Trace3 Evolve Agenda

Wednesday, Oct 5, 2022 | Leadership

Registration

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Belmont Registration Desk - Level 4

Lunch

11:00AM - 12:15PM

Mont-Royal - Level 4

A Vision for the Future - A New Frontier

12:30PM - 1:00PM

Rich Fennessy, CEO - Trace3

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Rich is a Fortune 500 CEO with 32 years international management experience and widely recognized for outperforming expectations, and for achievements in business and technology. Throughout his career Rich has acquired, sold and managed 20 companies worldwide.

Derek Jeter, World Series Champion & MLB Hall of Famer & Tyler Beecher, Executive Chairman-Trace3

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Derek Jeter - Five-Time World Series Champion and Hall of Famer

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

By the time he stepped away from baseball in 2014 after a historic 20-year career, Derek Jeter had established himself as one of the most respected men to ever have played the game. In recognition of his on-field accomplishments and impact on the game, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in the Class of 2020.

Tyler Beecher, Executive Chairman - Trace3

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Tyler is the Executive Chairman of Trace3. Most recently, he served as the CEO for 5 years prior. Under his leadership Trace3 experienced unprecedented growth and is currently 1B+ in revenue. In addition to enabling great growth through business strategy, he has infused the organization with cultural strength and energy.

Networking Break

2:00PM - 2:25PM

Edge of Tomorrow

2:30PM - 3:00PM

Chris Nicholas, VP Cloud Solutions Group - Trace3

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Chris Nicholas brings a breadth of knowledge around the Azure Cloud Platform along with over 16 years of experience in technology. Chris is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, community contributor and a member of the Microsoft Cloud Architecture Group within the Datacenter Optimization Team.

Katherine Walther, VP of Innovation - Trace3

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Katherine is dedicated to disseminating information about the future of technology to IT leaders across a wide variety of domains. Pairing a unique combination of real-world technology experience with insight from the world’s largest venture capital firms, her focus is to deliver market trends in the key areas impacting industry leading organizations.

Defining The Future Now, Through Innovation

3:00PM - 3:30PM

Eric Knipp, Vice President - Americas Systems Engineering

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Eric Knipp is the Vice President of Systems Engineering for the Americas Theatre. In this role, he leads the largest systems engineering team within Cisco and works closely with Sales leadership to develop Cisco’s technology go-to-market and ensure customer satisfaction. In addition, he is responsible for leading Cisco’s Architectural Specialist and Innovation Engineering teams in the Americas.

Never Split the Difference

3:30PM - 4:30PM

Chris Voss, CEO - The Black Swan Group & Former Lead FBI Negotiator

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Christopher "Chris" Voss is an American businessman, author, and academic. Voss is a former FBI hostage negotiator, the CEO of The Black Swan Group Ltd, a company registered in East Grinstead, England, and co-author of the book Never Split the Difference.

VIP Lounge - Cocktails, Appetizers, Giveaways & Grand Prizes

4:30PM - 6:30PM

VIP Lounge - Cocktails, Appetizers, Giveaways & Grand Prizes

Belmont 1 & 5

Regional Dinners

7:00PM - 10:00PM

THURSDAY, Oct 6, 2022 | TECHNOLOGY

Breakfast

7:30AM - 8:45AM

Mont-Royal - Level 4

Women in Technology Breakfast

7:30AM - 8:45AM

Castellana 1- Level 3

Hosted by: Stephanie Benoit-Kurtz

Sponsored by: Rubrik, Vertica, and Nvidia

Real Cyber Talk: Mapping What Is, Envisioning What's Next

9:00AM - 9:30AM

Tony Olzak, CTO - Trace3

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Tony Olzak is a leading visionary in applying technology to business problems and initiatives. He is a sought after speaker, co-author of multiple industry certification books, Co-host of a podcast dedicated to technology founders. He brings over 19 years of industry experience leading consulting, engineering and development teams.

Bryan Kissinger, VP CISO - Trace3

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Bryan is an IT and security professional with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing practical IT risk and information security solutions that drive business value. Bryan is well-known for his ability to rapidly mature IT risk and information security programs and quickly deliver on the implementation of emerging technologies to solve complex business issues.

