Workshops
Monday and Tuesday, October 1st and 2nd
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Attend full and half-day Workshops to dive deep into key IT topics—including virtualization, IT management, networking, cloud computing, security and much more—in the days preceding the Interop Conference and Expo. BEST VALUE—Register for a Flex Pass to attend the Conference plus your choice of Workshops.
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9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: TBA Creating a risk conscious and security aware culture within an organization can provide more protection to an organization’s information infrastructure and associated data assets than any techno…More ▶ Instructor - John Pironti, President, IP Architects, LLC  John P. Pironti is the President of IP Architects, LLC. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security and risk management strategy and programs, enterprise resiliency capabilities, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, government, hospitality, aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, media and entertainment, and information technology on a global scale. Mr. Pironti has a number of industry certifications including Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk and Information System Control (CRISC), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). Mr. Pironti frequently provides briefings and acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders of numerous organizations on information security and risk management and compliance topics and is also a member of a number of technical advisory boards for technology and services firms. He is also a published author and writer, highly quoted and often interviewed by global media, and an award winning frequent speaker on electronic business and information security and risk management topics at domestic and international industry conferences.
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9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: TBA With mobility now at the very core of enterprise IT strategies, it’s vital to understand all of the technology elements that go into successful enterprise mobility implementations. This workshop…More ▶ Instructor - Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group  Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. Founded in 1991, the company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a wide variety of topics. He is a well-known and often-quoted industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and events, as well as Webcasts, Webinars, and podcasts. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the INTEROP conferences (Las Vegas and New York) and is the Chair of the Wireless and Mobility track. He serves as a monthly columnist for InformationWeek.com and the Enterprise Mobility Foundation (theemf.org), and ardent blogger (“Nearpoints”) for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. | |
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA Cloud computing isn't about managing racks more efficiently; it's about making the organization more cost effective and agile. Early cloud adoption has focused on replacing infrastructure, bu…More ▶ Instructor - David Linthicum, CTO and Founder, Blue Mountain Labs  As CTO of BML, David Linthicum focuses on emerging technology spaces and the industry's move toward cloud computing. Linthicum is a widely recognized technology thought leader who has appeared in InfoWorld, Intelligent Enterprise, and eBizq.net, covering SOA and enterprise computing topics. He is a regular columnist in Government Computer News, Cloud Computing Journal, SOA Journal and Align Journal, and is the editor of Virtualization Journal. In addition to daily communications, Linthicum is the author of 13 books on computing. | |
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA IT management is undergoing a revolutionary change. The role of the CIO and other IT leaders is evolving due to critical business line pressures to adopt new technologies at a faster rate, globalize c…More ▶ Instructor - Ari Lightman, Director, CIO Institute Carnegie Mellon University  Ari is the Director of the CIO Institute (CIOI) at Carnegie Mellon University. CIOI is an executive education center focused on providing needed skills for the next generation of IT manager. The center provides closed an open enrollment executive education to organizations including: DHS, Pentagon, NIH, Accenture, Oracle, and Cisco. Ari is responsible for strategic execution, operation and growth of the center. Ari is also a Distinguished Service Professor, Digital Media and Marketing at the Heinz College at CMU. Ari teaches classes focused on assessing and measuring the impact of emerging technologies including a class on measuring the social space. This class is designed as an experiential learning, project-based environment where students from across CMU work closely with company sponsors to develop analytic strategies. Companies who have taken part in the class include eBay, Adidas, Comcast, Warner Bros., Thomson Reuters, Verizon Wireless, Microsoft, Zynga, Starwood, and HP. Instructor - Lou Musante, Founder and Managing Partner, Echo Strategies 
Lou Musante has over 25 years’ experience in organizational and leadership development, marketing and business intelligence. Echo Strategies is an experienced business consultancy with an innovative edge. The firm links research, technology and coaching to deliver mission-specific strategies and software solutions that position its clients for accelerated success. The firm has a national client base including companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Heinz Consumer R&D, Philips Home Health Care, Medrad, Culture Montreal, Bayer, First National Bank, PPG, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, University of Toronto and Carnegie Mellon University. Instructor - Chris Labash, Director, cLab Virtual Communications Lab; Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College  Chris Labash teaches communications and innovation in the Masters in Information Systems Management Program in Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. He also teaches courses in strategy and in entrepreneurship, and regularly serves as faculty advisor for student capstone projects in the MISM program. | |
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA This two day tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve the effectiveness of your IT organization and ensure alignment with the business you support. We will focus on critical policy a…More ▶ Instructor - Thomas Randall, Operations Vice President, BT Americas Tom Randall is a Vice President with BT Americas. Having been both a CIO as well as running a data center on Wall Street, he understands what it takes to make IT successful in supporting enterprise business objectives. | |
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA The definition of a “desktop” has changed and today the term “desktop” has become a metaphor for all the devices, applications, services, and content to which users subscribe, …More ▶ Instructor - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS  Barb Goldworm is founder, president, and chief analyst of FOCUS, a research, analyst, and consulting firm focused on transformational technologies in virtualization, cloud computing, systems and storage. In addition to serving as Virtualization Track Chair for Interop, she also leads the Enterprise Cloud Summit Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation Workshops, as well as the Private Cloud Track and Workshop for CloudConnect. Barb has spent 30 years in various senior management, engineering, marketing, sales, and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and multiple successful startups.
