Session Teasers
Learn more about the sessions at ACE 2022 from the speakers themselves!
Balram Pandey : Ernst & Young
Biography:
I am a Technology Consultant at Ernst & Young. My previous roles include Director at RBC, Managing Consultant at IBM and Global Process Owner at Siemens. I am a pragmatic thought leader with over 25 years of experience in diverse IT fields. In recent years, I am specializing in Software Asset Management, IT Asset Management, and Service Configuration Management helping large and complex organizations achieve their goals. I have pragmatic approaches to transform these practices and deliver measurable value to the organization. I have successfully delivered domestic (Canada) and global assignments in Germany, Ireland, Turkey, Finland, Philippines, Brazil, and USA.
Session Title:
Is it hard to maintain reliable and trustworthy asset data?
Session Description:
Maintaining reliable and trustworthy asset data is one of the most important values provided by ITAM practice. However, it is not every organization’s cup of tea! Why is it so hard to implement capabilities that provide this undeniable value to the organization? ITAM alone cannot achieve that goal, it requires integration of multiple practices and effective governance to address data gaps at the right level. This session summarizes common pitfalls of ITAM, it’s governance and interfacing practices and provides pragmatic steps to resolve them and ensure high asset data quality.
Learning Objectives:
Audience will have good understand of what is critical (asset data) to manage, what are their data quality requirements and what capabilities to establish to deliver highly reliable and trustworthy asset data to the organization. These are well tested items on the field and are effective in delivering value.
Additional Information:
Maintaining reliable and trustworthy asset data is one of the most important values provided by ITAM practice. However, it is not every organization’s cup of tea! Why is it so hard to implement capabilities that provide this undeniable value to the organization? ITAM alone cannot achieve that goal, it requires integration of multiple practices and effective governance to address data gaps at the right level. This session summarizes common pitfalls of ITAM, it’s governance and interfacing practices and provides pragmatic steps to resolve them and ensure high asset data quality.
Balram Pandey
Beth Kaminski : Dart Container Corporation
Biography:
Beth Kaminski is currently the IT Asset Program Manager at Dart Container in Mason, MI. She has 25+ years of IT Asset Management experience. The skill sets she brings to ITAM are varied with career experience including merchandising and procurement, marketing and financial management. She started her first SAM practice team when the discipline was in its infancy and continues to redefine best practices for teams today. Beth regularly provides insight on her experience to the ITAM community and is passionate about SAM’s future. Under Beth’s direction Dart received a 2021 Snow Technology Intelligence Award for Transformation of the Year.
Session Title:
Black, White, and Redlines
Session Description:
“Hey, what is this!” The day seems to be progressing without incident until you get notice of a new application circling in your organization. Maybe the next question is who did this? Or maybe how much does it cost for how long? In the digital transformation that has been progressing at warp speed in the pandemic years how do you get back insight into the software contract process?
This session will focus on the key elements to address in implementing or optimizing the software contract review process in your organization. The how, who and what between black, white and redlines.
Beth Kaminksi
Bransilav Potoček : OpenLM
Biography:
I have been working within IT for the last 15 years. Started as a leader of a Network Monitoring Center for one of Slovakia’s major ISPs. Moved on to a System Admin role at the beginning of the New 10s. In 2016 I joined Johnson Controls as a License Monitoring Specialist. With the split of Johnson Controls’ Automotive business, a new company was created called Adient. Inside Adient I moved with the position to become a Software Asset Manager responsible for managing all of the company’s software contracts, be it major IT players such as Microsoft or IBM or engineering contracts such as Siemens or Dassault. This year I joined OpenLM’s team in a management role as their VP of Support, Services & IT.
Session Title:
Introduction to Software Asset Management – Building a Working SAM Platform
Session Description:
My session introduces the listener to the topic of Software Asset Management. Then it goes on to detail why SAM is actually important and then goes on the outline the major differences between managing IT contracts (Microsoft, IBM, etc.) and Engineering contracts (Siemens, Dassault, Autodesk, etc.). It also does a comparison of the industry-standard tools and the differences in requirements when trying to manage/monitor engineering license models and standard license models.
