ElevateIT: TOLA Technology Summit 2020

July 10, 2020

Online, Virtual Convention

Disruptive Innovation in Technology

The Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas (TOLA) region is a hot bed of Disruptive Innovation within startups and established firms alike. From Finance to Health Care, Oil & Gas to Manufacturing, the TOLA area is where business gets done! We know that with ever changing markets and technologies, it is imperative that organizations can adapt with speed and skill. There must be a shift in IT strategies to ensure that the right steps are taken to power the global digital transformation. The 2nd Annual ElevateIT: DFW Technology Summit is now the ElevateIT: TOLA Technology Summit and will be hosted virtually on July 10th, 2020. The ElevateIT: TOLA Technology Summit is designed with your goals in mind, and we are excited to connect you with local experts and resources to assist with your IT & Security needs. We hope you will join us for a full day of Peer-to-Peer Networking, Educational Presentations by Industry Leaders, and 50+ vendors to evaluate. Be sure to attend and get entered to win one of our Three Grand Prize Visa Gift Cards totaling $5000!

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Keynote Speaker Jody Davids
Retired SVP and Global CIO of PepsiCo

Jody Davids

Retired

SVP & Global CIO

PepsiCo

Jody Davids has recently retired from her role as Senior Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer of PepsiCo. In its global portfolio of food and beverage brands, PepsiCo has 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales.

With net revenues of over $63 billion, PepsiCo’s main businesses also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. As the leader of the IT function at PepsiCo, Jody was responsible for delivering all information technology and digital services to PepsiCo through a large network of IT associates and partners worldwide.

Jody has nearly 40 years of experience leading and developing technology for large organizations. Prior to joining PepsiCo in 2016, Jody was CIO for Agrium Inc. and over the course of her career, she has led at Best Buy, Cardinal Health, Nike, and Apple.

Jody’s professional associations include serving on the board of Premier Inc., which provides performance improvement services to hospitals and other healthcare organizations. She also serves on the board for The Eyes of Freedom. Jody earned a bachelor’s degree and MBA from San Jose State University. She currently resides in both Plano, Texas, and New Albany, OH.

Title: Perspectives on Life and Leadership

Tech Theater I | 8am - 9am

"You can't always choose what happens to you in life. You can ALWAYS choose how you respond.” As a lifetime IT professional, Jody Davids’ outlook on leadership is deeply impactful and inspiring. Jody will share key lessons she learned as she moved through her career at iconic global brands while going through the ups and downs of raising her own family."

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THE ElevateIT
ADVANTAGE

ElevateIT inspires and empowers idea creation through a disruptive transformational culture by attracting the finest speakers and vendors imparting solid strategies able to quickly be implemented within Enterprises and Start-Ups alike.

We strive to bring together the ever-changing multi-facets of the Technology Industry in a fun, safe and informative atmosphere and feel fortunate to have good friends, good partners and a priceless reputation with our industry community. See what we mean for yourself by watching our summit videos.

Gold Sponsors

www.armor.com

Armor is a cloud security company that takes the complexity out of protecting your data, whether it resides in a private, public, or hybrid cloud—or in an on-premise IT environment. We provide managed security solutions that give you a clear picture of threats facing your organization and are designed with PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance in mind.

Lunch & Learn Sponsors

www.lastline.com

Lastline’s Network Detection and Response platform detects and contains sophisticated threats before they disrupt your business, on premises and in the cloud. We offer the industry’s most accurate detection of threats entering and operating within your network, unmatched visibility across the complete attack chain and automated remediation.

Breakout Presentation Sponsors

www.apcon.com

For more than 25 years, APCON has consistently delivered smart, stable and scalable technology solutions that provide an unparalleled level of confidence to organizations seeking total visibility and security of physical, private and public cloud networks. With customers around the world, APCON provides adaptable and flexible solutions to organizations ranging from midsize companies to Fortune 100 .... enterprises. APCON assures superior network monitoring while supporting traffic analysis and streamlined network management and security.

www.arcserve.com

As the world’s most experienced provider of backup and disaster recovery solutions, for 35 years we’ve been solving the challenges of IT teams by bringing innovation, ambition, and countless hours of iteration to the solutions they rely on to keep businesses running smoothly. In the process, we’ve redefined the way companies protect their data – the very foundation of modern business in an .... era where immediate access to critical systems and applications is key to business continuity and essential to continuing growth and success.

