Agenda
Session 1 — Thriving in Turbulent Times
Executive Keynote: Thriving in Turbulent Times
Every time our customers purchased Cisco infrastructure, they were preparing themselves to adapt and succeed in any business climate—and they have. Cisco executives share anecdotes, tactics, and strategies from their own experience and their customers' that illustrate how Cisco's integrated network has helped companies overcome challenges and meet business goals.
Industry Perspectives 1: Driving IT Innovation and ROI Success
Cisco customers share their strategies, tactics, and techniques for IT project selection and project management to cut costs, increase ROI, and maximize business impact. Featured organizations include: Council Rock School District, Greece Ministry of Interior, Van Meter Industrial and Liquigas Italiana.
Analyst Perspective: Effective IT Practices in Today's Business Environment
An IT industry analyst will discuss how IT managers are adapting their projects and priorities to new economic realities.
Booth Break
Visit the Exhibit Hall throughout the day to learn about Cisco technologies and solutions.
Session 2 — Reducing IT Cost & Complexity
Roundtable Discussion: Reducing IT Cost & Complexity
Cisco executives share their insight, product knowledge, and field experience to recommend ways which customers can reduce costs and streamline business practices using Cisco's integrated network solutions.
Industry Perspectives 2: Driving IT Innovation and ROI Success
Cisco customers share their strategies, tactics, and techniques for IT project selection and project management to cut costs, increase ROI, and maximize business impact. Featured customers include: Banco Itau, LeasePlan, Burnham Institute for Medical Research and The Cardiovascular Group.
Analyst Perspective: Reducing Energy Cost
An IT industry analyst will discuss recent trends and best practices for reduce energy costs, and highlight successful projects.
Booth Break
Visit the Exhibit Hall throughout the day to learn about Cisco technologies and solutions.
Session 3 — Doing More with Less
Roundtable Discussion: Doing More with Less - Improving Company Productivity
After a round of cost-cutting and resource reductions, how do you get all the work done? Cisco executives share their insight, product knowledge, and field experience to recommend ways customers can increase productivity using Cisco's integrated network solutions.
Industry Perspectives 3: Driving IT Innovation and ROI Success
Cisco customers share their strategies, tactics, and techniques for IT project selection and project management to cut costs, increase ROI, and maximize business impact. Featured organizations include: The Reject Shop and Future Group.
Analyst Perspective: Reducing Travel Cost and Improving Collaboration
An IT industry analyst will explain cost savings from reducing travel, and highlight best practices and real world examples of superior collaboration.
Cisco WebEx Node for ASR 1000 Series: Customer Web Cast
You already know what a valuable asset Cisco WebEx technology is to your business. Now find out how to drive even better WebEx results along with lower operating costs by using your Cisco network as the platform.
Please join us on May 7 at 9am PST/12pm EST for this presentation and round table. We'll discuss the immediate business benefits of using the ASR 1000 Series with WebEx Node as the platform for your WebEx sessions.
Learn how to cut operating costs and increase business productivity using WebEx with the ASR 1000 Series to:
- Cut costs by reducing the amount of external bandwidth needed for on-premises WebEx meetings.
- Simplify IT management to lower operating expense.
- Ensure the best possible WebEx experience by optimizing the network.
Business Mobility: Architecting the Next-Gen Wireless Platform
Business has gone mobile. People are constantly in motion, increasingly relying on untethered, unassociated devices to make business decisions. Critical business information is being collected in a proliferation of mobile devices like laptops, smart phones, and purpose-built systems. Wireless networks enable these devices to be continually connected to the network, to people, and to systems. To support these demands, IT has a choice between deploying legacy Wi-Fi systems or investing in a mobility platform designed to evolve with business needs. This session will explore the three elements of architecting a mobility platform to enable collaboration in motion that combines best-of-breed 802.11n wireless networks, secure client connections and an open architecture for application development. Attendees will learn strategies for lowering operational costs while allowing businesses to thrive and meet the demands of an increasingly mobile workforce.
Catalyst Switching and EnergyWise Innovations
Learn from the networking experts focused on the Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3560, and 2960 Series switches. This session will cover all of the latest software and hardware innovations on Cisco's most popular Ethernet switches. It will also include a deep dive on EnergyWise - a new technology the uses the network to monitor and control energy usage. This can substantially reduce both electricity costs and your carbon footprint. When you expect more from your network, you get more and you save more.
Branch Optimization with the Cisco Integrated Services Router
According to several industry studies, branch offices can consume between 70 and 90 percent of an organization's business resources, so the branch is an ideal place to intelligently reduce operational expenses. During this technical session, we'll share several new innovations that help organizations directly address economic challenges and reduce overall branch technology costs.
Three technical experts will explain how our latest platforms, 3G, and unified communications innovations can be deployed to reduce cost and complexity, improve collaboration, and scale IT more efficiently.
Cisco Security: Changing the Way We Collaborate
The world is evolving and the way we collaborate is more open than in any time in the past. With increased collaboration and less structured boundaries, security is an enabler for productivity, innovation, and flexibility.
Join Cisco security specialists who will discuss important improvements in comprehensive threat intelligence and business-enabling security services. You will hear about Collaborating with Confidence, including three newly announced security offerings:
- Cisco Global Correlation for IPS, a feature of Cisco IPS Sensor Software Release 7.0. that provides stronger, more intelligent protection from new and emerging threats and ties the Cisco security cloud to the enterprise
- Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter, a feature of Cisco ASA Software Release 8.2 that provides greater security from botnets attempting to infect clients
- The next-generation Cisco SAFE architecture, a security reference architecture that provides organizations with detailed design and implementation guidelines for building highly secure and reliable networks
