2025 Technology Vendor Summit

Mastering Incident Response with Arctic Wolf
Key Plays for Swift & Effective Action to help prepare for the inevitable. With cyber attack frequency hitting new highs, the continued evolution of threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), and the rapid digitization of organizations across industries, it’s become common to say that it’s not a matter of if, but when you’ll experience a cyber incident.

The Intelligent Move: Choosing AWS in the new age of AI

From Repetitive Tasks to Strategic impact: The power of baramundi IT Automation
IT teams spend countless hours on routine tasks like patch management, software deployment, and system monitoring—time that could be better spent on strategic initiatives. This session explores how baramundi empowers IT admins with powerful automation, reducing manual effort, minimizing risks, and freeing up valuable resources. Discover how automation transforms daily IT operations, enhances security, and allows your team to focus on what truly matters.

Cisco Collaboration: How Hybrid Models and AI are Transforming Experiences
This session will be focused on how Cisco collaboration technology is leveraging the power of hybrid work and AI to transform employee and customer experiences. Learn about Cisco’s latest advancements in meetings, devices, calling, and contact center, and how leveraging technology like Cisco Spaces creates a cohesive workplace environment.

Securing the Future: A Modern Approach to User Protection and Zero Trust
In today’s world of digital transformation and hybrid work environments, secure and seamless application access from any location is crucial. Join us for a session on Cisco’s innovative security solutions, which combine continuous identity visibility with zero trust management to tackle these challenges. Learn about the unique advantages of Cisco’s offerings, designed to surpass traditional solutions and set a new standard in user protection.

Unleashing AI Potential: The Power of Cisco AI PODs
Join us for an insightful session on Cisco AI PODs, purpose-built infrastructure solutions designed to help organizations quickly harness the potential of artificial intelligence. This presentation will cover:

– AI Adoption and Challenges: Explore the growing adoption of AI across industries and the common challenges organizations face.
– Cisco’s AI Infrastructure: Learn about Cisco’s robust infrastructure designed to support AI workloads efficiently.
– AI PODs Features: Discover how Cisco AI PODs provide pre-designed full stack architecture bundles for targeted AI use cases, enabling rapid
deployment and scalability.
– Support Services: Understand the MINT program and other partner support services that facilitate seamless AI integration.

This session is ideal for businesses looking to leverage AI to drive innovation and improve operational efficiency

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: User Adaptive Risk Management
Traditional security awareness programs take a blanket approach, treating all employees the same—regardless of their role, risk level, or behavior. But in today’s evolving threat landscape, organizations need smarter, adaptive security strategies that focus resources where they matter most.

Join us for an insightful session on User Adaptive Risk Management, where we’ll explore how AI-driven risk quantification, automated remediation, and personalized security interventions can reduce real organizational risk without disrupting productivity. Learn how leading companies are moving beyond outdated, one-size-fits-all training models to implement dynamic, risk-based security strategies that identify, measure, and proactively mitigate threats at the individual level.

Key Takeaways:
– Why traditional phishing simulations and training fail to reduce risk
– How to quantify employee risk and automate targeted interventions
– Best practices for integrating security awareness with IAM, EDR, and DLP tools
– Real-world examples of adaptive risk management in action

Whether you’re a security leader looking to enhance your defense strategy or an IT professional aiming to streamline risk management, this session will provide actionable insights to help you future-proof your security program.

Is Broadcom’s VMware all that there is? What’s in your virtualization roadmap?
An examination of the virtualization ecosystem landscape as it exists today and a possible alternative from HPE

Ensure smooth enterprise IT infrastructure operations with proactive and predictive automation from data center to edge
Overview of HPE’s edge to cloud enterprise IT infrastructure hybrid cloud based tools and resources to ensure smooth operations from “Day 0” forward.

The NEW Cloud Journey – Building the future of your infrastructure with the power of Microsoft!
Welcome to “The NEW Cloud Journey,” an immersive training session designed to empower general salespeople with the knowledge and skills needed to drive the future of infrastructure modernization using Microsoft Azure. In this session, you will explore how Azure’s cutting-edge technologies, including modern AI, advanced security features, and robust data management tools, can transform businesses and enhance productivity. By integrating Azure with modern work solutions like Microsoft 365, you’ll learn how to create a seamless, efficient, and secure cloud environment that drives innovation and growth. This comprehensive overview of the cloud journey will focus on how Azure can revolutionize your infrastructure, streamline operations, and provide unparalleled insights through AI and data analytics, all while ensuring top-notch security and compliance.

Building a Unified Human Risk Management Strategy
As attackers are increasingly targeting humans as the weakest link in the security chain, learn how integrating email security and insider risk management protects users and sensitive company data, bridging the critical gap between external threats and internal vulnerabilities. Join us for an exclusive deep dive into advancing your organization’s security strategy with a unified Human Risk Management (HRM) strategy.

NetApp: VMware & Alternatives – Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Is the VMware subscription model getting too costly for your virtualized environment? During this session, we’ll discuss what options you have available, what some NetApp customers are doing, and provide you with a plan to consider for bringing your VMware environment under control.

Defend, Detect, and Recover: NetApp ONTAP’s Advanced Data Protection
NetApp is committed to providing secure storage solutions that align with the National Institiute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework, to protect data integrity and business continuity in the face of constantly evolving cyber threats. Learn about the most recent NetApp OnTap enhancements and capabilities, including Autonomous Ransomware Protection, WORM, “two person integrity” with MultiAdmin Verify, and the rest of the feature payload dedicated to protecting your data across hybrid and multicloud environments.

Veeam and Object First’s Approach to Ransomware Protection and Recovery
Discover how Veeam and Object First uses the fundamentals of NIST Zero Trust Architecture to protect your backup data from ransomware and facilitates cyber recovery.

Prisma Access Browser
Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access Browser is a cloud-delivered security service that provides secure access to web applications and internet traffic. It offers comprehensive protection by securing browsing activities, safeguarding against cyber threats, and ensuring privacy while accessing online resources. Prisma Access Browser helps organizations manage security policies, prevent data breaches, and optimize user experience, all while maintaining visibility and control over the browsing environment, regardless of the user’s location or device.

Stop Managing Printers 101 With Tricerat (ft. Special Guest Bill Long)

Stop Managing Printers 201: a Deep-Dive Q&A with Deaconess and Tricerat’s Lead Architect