and Maker Communications. Early in his career, Neil was a Principal Engineer at Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation where he developed high-performance semiconductor process technologies and logic designs for their microprocessor division. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.
What You Need to Know about TelePresence and High Definition Video (Location: Breakers C) You're hearing the buzz about Telepresence and high definition video conferencing but enterprise video conferencing is not new. So how does the introduction of high definition and fully immersive environments change the video conferencing landscape? This session explores the latest developments in video conferencing tools and provides the detailed 3rd party analysis you need to weigh their pros and cons and determine their suitability in your business.
Moderator - Melanie Turek, Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan Melanie Turek is a Principal Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. She is a renowned expert in real-time communications, collaboration and content-management technologies, which she has been covering for more than 10 years. Ms. Turek has worked closely with hundreds of vendors and senior IT executives across a range of industries to track and capture the changes and growth in the fast-moving unified communications market. She also has in-depth experience with business-process engineering, project management, compliance, and productivity & performance enhancement, as well as a wide range of software technologies including messaging, ERP, CRM and contact center applications. Ms. Turek writes often on the business value and cultural challenges surrounding real-time communications, collaboration and Voice over IP, and she speaks frequently at leading industry events, including VoiceCon, Interop and CMP Technology?s Enterprise 2.0 Conference, for which she serves as an advisory board member. She can be reached at mturek@isp.com.
Speaker - Bob Brumm, Senior System Programmer, Tampa Electric Company Bob Brumm has over fifteen years of experience in managing IT & telecommunications networks. Most recently he has been responsible for developing TECO Energy?s, visual communications network. Bob has procured, engineered, and installed videoconferencing equipment and infrastructure to enable TECO Energy companies to visually access operation centers throughout Florida, Kentucky and Guatemala. As a direct result, Bob has been recognized for work efforts that have led to savings in both time and money for TECO Energy. Bob is an accomplished speaker and has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan.
Speaker - Laurie Heltsley, Director of Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble
Speaker - Morgan Fischer, Partner, Beth Melsky Satellite Casting
Speaker - Thomas Fenady, Director, Information Technology, Activision Publishing Inc Thomas U. Fenady is the Director of Information Technology for Activision Publishing Inc., a $1.5 billion international publisher of interactive entertainment software products. Thomas joined Activision in 2004. His current responsibilities at Activision include global infrastructure and architecture, security, and compliance. Fenady?s career in the information technology industry spans 15 years including positions held at Rubin Postaer and Associates, BBDO Advertising, and Apple Computer.
| | Thursday, May 1 |
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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
Conference Sessions
Open Source Networking: An Insanely Smart Idea? (Location: Breakers F) Can a set of open source technologies and tools developed by a loosely affiliated community of developers, offered for free over the Internet, compete with proprietary products from multi-billion dollar companies in building networks? Would you be insane to try to run your business on this stuff, or insanely smart? Either way, open source is going to have a huge impact on network operations over the coming decade. This session will present a case study of a large network built and managed with open source components and tools. You will learn which components and tools others have found successful and the benefits they have received from them.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Artur Bergman, Director of Engineering and Operations, Wikia Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist at-large, is the director of engineering at Wikia, supporting its mission to compile and index the world's knowledge. He is also an enthusiastic apologist for federated identity and a board member of the OpenID Foundation. His current interests include semantic search, large scale infrastructure, open source development and federated instant messaging. Artur writes for O'Reilly Radar and regularly speaks at conferences on scaling large systems, OpenID and Open Source.
Speaker - Dave Roberts, Vice President of Strategy, Vyatta Dave Roberts has almost two decades of experience in networking, computer engineering and strategic product development. Prior to his current role as vice president of strategy and marketing at Vyatta, Dave was the co-founder, CTO, and vice president of strategy at Inkra networks where he provided the product and strategy direction that captured a tier-one customer base including IBM, EDS, AT&T, and NEC. Prior to Inkra, Dave was vice president of product management for Nortel Networks, responsible for product strategy and definition related to the company's line of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches and campus ATM switches. Additionally, Dave forged key strategic alliances and OEM relationships. Dave has also held management positions at Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cabletron Systems, ZeitNet, and AMD, where he spearheaded Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, and WiFi product lines and strategic marketing initiatives. Dave began his career with engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard. Experienced in numerous networking and software technologies, Dave holds eight patents, with more pending, and is the author of three books. Dave holds a B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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