The Phoenix and the Unicorn- The Why and How of Corporate Innovation

9:30AM - 10:30AM

Peter Hinssen, Technology Entrepreneur - Nexxworks

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Peter Hinssen is a serial entrepreneur, adviser and keynote speaker on the topics of radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business. Peter has also written three acclaimed business books: The Network Always Wins, The New Normal, and Business/IT Fusion.

Networking Break

10:30AM - 10:45AM

Revolutionizing The NFL Fan Experience Through Analytics

10:50AM - 11:20AM

Ashton Mullinix, SVP of Strategy and Analytics - Detroit Lions

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Ashton Mullinix is the Senior Vice President of Strategy & Analytics for the Detroit Lions. For the past nine years, he has served in several different capacities within the NFL at the league and team level. In his role, he is involved in many high-profile projects that are focused on maximizing revenue and personalizing the fan experience.

The Founder Formula - Lacework, & Symmetry

11:20AM - 11:50AM

Tony Olzak, CTO - Trace3

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Vikram (VK) Kapoor , Co-founder & CTO - Lacework

Vikram Kapoor is co-founder and CTO of Lacework. Prior to founding Lacework, he was Senior Director of Engineering at Bromium. At Bromium, he was responsible for managing the engineering team as well as creating and driving strategies in alignment with Bromium’s vision and business goals. Vikram has also held senior engineering roles at Pillar Data Systems and Valicert, and he holds several patents.

Mohit Tiwari, CEO - Symmetry Systems

Mohit Tiwari is the CEO and co-founder of Symmetry Systems. His work on high-assurance systems has received multiple industry and research awards for applied cybersecurity research, transitioned into production by a startup (TortugaLogic) and large companies, and led to Symmetry via pilots with cloud-providers and hospitals.

Lunch

12:00PM - 12:45PM

IT'S WINE O'CLOCK

Enterprise Networks and Automation Made Simple with Trace3 and Cisco

1:00PM - 1:30PM

Nolita 1

Increasing costs, complexity, multiple network devices under management? Learn how Trace3’s Network Solutions team has developed, and is working with our strategic partner, Cisco, to build best-in-class enterprise networks, and see how these streamlined solutions for automating tasks are configured and managed simply through automation.

The Modern Data Stack with Dell

1:00PM - 1:30PM

Nolita 2

A lively panelist discussion around the current state of modern data architectures, data fabrics and AI. Attendees will learn about top trends, technologies, and key business outcomes to further unlock the power of data within the enterprise.

Cloud Managed NPM Solution with a "Click of a Button!" with Riverbed

1:00PM - 1:30PM

Nolita 3

Grappling with performance, visibility, and costs associated with your hybrid cloud network? Gain insights that enable you to increase and optimize network performance and reduce operational costs via Trace3’s automated, seamless deployment and OpEx cost structure.

ANATOMY OF CHEESE AND WINE

Modern Infrastructure in a Hybrid World with Nutanix

1:35PM - 2:05PM

Nolita 1

Learn how Hybrid Cloud concepts are helping organizations modernize their IT. Explore innovations that remove dependencies on legacy hardware and hypervisor solutions, allowing organizations more capital and operational time to apply towards aligning technology initiatives with business objectives.

Cloud IT Happens with Fortinet

1:35PM - 2:05PM

Nolita 2

Join Fortinet and Trace3 to explore how TAs organizations digitally transform, via public cloud adoption. Find out what role security plays in this transformation, what the important phases are and what the effect is on the IT organization.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Hybrid Cloud with HPE and Trace3

1:35PM - 2:05PM

Nolita 3

Join HPE and Trace3 for a discussion on bringing the cloud operating model for all workloads, wherever they reside.

WINE, CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE PLEASE

The Good Guys Behind The Bad Guys: The DreamWorks-NetApp Partnership

2:10PM - 2:40PM

Nolita 1

Skottie Miller, Technology Fellow for Systems Architecture at DreamWorks Animation, will share a behind-the-scenes overview of the studio’s technologically-advanced production process on how they leverage NetApp solutions to build their hybrid cloud environment, as exemplified by their most recent animated film, The Bad Guys.

Achieving FinOps Success with Trace3 and Harness

2:10PM - 2:40PM

Nolita 2

FinOps is no longer just a buzzword– it is a crucial approach to business success in the cloud. FinOps has become a growing need across scaling organizations and the teams within them. Join Trace3 and Harness for a discussion to learn about the evolution of FinOps, client success stories and how Harness can help you succeed in your FinOps journey.