A keynote speaker at hundreds of virtualization, cloud, datacenter and storage events, she has also been one of the top three rated speakers at Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. She also chaired the original Interop Storage Networking Track, and the Blade Systems Insight and Server Blade Summit events.
Barb started with virtualization on mainframes in the 1970s, delivered the industry’s first PC Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) Solution in the late 1980s, was a SAN thought leader in the 1990s, a blades and virtualization thought leader and book author in the 2000s, and now focuses on cloud, datacenter and desktop transformation. | |
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA Moving beyond the basic packet capture and filtering operation of the Wireshark protocol analyzer, this class will focus on in-depth protocol analysis. The use of advanced filtering techniques, IO Gra…More ▶ Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA It’s no surprise that the technology landscape is changing again. Emerging technologies like social media, cloud computing and Voice over IP (VoIP) change the way we do business and interact wit…More ▶ Instructor - Ric Messier, President, WasHere Consulting, Inc.  Ric Messier is the President of WasHere Consulting, Inc. Ric has been the security lead for managed services at a Tier 1 Internet Service Provider, assisting in the development of security requirements for a next generation hosting data center. Ric led a team of engineers responsible for developing managed security solutions. He has spent several years providing security leadership in the Voice over IP (VoIP) space, both at a leading VoIP provider and a VoIP equipment vendor. He has spent several years working directly with clients to help secure their infrastructure using a rational best-practice approach, relying on assessment of underlying problem and risk in order to determine the solution. He teaches part-time at Brandeis University in their Graduate and Professional Studies division. | |
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA Successful mobility strategies are as much about building a culture of mobility into enterprises (and enterprise IT) as they are about tools, techniques, and technologies. This workshop will focus on …More ▶ | |
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9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: TBA Telework, globalization, and mobility are changing how we define "work" and are tearing down barriers between individuals and companies. Products and services are rapidly entering the workpl…More ▶ Instructor - Robin Gareiss, Executive Vice President, Nemertes Research  Robin Gareiss is Executive Vice President and Senior Founding Partner for Nemertes Research, where she oversees research product development, conducts primary research, and advises leading enterprises, vendors, and carriers. She serves as chief financial officer, as well. | |
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: TBA At some point, every voice, video, and data packet that is being transferred across the network is passing over Ethernet links and through Ethernet Switches. If these technologies are not working prop…More ▶ Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA With the explosion of mobile devices and applications in the enterprise and the challenges brought on by bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives, mobility is becoming a key responsibility within IT. …More ▶ Instructor - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates Inc  Michael Finneran is principal at dBrn Associates, a full service advisory firm specializing in wireless and mobility; services include research, policy development, purchase analysis, and security/technology assessment. Mr. Finneran has worked in the networking field for over 30-years and has operated the practice since 1982. He has published numerous research reports, white papers, and has provided technical and market analysis on the full range of wireless technologies including Wi-Fi, cellular, WiMAX, fixed-mobile convergence, and mobile unified communications (mUC).
A lively and informative speaker, Michael has made frequent appearances at trade shows and conferences including Enterprise Connect (formerly VoiceCon), InterOp, BlackBerry World, and Mobile Explosion; he now serves as the program chairman for wireless and mobility at Enterprise Connect. In the consulting area, he has provided assistance regarding network design, market assessment, and strategic planning to wireline and wireless carriers, equipment vendors, end users, investment firms, and a number of government agencies.
