A two-day leadership & technology conference focusing on forward-thinking and cutting edge IT solutions.

Tyler Beecher is the Chief Executive Officer of Trace3, a pioneer in business transformation solutions based in Irvine, California. In his previous role as Executive Vice President of Sales for Trace3, he developed management training programs to accelerate sales and improve customer service.

Having left the basketball court for the boardroom, Earvin “Magic” Johnson has successfully parlayed his skills & tenacity from the court into the business world as Chairman & CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises (MJE). MJE provides high-quality products & services that focus primarily on ethnically diverse & under-served urban communities.

Jocko Willink is a decorated retired Navy SEAL officer, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, host of the top-rated Jocko Podcast, and co-founder of Echelon Front, where he is a leadership instructor, speaker, and executive coach.

Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing companies for the 21st century. He advises leaders on how to thrive in the current era of disruptive technological change.

The VP of Strategic Business Development for Mayfield Edge. Gamiel is all about having strategic impact. Accelerating impact for the portfolio companies is measured in areas such as early product design input, market adoption, go-to-market, and strategic partnerships and alliances.

Mark is a researcher and industry watcher who leverages his 25 years of real world IT experience to help enterprises adopt emerging technologies to tackle their toughest problems. Mark holds two telecom patents, writes frequent articles for tech publications and works with the world’s largest IT venture capital firms.

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, and brings over 19 years of industry experience leading consulting, engineering and development teams.

As VP of Emerging Architecture for the Trace3 Mountain States, Ryan leads a team of principal level technologists, focused on developing client solutions in emerging technology areas such as cloud, data intelligence, data science, security and the Internet of Things.

As Chief Information Security officer of Mattel, Fares oversees all corporate security & privacy for Mattel’s Global Technology organization (GTO). He serves on a variety of client advisory boards for security companies and products & has extensive experience driving corporate adoption of leading edge cyber security technologies.

Over the last 15 years, Hew has won multiple awards for the data-driven products he has created. These include an app which helps pregnant commuters request a seat on public transport, the world's first Internet of Things banking platform and a beer brewed by artificial intelligence. In 2016, Hew co-founded Intelligent X, the AI beer brand.

Steve joined Portworx from SAP, where he was VP WW Sales, SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services. Prior to being acquired into SAP, Steve was VP WW Sales at Altiscale, the world’s first fully managed Hadoop cloud. Before Altiscale, he was at Packet Design (acquired by Lone Rock Technology Group), where he was EVP, WW Field Ops.

Before founding Balbix, Gaurav was the co-founder and CEO of Bromium and led the company from its inception for more than five years. Earlier in his career, Gaurav served in various executive roles at Phoenix Technologies and Intellisync Corporation. He was also co-founder and CEO of PDAapps.

Mike leads Trace3’s Cloud Solutions Group, which focuses on guiding clients toward optimized public cloud consumption and a culture of DevOps. Join him as he leads you through transforming your IT organization into a multi-cloud service provider without slowing down your developers or compromising control.

In a world of change and innovation, flexing with your organization as you go through major business transformations is simplified through sound foundational governance practices. A global information governance practice brings together data quality, data stewardship, and metadata management to support key strategic programs.

With the rise of Internet of Things and requirements to segment traffic at the campus, intelligence within the network has become more critical than ever. During this talk we will explore what is Intent Based Networking (IBN) is and some of the pitfalls experienced during implementing these solutions.

IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) is a transformative journey that can be overwhelming for many organizations.With so many technologies across an endless range of possibilities, mapping out your destination with a strategic approach can mean the difference between success and failure.

IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) is a transformative journey that can be overwhelming for many organizations.With so many technologies across an endless range of possibilities, mapping out your destination with a strategic approach can mean the difference between success and failure.

Components of a Software Defined Data Center

Security solutions have been designed to provide “defense in depth” for organizations and their complex technology environments. Despite the proliferation of these tools, safeguarding the endpoint remains the best place to prevent, detect, and respond to malicious software.

As data continues to grow exponentially, rule-based decision making is quickly being replaced by data-driven methods used by machine learning algorithms. With this explosion of data, comes all the untapped potential in forms of underlying patterns in complex data sets.

Want to get the most value from your investment in data? A thoughtful, pragmatic approach to governance drives value for analytics teams, business users, and executives alike. Not simply a technical talk, David will share a sustainable approach to governance that resonates across all levels of complex organizations.