Guidepost Technology Conference

Event welcome and introduction to the day's schedule.

Looking Beyond.... The Modern Day Platform

Mike Sheehy - Field CTO, Nutanix

David Klebanov - Director of Partner Solutions, Alkira

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The network is a bloodline of enterprise communications. Unfortunately, it is also the last bastion of IT complexity. Legacy software or hardware based network architectures cannot offer effective solutions for enterprise needs in the era of cloud and AI. In this session, we will present an innovative solution based on Alkira Network Infrastructure as-a-Service offering that allows the Enterprise IT team to design and deploy networks connecting users, remote sites, data centers, business partners and cloud workloads in minutes. No new hardware, no new software, no new colo-locations, no lengthy telco contracts, and no deep expertise are required! Join us to see why the leading enterprises of all sizes and industries choose to run their network on Alkira. 

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Jim Smith - Technical Partner Manager, Qlik

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Qlik, a leading vendor in the data analytics, data management, governance and compliance, has been utilizing artificial intelligence in its product offering for years now.  This concept allowed Qlik's analytics engine to supplement what humans were doing in our QlikView and Qlik Sense offerings.  Over the last 5 years Qlik has been enhancing the machine learning capabilities to include NLG/NLP, integration with 3rd party prescriptive algorithms, as well as including its own AutoML capabilities for prediction.  Now as generative AI becomes more prevalent, Qlik continues to provide additional features such as OpenAI integration, and the ability to provide AI on unstructured data with our newly released Qlik Answers.  Come and see some of the things that modern Data Analytics tools can do to take advantage of AI technologies.

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Presented By: Trevor Cross, Data Scientist - AE Business Solutions & Justin Bell, Infrastructure Practice Lead - AE Business Solutions

Take advantage of your own LLM's extraction and generative capabilities using Nutanix GPT-in-a-box! In this presentation, we will deploy an inference server, create an employee-facing application, and demonstrate how to leverage LLMs for broader natural language analysis.

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Presented By: Alex Holt - Cloud & DevOps Engineer, AE Business Solutions & Josh Colvin - Security Engineer, AE Business Solutions

Translating from the security domain to the developer space. Developers will always find the fastest way through and by providing some paved roads in the security space we can bridge the gap and decrease the friction between the two siloed groups.

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Presented By: John Moser - Security Practice Lead, AE Business Solutions

There are a variety of implications on how defensive and offensive teams operate if they're being pushed towards a least privileged world.  In this talk, we'll focus on what really matters to Red and Blue teams as their organization progresses through a "Zero Trust" journey.  For Red team members attending, we'll focus on new areas of exposure (hint:  Zero Trust doesn't solve everything), and for our Blue teamers, we'll talk about some of the concerns Zero Trust may bring to the security table and how to potentially shore up those gaps.

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Brad Scott - Head of Sales, Glean

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In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, the integration of AI into everyday work processes is no longer a luxury but a necessity. In this session, Brad Scott, VP of Sales at Glean, will explore how organizations can democratize AI, ensuring that every employee, regardless of their role, can leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, innovation, and decision-making. This discussion will provide actionable insights and strategies for embedding AI into the fabric of the workplace, fostering an AI-centric culture that drives business outcomes.

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Presented By: Carly Grover - Technical Recruiter, AE Business Solutions & Corey Rockwell - Talent Acquisition Manager, AE Business Solutions

Join the Talent Acquisition team in a dynamic breakout session designed to enhance your hiring strategies in today’s job market. Uncover techniques for detecting AI-assisted responses during virtual interviews, identify common red flags in candidate resumes, and understand the value staffing firms add by connecting you with high-caliber tech professionals.

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Serving the Future of Work - Challenges and Strategies for the Hybrid Landscape

Jason Georgi - Field CTO, Palo Alto Networks

The rise of unmanaged devices, dispersed teams, and sophisticated AI-powered attacks demands a comprehensive rethinking of security architectures. Organizations must examine the critical challenges facing the modern workplace and explore emerging strategies to future-proof security.

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Session details to come.

Speaker: Will Goss - Systems Engineer, Arista

How to start an organizational journey to a Vendor agnostic network automation solution. An overview of open-source tools, technologies, and training.

Presented By:  Kurt Patz - Security Architect, AE Business Solutions

The recent data breaches relating to Snowflake have set off alarm bells across the analytics community. Join Kurt Patz, Security Architect from AE Business Solutions to learn about the lessons learned from the data breach, and how you can avoid a similar fate for your data.

Presented By: Chris Babcock - Principal Infrastructure Architect, AE Business Solutions & Jason Magill - Infrastructure Architect, AE Business Solutions

Discover a simpler, faster, and more cost-effective way to migrate workloads and VMs to the public cloud.

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Presented By: Dan Placek - Cloud & DevOps Practice Lead, AE Business Solutions

Most organizations don’t have the staffing or budget to dedicate multiple man-years of effort into building a full internal platform. In this talk you will learn about how your organization can start realizing some of the benefits of platform engineering without committing west-coast-tech-company levels of resources.

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Presented By: Phil Henrickson - Senior Data Scientist, AE Business Solutions

Many analytics projects begin with a simple premise: “if we just had the data”. But there are so few things that data, by itself, can actually tell us. Understanding the data we don’t have is just as important as understanding the data we do.

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Presented By: Alex Holt - Cloud & DevOps Engineer, AE Business Solutions

Talk about starting to chart out your processes and use value stream mapping to design your pipelines and processes from Idea to customer. It isnt just for your customers value but your teams as well. 

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Presented By: Justin Bell - Infrastructure Practice Lead, AE Business Solutions & Patrick Ruffino - Infrastructure Architect, AE Business Solutions

Mastering Modern Data Protection with Cutting-Edge Threat Hunting and Sensitive Data Discovery.

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Extreme Social Engineering with Gary S. Chan

Another day, another phish. With the advancement of research in psychological behavior and tools like ChatGPT, it is increasingly difficult for organizations to protect themselves from their weakest link — their employees.  What happens when one moves beyond phishing emails to predictive analytics?  Find out with acclaimed mentalist Gary S. Chan, a mind-reader who will show you that it's possible to predict human behavior under real-world conditions and influence people to "freely" make the choices you want.  This is social engineering on a completely different level.  This is . . . Extreme Social Engineering.