Enjoy a cup of coffee while catching up with your IT-professional peers and visiting with our vendors, before beginning your day of education and networking.

Jamie kicks off The IT Summit Denver 2012 with a brief history of the conference, followed by an overview of the topics guests can look forward to learning about throughtout the day. 

Transforming the business is a key management process that has now become an everyday practice. While transformation can have a significant impact on the people in an organization, those same people can have an even greater impact on the transformation. Discover how managing the people, process, and technology can help CIOs manage knowledge as intellectual property and ensure employees understand their job role.  Learn how when knowledge is managed within the organization, users are productive and agile business processes bring greater results to the organization.  Transforming the business can lead to competitive advantage – start managing your knowledge today.

CenterBeam’s CTO, Shahin Pirooz, will discuss how cloud-based solutions can simplify mobile device management for IT departments and make it easier for users to access all applications irrespective of device. 

Join your IT peers for a complimentary luncheon including assorted sndwiches, salads, and dessert.  This is a perfect opportunity to interact with other technology professionals in a relaxed environment.

Now you can future-proof your projects and your business. With the first open, industry-accepted standards for transporting audio and video over the network, AVB bridges the gap between AV and IT technologies.

The new IEEE AVB standards synchronize multiple streams of audio and video, eliminate buffering delays and create resource reservation. And because AVB standards leverage existing Ethernet technology, they will benefit from ever increasing speeds and enhancements backed by major consumer electronics companies, allowing the AV industry to benefit from solutions aimed at the mass market.

For IT Managers, AVB means end-to-end digital networks that are simple to design and easy to manage.

AVB advantages include:

·         IEEE standards

·         Significantly lower latencies

·         Larger channel capacity

·         Intelligent switches

·         Ethernet-based

·         Single network for all media, including non-AVB traffic

Economic conditions and decreased tax revenues have caused state governments across the country to evaluate all aspects of operational spending. State governments have had to examine all issues regarding print and mail materials from all agencies. This re-evaluation has permitted front line print and mail employees to tear down individual silos and work towards feasible and cost saving solutions: making government agencies accountable for the decisions they make, the money they spend, and increasing ROI to the taxpayers. Come learn how the State of Colorado utilized new technologies and software to change the “business as usual” model to cut spending, reduce budgets, and deliver a higher return of service to constituents.

As the world of IT becomes increasingly more complex, it is no wonder that we see the same topics bubble to the surface of almost every major organization’s list of top IT concerns center around technology: mobile strategy, social media, business intelligence, and cloud computing.  But there is one topic that needs addressed now more than ever.  This presentation will discuss why the recruitment and retention of top talent is your organization’s biggest area of need in the coming years, why it could in fact becoming a looming crisis and could actually be the defining factor in your organization’s ability to compete, and what you can do about it – no matter your level of the organization.

With the introduction of Big Data Map/Reduce technology in recent years,has this technology alone done away with the need for relational/multi-dimensional database environments, or can these three play nice with one another? 

We’ll explore the different technologies and discuss how each could be leveraged most efficiently by sites, services, mobile devices, and analytics.

As a special thank you to all of our guests at The IT Summit, our sponsors have arranged for a prize drawing for you, our valued supporters.  The prizes are different at every conference, but in the past have included items such as iPods, golf clubs, sporting event tickets, and eReaders.

Kara will be presenting the Luxury Prize at the conclusion of The IT Summit, from the main stage in Tech Theater I.  Join us for this exciting conclusion to the conference, and for the opportunity to become the next lucky winner.

AITP is the community of IT knowledge focused on empowering the IT profession by evolving its members to their full potential as a professional.

It is our goal, our purpose to provide a community network for the IT business professionals to reach their true potential by providing education programs for advancing technology and business skills, leadership development opportunities, networking, peer mentoring and knowledge sharing, and online resources.

Avema Critical Wireless (ACW) combines the best of breed capabilities of Avema Corporation and Mission Critical Wireless. Our clients benefit from the deepest technical expertise in the industry to provide full service support to their employees, and to keep their wireless costs contained to the minimum required.