Learning Objectives:
How to create a working SAM platform within an organization, specifically aimed at presenting the easily overlooked Engineering applications. What are the key similarities and differences between managing standard IT Contracts such as Microsoft, IBM, or Oracle vs the Engineering Contracts coming from Siemens, Dassault, or Autodesk? What are the key licensing models for Engineering applications? How to optimize? How to measure compliance? Where are the licensing models moving? Is the concurrent network licensing model becoming obsolete?
Additional Information:
The primary goal of the presentation will be to show how the engineering licensing world differs from the licensing works of the key IT application spenders in companies. The secondary goal will be to focus a bit on the future, talk about how the licensing models are changing over time and what are the important topics to consider when doing long-term planning.
Branislav Potoček
Corey Dehmey : SERI
Biography:
Serving as the Executive Director of SERI, a global non-profit organization based in the United States, Corey Dehmey is a champion of building practical solutions toward electronics sustainability, with the goals of protecting the planet and enriching lives around the world. Spanning over 20 years in the electronics industry, Corey’s diverse background touches nearly the entire electronics lifecycle, including having worked in IT support, ITAD, data destruction, reverse logistics, reuse, and recycling. It’s this wide range of experience that gives Corey a broad view of the electronics sustainability challenge, simultaneously considering the varied perspectives of many stakeholders including the electronics industry, businesses, government, manufacturers, and individual consumers.
Session Title:
Establishing the IT Asset Manager as a Key Corporate Asset
Session Description:
IT Asset Managers are often overlooked as a core part of the larger business strategy. But as more corporations are faced with renewed demands for a triple bottom line through ESG and sustainability goals, IT asset management presents an important opportunity to create positive outcomes and add value to the organization beyond the balance sheet. In this session, SERI’s Executive Director, Corey Dehmey will demonstrate how IT Asset Disposition fits into a greater circular economy, and discuss the corporate ESG and sustainability impacts of the decisions made by IT Asset Managers. Look for opportunities to improve your own strategies and ways to elevate the value of IT Asset Management within your corporation.
Corey Dehmey
Dan Anderson : Flexera
Biography:
Dan Anderson is a Business Value Advisor at Flexera, where he works with customers with a focus on identifying the specific levers that organizations can use to deliver meaningful savings, reduce IT risks, and use IT capabilities as a competitive advantage. Dan has more than 25 years’ experience in enterprise IT, including 10 years leading ITAM teams in enterprise and SMB organizations. Prior to Flexera, Dan previously worked as a consulting Senior Manager at Accenture, where he led ITAM or ITSM engagements for 10 of the Fortune Global 50 companies and numerous public sector organizations.
Session Title:
The Value of ITAM Isn’t What You Think it is
Session Description:
Over the years, ITAM practitioners have focused on the traditional benefits of ITAM like ensuring compliance, reducing risk and improving efficiency. While those areas will always be important, in today’s cloud-centric, SaaS-centric, post-pandemic world those traditional benefits are not the only ways that ITAM delivers value.
We’ll discuss the critical role that asset data plays throughout IT organizations today and key areas of focus for CIOs and CTOs that require accurate asset data to maximize value of those investments. We’ll also highlight key use cases that drive home the business value that ITAM can deliver.
Dan Anderson
Dhia Haddej : Blancco
Dhia Haddej serves as Product Manager for Blancco’s Enterprise Solutions.
Session Title:
Process Automation: The ‘Can’t Miss’ Ingredient for Efficient End-of-Life Data Protection
Session Description:
Responsible data protection demands meticulous end-of-life data erasure within live environments and from decommissioned assets. Business demands efficiency. Get best practices for automating erasure within your existing IT management processes.
Physical asset destruction and manual sanitization processes are no longer needed to protect data at the end of its lifecycle. Blancco Product Manager for Enterprise Erasure Solutions Dhia Haddej explains how to harness automated data erasure at asset and data end-of-life.
Takeaways:
- Best practice for ensuring data security for IT assets at end of life
- How to automate data erasure, including for a remote workforce
- Building data sanitization into existing processes, including ServiceNow workflows
- Global and local regulatory requirements that IT Asset Managers need to consider – and how to prove compliance
- The environmental impact of IT Asset destruction and how to support ESG and CSR initiatives for your organization
Dhia Haddej
Eric Ferrington : ServiceNow
Biography:
Eric Ferrington is the Director of Product Management for Asset Management at ServiceNow.
He has over 20 years of experience creating strategic asset management process based solutions for global enterprises.
