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Some say infrastructure has become a commodity driven by price. Others point to the evolution of infrastructure—software-defined networks, hyper convergence—as a lucrative opportunity? which is it?

Speakers:

Adam Catbagan Technology Leader, Arrow

An accomplished technical sales leader, Adam Catbagan has been a driving force for creating cultures of technical accountability, discipline and sales excellence. Catbagan develops, implements and influences technical strategies that drive revenue, demonstrate operational efficiency, benchmark IT services and help develop and drive go-to market strategies.

Will Payne Senior Director of SLED for the Networking and Security (NSX) Business Unit, VMware

Will Payne joined VMware in November 2016 as the Director of SLED for the Networking and Security business unit. Payne leads the team responsible for VMware’s critical security initiatives across the state/local government and education markets. He and his team help customers solve unique mission challenges around compliance, security and operations. Payne is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in networking and information security. Prior to joining VMware, Payne held similar positions at Cisco, EMC and Oracle. A Colorado resident, he holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and is active in local charities such as Habitat for Humanity and Junior Achievement.

Matthew O'Keefe Vice President and Corporate Technologist, Oracle

Dr. Matthew O’Keefe is a vice president and corporate technologist in the Cloud Business Group at Oracle, specializing in helping customers leverage the Oracle cloud to build out next-generation enterprise IT and deploy new cloud applications quickly. He spent nearly five years at Hitachi Data Systems in product R&D and delivery for enterprise storage and big data. Prior to Hitachi, O’Keefe started and sold two infrastructure IT companies, one focused on Linux storage management software and the other on cloud backup. He began his computing career with a Ph.D. at Purdue University in parallel computing and, before entering the enterprise IT world, spent 10 years as a tenured professor at the University of Minnesota, developing parallel applications that leveraged very large scale computing systems, the precursors to today’s clouds.

Some say infrastructure has become a commodity driven by price. Others point to the evolution of infrastructure—software-defined networks, hyper convergence—as a lucrative opportunity? which is it?

Speakers:

Adam Catbagan Technology Leader, Arrow

An accomplished technical sales leader, Adam Catbagan has been a driving force for creating cultures of technical accountability, discipline and sales excellence. Catbagan develops, implements and influences technical strategies that drive revenue, demonstrate operational efficiency, benchmark IT services and help develop and drive go-to market strategies.

Will Payne Senior Director of SLED for the Networking and Security (NSX) Business Unit, VMware

Will Payne joined VMware in November 2016 as the Director of SLED for the Networking and Security business unit. Payne leads the team responsible for VMware’s critical security initiatives across the state/local government and education markets. He and his team help customers solve unique mission challenges around compliance, security and operations. Payne is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in networking and information security. Prior to joining VMware, Payne held similar positions at Cisco, EMC and Oracle. A Colorado resident, he holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and is active in local charities such as Habitat for Humanity and Junior Achievement.

Matthew O'Keefe Vice President and Corporate Technologist, Oracle

Dr. Matthew O’Keefe is a vice president and corporate technologist in the Cloud Business Group at Oracle, specializing in helping customers leverage the Oracle cloud to build out next-generation enterprise IT and deploy new cloud applications quickly. He spent nearly five years at Hitachi Data Systems in product R&D and delivery for enterprise storage and big data. Prior to Hitachi, O’Keefe started and sold two infrastructure IT companies, one focused on Linux storage management software and the other on cloud backup. He began his computing career with a Ph.D. at Purdue University in parallel computing and, before entering the enterprise IT world, spent 10 years as a tenured professor at the University of Minnesota, developing parallel applications that leveraged very large scale computing systems, the precursors to today’s clouds.

Some say infrastructure has become a commodity driven by price. Others point to the evolution of infrastructure—software-defined networks, hyper convergence—as a lucrative opportunity. So, which is it? Submit your Fact or Fiction questions and perspectives at the Oracle and VMware exhibit hall tables on Thursday evening, then join our experts on Friday morning as they debate your submissions.

