Tuesday, March 20th - Synnex · Tuesday, March 20th 2:00 PM – rd9:00 PM Event Registration and Information Desk Open Registration Desk, 3 Floor 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM The Hangout Lounge

Tuesday, March 20th

2:00 PM – 9:00 PM Event Registration and Information Desk Open Registration Desk, 3rd Floor

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM The Hangout Lounge Open Sponsored by Google Cloud

An all-day flex space for you to catch up on a call, sit down

for a one-on-one meeting, or grab a quick snack and hang

out between sessions and meetings.

Registration

Pre-function, 3rd Floor

6:30 PM – 10:00 PM Transportation to Welcome Reception White River Ballroom

Level

6:30 PM – 9:30 PM Red, White & You Welcome Reception: An Evening at

The Crane Bay – Indy 500 Style

Party in a cool, urban venue just steps away from Lucas

Oil Stadium. The Crane Bay will welcome Red, White &

You and Varnex attendees with a glowing ambiance and

Indy 500 experiences. Want to know what it feels like to sit

in an Indy 500 car? Find out and have your picture taken

as if you were on the track of the Indianapolis 500 Motor

Speedway! Better yet, race around the track of the Indy

Car Simulator, or get competitive with your friends on the

giant remote-control race track. You may also explore the

multi-room venue and enjoy food, music and drinks. Be

sure to enjoy the outdoor patio fireplace and the stunning

views of the Indianapolis skyline.

The Crane Bay (Off-

site)

Wednesday, March 21st

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Event Registration and Information Desk Open Registration Desk, 3rd Floor

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM The Hangout Lounge Open Sponsored by Google Cloud An all-day flex space for you to catch up on a call, sit down for a one-on-one meeting, or grab a quick snack and hang out between sessions and meetings.

Registration

Pre-function, 3rd Floor

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Welcome Breakfast and Pep Rally! JW Ballroom 6-10, 3rd Floor

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Lenovo VR Classroom – Demonstration Arena

Lenovo’s VR Classroom is the first, all-in-one, ergonomically-optimized, high-performance virtual reality classroom system with all the necessary tools, content, and processes to provide effective, hands-on learning that takes students to places they’ve never been! Learn how you can help schools take their students places they’ve only dreamed of with robust, immersive virtual-reality experiences to astound, amaze, and EDUCATE in ways never before possible. Join us for 10-minute rolling demos. If you can’t make time during the breakouts, that’s okay! You can also join us at the Lenovo booth during the Solutions Pavilion.

Room 304, 3rd Floor

9:40 AM – 10:15 AM Vendor Solution Sessions (Round 1) 3rd Floor Breakouts

Synology NAS Solutions Synology is redefining storage by combining enterprise-grade feature sets with TAA-compliant hardware scaled for an SMB. Join us to learn how Synology saves IT administrators time and money while deploying business-ready solutions perfectly tailored to their needs.

JW Ballroom 1, 3rd Floor

C2G/Legrand Data Center Infrastructure Solutions C2G/Legrand will work with you to construct a “White Space Fit-Out” for your customer, including cabinets, containment, power, copper, fiber-optic assemblies, cords, and hardware, all from one company with the ability to provide intelligent software to monitor and manage your customer’s data center deployment. All of this backed by industry-leading engineering support.


Red Hat Ansible, Satellite, and CloudForms

The Keys to the Automation Kingdom


Changing the Game with LG Digital Signage

LG’s OLED, Crestron, Cisco Certified 4K, and narrow-bezel video wall displays provide you with the tools you need to close more business in the public sector. Learn how you can win with LG’s comprehensive portfolio of digital signage solutions.


Hikvision: Technology to Help Secure Our Schools Schools are expected to spend over $500M in security technology in 2018. However, whether it's K-12 or higher education, each school has its own topography, ingress and egress points, building types, and unique needs. Come hear one of our 150+ local sales engineers, sales, and vertical specialist resources talk about the right questions to ask your customers and the key technologies often used to solve common security challenges in the education space. And come experience our technology at our Solutions Pavilion booth as well!

