GSE Management Summit Future-Ready IT Concepts and Practices St. Julian’s, Malta, 27 - 28 October 2014 Monday, 27 October 2014 09:00-09:15 GSE Annual General Meeting (Members only) 09:15-09:45 Coffee Break 10:00-10:45 Welcome & Opening Mr. Tom Lund, President, GUIDE SHARE EUROPE Mr. Giovanni Damiani, Region Manager Italy/Greece, GUIDE SHARE EUROPE Dr. Thomas Wedel, Market Segment Manager, System z Software, IOT Europe, IBM 1.1 10:45-11:30 High-Performance Compute Systems: The road ahead Dr. Martin L. Schmatz, Manager Cloud Server Technologies, IBM Research 1.2 11:30-12:15 Software Consolidation at JN Data - What's in it beside the money? Mr. Svenn-Aage Sønderskov, Region Manager Nordic, GUIDE SHARE EUROPE 1.3 12:15-13:30 Buffet Lunch 13:30-14:15 IDAA: Real-Time Analytics on the Mainframe Mr. Thomas Baumann, IT Performance Architect, Swiss Mobiliar 1.4 14:15-15:00 Enterprise Mobility Apps and Security Mr. Walter Karl, Technical Channel Leader IBM Security Systems Europe, IBM 1.5 15:00-15:45 How to overcome Web Performance Obstacles for Cloud-based Applications Mr. Michael Gooding, EMEA Web Performance Evangelist, Akamai Technologies 1.6 15:45-16:15 Coffee Break 16:15-17:00 Hadoop & System z Mr. John J. Thomas, Senior Technical Staff Member, System z Competitive Project Office, zChampion, IBM 1.7 17:00-17:45 Taking a Fresh Look at Data Center Virtualization Mr. Giuseppe Alibrandi, Chief Technology Officer, Banca Popolare di Milano 1.8 20:00-22:30 approx. Conference Dinner at the Restaurant Pavilion, St. Julian’s GSE Management Summit Future-Ready IT Concepts and Practices St. Julian’s, Malta, 27 - 28 October 2014 Tuesday, 28 October 2014 09:00-09:45 BYOD should be an Application Strategy not only a Purchasing Policy Mr. Karlheinz Mohr, Program Director IT Risk & Privacy, IBMq 2.1 09.45-10:30 Mobile Workload Pricing for z/OS Mr. David J. Chase, Worldwide System z Software Licensing Education Program Manager, IBM 2.2 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:45 Best Practices for (hybrid) Cloud Based Backup and Recovery Mr. René Lange, Sales Manager, ATEA 2.3 11:45-12:30 Innovation or the big change – driven by the Internet of everything Dr. Michael Weiss, Member of the Data Center Department, HUK-COBURG 2.4 12:30-12:45 Wrap-up Mr. Tom Lund, President, GUIDE SHARE EUROPE 2.5 12:45-14:00 Agenda is subject to change 01.10.2014 Standing Lunch