Speakers:

Adam Catbagan Technology Leader, Arrow

An accomplished technical sales leader, Adam Catbagan has been a driving force for creating cultures of technical accountability, discipline and sales excellence. Catbagan develops, implements and influences technical strategies that drive revenue, demonstrate operational efficiency, benchmark IT services and help develop and drive go-to market strategies.

Will Payne Senior Director of SLED for the Networking and Security (NSX) Business Unit, VMware

Will Payne joined VMware in November 2016 as the Director of SLED for the Networking and Security business unit. Payne leads the team responsible for VMware’s critical security initiatives across the state/local government and education markets. He and his team help customers solve unique mission challenges around compliance, security and operations. Payne is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in networking and information security. Prior to joining VMware, Payne held similar positions at Cisco, EMC and Oracle. A Colorado resident, he holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and is active in local charities such as Habitat for Humanity and Junior Achievement.

Matthew O'Keefe Vice President and Corporate Technologist, Oracle

Dr. Matthew O’Keefe is a vice president and corporate technologist in the Cloud Business Group at Oracle, specializing in helping customers leverage the Oracle cloud to build out next-generation enterprise IT and deploy new cloud applications quickly. He spent nearly five years at Hitachi Data Systems in product R&D and delivery for enterprise storage and big data. Prior to Hitachi, O’Keefe started and sold two infrastructure IT companies, one focused on Linux storage management software and the other on cloud backup. He began his computing career with a Ph.D. at Purdue University in parallel computing and, before entering the enterprise IT world, spent 10 years as a tenured professor at the University of Minnesota, developing parallel applications that leveraged very large scale computing systems, the precursors to today’s clouds.

Some say infrastructure has become a commodity driven by price. Others point to the evolution of infrastructure—software-defined networks, hyper convergence—as a lucrative opportunity. So, which is it? Submit your Fact or Fiction questions and perspectives at the Oracle and VMware exhibit hall tables on Thursday evening, then join our experts on Friday morning as they debate your submissions.

Speakers:

Adam Catbagan Technology Leader, Arrow

An accomplished technical sales leader, Adam Catbagan has been a driving force for creating cultures of technical accountability, discipline and sales excellence. Catbagan develops, implements and influences technical strategies that drive revenue, demonstrate operational efficiency, benchmark IT services and help develop and drive go-to market strategies.

Will Payne Senior Director of SLED for the Networking and Security (NSX) Business Unit, VMware

Will Payne joined VMware in November 2016 as the Director of SLED for the Networking and Security business unit. Payne leads the team responsible for VMware’s critical security initiatives across the state/local government and education markets. He and his team help customers solve unique mission challenges around compliance, security and operations. Payne is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in networking and information security. Prior to joining VMware, Payne held similar positions at Cisco, EMC and Oracle. A Colorado resident, he holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and is active in local charities such as Habitat for Humanity and Junior Achievement.

Matthew O'Keefe Vice President and Corporate Technologist, Oracle

Dr. Matthew O’Keefe is a vice president and corporate technologist in the Cloud Business Group at Oracle, specializing in helping customers leverage the Oracle cloud to build out next-generation enterprise IT and deploy new cloud applications quickly. He spent nearly five years at Hitachi Data Systems in product R&D and delivery for enterprise storage and big data. Prior to Hitachi, O’Keefe started and sold two infrastructure IT companies, one focused on Linux storage management software and the other on cloud backup. He began his computing career with a Ph.D. at Purdue University in parallel computing and, before entering the enterprise IT world, spent 10 years as a tenured professor at the University of Minnesota, developing parallel applications that leveraged very large scale computing systems, the precursors to today’s clouds.

This week we talk to DellEMC's Ross Porter and Ben Conquest about unstructured data and its purpose in the modern enterprise.