Room 309-310, 3rd Floor

Accelerate Your Sales with Ixia’s Network Visibility and Security Solutions

Ixia’s Channel Xcelerate program enables partners to fast-track new opportunities and expand your existing business. Ixia’s unrivaled product portfolio features solutions to allow your federal customers to maximize their network and application performance, harden security, and validate technology investments. Join this session to learn the benefits of Ixia’s Xcelerate program, get a high-level overview of our solution portfolio, and learn how to start engaging with the Ixia team to drive more business!


Panasonic: Technologies That Move Us From responsive infrastructure to advanced data connectivity and large-venue 4K lasers, Panasonic is enabling governments, businesses, and educational institutions to create better experiences for everyone. Panasonic technologies are moving us all toward a better life and a better world by improving people’s experiences on the road, in the air, or at stores, universities, and work. Come and explore our wide range of projectors and displays that fit your requirements and needs.


10:25 AM – 11:00 AM Vendor Solution Sessions (Round 2) 3rd Floor Breakouts

Bretford introduces Active Charging

As mobile devices continue to multiply, the need for access to power continues to rise. Users shouldn’t have to sacrifice comfort and disruption when they are tethered to a power source. Enter Juice Mobile Power. Learn how Juice provides users with the flexibility to arrange and re-arrange rooms without compromising access to power.


ASUS OPBG: Solutions Built to Empower Your Business

Come learn about the latest monitor and mini PC solutions designed for all your business needs.


Why Verizon: Grow Your Revenue with a Co-Sell Partnership

Credibility, collaboration, compensation. We'll provide an in-depth overview of Verizon’s network capabilities and over all partnerships to drive revenue in current or future segments of your business.


Changing the Game with LG IT Solutions

LG is changing the game in the public sector with zero-client display solutions, 21:9 Ultrawide monitors, and Gram laptops. Learn how LG can help you close more business in 2018!


Sell More to Current Customers with DYMO! Come to our session to learn how to drive more sales by attaching DYMO products to current deals. Selling DYMO is a simple sales process that can add margin and residual sales. Come learn how to sell DYMO and be entered into a drawing for prizes.


Exceed Your Sales Objectives with Ixia’s Technology Partner Ecosystem Do you have customers that are looking to improve the performance of their existing network or security solutions? With over 80 technology integrations, Ixia’s solution portfolio allows you to offer your customers an added layer of visibility into their current networks, analysis tools, and applications. Join this session to learn how you can leverage Ixia’s technology partner ecosystem to meet the complex needs of your federal customers and increase your deal size!


Partnering with Micro Focus Government Solutions Micro Focus and HPE Software have joined to become one of the largest pure-play software companies in the world. Bringing together two leaders in the software industry, Micro Focus is uniquely positioned to help customers maximize existing software investments and embrace innovation in a world of Hybrid IT—from Mainframe to Mobile to Cloud. At Micro Focus Government Solutions, we support the needs of the US public sector. Meet the channel directors to learn who your advocates are and how to partner with them.


11:10 AM – 11:55 AM Vertical Strategy Trainings 3rd Floor Breakouts

WatchGuard: The State of Security in 2018

Marc Laliberte, Information Security Threat Analyst,

WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

With a new year comes new threats and evolutions of

older attack methods. Before we can defend our networks

from these modern attacks, we need to know what to

expect. In this talk, we’ll discuss the state of security in

2018, including the attacks targeting our data, our users,

and our devices. We’ll then dive into the technologies

available for protecting our networks against these threats.

And finally, we’ll end with a discussion about the best

practices for implementing these technologies and policies

to keep our networks safe in public sector.

JW Ballroom 1, 3rd

Floor

HP Inc.: Reinvent Learning – Building the Classroom and Campus of the Future Gus Schmedlen, Vice President, Worldwide Education, HP Inc.

