Let the Transformation Begin

We are at the dawn of the next Industrial Revolution, where the world is more intelligent and connected than ever.

The new digital economy is transforming the way we live and work – creating a world where everything is connected, and powerful new insight is at our fingertips. By harnessing its power you can accelerate your progress – from the edge to the core to the cloud.

At Dell EMC Forum 2016 we’ll explore how you can get there: from applications to data, to the infrastructure that powers your business and the security that protects it.

About Dell EMC Forum

Dell EMC Forum is a free one-day technology event where IT professionals explore business trends, cloud directions, use cases and best practice discussions. Connect with peers, learn from experts and experience new technologies.

Agenda

Please note that this agenda is still subject to change

Time	Description
09:00 - 10:00	Welcome at the Future Ready Expo
10:00 - 11:00	Dell EMC keynote: Let the Transformation Begin
11:00 - 11:45	Session 1: Modernize Your Infrastructure Businesses want to be ready for the future, and to do that they need to tranform. Transformation of IT starts with the underlying Infrastructure and modernizing it. It also includes a transformation of the workforce and an uncompromising approach to security. Let your transformation begin. (track ID 2000)
	Session 2: Is your workforce future ready? Does your technology support a modern workforce? Are employees satisfied with the devices they have? Are you secure? These are often key questions when shifting towards activity-based work, where employees conduct business in flexible environments across varying devices. We know there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to these ever-changing workplaces; every organization will need to rethink how people collaborate and preserve productivity. Dell client solutions has a differentiated approach that starts with a solid foundation of activity-based solutions that address top IT concerns paired with device design that is desired by your employees. (track ID 7000)
	Session 3: Hybrid Cloud: Transform and Accerate Your Business This session will provide a comprehensive overview of Dell EMC's overall Hybrid Cloud strategy across the portfolio of products and solutions from Dell Technologies strategically aligned businesses. We'll discuss how our cloud-enabling technologies and relevant services can address challenges that companies are facing as they work towards completing their digital transformation and how they can enable IT to accelerate the delivery of business outcomes. (track ID 4000)
	Session 4: Future-Ready Networking for the Data Center The world of IT is rapidly changing as Enterprise big and small rush to the cloud embracing DevOps and cloud-native practices. The Network is critical to enable this transition. The Network must be fast, must be open, and most importantly must be software-defined. This session will explore these over-arching trends with a particular focus on the role, value and best-practices for Networking in a software-defined world. (track ID 2132)
11:45 - 12:30	Session 1: The Impact of Hyper-converged Infrastructure on the IT Landscape Hyper-converged is one of the hottest topics in the data center. In this session, you will learn about the core components of a software-defined data center and how hyper-converged systems differ from traditional architectures. The VCE team will also explain how VCE's portfolio of Racks and Appliances offers multiple options for deploying hyper-converged solutions in the core data center as well as distributed environments. (track ID 3101)
	Session 2: Improve productivity with modernized PCs and Windows10 Can modernizing your technology really help you increase efficiency and respond better to customers and opportunities? Absolutely, when it gives you new ways of working and fully leverages your existing IT infrastructure. Keeping your employees empowered with a radically improved set of tools can reduce costs and security risks at the same time. New notebooks provide more than 4 times the battery life and 200% more memory than systems that are 5 years old, and that means more uptime and improved productivity. Technologies like Windows 10 help employees work faster, smarter, with less maintenance issues and from anywhere…all things that keep you agile and your business responsive. (track ID 7100)
	Session 3: The 4 Forces of Cloud Native With all the talk today about containers, microservices and DevOps, how do these all fit together into a cohesive whole? We'll talk about the 4 forces driving cloud native applications ahead and how they influence eachother. (track ID 5000)
	Session 4: Secure Your Digital Future In today's digital and connected world security has never been more important. Networks have grown from thousands to millions of endpoints and every five years you have ten times the amount of data to secure. Traditional security approaches are not enough. Come learn how a risk-driven, intelligence-driven approach to security can help secure your digital future. (track ID 2134)
12:30 - 13:15	Lunch at the Expo
13:15 - 14:00	Session 1: Microsoft: Windows Server 2016 (PS1)
	Session 2: Understanding VDI end-to-end While users become more productive with their devices of choice, IT struggles to secure and manage apps and data supporting a broad array of form factors and operating systems. Desktop virtualization is a clear choice for giving employees easy, secure access to information when and where they need it, while protecting vital apps and content. But every VDI implementation has its own unique requirements. In this session, learn everything you need to know about how Dell’s end-to-end VDI solutions – including products, services, software, and resources – ensure deployment and cost predictability from pilot to scaling to thousands of desktops. (track ID 7101)
	Session 3: DevOps and Digital Transformation - A Blueprint for Survival To be competitive in the rapidly evolving digital economy, enterprises must be able to effectively execute in response to new technologies, customer demands, and/or market opportunities. This means enterprises, regardless of industry, must excel at building, testing, updating, deploying, and running applications. Explore the role of DevOps in a successful Enterprise Digital Transformation. (track ID 5108)
	Session 4: IT Lifecycle Services: Transforming into your Future Ready business Increasingly, your IT department is being faced with the challenge of managing IT hardware assets efficiently. The popularity of BYOD, virtualization, cloud computing and configuration management results in a great deal of complexity and, often, inefficiency. This session will focus on the components around your system hardware that you need to take into consideration. Achieving a fully automated, dynamic workplace can be complex and expensive… or maybe not. Find out more by visiting this session. (track ID LServ1)
