Cloud+ educational program announced

Check out the lineup of speakers and educational sessions for this year's Cloud+ Here's a link to the program, and it's also copied and pasted below.

We are super excited about bringing Cloud+ to the hippest tech hub in the country, Austin, Texas on Nov. 29 and 30.

We'll be announcing more speakers, including a swell outside-of-the-security-industry keynote speaker, in the next week. We're just crossing some final Ts and dotting the last Is on that.

You can get yourself registered by clicking here.

Keynote

Stay tuned!

The cloud chasm

Moving from a traditional security system to a cloud-based security system often still requires a hurdle. Why did this corporate end user decide to go with a cloud-based system in his nine-story facility even though three systems integrators advised going with a traditional system? In this session, an end user, manufacturer and consultant discuss how to get across the cloud chasm and the benefits of doing so.

Mark Scaparro, SVP Sales, BluB�X
Ray Bernard, President and Principal Consultant, Ray Bernard Consulting Services
Moderated by Martha Entwistle, editor, Security Systems News

How national integrators approach cloud

Three leading national integrators talk about how their companies are approaching cloud. What's their strategy? What are they focusing on?

John Hudson, TycoIS, Regional Director, West Region
Jeremy Brecher, SVP Technology and Chief Information Officer, Securitas Electronic Security
Joe Young, Director, Cloud Monitoring Services, G4S Secure Integration
Moderated by Martha Entwistle, editor, Security Systems News

Finance in the cloud

An update on the M&A report that John Mack gave at Cloud+ 2015, followed by a targeted Q&A.

John Mack, Executive Vice President and Co-Head of Investment Banking and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, Imperial Capital
Moderated by Martha Entwistle, editor, Security Systems News

Bandwidth: The elephant in the cloud

As the former Chief Security Officer for Amazon, Ed Bacco knows what it's like to be sitting in the end user's chair. This unique Cloud+ session will ignite the fireworks in a role-play approach, with Bacco playing an end user who wants to move to the cloud, but is having trouble getting around the inherent limitations. A group of experts—data center executive; VMS provider; fiber/cable service provider (the elephant); and a security integrator—join Bacco to attempt to solve the challenge.

END USER: Ed Bacco, Chief Security Officer, Aronson Security Group
DATA CENTER: Dean Drako, CEO, Eagle Eye Networks
INTEGRATOR: Scott Schmidt, Vice President of Technology, Aronson Security Group
VMS PROVIDER: Reinier Tuinzing, Strategic Alliances Manager, Americas, Milestone

Central stations in the cloud

What are the benefits of taking your central station business to the cloud? Leading systems integrator, Jeffrey Nunberg, CEO of Integrated Security Systems in Miami, moderates a discussion where he will be asking the hard questions that all integrators want answered: How is it done? What are the options? Which integrators will benefit the most from moving monitoring to the cloud? What kind of the front-end investment is required and what kind of ROI should integrators and end users expect?

Cliff Dice, CEO, DICE Corp.
Rodney Thayer, Consultant, Smithee, Spelvin, Agnew & Plinge
Moderated by Jeffrey Nunberg, CEO, Integrated Security Systems

Cloud add-ons

You don't need a complete cloud-based security system to take advantage of some of the benefits offered by the cloud. This session will examine options such as video analytics, health monitoring and data analytics.

Cloud and mobility

Description coming soon!

Moderated by John Szczygiel, EVP and COO, Brivo Systems