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Thank you for attending Cisco Connect 2013! It was a real pleasure to meet you at our event in Kinepolis Imagibraine.

We hope you appreciated the day and did follow some interesting key- and breakout sessions.

Cisco is pleased to offer you some downloadable PDF's from the presentations via the Schedule tab and then refer to the specific session.

Looking forward to meet you again at future events.

Pol Vanbiervliet
Managing Director
Cisco Belgium & Luxembourg


Intel® is Official Sponsor for Cisco Connect 2013

 

Time Session name Speaker
09.00 Registration, Coffee, Cisco Connect Experience  
10.00 Welcome to Cisco Connect 2013! Pol Vanbiervliet, Managing Director Cisco Belux
10.05

Competitivity and the role of  Innovation - ENdownload pdf

Competitivity and the role of  Innovation - FRdownload pdf

Competitivity and the role of  Innovation - NLdownload pdf

How are we actually doing in Belgium? 
Pieter Timmermans, CEO VBO-FEB
10.45

Your Vision Made Possible download pdf

Peter Karlströmer, Vice President, Cisco North
11.30

The Innovation of Everything download pdf

The Internet Revolution has transformed the ways we work, live, play, and learn ­ but that may pale compared to the transformation that lies just ahead. The Internet of Things and its evolution, the Internet of Everything. promise to be even more dramatic. Ubiquitous sensor technologies, data in motion, big data, and analytics that result in predictive data will all usher in a new era of connectivity, innovation, and efficiency. How will your organization take advantage of this tsunami of opportunity?
Carlos Dominguez, Senior Vice President, Cisco
12.00 The Nexus of Forces Andy Butler, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
12.20 Lunch and Cisco Connect Experience  
13.20

Can BYOD Be the Bridge that Allows for Proactive Innovation Between Business and IT? download pdf

BYOD can wreak havoc on the tenuous relationship between IT and the business. But a comprehensive and solid BYOD plan for employees and reasonable BYOD policies that permit personal cloud services will help bridge the gap.
Sheila B. Jordan, Senior Vice President, Communication and Collaboration IT, Cisco
13.45

Intel® Keynote: Innovation with the user in mind download pdf

This decade we will create and extend computing technology to connect and deliver wonderful experiences and enrich the lives of every person on earth.

If the internet was a movie we’d still be in the opening credits – by pursuing Moore’s law we will surpass technical and economic boundaries which open doors to accessible pervasive computing.
Information and data are in most cases the most valuable assets you have in your company, now through increased compute power and even better insights you are for the first time able to take full advantage of this information and change from data gathering to analyzing to context awareness and eventually pro-active decision making truly transformational.
Driving not just efficiency but business model innovation. Corporate data + Web Data + Sensor Data provide a huge potential how you handle the data and create the analytics will be a Competitive Differentiator.
How Are You Going Deal with 50x Data Growth by 2020 in an Affordable Way? Intel’s Role in Big Data; Deliver Emerging Solutions deliver Speed, Scale and Value. But, let’s not forget the User Experience, It’s what we make possible that brings the user experience to life!
But what does this mean for business? It’s a clear time of Change and Challenge for Business…The New Wave of Transformation is Global…its happening NOW. 

Henk van den Eeckhout, Team Director G500 Enterprise Theatre
14.00 Coffee break and Cisco Connect Experience  
14.30 Breakout-sessions:  

  Borderless Networks Track  
14.30

Advanced security deployment with Cisco Web Security Appliance and ASA-CX Next-Generation Security Services download pdf

Multifaceted, highly dynamic applications and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) workplaces have become the norm. And with them comes the challenge to balance productivity with security. A new approach is needed — without abandoning time-tested methods — to unify the network's security framework, accelerate business innovation, and proactively protect against new and emerging threats.
This session will explain how the Cisco ASA Next-Generation Firewall Services address these needs by adding next-generation capabilities, including Application Visibility and Control (AVC) and Web Security Essentials (WSE), to the industry's most proven stateful inspection firewall. 

Ronny Guillaume, Systems Engineer, Cisco
15.15

Unified Access : One Network, One Policy and One Management download pdf


Every company is faced with a large increase in mobile devices driving new ways of working, and leading to a fundamental review of the “workspace”. Depending on your work environment, this review can lead to controlled approaches (Choose Your Own Device, Controlled Smartdevice deployments) or open approaches (Bring Your Own Device, …), Virtual Desktop Approaches of Mobile Device Management approaches, extending the office space towards flexible workspaces and homeworking. Cisco’s Unified Access delivers the architectural infrastructure upon which to enable the new workspace. Built upon One Network, One Policy and One Management, Cisco’s Unified Access can help IT drive this workspace transformation with security, agility, simplicity, scale and manageability. During this session, we will cover in more detail the latest evolutions in the One Network, One Policy and One Management building blocks.