Having worked hands on with every model of equipment and every software application from every major vendor in the mobile ecosystem, we make recommendations to our clients on the most effective use of these. Technologies that we work with regularly include not just smartphones and tablets, but also the servers that enterprises require, and security and support software such as Mobile Device Management.

Axis provides IP-based network video solutions including network cameras (IP cameras) and video encoders for security surveillance and remote monitoring.

The love of sound is Biamp‘s reason for being, and has been since our founding 35 years ago. We’ve grown to be an acknowledged international leader in professional installed audio electronics. Our staff still shares a passion for sound that resonates through every product and every decision the company makes.

You can sense our dedication to sound when you call for support and Biamp’s own technicians answer — in-house. You touch it when you use our intuitive software to configure new systems. You can hear our passion for great sound grow louder with every breakthrough design Biamp launches.

Most people have never seen Biamp products, but they’ve probably heard them work wonders — in airports, arenas, courtrooms, Houses of Worship, theaters, universities, corporations, and conference centers. Around the world, around the clock, Biamp equipment is delivering, managing and enhancing the sound.

For the love of sound, we never stop experimenting, tinkering and making the impossible actually practical. Because ultimately, when the lights dim and the speakers come on, it’s not about the system. It’s all about the sound.

BrightWave Mobile specializes in wireless business products and services. Our team is comprised of tenured, experienced solution sales associates who strive to provide the best service in the industry. We have numerous years of experience, so we fully understand the competitive landscape and will work to put together the most aggressive offer for your business.

The management team at BrightWave Mobile has over 20 years of wireless experience, most of which is in business solution sales. We are unique in the fact that we are not only incentivized to earn your business, but to keep it and renew your phones with us for years into the future. This means your satisfaction long term is our top priority.

What started as a technology products catalog company has grown to a $1 billion communications and infrastructure services provider. This growth enables us to offer you an unrivaled solutions portfolio and international footprint, all built on the foundation of our business—trusted technical advice and support.

Black Box Network Services is now your single-source provider of comprehensive communications, infrastructure, and product solutions.

Over the last decade Bridgeline has developed 6dm, our proprietary delivery and development methodology. Rapid and iterative, 6dm strives to maximize the potential of your project while meeting your requirements and budget.

In today’s knowledge economy, Bridgeline does more than simply throw sophisticated technology at its customers, it provides real solutions through inspired planning and execution throughout the entire constituency chain.

Over a decade ago, CenterBeam became one of the very first ‘cloud services’ providers when we built, and patented, the first hosted Microsoft® Exchange environment. It was then that CenterBeam realized the need to build the infrastructure from the ground up so that we could successfully serve our clients.

CenterBeam understands that a secure, robust infrastructure is critical to our business and to our clients. When clients are considering the pros and cons of moving to a hosted or cloud based IT solution, security, high availability and the ability to achieve industry standards are always the top concerns. At CenterBeam, we are continually evaluating and evolving our infrastructure to meet the growing demands of our customers and ensure that we meet or exceed the strictest of standards.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, provides customers with uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful inspection technology. Today, Check Point continues to develop new innovations based on the Software Blade Architecture, providing customers with flexible and simple solutions that can be fully customized to meet the exact security needs of any organization.

Check Point is the only vendor to go beyond technology and define security as a business process. Check Point 3D Security uniquely combines policy, people and enforcement for greater protection of information assets and helps organizations implement a blueprint for security that aligns with business needs. Customers include tens of thousands of organizations of all sizes, including all Fortune and Global 100 companies. Check Point’s award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers from hackers, spyware and identity theft.

Comcast was founded in 1963 as a single-system cable operation of 1,200 subscribers. Since then we’ve grown to be the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services with 24.4 million cable customers, 14.7 million high-speed Internet customers and 6.1 million digital voice customers in 39 states and the District of Columbia.

Convergint Technologies is a service-based North American integrator of Electronic Security, Fire Alarm & Life Safety, Healthcare Technologies, Communications and Building Automation. We provide professional services that seamlessly combine both our systems and enterprise integration skills to integrate disparant facility systems to meet customer’s evolving business requirements.

