Security + Risk is being held on Day 2. This track is focused on helping those professionals tasked with assessing the risk and managing the security of evermore distributed mission critical infrastructure and ICT systems.

Registration and Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall

All-Conference Keynote: The Perfect Storm Intensifies - The Convergence of BigData, Cloud and the Internet of Things is Now at Full Strength

• Mac Devine, Cloud Division (SoftLayer), IBM

Opening Remarks from the Chair

• Peter Hannaford, Datacenterpeople

Opening Remarks from the Chair

• Robert F. Sullivan, Independent Consultant

Opening Remarks from the Chair

• Stephan Prueger, Trendpoint

Move Beyond Availability with DCIM

• Mark Hurley, Schneider Electric

If the Future Is "Open," Where Is Your Enterprise on the Journey?

• Cole Crawford, Open Compute Project
• Eric Wells, Fidelity Investments
• Grant Richard, Goldman Sachs

The Future of Data Center Cabling: Base-2, Base-8, Base-12 and Base-24 Cabling

Morning Coffee Break, Networking and Solution Stage Presentations in the Exhibit Hall

Opening Remarks from the Chair

• Barry Novick , BlackRock

Bullet Proof Your Migration of Core, Mission Critical Apps to the Cloud

• Joseph Schwartz, RampRate Sourcing Advisors

Will 380 VDC Power in the Data Center Gain Traction?

• Christopher M. Johnston, Syska Hennessy Group
• Dennis Cronin, Steel ORCA
• Keiichi Hirose, PhD, NTT Facilities
• And 2 more

Implications of Cloud, Analytics, Mobile and Social Computing on a Data Center Infrastructure

• Mike Hogan, IBM

The 3 C’s to Riding Out the IoT Wave: Capacity, Control and Collection

• Peter Gilbert, CA Technologies
• Robert Agar, Eaton
• William Dougherty, RagingWire

How IT Can be Essential in Your Company’s Hybrid Cloud Strategy

• Tony Chiofalo , IBM

The Industrialization of the Data Center: Setting the New Standard

• Glenn Wishnew, Rittal

Why Data Center Strategies Fail

• Kevin Sanders, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Enterprise Planners Have Something to Learn From The Netflix Data Center Petri Dish

• David Temkin, Netflix

Realize DCIM’s Promise by Building a Power Monitoring and Management Strategy

• Chris Beers, Time Warner Cable
• Philip Fischer, Eaton
• Robert Agar, Eaton

If Your Future is Hybrid, How Do You Model Your Options to Exactly Map Your Enterprise Needs?

• Vishal Mehra, Texas Instruments

Data Center Campus: A Quantum Leap in Energy Efficiency and Reliability

• Margie Guido, Cirrus Holdings, LLC

To Keep Pace with IoT and Big Data Demands, What are the Next Big Innovation Leaps?

• David Nelson, Boeing

Lunch, Networking and Solution Stage Presentations in the Exhibit Hall

All-Conference Keynote: Toward the Software-Defined, Data-Driven Data Center

• Cole Crawford, Open Compute Project
• Doug Taylor, StackVelocity
• Evan Powell, StackStorm
• And 1 more

Resiliency Concerns (Unjustifiably?) Waylay Energy Efficiency Initiatives

• Chris Terceira, NBC Universal
• David Fiedler, Dropbox
• John Clinger, ICF International
• And 1 more

What’s Possible When Legacy I&O; and Quality Management Converge

• Donna Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania

Enterprise IT Transformation is the Big Winner in the Battle of the Cloud Giants. Here’s Why

• Michael O’Neil, Insight-as-a-Service

Enterprise Users Have a Stake in Fixing the Network Edge Traffic Jam for CDN and Cloud Apps

• Gabe Cole, Open-IX

Planning and Execution Strategies to Maximize your Data Center Investment

• Tony Walker, CommScope

Where are You on the Journey to Achieving a True Digital Transformation of the Enterprise?

• David Nelson, Boeing
• Kfir Godrich, BlackRock

Virtualization, Commoditization and the Cloud Are Changing How We Consolidate and Migrate

• Bob Hintze, TIAA-CREF
• Frank D. Muscarello, MarkITx
• John O'Connor, Bloomberg
• And 1 more

Networking Drinks Reception in the Exhibit Hall

St. Patrick’s Day Party