Session Title:
Lifecycle Management for Technology Assets & Beyond
Session Description:
Lifecycle management of asset is critical for driving value back to the business in order to optimize operations, reduce risk and maximize the value from asset investments.
An end to end solution is critical to proactively deliver this value across the enterprise for technology assets local to business centers as well with our remote workforce.
This session will address key processes and technology enhancements needed to lift the maturity of a global asset program for delivering value for technology assets and a pathway to extend that value to enterprise assets.
Eric Ferrington
Frank Venezia : EY
Biography:
Frank Venezia is a Managing Director in the Americas Software Asset Management Services practice of EY. He leads the SAM/ITAM practice with a focus across the IT asset life cycle. He is based in New York City, and has over 25 years of experience advising businesses and clients on IT infrastructure and SAM/ITAM governance process and procedures, IT vendor management and contract optimization, SW compliance and verification, SW license optimization and SAM/ITAM managed services. His experience spans multiple industries, including Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing and Telecommunications. He is a member of IAITAM, and holds the CAMSE, CHAMP, CMAM and CSAM certifications.
Session Title:
Post Pandemic ITAM is All About the Asset
Session Description:
Building and running a successful ITAM program is not only based on the skills of your team, the established operating model, and intelligent tooling, but also reliable data on entitlements and deployments for insight-bearing analytics and reporting. In a post-pandemic working world with its remote/hybrid work arrangements, the demand for consistent and repeatable data is crucial. New working arrangements call on ITAM Teams to focus on the most fundamental part of the ITAM lifecycle – the ASSET! ITAM functions must steer the business to prioritize consistent, repeatable, and automated asset discovery to generate foundational data to a federated single source for all IT analytics and reporting. Understanding the asset seems obvious but adapting that to today’s reality requires a fresh and increasingly nimble mindset!
Frank Venezia
Harsha Vijayakumar : ServiceNow
Biography:
Harsha Vijayakumar is Sr Principal Product Manager at ServiceNow where he is leading aspects of ITOM Visibility’s MID Server and Agent Client Collector products. Harsha has years of 10+ years experience building products across Core Platform and Framework, RPA, and HRMS/HCM. Harsh holds a Management degree from Carnegie Mellon. Harsha has come a long way since his first job as a Software Engineer.
Session Title:
Automate Everything and Save Hours
Session Description:
When I think about the value you can achieve with Agent Client Collector (ACC), I can’t help but smile from ear to ear. Gone are the days when ACC was just for ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM). ACC is an extension of the ServiceNow platform that automates workflows across multiple technology functions directly on your endpoints – end-user computing devices and servers. In today’s work from anywhere world automating everything is the key to moving at the speed of digital and keeping your employees and customers satisfied.
Harsha Vijayakumar
James Patrignelli : Liquid Technology
Biography:
James Patrignelli is the Director of Sales, Northeast at Liquid Technology. James works with executives to develop and implement end-of-life IT asset management programs for Fortune 500 companies with a focus on data security and maximizing the return of IT hardware. He has worked in the IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) field since 2005 and has advised IT professionals across the globe. James received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management Information Systems from the University of Connecticut and studied overseas in Italy for his second degree in International Economics.
Session Title:
Covid’s Impact on Infrastructure and how your ITAD Partner can Help
Session Description:
In the last year, Covid has presented several new challenges for IT departments, from how to secure IT hardware for a remote workforce to adjusting logistics for strict regulations. These issues have driven organizations to create new processes and discover alternative solutions. During the session, Liquid Technology’s Director of Northeast Sales, James Patrignelli, will provide key insights from Liquid Technology’s annual client survey, which showcases the measurable impact of Covid on infrastructure. He will also provide proven solutions ITADs can utilize to solve these challenges.
James Patrignelli
Joseph Kaufman : SoftwareONE
Biography:
Software Licensing Consultant with SoftwareONE with over ten years of IT Asset Management experience in both client and server license governance from both the customer and the consulting point of view. Focused on controlling licensing costs and risks while meeting contractual obligations. Founding council member of the FlexNet Asset Manager User Group.
Session Title:
KPI’s for licensing risk, waste and optimization progress
Session Description:
Key Performance Indicators allow us to track licensing, financial and security risks and optimization progress. Where we are making an impact and what areas still need work. KPI’s keep the focus where it needs to be and to keep the team engaged to meet their goals.