In this session, Gus Schmedlen, Vice President of

Worldwide Education, will describe how HP’s Classroom

and Campus of the Future breaks the cycle of

industrialized education in favor of relevant, rich, student-

centric schools and colleges where students gain the skills

for the jobs of the future, not the past. During this Red,

White & You education event, Gus will discuss new

technologies like virtual and augmented reality, 3D

printing, learning analytics, and novel approaches to

student data privacy.

JW Ballroom 2, 3rd

Floor

Win in the State and Local Marketplace with Hewlett

Packard Enterprise

Robert Strelser, Director, Public Sector Channels and

Alliances, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Learn about HPE solutions including software-defined

infrastructure and simplified hybrid cloud management.

Learn about the speed and scale of private and hybrid

cloud solutions. Additionally, learn about IoT solutions,

including Aruba’s leading edge wireless solutions. Finally,

learn about HPE’s flexible infrastructure as a service

offering, “GreenLake”. GreenLake helps you as a partner

help your customer deliver the outcomes and demands a

suite of complete, consumption-based IT solutions—

designed, delivered, and operated by HPE Pointnext

services—with a simple, pay-per-use financial model,

leveraging HPE GreenLake Flex Capacity, the leader in

pay-as-you-go consumption models.

JW Ballroom 3, 3rd

Floor

11:55 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch JW Ballroom 6-10, 3rd

Floor

11:55 AM – 1:00 PM Intel and Panasonic Join Forces to Offer Device-as-a-

Service (DaaS) Model with SYNNEX!

Invite Only (lunch will be served).

More and more companies are exploring the benefits of

device-as-a-service (DaaS). Are your partners among

them? Come hear how SYNNEX’ Device-as-a-

Subscription program, teamed up with Intel and

Panasonic, can help boost your business!

Room 203-204, 2nd

Floor

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Regulated Industries Operations Center

If you have customers in healthcare, construction,

transportation, or utilities, or if you’re just interested in

these markets, you’ll enjoy visiting our Regulated Industry

Ops Center! We'll have product demos and information

specifically related to each sector. Plus, GOVSolv and

vendor experts will be there to talk about the solutions

available now and how to succeed in the regulated

industry market.

JW Ballroom 5, 3rd

Floor

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Public Sector Verticals 3rd Floor Breakouts

Expanding your Business with Campus Solutions:

Where Education Meets Public Safety

Join SYNNEX subject-matter experts to explore ways to

grow your SLED business by combining education and

campus security solutions. Our education and public safety

practices focus on campus-wide needs such as physical

security on campus, network security, school bus

management, cloud storage, and the smart campus.

JW Ballroom 1, 3rd

Floor

The Constantly Changing Education Market in K12 and

Higher Ed

Know what to recommend to your EDU customers before

the technology is even on their radar. In this session, we'll

dive into the emerging technologies for the entire

education ecosystem to help you be the consultant and

resource schools are looking for.

JW Ballroom 2, 3rd

Floor

Strategic Federal Program and Contract Capture

Strategies

Jeff W. Smith, President and Senior Principle Consultant,

True Upside Consulting

True Upside Consulting (TUC) will review the key tactical

attributes required to capture large federal programs and

contracts. We will cover imperatives, our scorecard

approach to qualifying opportunities, and assigning

probability of win for strategic opportunities. We will also

discuss best practices we see in the market today and

share lessons learned from strategic wins we have shared

with clients over the last 10 years supporting over $50B in

contract award value in wins for our clients. SYNNEX will

review federal vertical practice and strategies as they

relate to GWACs and small business partners as well as a

number of current topics like ISO 20243, VA Rule of Two,

DoD Amazon Rule, and the SYNNEX solution offering for

NIST SP 800-171.

JW Ballroom 3, 3rd

Floor

Setting up a SLED Strategy

Joe Morris, Vice President of Research, e.Republic

Understand the key components to developing a

successful SLED practice including a deep dive into

government contracting. See how SYNNEX can support

your practice with critical components geared specifically

to this market. This is essential to developing a plan of

attack and capture strategy. Centers for Digital

Government will present on the state of the state to frame

out this discussion.

