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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: Optimizing IT Operations with Automation and AIOps
As IT environments become more complex, automation and AI-driven operations (AIOps) are essential for streamlining processes and reducing manual workloads. This session will explore how IT operations teams can leverage automation to improve efficiency, reduce errors, and enhance service delivery. Key topics will include implementing AIOps for proactive monitoring and incident response, automating routine maintenance tasks, and using machine learning to predict and prevent infrastructure issues before they impact business operations.
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
