3:00 PM

Sunday Tech Expo – Badge Pickup and Opening Reception (4:30 PM‐6:00 PM)

3:00 PM ‐ 6:00 PM

Sunday, February 9, 2020

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

February 9-12, 2020 | Westin Hotel and Spa, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

IMPACT will be host to a multitude of world-class speakers, as well as enable one-on-one networking with a variety of professional roles including Executives, Cloud & DevOps, Data Center, and Mainframe Experts, and more!

Attendees at IMPACT will Experience: • Educational conference sessions from real practitioners from the world’s leading companies• Education & Training from from top industry leaders• Peer-to-peer Networking opportunities including BoFs, Receptions, and Dinner with Peers• Tech Expo to learn about the latest technologies• Workshops designed to tackle real-world challenges, inspire and inform• Technical Demos & Training from the providers themselves

IMPACT 2020 will feature sessions on:

Digital Transformation | Cloud | DevOps | Infrastructure as a Service | Site Reliability Engineering | Mainframe | Artificial Intelligence | Hybrid Infrastructure | Performance Engineering | Security |

Machine Learning | IT Planning | Automation | ITOps | Blockchain

Be Sure to Arrive Sunday in Time for Badge Pickup and our Opening Reception.

7:30 AM 7:30 AM ‐ 8:30 AM

8:30 AM

9:00 AM

9:45 AM

10:30 AM

10:45 AM

11:30 AM

12:00 PM 12:00 PM ‐ 1:00 PM

12:30 PM 12:30 PM ‐ 1:30 PM

1:30 PM 1:30 PM ‐ 3:30 PM 1:30 PM ‐ 2:15 PM 1:30 PM ‐ 2:15 PM 1:30 PM ‐ 2:15 PM

2:30 PM 2:30 PM ‐ 3:15 PM 2:30 PM ‐ 3:15 PM

3:15 PM

3:30 PM 3:30 PM ‐ 4:00 PM 3:30 PM ‐ 4:00 PM 3:30 PM ‐ 4:00 PM

zOS Performance and Capacity 

Fundamentals ‐ Scott Chapman, 

CIO and z/OS Expert

Among a Billion Configurations, 

How Would You Find the Best One? ‐

Stefano Doni, Akamas

Cloud Servers Usage Efficiency 

and Cost Optimization ‐ Igor 

Trubin, IT Manager, Capital One

4:00 PM 4:00 PM ‐ 5:30 PM

5:00 PM 5:00 PM ‐ 6:00 PM 5:00 PM ‐ 6:00 PM 5:00 PM ‐ 6:00 PM

8:30 AM ‐ 9:00 AM

 Opening Remarks with Amanda Hendley, Anoush Najarian, and Elisabeth Stahl

9:00 AM ‐ 9:45 AM

Real World DevOps - Abel Wang, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate specializing in DevOps and Azure

9:45 AM ‐ 10:30 AM

Practically Magic: How Anticipatory Design Is the Future of Product Development ‐ Heather Wilde, CTO and Unicorn Whisperer

10:45 AM ‐ 11:30 AM Four Recent Advances in AI and Machine Learning for IT Organizations - Dr. James McCaffrey, Microsoft Research

11:30 AM ‐ 12:00 PM

Devops Panel: How is Devops changing the modern software development landscape? 

Moderated by Mohit Verma, DevOps Evangelist with Arsen Kotolyan, Wilson Mar, and Ed Hunter

Dessert in the Tech 

Expo

Lunch in Restaurant

Optimizing Resource Usage in an 

Ever Changing Landscape ‐ Tuli 

Nivas, Salesforce

Deep Learning: An Overview ‐ 

Odysseas Pentakalos, CTO

Mainframe 101 ‐ Jonathan 

Gladstone, Capacity Planner, Bank 

of Montreal

Reception in the 

Tech Expo

Monday, February 10, 2020

Breakfast in the      

Tech Expo

Changing the Rules of Engagement: 

Supporting Business Growth 

through Capacity Planning at 

Cerner ‐ Andrea Gallo, Moviri, and 

Justin Martin, Cerner

Workshop: System 

Performance Estimation, 

Evaluation and Decision 

(SPEED) ‐ Kingsum Chow 

Marrying Artificial Intelligence and 

Automation to Drive Operational 

Efficiencies ‐ Priyanka Arora and Asha Somayajula , Mastercard

Meeting of the Minds: Mainframe ‐ 

Moderated by Scott Chapman, CIO 

and z/OS Expert

Meeting of the Minds: AI/ML/DL ‐ 

Moderated by Igor Trubin, IT 

Manager, Capital One and Amy 

Peck,  XR & Future Tech Strategist

Meeting of the Minds: 

DevOps Moderated by Mohit Verma

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

AM Break

PM Break

6:00 PM 6:00 PM ‐ 7:00 PMChapter Leadership Session for Regional Volunteers

7:30 AM 7:30 AM ‐ 8:30 AM

8:30 AM

9:30 AM

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

11:15 AM

11:45 AM 11:45 PM ‐ 12:45 PM

Lunch in Restaurant

12:30 PM 12:30 PM ‐ 1:30 PM

Dessert in the Tech  Expo

1:30 PM 1:30 PM ‐ 2:00 PM 1:30 PM ‐ 2:15 PM 1:30 PM ‐ 2:15 PM 1:30 PM ‐ 2:15 PM

Security and Encryption for 

the Future ‐ Elisabeth Stahl, 

Distinguished Engineer

Save MSUs and Reduce Run-Times for Analytics and MXG Reporting - Paul Massengill,