JW Ballroom 4, 3rd

Floor

Navigating the GOVSolv Super Highway

Travel with the government team as we take you through

all of the offerings, tools, and solutions that we can offer

you in support of your public sector business, including

finance and services and reseller best practices. This

session is an introduction into the SYNNEX public sector

vertical markets.

Room 309-310, 3rd

Floor

3:10 PM – 3:45 PM Lenovo VR Classroom – Demonstration Arena Lenovo’s VR Classroom is the first, all-in-one, ergonomically-optimized, high-performance virtual reality classroom system with all the necessary tools, content, and processes to provide effective, hands-on learning that takes students places they’ve never been! Learn how you can help schools take their students places they’ve only dreamed of with robust, immersive virtual-reality experiences to astound, amaze, and EDUCATE in ways never before possible. Join us for 10-minute rolling demos. If you can’t make time during the breakouts, that’s okay! You can also join us at the Lenovo booth during the Solutions Pavilion!

Room 304, 3rd Floor

3:10 PM – 3:45 PM Vendor Solution Sessions (Round 3) 3rd Floor Breakouts

Partnering with Cisco in the Federal Government

Federal agencies have ever-expanding needs for

technology, for the networks, computers, cloud systems,

and security that allow them to carry out their missions

effectively. For more than 30 years, Cisco has been

committed to changing the way the world works, and our

partnership with the federal government enables and

empowers some of its most difficult mission needs. Join

Heather Collins, Director of Public Sector Partner Sales, to

learn more about partnering with Cisco to drive business

transformations in federal government.

JW Ballroom 1, 3rd

Floor

HP Inc.: Sprout in Education

Come explore how Sprout can be used in the classroom or

STEM lab with education learning resources and

community collaboration to expose new skills and

concepts.

JW Ballroom 2, 3rd

Floor

Microsoft: Surface, The Perfect Balance of Portability

and Performance

With powerful performance to match any work

environment, the Surface portfolio assists productivity that

will make the grade. Join the Microsoft Surface team to

learn why you no longer have to choose between power

and traveling light—nothing should stand in the way of

your customer’s success.

JW Ballroom 3, 3rd

Floor

Google Cloud: Go Further with Chrome Education in

2018

Come hear the latest from Google Education and learn

tips, tricks, and sales tactics to enhance your Chrome

Education sales potential through new features and

solutions now available for you to take advantage of.

JW Ballroom 4, 3rd

Floor

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in SLED – Working with

HPE to Jointly Win Business and Grow in the SLED

Marketplace

Learn about HPE products, solutions, and services, as well

as contracts, sales engagement, and other pertinent

topics. Most importantly, learn how HPE is winning in the

marketplace and how you can team with HPE to grow

profitably.

Room 309-310, 3rd

Floor

Addressing Key Verticals with the 2018 Lenovo Client

Portfolio

Let’s take a look at the 2018 Think portfolio and discuss

key products for many different verticals. From touch

screens that you can write on with a common pencil to

new, lower-priced Yoga Convertibles, Lenovo helps to

address education and healthcare so that you can bring an

increased value to your customers.

Room 305-306, 3rd

Floor

Turn to SYNNEX for Dell Federal Solutions

All our margin-increasing services are also available for

Dell Fed. Our team can manage contracts and provide

quote and configuration support and marketing support, as

well as provide assistance with grants. SYNNEX also

provides tools to accelerate your business and provide

efficient and accurate quotes.

Room 302-303, 3rd

Floor

3:45 PM – 6:00 PM Lenovo VR Classroom – Demonstration Arena

Lenovo’s VR Classroom is the first, all-in-one,

ergonomically-optimized, high-performance virtual reality

classroom system with all the necessary tools, content,

and processes to provide effective, hands-on learning that

takes students places they’ve never been! Learn how you

can help schools take their students places they’ve only

dreamed of with robust, immersive virtual-reality

experiences to astound, amaze, and EDUCATE in ways

never before possible. Join us for 10-minute rolling demos.

