March 6-9, 2017 | Melbourne, Australia - Cisco · 11:15 am – 11:45 am Accelerate Customer Transformation by Partnering with Pure Storage Vaughn Stewart, Vice President of Technology,

APJ Partner Connection 2017 March 6-9, 2017 | Melbourne, Australia

Agenda

Monday, March 6, 2017 Updated: 7 March 2017

Time Activity Location

3:30 pm – 6:30 pm Arrivals & Registration

Crown Metropol Melbourne, Lobby Level

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Executive 1:1 Meetings

Crown Conference Centre, Level 1 M3, M4, M5, M7, M8, M9, M10

5:00 pm onwards Open Evening

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017


8:00 am – 8:45 am Executive 1:1 Meetings

Crown Conference Centre, Level 1 M2, M3, M4

9:00 am – 12:15 pm General Session

Crown Conference Centre, Promenade Room, Level 1

9:00 am – 9:45 am Partnering for Full Speed Irving Tan, President, Asia Pacific and Japan Vicki Batka, Managing Director, Partner Organisation, Asia Pacific and Japan

Full Speed in the Digital Age Irving Tan, President, Cisco APJ will talk about how, working together, Cisco and our partners are uniquely positioned to capture new customer opportunities and accelerate joint growth in the digital age.

Partnering for Full Speed

Vicki Batka, Managing Director, Partner Organisation, Asia Pacific and Japan will outline the


opportunities in the APJ region and how Cisco needs to work with Partner, tweak our methodology and adopt a holistic approach to capture these opportunities. She will also touch on the go-to-market priorities for the rest of the fiscal year and how Cisco and Partners will do so via the 5 Routes to Profitability. In addition, Vicki will also introduce the 3Ps, discuss the APJ Partner Program Structure and introduce APJ partners to Cisco Start and the opportunity that awaits them with Small and Medium enterprises across the Asia Pacific and Japan region.

9:45 am – 10:15 am The Digital Enterprise Ruma Balasubramanian, Vice President, Enterprise Business and Digital Transformation Asia Pacific and Japan Enterprises are under pressure to digitize, but how do they get started? Ruma Balasubramanian, VP of Enterprise Business & Digital Transformation in Asia Pacific & Japan, outlines how Cisco tackles digitization for customers, together with partners, with an industry-focused approach that places digital Business Outcomes front and center. This session includes a panel whereby Cisco customers share their own journey to digitizing their business.


10:15 am – 10:45 am Break

Crown Conference Centre, Promenade Foyer, Level 1

10:45 am – 11:15 am Innovation at Full Speed with Cisco’s Architectures Dave West, Vice President, Cisco Architectures & Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific and Japan Cisco is the only company providing an end-to-end technology platform through its architectures, and that’s key differentiation for Cisco and its partners. As we build greater integration between them and expand our business to software and services, we create greater value for our customers to digitize, and greater value for our partners to sell. We are innovating very fast, and together with our partners we must execute at full speed as well, levering Cisco’s integrated platform and its key digital capabilities - analytics, automation and pervasive security.


11:15 am – 11:45 am Accelerate Customer Transformation by Partnering with Pure Storage Vaughn Stewart, Vice President of Technology, Pure Storage

Attend this session to find out why Pure Storage, the only 100% channel and fastest growing storage company in the history of technology, wants to be your #1 storage partner. Find out how our FlashStack solution with Cisco combined with our Evergreen business model helps your customers achieve 50% TCO reductions, 30% performance gains, and better business outcomes. Learn how our channel partners worldwide have helped our customers like Mercedes Petronas Racing, Nielsen Research, KordaMentha, Catholic Church Insurance, and Bethanie, create new analytics and new revenue streams, all while saving customers money while being profitable themselves with some of the most lucrative 'stacked' channel partner benefits in the industry.


11:45 am – 12:15 pm Redefining the Data Centre for a Hybrid Cloud, Business Centric Future – The Cisco and Veeam difference! Don Williams, Vice President for ANZ, Veeam Software Nathan Steiner, Head of Systems Engineering, ANZ, Veeam Software In this session we provide an introduction and touchpoint to the senior management Veeam team within APJ. Also, a look at Veeams vision, strategy and capabilities alongside the 3 most profitable competitor differentiating Cisco and Veeam solution sets that can be leveraged by our joint partners today.


