Guest General Session Speakers

KC Choi
Executive Partner and VP, Global CSO/CRO Advisory Practice
Gartner

Robin Braun
VP AI Business Development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Russell Forrest
Town Manager
Town of Vail

Paula Crowell
CIO
LA County Sanitation District
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George Khalil
CIO/CISO
City of Riverside

Michael Sherwood
Sr Business Manager, State and Local Government
NVIDIA

Will May
Chief Revenue Officer
Arctic Wolf

Chris Prangley
Regional VP, West
Varonis

Jensen Penalosa
Assistant Special Agent in Charge
FBI

Neil Jadhav
Chief Information & Technology Officer
Gemological Institute of America

Michael Tyner
Ast Dir Cybersecurity Operations
LADWP

GENERAL SESSION
HIGHLIGHTS
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State of the Industry
Gartner
Industry Expert
Five
Keynote Speakers
AI Governance Panel
with NVIDIA, LA County Sanitation District, City of Riverside
AI Success Story
with Town Manager of Vail, CO
Cybersecurity Panel
with FBI, LA Dept of Water & Power, GIA, Nth vCISO
23 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
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AI
Super Session
Public Sector
Super Session
VMware Alternatives
Nth Networking
Industry Exploration
Nth Cybersecurity
VISIT OVER 30 DEMO HALL BOOTHS​​​​
Nth in the Demo Hall​​​
Connect directly with Nth:
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Solution Architects
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Engineers
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Cybersecurity Specialists & vCISO’s
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Advanced Technology Specialists
Explore:
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Live demonstrations
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Compare solutions
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Get answers to your toughest IT, AI, cybersecurity, networking, and VMware migration questions
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Discover practical strategies you can take back to your organization
Nth Labs
From Possibility to Practical
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AI continues to create new possibilities, but identifying where it can make a real difference is often the hardest part.
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Visit us to explore the technologies, strategies, and real-world approaches helping organizations put AI to work.
From infrastructure and data to emerging tools and use cases, we’ll look at how organizations can turn AI potential into practical solutions that deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Nth Security
Talk Cyber with Nth
Stop by the Nth Cybersecurity booth and talk directly with our team of seasoned cybersecurity professionals.
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Whether you’re wrestling with security strategy, compliance, AI risk, a technical challenge, or simply wondering where your biggest gaps may be, bring us the question.
Our team can help you cut through the noise, identify practical next steps, and explore how
Nth can support you through vCISO advisory, security assessments, penetration testing, cybersecurity services, and the right security technologies fo
Nth Infrastructure
SA's + Engineers
VMware Alternatives
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Do you think you can guess your total potential savings by migrating to a VMware alternative?
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Experience our live cost savings estimator.
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Discover how HPE Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) and Nutanix AHV with Prism Central provide modern alternatives to VMware, offering virtualization and centralized management capabilities similar to vSphere and vCenter.
The Nth Generation engineering team will be conducting live demonstrations of VME, AHV, Prism Central, Zerto replication, and Veeam backup and migration workflows running on real clustered environments.
Compare solutions, ask questions directly to our architects and engineers, and gain practical insights into virtualization, migration, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
Nth Networking
Ask the CCIE
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Whether you’re planning a network refresh or simply exploring your options…
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Come talk shop with our networking expert, Jeremy Baker, 24-year CCIE
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…who will discuss Aruba, Juniper, and Extreme Networks, compare capabilities and operating costs, and help you understand the trade-offs for your environment.
*NEW*
"Ask Me Anything"
Theater
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We are gathering your most burning AI and Cybersecurity questions. We will discuss the topics in the SESSIONS, as well as a LIVE THEATER in the Demo Hall.
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WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS:
We are asking for YOUR interaction. Share your own successes to help the community understand a concept or better solve a problem.
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BUILD
2026 FOCUS
Modernize IT +
secure and govern agentic AI
for massive innovation.
Build IT. Don't chase IT.
HOT
TOPICS
CORE
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Hybrid multi-cloud management platforms
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​Intelligent storage for AI acceleration and cost control
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Modern data management
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Backup and recovery
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Self-driving networks
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Air gapped backups and other ransomware protection technologies
VMWARE
ALTERNATIVES
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Interact with our VMware Cost Savings Estimate Calculator
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Hybrid-ready: migrate VMs at your own pace
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Options for no full rip-and-replace
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Reliable enterprise-grade capabilities
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Eliminate vendor lock-in
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Reduce licensing costs
CYBER
SECURITY
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Explore the top breaches in 2026
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Securing the agentic enterprise
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Anatomy of the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident
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AI vs. AI warfare
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Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) readiness
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Identity is the new perimeter
SHADOW AI
Turn AI Policy into Enforceable Governance
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Learn where AI is being used, understand where sensitive data may be exposed, and put practical controls in place without slowing innovation.
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Come explore the steps and tools to BUILD an AI Visibility & Governance Program:
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Build an AI inventory
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Categorize tools
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Create an acceptable use policy and enforce it
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Protect the data, not just the app
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​Establish approved AI pathways
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Assess AI-specific security risks
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Govern third-party and embedded AI
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Train users with practical examples
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AI AT SCALE
From Individual Productivity to Enterprise ROI
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Ensure you are deploying AI at scale so your organization becomes smarter every day.
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Real-world use cases
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AI infrastructure readiness
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Cybersecurity strategy
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Architecting hybrid cloud for AI
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Build & operationalize production-scale
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Autonomous agents
TELL ME MORE
about AI at Symposium

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