Shaun has been a CIO for over 30 years, the last 15 years in the K12 industry.   His forte has been in aligning technology and tools in a way that empowers educators and stakeholders in new and inventive ways.   Most recently Shaun has focused on the power of information and how transformative it can be in a school setting.   Through the tight coupling of data analytics and senior leadership amazing things can happen.  

Shaun is a recognized leader in the field of student analytics.   He has been a guest speaker for groups around the world in sharing the Tacoma Public School’s story.  Tacoma embarked on a quest that leveraged business intelligence that resulted in moving on time graduation rates from 55% to 85% in 5 short years.

He is a passionate CIO that is focused on bringing about change from within the K12 industry through leading leaders through the use and understanding of data. 

Ben Rockwood is the Director of IT & Operations at Chef. He has been a UNIX System Administrator for over 20 years and an Operations Management junkie for the last 8. Between 2006 and 2014 he was the Director of Operations at Joyent, one of the first IaaS Cloud providers.

A review of the various tools and techniques provided from Agile and LEAN as adopted in DevOps movement to improve real world operation of IT function.

With over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, Todd Martin has spent nearly two decades working directly for top manufacturers such as IBM, NetApp, and Cisco. During the height of the collocation industry growth in the early 2000s, he worked at Exodus and LoudCloud. Today, Todd is a valued consulting engineer with Advanced Systems Group (ASG), where he focuses on architecting data center solutions for virtualized and converged systems.

Virtualizing the datacenter has been in progress for the past 15 years, but all virtualization paradigms have not been equally successful. Many of us have made great strides in the arena of Virtualized Compute, but in contrast many enterprises have made only minimal progress in other areas of datacenter virtualization. What is missing in most contemporary datacenters: Software Defined Storage: Object Store and Data Lifecycle Management and Software Defined Network: SDN Gateways and Policy Based Overlays And always important but changing, Software Defined Compute: Storage and Data Aware Hypervisors The three pillars of SDx paradigms and technologies, when integrated as a whole, provide a complete solution of an SDDC. Technology in this ecosystem is evolving fast and many software based solutions once thought cutting edge are now mature and robust enterprise class. Embracing all of the SDx technology tiers is completely necessary to realize the value of the automated datacenter. These products provide a federated control plane that can be leveraged for increased efficiency and automation that has never before been so attainable. ASG has analyzed many products in this space and can provide a perspective on the available technology benefits and how best to integrate all the components of an SDDC.

Alycia DuBry is an Information Security Analyst at Thomson Reuters who is invested in customer success and assurance of their data protection with a diverse background and a broad range of proven skills.  Alycia has a distinguished military service background as a retired Signal Corps Senior NCO combat veteran and specializes in Information Assurance Security and cyber quarantine operations skills with an investment in legacy.

As Operations and IT VP at Parallels, Dmitri Poukhovski is responsible for IT Business Applications, Corporate Operations, and HR.  Joined Parallels in 2014 as the VP of IT.  Prior to Parallels held various roles at Microsoft.  From an infrastructure engineer to Production Manager to IT Service Engineering and Operations Director to a Workforce Strategy Lead across a vast Microsoft IT organization.  Dmitri holds an Engineering degree from Peoples’ University in Moscow, Russia.

Parker has an extensive background in science, data analytics, and solutions software, specializing in advanced, next generation cyber technology. He has work alongside executives and security teams in all verticals of the private sector to help them understand and protect their security environments.

From insiders to sophisticated external attackers, the reality of cyber security today is that the threat is already inside. Legacy approaches to cyber security, which rely on knowledge of past attacks, are simply not sufficient to combat new, evolving attacks, and no human cyber analyst can watch so much or react quickly enough. A fundamentally new approach to cyber defense is needed to detect and investigate these threats that are already inside the network – before they turn into a full-blown crisis.
 
Self-learning systems represent a fundamental step-change in automated cyber defense, are relied upon by organizations around the world, and can cover up to millions of devices. Based on unsupervised machine learning and probabilistic mathematics, these new approaches to security can establish a highly accurate understanding of normal behavior by learning an organization’s ‘pattern of life,’. They can therefore spot abnormal activity as it emerges and even take precise, measured actions to automatically curb the threat.
 
Discover why unsupervised machine learning is the future of defense and how the ‘immune system’ approach to cyber security provides complete network visibility and the ability to prioritize threats in order to better allocate time and resources.
 
