Monday, June 24
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Optional Workshop |
Delivering Business Value with Collaboration
Vishakha Radia, Senior Director, Customer Business Transformation, Cisco Best in class Collaboration: Learn how leading companies are not just looking at Collaboration (meetings, video, social….) but are actually embedding it in to business process. This creates the ultimate differentiation and innovation for how people in organizations will serve customers and engage and empower employees. To what extent are you and your company a best in class collaborator? How would you know? Cisco has developed a best practices framework to assess where you score vs. world class collaborators. We will review 5 of the key world-class collaborators and share examples of how they are using collaboration to drive business impact and competitive advantage. We also highlight strategies for overcoming some of the barriers to becoming a world class collaborator. What defines world class collaborators? What extra-ordinary business impact are they achieving because of Collaboration? |
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Optional Workshop |
Leveraging Change to Drive Your Career
Guillermo Diaz, SVP, IT, Cisco How do you accelerate and drive growth in your IT career? How do you position yourself to present your ideas in a changing environment? Do you know what keeps your CIO up at night and how this will impact your career? What does it take for an IT professional to gain the respect of the board? How does an IT manager make the transition from provider of services to a business partner? What are the characteristics of a truly business-relevant IT professional? Join Cisco IT’s own Senior Vice President, Guillermo Diaz, as he shares his insights into the behaviors of senior IT executives that are making a direct business impact through their technology leadership and business influence. |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Welcome & Introductions
Guillermo Diaz, SVP, IT, Cisco and Lance Perry, VP, IT Customer Strategy and Success, Cisco |
| 1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Opportunities of Exponential Technologies
Peter Diamandis, co-Founder and Chairman of Singularity University From the epicenter of strategic innovation, the co-Founder and Chairman of Singularity University will provide insights about the positive sides of change. Peter elevates the opportunity in front of today’s technology leaders and prescribes a different approach to addressing change. |
| 1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | The Future State of IT
Rebecca Jacoby, Chief Information Officer and Sr. Vice President, IT and Cloud & Systems Management Technology, Cisco Join Cisco Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Cloud & Systems Management Technology Group, Rebecca Jacoby as she discusses the significance of the five-key technology transitions all businesses are facing and their impact on both Technology and Business Architectures. Today more than ever before, IT is responsible for making a profound business impact through the delivery of technology as a service. Rebecca will not only share her insights as CIO for the operation, orchestration and securing of IT Services within a Cloud architecture but also provide her vision for the future of Enterprise IT. |
| 2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Break |
| 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | IT as a Service (ITaaS) - The Transformation
Robert Roffey, Director, IS, Cisco Cisco IT successfully executed a three year plan to transform to a Services Organization. This transformation required changes in IT mindset, operations, and organization structure and was a critical step in our evolution to being “architecturally led.” In this session Robert Roffey will share the key components of our successful transformation. He will explain how the services transformation directly aligned with the overall objectives of IT and how we helped drove the strategic alignment of the vision across IT. Robert will share details about the six key enablers leveraged during this successful implementation: Change Management, Taxonomy, Roles, Catalog, Governance, and Costing. |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Leading with Architecture: Integrating Technology, Process and Culture
Craig Huegen, Senior Director, IS, Cisco Cisco, as a company, has embraced the concept of being Architecturally led. This has been a multi-year journey initially led by IT, but now being executed as a joint initiative with the business. You will learn how an architectural approach has changed the way Cisco thinks, plans, and executes. Craig Huegen will share not only our vision, but the frameworks, tools, and governance that have been implemented to support this initiative. Being Architecturally led is a natural evolution from our IT as a Service Organisation journey and has driven both operational excellence and service agility. |
| 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Break into small working groups to delve into the details of a transitioning to a service-led organization. You can choose between New to Services, Architecture Planning and Business Value.