If you are buying IT equipment and services, CounterTrade will quickly and accurately respond with a quote that is on a government contract and will give you SDB Woman-owned small business credits for the purchase. Deadlines are always approaching. Requests are mounting and your desk looks like it could use a complete makeover. CounterTrade responds rapidly and accurately to get the items in your INBOX through to your OUTBOX. Our 25 plus years of Federal / State Government and Education experience can be relied on especially at critical times of the year. We answer the phone. We answer emails. We answer requests. Don’t wait on a vendor. We are AT YOUR SERVICE. It is not the other way around.

For more than 26 years, Dell has empowered countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust us to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they’re at home, work, school or anywhere in their world.

Geography connects our many cultures and societies and influences our way of life. Esri is built on the philosophy that a geographic approach to problem solving ensures better communication and collaboration.

Geographic information system (GIS) technology leverages this geographic insight to address social, economic, business, and environmental concerns at local, regional, national, and global scales.

Firetide is the leading provider of multi-service mesh networks for industrial and municipal applications. Firetide provides a secure, high performance wireless mesh infrastructure and access solution for video surveillance, Internet access, public safety networks, and temporary networks wherever rapid deployment, mobility, and ease of installation are required.

FORTRUST is a world-class high-availability data center services provider, progressively designed and precisely managed to preserve business continuity for our customers. Our Denver colocation facility was built to be the most reliable and secure data and colocation center in the Rocky Mountain region.

Leading companies choose the FORTRUST data center to gain a trusted partner who will preserve and protect their data as well as serve as an essential extension of their operations. We stake our reputation on exceptional customer service and back our promise to uptime with industry-leading colocation service level agreements.

If finding the right ERP professional is a challenge, Glickman Consulting can help.
ERP recruiting is our sole focus. Glickman Consulting is dedicated to providing ERP recruitment and IT staffing services — including contractor, contract-to-hire and direct-hire placements — for companies nationwide with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) sourcing needs.

From offices in Denver and San Francisco, our seasoned IT recruiting firm places all levels of SAP, Oracle ERP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards (JDE) and Microsoft Dynamics AX professionals. Plus, we provide services and sound advice along the way, such as interview arrangements, advice on current salary and hourly rates, back-office arrangements and more.

Let us do what we do best, so you can focus on what you do best. 

GovConnection is dedicated to fulfilling the unique, specialized IT needs of federal, state, and local governments and academic institutions (K-12 and higher education) throughout the United States. We help academic and government IT and purchasing professionals make informed decisions and reduce procurement costs.

Graybar has specialized in supply chain management services and distribution of high-quality components, equipment and materials for the electrical and telecommunications industries for over 80 years.

Incorporated in 1925, Graybar procures, warehouses, and delivers just about any kind of electrical or communications and data product, component, or related service to its customers. It stocks and sells hundreds of thousands of items from thousands of manufacturers.

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.

Imation will:

•Utilize customer insights to build a world-class portfolio of quality digital storage products, audio and video electronics, and accessories.
•Extend our category leadership in key markets through our powerful global distribution network.
•Focus our resources on profitable growth areas.
•Increase the value of our brands and demonstrate return on marketing investments.
•Maintain an uncompromising commitment to strong execution.
•Lead with the highest ethical standards, demonstrating good citizenship in all we do.

Kelly IT Resources^®specializes in connecting companies around the world with information technology professionals.

We are a part of Kelly Services^®, a US-based Fortune 500 company and a global industry leader in workforce solutions. Our network of international branch locations allows us to provide consistent, quality service to our employees and clients worldwide.

Lenel offers systems that combine access control, alarm monitoring, ID card production, and personnel management into a number of integrated security solutions.