12:15 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch

Crown Promenade, MESH, Ground Floor

1:30 pm – 5:00 pm General Session


1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Increase Your Profitable Growth with DNA Jeff Reed, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Networks

Cisco In this session you will learn how to move at “full speed” with your customers on their digital journey with Cisco DNA. You will hear about the new tools and offers designed to help you capitalize on network transformation for digital, and accelerate software adoption. We will share our roadmap and strategy, highlight our solutions, and talk about new promotions in our portfolio that enable you to win across all markets, with expanded reach into small to medium businesses. We have the innovation and solutions to capture this market transition. It’s our time, join us! Key Takeaways: • Find out how you can capture the digital transformation opportunity with a software-driven strategy • Understand the new DNA offers and programs created to help accelerate your profitable growth • Learn how to win across all markets with expanded reach into small to medium business


2:00 pm –2:30 pm Take Your Customers on a Digital Journey with Data Center & Cloud from Cisco. ASAP. Frank Palumbo, Senior Vice President, Global Data Center/Virtualization & Enterprise Networking Sales

Understand Cisco’s vision of next gen data center and hybrid cloud. Frank Palumbo will outline our data center strategy to deliver a policy-driven, integrated infrastructure to extend application policy, security and analytics across public and private cloud networks and data centers. Cisco’s architectural approach ties analytics, simplicity, automation, and protection (ASAP) together with a consistent policy across the hybrid-cloud, and provides you with leading data center networking, security, converged/hyperconverged Infrastructures and SDN solutions that you can take to your customers today.


Key Take-aways: • Provide compelling value proposition for Cisco’s DC Architecture that you can share with customers • Understand link between public and private cloud and how to monetize a hybrid approach with Cisco • Learn how latest Cisco innovations can drive profitable growth and new sales to customers

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Cisco Security – Your Growth and Profitability Engine Dave Justice, Vice President, Global Security Sales Organization

The digital evolution is the biggest disruptor in the history of the security industry. With the global cybercrime economy estimated at more than $500B a year, no organization is immune to the relentless attacks targeting valuable data and intellectual property. The opportunity for partners is massive. Join us to understand why Cisco’s strategy of delivering best of breed products through an integrated security architecture provides you a competitive edge no vendor can match. Together we are uniquely positioned to deliver the effective security necessary to securely run and grow our customers’ businesses. Let’s talk about the key solutions that help you leverage Cisco’s architectural advantage to grow and accelerate your business. (ADDED PERIOD)


3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break

Crown Conference Centre, Promenade Foyer, Level 1

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Profiting From Continuous Collaboration Darryl McKinnon, Managing Director, Collaboration Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan

Productivity is not a one-time event. It happens when people exchange ideas, share content, collaborate together over time and over many interactions. Cisco makes collaboration simple. Join this session to learn how the Cisco Collaboration portfolio including Cisco Spark can enable dispersed team to have a richer, more collaborative meeting experience through one continuous work stream. And how Collaboration can enable you to be the trusted advisor to your customers.


4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Panel Discussion Dave West, Vice President, Cisco Architectures & Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific and Japan Vicki Batka, Managing Director, Partner Organisation, Asia Pacific and Japan Darryl McKinnon, Managing Director, Collaboration Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan Courtney Dodds, Managing Director, Data Center Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan


4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Wrap Up Host: Clarence Barboza


5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Cisco Live! Welcome Reception – World of Solutions

Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

Wednesday, March 8, 2017



Crown Metropol, The Office, Level 3 Crown Conference Centre, M11, Level 1

9:00 am – 10:00 am Ecosystem Partner Connections

Digital Transformation is now. Customers want to transform with agility and speed. Please join us and hear how to lead this digital era with your current and future customers. At this event, you will hear from Independent Software Vendors who have digital solutions and want to partner with you to accelerate business opportunities.

By attending the Ecosystem Partner Connections Event, you can connect with Ecosystem ISVs that can help increase your portfolio offers, customer base and revenue opportunities. You will also hear from Denny Trevett, Vice President of Worldwide Partner Sales, who will share Cisco’s strategy in Digital Transformation.