Microsoft Azure Security – a Healthcare Success Story

2:10PM - 2:40PM

Nolita 3

Learn how to build a secure, compliant, and scalable Microsoft Azure foundation for mission critical workloads. This session will outline the initial business goals, and resulting project outcomes, while highlighting important aspects of Microsoft’s Enterprise Scale Landing Zone (ESLZ) delivered by Trace3 professional services.

BEER ME

Delivering a Cloud-Like Operating Model, Where It’s Needed with Pure Storage

2:45PM - 3:15PM

Nolita 1

Discover how Pure’s Evergreen//One solution delivers a cloud-like operating model, in a storage-as-a-service (STaaS) solution, that can be consumed in client private data centers, at co-location facilities or in the public cloud. Wherever you run your business critical workloads today, cloud can be a journey, and that journey doesn’t have to take you far from home.

Intricacies of Identity in the Public Cloud

2:45PM - 3:15PM

Nolita 2

In the modern IT environment, the classic perimeter no longer exists. Instead, the fundamental unit of access is identity. Lacework will cover how to secure your environment by using Privileged Identity Management, Conditional Access, Multi-Factor Authentication, Principle of Least Privilege with RBAC, OAuth, and User & Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA).

Creating a Successful Data Strategy with Vast/Intel

2:45PM - 3:15PM

Nolita 3

Vast/Intel will share the major reasons to update your data strategy in an uncertain economic environment. This session will provide lessons learned by other leading organizations, share how to engage technology partners in developing their data strategy, and offer important tips to consider in building stakeholder engagement for future success.

IT'S FIVE O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE - MARTINI TIME

Practical DevSecOps Implementation – 5 Key Steps to a Successful Transformation

3:20PM - 3:50PM

Nolita 1

A successful DevSecOps program is more than just shifting and automating legacy security practices and tooling to the left. Trace3’s DevSecOps team has established a proven methodology and framework that has helped our clients with their DevSecOps journey. In this session, we will showcase a success story and discuss how our methodology was applied to help Guild Education achieve a world-class engineering-led DevSecOps program in 7 months.

Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric

3:20PM - 3:50PM

Nolita 2

Data Mesh and Data Fabric can be confusing buzzwords. Unlike a centralized and monolithic architecture, based on a data warehouse or data lake, a data mesh or data fabric leverages a highly decentralized data architecture, or suite of tools, to drive better insights and allow for deeper analytics. Learn how this modern approach is changing the way enterprises are viewing their modern data platforms, and how organizations can take these concepts to drive an architectural revolution around the value of data.

Trace3's Portfolio Expansion: Lifecycle Managment, Collaboration and Contact Center

3:20PM - 3:50PM

Nolita 3

Join us to hear about Trace3's latest portfolio additions:1) Lifecycle Management offers clients single-source solutions for the entire IT lifecycle. 2) Using the latest and greatest technology and concepts to create a highly connected and collaborative workplace, a more efficient operation, and ultimately delivering a better experience for both the client and agent.

Innovation Cocktail Hour

Breaking Down the Silos- Innovation Cocktail Hour Hosted by Katherine Walther, VP Innovation-Trace3

3:50PM - 5:30PM

Nolita Ballroom- Level 4

Talon Cyber Security- Richard Benigno, VP Sales

Talon Cyber Security is modernizing security programs and improving user experiences for hybrid work by delivering the first secure enterprise browser. Built on Chromium, the Talon Work browser provides customers with the consistent user experiences, deep security visibility, and control over SaaS and web applications needed to simplify security for the future of work.

Seemplicity- John Zilinskas, VP Sales

With the first productivity workflow platform created for modern security teams, Seemplicity transforms the remediation process into a streamlined and collaborative effort that can easily be utilized by developers, DevOps, and IT across the organization. Achieve complete operational resilience and establishing a truly scalable security program, and revolutionizing the way security teams drive and scale risk reduction efforts across organizations by orchestrating, automating, and consolidating all remediation activities into one workspace.

Prosimo- Ramesh Prabagaran- Co-Founder & CEO

Prosimo delivers simplified multi-cloud infrastructure for distributed enterprise cloud journeys. Companies innovate faster and remain in control with the Prosimo integrated stack. This stack combines cloud networking, performance, security, observability, and cost management—all powered by data insights and machine learning models with autonomous cloud networking to reduce complexity and risk.