LogLogic is the provider of industry’s only scalable log and security intelligence platform for the enterprise and cloud. LogLogic, with over 1,250 customers, provides solutions that allow customers to collect and analyze terabytes of big data generated by their IT assets and gives Security, IT Ops, and Compliance professionals actionable information at their finger tips to identify issues proactively and make insightful decisions, and also get compliant with various regulations. Currently, LogLogic customers are leveraging its solutions to manage over 1,000 Petabytes (or 1 Exabyte) of data. LogLogic collection software like Lasso Enterprise has been downloaded by over 250,000 enterprises.

Today’s IT networks are a complex mix of interdependent devices co-mingled with application databases, business applications and various sources of identity information. The ever-increasing volume of information generated by these data sources combined with increases in service level agreements and reductions in operational staff has resulted in one of the biggest challenges in information technology today — effective and proactive network management. Without network availability and performance, business will suffer. Automated tools are required to manage the volume of network issues and critical events that occur each day, ensuring maximum network and application availability for mission critical functions.

That’s where LogMatrix comes in. Our network management software solution is an extensible monitoring and event correlation framework that enables users to implement their IT operational practices and policies. The core component, NerveCenter, helps deliver end-to-end network management by providing visibility across networks, systems and applications, collecting and correlating data, identifying issues and determining root cause.

MDC is a world leader in Vacuum and Ceramic Seal Solutions. MDC was founded in 1975 to serve a rapidly expanding vacuum industry and to satisfy the increasing demand for high quality vacuum components with fast delivery and reasonable prices. Over the years MDC has expanded its portfolio acquiring Insulator Seal (ISI), a ceramic to metal bonding company, Innovent Technologies, a gas and vacuum weldment company. Today MDC is a leading manufacturer engineered process solutions; in HV & UHV Vacuum, ceramic-to-metal bonding and gas delivery.

Meru Networks provides a virtualized wireless LAN solution that optimizes the enterprise network to deliver the performance, reliability, and operational simplicity of a wired network, with the advantages of mobility.

Meru’s innovative approach to wireless networking uses virtualization technology to create an intelligent and self-monitoring wireless network. With Meru, enterprises can become all wireless, smoothly migrating their business-critical applications from wired to wireless networks.

Founded in 2004, NewsGator transformed the way people consumed information with the use of RSS (Really Simple Syndication). This vision propelled NewsGator into the world of knowledge sharing, collaboration, and ultimately, enterprise-class social business software. NewsGator has since thrived largely as a function of two attributes: pace of innovation and a fanatical focus on customer satisfaction.

As a Microsoft Gold Certified and Depth Managed Partner, NewsGator is helping over three million paid users in industries across the globe propel the future of productivity. NewsGator’s flagship solution – Social Sites – delivers robust social technology to the enterprise with proven scalability and security. Flagship clients include: Accenture, Adidas, Deloitte, Ericsson, General Mills, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Kraft Foods, Merck & Co., Unisys Corporation, and the US Army.

No other social software vendor can match our deep integration with the Microsoft stack. Customers reap rewards such as reduced total cost of ownership and swift user adoption and we get kudos such as being honored by Microsoft as its 2011 US Partner of the Year.

At Nuance, we’re the people who make voice work. We design and deliver intuitive technologies that help people live and work more intelligently. We provide the tools to inform, to connect, and to empower people to be more productive and creative. We give people more than just control over their communications. We give them command of their lives.

From speech technologies that help companies offer superior customer service experiences, to healthcare solutions that help physicians focus on patient care instead of documentation, to imaging technologies that convert physical documents into searchable digital files, our priority is creating solutions that put people in command. That’s what has made us the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions around the world.

Pahoda Image Products of Lakewood, CO has been in the business of selling printers, copiers, and toners for over a year now and we promise to continue with providing our clients with excellent service and premium products at competitive prices. If you want to save money without having to buy something new, Pahoda Image Products can help.

Platte River Networks (PRN) strives to identify problems before they arise. Rather than looking to address individual computing snags, we use our own Intuition technology to take a 24×7 proactive approach when assessing and managing our customers’ environments. This allows us to be everywhere simultaneously with both onsite and remote monitoring capabilities. Many companies throughout Colorado and the United States benefit from both our proactive tactics and flexible service plans.