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| 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | IT Management Customer Reception |
Tuesday, June 25
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Influencing the Business Equals Increased IT Value
Guillermo Diaz, SVP, IT, Cisco Sheila Jordan, SVP, IT, Cisco IT has an increasingly critical role in driving technology innovation to deliver business value and results. How can IT become an influencer and drive the discussion and decisions made by the business? Cisco leaders will share insights into how to influence business counterparts and discuss multiplying the value you can bring through a new type of relationship. |
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Keynote |
| 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | The Innovation of Everything
Carlos Dominguez, SVP, Office of the CEO, Cisco As the industry begins enabling the Internet of Things, the way we work and do business will change at lightning speed. How do you use innovation to drive creativity? How can you optimize technology to free up other resources? Hear from Carlos Dominguez, a leader in innovation, as he shares his eye-opening ideas about how to prepare for the future. |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Break |
| 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | How a Programmable Network and SDN Helps Solve Critical Security Infrastructure Requirements
John Manville, SVP, Infrastructure, IT, Cisco Steve Martino, VP, Security, IT, Cisco More and more, we rely on technology platforms such as Software Defined Netowkring to address a multitude of challenges. Steve Martino, VP of Security, will open this session with a look at the five key pillars of security. The discussion will be complemented with a demonstration by John Manville, SVP of Global Infrastructure Services, showing how SDN solutions can help address some of these critical security needs. The session will close with a demonstration of additional SDN benefits. |
| 3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Break |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Exponential Value: Enabling the New Workforce
Lance Perry, Vice President, IT Customer Strategy and Success, Cisco CIOs must consider a very diverse workforce that is a mix of generational workers, creative vs. analytical, and introverts vs. extroverts. As CIO’s, how do you tap into the chaos and unpredictability that comes from these personalities working together? And how do you introduce technologies such as video and collaboration tools to users whose comfort zones make it difficult for them to adopt? |
| 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | IT Management Reception |
Wednesday, June 26
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | The Value Paradigm of Big Data
Big Data is a ubiquitous term in IT right now, but what does that mean to you? Learn how IT will deliver value through big data through actual value cases and best practices. |
| 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Keynote |
| 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch and World of Solutions |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Developing a Collaboration Vision & Strategy
Sheila Jordan, SVP, IT, Cisco Modern organizations are all about improving employee productivity and efficiency through effective collaboration and communication. Cisco IT defines collaboration as five pillars – social, video, mobile, business apps/eStore and content. This session with Sheila Jordan, Senior Vice President of Communication and Collaboration IT, will open the afternoon’s session on mobility, setting the stage by providing the vision and strategy behind these five pillars and how mobility integrates with the other four. Join Sheila for an interactive discussion on this important topic. |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | The Post PC Era: Managing Devices, Apps, and Services in a BYO World
Brett Belding, Senior Manager, IT, Cisco Dave Stafford, VMWare Enterprises and large organizations must decide whether to allow or deny certain users, devices, and locations access to company networks, data, and services. Based on real Cisco IT experiences and results, learn what steps and business decisions that collaboration technologists, managers, and executives should consider as they move into the Post PC era. |
| 2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Next Generation Toolkit for Collaboration
Bram van Spaendonk, Senior Manager, IT, Cisco We have all heard about why we should be using collaboration to enable business value, reduce decision-making time and improve communications. The next step is to create a tool kit that actually allows us to do this. How do you measure the value of a social enterprise and a collaborative workforce? Where & how is value realized within the enterprise? At this session, you’ll learn about the collaboration business practices that Cisco uses to drive improvements in productivity, process and transformational value, enterprise-wide. |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Breakouts