Crown Conference Centre, M12 & M13, Level 1

10:30 am – 11:45 am Cisco Live! Opening Keynote

Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Crown Promenade, MESH, Ground Floor

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Innovation Lounge Crown Conference Centre, Pre-Function Area, Level 2

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Architectures Breakout

Crown Conference Centre, Conference Hall 1,2,3, Level 2 M12 & 13, Level 1

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Collaboration Breakout Darryl McKinnon, Managing Director, Collaboration Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan Steve Vials, Head of Market Development & Digital Experiences, Collaboration Sales, APJ Gary Wolfson, Head of Global Collaboration Partner Organization Paul Petterson, Head of Telepresence & Video Sales, APJC Deborah Wong, Regional Manager, Collaboration Channel, Partner Organization, APJ Collaboration Reimagined.

Crown Conference Centre, Conference Hall 1, Level 2

Agile business is the future. Agile organizations learn and respond rapidly through an open flow of information, encouraging experimentation, learning on an interactive basis and organizing as a network of employees, customers, and partners motivated by shared purpose. Being agile is about making the best decisions with the right tools, with the right partners. Cisco provides new levels of collaboration to deliver significant results, which will enable your customers, to become innovative, efficient, more competitive and profitable. It also allows you, our valued partners to have meaningful conversations with line of Business Executives and become a trusted advisor. In this session you will see how Cisco is transforming the Workforce, Meetings and Teams experience, and truly understand the difference between an Agile and Traditional organisations.

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Data Center Breakout Cynthia Johnson, Global Vice President, Server Sales and Data Center Solutions Jeremy Foster, Director, Global Data Center Sales, UCS Dave Robbins, Regional Manager, Data Center Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan ASAP DC Unlocked: Innovation, Customer Value and Monetization Opportunities with Cisco Data

Center Portfolio This session will focus on the new areas of the DC portfolio that will help you drive big revenue in growing markets like HyperConvergence, Big Data, and the emergence of fully-automated Data Centre networking. We will also review the latest enhancements to Cisco’s UCS compute, Nexus, Tetration and software portfolio. Throughout the session, we will also explore how these innovations might come together with your expertise to create new business models, improve the productivity of your delivery teams and ultimately help you grow your business profitability. The goal is to review the new solutions at a business level, why they matter to your customers and how to help your sales teams seize the hybrid cloud opportunity.

Crown Conference Centre, Conferene Hall 2, Level 2

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Enterprise Networking Breakout Jeff Reed, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Networks Greg Dorai, Vice President, Product Management and Strategy, Enterprise Infrastructure and Solutions Group Profitable Growth with Cisco DNA This breakout session will deepen your understanding of Cisco DNA, examining the drivers and elements required of a modern digital network that is programmable, open and secure. Technology solutions for automation, security and analytics will be discussed with use cases explaining their


application. This session will provide an overview of Cisco’s 5-phase roadmap toward a self-driving network and what that means for you and how to prepare for the future. It will cover the offers and potential profitability scenarios partners can expect to see with Cisco DNA. Growing Opportunities with Cisco DNA for Mobility In this session, we will explore how DNA for Mobility drives value for our customers and partners through Faster Innovation, Reduced Cost & Complexity, and Higher Compliance & Lower Risk. We will focus on the new innovations of our wireless platforms, including the applications and services they enable, that are critical to digital businesses as wireless increasingly becomes the primary access and mission critical. Learn how our partner community is differentiating themselves with Cisco’s Wave 2 AP platforms, CMX location-based services and analytics, Apple partnership, and wireless security solutions that help grow wallet-share and increase competitive differentiation.

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Security Breakout Stephen Dane, Managing Director, Global Security Sales Organization, Asia Pacific and Japan Kerry Singleton, Cisco Stealthwatch APJC Sales Manager Tim Snow, Solutions Architect, Security, Asia Pacific Accelerating Digital Transformation Digital Transformation means transforming how you improve workplace experiences, how we deliver enhanced services to our customers, and how we shorten our planning cycles to go to market faster. It also transforms how we utilize new technology to enable our businesses to grow and prosper. Cisco Systems is uniquely positioned to deliver the platform and tools that enables businesses to securely grow to take advantage of Digital Transformation. Convergence of Network and Security: The Keys to the Cisco Kingdom Sometimes the answers come from within. No one does it like Cisco the one real source of truth is the network. Customers can leverage what they already own with the network and security layer i.e. Network As A Sensor (NaaS). Within this presentation we will identify the market opportunity for partner in APJ and the call to action. Protecting Your Digital Journey with Next Generation Security and proactive threat Defense The Age of Digital delivers new business models to enable richer customer and employee experiences. It also delivers new challenges daily as Cyber criminals remain persistent in developing new and innovative ways to compromise vulnerable resources. This requires a strategically focused approach to defeating these threats and protecting Digital growth. This session will dive into critical security issues faced today, then articulate a new, architectural approach to protecting digital innovation.