14:00 - 14:45	Session 1: Data Protection Everywhere for the Modern Data Center Data protection everywhere is a cornerstone of any modern data center. Discover how Dell EMC protects your data—whether it resides on-premise, in virtualized environments, or in the cloud—across the full spectrum of service levels required for your mission-critical applications, and transform for the future with confidence. (track ID 2102)
	Session 2: When you should not put users first Digital workspaces deliver end user mobility and freedom to securely access desired apps and content anytime, from anywhere. But endpoints and users remain the key vulnerability even with the most robust security programs implemented. 95% of breaches occur at the endpoint. Organizations are susceptible to data theft, the latest viruses, and malware. Learn why a “detect and remediate” strategy is inferior to “prevent and protect”, and how virtualized solutions and data security solutions work hand-in-hand to protect data not only behind the firewall, but wherever employees use it – at home, on the road, collaborating with partners, and more –providing stronger resistance to the most advanced zero-day and future attacks. (track ID 7102)
	Session 3: VMware (track ID GS1)
	Session 4: Future proof security in your Software Defined DataCenter Is your Network & Security often slowing down deployments of new services? You can now make that a thing of the past, because Network Virtualisation is revolutionising the speed and simplicity with which you can deploy and secure your network infrastructure. Through automation and virtualisation, new networks and security policies can be deployed fully automatically anywhere in your infrastructure. Furthermore, the network can automatically adept to changing circumstances in your environment. If one of your workloads is compromised by a virus, you can automatically quarantine the workload and then remediate the issue without the risk of a spreading the virus any further. This session will cover the concept of Micro-Segmentation by using a Distributed (Software Defined) Firewall to create a Zero-Trust Environment that can be automatically configured and adapted to the needs of the business. We’ll also give you a glimpse into the future with full encryption of the network data between all of your virtualised workloads without the complexity of key management, etc. (track ID LNetw1)
14:45 - 15:30	Session 1: Dell EMC Servers – Innovation at the core of your Data Center As you modernise your Data Center and become future ready your server requirements are changing. With innovations such as software-defined storage and networking, your compute platform is now more important than ever. Discover how the highly innovative Dell Dell EMC PowerEdge portfolio is designed to meet the challenges of your future ready Data Center and how selecting the right compute platform can better enable you to deliver more efficient, secure and manageable IT for your business. (track ID 2133)
	Session 2: 10 reasons IT shouldn’t manage and secure desktops Mobility, security and cost-savings are but a few of the benefits driving greater adoption and business value of desktop virtualization. If you’re not using thin clients on the edge of the network, you’re unnecessarily wasting OPEX on management and exposing your network to breach. Using repurposed or unprotected PCs as an endpoint, requires management at the endpoint and can exposes the network to viruses and malware. In this session, deep dive into how today’s thin clients offer the ultimate in data protection in a secure, managed and reliable way for any use case. (track ID 7103)
	Session 3: Essential Ingredients for a successful data analytics project Big Data is beyond the use cases and every organization understands they need to store and analyze the data to remain competitive in the business. While Data and Analysis are important, there are many other ingredients often not thought about when starting an Analytics project but are essential for this being successful. Infrastructure, Software, Data Management, Governance, Security and Analytics are some of the key ingredients to help Big Data and Analytics projects move from conceptualization to production deployment. In this session we will go through details of key ingredients required to build a successful data analytics project. We will also show a quick demo of how we can build an Analytics projects on Isilon infrastructure and query the data set on Isilon from multiple Hadoop distributions. (track ID 6108)
	Session 4: How to manage your wired and wireless environment from 1 single pane of glass One of the strongest benefits DellEMC and Aerohive can deliver is the total, integrated Networking Campus solution. Since we signed our agreement, R & D has been working collaboratively on creating a central management platform, that gives customers the opportunity to manage their Aerohive Wireless, as well as your Dell Campus environment from a single pane of glass. Joint development in the meantime has extended to Dell’s client side of the business as well. During this session we’ll touch upon Aerohive’s Software Defined LAN strategy (which includes HiveManager NG for Cloud management, custom developed applications, identity and application driven network performance, and more), we'll start the session with a quick overview of DellEMC's Campus Switching portfolio. (track ID LNetw2)
15:30 - 16:15	Session 1: Modernize with All-Flash Today's business needs speed, efficiency and agility in how they deliver services back to their stakeholders. In the Modern Data Center Flash is a foundational pillar for accelerating business transformation. This session will show you why 2016 has become the "Year of All-Flash" and how Dell EMC's industry leading all-flash portfolio can drive your company's success. (track ID 2117)
	Session 2: Dell Workstations and Rugged Laptops, work in every circumstance (track ID LEUC)
	Session 3: TBD
	Session 4: Sustainability at every step of the value chain Talking about how we work with social and environmental sustainability from product design and production to shipment, use and end-of-life. (track ID LCSR)
16:15 - 17:00	Session 1: Buy vs Build: Converged Platforms are the New End Game How can customers who want to shift to a “buy” vs. “build” consumption model still benefit from flexibility in infrastructure? What impact does the software defined data center and cloud native applications have on the ability of your business to innovate and deliver unique and new opportunities within your specific market? What is hyper-converged, and is it contagious? You have questions? Dell EMC has answers! (track ID 3000)
	Session 2: TBD
	Session 3: TBD
	Session 4: TBD
17:00 - 18:00	Networking at the Expo - Close of the day