If you can’t make time during the breakouts, that’s okay!

You can also join us at the Lenovo booth during the

Solutions Pavilion!

Lenovo Booth,

Solutions Pavilion

3:45 PM – 6:00 PM Solutions Pavilion Griffin Hall, 2nd Floor

Thursday, March 22nd

8:00 AM – 2:00 PM Event Registration and Information Desk Open

Registration Desk, 3rd Floor

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM The Hangout Lounge Open Sponsored by Google Cloud An all-day flex space for you to catch up on a call, sit down for a one-on-one meeting, or grab a quick snack and hang out between sessions and meetings.

Registration Pre-function, 3rd Floor

8:00 AM – 10:15 AM General Session and Breakfast JW Ballroom 6-10, 3rd Floor

The Public-Sector CIO Leadership Challenge Sponsored by SYNNEX F2F

Teri Takai, Executive Director of Center for Digital Government and Former DoD CIO

Today’s public-sector CIOs are juggling the continual balance of leading their organizations through management of their existing technologies with the increasing demand for new and innovative technology solutions. They are faced with leading their organization of diverse skills, background, and experience through rapid change. This session will explore the future technology drivers and what CIOs are doing to lead their organizations into the future.

JW Ballroom 6-10, 3rd Floor

Trends and Technologies That Are Affecting Key Verticals Stephen Miller, Brand Ambassador, Lenovo This is an exciting time for IT because technology, and its possibilities, are advancing at a rapid pace. Recent announcements have caused conversations to go from “if we could” to “when do we start” in both K-12, higher education, and healthcare. We’ll discuss how Lenovo can help with AR/VR and other key topics that are opening up avenues in which we can help our customers increase the value of our products and services.


6:30 PM – 10:00 PM Transportation to Dine Arounds White River Ballroom

Level

7:00 PM – 9:30 PM Dine Arounds Off-site Locations

Google Cloud: Security From the Ground Up Dan Semaya, Solutions Engineer, North America, Google Cloud

The Google security model is an end-to-end process, built on over 15 years of experience focused on keeping customers safe on Google applications like Gmail, search, and other apps. Learn

how you as a Google Partner can take advantage of this security model to offer a best-in-class solution for your customers.


Closing Comments JW Ballroom 6-10, 3rd Floor

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Public Sector Verticals 3rd Floor Breakouts

The Keys to the Digital City: Regulated Industries Doug Couto, Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government In this session, we'll investigate key technology solutions ready to open doors for the future. What are our communities doing now to prepare for driverless and connected vehicles? What solutions help our healthcare providers accurately and timely attend to the needs of their patients while keeping them and their most private data safe? Our construction and infrastructure projects are now “smart”, and we’ll investigate how your solutions make it happen. Without water, power, and environmental controls NO industry can be smart. We’ll take a look at the technology being used to modernize our utility services. Plus, we'll cover who you need to talk to and what decisions they're charged with making to deploy technology solutions.


Education Policy and Its Impact on Technology in the Classroom Kristen Amundson, President and CEO, National Association of State Boards of Education Are you interested in understanding education policy to help you have more informed conversations with customers? Join guest presenter Kristen Amundson, President of the National Association of State Boards of Education and former Virginia legislator, to get an inside look into how policy affects technology in the classroom, both now and in the future.


Public Safety: Does the Police Chief Know the Benefits of Incorporating Technology into Their Operation? Learn How to Show Them the Whole Solution. As you sell technology solutions to our community protectors, it's not about, “Here’s what a product can do,” but, “Here’s the problem you can solve.” Solutions build stories that chiefs and sheriffs can relate to, and the story YOU tell has to make their agency better. You must relate the new technology to older methods of accomplishing tasks in the past. You must show them that you’ll give them the ability to do something they want to do, something they could not previously accomplish. Attend this session to learn about bleeding-edge solutions and how to work with SYNNEX and our vendor partners to help tell your public safety customer about the whole solution.