3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break

Crown Conference Centre, Pre-Function Area, Level 2

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Innovation Lounge


3:30 pm – 4:45 pm Sponsors Breakout

Crown Conference Centre, Conference Hall 2, 3, Level 2

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Intel Breakout Brad Haczynski, Managing Director, Cisco Global Account Team, Intel Corp New Intel Datacenter technologies – real benefits driving Digital Transformation The world is rapidly changing to a digital business model in every industry across the globe. Intel will share the concept of the digital vortex that is driving the rapid acceleration of business transformation and how Intel’s underlying datacenter technologies will help customers create real business outcomes in the future.


3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Nimble Breakout Mark Lazarus, CTO, Nimble Storage, Asia Pacific and Japan Sam J. Svitenko, Senior Director, WW Channel Strategy

The Nimble Predictive Flash Platform—A Unique Opportunity for Partners Nimble Storage is the leader in predictive flash infrastructure. Any slow-down that occurs across the infrastructure stack (storage, networks, servers and software infrastructure) causes an “app-data” gap that disrupts data delivery and slows down business. Nimble offers a predictive flash platform that closes the “app data gap,” giving you the fastest, most reliable access to data. Predictive analytics combined with flash storage radically simplify IT operations in your data center and in the cloud. More than 10,000 customers across 50 countries rely on Nimble to power their businesses. In this session, you will learn how selling Nimble solutions can provide rapid growth and increased profitability for your business practice.


4:15 pm – 4:45 pm IBM Breakout Eric Herzog, Vice President, Product Marketing and Management, IBM Storage Systems and Software Defined Infrastructure Introducing VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud delivers a converged infrastructure solution with a hybrid cloud management layer that enables orchestration, deployment, management, and migration of applications across data center, public cloud, and private cloud environments. The solution delivers easy-to-consume hybrid cloud deployments for use cases such as: - Moving applications and data to the cloud - Choosing the best deployment options for a wide variety of enterprise IT workloads - Tracking and managing copies, for end-to-end data management - Freeing up resources in the data center for new generation applications and cognitive workloads


4:15 pm – 4:45 pm NetApp Breakout Rick Scurfield, President, Asia Pacific Discover FlexPod NOW Accelerate your business with FlexPod All Flash, leading converged infrastructure from Cisco and NetApp. Join us and learn about the latest FlexPod innovations, discover how by selling FlexPod Now can help drive new incremental opportunities and revenue for you. Be sure to join us for a chance to win a two nights luxury hotel stay in Asia!


6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Cisco Live! Networking Reception – World of Solutions Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

Thursday, March 9, 2017



Crown Metropol, The Office, Level 3

8:30 am – 10:30 am Distribution Roundtable* (*By Invitation Only)

Crown Conference Centre, M11, Level 1

9:30 am – 1:30 pm Cisco Live! World of Solutions Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Cisco Live! Technology Keynote Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Crown Promenade, MESH, Ground Floor

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Innovation Lounge Crown Conference Centre, Pre-Function Area, Level 2

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Architectures Breakout

Crown Conference Centre, Conference Hall 1,2,3, Level 2 M12 & 13, Level 1

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Collaboration Breakout Darryl McKinnon, Managing Director, Collaboration Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan Steve Vials, Head of Market Development & Digital Experiences, Collaboration Sales, APJ Gary Wolfson, Head of Global Collaboration Partner Organization Paul Petterson, Head of Telepresence & Video Sales, APJC Deborah Wong, Regional Manager, Collaboration Channel, Partner Organization, APJ


Collaboration Reimagined. Agile business is the future. Agile organizations learn and respond rapidly through an open flow of information, encouraging experimentation, learning on an interactive basis and organizing as a network of employees, customers, and partners motivated by shared purpose. Being agile is about making the best decisions with the right tools, with the right partners. Cisco provides new levels of collaboration to deliver significant results, which will enable your customers, to become innovative, efficient, more competitive and profitable. It also allows you, our valued partners to have meaningful conversations with line of Business Executives and become a trusted advisor. In this session you will see how Cisco is transforming the Workforce, Meetings and Teams experience, and truly understand the difference between an Agile and Traditional organisations.

