HPE Campus & Branch Overview

The session marks a significant milestone as the first appearance of the combined HPE, Aruba, and Juniper Mist entities following their recent merger. The speakers emphasize their commitment to a self-driving network philosophy, arguing that simply having a network up does not equate to a quality user experience. By merging the talent and assets of […]

Getting Visibility into Shadow AI with Fortinet

Wei Ling Neo discusses the evolving landscape of “Shadow AI” and the critical regulatory pressures facing modern enterprises. A central theme of the presentation is the upcoming enforcement of the EU AI Act, which carries massive financial penalties of up to €35 million or 7% of global revenue for non-compliance. While Fortinet previously focused on […]

Futurum Research Cybersecurity and Resilience Practice Overview

Fernando Montenegro, Tom Hollingsworth. Analysts at Futurum Research sit at the intersection of technology buyers, sellers, investors, and broader stakeholders like academia and government to provide both quantitative and qualitative data to answer critical industry questions. Their cybersecurity and resilience practice, which underwent a rebranding to emphasize the necessity of resilience alongside security, focuses on […]

Dell Advanced Cybersecurity Maturity

Dell Technologies leads the industry across a vast portfolio including storage, servers, and PCs, supported by an expansive supply chain and a massive network of direct and partner sellers. Steve Kenniston emphasizes that Dell approaches security across three specific business buckets: the modern workplace, the modern data center, and the services organization that helps accelerate […]

Secure Every Device, Everywhere with FortiSASE

Ramnath Shenai, Director of Products and Solutions at Fortinet, presented an overview of the FortiSASE architecture, highlighting its role in providing consistent, cloud-delivered security across diverse enterprise environments. At the core of the solution is FortiOS, which powers every FortiSASE point-of-presence (POP) globally, ensuring that customers receive the same high-performance security efficacy in the cloud […]

Fortinet Unified Endpoint Security

Hari Krishnan, Director of Product and Solutions at Fortinet, highlighted the company’s strategic push to unify endpoint security by consolidating previously disparate tools into a single, comprehensive platform. As organizations increasingly struggle with agent fatigue, or managing multiple, disconnected agents for VPN, ZTNA, endpoint protection (EPP), and EDR. Fortinet addresses this complexity through the FortiClient-based […]

Modernize Security Operations from Tools to Platform with Fortinet

Max Zeumer, Director of Products and Solutions for Fortinet’s Security Operations portfolio, outlined the company’s strategic shift toward a unified, platform-centric approach designed to simplify the increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape. As organizations struggle with a fragmented collection of independent tools–such as SIEM, EDR, and SOAR–and face a deluge of high-speed threats, they often encounter critical […]

Fortinet Security in a Post Quantum World

Wei Ling Neo, a product manager at Fortinet, presented an overview of the company’s evolving strategy to address the challenges posed by quantum computing and the rapid rise of “Shadow AI” within enterprise environments. As the anticipated timeline for Q Day–the point at which quantum computers will be capable of breaking existing encryption standards–continues to […]

Fortify Your Cybersecurity with Fortinet

Chris Hinsz, Senior Director of Product and Solutions at Fortinet, emphasized the company’s evolution beyond its traditional reputation as a firewall vendor, highlighting a broad portfolio that encompasses secure networking, SASE solutions, and AI-driven security operations. Central to this strategy is a platform-centric philosophy built upon a single, unified operating system, FortiOS. This common foundation […]

From Neural Networks to GPU Fabrics – Networking for Modern AI:ML Infrastructure

Michael Witte, a principal architect at Worldwide Technology, discusses the fundamental shift in data center networking required to support large-scale AI and machine learning workloads. The presentation transitions from the basic biological inspiration behind neural networks to the physical and electrical realities that necessitate high-bandwidth GPU fabrics. Witte explains that because neural networks have grown […]

NetAI GraphIQ Demo with Irfan Lateef

In this functional architecture deep dive, Irfan Lateef, Sales Engineering and Business Development lead, demonstrates the practical application of NetAI’s graph neural network (GNN) for large-scale networking. Lateef details the platform’s multi-layered ingestion process, which pulls configuration data via SSH CLI to build a comprehensive graph of the network, alongside real-time telemetry from SNMP, Syslogs, […]

NetAI Graph Neural Network Deep Dive with Deepak Kakadia

In this session, Dr. Deepak Kakadia, founder and CEO of NetAI, discusses the technical architecture of NetAI’s graph neural network (GNN) and how it provides deterministic root cause analysis for autonomous network operations. Kakadia leverages his experience at Sun Microsystems, Verizon Labs, and Google to explain why traditional AIOps and Large Language Models (LLMs) often […]

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