Luminex

2:00 PM 2:00 PM ‐ 3:15 PM

2:15 PM

2:30 PM 2:30 PM ‐ 3:15 PM 2:30 PM ‐ 3:15 PM

Scaling Multi‐Cloud with 

Infrastructure as Code ‐ Andre 

Agostinho, CTO

3:15 PM

3:30 PM 3:30 PM ‐ 4:00 PM 3:15 PM ‐ 4:00 PMPerformance is not only 

about Response Time ‐ Henrik Rexed, Neotys

4:00 PM 4:00 PM ‐ 5:00 PM

5:00 PM 5:00 PM ‐ 6:00 PM 5:00 PM ‐ 6:00 PM

8:30 AM ‐ 9:30AM

Keynote ‐ Elena Seiple, Vice President, Information Security, MGM Resorts International

9:30 AM ‐ 10:15AM

Meeting of the Minds: Mainframe ‐ 

Moderated by DataKinetics

Performance Engineering as a 

Service: Enabling Performance 

Testing at Scale in a DevOps World 

Using Infrastructure Automation ‐ 

Jaishankar Padmanabhan, Head of 

Performance Engineering, Wayfair

Real Stories about Cloud 

Migration ‐ Andrea Gallo, Moviri, 

and Genci Jajka, Acadian Asset 

Management

Building Modern Day Site 

Reliability Team ‐ 

Anjeneya Dubey,  Senior Director of Site Reliability

Engineering and Cloud Operations, Honeywell

What’s that VM/Server Doing? ‐ 

Debbie Sheetz, Capacity and 

Performance Expert

Reception in the 

Tech Expo

Secure Z! Escape Room 

Experience ‐ Bryan Childs, 

zOS Expert

Driving the Business Case for Performance and Optimization ‐ Allan Zander, CEO, Randy McCoy, CFO, & Chris Walker, zOS Expert

10:30 AM ‐ 11:15AM

Blockchain is the New Black: The Convergence of Blockchain, XR, AI and Emerging Tech ‐ Amy Peck,  XR & Future Tech Strategist

The #1 challenge of Digital Transformation—It’s NOT what you think. - Allan Zander, CEO, omNovos11:15 AM ‐ 11:45AM

Meeting of the Minds: 

Performance ‐Moderated by 

Alex Podelko, Alla Gringaus, and Scott Moore

Breakfast in the      

Tech Expo

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

AM Break

5:00 PM ‐ 6:00 PM

Meeting of the Minds: CloudModerated by John Slobodnik

7:30 AM 7:30 AM ‐ 8:30 AM 7:30 AM ‐ 8:30 AM

8:30 AM 8:30 AM ‐ 9:30AM

9:30 AM 9:30 AM ‐ 11:15 AM 9:30 AM ‐ 10:15 AM 9:30 AM ‐ 10:15 AM 9:30 AM ‐ 10:15 AM

10:15 AM

10:30 AM 10:30 AM ‐ 10:50 AM 10:30 AM ‐ 11:15 AM 10:30 AM ‐ 11:15 AM

Tailored Fit Pricing: How to 

Manage Workload in a world 

without Capping – Chris Walker, 

zOS Expert

10:55 AM 10:55 AM ‐ 11:15 AM

TIL Version 4 Capacity and 

Performance Management in an 

Agile Container World – Chris 

Molloy and Clea Zolotow

11:15 AM 11:15 AM ‐ 12:15 PM

11:30 AM 11:30 AM ‐ 12:15 PM 11:30 AM ‐ 12:15 PM 11:30 AM ‐ 12:15 PM

12:15 PM 12:15 PM ‐ 1:30 PM

Panel: Implementation, Migration, and Talent Closing Remarks

How Website Speed Affects Your 

Bottom Line and What You Can Do 

About It ‐ Alla Gringaus, 

Performance Solution Architect and 

UX Designer

Self-Healing Trifecta – Earlier Warning, Faster

RCA, Automated Resolution –

JyotsnaChatradhi, Broadcom

Your Open‐Source Machine 

Learning Tool Kit – Luiz Eduardo 

Gazola de Souza, Technical 

Consultant & Joao Natalino De 

Oliveira, Technical Director

How to select appropriate IT 

infrastructure to support Digital 

Transformation ‐ Boris Zibitsker, 

CEO and Big Data Expert

Deep Learning's Most Dangerous 

Vulnerability: Adversarial Attacks ‐

Luba Gloukhova, Speaker & Data 

Science Consultant

Business Continuity & 

Contingency Planning 

Overview ‐ Jonathan 

Gladstone, Capacity 

Planner, Bank of Montreal

 WORKSHOP: Create your 

own Wearable Tech! Turn 

your phone into a Smart 

Fitness Tracker ‐ Anoush 

Najarian,  Software 

Engineering Manager, 

MathWorks

You can’t always get what you 

want. Or can you? An Evaluation 

of Cloud‐Native Tools ‐ Senior 

Principal Software Consultant 

Specialist, BMC

Computing System Congestion 

Management Using Exponential 

Smoothing Forecasting ‐ James 

Brady, Capacity Planner, State of 

Nevada

Special Member 

Breakfast in Tech Expo

Netflix Performance Tales 

in One Take ‐ Ed Hunter,  

Engineering Leader, Netflix

Machine learning enabling 

capacity planning and anomaly 

detection: A case study using ELK 

stack ‐ Pietro Tiberi, IT Manager 

and Marco Capotosto, IT Architect, 

Banca d’Italia

Breakfast for Non‐

Members in Restaurant

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

2:00 PM - 3:00 PMOptional Off-site - Tour of

Black Fire Innovation Center

2:00 PM 2:00 PM - 3:00 PMOptional Off-site - Tour of

Flexential Data Center