Royer, Covert, Shah, Gribble, Zornes, Hahn, Cory, Meyers, and Gravely of IT Symposium

Big data is a field that treats ways to analyze, systematically extract information from, or otherwise deal with data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software.

12:00 pm PDT – Welcome - Announcements
12:02 pm PDT - Introduction of speakers
12:05 pm PDT - Hoot Royer on Cyber Threats in Telcom
12:30 pm PDT – Tait Covert, Telcom Cyber Threat
12:55 pm PDT - Palak Shah - Emerging Tech IT Hiring Cyber
1:20 pm PDT - Maureen Gribble, CMRP – Ultra Sound IT
1:45 pm PDT - David Zornes, CEO Fiber Threat
2:10 pm PDT - Marcelo Guerra Hahn– Big Data - What is it?
2:35 pm PDT - Bill Cory, IT Transformation Emerging Tech
3:00 pm PDT - Shane Meyers, Managed IT Services Security and Compliance
3:25 pm PDT – Joshua Gravely IT at the Hard Rock Café
3:50 pm PDT – Closing Remarks
4:15 pm PDT – Entertainment - Tribute to the Speakers
4:40 pm PDT

Biography:

Hoot Royer
A high-level overview on current threats against telecommunications and what can be done now and into the future to minimize risks against critical telecom assets and infrastructure.  Hoot Royer has over 17 years of industrial and corporate IT and telecom experience, most recently working in the electric utility industry as Information Technology Manager.  Within this role, he is responsible for the security, and reliability of both IT and OT environments including SCADA, telecom infrastructure and corporate IT assets.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Western Governors University along with industry certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and Project Management Professional (PMP).
Topic: Cyber Threats in Telcom - Secure Telecommunications

Tait Covert
Network Architecture, Server Architecture, Managed Services, Outsourced IT, Problem Solving, Software Support, Hardware Support, Failed Attempts at Perfection.
Topic: Managed Services MSSP

Palak Shah
Premier Emerging Tech and Cybersecurity Talent matchmaker. Find the best-in-class talent that will elevate your startup and organization. Help great companies find extraordinary professionals in Data Science, Big Data, Cloud, Product Management & Design and Cybersecurity arena.
Topic: Emerging Tech Top IT Hires

Maureen Gribble
Director of Marketing for UE maintenance and reliability field since 2006. Role at UE Systems oversee all the marketing efforts as well as working closely with the training and sales departments. Annual UE Systems users conference, UE World, as well as other regional events throughout North America. Industry events and have also been a featured speaker. Serve on the SMRP Board of Directors as the Education Director. In this role I provide strategic oversight over all the educational programs and offerings including the Annual Conference which brings together over 1,000 M&R professionals from around the globe. Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) and certified Level I in Ultrasound.
Topic: IT Ultrasound.

Marcelo Guerra Hahn
Big data is a field that treats ways to analyze, systematically extract information from, or otherwise deal with data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software. By using computers for an increasing number of activities we continue to produce massive amounts of data that can be analyzed and used in multiple ways. In this presentation we’ll discuss what companies are doing with this data, the positives and negatives of these processes and the ethical implications of having access to so much information. Marcelo Guerra Hahn is the Director of Product Engineering for SoundCommerce a start up in the Seattle area working on data aggregation for e-commerce. Before SoundCommerce Marcelo worked for the Data Visualization company Tableau and Microsoft.
Topic: Big Data

David Zornes, CEO
One Internet. A Toroidal Paraboloid Reflector Provides: Fuel Free non-Aerodynamic Aircraft That Morphs into Aerodynamic Shape for High-Speed Flight.
Topic: Cyber Threats via Fiber

Joshua Gravely IT Manager 
Ambitious, passionate, driven, and extremely motivated individual with a strong, multi-faceted technical background who possesses self-discipline & the ability to work with collaborative teams or individually. Exposure to a wide range of technologies & able to play a key role in diagnosing hardware & software problems & to ensure quality solutions meet business objectives & operations. Exemplary attention to details & having the ability to organize and present complex solutions clearly and efficiently. Successful record of building partnerships with business clients, vendors, & colleagues for projects in the 3D, hospitality, & entertainment industries. Strong ability to work both independently or with a team on projects with deadlines. Possesses a determination & drive to research, develop, & implement new processes for more efficient technology project completion & innovation.
Topic: IT at the Hard Rock Café - Emerging Tech

Bill Cory, IT Transformation Emerging Tech 
Sales leader with more than 20 years’ experience. Bill focuses on growing a customer base through the pursuit of helping customers solve their most challenging problems. He collaborates with his team and gets highly involved in the sales process to understand the needs of his customers, and to ensure that what he has to offer is the right fit to help them solve complex IT challenges. Understanding hid customer's challenges and needs is key to his ability to design a solution that will work for them, and to achieve the ultimate goal, which is to find success for his customers. His fleet of 41 world-class data centers across 21 U.S. markets are highly efficient, redundant and secure.  What’s more, his data centers offer high-density power capabilities (up to 50kW in a single cabinet), allowing condensed rack and cabinet space. He offers private, multi-tenant, hybrid and compliant cloud solutions with a vendor-agnostic approach, as well as application, database, storage, backup and recovery services.  His facilities are linked by a 100 Gbps backbone and has 80 on-net carriers available, making our network services a fundamental part of our offering. Bill’s professional services and IT compliance staff can help achieve and maintain industry and regulatory compliance, as well as security, across a range of standards. Please welcome Bill Cory. 
Topic: IT Transformation Emerging Tech

Entertainment: Seth Pavlik

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