In today’s business environment, your data is one of your greatest resources. Any glitch or loss equates to needless wasted hours and dollars.

Sanity Solutions is a specialist in comprehensive equipment and services for your data storage needs. If your organization has stored data, consider Sanity Solutions.

At Sanity, we identify your business needs and create strategic goals and technical solutions that maximize your investments and results. Our employees are trained on the latest products, services, and industry standards to provide you with storage and technology solutions that surpass your objectives, including eliminating data loss, increasing data availability, and lowering overall costs, with continual technical and account support.

SharkRack has been a leading provider of data center solutions for over fifteen years. We provide solutions to Small, Mid-Market, and Enterprise sized clients through our direct and channel sales teams which reach across the United States, Canada, and beyond. We’ve also since our beginning added critical technology and infrastructure partnerships with industry leaders such as Cisco Systems, VMWare, SonicWALL, Extreme Networks, D-Link, Leviton Fiber Connect, Geist Manufacturing, HID-Dirak, Server Technology and Minicom Advanced Systems- just to name a few. This allows us not only to provide our customers and partners with outstanding data center cabinets but also best of breed technology solutions for everyday technical operations- all designed to fit any budget.

South Seas Coporation, founded in 1992 and privately held, celebrates its second decade of providing IT professional solutions to the Colorado front range. Over the years, South Seas Coporation remains dedicated to providing companies with the superior level of products and services they need to manage the challenge of day-to-day operations. South Seas aims to improve performance, increase service levels and advance the benefits of applying information technology to meet the key business needs of each and every client.

The IT Summit would like to gratefully acknowledge the State of Colorado’s continued support of our conferences.

Software as a Service (SaaS) has become mainstream IT. Applications like Salesforce.com, ADP, Concur, Google Apps, Success Factors, Rearden Commerce and others are slashing the cost and complexity of IT and proving to be mission critical systems. According to Forrester, Think Strategies, Gartner and others, enterprise-wide adoption of SaaS has reached a tipping point, recently accelerated by the current economic downturn. Today, over 60% of enterprises have multiple SaaS apps, and that number is growing.

Tandberg Data is a leading global supplier of affordable, easy-to-use data protection solutions.

Tandberg Data offers a complete range of tape drives, autoloaders, libraries and media, disk systems and deduplication software, designed to meet the backup, recovery and archive requirements of small and medium-sized businesses around the world.

As a global leader in cloud security, Trend Micro develops Internet content security and threat management solutions that make the world safe for businesses and consumers to exchange digital information. With more than 20 years of experience, we’re recognized as the market leader in server security for delivering top-ranked client, server, and cloud-based security solutions that stop threats faster and protect data in physical, virtualized, and cloud environments.

Founded in 2002, Viatech Consulting has provided development and administrative services to a variety of businesses, ranging from small to Fortune 100 corporations in the United States. We pride ourselves in our work ethic, and in our ability to design and build custom applications to meet the needs of our clients.

We are based in Englewood, Colorado, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, where we combine our love of the outdoors with our love of technology.

WatchGuard builds affordable, all-in-one network and content security solutions to provide defense in depth for corporate content, networks and the businesses they power. WatchGuard’s award-winning Extensible Threat Management (XTM) network security solutions combine firewall, VPN, and security services to protect networks from spam, viruses, malware, and intrusions. The new Extensible Content Security (XCS) appliances offer content security across email and web combined with data loss prevention for complete content protection. WatchGuard extensible solutions scale to offer right-sized security for small businesses up to enterprises with 10,000+ employees. Since our founding in 1996, more than 600,000 WatchGuard signature red security appliances have been deployed worldwide. Today more than 15,000 dedicated partners back our products in 120 countries. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

For more than a half a century, Xerox has been a leader in document technology and services. We continue to build on this heritage of innovation. Through our acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services, we now are the world’s leading enterprise for business process and document management, offering global services from claims reimbursement and automated toll transaction to customer care centers and HR benefits management. The new Xerox is dedicated to innovation, service and giving our customers the freedom to focus on what matters most: your real business.