www.arcticwolf.com

Through the industry-leading Concierge Security™ Team, Arctic Wolf provides the 24x7 managed cybersecurity protection IT-constrained companies need to keep their valuable business data safe. Personal, predictable protection – it’s the Arctic Wolf difference.

www.criticalstart.com

CRITICALSTART is leading the way in Managed Detection and Response. Our mission is simple: protect our customers’ brand while reducing their risk. We do this for organizations of all sizes through our award-winning portfolio, from the delivery of managed security services to security-readiness assessments using our proven framework, the Defendable Network, professional services, and product fulf .... illment.

www.blackberry.com

Security. Trust. Innovation. The Internet of Things represents the next great wave in business transformation. Today, BlackBerry already secures more than 500M endpoints including 175M cars on the road. Through independent research, Frost & Sullivan determined that BlackBerry is well-positioned to secure all IoT endpoints, and upwards of 96% of all cyberthreats in the current landscape (read .... the Frost & Sullivan Assessment). BlackBerry is leading the way with a single platform for securing, managing, and optimizing how intelligent endpoints are deployed in the enterprise, enabling our customers to stay ahead of the technology curve that will reshape every industry.

www.darktrace.com

Protecting corporate networks, cloud and virtualized environments, IoT and industrial control systems, Darktrace autonomously detects and fights back against emerging cyber-threats across the enterprise.

www.datrium.com

Datrium is on a mission to simplify the multi-cloud data lifecycle. Our platform provides you with unprecedented speed, agility and efficiency by converging the data lifecycle across on-prem and hyperscalar clouds in a single, secure platform.

www.ivanti.com

Ivanti is changing the IT landscape by breaking down IT silos with increased visibility, shared data, and automated processes. We’re helping customers respond to user demands and market changes, comply with regulations, and secure the entire organization—all while reducing costs. We call it the Power of Unified IT.

Event Agenda

Tech Theater I

July 10, 2020

Keynote Presentation: Perspectives on Life and Leadership

08:00 AM - 09:00 AM

Read About
Jody Davids

You can't always choose what happens to you in life. You can ALWAYS choose how you respond.” As a lifetime IT professional, Jody Davids’ outlook on leadership is deeply impactful and inspiring.

Jody will share key lessons she learned as she moved through her career at iconic global brands while going through the ups and downs of raising her own family.

The Human Element in Threat Detection: Endpoint Threats in 2020 and Beyond

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Read About
Adam Gates

From ransomware to Mac threats, attacks are up this year. Join Malwarebytes and your peers for an enlightening hour of discussion and interaction. Pulling from our analysis of millions of attacks on endpoints each year, we'll recap 2019 threats and outline emerging trends in 2020. Together we'll cover: Huge shifts from consumer attacks to organizations, Growth in mobile threats, Top industries impacted, Rise in ransomeware, 2020 cybersecurity prediction, and Blending automation with human elements to keep endpoints operational.

This Time is Dedicated to Networking and Vendor Evaluation

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

What Happens When Privacy and Malware Trends Converge? Welcome to

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Read About
Scott Schefermen

Trends in both Privacy and Malware are coming. While the advertising industry has realized the power of targeted omni-channel marketing, cyber criminals have embarked on a similar journey towards targeted attacks on both organizations and individuals. Data science has propelled us towards a new era of data points that describe how we move through time and space, and what our decisions, preferences and movements are likely to be. When it is possible to re-identify data after it has been anonymized and track our behaviors in both the physical and cyber realms, we arrive at a point of no return: all static data that identifies us has been or will be stolen and collected and combined, and so all related meta-data from now on will be tied to our true identity. This opens the door to a new era in which criminals and nation states will soon be able to target victims uniquely. Like their commercial counterparts, they will have teh ability to accomplish this at scale, with teh same algorithmically-enhanced efficacy, and with 100% confidence in the identities they are targeting. Looking further out, criminals may find new ways to extort us as organizations and individuals... by modifying (vs. stealing) our privacy data. The only thing worse than a doctor losing access to a patient record due to a ransomeware attack, is one whom has access to the record but cannot trust the accuracy of the information. Or worse, when a surgeon goes through with a surgery without knowing the data was modified... Welcome to the era, then, of Privacy Warfare.

Please Attend a Lunch & Learn in Tech Theater I or II

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Cybercrime, Inc: Exposing the Business of the Dark Web

01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

The dark web is growing at an exponential rate, with hackers doubling down on cyber-crime as a service- allowing non-traditional and unskilled hackers to wreak havoc in ways previously impossible. Criminals don't have to be skilled to get your data; they just have to hire someone who is.