In this session, learn:

· How new machine learning and mathematics are automating advanced cyber defense
· Why full network visibility allows you to detect threats as or before they emerge
· How smart prioritization and visualization of threats allows for better resource allocation and lower risk
· Real-world examples of unknown threats detected by ‘immune system’ technology

Enjoy a complimentary plated lunch courtesy of The IT Summit.

Senior IT leader with wide ranging experience and management skills leading teams in diverse areas of technology.

Specialties: IT Leadership, Operations Management, Telecommunications, Data Networks, Systems Integration, Contracting, Project Management, Budget, and IT Strategic Planning

Rob arrived in Silicon Valley in 2000 and for the last 17 years has focused on Enterprise Storage Technologies sales, process creation/integration and professional services. Working for industry leaders (EMC, Netapp, IBM) and startups (Kazeon, Orchesys, Reduxio) alike, Rob has been both an individual contributor (Systems/Sales Engineering) and managed teams of exceptional development/deployment engineers.

Rob joined Reduxio in 2015 and is now Director of Systems Architecture. His team is making waves in the storage industry by putting INNOVATIVE technology into the architectures of companies who do not necessarily command multi-million dollar IT budgets.

What if the simple concept of when data is stored could reclaim your Time?
There has been no fundamental innovation in data management or data protection for primary storage in over two decades… Reduxio asked what if

• What if data recovery to any second-in-time was an automated, core function of primary storage?
• What if any second-in-time data copies were automatically click-to-cloud enabled for backup and data protection?
• What if application recovery, due to a disaster, could be delivered to any physical location without data migration?

Join us at 12:45 to learn how Reduxio answered these questions and revolutionized primary storage for database and virtual environments.

Eddy is a Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) with over 20 years business continuity/disaster recovery experience. He has been asked to speak at local, regional, and international disaster recovery planning conferences, has designed BC/DR plans, used commercial BC/DR software, and utilized commercial hot sites for DR testing in addition to building a DR hot site for local government.

Eddy is Project Management Institute (PMP) Certified, and has successfully worked with department managers to develop and accomplish corporate goals; has worked with users to insure their expectations are managed and met, and with vendors to insure clients receive quality products on time and under budget by utilizing project management skills.

Eddy has managed LANs and WANs with Cisco infrastructure and Microsoft Windows Servers. He is involved in migrating and utilizing cloud services for applications and infrastructure. He is also very involved in cyber security training, hosting and speaking at symposiums and conferences around the state.

Eddy has over 30 years experience in IT corporate management. In that time, he has managed quality control, recruiting, training, telecommunications, network, disaster recovery, business continuity and information services departments for multi-national corporations, and multiple 24 X 7 X 365 data centers. He has excelled as an organized, motivated, outgoing, honest, loyal, and dependable manager with a strong work ethic.

Eddy has many years experience forming and leading user group organizations in Tulsa, Dallas, and Seattle. He has served on the Bates Technical College Computer Education Advisory Board (Tacoma) and was selected as advisor to the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges. He has developed and delivered college level technical training and Project Management training.

Organizations that Eddy is a member of: The Association of City & County Information Services (ACCIS), Washington State Association of Contingency Planners, Project Management Institute, and Disaster Recovery Institute International.

As Director of Information Security for KP LLC, Aaron Hunt oversees the strategy and delivery of Information Security, Compliance and IT Infrastructure of KP’s Marketing Services Platforms and technology initiatives for their Fortune 500 customers. As a technology leader with over 20 years of experience in strategic development and technology innovation, Aaron successfully manages corporate cyber security, HIPAA compliance, security awareness, ISO 27001 certification and DR / BC planning and deployment.

Steve recently retired from Microsoft.  While there, he was responsible for ensuring continuity of online services and business operations for Microsoft’s for specific workloads within the Applications Services Group which included Bing, Office 365, Skype and associated business accounting for over $30B in annual revenue.  Steve previously supported the Skype and Lync businesses while living in London, UK.  Prior to London, his previous roles at Microsoft included business continuity support for the Online Services Division (Bing, MSN, Advertising)

Before joining Microsoft, he was a Senior Consultant at SunGard Availability Services working in the Western Region supporting Fortune 100 companies in building business continuity and disaster recovery programs.  Prior to joining SunGard, Steve provided BC/DR pre-sales support at Hitachi Data System.  He spent five years as a Senior Analyst at Nike developing innovative approaches for global supply chain operations and business continuity for other business areas.  As a Program Director at Comdisco, he delivered strategies and program management support for several Fortune 1000 organizations.  As a Vice President at First Interstate Bank, he directed the  Business Resumption and Emergency Management programs through a period of extensive acquisition and process consolidation.