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Data Center Breakout Cynthia Johnson, Global Vice President, Server Sales and Data Center Solutions Jeremy Foster, Director, Global Data Center Sales, UCS

Dave Robbins, Regional Manager, Data Center Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan ASAP DC Unlocked: Innovation, Customer Value and Monetization Opportunities with Cisco Data

Center Portfolio This session will focus on the new areas of the DC portfolio that will help you drive big revenue in growing markets like HyperConvergence, Big Data, and the emergence of fully-automated Data Centre networking. We will also review the latest enhancements to Cisco’s UCS compute, Nexus, Tetration and software portfolio. Throughout the session, we will also explore how these innovations might come together with your expertise to create new business models, improve the productivity of your delivery teams and ultimately help you grow your business profitability. The goal is to review the new solutions at a business level, why they matter to your customers and how to help your sales teams seize the hybrid cloud opportunity.

Crown Conference Centre, Conferene Hall 2, Level 2

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Enterprise Networking Breakout Jeff Reed, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Networks Greg Dorai, Vice President, Product Management and Strategy, Enterprise Infrastructure and Solutions Group Profitable Growth with Cisco DNA


This breakout session will deepen your understanding of Cisco DNA, examining the drivers and elements required of a modern digital network that is programmable, open and secure. Technology solutions for automation, security and analytics will be discussed with use cases explaining their application. This session will provide an overview of Cisco’s 5-phase roadmap toward a self-driving network and what that means for you and how to prepare for the future. It will cover the offers and potential profitability scenarios partners can expect to see with Cisco DNA. Growing Opportunities with Cisco DNA for Mobility In this session, we will explore how DNA for Mobility drives value for our customers and partners through Faster Innovation, Reduced Cost & Complexity, and Higher Compliance & Lower Risk. We will focus on the new innovations of our wireless platforms, including the applications and services they enable, that are critical to digital businesses as wireless increasingly becomes the primary access and mission critical. Learn how our partner community is differentiating themselves with Cisco’s Wave 2 AP platforms, CMX location-based services and analytics, Apple partnership, and wireless security solutions that help grow wallet-share and increase competitive differentiation.

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Security Breakout Demetris Booth, Head of Security Product Management & Evangelism, APJC John Joo, Manager for Partner Development, Cisco Insieme Business Unit Tim Snow, Solutions Architect, Security, Asia Pacific Protecting Digitization and Ensuring Strong Cybersecurity for the Digital Bank Digitisation has banks undergoing the most extensive transformation in their history. It is facilitating new ways to engage new and existing customers, creating partnerships with FinTech, and basically redefining business models. But with these new models and opportunities, comes increased Cyber risks of pursuing digital initiatives because it expands their threat landscape. This necessitates addressing these risks with Cybersecurity programs and controls that ensure the security and privacy of sensitive customer data, while enabling business flexibility and growth. This session will discuss a more holistic approach to protecting financial services operations from current and future advanced Cybersecurity threats. Building The securely Architected Data Centre, Protecting your customer’s Data center assets The NextGen data centre is the core growth engine that will enable enterprises to build and expand to deliver new products and services to their customers. As organisations of all sizes pursue digital initiatives, the need for building an advance cloud and data centre infrastructure will become ever more important. This includes ensuring these infrastructures have the most advanced security to secure and protect sensitive corporate and customer data from evolving external and internal threats. This session will highlight the importance of the secure NextGen Data Centre and detail the securing of all north-south and east-west DC traffic. Defeating Ransomware while building Next Generation Cloud delivered Security Services


The most dangerous form of Malware is Ransomware. It has become the number 1 concern for many businesses in many different industries, as it costing today’s businesses tens of millions of dollars annually. Defeating ransomware requires an approach that stops the threat before it reaches your network. This session will introduce Cisco’s unique cloud-based approach to defeating ransomware while protecting against catastrophic business consequences.