Setting up a SLED Strategy Joe Morris, Vice President of Research, e.Republic Understand the key components to developing a successful SLED practice including a deep dive into government contracting. See how SYNNEX can support your practice with critical components geared specifically to this market. This is essential to developing a plan of attack and capture strategy. Centers for Digital Government will present on the state of the state to frame out this discussion.


Federal Sales 101 Jeff W. Smith, President and Senior Principle Consultant, True Upside Consulting True Upside Consulting (TUC) will outline the key sales cycle comparisons between successful commercial sales approaches versus a federal one. TUC will explain where, how, and what type of opportunities you can look for from the federal government. We will discuss the right questions to ask federal end users to garner interest and create winning relationships. Lastly, we will inform at a high level the key technology trends and spending dynamics we are seeing in the federal market and give targeted advice how to exploit them. SYNNEX will share our support services for entry level partners in this market.


12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Lenovo VR Classroom – Demonstration Arena Lenovo’s VR Classroom is the first, all-in-one, ergonomically-optimized, high-performance virtual reality classroom system with all the necessary tools, content, and processes to provide effective, hands-on learning that takes students places they’ve never been! Learn how you can help schools take their students places they’ve only dreamed of with robust, immersive, virtual-reality experiences to astound, amaze, and EDUCATE in ways never before possible. Join us for 10-minute rolling demos. If you can’t make time during the breakouts, that’s okay! You can also join us at the Lenovo booth during the Solutions Pavilion!

Lenovo Booth, Solutions Pavilion

12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Solutions Pavilion and Lunch Griffin Hall, 2nd Floor

2:30 PM – 3:05 PM Lenovo VR Classroom – Demonstration Arena Lenovo’s VR Classroom is the first, all-in-one, ergonomically-optimized, high-performance virtual reality classroom system with all the necessary tools, content, and processes to provide effective, hands-on learning that takes students places they’ve never been! Learn how you can help schools take their students places they’ve only dreamed of with robust, immersive, virtual-reality experiences to astound, amaze, and EDUCATE in ways never before possible. Join us for 10-minute rolling demos. If you can’t make time during the breakouts, that’s okay! You can also join us at the Lenovo booth during the Solutions Pavilion!

Room 304, 3rd Floor

2:30 PM – 3:05 PM Vendor Solution Sessions 3rd Floor Breakouts

Partnering for Growth with Cisco in SLED Learn about Cisco’s strategy to unlock growth potential in SLED. Gain an understanding of Cisco’s SLED strategy and the important role that partners play in this segment. Hear about vertical plays in connected transportation and education that we will execute under the Public Sector Scale program. Join Steve Waltrich and Dan Stevens to learn more about partnering with Cisco to drive SLED business transformations.


HP Print and Supplies – Making it Easier for You to Win in the Public Sector Come join us for a lively discussion about HP’s new special-pricing programs with deeper discounts that help you lead with HP and win with your public-sector customers. In addition, we’ll touch on new products and how you can capitalize on HP’s print security campaign. P.S. We also have a fun giveaway!


Change the Conversation: Make Money in Education Selling Microsoft Join Microsoft executive Janie Schwark and former educator Julie Nelson as they give you the tools to drive your education sales by selling the whole solution (and how you can increase your profits while doing so). Learn about the ease of deployment with Intune for Education (included in the new M365 A1 license), how STEM and coding can be part of the daily conversation with Minecraft: Education Edition, ways to meet the needs of Special Education/ESL students, and how you can reach untapped markets with Windows in Education.


Google Cloud: Chrome Doesn’t Graduate Senior Year The opportunity for Chrome Education does not end in 12th grade. Attend our session to learn how to expand your Chrome success into the higher-education market!


Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cloud Technology Partners – Who, How, What, When, Where, and Why Design and implement your customer's project with the cloud-computing experts behind hundreds of the world’s most advanced cloud initiatives. Learn how to position this service offering to your customers and how to benefit from working with CTP. CTP is the leading consulting firm with experience helping organizations move to the cloud (public/private/hybrid). One of the big challenges organizations face as they make this move is figuring out what to leave in their traditional data center and what to move to the cloud. They often struggle to manage applications across a hybrid infrastructure. From strategy to operations, CTP accelerates end-to-end cloud adoption with the best implementation services, software, and intellectual property available. CTP’s comprehensive framework for cloud adoption and dedicated software development capabilities help clients achieve business results faster, no matter where they are in their cloud transformation. Learn how to help your customers decide what to move to “cloud”, how to innovate in the “cloud,” and how to run their “cloud” environment effectively and efficiently. CTP brings a management suite called Managed Cloud Controls that has been designed to help customers deal with the complexity of a multi-cloud approach as it relates to compliance and cost controls in a multi-cloud environment.


Lenovo: Industry Trends That Will Shape the Near Future of IT Buzzwords! We’ll discuss the trends and buzzwords that are defining the shape of IT and how Lenovo can help you address these technologies with your customers. Client security, agile IT, modern IT, provisioning, AR/VR, and end-user experience are just a few of the topics that can help us have better, more empowering conversations with our customers.


Why Verizon: Grow your Revenue with a Co-Sell Partnership Credibility, collaboration, compensation. We'll provide an in-depth overview of Verizon’s network capabilities and all partnerships to drive revenue in current or future segments of your business.


3:15 PM – 5:30 PM General Session JW Ballroom 6-10, 3rd Floor

Welcome JW Ballroom 6-10, 3rd Floor

Security in the Digital Age Dan Kent, CTO, U.S. Public Sector, Cisco Systems Inc. Security. Cloud. Digital transformation. What do these three things have in common? They are all core, not only to a successful IT strategy, but an overall business approach. Public sector is no exception. Cisco has developed a strategy that enables our customers’ missions and solves critical business challenges - accounting for the regulations and expectations of those who protect, serve, and educate the people of the United States.


What’s Next for SYNNEX GOVSolv Eddie Franklin, Vice President of Sales, Public Sector and Verticals, SYNNEX Corporation Hear from Eddie Franklin, Vice President of Sales, Public Sector and Verticals, as he shares what’s next for SYNNEX GOVSolv. He’ll discuss recent accomplishments, where the market is headed, and what GOVSolv is doing to help resellers and vendors drive more business.


Opportunities Earned and Leadership Learned: An American Hero’s Journey Florent Groberg, Medal of Honor Recipient, Director of Veterans Outreach at Boeing, and LinkedIn Spokesperson A true American hero as humble as he is grateful, Medal of Honor recipient Florent Groberg will share an unforgettable story and equally remarkable lessons on leadership, selflessness, and the importance of setting goals and earning what you wish to achieve. With a palpable passion for sharing his journey to inform and inspire others, Groberg will discuss the key stages and people in his life and how they shaped him to be the leader, advocate, and role model he is today.


Conference Closing Comments JW Ballroom 6-10, 3rd Floor

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Florent Groberg Meet and Greet During tonight’s closing event, Florent Groberg has graciously extended his stay to spend more time at Red, White & You. He also has a book called 8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of Honor that he will autograph for resellers only. While you’re at dinner, stop by to chat, get a picture, and receive your own signed copy of his book.


6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Taste of the States Closing Dinner and Reception Come and let your taste buds travel the country as you sample regional specialties from across the U.S.!


8:30 PM – 10:30 PM The Google Cloud After Party Badge must be worn to gain entry. The party NEVER stops when Google’s in the house! Join our hosts as we continue the festivities and close out our strongest Red, White & You conference ever in a SECRET location. We can only give you one hint: Don’t PARK yourself. Throw it into GEAR and dance through the evening!

It’s a secret!

Friday, March 23rd

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Tuesday, March 20th - Synnex · Tuesday, March 20th 2:00 PM – rd9:00 PM Event Registration and Information Desk Open Registration Desk, 3 Floor 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM The Hangout Lounge