Sebastien Marchal, Systems Engineer, Cisco
16.00

Cloud Intelligent Networking: evolve your Wide Area Network to take full advantage of the Cloud download pdf

Today, everyone is evaluating how to take full advantage of the opportunities that the cloud offers, whether it be a public, private or hybrid cloud or a combination of multiple clouds. In this transition, it remains key that the user experience is of highest quality, ensuring that applications and resources are delivered on time and without interruption.

Cisco Cloud Intelligent Network uses network-integrated intelligence to deliver the right performance, security, scalability, reliability, visibility to applications and management that are essential for providing connectivity for network services and devices from the premise to multiple networks and clouds, while controlling costs and maintaining energy efficiency. In short, it gives you the ability to connect your users to your world of many clouds with the same confidence as your private network. In this session, we will cover the Cisco Cloud Intelligent Network and the different Cloud Connectors that deliver these intelligent services.
Fabrizio Pappalardo, Business Development Manager, Cisco

  Data Center Track  
14.30

Unified Data Center Session: from Unified Fabric to Software Defined Network (SDN) download pdf

Cisco Unified Fabric is one of the pillars of the Cisco Unified Data Center, which unifies computing, storage, networking, and management resources to simplify IT operations, reduce costs, and increase performance. Products in the Cisco Unified
Fabric portfolio include the Cisco Nexus 7000, 6000, 5000, and 3000 Series Switches, 2000 Fabric Extenders and Nexus 1000v softswitch.
This session will discuss the actual status on Unified Data Center Fabric from a technological point of view and will highlight product related innovations in that area and bridge the gap to SDN.

Cisco Expert
15.15

Building the private cloud: UCS (Unified Computing Systems) and the Cloupia Automation & Orchestration download pdf.

Cisco's Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) unifies compute, storage, network and virtualization management into a single cohesive and complete cloud management system.  
The Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller manages, provisions and orchestrates Cisco UCS servers, Cisco Nexus switches, NetApp and EMC storage system and Vmware Virtual Servers.

Cloupia CUIC provides self-service portal, service catalog, orchestrator and resource management components to manage and orchestrate complex multi-tenant virtualized data center environments. The unique value proposition of CUIC is its ability to optimally build and support a Private Cloud through the unification of server, storage and network resources.
Cisco Expert
16.00

Introduction to Software Defined Network (SDN) download pdf

Open Network Environment (Cisco ONE) is a portfolio of Cisco technologies and open standards that brings programmatic control and application awareness to the network, combining the benefits of hardware and software across physical and virtual. You need your network and your applications to work together - and that's exactly what the Open Network Environment does for you.

Cisco Expert

  Collaboration Track  
14.30

Business Edition E6000:  Affordable, Simple and Scalable download pdf

Today, technology should enable Midsized Businesses to meet the needs of their employees and customers; in the future, it should allow these businesses to make simple but value-rich changes.
Join this session to meet the Cisco Business Edition 6000. An affordable, simple and scalable collaboration solution that business decision leaders are choosing for their midsize businesses. The solution quickly pays for itself by lowering total cost of ownership and positioning company communications for future growth based on the proven Cisco Collaboration applications. 
(target audience – Business & IT leaders looking for a Collaboration Solution supporting up to max 1000 users and 50 sites) 

Cisco Expert
15.15

Innovate with Visual Collaboration download pdf

Explore Cisco end-to-end solutions in different environments and on a variety of devices. See how you can provide a flexible platform for Collaboration that can help your people forge new relationships with suppliers, partners and customers. Enable on-demand technical consultation and remote training, create new video-enabled business processes and ignite innovation, accelerate decision-making and speed time to market.
(target audience – Business & IT leaders)

Cisco Expert
16.00

Collaboration : A Comprehensive Simplified Architecture download pdf

This breakout session will take a layer-by-layer approach in designing a Cisco collaboration network. Besides providing an insight on an integrated and consolidated call control design we will illustrate how conferencing capabilities can be enabled on an existing core network to allow for voice, video, and web collaboration for internal, business to business and even business to consumer interactions…
(target audience – IT)

Cisco Expert

  Service Provider Track  
14.30

The promise of network simplification (SDN meets NGN) download pdf

NGN network architectures are evolving from a strictly separated and layered paradigm, with dedicated appliances for specific network functions towards a more simplified network infrastructure thanks to advances in IP+Optical integration, and Network Function Virtualization.  The latter being made possible with the advent of robust, powerful and highly resilient datacenter technology. 
In this session, we'll cover the basics of IP+Optical integration along with the industry response to SDN, why SDN will be an evolution and not a revolution, and a modular approach to SDN applications in NGN networks.

Cisco Expert
15.45

Mobility everywhere ; towards seamless WiFi and 3G/4G integration download pdf

As per the Cisco's VNI report Mobile recently released data services are expected to have a substantial growth in the next coming years. Different wireless technologies both on licensed and on unlicensed spectrum are to targeted to deliver this growing demand. In this session we will provide an overview on what can be the role of the different technologies and how Cisco Mobile Architecture can provide a seamless user experience across the different wireless technologies as well as additional monetization alternatives for Service Providers.