We are also joined by regular guest host Ruairi McBride from Arrow ECS

Ross Porter

Ross leads the Dell EMC EMEA Isilon Unstructured Data and Analytics Presales team. He is focused on delivering innovative scale out, object, analytics and big data solutions to customers across multiple industries and geographies. He has held previous leadership positions in systems engineering management, global systems integrator technical alliances, as well as advisory and consultant roles. Ross has spoken on technology and change leadership at various global events, partner forums, and leadership conferences.

https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/author/ross-porter/

Ben Conquest

Developing Unstructured Data Solutions for Automated Driving and Genomics - scale-out and AI ready.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benconquest

This week we talk to DellEMC's Ross Porter and Ben Conquest about unstructured data and its purpose in the modern enterprise.

We are also joined by regular guest host Ruairi McBride from Arrow ECS

Ross Porter

Ross leads the Dell EMC EMEA Isilon Unstructured Data and Analytics Presales team. He is focused on delivering innovative scale out, object, analytics and big data solutions to customers across multiple industries and geographies. He has held previous leadership positions in systems engineering management, global systems integrator technical alliances, as well as advisory and consultant roles. Ross has spoken on technology and change leadership at various global events, partner forums, and leadership conferences.

https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/author/ross-porter/

Ben Conquest

Developing Unstructured Data Solutions for Automated Driving and Genomics - scale-out and AI ready.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benconquest

Every business need revolves around data. Business opportunities are uncovered and sales cycles shortened when the interaction with your customer is a data-driven conversation that leads to outcomes. Attend this session to hear real-world experience from innovators at IBM, Hitachi and Arrow about the framework and strategies for leveraging AI today to improve business process, streamline operations and create your AI strategy.

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David Fearne Global Data Intelligence Practice Leader, Arrow

David Fearne has been at Arrow for eight years, working in UKI, EMEA and global roles. He was most recently the technical director of Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business in UK and Ireland. Fearne specializes in big data and all things cloud, and was one of the founders of the ArrowSphere project. His career started as an IBM graduate,but has touched end-users, vendors, distributors and resellers with outcome-centric focuses ranging from central government and HPC to financial and space. In 2017, he was recognized as one of the 50 most influential people in big data in the UK, an acknowledgement he earned for his work on the “How Happy is London” project.

Hosts

Paul C. Zikopoulos Vice President of Cognitive BigData Systems , IBM

Paul C. Zikopoulos is the vice president of cognitive big data systems at IBM. He’s an award-winning writer and speaker and was once consulted on the topic of big data by the popular TV show “60 Minutes.” Zikopoulos also advises various universities on their graduate analytics programs and has been named to more than a dozen “Experts to Follow” lists on social media. As a seated board member for Women 2.0, a global brand for women in tech and entrepreneurship that works to close the gender gaps at tech companies. Zikopoulos is an advocate for women in technology. Zikopoulos has written 19 books and more than 360 articles on data. He doesn't think NoSQL is something you put on a resume if you don't have SQL skills and he knows JSON isn't a person in his department. Ultimately, Zikopoulos is trying to figure out the world according to Chloë, his daughter, whom he notes didn’t come with a handbook and is more complex than the topic of big data itself, but more fun too.

Shawn Rosemarin Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Global Field and Industry, Hitachi

Shawn Rosemarin is currently CTO of Global Field and Industry at Hitachi. As part of the Executive Sales Leadership team, Rosemarin holds direct accountability for all strategy and key talent across both pre-sales and Hitachi Vantara’s Industry Solutions Group. Prior to this role, Rosemarin was a chief technologist within the Americas Field CTO team at VMware and held various roles in technology and sales leadership. Rosemarin’s passion is working closely with customers to help them transform digitally with everything from private/hybrid cloud to end-user computing transformation and emerging IoT Solutions. Over the past 18 years, Rosemarin has gained experience with various technology organizations, including IBM, Dell and Hitachi Data Systems. An active seminar presenter, Rosemarin enjoys sharing experiences, simplifying complex concepts and highlighting best practices. Rosemarin holds a Bachelor of Commerce in management information systems from Queen’s University.