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break


3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Innovation Lounge


3:30 pm – 4:45 pm Sponsors Breakout

Crown Conference Centre, Conference Hall 2, 3, Level 2

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Commvault Breakout Brian Allison, Vice President, Commvault Worldwide Alliances Mark Velthuis, Vice President, Indirect Business, Asia Pacific and Japan Full Speed: Modern Data Protection from Commvault and Cisco Commvault and Cisco innovation has opened up a $12B+ data protection opportunity for partners. In this session, attendees will understand how Commvault and Cisco have jointly developed solutions - including hybrid cloud - to deliver business outcomes for use cases such as application modernization, infrastructure refresh and disaster recovery. Commvault will also be announcing the launch of a new data protection solution that represents the first of its kind, jointly developed with Cisco and a key ecosystem partner. Partners will also hear about the most current best practices on how to build a modern data protection practice, resulting in revenue and profitability acceleration. Don’t miss this opportunity to understand how to leverage your Cisco Datacenter and storage ecosystem expertise and grow your business.


3:30 pm – 4:00 pm NVIDIA Breakout Tony Paikeday, Director Marketing Analytics, AI

GPUs – From Gaming, Graphics and Movies to Virtualization, Analytics and AI The world is abuzz about Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning? Do you know our customers are looking to solve problems never solved before with AI? Are you aware that our customers are asking to accelerate their data analytics so they can make real time decisions? Did you realize our customers can now virtualize their graphic intensive applications? Join us to learn how NVIDIA and Cisco have joined forces to create a GPU-Accelerated Data Center. We will explore the three key pillars of a GPU accelerated DC; Visualization, Big Data Analytics (HPC), and Artificial Intelligence. We will provide insight into the evolving market and how customers are transforming their business leveraging this new technology. Most importantly, we will share with you


how you can monetize these solutions today by leveraging the power of NVIDIA GPU and strength of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).

4:15 pm – 4:45 pm LiveAction Breakout Neal Patel, Director of Channels Accelerate Sales Together! - Drive Cisco opportunities faster with LiveAction Learn how to leverage the network visualization and analytics platform of choice worldwide to help create new high margin revenue opportunities by accelerating your Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) and Cisco IWAN offering. LiveAction’s visual network analytics enables you to sell more ISR 4K and ASR 1K routers against competing solutions with higher profitability. LiveAction, along with you and Cisco, will deliver greater end-customer satisfaction.


4:15 pm – 4:45 pm Citrix Breakout Phil Dean-Jones, Senior Director, Channels and Partners Raj Gulani, Senior Director, Product Management, Delivery Networks Boost Your Business with Citrix and Cisco Solutions for Secure Delivery of Apps and Data Boost your business with outcome-driven solutions jointly innovated by Citrix and Cisco. Securely deliver apps, data, and network with Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, and NetScaler on Cisco UCS virtualization infrastructure that result in increased productivity, business agility and differentiation for your business. Provide superior performance for end users over any cloud or network and transform your data center through true cloud-service automation, deep network and application-level intelligence, fast service deployment, and simplified networking services with Citrix NetScaler and Cisco ACI. You will leave the session with a greater in-depth knowledge about the newest innovative solutions Citrix and Cisco have developed which you can leverage to implement new business initiatives more quickly, operate and deploy applications more effectively and provide better user experiences: - Application and desktop virtualization with Cisco HyperFlex VDI for Citrix – the first and only complete hyper-convergence solution of compute, storage, and network included - Datacenter automation with Citrix NetScaler MAS and Cisco ACI - Cloud-service automation with Microsoft AzurePack, Citrix NetScaler, and Cisco ACI


6:30 pm – 9:30 pm APJ Partner Connection Gala Dinner Showtime @61 S South Promenade, South Wharf, VIC 3006

Friday, March 10, 2017


10:30 am – 2:00 pm Cisco Live! World of Solutions Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

10:45 am – 11:15 am Break Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

11:15 am – 12:30 pm Cisco Live! Guest Keynote Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch / Departures Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)

* Agenda is subject to changes.

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March 6-9, 2017 | Melbourne, Australia - Cisco · 11:15 am – 11:45 am Accelerate Customer Transformation by Partnering with Pure Storage Vaughn Stewart, Vice President of Technology,