Cisco Expert

  Platinum Sponsor Track  
14.30

The time for Tiered Hybrid Cloud is Now! – Dimension Data as Leaders in Gartner Magic Quadrant Cloud IaaS download pdf

With more than 2000 Clients, the Dimension Data Enterprise Class cloud services meet demands of the most demanding developers, IT managers, or global CIOs. We build superior solutions that take the complexity out of 'the cloud.' being secure, easy-to use, fast, and designed to run complex, high-performance applications at very competitive prices.The Gartner Magic Quadrant Cloud IaaS report recognizes the Dimension Data Managed Cloud Platform (MCP) as unique, "providing a single unified architecture across our public, private and hybrid cloud offerings" More info at http://eucloud.dimensiondata.com

Stephane Munster- Business Development Manager Data Center & Cloud Line of Business, Dimension Data

15.15

Delivering the FlexPod solution Microsoft & NetApp download pdf

Cisco, NetApp and Microsoft are accelerating the deployment of private clouds built on FlexPod with a single management interface that integrates Microsoft System Center 2012, PowerShell Toolkits and NetApp OnCommand data management software. This reference implementation helps customers reduce infrastructure and application deployment time from days to hours while achieving greater utilization of physical and virtual resource pools

Microsoft & NetApp
16.00 Prepare your organization for BYOD (Belgacom)
Allowing end-users the freedom to bring their choice of computing and communication devices at work is a huge challenge for organizations. IT administrators need to deliver a reliable and scalable enterprise network able to support users with their personal devices. They need to secure connectivity from anywhere within the network while maintaining control to ensure security and prevent data loss. But they also need to look into the policies and legal aspects of BYOD. How do you start a BYOD project? Discover the unique integration of an Advanced Network Access Control (Cisco Identity Service Engine) and a Mobile Device Management platform to ensure you an easy to build end-to-end solution for corporate and employee-owned devices.
Jean-Luc DELVAUX, CISSP, CISM
16.45 Closing Networking Cocktail with Connect Experience  
18.00 End of Day  

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Kinepolis Imagibraine
Boulevard de France
B-1420 Braine l'Alleud

Coming from E411
Take direction Brussels-Waterloo via R0.  Take exit 24 (Braine-l’Alleud / Parc de l’Alliance) and after 200 m turn right.

Coming from E19
Take direction Brussels – Mons.  Take exit R0 Bruxelles-Est Waterloo. On the R0 take exit 24 (Braine-l’Alleud / Parc de l’Alliance) and after 200 m turn left.

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Microsoft and NetApp are partnering together with Cisco in the FlexPod solution.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

NetApp creates innovative products—storage systems and software that help customers around the world store, manage, protect, and retain one of their most precious corporate assets: their data. We are recognized throughout the industry for continually pushing the limits of today’s technology so that our customers never have to choose between saving money and acquiring the capabilities they need to be successful.

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Citrix transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries.

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EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at http://belgium.emc.com.

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Fast Lane

Fast Lane offers IT training courses in the area of networking, storage and virtualization. Our training portfolio includes Cisco, NetApp and VMware courses, and multivendor courses in which technologies of these vendors are being combined. Our courses are authorized and practice-based. Always delivered by certified instructors who combine training with live projects and who use this experience to enhance the theory during the course. We are convinced that theory and practice should be seamlessly linked.

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Nextiraone

With a direct sales and service presence in 15 countries and serving more than 60,000 customers including many of the world’s foremost international businesses, NextiraOne is Europe’s leading expert in communications services.

We design, install, maintain and support sustainable solutions to meet all of your communications needs – from Contact Centre solutions to Unified Communications, Data Centres and Managed Services, delivering mobile, secure and sustainable infrastructures for voice, data and video communications.

We provide end-to-end communications solutions working with the world’s leading technology companies to deliver maximum business benefits to our customers.
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Panduit

Panduit is a world-class developer and provider of leading-edge solutions that help customers optimize the physical infrastructure through simplification, agility and operational efficiency. Panduit's Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) based solutions give enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage and automate communications, computing, power, control and security systems for a smarter, unified business foundation. Strong relationships with technology leaders complemented with its global staff and unmatched service and support, make Panduit a valuable and trusted partner.

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WIN

Win is an IP technology expert which equips your company or organisation with an integrated communication system comprising very high speed Internet, a private network of highly secure data, a smart economic phone system and any other current solutions or products which are necessary for your business, with a level of optimal services.Win offers its ICT competences to businesses, public organisations, health care and educational sectors. Win is the ICT pole of the Tecteo Group, and is in charge of all professional sector activities.

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Cofely Quentris proposes innovative solutions and services based on the convergence of voice, data and image networks.  This concerns activities such as data cabling, fixed or wireless networks, network security and applications as IP Telephony, Unified Communications, Contact Centers, CTI solutions and integration with ERP and CRM solutions. As independent partner Cofely Quentris is the ICT alternative for the private and public sector both national and international.

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