Intuit, Wells Fargo, DISH Network Senior Executives & Other Business Leaders to Share Insights on Today's IT Challenges as SNW Returns to Silicon Valley
[September 13, 2012]
Intuit, Wells Fargo, DISH Network Senior Executives & Other Business Leaders to Share Insights on Today's IT Challenges as SNW Returns to Silicon Valley
FRAMINGHAM, MA, Sep 13, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Top executives from Intuit, Wells Fargo and DISH Network are among
the business leaders who will be sharing their insights on today's
most talked-about IT challenges as SNW returns to Silicon Valley on
October 16-19. SNW Fall's focus is providing attendees with an
"Intelligent Architecture for the Data Driven Business," which will
be addressed through key note sessions, panels and through
discussions on the expo floor.
SNW Fall 2012 will be held in the heart of tech industry -- at the
Hyatt Regency Silicon Valley and Santa Clara Convention Center, the
site of the largest SNW gathering in recent years.
Organizers expect this fall's SNW to attract even more IT management
and top vendors, and in preparation, have assembled top CIOs and CTOs
who represent a broad cross-section of industries to headline the
four-day conference.
The SNW Fall 2012 keynoters who will spotlight some of today's most
discussed IT challenges include:
-- Intuit Senior VP and CIO Sasan Goodari, who will review IT's critical
role in Intuit's transformation and expansion into the cloud and
mobile worlds;
-- Wells Fargo EVP and Head of Technology Infrastructure Services Scott
Dillon, who will discuss the IT challenges faced by the merger of
Wells Fargo and Wachovia, the largest in financial services history;
-- DISH Network CIO Mike McClaskey, who will describe how IT helped
reinvent the call center to address the new demands of DISH's growing
base of consumers;
-- Talisman Energy Senior VP Jim Noble, who will describe the creation of
a real-time operations center, which monitors and controls Talisman's
complex network of wells worldwide, helping to detect and address
potentially life-threatening incidents;
-- Avnet Senior VP Steve Philips, who will review how his IT organization
broke down the silos of the data infrastructure, identifying and
eliminating inefficiencies.
SNW Fall 2012 will also feature expanded program tracks, adding a new
conference focus -- "consumerization and IT infrastructure" -- to
topics of increasing importance to the IT management community, such
as big data and solid state storage.
Big data will be a focus throughout SNW Fall 2012 -- in presentations
and panels, and as the subject of a "lightening round" where big data
providers will give five minute theater-style presentations. In
addition, IDG Enterprise's chief content officer John Gallant will
join with NetApp to present details on Computerworld research on how
IT is converting big data into business value, a preview of the
research can be viewed in this recent webcast.
"SNW has earned a reputation as an unmatched forum where IT
management comes together to define the future of storage, data and
infrastructure solutions, and that will clearly be the case this fall
as the conference presenters and attendees take on today's most
critical and urgent IT issues," said Wayne M. Adams, chairman, SNIA
board of directors. "This fall's SNW will add new perspective to the
IT developments driving business success today -- from the increased
adoption of solid state storage and the continuing impact of big data
to the rise of consumerization in IT."
"Two years ago when SNW broke new ground with its first conference in
Silicon Valley, the response from the IT community, technology
companies and industry influencers was unprecedented," said John
Amato, vice president and publisher, Computerworld. "This fall, we
expect to see an even greater impact, as we draw on an even more
vibrant hotbed of technology innovation to join with the broader SNW
community of leaders in IT management in timely discussions around
the technology forces driving change in business today."
Attendees will again have an opportunity to experience the latest
storage and data management technologies in SNW's Hands-on-Lab, and
they can also speak with solution experts and see technology
demonstrations in the conference Expo Hall. Among the technology
leaders sponsoring SNW Fall 2012 are Egnyte, Fusion-io, QLogic, the
Fiber Channel Industry Association, Imation, Riverbed, SafeNet,
Samsung and Virtual Instruments. To learn more about sponsorship
opportunities and join these solution providers contact John Amato,
vp and publisher, Computerworld at john_amato@computerworld.com
SNW is the world's largest independently produced conference series
focused on the evolution of architecture for a new world of mobility,
big data and business agility. Produced by Computerworld and co-owned
by Computerworld and the SNIA (the Storage Networking Industry
Association), SNW attracts top enterprise technology decision-makers
who gather to participate in a forum of open thought leadership and
practical education that is defining the future of storage, data and
infrastructure solutions.
Registration Information
To register for SNW Fall 2012, please call 800-883-9090, email
snwreg@computerworld.com, or visit http://www.snwusa.com to register
online.
To register for SNW Fall 2012 as a member of the media, industry
analyst or industry blogger, please visit the SNW Fall 2012 media
registration page: http://www.snwusa.com/F12Media.
For more information about SNW Fall 2012, including a complete agenda
and list of presenters, please visit www.snwusa.com.
About Computerworld
Computerworld is the leading source of
technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide,
providing peer perspective, IT leadership and business results.
Computerworld's award-winning website (www.computerworld.com),
bi-weekly publication, focused conference series and custom research
forms the hub of the world's largest (40+ edition) global IT media
network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more
than 100 awards, including Best Website by American Society of
Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) in 2012, Best Website by TABPI
in 2012 and Magazine of the Year by ASBPE in 2010. Computerworld
leads the industry with an online audience of over 3.5 million
unique, monthly visitors (Omniture, September 2011). Computerworld is
published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of International Data Group
(IDG), the world's leading media, events and research company.
Company information is available at www.idgenterprise.com.
About the SNIA
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a
not-for-profit global organization, made up of some 400 member
companies spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA's
mission is to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and
promoting standards, technologies, and educational services to
empower organizations in the management of information. To this end,
the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education,
and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into
the broader market. For additional information, visit the SNIA Web
site at www.snia.org.
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