In this session we’ll look into how Key performance indicators can be used to show progress towards operational and strategic goals around IT Asset Management. What indicators can we monitor that most impact software spend and risk?
Joseph Kaufman
Kendall Ficklin : GRINDNATION, LLC
Biography:
Kendall Ficklin launched his entrepreneurial journey after leaving a 10-year career AT&T in the late 90s to open a barbershop in Atlanta, GA. It was during these years that his gift for coaching became abundantly clear. Clients would enter for a haircut and leave with vigor and newfound energy to take massive action in their lives. Kendall’s advice ran the gamut—from business to personal, analytical to emotional. When he’d left corporate, Kendall already knew he had the knowledge and endurance to run a service-oriented company, but he discovered his ability to transform and draw out the best in people.
Kendall is now the founder of a personal and business development community GRINDATION. Kendall is also the creator and facilitator of B.O.S.C. (The Business of Speaking and Coaching Training Program) where he serves as a sales coach, leadership instructor and motivational speaker.
His work has touched the lives of thousands of people, from professional athletes to hedge fund managers to students all over the country. Kendall is a self-taught, self-made businessman whose knack for sales and leadership has earned him the honor of serving major clients such as the NFL, Chicago Bears, Buffalo Bills, Delta, Home Depot, WNBA, Arby’s, Honey Baked Ham, Carrabba’s Italian Grill, and PepsiCo.
From the barbershop to the boardroom, there one thing remains consistent about Kendall: he excels at coaching. He is committed to motivating others to reach peak performance. His businesses: GRINDATION and B.O.S.C. are the perfect solution for companies and individuals looking for leadership development, corporate training and ways to boost sales beyond belief.
Session Title:
Welcome to the Jungle
Session Description:
From a young age we understand the importance of how smart a person is. We are all familiar with the term IQ, even if we didn’t always know exactly what it meant. IQ, or Intelligence Quotient measures how quickly a person can learn, but it does not tell how much a person can learn. Intelligence is important, but it does not guarantee success in life or relationships.
Emotional Quotient (EQ) has garnered significant attention in recent years. It is your ability to recognize how you and those around you are feeling, as well as the ability to generate, understand and regulate emotions. EQ can be related to your personality style because it shows your sensitivity to your own feelings as well as other people’s emotions. Research shows that EQ is also important in a person’s success.
Equally as important, and more so for professionals, is your Adversity Quotient (AQ). AQ is the ability to respond effectively to adversity and is directly related to an individual’s personality type. Depending on personality type, not all individuals are equally prepared to overcome adversity. Factors influencing a person’s AQ are: What natural talents do you have? Why are you motivated to use them? How do you prefer to use them? Who are you?
Kendall offers teams and organizations the Welcome to the Jungle Training program and Individualized leadership and intensive team building. There are 4 animals that run any organization: a lion, a flamingo, a chameleon, and a turtle, and each of them does things differently. What if you knew that your overbearing personality can be used as a strength? Or the face that your indecisiveness means you are adaptable?
A high performing team employs each person’s strengths for the greater good of the team and the best teams are empathetic towards one another, accountable and open. It is important to first identify and understand each individual’s personality type. The 4 Animal Assessment is used by organizations, business leaders, and teams to build stronger teams and communicate more effectively.
Kendall Ficklin
Kyle Marks : Retire-IT
Biography:
Kyle is an ITAD enthusiast and CEO of Retire-IT, an independent consulting firm specializing in Zero-Trust, vendor-neutral ITAD management. Over the past 17 years, Kyle has managed more than 10,000 disposal projects. Kyle served Arrow Electronics as President of US Micro. Ages ago, Kyle was an executive with WEGO Systems, a consultant with Bain & Company, and a marketing manager with Maybelline L’Oréal. Kyle has a degree in Economics from Rhodes College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Kyle is also an IAITAM CHAMP and proud father of two wonderfully inexhaustible kids.
Session Title:
How ITAM Benefits from the Zero-Trust Movement
Session Description:
Trust is a luxury today’s organizations can’t afford. That’s exactly why the Zero-Trust security model has gained acceptance as the go-to framework for enterprise security. But Zero-Trust isn’t just effective in combating cyber threats — it should also be the cornerstone of an effective IT asset disposition strategy. Learn how IT asset management can benefit by taking a page from security’s playbook.
