4/18/2010
03:30 - 07:30Registration Opens
05:00 - 05:30Vendor Orientation
05:30 - 05:45Welcome to Blade Systems Insight 2010
Bill Sell, Vice President & General Manager - Financial Technology Insight
Jim Hall, President - Blade Systems Alliance
05:45 - 06:30You Survived the Great Recession, Now What? Toward a Sustainable Strategy for Cost-Containment, Compliance, Continuity and Carbon Footprint Reduction
Jon William Toigo, CEO and Managing Principal - Toigo Partners International
06:30 - 07:00Enabling Business Growth through Next Generation IT Infrastructure based on Blade Technology
Chris Lofton, Head of Technology Planning - SITA
07:00 - 07:30Keynote Presentation - Efficiency Across the Traditional Enterprise
Harkereet Singh, Global Head of Energy & Sustainable Technology - Thomson Reuters
07:30 - 09:30One-on-One and Reception
4/19/2010
07:15 - 08:15Continental Breakfast in the Meeting zone
08:15 - 09:00Comparing Blade Systems
James Staten, Principal Analyst - Forrester Research
09:00 - 09:30Solutions Panel Discussion: Virtualized Networks - 2010 and Beyond
Dan Kusnetzky, Vice President of Research Operations - 451 Group
Rob Peglar, Vice President, Technology - Xiotech
Paul Prince, CTO, Enterprise Product Group - Dell Inc.
Botond Kiss, Worldwide Business Line Manager - IBM BladeCenter
Mike Lance, Vice President of Product Marketing - NextIO
09:30 - 09:45Break in the Meeting Zone
09:45 - 11:10Group Learning Sessions & Case Study Presentations
11:15 - 12:00Sailing Through the Maelstrom
Jonathan Eunice, Founder and Principal IT Advisor - Illuminata
12:00 - 12:30ROI of Blade Servers
Tom Pisello, CEO - Alinean
12:30 - 02:30Lunch, Birds of a Feather and One-on-One in the Meeting Zone
02:30 - 03:30Group Learning Sessions & Case Study Presentations
03:30 - 03:45Break in the Meeting Zone
03:45 - 04:25True Facts About Virtualization
Dan Kusnetzky, Vice President of Research Operations - 451 Group
04:30 - 05:00Solutions Panel - Skyrocketing Data Center Energy Use?
Harkereet Singh, Global Head of Energy & Sustainable Technology - Thomson Reuters
Paul Prince, CTO, Enterprise Product Group - Dell Inc.
Chris Loeffler, Program Manager, Distributed Power Solutions - Eaton Corporation
Steven Carlini, Sr. Director, Data Center Global Solutions - APC by Schneider Electric
Jim Hall, President - Blade Systems Alliance
05:05 - 06:00Group Learning Sessions & Case Study Presentations
06:00 - 06:30One-on-One in the Meeting Zone,
06:30 - 06:30Evening On Your Own
4/20/2010
07:45 - 08:30Continental Breakfast in the Meeting Zone
08:30 - 09:00Keynote Presentation: TwinBlade: 94% Power Efficiency & 480 Cores in 7U
Raphael Wong, Director - Supermicro
09:00 - 09:30Solutions Panel Discussion: Resilient, Secure, Dynamic - What's Next?
Kash Shaikh, Senior Manager, Data Center Switching - Cisco
Jim O'Connor, Chief Engineer Advanced Systems RAS & Quality - IBM
Mitchell Kemp, VP Application Modernization and Security - Unisys
Chad Attlesey, Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder - Hardcore Computer
09:30 - 09:45Break in the Meeting Zone
09:45 - 11:10Group Learning Sessions & Case Study Presentations
11:15 - 12:15CIO Round Table Discussion
Jeff Main, Managing Director, Information Technology - Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporation
Jerry Lotto, Director of HPTC - Harvard University
John Parkinson, CTO - TransUnion LLC
Beth Pirrie, Association President - Association of Information Technology Professionals
Deborah Lovell, Founder/CEO - Marketing Resource Group
George Chernenko, Vice President, Data Centers - Nomura Securities International
12:15 - 01:00One-on-One and Lunch in the Meeting Zone
01:00 - 01:15Awards
01:15 - 01:30What we Learned at Blade Systems Insight


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