For twenty-three years Michael wrote the Networking Intelligence column for “Business Communications Review”, and he now contributes on wireless and mobility to NoJitter, UC Strategies.com, Information Week, and The Voice Report. A number of his white papers are available on Webtorials.com, and he has contributed to Computerworld, SearchMobile.com, and The ACUTA Journal. In 2008 he published his first book Voice Over Wireless LANs- The Complete Guide. Michael has taught in the Graduate Telecommunications program at Pace University, and conducted programs at the Center for the Study of Data Processing at Washington University in St. Louis. A member of the Society of Telecommunications Consultants, Mr. Finneran holds a Masters Degree from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. | |
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA Every year, humanity generates more information than before. We're only now learning how to harness it, putting powerful new processing architectures to work to glean insights from the petabytes o…More ▶ Instructor - Jeremy Edberg, Reliability Architect, Netflix  Jeremy is currently the Reliability Architect for Netflix, the largest subscription video streaming site in the world. Previously he was the Information Cowboy (aka. Head of Technology) for reddit.com, an online community for sharing and discussing interesting things on the internet that did more than a billion pageviews a month. reddit was an Alexa Top 100 website whose entire operations are run on Amazon’s EC2. Jeremy has spent 15 years in technology: 4 in operations, 3 in security, 4 in consulting, and 4 in academic computing. When working for Sendmail, he helped administer the most bleeding edge Sendmail server on the internet; at eBay he helped protect people from phishing and scams, created patent-pending fraud detection software, and evaluated hardware for the eBay platform; and at UC Berkeley, he wired up large portions of the dorms for internet, back before every college student in America had a net drop in their room. Jeremy has keynoted at conferences such as PyCon and Cloud Connect. He holds a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley. | |
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA Building Private Clouds: From “If” to “How”
Private clouds have come a long way from their humble beginnings in virtualization. Today's enterprise IT professionals can c…More ▶ Instructor - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS Barb Goldworm is founder, president, and chief analyst of FOCUS, a research, analyst, and consulting firm focused on transformational technologies in virtualization, cloud computing, systems and storage. In addition to serving as Virtualization Track Chair for Interop, she also leads the Enterprise Cloud Summit Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation Workshops, as well as the Private Cloud Track and Workshop for CloudConnect. Barb has spent 30 years in various senior management, engineering, marketing, sales, and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and multiple successful startups.
A keynote speaker at hundreds of virtualization, cloud, datacenter and storage events, she has also been one of the top three rated speakers at Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. She also chaired the original Interop Storage Networking Track, and the Blade Systems Insight and Server Blade Summit events.
Barb started with virtualization on mainframes in the 1970s, delivered the industry’s first PC Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) Solution in the late 1980s, was a SAN thought leader in the 1990s, a blades and virtualization thought leader and book author in the 2000s, and now focuses on cloud, datacenter and desktop transformation. | |
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA IT management is undergoing a revolutionary change. The role of the CIO and other IT leaders is evolving due to critical business line pressures to adopt new technologies at a faster rate, globalize c…More ▶ Instructor - Ari Lightman, Director, CIO Institute Carnegie Mellon University Ari is the Director of the CIO Institute (CIOI) at Carnegie Mellon University. CIOI is an executive education center focused on providing needed skills for the next generation of IT manager. The center provides closed an open enrollment executive education to organizations including: DHS, Pentagon, NIH, Accenture, Oracle, and Cisco. Ari is responsible for strategic execution, operation and growth of the center. Ari is also a Distinguished Service Professor, Digital Media and Marketing at the Heinz College at CMU. Ari teaches classes focused on assessing and measuring the impact of emerging technologies including a class on measuring the social space. This class is designed as an experiential learning, project-based environment where students from across CMU work closely with company sponsors to develop analytic strategies. Companies who have taken part in the class include eBay, Adidas, Comcast, Warner Bros., Thomson Reuters, Verizon Wireless, Microsoft, Zynga, Starwood, and HP. Instructor - Lou Musante, Founder and Managing Partner, Echo Strategies
Lou Musante has over 25 years’ experience in organizational and leadership development, marketing and business intelligence. Echo Strategies is an experienced business consultancy with an innovative edge. The firm links research, technology and coaching to deliver mission-specific strategies and software solutions that position its clients for accelerated success. The firm has a national client base including companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Heinz Consumer R&D, Philips Home Health Care, Medrad, Culture Montreal, Bayer, First National Bank, PPG, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, University of Toronto and Carnegie Mellon University. Instructor - Chris Labash, Director, cLab Virtual Communications Lab; Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College Chris Labash teaches communications and innovation in the Masters in Information Systems Management Program in Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. He also teaches courses in strategy and in entrepreneurship, and regularly serves as faculty advisor for student capstone projects in the MISM program. | |
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA This two day tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve the effectiveness of your IT organization and ensure alignment with the business you support. We will focus on critical policy a…More ▶ Instructor - Thomas Randall, Operations Vice President, BT Americas Tom Randall is a Vice President with BT Americas. Having been both a CIO as well as running a data center on Wall Street, he understands what it takes to make IT successful in supporting enterprise business objectives. | |
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA Once the lower layers are operating properly, it is time to focus our attention on the Network and Transport layers. As with the lower layers, if these layers of the OSI model are not operating proper…More ▶ Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA Intensifying market pressures and growing frustration with legacy systems are driving business end-user and corporate executives to adopt a widening array of Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) …More ▶ Instructor - Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKstrategies  Jeff Kaplan is the Managing Director of THINKstrategies, the only strategic consulting firm focused entirely on the business implications of the transition of the technology industry from a product-centric to services-driven solution model, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing and Managed Services. THINKstrategies helps IT/business decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies. Kaplan is also the Founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace (www.cloudshowplace.com), the largest, vendor-independent, online directory and best practice resource center regarding SaaS, Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), including Managed Services. Jeff can be reached at jkaplan@thinkstrategies.com or 781-431-2690. | |