Based on findings in Armor's 2019 Black Market Report, this session aims to expose the inner workings and business of the cyber underground, focusing on:

Cryptocurrency - The impact digital currency has had on the rate of growth of cybercrime
Cybercrime-as-a-service - The expansion of services offered by skilled hackers and for low costs
Money laundering and money mules - Ways criminals are skirting around laws and regulations to get paid
How businesses can protect themselves from all levels of cyber-criminals

This Time is Dedicated to Networking and Vendor Evaluation

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

C-Suite Forum Connected Communities - Transforming the Enterprise for the Evolution of Smart Cities, Counties, and Airports

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Tech Theater II

July 10, 2020

Please attend Keynote in Tech Theater I

08:00 AM - 09:00 AM

Datrium's Mission to Mitigate The Risk of Ransomeware

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Read About
Cameron Joyce

Doing DR and reansonware recovery right starts with converging primary storage, backup, disaster recovery, mobility, and encryption into a single platform. Datrium DVX is the leading disaggregated HCI (DHCI) solution in the market today with a consistent data plane that works seamlessly across private and public clouds, including the only converged platform that has achieved FIPS 140-2 Cryptographic Certification, utilizing the AES-XTS-256 military grade crypto algorithm. By integrating a catalog and policy engine over per-VM snapshots, Datrium enables customers to instantly restart any workload from local or AWS Gov Cloud S3 backups during a disaster, delivering protection from threats like natural disasters and ransomeware.

This Time is Dedicated to Networking and Vendor Evaluation

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Solutions for Today's Network Monitoring Challenges Increased Network Traffic and Security Threats Don't Have to Complicate Your On-Premises or Cloud Environments.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Read About
Mohit Jalori

Data growth, mobile devices, security threats, and other trends are dividing organizations to change and upgrade data center designs and architectures. But balancing deployment speed, performance, and scale with end-user requirements like fast response time for services and applications complicate architecting a network. On top of these challenges, emerging technologies like containers and microservices add layers of complexity, management, and security risks.

Hyperscale data-center architectures drives virtualization and east-west traffic flow
Migration to 40/100G architectures enables exponential traffic flow and security exposure
Movement of workloads to public cloud services for geographic efficiencies, deployment speed, scalability and up-front investments
Hybrid cloud environments to optimize workloads performance and operational cost efficiencies
On-demand, interactive applications require lower latency and higher network performance

Join APCON for the latest on what's happening in the networking monitoring space and how you can solve today's significant data center challenges - in both on-premises and cloud.

Cyber Hygiene // Inundated with The Fog of More

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Read About
Daniel McGregor

It's safe to say, that we're hyper-focused on cybersecurity more that we've ever been before. Managing hybrid environments that have rapidly spawned from the on-site landscapes to the cloud. The sheer number of security products as well as resources required to implement and manage them continues to grow. New and shiny tools are introduced into the market at breakneck speeds. We test and validate, purchase and implement, but that simply ins't enough. How can we prioritize our security efforts and investments and ensure we're covering all of the bases? Do we really need more tools before we truly understand how our existing tools and investments are performing? Join me in a discussion where we'll tackle these questions as we delve into Cybersecurity Hygiene and address what it takes to become secure and continuously adjust our security coverage to present day threats and prepare for the future.

Never Pay The Ransom!

01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

When prevention fails, never pay the ransom! Ransomeware is targeting schools, municipalities, healthcare and other business with fierce determination, elegant phishing attacks, and brute force. With so many organizations paying the ransom to restore operations, the bad guys are winning. Learn how to easily and very affordably deploy a rensomware immutable storage strategy for all your data, especially for your backups.

This Time is Dedicated to Networking and Vendor Evaluation

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

3 Steps to Better IT Insights for Better Business Outcomes

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Read About
Beau Wells

In this presentation we will cover the 3 steps to Better IT Insights for the Better Business Outcomes.

Step 1 - Discover and Understand What You Are Using
Step 2 - Manage Your Assets and Services Effectively
Step 3 - Optimize for Cost and Performance

Tech Theater III

July 10, 2020

Please Attend Keynote in Tech Theater I

08:00 AM - 09:00 AM

AI-Based Autonomous Response: Are Humans Ready?