Every business need revolves around data. Business opportunities are uncovered and sales cycles shortened when the interaction with your customer is a data-driven conversation that leads to outcomes. Attend this session to hear real-world experience from innovators at IBM, Hitachi and Arrow about the framework and strategies for leveraging AI today to improve business process, streamline operations and create your AI strategy.

Compare

David Fearne Global Data Intelligence Practice Leader, Arrow

David Fearne has been at Arrow for eight years, working in UKI, EMEA and global roles. He was most recently the technical director of Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business in UK and Ireland. Fearne specializes in big data and all things cloud, and was one of the founders of the ArrowSphere project. His career started as an IBM graduate,but has touched end-users, vendors, distributors and resellers with outcome-centric focuses ranging from central government and HPC to financial and space. In 2017, he was recognized as one of the 50 most influential people in big data in the UK, an acknowledgement he earned for his work on the “How Happy is London” project.

Hosts

Paul C. Zikopoulos Vice President of Cognitive BigData Systems , IBM

Paul C. Zikopoulos is the vice president of cognitive big data systems at IBM. He’s an award-winning writer and speaker and was once consulted on the topic of big data by the popular TV show “60 Minutes.” Zikopoulos also advises various universities on their graduate analytics programs and has been named to more than a dozen “Experts to Follow” lists on social media. As a seated board member for Women 2.0, a global brand for women in tech and entrepreneurship that works to close the gender gaps at tech companies. Zikopoulos is an advocate for women in technology. Zikopoulos has written 19 books and more than 360 articles on data. He doesn't think NoSQL is something you put on a resume if you don't have SQL skills and he knows JSON isn't a person in his department. Ultimately, Zikopoulos is trying to figure out the world according to Chloë, his daughter, whom he notes didn’t come with a handbook and is more complex than the topic of big data itself, but more fun too.

Shawn Rosemarin Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Global Field and Industry, Hitachi

Shawn Rosemarin is currently CTO of Global Field and Industry at Hitachi. As part of the Executive Sales Leadership team, Rosemarin holds direct accountability for all strategy and key talent across both pre-sales and Hitachi Vantara’s Industry Solutions Group. Prior to this role, Rosemarin was a chief technologist within the Americas Field CTO team at VMware and held various roles in technology and sales leadership. Rosemarin’s passion is working closely with customers to help them transform digitally with everything from private/hybrid cloud to end-user computing transformation and emerging IoT Solutions. Over the past 18 years, Rosemarin has gained experience with various technology organizations, including IBM, Dell and Hitachi Data Systems. An active seminar presenter, Rosemarin enjoys sharing experiences, simplifying complex concepts and highlighting best practices. Rosemarin holds a Bachelor of Commerce in management information systems from Queen’s University.

Every business need revolves around data. Business opportunities are uncovered and sales cycles shortened when the interaction with your customer is a data-driven conversation that leads to outcomes. Attend this session to hear real-world experience from innovators at IBM, Hitachi and Arrow about the framework and strategies for leveraging AI today to improve business process, streamline operations and create your AI strategy.

David Fearne Global Data Intelligence Practice Leader, Arrow

David Fearne has been at Arrow for eight years, working in UKI, EMEA and global roles. He was most recently the technical director of Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business in UK and Ireland. Fearne specializes in big data and all things cloud, and was one of the founders of the ArrowSphere project. His career started as an IBM graduate,but has touched end-users, vendors, distributors and resellers with outcome-centric focuses ranging from central government and HPC to financial and space. In 2017, he was recognized as one of the 50 most influential people in big data in the UK, an acknowledgement he earned for his work on the “How Happy is London” project.

Paul C. Zikopoulos Vice President of Cognitive BigData Systems , IBM

Paul C. Zikopoulos is the vice president of cognitive big data systems at IBM. He’s an award-winning writer and speaker and was once consulted on the topic of big data by the popular TV show “60 Minutes.” Zikopoulos also advises various universities on their graduate analytics programs and has been named to more than a dozen “Experts to Follow” lists on social media. As a seated board member for Women 2.0, a global brand for women in tech and entrepreneurship that works to close the gender gaps at tech companies. Zikopoulos is an advocate for women in technology. Zikopoulos has written 19 books and more than 360 articles on data. He doesn't think NoSQL is something you put on a resume if you don't have SQL skills and he knows JSON isn't a person in his department. Ultimately, Zikopoulos is trying to figure out the world according to Chloë, his daughter, whom he notes didn’t come with a handbook and is more complex than the topic of big data itself, but more fun too.