Specialties: Developing and implementing highly available systems infrastructure, systems resilience, business processes, and crisis management programs.

Lt. James Arata is a SWAT Commander for Seattle PD. Lt. Arata has been a Seattle policeman since 1986 (almost 31 years). He has served in Patrol, Bicycle Patrol, Demonstration Management, Narcotics, SWAT, Precinct Operations Commander and is currently SWAT/HNT Commander. Lt. Arata has been the first responder on site in many situations and can answer your questions about what to expect (command and control) in very difficult situations.

William (Bill) Kehoe has served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for King County, Washington and the Department Director of King County Information Technology (KCIT) since August of 2010. Bill is responsible for a department of approximately 450 Information Technology professionals in KCIT with an operating budget of $76M and has responsibility for and chairs the IT Governance and Project Oversight committees in King County. The major initiatives initiated by Bill and his team include: the consolidation of the Executive Branch IT staff and budget into KCIT in July 2011, help desk consolidation of multiple executive help desks to a single King County help desk, the full implementation of a IT service catalog and associated rates, and the implementation of the 2013 – 2014 KCIT budget solely on customer demand and revenue associated with the external customer services and rates.

What are the strategic goals that state and local governments are focused on in the next 2 -3 years? This session will focus on the strategic goals of King County and how and why that focus has changes from previous years.

A10 Networks is a leader in Application Networking, providing a range of high-performance application networking solutions that help organizations ensure that their data center applications and networks remain highly available, accelerated and secure. Founded in 2004, A10 Networks is based in San Jose, California, and serves customers globally with offices worldwide. For more information, visit: www.a10networks.com

Advanced Systems Group (ASG) provides IT solutions that align with your critical and changing business objectives, so you can solve tough business problems and help your IT organization create more business value. Solutions that Meet Business Objectives.

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.

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions for enterprises of all sizes worldwide. The company delivers IT solutions that empower organizations to serve the latest generation of mobile-savvy users who rely on cloud-based business apps for every aspect of their work and personal lives.

With 35 years of continuous innovation, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a trusted developer of software-based Unified Communications (UC) solutions for businesses of all sizes.

Our mission is to develop communications solutions that transform the productivity of individuals, teams and businesses while leveraging the value of their existing and evolving IT infrastructure.

Thousands of businesses worldwide rely on AVST to meet their “mission-critical” communications requirements today, align their business with key trends and, with the world-class interoperability and delivery models of AVST’s UC solutions, provide a bridge to their digital future.

Drawing from more than 30 years of experience and expertise, BlackPoint IT Services provides unparalleled managed IT and consulting services, including infrastructure, security, storage, virtualization, business continuity, portals and collaboration, print and sustainable IT solutions.

The company began in 1977 as Northwest Computer Support, delivering the highest quality IT service and repair for laptop and desktop computers, printers, scanners and other peripherals at competitive prices.

In April 2005, James and Lesleigh Watson purchased the company. Both previously worked for Microsoft, where James managed development teams in the Visual Studio and SQL Server groups for 10 years and Lesleigh coordinated international testing teams in Visual Studio for five years. Working fulltime for BlackPoint, their strong, extensive backgrounds in project management and business process are invaluable to our team.

Cerium Networks is a leading integrator of advanced solutions, delivering design, implementation & support. This includes telephony, mobility, messaging, contact center, video, data center, network security, route/switch and wireless.

Citrix is the cloud company that enables mobile workstyles—empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere, securely accessing apps and data on any of the latest devices, as easily as they would in their own office. Citrix solutions help IT and service providers build clouds, leveraging virtualization and networking technologies to deliver high-performance, elastic and cost-effective cloud services. With market-leading solutions for mobility, desktop virtualization, cloud networking, cloud platforms, collaboration and data sharing, Citrix helps organizations of all sizes achieve the speed and agility necessary to succeed in a mobile and dynamic world. Citrix products are in use at more than 260,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Annual revenue in 2012 was $2.59 billion.

Since 2002 we have secured networks throughout the world. CYBONET, formerly PineApp, began focused on email security. With today’s evolving threats it is no longer enough to just protect email. CYBONET is committed to empowering organizations of all sizes with the tools and capabilities to detect and engage cyber security threats, enhancing their critical information infrastructure and network resilience.