Kyle Marks
Marc Farmen : ServiceNow
Biography:
Senior Director level professional, focused on IT Asset management. I have worked in ITAM for 15+ years. Current and relevant subject matter expert in software asset management, hardware asset management, infrastructure management, virtualization, and cloud computing. Currently responsible for West Coast Enterprise Accounts – ServiceNow ITAM Consulting.
Session Title:
Apples (Licenses Entitlements) & Oranges (Inventory Data) of Software Asset Management. Normalization and compliance positions.
Session Description:
This session covers three key sources of software entitlement sources. What you think you own, what your reseller thinks you own, what the publishers knows you own. We will review the sources, data gathered, and entitlement and contract best practices. We will also discuss common inventory sources and the normalization that binds the two together.
Learning Objectives:
This session will focus on post pandemic software asset management basics.
The topics will include: • IT Asset Management overview • Why should you care about SAM? • Proper licenses entitlement sources • Options for software inventory and discovery techniques. • SAM Complete Lifecycle • Cloud SaaS Subscriptions and Optimization From this presentation you should have a good grasp on software asset management basics and techniques for success.
Additional Information:
The topics covered in this session are meant to review best practice around an overall well-rounded software asset management practice. Cloud inventory and optimization will also be a focus.
Marc Farmen
Mark Delisi : Flexera
Biography:
Mark Delisi is a Business Value Advisor at Flexera where he works with customers to develop their value stories for investment in Flexera technologies. Prior to Flexera, he was Director of IT Operations at CNA Insurance and has over thirty years of experience across Application Development, Infrastructure Operations, Vendor Management, and IT Strategy. He has implemented major operational frameworks including IT Service Management/ITIL; IT Financial Management and ITAM and has worked extensively with major managed services providers to implement and govern IT operational processes.
He is a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner and FinOps Certified Practitioner
Session Title:
Lessons from 500 Business Cases…
Session Description:
IT has fundamentally changed over the past two years. Not only are environments more complex due to things like SaaS and work-from-home, but more people than ever are engaged in evaluating and reviewing technology investments. A strong, realistic, and compelling business case is critical to building your ITAM program. Flexera’s Business Value Advisors have built over 500 business cases with customers. In this session we’ll discuss what we’ve learned about how to create a compelling value story and best practices for navigating your organization’s project funding process.
Mark Delisi
Ryan Laber : Cascade Asset Management
Biography:
Involved in leadership roles in IT Asset Disposition since 2000, Ryan came to Cascade in 2019. He previously served as Director of Business Development and Planning at Arrow Electronics where he created their Center of Excellence for mobile device processing. He served as Vice President at Asset Recovery Corporation, a Minnesota-based ITAD company that sold to Arrow in 2012. Ryan has an MBA from the University of Minnesota.
Session Title:
Lessons from Auditing IT Assets Across 20,000+ At-Home Users and 500+ Locations After a Merger
Session Description:
In August of 2021, a Fortune 500 company from a highly regulated industry approached Cascade Asset Management to assist with the physical inventory & reconciliation of assets from a new acquisition. Every data-bearing asset, whether sitting at an office or someone’s makeshift desk at the dinner table, had to be captured. Within 3 months, and in partnership with AMI AssetTrack, the team had to develop and deploy a solution to cover over 20,000 at-home users and 500 sites throughout North America. Come listen how the project was launched, managed, and completed. Learn about the use of ServiceNow, Field Service partners, at-home user adoption, Corporate Communication, and the resources deployed. In addition, we will share the many pitfalls and course corrections throughout the project. How were databases reconciled with differing taxonomies? Did at-home users respond to the self-certification survey? Were locations open to on-site audits during COVID? How was alignment maintained between two merging companies, two contractors, alternating sub-contractors, and dozens of field service staff?
Related IAITAM Key Process Areas (KPAs) include Asset Identification Management, Compliance Management, Communication and Education Management, Financial Management, Policy Management, Program Management, Project Management, and Vendor Management.
Ryan Laber
Shawn Stockman : OnePak/ReturnCenter
Biography:
Shawn Stockman oversees development of sustainable client solutions and strategy for OnePak. He is responsible for implementing tools and processes that serve the company’s clients and partners through the lens of Environmental, Social impact, and Governance (ESG). Shawn is a board member of the Reusable Packaging Association, and has more than 25 years experience in communications, client solutioning, marketing and business development. He has extensive experience in and has spoken nationally on environmental compliance reporting, asset recovery, and return logistics.
