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May 31, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Desktop Virtualization Strategies Strategies to help the business and IT benefit from virtualization strategies through effective management, security, and recovery techniques
June 14, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Business Intelligence/Big Data/Analytics Strategies to help leverage full value from your design and implementation of an effective Business Intelligence framework
June 21, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Enterprise IT Risk/Security Management Strategies for adopting a comprehensive IT GRC (Governance/Risk Management/Compliance) approach to managing information adhering to business needs
July 12, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Strategies to help IT best align operations and infrastructure management to business needs
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Sep 24, 2012 - Monday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Cloud Computing Strategies Strategies for determining how and if moving to the cloud will benefit your organization
Oct 9-10, 2012 - Tuesday, Wednesday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Portfolio Management Strategies to help IT best align, prioritize and manage projects according to business needs
Oct 18, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Enterprise Mobility Strategies Strategies to help solve today's current mobility challenges
Oct 25, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Desktop Virtualization Strategies Strategies to help the business and IT benefit from virtualization strategies through effective management, security, and recovery techniques
Nov 6, 2012 - Tuesday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Leadership Strategies Strategies and techniques for leading and guiding IT through a business approach during dynamic times
Nov 29, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity - Data Protection Strategies to help protect and recover your organization's most critical data
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The Mobile and Wireless Enterprise
How to define, develop, manage, extend and secure your mobile/wireless enterprise and launch the supporting applications

March 22, 2007
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Stephens Convention Center
Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

Mobile/Wireless Networking has presented a tremendous opportunity for enterprises to leap ahead in terms of employee productivity. With the growing proliferation of wireless devices (e.g., PDAs, email devices and notebook PCs) the need to support, manage and secure an enterprise’s mobility strategy becomes even more urgent.

But how do you make sense of it all?
What are the clear benefits to your enterprise?
What applications are the best supported in a wireless environment?
How do you prove to management the ‘real’ ROI?

In this one day conference you will be provided with vendor-neutral education and learn from the experiences of seasoned enterprise IT wireless professionals.

Conference Program

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Justifying Your Wireless Investment: Determining Where and When to Deploy Mobile Technology in the Enterprise
Andy Farrell, Managing Director, Mobile & Wireless Emerging Business, VeriSign

You think your enterprise may be ready for migrating to wireless, but have you considered how to justify your decision to the powers that be?

In this session you will learn:

A framework to help determine the best scenarios for deploying wireless technology to users
How to quantify the efficiencies your mobile workers will gain
How to measure the ROI associated with going wireless
How wireless can take the business to the next level

The goal of this session is for IT professionals to be able to effectively answer the questions that senior IT & business leaders will pose as part of the justification process

10:00 am - 10:30 am - Refreshment Break

10:30 am - 11:30 am

The Current Environment: How to Make Sense of the Different Wireless Technologies and the Benefits to Your Specific Environment
Tom Johnston, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, NetMotion Wireless

The industry seems to keep changing and wireless devices and applications have been proliferating at an incredibly rapid pace. But how do you make sense of the technologies, devices and applications and the benefits of these to your enterprise? If you are starting to implement enterprise wireless and trying to get a handle on all the options possible or looking to refine your strategy wireless with the advent of new technologies, this session will provide you with a detailed overview.

You will also learn how different types of enterprises have been extending their enterprise wirelessly and the efficiencies and productivities they have achieved.

Questions that will be answered include:

How has the environment changed over the last year or two?
What advancements have been made?
What wireless technologies are best for my current environment
What are the changes predicted for the next few years?
Will my current or ‘soon-to-be’ wireless environment be outdated next year?

11:30 am - 12:30pm

How to Determine Which Applications are Best Suited for a Mobile/Wireless Environment
Dan DeFina, Senior Systems Engineer, Trapeze Networks

Enterprise Mobility can increase the productivity of your workers, but picking the wrong applications to support in a mobile environment can be a nightmare for your IT staff.

In this session attendees will learn:

How to understand the difference between applications that are business-critical and those that are ‘nice to have’
How to avoid implementing applications that are too cumbersome and do not deliver the value needed
How to set expectations with users as to when the applications will be supported wirelessly

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Luncheon

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

How to Effectively Implement Wireless in the Enterprise

Douglas Haider, Senior Wireless Consultant, Accuvant

Now that you have a sense of how to justify wireless, an understanding of the different wireless technologies and applications that are best supported, it is now time to understand how to pull this together for effective implementation.

The goal of this session is to provide you with:

A blueprint for getting this done on time and within budget
An understanding of how to attain a positive outcome of implementation which includes the interplay of scale, support & architecture
How to avoid pitfalls with respect to implementation
How to quantify to management that ‘actual’ ROI

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Refreshment Break

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

How to Secure the Different Enterprise Wireless Scenarios
Jon Green, Senior Product Manager, Aruba Networks

There are a lot of questions being asked about the maturity of wireless security and depending on what specific wireless technology you are asking about, you may get different answers.

In this session attendees will learn how to secure wireless for business use.

Questions that will be answered include:

Which wireless security technologies have stabilized and matured and which ones are continuing to evolve?
What are the key challenges to secure wireless for business use?
Which elements of the network will need to be integrated to assure best security?
How will future security standards affect today’s implementation?

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Has Wireless Lived Up to The Hype? Experiences of Enterprise IT Departments
Moderator: Stewart Christensen, LANDesk Software
Panelists include:

Paul Carugati, Information Protection Services, CISSP, CCNA, Motorola
Scott DuPart. Enterprise Architecture Services, Infrastructure Architect, HCSC-BlueCross BlueShield
Geri McGreevy, 2^nd Vice President, The Northern Trust

Fred Kwong, Network Consultant, Zurich Insurance

In this one hour session, you will hear from experienced enterprise IT wireless professionals. Topics that will be covered include:

Efficiencies that have been gained
What was the "real" ROI?
Meeting users needs
Pitfalls to avoid

Conference price : $179 per person.

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference, you will learn the following:

How to make sense of the different wireless technologies, the maturity of the technologies and the one that is right for you

What are the needs of different types of wireless users and how do you accommodate them?

How to make sure your wired enterprise infrastructure is in order before you migrate to mobile/wireless

What applications are best supported by Wireless and your environment?

How do you measure the ROI when implementing a mobile/wireless environment?

What are the steps to help secure a mobile/wireless environment?

WLAN Management – Understanding the various standards and how to implement

How to make sense of unified wireless/wired and work through the challenges

How different verticals are using wireless to make their organization more effective (panel discussion)

Tactics Used: Hear from your peers as to how they have effectively implemented a ‘mobile/wireless enterprise’ and how they have avoided the pitfalls that can occur

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education,
in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs.
CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.

CAMP Conferences, Inc., 540 W. Frontage Rd., Ste. 2205, Northfield, IL 60093
Tel: (312) 527-2800 Fax: (847) 881-0747

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