The Big Event

Posted by Admin on May 9, 2012 in Events, Featured Slider |

The BIG Event is the one time in 2012 that we will bring together executives from across the storage spectrum in the U.S. Don’t miss it or you won’t have another chance in the U.S. until 2013.

The BIG Event is simply an updated name for our classic ExecEvent we’ve had for a few years – we thought we’d give it a more splashy name to better highlight its importance in our event schedule.

You could go to a technology event of some sort every day of your life. In our world alone there are numerous “event silos,” events around a specific company such a VMworld, EMC World, Symantec Vision, Oracle World, HP Discover, and on and on. Who has time to pursue partnerships, M&A, B2B relationships at all these events?

That’s why we created the ExecEvent BIG event – we bring together executives from across ALL of these companies into one small venue for the sole purpose of learning and networking.

July 10-11 in Santa Clara, CA. Mark your calendars now. It’s 2 full days, with a networking reception in between. We’ll have opportunities for informal networking in both a “Pre” and “Post” cocktail receptions.

We’ll have a VERY special guest speaker at our “Pre” reception on Monday early evening. Please try to attend – you’ll kick yourself for missing this.

If you are an executive in the data storage, virtualization, data security, cloud or data center space, this event is for you.

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Registration is only $975.

The BIG Event Registration

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Thanks to our Premium Sponsor

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The BIG Event full agenda with time slots (subject to change).

The BIG Event program highlights and topics:

The convergence of data storage with business applications will be a major discussion point.
Emerging Vendors Showcase – 10-15 minutes for select emerging companies to tell attendees about themselves, why they are in interesting, and how other companies might partner with them. Details below
Execullence Awards for top emerging vendors.
Selling To C-Level Keynote Presentation - Steve O’Donnell, If you hope to sell your product/service to CxOs…..you can’t miss this. Details below
Storage Infrastructure Keynote Presentation, David Tuhy Details below
Special presentation from Michael Hingson, who, while working for Quantum at the time, walked down from the 78th Floor of Tower 1 in NYC moments before Tower 2 crumbled. And he did with his trust sight-seeing dog – because Michael is completely blind.
Predicted trends for 2012 and 2013
Doing tech business internationally – how to get started, how to find partners, how to be better at it.
Venture Capital and Funding Forum Details below
M & A and Corporate Development Forum from the big system vendors Details below
Lots of time for networking with other executives, meet-and-greets, and hallway conversations.

Emerging Vendor Showcase

It’s been a year and half since we last had one of these and we’ve had a slew of new companies, as well as some of previous start ups that are have become real players.

This showcase will allow 10-15 selected vendors to talk about themselves, why the industry and executive attendees should care about them.

The presenter will be allowed 10 minutes to speak, followed by 5 minutes of Q & A from the audience. Press and analysts will be invited to this showcase.

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In order to be considered for this program

Emerging Vendor Showcase Application
Register 2 or more attendees – the Big Event registration

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Participating vendors are eligible for consideration for an Execullence Award (fancy glass plaques and all…) to selected winners (Best of Show, Most Disruptive Technology, Coolest New Technology).

Judges will be representatives from companies like Intel, IBM, EMC, NetApp, HP, HDS as well as selected venture capitalists and financiers.

Questions? – Please contact Greg Duplessie for more information.

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Agenda Highlights

Venture Capital Forum – Day 1

Hour 1 – A panel of Silicon Valley VCs will have an interactive discussion with the attendees about 2012 and 2013 funding activities and trends.

Hour 2 – An open networking session (meet and greet) for our VC and executive attendees.

Corporate Development and M & A Forum – Day 2

Hour 1 - A panel of corporate development folks from companies like EMC, NetApp, HP, IBM, Oracle, Cisco and Dell will have an interactive discussion with the attendees about 2012 and 2013 partnership, OEM and M & A activities, technologies they are interested in, relationships they’d like to form, etc.

Hour 2 – An open networking session (meet and greet) for our corporate development and executive attendees.

Selling to C-Level – Keynote Presentation

An executive-level primer that is delivered by Steve O’Donnell, a real a C-Level executive who has bought over $30B of high technology systems and services in his 30 year career. Using real life examples the presentation demonstrates the power of understanding and aligning motivations and business problems in getting to an order.

Mr. O’Donnell will equip the sales executive with the knowledge and skills required to sell high technology products and services to senior client business executives. The presentation focuses on delivering an understanding of the mindset and motivations of C-Level executives and explains how to align their business problems with technology driven solutions.

More information about this topic and the program Selling to C-Level

Storage Infrastructure – Keynote Presentation

David Tuhy, the GM for Intel’s Storage Group, is back discussing the latest trends in storage infrastructure, cloud storage, and the convergence of all the data technologies.