Session Title:
Incorporating ESG into ITAM and Why You Should Care
Session Description:
ESG refers to Environment, Social and Governance, and is now a watchword in most industries. Incorporating an ESG mission into IT asset management can help your organization appeal to its board, investors, vendors and customers. Learn what ESG considerations may shape an ITAM’s choice of equipment manufacturers, field service companies, logistics or ITAD providers. Learn to look beyond sustainability at the companies you choose to work with—do they value diversity? Do they treat their workers fairly? How “circular” are they? Have they actually taken steps to protect the environment? We’ll review what ESG industry standards mean for your organization.
Shawn Stockman
Stephanie Baerenwald: SKYGEN USA
Biography:
Stephanie Baerenwald is currently the IT Asset Manager for SKYGEN USA, a software development company in the healthcare space, located in Mequon, WI. She has spent the last 14 years focused on asset management disciplines, from small businesses to global businesses, with more than 20 years in various technology support roles. In 2019, she launched her own consulting company, The ITAM Guru. The ITAM Guru’s mission is to help others create successful ITAM programs where asset management has not been a traditional team.
She has a Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in Management Information Systems from UW Milwaukee, as well as several certifications from the International Association of IT Asset Managers (IAITAM): Certified Asset Management Professional (CAMP), Certified IT Asset Manager (CITAM), and Certified Asset Management Security Expert (CAMSE).
Session Title:
ITAM’ing in a Small/Medium Business
Session Description:
Do you ITAM in a small to medium sized business? This is the session for you to come air your struggles, your worries, and to talk with someone else who started with no budget, no SAM records, and no resources. This session is for an ITAM’er in a small to medium sized business who wants to chat with others that have to wear multiple hats. In a small business, the ITAM “team” may only be one person left to fight for ITAM rights alone…this session will include advice on leadership buy in, aligning with cybersecurity, marketing ITAM’s purpose, and building the best damn ITAM program possible! Stop by and let’s have an open chat!
Stephanie Baerenwald
Sumin Tchen : Belarc, Inc.
Biography:
Sumin has over 30 years of experience in helping to build successful technology firms, such as Belarc (ITAM, SAM, Cybersecurity), Computer Controls (building control systems), Eliza (telephony-based voice recognition), ProcessTech (dynamic modeling software), and Adaptive Networks (networking over AC power lines). Sumin has a B.S. Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. Management from M.I.T.
Session Title:
Optimize your SaaS spend based on accurate usage data.
Session Description:
Software vendors are moving to user based subscription licenses. How can you control your spending on these licenses if you do not have accurate usage data? This presentation will use some case studies to show how to optimize your SaaS software spend for vendors such as Microsoft and Adobe.
Sumin Tchen
Sunil Chandna : Stellar Data Recovery, Inc.
Biography:
Sunil Chandna, Founder and CEO, Stellar Data Recovery is a corporate professional with a career spanning over 25 years in diverse roles. Sunil has been steering the company up the growth ladder since 1993. He is responsible for defining and delivering the business strategy and providing overall leadership for Stellar’s operations in India and abroad. Starting from a small 4 member team in India, he has scaled Stellar to 400+ strong team that serves more than 3 Million customers globally. Sunil is a seasoned business leader who is passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, and business transformation to drive competitiveness and customer value.
In his current role, Sunil is responsible for defining and delivering the business strategy and extending Stellar’s global leadership in ‘data care’ solutions, as the company focuses on its mission to provide the world’s simplest DIY data recovery and erasure solutions. A Computer Science Engineering graduate, Sunil drives the company’s strategy to provide best-in-class data care solutions, with a continued commitment to innovating the best data care services and solutions for businesses and consumers. He has driven the transformation and revitalization of Stellar’s portfolio to become a focused data care leader globally through targeted associations, expansions & organic business development.
Sunil has been a part of several influential forums and events that aim at driving cybersecurity awareness and safeguarding data privacy. He has been featured by top global media organizations during critical cyber-attacks and for changing landscape in the IT sector. Sunil leverages his global perspective to regularly share industry insights related to data privacy and data protection.