Darktrace is the world’s leading machine learning company for cyber security, having developed AI algorithms that mimic the human immune system to defend enterprise networks of all types and sizes. Created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, Darktrace’s Enterprise Immune System is the first non-consumer application of machine learning to work at scale, across all network types, from physical, virtualized, and cloud, through to IOT and industrial control systems. Installed as a self-configuring cyber defense platform, Darktrace continuously learns what is ‘normal’ for all devices and users, updating its understanding as the environment changes.
 
By applying its unique, unsupervised machine learning, Darktrace has identified 30,000 previously unknown threats in over 2,000 networks, including zero-days, insider threats and subtle, stealthy attacks. The company has experienced 600% year-on-year revenue growth. With 370 employees in 23 offices and dual headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge UK, Darktrace was named ‘Best Security Company of the Year 2016,’ ‘Bloomberg Innovator,’ and ‘GSN Homeland Security’ award winner. The company’s valuation is $.5 billion and its investors include KKR, Softbank, Summit, Invoke Capital, and Samsung.

Founded in 1971, the Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County (EDC) is a public-private economic development partnership encompassing King County and its 39 cities. Formerly known as enterpriseSeattle, we provide one-on-one, confidential consulting services, free-of-charge, to individual businesses seeking to establish, expand or relocate to Seattle and King County.

ESET is a pioneer in the antivirus industry with its award-winning NOD32 technology celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2012. ESET advanced security solutions are trusted by businesses and consumers around the world for protection against today’s most sophisticated cyber attacks. On a daily basis, we protect millions of users across all types of environments – be it computers, laptops, mobile devices or servers. ESET Endpoint Security and ESET Endpoint Antivirus, in addition to ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Smart Security and ESET Cyber Security (solution for Mac), are trusted by millions of users globally and are among the most highly recommended security solutions in the world.

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.

HARMAN designs and engineers connected products and solutions for consumers, automakers, and enterprises worldwide, including audio, visual and infotainment systems; enterprise automation solutions; and software services. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon® , Mark Levinson® and Revel®, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world.

In 1989, HDI became the first professional association created for the technical support industry. Since then, HDI has remained the source for professional development by offering resources to promote organization-wide success through exceptional customer service. We do this by:

Facilitating collaboration and networking

Hosting acclaimed conferences and events

Producing renowned publications and research

Certifying and training thousands of professionals each year

Technical support professionals love HDI because it provides them with a profound sense of community. At 150,000 people strong, HDI is a community built by industry peers and leaders that gives you the resources, knowledge, and drive to be great at what you do.

Igneous Systems wants to fundamentally evolve how enterprises store, backup and archive data in the cloud era. We’re a Seattle-based, venture-backed company that designed the industry’s first secondary storage to effortlessly handle massive file systems. We hold 12 patents in the United States based on our innovations, and won a 2016 Red Herring Top 100 North America award for being one of the country’s most exciting and promising startups.

Our early technical team draws on veteran infrastructure talent from Isilon Systems, EMC and NetApp, combined with modern cloud expertise from Amazon and Microsoft. Our go-to-market team combines talent from market-disrupters such as Tableau and Barracuda Networks, complemented by incumbent infrastructure vendors, including Isilon Systems, EMC and NetApp.

For over three decades, the International Legal Technology Association has led the way in sharing knowledge and experience for those faced with challenges in their firms and legal departments. Through delivery of educational content and peer-networking opportunities, we provide members information resources in order to make technology work for the legal profession. Connect and participate today!

InfraGard is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) program that began in the Cleveland Field Office in 1996. It was a local effort to gain support from the information technology industry and academia for the FBI’s investigative efforts in the cyber arena. The program expanded to other FBI Field Offices, and in 1998 the FBI assigned national program responsibility for InfraGard to the former National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) and to the Cyber Division in 2003. InfraGard and the FBI have developed a relationship of trust and credibility in the exchange of information concerning various terrorism, intelligence, criminal, and security matters.

Microsoft User Research conducts usability studies to help improve the user interface for all Microsoft Products. Those who enroll in the MSUR program will occasionally be invited to participate in research studies. Each usability study provides an opportunity for participants to interact with the latest Microsoft technology while giving direct feedback to our design researchers in exchange for gratuity. Our goal is to impact users globally and change the future of technology by ensuring all Microsoft products are as functional and user friendly as can be. 

Mimecast’s security, archiving and continuity cloud services protect business email and deliver comprehensive email risk management in one fully-integrated subscription service.

