Virtualisation Customer Case Study – Gaming

Tatts Group Ltd. is the leading provider of neighborhood-based gaming services in the Australia region. In this session come and hear how Matthew Maw, CTO of Tatts Group, helped deliver data centre virtualisation taking their blue print and strategy from vision to a reality. Learn how Tatts Group with a multi phased approach provided a new infrastructure to accomplish several key goals: increased agility and scalability; provided high visibility; and improved performance through virtualisation.

Borderless Network Customer Case Study – Retail

NBNCo are not only building out important new national infrastructure, but are having to grow a corporate entity to support and control that process too. In this session, we'll explore why NBNCo have worked closely with Cisco to adopt a Secure Borderless Network as a key platform for the business but why they have moved to manage network access via identity based controls.

Borderless Network Customer Case Study – Enterprise

Data Centre Transformation - Cisco's Virtualisation and Cloud Journey & Interoperability Strategies for the Data Centre

Business pressures, industry trends and operational limitations are driving transformation in the data center. No longer will technology silos, manual provisioning, and dedicated technology scale with the needs of business. Join John Manville, Cisco VP of IT Network and Data Centre Services, for his presentation on how Cisco IT is strengthening its competitive advantage by demonstrating the value of the 'Network as the Platform.' Learn how Cisco uses its own Data Centre virtualisation and cloud technologies to transform IT into a services organisation and enable new business models for the company. Gain a better understanding of how Cisco IT uses our Unified Computing System (UCS) for virtualisation as it enables IT to reduce provisioning times, improve scalability, and lower the total cost of ownership for compute services.

Career Path to CIO

Do you have the skills to become a CIO? How do you position yourself to stimulate growth and present your ideas? Do you know what keeps your CIO up at night and how this will impact your career? Hear recommendations on the key care-abouts from the top down from an experienced CIO.

Business Case for Video

Does your company embrace video as a collaboration technology? How do you drive an initiative to create a platform and infrastructure that supports all of your company's video needs? How do you convince your CFO that there is a real ROI business case for deploying video? How can an IT organisation fund an expensive pervasive video deployment with IT budgets continually being cut? Is gaining user adoption as easy as just rolling out the technology, or is there more to it than that? Hear how Cisco created best practices to make video collaboration accessible from the CEO down.

How to Fuel Innovation

Companies need to thrive but it can be challenging to produce innovation when budgets are tight. Learn strategies to create an innovative and supportive workplace. How can you optimise technology to free up other resources? How do you embrace openness? Which tools can you use to make it happen instead of change happening to you?

Coping with the Explosion of Mobile Devices

When your CEO implements drastic changes on new devices you need to support, how do you handle the impact on the network? How do you control your data when it's accessible almost anywhere by a demanding workforces? What security measures are scalable to prepare for the future? How can you plan for the next big push?

Share your experiences – good and bad – with your peers. Does your organisation struggle with the idea that the boundaries between work and play are blurred? Are you seeing an increase in productivity with the use of social tools?

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Supporting the Surge of Media

How can the network grow to support all the new consumer created applications as they integrate with your enterprise applications….and bandwidth heavy applications utilised by a highly empowered workforce? How will you harness technology to develop new ideas that meet employee and customer expectations? How will you increase your competitive advantage with collaborative tools? What are the implications for storage and infrastructure. How do you develop a cohesive strategy for purge/archive?

Articulating the Business Value of the Next Generation Data Centres

Is a company owned Data Centre dead? We all know that Data Centres can be very expensive and intensive projects to manage. How do you justify a major investment that can now be outsourced to the cloud as a competitive advantage for your business? How you propose and sell your project will better ensure your chances of obtaining the funding you need. Learn strategies for success.

Sustainability

This presentation will provide an overview of climate change and sustainability basics, including:

• An explanation of climate change and sustainability and the interplay between the two
• Drivers behind companies managing climate change and sustainability risk
• Greenhouse emission profiles and projections
• Types of policies used to manage climate change and sustainability
• Current and emerging regulatory environment, from an Australian and international perspective

The presentation will also cover case studies, providing examples of how companies are responding to climate change and sustainability risk and opportunities.

Running IT as a Business

Participate in an interactive discussion about transforming your IT organisation into a business function. Sean Worthington, VP IT Operational Excellence and Service Enablement, will share the challenges and opportunities that face Cisco IT as they implement an IT as a Service business model. Learn how to lead with an architecture strategy and adopt an operating model that provides the framework for change. Hear Sean put this all into context by providing examples of Cisco successes that demonstrate the relevance of IT in business today. Learn how the Global economy and different emerging business models play a part in running IT as a business.

Mobile, Social, Visual and Virtual – How to Deliver on the Promise of the Next Wave of Collaboration Technologies

The enabling element of ""The Workspace of the Future"" is collaboration. Collaboration technology provides an interlock between traditional desktops and innovations in mobility, social capabilities, video integration and virtual environments.

The introduction of Collaboration solutions in your organisational networks provides many returns, evident in the employee productivity and workplace efficiency and innovation gained through mobile and virtual access, social connections and visual communications.

This session will explore the collaboration enablers available to provide virtual and mobile anywhere, anytime access to real-time collaboration through IM, presence, voice and video communications and also the technology available to harness the power of social interactions and connections.

Social Networking – Business Tool or Personal Space

Social media is not a fad. It's here to stay and changing everything along the way. Social media is transforming how people communicate and collaborate, and in the process, is giving everyone a voice and the ability to change the world with a single tweet. People now have the power to voice their opinions or to organise millions to rally against causes or injustices. We have much to learn, teach and share with each other. I hope to share with you my stories and knowledge at Cisco Live so that we can truly be social!

