Extreme Networks

Session 1: Big Data U: Big Data Driven Innovation; Steps to Success

Speaker: Brian Freed, CFA, Vice President of Strategy, SGI
While Big Data has become the latest catch phrase in IT, its sudden appearance on the IT scene has yielded frequent instances of reaction driven adoption that fail to deliver compelling ROI. This presentation will address the steps to successful data driven innovation and provide several real world use cases of its transformational impact.

Session #2: Big Data U: Why Infrastructure Matters
Speaker: Brian Freed, CFA, Vice President of Strategy, SGI
Data is arriving in volume, with velocity, and of variety far greater than ever experienced. The gains surrounding Big Data analytics are far reaching, from competitive advantage and growing topline revenue to saving lives and preventing fraud. Yet they also require compute capabilities often outside mainstream data centers. To harness Big Data, enterprises require extreme speed, scale, and efficiency from their IT infrastructure. Key themes will include: how to optimize analytics to achieve business objectives and when and when not – to use Hadoop.

Session #3: Support Hospitals with Intelligent Networks
Speaker: Ali Youssef CPHIMS CWNE Senior Solutions Architect, Henry Ford Health System
The explosive growth of mHealth use cases and wireless medical device adoption in hospitals frequently finds most clinical IT departments and their infrastructure unprepared for the unique challenges in supporting the vast array of mobile medical devices. Learn some of the common challenges facing hospitals today regarding infrastructure design, device support, and FDA compliance and how to best address them.

Session #4: Preparing for 802.11ac
Speaker: Doug McDonald CPHIMS CWDP CWSP, Wireless Network Manager, Henry Ford Health System
802.11ac promises to offer the next wave of Wi-Fi performance but achieving success will take more than plugging in new access points. Learn what to consider when designing for the new architecture, client capabilities, and preparing your support strategy for an 802.11ac WLAN environment.

Session #5: The Pace of Innovation Around Mobile Technology
Speaker: Phil Komarny, CEO, Robots and Pencils
Mobile computing is now the standard for how we access information in our daily lives. We will take a step back in time to understand why change is so hard for humans and how new development platforms are needed to tailor content for consumption natively on these mobile devices. Higher education needs this more than ever. With new LMSs and adaptive learning engines coming online every day, development tools that produce applications that run natively on devices are imperative to produce the experiences that today’s students expect.

Session #6: The New England Patriots and The Experience Economy
Speaker: Mike Leibovitz, Director of Mobility, Extreme Networks

Session #7: What is Lenovo doing in the Enterprise and why is it disruptive to the Ecosystem
Speaker: Josh Robinson, Director, Solutions Engineering, Lenovo
The way Lenovo does business is disrupting the expected norms and that is good for the customer. Learn how and why Lenovo’s design principles in ThinkServer are disruptive to the Ecosystem.

VIP Demo Tours:

While visiting our booth be sure to take part in any of the following product
and solution demonstrations:

* High Performance 802.11ac Wi-Fi
* Intelligent On-boarding and BYOD for Wi-Fi
* Software-Defined Data Center
* High-Performance Data Center with 100Gig Ethernet
* Purview Smart Analytics for Application Insight
* Simplified Management Across Wired and Wireless