BYOD: User Adoption Dave Gibson, EMEAR Lead for User Adoption/Change Management, Cisco Attend this interactive workshop to delve into the challenges facing an BYOD deployment. We will discuss strategy, adoption, and how to drive usage through the organization using best practices and use cases. This session will provide a provide a 'real-world' example of the purposes and challenges which come along with transitioning a company from a PC culture into a BYOD culture along with global best practices of how to enable user adoption from a PC culture into a BYOD organisation. Beyond BYOD: Enterprise Apps and Cloud Services Evan Parthensis, Manager, Cisco Running IT Globally Robert Roffey, Director, IS, Cisco Robbert Kuppens, VP/CIO, EMEAR, Cisco Jay Joiner, VP, APJC, Cisco Ileana Rivera, Director, IT LATAM, Cisco Jim Robshaw, Senior Director, Americas, Cisco Increasingly, IT leaders are required to deliver their services to a global client base. Delivering the desired experience to the IT consumer when they are not located at headquarters creates a number of challenges. Cisco IT is addressing this challenge by aligning four senior leaders with their business counterparts within the Region. These leaders either have or are in the process of assembling the necessary teams and establishing the required relationships to deliver on Cisco IT’s commitments. This panel will give the audience an opportunity to speak directly with these regional leaders to understand the challenges and solutions being implemented. |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | What the Future Holds for IT
Carlos Dominguez, SVP, Office of the Chairman and CEO, Cisco This session will highlight the amazing opportunities IT has with the Internet of Everything and other technologies. Understand how the IT manager will be the driving engine of the next wave of technology. |
Thursday, June 27
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Technology Directions: Enterprise Architecture
Rob Soderbery, SVP/GM, Enterprise Networking, Cisco Is your enterprise network ready to take you where you want to go? Will it support the business applications that you are being asked to support? In this keynote, you will hear how Cisco is unifying access, building out new network services and making the network more manageable so you can meet the coming needs of your organization. We will also show you how you can support more aspects of your business using the network as a platform for the Internet of Things. |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Technology Direction Sessions
Attend these architecture sessions to gain insights about Cisco product direction and understand future investments. Technology Directions: How Cisco Addresses Today and Tomorrow’s Infrastructure Challenges David Yen, SVP, Cisco John Manville, SVP, Cisco A day in the life of an enterprise CIO can be daunting—challenges such as managing complex environments, security and ongoing TCO pressures face us everyday. Addressing these challenges offer opportunities to significantly improve operations, productivity and have an impact on the bottom line if done successfully. This session will provide an insider's look at these challenges and offer strategies and technologies to maximize IT environments today and for the future. Technology Directions: Collaboration 25 billion devices are expected to be connected by 2015. It is clear that we are in the midst of a major market transition where consumers are demanding an increasingly mobile, social, visual and virtual experience. Learn how Cisco’s collaboration and video solutions are creating an integrated experience for consumers at work, at home or on the go, and how you can transform your business challenges into new growth opportunities. Technology Directions: Securing our Next Generation Networks and Data Centers Bret Hartman, CTO, Security, Cisco Rapid changes in the world around us, driven by cloud, mobility and the Internet of Everything, are creating significant opportunities for global organizations. Those organizations that want to be agile and prepared to grow need a security environment that can evolve with them. With these environmental changes, the sophistication with which cyber threats and attacks are carried out continues to grow rapidly and attackers are increasingly able to circumvent traditional security systems. Countering these intelligent adversaries to protect our networks and our data centers will require a an integrated security approach, more advanced security techniques and technologies, and an investment in governance to prepare our people and innovations. Attend this session for a discussion on the evolving threat landscape and how Cisco is leading the way with an integrated security strategy that will support the growth and evolution of our customers’ businesses. |
| 11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Break |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Looking Forward
Steinthor Bjarnason, Consulting Engineer, Cisco Eric Vyncke, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Explore the latest topics in technology: Autonomic Networking and the Future of IPv6 with our distinguished engineers from Cisco. |
| 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Optional Workshop |
Delivering Business Value with Collaboration
Jai Valluri, Director, Customer Business Transformation, Cisco Best in class Collaboration: Learn how leading companies are not just looking at Collaboration (meetings, video, social….) but are actually embedding it in to business process. This creates the ultimate differentiation and innovation for how people in organizations will serve customers and engage and empower employees. To what extent are you and your company a best in class collaborator? How would you know? Cisco has developed a best practices framework to assess where you score vs. world class collaborators. We will review 5 of the key world-class collaborators and share examples of how they are using collaboration to drive business impact and competitive advantage. We also highlight strategies for overcoming some of the barriers to becoming a world class collaborator. What defines world class collaborators? What extra-ordinary business impact are they achieving because of Collaboration? |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Closing Cisco Live Keynote
Sir Richard Branson |