Meet our partners, explore the latest technologies and share new ideas.

Dell EMC Forum 2016: Let the Transformation Begin - brings together a range of industry partners and gives them the opportunity to showcase their latest developments and demonstrate solutions.

The event gives you the chance to meet our partners, start new professional relationships and explore the technologies that can transform your enterprise, all in one place.

Prepare to be enthused, informed and entertained!

Platinum Partners

Intel

Experience a better way to work

Today’s intensely competitive business climate is creating an unprecedented opportunity for companies to transform how they work. A range of new experiences is now possible as the workplace is reinvented for a new era. Using the right tool for the right job, businesses can now cut the wires and achieve levels of efficiency, productivity, and collaboration never before possible. How exactly are forward-thinking organizations changing the way they work to drive innovation with velocity? What are the new methods and approaches they’re embracing?

For more information:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/enterprise-security/a-better-way-to-work.html

Windows 10 Pro

Microsoft

Windows 10. Make the most of your 24 hours. With new and improved features,Windows 10 delivers continuous, customer-driven innovation to help you achieve more. Windows 10 empowers people of action to do great things.

For more information:
http://www.microsoft.com/

Microsoft - Windows Server

Windows Server 2012 R2 brings our experience delivering global-scale cloud services into your infrastructure with features and enhancements in virtualization, management, storage, networking, virtual desktop infrastructure, access and information protection, and the web and application platform.

For more information:
http://www.microsoft.com/

Gold Partners

Nexenta

For more information:
https://nexenta.com/

Silver Partners

APC Schneider Electric

For more information:
http://www.apc.com/be/en/

C2G

For more information:
http://www.c2g.com

Eaton

For more information:
http://www.eaton.be

Hortonworks

For more information:
http://www.hortonworks.com/

Logitech

For more information:
http://www.logitech.com

Mellanox Technologies

For more information:
https://www.mellanox.com/

SonicWall

For more information:
https://www.sonicwall.com/

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