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Read About
Alex Numu

The digital enterprise is constantly expanding, with new IoT, cloud, and operational technologies all challenging traditional notions of cyber security. Safeguarding these evolving environments against machine-speed attacks has never been more difficult.

Yet the digital battleground now features its most formidable defender in Cyber AI - a self learning technology that distinguishes friend from foe in order thwart threats autonomously.

With the Cyber AI platform protecting your entire infrastructure in real time, it doesn't matter whether the attack originates on a connected device, an industrial system, or in the cloud.

Wherever it strikes, the AI fights back in seconds.

In this session, you'll discover:

Why only Autonomous Response can counter today's machine-speed attacks
Where advanced threat-actors exploit vulnerabilities in teh cloud and IoT
What achieving 100% visibility can reveal about your organization's risk profile
How the Cyber AI Analyst reduces the time spent triaging threats by 92%

This Time is Dedicated to Networking and Vendor Evaluation

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Cybersecurity: It's All in the Approach

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Read About
Darren Johnson

There's a new network security breach headline everyday. How does your organization navigate the complicated landscape of critical business risks and this next generation of online threats? join Darren Johnson at Arctic Wolf to gain knowledge on the evolution of cyber security Disco where we believe the future of cybersecurity is headed and hear Tales From The Trenches of what we're seeing in the field.

Why Networks Detection Response is Necessary

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Read About
Chad Skipper

Malware authors have not been resting on their Laurels new evasion techniques and file-less malware are beginning to cause real impact on Enterprise Networks. Traditional detection tools are being bypassed and the exponential growth of traffic both inside and outside your walls make your security team's job to find the needle in the haystack a hard game to win. Network detection and response tools combined both Ai and machine learning with behavioral analytics to connect the dots for your security staff. NDR empowers your threat Hunters with real threat intelligence and actionable insights to events in real or near real-time. This talk will explain how we got to this stage and we're NDR may fit inside your castle walls.

Three Fundamental Flaws of Security Operations

01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Read About
Tommy Scott

When considering how to move forward with the development or operations of a monitoring function, what risks must be addressed and which ones are inherently unavoidable? There are three fundamental flaws with threat hunting and trying to find "the bad" that many organizations may not be addressing.

Time Dedicated to Networking and Vendor Evaluations 2:45pm 3:00 pm - Vendor Giveaways - Exhibit Hall

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Please Attend C-Suite Panel in Tech Theater I

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

VIP Theater

July 10, 2020

Attend the Keynote Presentation in Tech Theater I

08:00 AM - 09:00 AM

Digital Disruption with Enterprise as a Service (ENaas) with No Code & Containers Increasing > 80% Speed-to-Market

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Read About
Chandra Gundlapalli

How do you start digital disruption Journey with application modernization? How much time you are spending analyzing the workloads manually? Let's dig deeper into building Enterprise as a service cutting down setup costs by 90% increasing 80% speed to Market.

This Time is Dedicated to Networking and Vendor Evaluation

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Digitization: Fate Comes A-Knockin'

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Read About
Jeanette M. Wayne

How do you recognize when disruption is key for continued relevance? Do you recognize when benign neglect causes "fate to come a-knockin" because performance measurements are no longer good enough? How do you plan to energize your team to actively participate into disrupting the same old song and dance? Let's look at writing and playing a different tune.

Please Attend the Lunch and Learn in Tech Theater II

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Traversing the Complex Demands for Digital Transformation

01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Read About
Randy Stroud

Increase data usage demands of the business stakeholders have created a need or complex controls and board level transparency and accountability for CIO’s/CISO’s. With data growing exponentially and the industry's migration into third party managed Realms company board level Executives hold CIO’s/CISO’s accountable for effectively managing and Reporting the full complex datascope from all external and internal and controls.

This Time is Dedicated to Networking and Vendor Evaluation

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

VIP Theater Closed - Please Attend C-Suite Panel in Tech Theater I

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

C-Suite Forum
Connected Communities - Transforming the Enterprise for the Evolution of Smart Cities, Counties, and Airports

Eric Yancy

Information Security Officer

City of Irving

Sonya Bridges

AVP, Information Technology

DFW International Airport

Michael Andreson

CISO

Dallas County

Moderator: Robin Austin

CTO

Collier Group

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www.ivanti.com

Ivanti is changing the IT landscape by breaking down IT silos with increased visibility, shared data, and automated processes. We’re helping customers respond to user demands and market changes, comply with regulations, and secure the entire organization—all while reducing costs. We call it the Power of Unified IT.