Agenda

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Main Stage

10:20 | Welcome

Paul Bryce – CCO, Node4

10:30 | High Frequency Change
Tom Cheesewright – The World’s First Applied Futurist

11:00 | BMI’s Digital Transformation Journey – How Node4 helps enable strategic change
Ben Meade – IT Director at BMI Healthcare

12:00 | Changing the world with Data
Matt Watts – Director for Technology and Strategy, NetApp

12:30 | If Cloud is the answer… what is the question?
Greg Nice, Cloud Management Business Manager for NEMEA, VMWare

14:00 | Panel Debate – The Pro’s and Con’s of Public Cloud

  • Host: Georgie Barrat – Technology Presenter & Broadcaster
  • Andrew Gilbert – CEO, Node4
  • Alex Montgomery – Azure Product Marketing Director
  • Simon Hazlitt – Author of Running on Air and Co-Founder of Majedie Asset Management

15:00 | Customer Interview: Pete Morrison, Technology Director, Vitruvian Partners & Tom Needs, COO, Node4

16:00 | Tech Trends Set To Change The World
Georgie Barrat- Leading technology journalist, broadcast and presenter of The Gadget Show

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Lightning Stage

11:00 | Cloud | Leveraging Network Infrastructure as Code
Colin Silcock – Automation and Systems Strategists at Node4

11:15 | Cloud | Open Source on Azure
April Edwards – Technical Solutions Professional, Azure

11:30 | Gateway | SD-WAN vs MPLS – Key Things to Consider for Your Business
Glenn Akester – Node4

11:45 | Cyber | Open Source Reconnaissance
Steve Nice – Chief Technologist, Node4

12:00 | Collaboration & AI | Topic TBC
Richard Buxton – Head of Collaboration, Node4

12:15 | Cloud | Accelerating Application Development with Containers
Roger Nunn – Senior Principle Architect, Red Hat

12:30 | Data Protection | The History of Data Protection
Adrian Lowe – Cloud Solutions Architect, Node4

12:45 | Cyber | Simplified Security Management and improved visibility
Gurmail Singh – Strategic Alliances, Senior Manager, Trend Micro

13:00 | Cloud | The reason 20% of Database Servers are at risk
Julian Boneham – Director, N4Stack

13:15 | Collaboration & AI | The Changing Face of Customer Contact (Part 1)
Dave Smith – Channel Director, Enghouse

13:30 | Gateway | SD-WAN vs MPLS – Key Things to Consider for Your Business
Glenn Akester – Network Architect, Node4

13:45 | Data Protection | Oops! I encrypted it again
Tom Nickle, Cloud and Applications Engineer, Zerto

14:00 | Cyber | Open Source Reconnaissance
Steve Nice – Chief Technologist, Node4

14:15 | Collaboration & AI | The Changing Face of Customer Contact (Part 2)
Dave Smith – Channel Director, Enghouse

14:30 | Data Protection | On Your Board’s Agenda: Compliance risk
Vicky Withey – Compliance Manager, Node4

14:45 | Cyber | What they do in Shadows. A look into hackers and cybercriminals
Adrian Louth, Enhanced Technology, Fortinet

15:00 | Cloud | Azure Scaffold & Best Practices
Andrew Slater – Director, N4Stack

15:15 | Data Protection | NetApp Data Protection
Mike Walters, Technical Solutions Architect, NetApp

15:30 | Collaboration & AI | The Future of Collaboration
Richard Buxton – Head of Collaboration, Node4

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