Collaboration : Empowering the New Workforce

Modern organisations are all about improving employee productivity and efficiency through effective collaboration and communication. This means integrating all the important elements that connect employees and enrich their experience including social networking paradigms, video, discussion forums, and customised business applications. Sheila Jordan, VP, IT from Cisco, will present the key trends – globalisation, technology changes, mobility and the explosion of content including the growing pervasiveness of video – that is driving collaboration in companies today. She will also address what it is, why it's important, the value and benefits of collaboration to companies and how it can successfully be deployed. Find out how you can transform your organisation and empower your next generation workforce.

CITEIS – Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services

The Private Cloud is one of the fastest growing solutions today and the significance of the secure multi-tenant Data Centre on business goals is increasing. Cisco IT is aggressively deploying advanced technology Data Centre solutions to automate and virtualise storage, networks, and servers. Cisco's enterprise Data Centre architecture and Infrastructure as a Service are built on Cisco advanced technology products including the award-winning Multilayer Director Switches (MDS), Unified Computing System (UCS), security products, virtual network services, and unified fabric (Nexus).

In this session you will learn how Cisco IT is designing and deploying next-generation Data Centre solutions. Attendees will also learn the benefits of automation and virtualisation across Cisco's global network environment. Session highlights include:

• Reducing Data Centre operating & capital costs
• Driving higher utilisation of existing servers and storage devices
• IaaS Private Cloud
• Server consolidation
• Service Catalogue
• Service Management
• Image Management
• Organisation Alignment
• Business Process Architecture
• Application transformation
• Securing the Data Centre

Technology Panel

What's on your mind? Here is your opportunity to "get up close and personal" with some of our leading Solution Architects and senior Engineers. Find out in an engaging, conversational format about the latest networking technologies. Why? When? Whether? Ask questions not covered in the sessions but which may be critical for your business.. or for your career! This session will hosted and will ensure that we cover the hottest topics from virtualisation to video, clouds to collaboration, routing to roaming, wireless to wired and IP to IC. After brief introductions by the panel, discussion will be open to the audience who will then drive the questions and topics for discussion.

CIO Panel

The 'dynamic networked organisation' is rapidly becoming a business imperative. Technology continues to rise as a key external factor for CEOs globally and it is having a pervasive impact on business operations beyond IT – on staff, partners, customers and brand. As a result, CIOs will likely assume more prominence in the executive team. The question for the CIO is how to respond and be prepared?

Here is your opportunity to hear directly from some of Australia's leading CIOs. How will they address challenges such as complexity and agility? Obtain insight into the type of people and skills they will look for in their teams such that they can address these challenges. Attend this panel to obtain senior IT management input on options for your future career.

Cloud Panel: Public/Private/Hybrid – What does it mean to you ?

"Cisco contributes unique capabilities to the Cloud revolution. Our network platform enables the rapid, safe, and flexible deployment of Cloud capabilities. We provide choice along multiple dimensions, from the type of service you want to consume to the deployment model that is most appropriate for your applications. We allow a pragmatic evolution within the revolution: our technologies safeguard your investments and future-proof the transition. With our ecosystem of partners, Cisco stands ready to help you capture the Cloud opportunity, but what is the right model for your business ?

• Public clouds can offer secure, inexpensive environments that cover a wide range of services for enterprises that are flexible with their needs.
• Enterprises that require heavy security, privacy, or customisation often choose private clouds over public offerings.
• Because business and application needs often vary within an organisation, a hy-brid public/private strategy can be the best solution.

In this session a panel made up of senior Cisco technology and business leaders will discuss and debate Cloud strategy and what it means to today's Enterprise.

IPv6 Panel: Experiences with Deploying IPv6

This session is an interactive discussion together based upon a few IPv6 deployment case studies.

IPv6 is already deployed or being actively deployed in various organisations around the world. These activities are becoming increasingly common and while they add to industry's body of knowledge and expertise in deploying IPv6, they are also indicating that we are on the inflection point of large scale adoption of IPv6. This interactive session will share conclusions drawn from IPv6 deployments around the world and across market segments by focusing on the business, operational and technical aspects of these efforts.

To kickstart interaction, several brief, yet concrete case studies will be presented by industry leaders responsible for IPv6 adoption within a variety of organisations. This session is an opportunity to interact and share practical experiences on IPv6 deployment efforts and the lessons learned to date.

Borderless Network Customer Case Study - Education

In this session come and listen to Craig Warren who is the Operational Service Provision Manager at Deakin University, as they talk through their investment in the Borderless Network architecture. Their design spanned a multiple network supporting over 20,000 active switch ports and a range of technologies including wireless, IP Telephony and collaboration, data centre and video a large video fleet. Craig will discuss Deakin's journey and why they sought a common IT architectural approach to in order to put the university in a good position to manage and deal with the exponential demand for video and mobility. All of this was done with a focus to reduce operational costs and support its sustainability agenda by being as energy efficient as possible.

Business Case for Video

Does your company embrace video as a collaboration technology? How do you drive an initiative to create a platform and infrastructure that supports all of your company's video needs? How do you convince your CFO that there is a real ROI business case for deploying video? How can an IT organisation fund an expensive pervasive video deployment with IT budgets continually being cut? Is gaining user adoption as easy as just rolling out the technology, or is there more to it than that? Hear how Cisco created best practices to make video collaboration accessible from the CEO down.