SpectroCloud - Jeremy Oakey, VP Field Engineering & Dave Cope, CMO

Whether in data centers or clouds, SpectroCloud provides a complete and integrated platform that enables organizations to easily manage the full lifecycle of any combination of Kubernetes environments. With granular governance and enterprise-grade security, and a unique approach to managing multiple clusters, SpectroCloud gives IT teams complete control, visibility and production-scale efficiencies to provide developers highly-curated Kubernetes stacks and tools, based on their specific needs.

Shoreline-Ashley Stirrup, Chief Operating Officer

By providing real-time automation and control for cloud operations, Shoreline makes it easy for SREs to diagnose and repair incidents and quickly create automated remediations to fix them forever.

Outlier Award

Outlier Reception

7:00PM - 7:30PM

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Outlier Dinner

7:30PM - 8:30PM

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Outlier Awards Ceremony

8:30PM - 9:30PM

Belmont Ballroom - Level 4

Outlier Celebration

9:30PM - 12:00AM

Marquee Club - The Cosmopolitan

9:00aM - 5:00pm

Registration

11:00am - 12:15pm

Lunch

12:30pm - 1:00pm

Rich Fennesey, CEO Trace3 - Kick-Off

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Derek Jeter, Five-Time World Series Champion & Hall of Famer & Tyler Beecher, Executive Chairman - Trace3

2:00pm - 2:30pm

Networking Break

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Chris Nicholas, VP of Cloud & Katherine Walther, VP of Innovation - The Edge of Tomorrow

3:00pm - 3:45pm

TBD

3:45pm - 4:45pm

Chris Voss, Former FBI Negotiator

5:00Pm - 7:00pm

VIP Lounge - Cocktails and Appetizers

8:00am- 9:15am

Breakfast

9:30am

CTO Trace3 and Bryan Kissinger, CISO, VP Security

10:00am

The Phoenix and the Unicorn - The Why and How of Corporate Innovation

11:00am- 11:15am

Break

11:20am- 11:45am

Ashton Mullinix - VP of Strategy and Analytics, The Detroit Lions

11:45am- 12:15pm

Founders Formula with host Katherine Walther, VP of Innovation - Lacework, Harness & Symmetry

12:15pm- 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm- 5:30pm

Taste of Tech. Breakouts Gourmet Food and Beverages with featured topics: Security, Modern Infrastructure, Data, Cloud

7:00pm

The Annual Trace3 Outlier CIO Awards Gala

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SAVE THE DATE FOR 2023: SEPTEMBER 27-29, 2023

9:00aM - 5:00pm

Registration

11:00am - 12:15pm

Lunch

12:30pm - 1:00pm

Rich Fennesey, CEO Trace3 - Kick-Off

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Derek Jeter, Five-Time World Series Champion & Hall of Famer & Tyler Beecher, Executive Chairman - Trace3

2:00pm - 2:30pm

Networking Break

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Chris Nicholas, VP of Cloud & Katherine Walther, VP of Innovation - The Edge of Tomorrow

3:00pm - 3:45pm

TBD

3:45pm - 4:45pm

Chris Voss, Former FBI Negotiator

5:00Pm - 7:00pm

VIP Lounge - Cocktails and Appetizers

8:00am- 9:15am

Breakfast

9:30am

CTO Trace3 and Bryan Kissinger, CISO, VP Security

10:00am

The Phoenix and the Unicorn - The Why and How of Corporate Innovation

11:00am- 11:15am

Break

11:20am- 11:45am

Ashton Mullinix - VP of Strategy and Analytics, The Detroit Lions

11:45am- 12:15pm

Founders Formula with host Katherine Walther, VP of Innovation - Lacework, Harness & Symmetry

12:15pm- 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm- 5:30pm

Taste of Tech. Breakouts Gourmet Food and Beverages with featured topics: Security, Modern Infrastructure, Data, Cloud

7:00pm

The Annual Trace3 Outlier CIO Awards Gala

Conference Passes on Sale - Coming Soon‍SAVE THE DATE FOR 2023: SEPTEMBER 27-29, 2023

Conference Passes on Sale - Coming Soon
‍
SAVE THE DATE FOR 2023: SEPTEMBER 27-29, 2023