ICYMI: Did you miss SHI’s Fall Executive Forum? We’ve got video!

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SHI’s Fall Executive Forum may be over for another year, but the learning continues. If you weren’t able to attend some or all of the sessions, we’ve shared all the videos from this groundbreaking event right here, available on-demand, anytime.

Check them out at your convenience – no registration required – and reach out to our expert presenters if you’ve got additional questions. Happy viewing!

Hybrid Infrastructure

Day 1 – Originally shared November 3, 2021

Dell Keynote: The Evolution of Multi-Cloud Strategy

In this session, Dan Mroz, Global Data-Centric Workloads Business Development & Cloud Strategist with Dell Technologies, walks through the trends and challenges impacting our digital transformation journey, and explains how successful organizations are overcoming them.

Build a More Consistent IT Infrastructure & Operations Capability

Presenters Michele Hope, Lead Research Analyst at Stratascale, and Clinton Davenport, Corp Solutions Engineer with SHI, explain how to unlock the full power of hybrid/multi-cloud. This session focuses on consistency in architecting IT infrastructure and operations, and how seamless application deployment across public and private clouds drives business agility.

Rethinking Network Design for the Modern Age

Can your network support next-generation applications and securely leverage edge, IoT and advanced analytics to support your growing organization? This session, led by Aaron Pilcher, Corporate Network Director at SHI and LinWood Walker, Senior Network Architect at Stratascale, focuses on assessing your network architecture’s health and scalability.

Improve Employee & Customer Experience with Edge Computing

The promise of edge computing delivers better employee and customer experience by placing computing infrastructure closer to users. This presentation by David Olszewski, Stratascale Senior Technical Advisor – Cloud, outlines the key business benefits of edge computing and provides insights into the key components of edge architecture. It also includes use cases across industries, and covers typical next steps.

Fireside Chat with AT&T: Putting Provisioning on Autopilot

In this talk hosted by SHI Content Marketing Program Director Carmi Levy, AT&T Assistant Vice President Dave Gruver walks us through his organization’s adoption of next-generation provisioning. Learn how the company that wrote the book on telecommunications implemented tools and processes that streamlined the deployment of end-user devices, empowered employees, reined in costs, and improved productivity as well as employee satisfaction.

Hybrid Workforce

Day 2 – Originally shared November 10, 2021

Intel Keynote: Future of Work – Supporting Future Work in a Transforming Workforce

The future of work is evolving quickly. In this wide-ranging presentation, Caitlin Anderson, Intel VP of Sales and Marketing and General Manager of Commercial Sales, discusses Intel’s perspective on some of the future of work trends. She explores how companies can use technology to build a more productive, resilient, and empowered workforce. She also discusses current trends as companies around the world look to redefine how work gets done.

 How effective ACM can help IT & HR join forces to support HR workers

When introducing new technologies, organizations must update their strategies to ensure employees are equipped to manage change. In this session, Rob Eyerkuss, Senior Director – Corporate Training Group, addresses best practices around supporting technology change to maximize productivity.

 Empowering the next-generation hybrid workforce

As the pandemic drags on, organizations increasingly seek long-term solutions to revolutionize end user computing. This session, led by Kevin English, SHI’s Director of Mobility Hardware & Advanced Solutions, focuses on new technologies and services that optimize the computing experience for remote workers.

 Getting ready for Collaboration 2.0

Collaboration has transformed the pandemic workspace, but it’s time to get strategic. In this session, Mike McCracken, Senior Director of End User Solutions, focuses on creating a collaborative workspace vision that maximizes productivity, employee experience and organizational effectiveness.

Transformation in action: Fireside chat with Palo Alto Networks

In this wide-ranging fireside chat, host Victoria Barber, SHI’s Analyst Relations and Insights Program Director, talks with Steve Januario, VP Digital Experience at Palo Alto Networks, about his organization’s journey to a hybrid working model and beyond. Learn how a world-class technology company prioritized projects to deliver quick wins, empowered business units and employees to innovate, and went from strength to strength in challenging conditions.

Hybrid Cybersecurity

Day 3 – Originally shared November 17, 2021

VMware Keynote: Security That Adapts to Your Needs

The future of work is evolving quickly. In this wide-ranging presentation, Caitlin Anderson, Intel VP of Sales and Marketing and General Manager of Commercial Sales, discusses Intel’s perspective on some of the future of work trends. She explores how companies can use technology to build a more productive, resilient, and empowered workforce. She also discusses current trends as companies around the world look to redefine how work gets done. 

Securing Your Hybrid Workforce, Pragmatically

The hybrid workforce challenges IT to secure employees, apps, and data without compromising productivity. This session, hosted by Corp. Pre-Sales Solutions Engineers Collin Smith and Jacob Welge, covers best practices around meeting today’s hybrid workforce security needs – and planning for whatever comes next.

Securing Your Modern Hybrid Computing Enterprise

The increasingly turbulent threat landscape places today’s hybrid workforces at particular risk. Stratascale’s Vice President of Cybersecurity Derek Gabbard and SHI’s Corporate Security Director, Philip Armbrust hosts this wide-ranging session that covers adjustments to security program and policy, architecture, as well as operations strategy – all to to maximize organizational resiliency. 

Zero-Trust: Ensuring End-to-End Protection in Today’s Hybrid Landscape

Hybrid workforces require secure access from anywhere, across any network. This session, presented by Stratascale Cybersecurity VP Derek Gabbard and Stratascale Director of Identity Services Rob Forbes, explains how to build a comprehensive Zero Trust strategy, and how to integrate it with – and bring it to life within – your enterprise environment. 

Leveraging Integrated Risk Management to Drive Security Effectiveness

The threat landscape is deteriorating. This session, presented by Ryan Benson, Director – Security Operations Advisory Services with Stratascale, and Dennis Allen, Senior Security Consultant – Programs with Stratascale, explains how IRM provides greater visibility into risk management, and how IT can streamline toolsets, rationalize services, and implement cyber asset management to mitigate risk.

Watch this space for more exciting and informative events from SHI and Stratascale, and reach out to us anytime if you’d like to learn more.