Mimecast reduces the risk, complexity and cost traditionally associated with protecting email. You no longer have to manage an array of disjointed point solutions from multiple vendors. And you mitigate single vendor exposure if you have moved your primary email server to the cloud with services like Microsoft Office 365.

Our best-of-breed services protect the email of over 24,900 customers and millions of users worldwide against targeted attacks, data leaks, malware and spam. We give employees fast and secure access to sensitive business information, and ensure email keeps running in the event of a primary service outage.

Netmail provides on-premise or cloud-based security, archiving, migration and file share solutions across multiple platforms including Microsoft Exchange/O365, Google, Amazon, and GroupWise. For over 14 years, we’ve loved helping more than 3,000 organizations and millions of clients in over 30 countries manage their data. As organizations spread data across multiple cloud platforms, Netmail allows for simple consolidation of all that data into a single repository with singular indexing and eDiscovery features.

The Heart of Your Northwest tech community with monthly events connecting you to people and resources to take your career or company to the next level. Join us for New Tech Eastside’s Women in Tech Special Event on May 16th with presenters including Catalyze Seattle, ADA Academy, Diverse City and Ebay’s eWit Program.

Nutanix delivers web-scale converged infrastructure with its software-driven Virtual Computing Platform, natively converging compute and storage into a single solution to drive unprecedented simplicity in the datacenter. Customers can start with a few servers and scale to thousands, with predictable performance and economics. With a proprietary elastic data fabric and consumer-grade management, Nutanix is the blueprint for application-optimized and policy-driven infrastructure.

REAN Cloud is public cloud managed service provider whose enterprise-grade cloud platform, workload migration services, and cloud DevOps automation help enterprise customers achieve seamless migration of applications and/or services to the cloud. REAN Cloud quickly and securely automates and implements complex, scalable architectures for its enterprise customers while ensuring compliance for those customers that operate in highly regulated industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare/Life Sciences, and Education as well as the Public Sector.

Recover your applications instantly to any second in the past with BackDating. Reduxio’s HX550 enterprise storage array redefines flash hybrid array performance and reinvents data protection with capabilities far exceeding anything on the market. Reduxio Systems is an enterprise storage company based in Silicon Valley founded by visionaries from Oracle, NetApp, and Dell. Reduxio – Best of VMworld 2015 award winner in the Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure category. Twitter @ReduxioSystems

Since 1993, Right! Systems Inc. has provided business-driven, multi-vendor IT solutions to clients worldwide. Drawing on deep industry expertise and a portfolio of interrelated consulting, application, and infrastructure services, our solutions can help you gain control of your enterprise-wide technology, increase productivity and end-user satisfaction, refocus talent and energies on your core business, and decrease total cost of ownership.

Veeam® Software, an Elite VMware Technology Alliance partner and a Microsoft managed partner, develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Customers can reduce costs, minimize risks and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam.
 
Veeam is an international company with global headquarters in Baar, Switzerland; North American headquarters in Columbus, Ohio USA; EMEA headquarters in Paris, France; and APAC headquarters in Sydney, NSW Australia. Veeam has more than 50,000 customers worldwide. The company’s free FastSCP™ tool is used by more than 150,000 VMware professionals, making it the most widely used tool to help manage VMware.

Wave is a leading provider of high-speed internet, video and phone services on the West Coast, serving customers in communities in Washington, Oregon, and California.

Wave, founded in 2003, is part of WaveDivision Holdings, LLC, which currently serves over 455,000 residential and business customers in Washington, Oregon, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area. WaveDivision Holdings is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Owned and operated by local industry leaders, WaveDivision Holdings supports its customers with decades of cable know-how. Its mission is to provide 100% of its cable systems with the latest technologies and upgrades including high-speed internet, digital cable, home phone service, international programming, DVR, HDTV, and TV On Demand services.

WaveDivision Holdings strives to link customers to what they enjoy most at competitive prices. Our customers choose from a variety of money-saving packages and receive valuable discounts when combining multiple services. We also provide 24-hour local, professional service and support, 7 days a week.

Wave is continually improving our products and services, as well as being an active contributor to the success of our serviced communities through charitable events and programs. If you have any questions about WaveDivision Holdings or the services it provides, please contact us.

Wave currently serves over 140 cities in Washington, Oregon and California

As one of the oldest and largest statewide technology trade associations in North America, we’re passionate about promoting Washington as a desirable place to start and grow successful technology companies amid a strong and connected community. WTIA isthe place to connect to Washington’s technology industry