This year’s theme Where X Meets Y, the Power of the Hybrid, is about uncovering collaborations that are hiding in plain sight. What happens when unique and unexpected forces come together? The possibilities are limitless, and we want to put the spotlight on what those are.
Morning Keynote | Longpath and the futures of tomorrow
Ari Wallach, Founder of Fast Company's Futures
Join us on the main stage to hear from our featured keynote speaker Ari Wallach. What is the future of the future? How has our understanding of “the future” both propelled us and held us back from true move-the-needle innovation. Ari will show how - using the Longpath mindset - we can boldly move forward and shape “the tomorrows” across all areas of endeavor: personal, professional and societal.
Where Technology Meets Diversity
Aaron Russell, Lead, Network Investments, Facebook
Andy Power, Chief Financial Officer, Digital Realty
Building community by connecting the world. One of the largest impediments to success is lack of access to resources that enable learning, dreaming and growth. Hear as a strategic leader shares how resources include much more than the necessary and obvious technology needed to connect people to resources, but also the criticality of access to diverse skillsets, backgrounds and role models.
Increasingly sophisticated algorithms have led to artificial intelligence that can master speech recognition, banking, medical diagnoses, deep data mining, and, famously, chess. But what happens when a bot tries to rap, write a novel, paint a picture or design a logo? We explore the types of emotional and creative intelligence that have eluded AI—and see when the machines might catch up.
The Infrastructure Imperative - Announcing Results from 451 Research Global Enterprise IT Leaders Survey
Kelly Morgan, VP of Digital Infrastructure and Services for 451 Research
Kelly Morgan, VP of Digital Infrastructure and Services for 451 Research, will announce and share insights from their recent survey of 750 global enterprise IT leaders. The survey explored the effect of digital transformation on enterprise IT infrastructure strategies. Attendees at the session will be the first to receive the newly published report “The Infrastructure Imperative – Optimizing Data Exchange to Ensure Global Digital Transformation” which details the survey’s findings and 451’s recommendations. The report identifies the top infrastructure strategy IT leaders face is to address how to optimize data exchange globally across an increasing number of points of business presence.
Digital business requires a new IT architecture to enable companies to operate ubiquitously and on-demand, augmented by real-time intelligence and provide a rich omnichannel experience globally. This is forcing IT to implement a decentralized infrastructure
and enable centers of data exchange to accommodate distributed workflows and interconnect global digital ecosystems. In this session, Digital Realty’s CTO will introduce our Platform Vision, Strategy and Roadmap to provide the single global datacenter platform
that fully enables Enterprises, Service providers and Hyperscalers to remove data gravity barriers, implement decentralized infrastructure and scale digital business globally.
Solutions Showcase
Re-wiring the Enterprise Network with Cisco + Digital Realty
Sridhar Sikha, Product Manager, Cisco Agile Exchange (SAE)
Kha Phan, Principal, Asperitan Consulting
Digital Business requires a new enterprise network architecture. One that is localized at global points of business presence, consolidates traffic flows and end point management into network hubs and implements direct interconnection. Learn how Asperitas Consulting leveraged Cisco’ Secure Agile Exchange + Platform Digital’s Network Hub Solution to help Syngenta Corp rewire their network for digital business by bringing users, multiple clouds, and networked systems to the data.
Solutions Showcase
Implementing Hybrid IT Controls with IBM + Digital Realty
Paul Hertzfeldt, Offering Manager, IBM Cloud
Digital Business requires a new infrastructure and security management architecture, one that localizes security and infrastructure controls at global points of business presence. Learn how IBM + Platform Digital’s Control Hub Solution improves security posture and
infrastructure management by instantiating local points of policy enforcement to managed access, inbound/outbound data flows, connected hosting infrastructure and public clouds for companies such as Mitsubishi Motors and IBM’s Global IT Organization.
Solutions Showcase
Connecting Distributed Workflows and the Edge with Vapor IO + Digital Realty
Cole Crawford, Founder & CEO, Vapor IO
Digital business requires the ability to bring the edge to enterprise at global points of business presence. Learn how the combination of Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge + Platform Digital’s Network Hub extension implements SDN and Interconnection to build an extension between centers of data exchange and end points at the edge to unlock new workflows and scale digital business. Hear about emerging use case deployments.
What’s the definition of customer success? There isn’t one answer. With a myriad of variables and advancements in technology, the customer journey is continuously changing. Catherine Blackmore brings her passion for customer success to the stage and shares her vision and tips for turning customer experience into customer advocacy.
Where Decentralization Meets Cybersecurity
Don Freese, Cyber Resilience & Zero Trust Strategy, PWC
Ed Diver, Chief Information Officer, Digital Realty
Digital transformation is forcing IT to re-architect towards a decentralized infrastructure that removes data gravity barriers and accommodates ubiquitous and on-demand operations. However, this inevitably introduces new security concerns with more points of entry. Cybersecurity expert, Don Freese, joins us with 22+ years under his belt at the FBI’s Global Data Privacy division and as the Cyber Strategy, Transformation & Risk Principal a PwC to share his thoughts on what this move towards decentralization means for cybersecurity and how to safeguard your IT infrastructure from data breaches.
Where Connectivity Meets Urbanization
Joshua Breitbart, Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the Mayor’s Office of the CTO for the City of New York
David Pickeral, Co-founder, Parkofon
Rhonda Binda, Co-founder & COO of the Smart Regions Initiative
Jason Elliott, Global 5G Portfolio Market Development, Nokia
The Future of Infrastructure is Everywhere - How can IT Survive?
David Cappuccio, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
Marina Fahim, VP, Product Management in Cyber Tech, JP Morgan
The future of IT will not be on-premises, in the cloud, in IoT or at the edge. But rather IT will transform into a combination of all of these. Rather than being defined by the technology, it will be driven by business outcomes. This transformation of IT infrastructures must evolve to support workload deployments at the right time, on the right provider, at the right cost, anywhere in the world, quickly. This session will discuss trends and best practices for ensuring your IT environment is fit for purpose.
Build relationships, solve challenges and learn from the best. Taking place from the center of the internet, the MarketplaceLIVE Hackathon puts you behind the scenes of the Cloud and the Internet, an inspirational hack into the future of technology.
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019
32 Avenue of the Americas,
New York
