As WAN Summit New York swiftly approaches, we thought we'd give you a look at who is set to attend this year's conference. (Warning: it's a packed lineup this year. Our list is pretty long.)
Where to start?
There's Chalan Aras from Citrix, who has been a panelist at the WAN Summit before and will be presenting the day two keynote this time around. Chalan is set to provide Citrix's perspective on how SD-WAN is changing the environment for enterprise customers.
The day one keynote will come from our friend Colin Spence at BT Global Services. He'll be taking on how smart networks are changing corporate networks. Be sure to grab a seat for his 9:10 a.m. presentation.
The WAN Summit aims to put as many end-user voices on stage as possible. In London we had Snehal Patel from The Gap present on their transition to SD-WAN. Next week he'll do an update of that presentation for the New York audience. (He gave us a sneak peek of his presentation during our recent webinar.)
We'll also welcome Lionel Marie, Lead Network Architect of Schneider Electric, who will be presenting a case study. His presentation will highlight how Schneider Electric has been transforming the network to be cloud-ready and how they have used internet peering.
We also look forward to WAN Summit veteran Ciaran Roche of Coevolve and his presentation on the latest buzzwords in corporate WAN management—and what they really mean.
The TeleGeography crew will also be well-represented. Keep an eye out for our own Greg Bryan, Erik Kreifeldt, Patrick Christian, Mike Bisaha, Elliott Cherish, Jon Hull, and Mike Owings.
And as Greg put it in our recent interview about the WAN Summit, "I think the key is hitting a broad range of industries, so that whatever industry you’re from, you might be able to pick out some useful little tidbits from all of those different places and apply them to your situation."
I think the key is hitting a broad range of industries, so that whatever industry you’re from, you might be able to pick out some useful little tidbits from all of those different places and apply them to your situation.
So as WAN Summit New York aims to expand the set of industries that attendees hear from, we'll welcome cross-industry perspectives from the likes of VWR International, Gate Gourmet, Abilita, Convergys, NYNOG, Pilot Fiber, NPD Group, and State Street Global Markets.
Attendees can also expect panels packed with the likes of Windstream, Tata Communications, Aruba Networks, Expereo, Techcaliber Consulting, Viprinet Europe, Velocloud, and Viptela. As well as Leosat Enterprises, Extrahop Networks, Open Systems of Switzerland, SD-WAN Experts, Teraco, Sensata Data, and Aryaka Networks. (We told you this was a long list.)
You can see how we created such a all-star lineup when you know we have support from sponsors like GTT, C&W Networks, Silver Peak, BCM One, Cato Networks, Global Capacity, Infera, Citrix, Nuage Networks, Talari Networks, Telefonica, and Viprinet. (Whew. That was a lot.) And it helps that our advisory board includes minds from Morgan Stanley, Clark Consulting, Gap Inc., and Gate Gourmet.
And we haven't even mentioned the exhibit hall yet. In addition to many of the friends and sponsors we've already mentioned, you can expect to see Globalinternet, Kentik, Telstra, and Versa Networks.
The short version?
We're expecting a packed house April 3-4 at the Marriott Marquis in NYC. And there's still time to register. We hope to see you there.
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Greg Bryan
Greg is Senior Manager, Enterprise Research at TeleGeography. He's spent the last decade and a half at TeleGeography developing many of our pricing products and reports about enterprise networks. He is a frequent speaker at conferences about corporate wide area networks and enterprise telecom services. He also hosts our podcast, TeleGeography Explains the Internet.
Erik Kreifeldt
Principal Analyst Erik Kreifeldt tracks the international network services industry, advising global operators on market trends. With more than 20 years of industry experience—including over a decade of research with TeleGeography—he specializes in strategic decisions that require genuine data, analysis, and insight. Before joining TeleGeography, Erik was an optical networking industry analyst, trade reporter, and optical physics science writer. He continues to draw inspiration from the profound-yet-underappreciated work of maintaining infrastructure essential for global commerce—and awe at how it all gets done.
Patrick Christian
Patrick Christian is a Senior Research Manager with TeleGeography. He heads the Cloud and WAN Research Service. He also focuses on African and European markets specializing in international bandwidth markets and internet infrastructure, WAN services, terrestrial and submarine cable systems, and international voice traffic analysis.
Mike Bisaha
Michael Bisaha is a Senior Analyst and Manager of Data Science at TeleGeography. In addition to his work covering competitive market and pricing trends in the wholesale and enterprise telecom space, he heads the Data Science group responsible for data management, product development, design, forecast modeling, and custom analytics initiatives. He also manages a number of TeleGeography’s research and client relationships and is a regular participant at leading industry conferences.