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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S
MOST ANTICIPATED

ANNUAL

IT + AI + CYBERSECURITY SYMPOSIUM

Tuesday

Oct 27, 2026

JW Marriott, Anaheim

Guest General Session Speakers

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KC Choi

Executive Partner and VP, Global CSO/CRO Advisory Practice

Gartner

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Robin Braun

VP AI Business Development

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Russell Forrest

Town Manager

Town of Vail

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Paula Crowell

CIO 

LA County Sanitation District

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George Khalil

CIO/CISO

City of Riverside

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Michael Sherwood

Sr Business Manager, State and Local Government

NVIDIA

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Will May

Chief Revenue Officer

Arctic Wolf

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Chris Prangley

Regional VP, West

Varonis

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Jensen Penalosa

Assistant Special Agent in Charge

FBI

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Neil Jadhav

Chief Information & Technology Officer

Gemological Institute of America

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Michael Tyner

Ast Dir Cybersecurity Operations

LADWP

 ATTENDEES

PUBLIC SECTOR / COMMERCIAL ATTENDEES

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:

  • Solution Architects

  • Engineers

  • Cybersecurity Specialists & vCISO’s

  • Advanced Technology Specialists

Explore:

  • Live demonstrations

  • Compare solutions

  • Get answers to your toughest IT, AI, cybersecurity, networking, and VMware migration questions

  • 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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Submit a Question >

BUILD

2026 FOCUS

Modernize IT +

secure and govern agentic AI

for massive innovation.

Build IT. Don't chase IT.

HOT

TOPICS

CORE

 

  • Hybrid multi-cloud management platforms

  • ​Intelligent storage for AI acceleration and cost control

  • Modern data management

  • Backup and recovery

  • Self-driving networks

  • Air gapped backups and other ransomware protection technologies

VMWARE

ALTERNATIVES

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Interact with our VMware Cost Savings Estimate Calculator

 

  • Hybrid-ready: migrate VMs at your own pace

  • Options for no full rip-and-replace

  • Reliable enterprise-grade capabilities

  • Eliminate vendor lock-in

  • Reduce licensing costs

CYBER
SECURITY

 

  • Explore the top breaches in 2026

  • Securing the agentic enterprise

  • Anatomy of the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident

  • AI vs. AI warfare

  • Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) readiness

  • 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

  • Categorize tools

  • Create an acceptable use policy and enforce it

  • Protect the data, not just the app

  • ​Establish approved AI pathways

  • Assess AI-specific security risks

  • Govern third-party and embedded AI

  • 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

  • AI infrastructure readiness

  • Cybersecurity strategy

  • Architecting hybrid cloud for AI

  • Build & operationalize production-scale 

  • Autonomous agents

 

TELL ME MORE

about AI at Symposium

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About Symposium

Partnering Technologies

AI

Super Session

Public Sector

Super Session

VMware Alternatives

Nth Networking

Industry Exploration

Nth Cybersecurity

Partners
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