Shawn Rosemarin Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Global Field and Industry, Hitachi

Shawn Rosemarin is currently CTO of Global Field and Industry at Hitachi. As part of the Executive Sales Leadership team, Rosemarin holds direct accountability for all strategy and key talent across both pre-sales and Hitachi Vantara’s Industry Solutions Group. Prior to this role, Rosemarin was a chief technologist within the Americas Field CTO team at VMware and held various roles in technology and sales leadership. Rosemarin’s passion is working closely with customers to help them transform digitally with everything from private/hybrid cloud to end-user computing transformation and emerging IoT Solutions. Over the past 18 years, Rosemarin has gained experience with various technology organizations, including IBM, Dell and Hitachi Data Systems. An active seminar presenter, Rosemarin enjoys sharing experiences, simplifying complex concepts and highlighting best practices. Rosemarin holds a Bachelor of Commerce in management information systems from Queen’s University.

Every business need revolves around data. Business opportunities are uncovered and sales cycles shortened when the interaction with your customer is a data-driven conversation that leads to outcomes. Attend this session to hear real-world experience from innovators at IBM, Hitachi and Arrow about the framework and strategies for leveraging AI today to improve business process, streamline operations and create your AI strategy.

David Fearne Global Data Intelligence Practice Leader, Arrow

David Fearne has been at Arrow for eight years, working in UKI, EMEA and global roles. He was most recently the technical director of Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business in UK and Ireland. Fearne specializes in big data and all things cloud, and was one of the founders of the ArrowSphere project. His career started as an IBM graduate,but has touched end-users, vendors, distributors and resellers with outcome-centric focuses ranging from central government and HPC to financial and space. In 2017, he was recognized as one of the 50 most influential people in big data in the UK, an acknowledgement he earned for his work on the “How Happy is London” project.

Paul C. Zikopoulos Vice President of Cognitive BigData Systems , IBM

Paul C. Zikopoulos is the vice president of cognitive big data systems at IBM. He’s an award-winning writer and speaker and was once consulted on the topic of big data by the popular TV show “60 Minutes.” Zikopoulos also advises various universities on their graduate analytics programs and has been named to more than a dozen “Experts to Follow” lists on social media. As a seated board member for Women 2.0, a global brand for women in tech and entrepreneurship that works to close the gender gaps at tech companies. Zikopoulos is an advocate for women in technology. Zikopoulos has written 19 books and more than 360 articles on data. He doesn't think NoSQL is something you put on a resume if you don't have SQL skills and he knows JSON isn't a person in his department. Ultimately, Zikopoulos is trying to figure out the world according to Chloë, his daughter, whom he notes didn’t come with a handbook and is more complex than the topic of big data itself, but more fun too.

Shawn Rosemarin Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Global Field and Industry, Hitachi

Shawn Rosemarin is currently CTO of Global Field and Industry at Hitachi. As part of the Executive Sales Leadership team, Rosemarin holds direct accountability for all strategy and key talent across both pre-sales and Hitachi Vantara’s Industry Solutions Group. Prior to this role, Rosemarin was a chief technologist within the Americas Field CTO team at VMware and held various roles in technology and sales leadership. Rosemarin’s passion is working closely with customers to help them transform digitally with everything from private/hybrid cloud to end-user computing transformation and emerging IoT Solutions. Over the past 18 years, Rosemarin has gained experience with various technology organizations, including IBM, Dell and Hitachi Data Systems. An active seminar presenter, Rosemarin enjoys sharing experiences, simplifying complex concepts and highlighting best practices. Rosemarin holds a Bachelor of Commerce in management information systems from Queen’s University.