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IT Infrastructure, Operations Management & Cloud Strategies: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois

Strategies to align your infrastructure, IT operations and cloud strategies with business initiatives.

March 25, 2025

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois

Overview

Your business stakeholders and financial leaders demanding more value, reliability and agility from IT investments. But a dynamic economic and a rapidly changing technology ecosystem create tremendous challenges.

What You Will Learn

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures: Best Practices for Seamless Integration
Optimizing IT Operations with Automation and AIOps
Cloud Cost Management: Maximizing ROI While Controlling Expenditures
IT Operations Security: Protecting Infrastructure in a Multi-Cloud Environment
Building a Resilient IT Infrastructure: Strategies for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Panel Discussion: The Future of IT Infrastructure and Operations in the Cloud Era

Conference Price: $349.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

CONFERENCE AGENDA

8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am: Building a Resilient IT Infrastructure: Strategies for High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Jeff Roseman, Global Vice President, Information Technology, Marmon Foodservice Technologies, a Berkshire Hathaway company

In today’s always-on business environment, downtime is costly. This session will focus on designing IT infrastructure that prioritizes high availability and robust disaster recovery. Attendees will learn how to create fault-tolerant systems, implement redundancy across critical components, and develop effective disaster recovery plans. The session will also cover best practices for leveraging cloud-based disaster recovery solutions, hybrid environments, and on-premise infrastructure to ensure minimal disruption in case of outages or failures.

Roseman

10:00am – 10:30am: Refreshment Break

10:30am – 11:30am: How to Leverage SASE to Simplify Your Infrastructure & Operations Architecture

Gerry Plaza, VP of Technology Transformation, Netskope

With people working remotely and most user traffic destined for SaaS and cloud, network security requires transformation. It’s no longer efficient or cost-effective to route traffic through the corporate network to apply security controls. Adopting a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Architecture while focusing on Zero-Trust principles ensures that your employees can be productive and secure working from anywhere.

In this session, we will discuss:

The economics and business case for a SASE journey
Best practices for implementing Zero Trust within a SASE architecture
The importance of granular Cloud and SaaS

Plaza

11:30am – 12:30pm: Cloud Cost Management: Maximizing ROI While Controlling Expenditures – Fireside Chat

Trent Ridgway, Manager of Security & Infrastructure, Anson Industries

Cloud adoption has revolutionized IT infrastructure, but managing cloud costs is a persistent challenge for many organizations. This session will focus on strategies for optimizing cloud expenditures while maximizing the return on investment (ROI). Attendees will learn how to implement cost control mechanisms, optimize cloud resource utilization, and avoid common pitfalls like cloud sprawl and over-provisioning. The session will also explore tools and practices for continuous cloud cost monitoring and governance.

Ridgway

12:30am – 1:30pm: Lunch and Exhibit Break

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures: Best Practices for Seamless Integration

Many enterprises are adopting hybrid and multi-cloud environments to achieve greater flexibility and avoid vendor lock-in, but managing these environments can be complex. This session will cover the best practices for designing and managing hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. Attendees will learn how to integrate on-premise systems with cloud services, orchestrate workloads across multiple cloud platforms, and ensure consistency in security and compliance. Case studies will demonstrate how successful organizations have navigated the challenges of hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment Break

3:00pm – 4:00pm: IT Operations Security: Protecting Infrastructure in a Multi-Cloud Environment

Securing IT infrastructure is more challenging than ever in a multi-cloud environment. This session will focus on the latest security strategies for safeguarding cloud and on-premise infrastructure. Key topics will include implementing zero trust architecture, securing cloud-native applications, managing access controls, and ensuring data protection across hybrid environments. Attendees will gain insights into preventing security breaches, managing compliance, and utilizing advanced threat detection tools to protect IT operations.

4:00pm – 5:00pm: The Future of IT Infrastructure and Operations in the Cloud Era (Panel Discussion)

As cloud technologies continue to evolve, IT infrastructure and operations are undergoing a major transformation. This panel will bring together IT leaders and cloud experts to discuss the future of infrastructure management in a cloud-centric world. Panelists will explore the shift from traditional data centers to cloud-native environments, the impact of AI and automation on operations management, and how organizations can ensure infrastructure scalability and agility. Attendees will gain insights into emerging trends, technologies, and strategies that are reshaping the IT landscape. A Q&A session will follow to allow for audience engagement.

Panelists will include:

Greg Benson, Director of IT Operations, Law Bulletin Media
Mouncef Elalamy, Director, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering, HUB International Limited
Patrick Kinard, Sr. Server Operations Manager, CPS
Lisa Livesey, Director, IT Service Delivery, Luminare Health
Komal Patel, IT Service and Infrastructure Director- SLS Global, Sims Lifestyle Services
Fred Tingle, Director OCI Infrastructure and Databases, ennVee TechnoGroup Inc.
Additional IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Executives sharing experiences and lessons learned

Benson Elalamy Kinard Livesey Patel Tingle

Conference Price: $349.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS