Social Apps and Networks

Social networks continue to grow in popularity and importance, and many enterprises are finding them useful as the basis for their collaboration strategies. Enterprise Connect's Social Apps & Networks track will help you understand the options available for enterprise-grade social networking; how these integrate with your Communications infrastructure; and how to capture productivity gains that will make your enterprise social network a critical resource.

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Monday, March 18
9:00 AM – 10:45 AM	Building a UC & Collaboration Roadmap - Location: Sun C The enterprise collaboration landscape is changing. Driven by the need to connect disparate workers, partners and even customers, enterprises are quickly adopting tools such as unified communications,… More ▶ Speaker - Robin Gareiss, Executive Vice President, Nemertes Research Robin Gareiss is Executive Vice President and Senior Founding Partner for Nemertes Research, where she oversees research projects and direction, conducts strategic seminars, develops cost models, and advises leading enterprises, vendors, and carriers. She currently serves as chief financial officer, as well.
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Tuesday, March 19
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM	Case Studies--Creating the Social Enterprise? - Location: Sun C Enterprise-grade social software tools continue to evolve and offer new options for integrating communications with work processes to improve productivity and capture other business benefits. Some ven… More ▶ Speaker/Moderator - Blair Pleasant, COMMfusion LLC & UCStrategies.com Speaker - Ken Snyder, Emerging Technology Solutions Lead, CDW Ken Snyder is Solutions Practice Lead for CDW, a leading provider of technology products and services for business, government and education. He is responsible for emerging technology solution development focused on sales enablement for new Unified Communication (UC ) & Collaboration products and solutions enhancing CDW’s ability to sell, design, implement and support enterprise UC & Collaboration solutions. In this role, drives UC & Collaboration go to market solution strategy by collaborating closely with CDW's sales and engineering teams. Ken is a regular contributor to the CDW Solutions Blog (http://cdwsolutionsblog.com/) and also participates in marketing events and speaking with tech analysts on behalf of CDW's UC & Collaboration Practice. Over the past several years, Ken successfully developed a UC practice solution adoption process to take on a trusted advisor role and provide guidance to Cisco product management teams by participating in an ongoing Early Field Trial program with Cisco's Collaboration Solutions Group, which in turn, enables CDW and Cisco to go to market in lock step helping customers take advantage of latest and greatest Communication and Collaboration solutions. Currently, Ken also serves as the Converged Infrastructure Virtual Team lead for CDW, which plays a critical role in CDW’s cross practice go to market positioning strategy. Prior to his current role, Ken held the position of a senior network voice engineer where he designed and implemented numerous enterprise and global UC projects. Ken studied Electrical / Computer Engineering at Lawrence Technological University and has achieved over 100 certifications from vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Apple. Outside of IT, Ken is an award-winning fine art nature and travel photographer. The creative world of digital photography fuels his drive to explore the intersection of art and technology. Speaker - Patrick Dexter, Director of Sales, Meetrix Patrick Dexter is responsible for sales at Meetrix Communications, Inc. After beginning his career supporting small businesses in the central Florida area, Mr. Dexter held the position of network technician at Embarq and Century Link supporting their in-depth data infrastructure. During his years in the industry he has specialized in infrastructure design, network management and administration. He holds certifications with Microsoft, IBM, CompTIA in systems engineering, database administration, and unified communications. Mr. Dexter attended the University of Central Florida focusing on Management Information Systems.
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