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SUMMARY:The Summit at the Summit - The Lodge at Spruce Peak
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Summit for the Summit!\nThis multi-day adventure isn’t just a conference — it’s an experience you’ll never forget! \nWe’ll be spending time at New England’s premier 5-star ski resort\, The Lodge at Spruce Peak\, with activities like skiing\, snowmobiling\, and relaxing at the spa! Our Vegas-themed casino night will help you win raffle prizes throughout the conference\, too! \nYou’ll also be able to connect with top-tier experts in the field\, including: \nChris Wright: CTO at Red Hat\nChris Wright is Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat. He leads a team that guides Red Hat’s technology vision\, co-creates technologies\, and collaboratively implements change to ensure the success of Red Hat’s ecosystem of associates\, customers\, communities\, and partners. \nWright’s organization includes: Office of the CTO\, Ecosystem Engineering\, Product Security\, Global Engineering Associate Experience\, Product Engineering\, Experience Engineering\, and CTO Customer-Led Open Innovation. \nDuring his 25+ years as a software engineer\, Wright has worked in the telecommunications industry and beyond on high-availability and distributed systems. He also has experience in the Linux® industry on security\, virtualization\, and networking. Wright has been a Linux developer for more than 15 years\, with most of this time spent working deep in the Linux kernel. He is passionate about open source software serving as the foundation for next-generation IT systems. \nJason Gartner: GM & CTO Application Modernization at IBM\nJason Gartner is responsible for leading IBM’s Application and Integration business. IBM’s Application and Integration platforms run many of the world’s most critical applications from Banking\, Insurance\, Health\, Government\, Transportation and many others. These foundational technologies have seen many evolutions over time. Today\, more than ever\, organizations are under pressure to keep up with evolving customer demands and keeping pace with competitors. If existing applications cannot deliver the agility\, innovation\, or business value necessary for the organization to compete\, they need to evolve as they pose a liability to the success of the business. Clients are creating application modernization strategies to meet these demands. \nThese strategies usually incorporate two major motions: re-platform/refactor and write new. New applications being written are creating event-based architectures and flows to discover events with IBM Event Automation. They also look to create APIs and connect business applications with API Connect and App Connect to automate business and ensure secure connectivity. Applications looking to re-platform or refactor are looking to modernize your application server with Cloud Pak for Apps\, re-platform into containers\, adopt cloud-native services and APIs to increase standardization\, lower operational cost and reduce technical debt. Refactor applications into an optimal\, integrated and flexible set of cloud-ready microservices. \nPrior to this role\, Jason led IBM’s WW Technical Sales organization and led IBM’s transformation of its Technology Experience by introducing an experiential sales approach and creation of its Client Engineering team. He led the transformation of IBM’s technical field talent including skills\, learning\, certifications and the IBM’s first TechXchange communities and conference designed by technologists for technologists. He’s been with IBM for over 20 years in all areas of the Hybrid Cloud Market from Application Development\, Integration to Data Architectures and Business Development (M&A). He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and University of Saskatchewan in Canada. \nMark Sakurada: Principal Business Value Consultant at Confluent \nAs a Senior Business Consultant\, Mark works with our customers to define\, secure and improve business value\, cost recovery and drive adoption. He has enabled multiple global enterprise teams to establish TCOs\, ROIs\, KPIs and Business Analytics. \nMark has worked professionally as a developer\, engineer\, architect and consultant in information technology since 1997. Around 2007\, he focused on implementation of open-source software solutions and has been involved in a number of developing initiatives. After joining Confluent in January 2019\, he has worked with some of Confluent’s largest enterprise clients to deliver modern robust distributed data platforms. As a Business Consultant\, Mark advises and consults on business cases\, enterprise adoption\, value and strategic planning of event streaming platforms. \nMark grew up in Connecticut and resides in Greater Boston with his loving fiancee and their handsome bulldog. He also gets increasingly infrequent visits from his two grown children. He counts New Hampshire outdoors activities (hiking\, skiing\, camping\, biking\, kayaking) his jeep and global adventure travel as his hobbies. \nRic Halsaver \nIBM North America Principal FlashSystem Specialist \nRic has been in the storage industry since 1988 and was the Vice-President of Federal Systems for Texas Memory Systems\, when they were acquired by IBM in 2012. He is an avid Flash Storage enthusiast and speaker on both storage as a whole and helping organizations understand IBM Flash and how it provides organizations Cyber Resiliency\, in addition to their Cyber Security practices. \nReserve your spot quickly before they run out! \nPlease note there is no fee to attend the event; however\, hotel cost is the responsibility of the attendee. A pre-negotiated event rate of $249.00 per night has been pre arranged for all attendees. \nClick Here to Register
URL:https://convergetp.com/event/the-summit-at-the-summit-the-lodge-at-spruce-peak/
LOCATION:Vermont\, VT\, United States
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SUMMARY:Madison March Madness Viewing Party with HPE
DESCRIPTION:Join us four our March Madness networking happy hour in Madison\, WI! \nPlease reach out to Lauren Mistler at lauren.mistler@convergetp.com
URL:https://convergetp.com/event/madison-march-madness-viewing-party-with-hpe/
LOCATION:Madison\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Digital Infrastructure
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SUMMARY:Detroit March Madness Viewing Party with HPE