Sunil’s interests include new-age technology, reading, and traveling. A philanthropist at heart, he supports NGO ‘Age Care Foundation’ that cares for disadvantaged elderly senior citizens in India and also NGO ‘Family Vision’ for looking after especially disabled citizens.
Session Title:
Data Destruction Best Practices to Mitigate Data Breach Risks
Session Description:
Rising data protection & privacy concerns have put organizations under tremendous pressure to safeguard and protect consumer data. Emerging regulations & laws like GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have pushed businesses to traverse new frontiers of data compliance and privacy. Businesses need to rethink their data security procedures. According to IBM, the average cost for data breaches amounts to $4.24 million in 2021. A secure and robust data destruction practice prevents any subsequent financial or reputational damages owing to the data breach.
The session covers the best practices for IT Asset managers to carefully augment best data destruction practices in terms of the functional efficacy, costs, Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) impact, and compliance aspects of a given approach. The session would further cite data destruction methods for all types of storage devices, including hard drives (HDD, SSD, & hybrid), mobile devices (iOS & Android), memory cards, embedded flash memory, point-of-sale devices, IoT devices, network devices like routers & switches, etc.
Sunil Chandna
Tim Kubiak : ZPI
Biography:
Tim is a Business Geek, Nomad, Aging Metal Head, Nerd, & Coffee Addict. He has spent over 25 years working across a variety of technology segments with and for global companies. He has helped companies that are household names solve some of their most complex global deployment challenges. Currently he is the CEO of the Minority and Veteran owned Zepol Productions Inc. based in Austin, TX. Additionally, he serves as a board member for selected early stage AI/ML and App based companies.
Session Title:
Maximizing Your Budget, Meet Green Objectives, and Reduce Support Costs Using TPM
Session Description:
Learn to get more from your existing budget by incorporation Third Party Maintenance (TPM) into your strategy. This session will show you how to reduce your support costs from OEM Maintenance by up to 80%, extend the useable life of your valuable IT assets beyond the Manufacturer’s stated refresh cycles. Additionally we will cover how lengthening your assets useful life cycle can help meet corporate environmental and green initiatives. One lucky attendee will win a $150 dollar Amazon git certificate. All attendees will receive a copy of ”The Ultimate Guide to AOM” by Scott A. Lopez (a $19.96 value) plus receive complimentary access to the AOM management portal to for immediate use.
Tim Kubiak
Tom Watson : AMI
Biography:
Tom Watson is the founder and CEO of AMI. Having worked as a software developer for Micropath, the Seattle-based asset inventory company, Tom saw how hard it was for companies to create HAM solutions that work in the real world. Tom created AMI in 2003 to help large companies solve the sticky problem of managing hardware assets. Today, AMI’s AssetTrack® is the trusted source for global enterprises, federal agencies, and state/local governments.
Tom graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Fine Arts. Outside of work, when not playing Legos with his son, he’s on the soccer field or writing songs, playing guitar, and singing lead vocals for a Seattle band Crown Hill.
Session Title:
Measuring the value of Hardware Asset Management
Session Description:
Many asset managers struggle to prove their value to the business. They lack the tools to define and capture metrics that show how hardware asset management is performing. Tom Watson with AMI (Asset Management International) will share common KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) used by advanced hardware asset management organizations that truly measure the health of asset management. He will discuss techniques for capturing and reporting important historical data that uncover insights into processes. With these techniques, asset managers can show the impact of changes to people, process, and technology over time, enabling continuous improvement and creating asset management heroes.
Tom Watson
William Choppa : Eracent
Biography:
William Choppa is the CEO of Eracent. He leads the organization and communicates Eracent’s vision to team members, customers and the larger ITAM community. Since joining the company in 2004, he has been passionate about the evolution and refinement of Eracent’s solutions, based on lessons learned from working with customers and partners.
William has held positions with IBM and a number of technology companies as well as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.
Session Title:
Enhance Your ITAM and SAM Program Results with Product Enrichment Data
Session Description:
Incomplete or inaccurate product data can drag down your ITAM and SAM program and limit the value it can provide. Without a reliable standard for hardware and software product attributes, your ability to make informed decisions around contract negotiations, procurement, license harvesting and more is impacted. Matching purchased products to those in use in your environment is essential, and manually chasing product details from random sources just isn’t practical for enterprises. This session will show how a comprehensive, single-source IT Product Data Library can provide normalized data that can have your systems speaking the same language in perfect harmony.