DESCRIPTION:Join us four our March Madness networking happy hour in Detroit\, MI! \nPlease reach out to Lauren Mistler at lauren.mistler@convergetp.com
URL:https://convergetp.com/event/detroit-march-madness-viewing-party-with-hpe/
LOCATION:Detroit\, Detroit\, MI\, 48127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Digital Infrastructure
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SUMMARY:Monitor\, Manage\, & Mavs: An Event Driven Ansible Workshop & Mavericks Game Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting and interactive workshop on Event-Driven Ansible\, where you’ll delve into the cutting-edge realm of automation and orchestration. This workshop is designed exclusively for our valued clients\, providing you with the opportunity to master the latest techniques in leveraging Ansible for event-driven workflows. \nDate and Time: 📅 March 21\, 2024 🕚 2:00 PM (CT) \nLocation: 📍 Spaces Deep Ellum (2550 Pacific Avenue\, Suite 700\, Dallas\, Texas 75226) \nAgenda: \n\nIntroduction to Event-Driven Automation:\n\n\nUnderstanding the fundamentals of Event-Driven Architecture.\nExploring the synergy between Ansible and event-driven workflows.\n\n\nOverview:\n\n\nGuided exercises to apply Event-Driven Ansible in real-world scenarios.\nLearn how to streamline tasks\, respond to events\, and enhance overall efficiency.\n\n\nBest Practices and Tips:\n\n\nGain insights into best practices for optimizing Ansible in event-driven environments.\nProven strategies for troubleshooting and ensuring robust automation.\n\n\nQ&A Session:\n\n\nAn opportunity to engage with experts and clarify any queries you may have.\n\nHappy Hour Celebration: Following the workshop\, join us for a delightful happy hour where you can unwind\, network with fellow participants\, and continue the discussion in a relaxed atmosphere. The location and details for the happy hour will be announced soon\, ensuring an enjoyable conclusion to a day filled with valuable insights. \nMavericks Game: We’ll make our way to the American Airlines Center to cheer on the Dallas Mavericks as they take on the Utah Jazz! \nRegistration: Seize this opportunity to elevate your Ansible skills and register today! Limited seats are available\, so don’t miss out on this exclusive workshop tailored for our esteemed clients. \nNote: \n\nOptional: Bring your laptop for lab session **Note\, you can bring laptop into American Airlines Center but will not be able to bring a laptop bag\, please plan accordingly***\nLight refreshments will be provided during the workshop.\n\nDon’t miss this chance to revolutionize your automation capabilities with Event-Driven Ansible. See you on March 21st! \nRegister Here
URL:https://convergetp.com/event/milwaukee-march-madness-viewing-party-with-hpe/
LOCATION:Dallas\, Dallas\, TX\, 75001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Digital Infrastructure
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SUMMARY:Welcome Spring Wine Tasting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Welcome Spring Wine Tasting where we’ll discuss Aruba’s Next-Gen Security Service Edge. HPE Aruba Networking Security Edge Platform protects data and apps in the cloud\, allows users to connect from anywhere\, and optimizes performance with reliable scalability. \nBenefits of HPE Aruba Networking Security Service Edge Platform (SSE): \n\nSecurity: Granular\, zero trust access to business apps (Private apps\, SaaS apps & Internet)\n\n\n\n\nEliminate attack surface & exposure\nEnforce Least-privilege access\nProtect against Ransomware and data loss\n\n\nProductivity: Keep end users connected from anywhere and streamline IT workflows\n\nEnd-users receive seamless access to apps and data every time they access a resource\nEnd-users can connect from anywhere\nIT admins can leverage APIs\, and AI/ML capabilities to easily set granular policies\, and gain visibility into actionable intelligence\nOptimized user experience with high performance\, low latency connections\n\n\nSimplicity: Cloud service offloads infrastructure management to the cloud\, facilitates scale\, and makes spend predictable\n\nMinimize complexity by reducing point-product solutions\nEffortlessly scale with cloud-delivered platform\nCut costs by reducing reliance on appliance based security solutions\n\n\n\nWhile we learn we will sample spring wines. The wines that will be included in this tasting are: \n\nLuc Belaire Brut Gold Sparkling Wine\nLa Chapelle Du Berry Sancerre\nLa Grande Cour Graves\nLa Pradera Merlot\n\n Here’s How It Works: \n• Register for the event and provide the complete shipping address and phone number to which you would like your kit shipped (if you don’t know the name of your Converge rep\, please put unknown) \n• A kit will be shipped to you prior to the event. To ensure that you receive your kit prior to the tasting\, please register by March 15\, 2024. \nRegistrations must be received by or no later than March 15th to ensure that you receive your kit in time for the tasting. We will continue to ship kits after March 15th\, however we cannot guarantee that your kit will arrive in time for the tasting. \nPlease note that we can only ship within the United States. Space is limited. Converge reserves the right to decline unqualified registrations. \nIf you are a public sector employee\, it is critical that you verify the ethics code\, laws and/or regulations that govern your ability to accept items of value from companies with whom you conduct business. \nEmployees of a U.S. K-12 public or private educational institution or any U.S. library should ensure compliance with the FCC’s E-rate gift rules (47 CFR Part 54) in addition to their local rules\, regulations\, and policies. Please obtain the necessary approval from your organization before accepting any item of value from Converge and/or Aruba Networking. \nContact info: Annie Wallace\nannie.wallace@convergetp.com\n 
URL:https://convergetp.com/event/aruba-sse-whiskey-tasting/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Digital Infrastructure
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SUMMARY:Cincinnati Executive Dinner with Pure Storage
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Executive Dinner in Cincinnati with Pure Storage! Please reach out to Lauren Mistler to learn more: lauren.mistler@convergetp.com
URL:https://convergetp.com/event/cincinnati-executive-dinner-with-pure-storage/
LOCATION:Cincinnati\, Cincinnati\, OH\, United States
CATEGORIES:Digital Infrastructure
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