VIP SSD 2023 Agenda

Monday 4th September

15:00 Hotel Mercure, La Grande Motte check-in.

19:00 Bus from Hotel Mercure, La Grande Motte - La Voile Bleue, Beach Restaurant – The bus will be waiting on the left hand side as you leave the hotel entrance at the bottom of the small road.

19:30-23:00 Network drinks & dinner, La Voile Bleue.

23:00 Bus from La Voile Bleue - Hotel Mercure, La Grande Motte.

Tuesday 5th September

8:30-9:00 Bus from Hotel Mercure, La Grande Motte to IBM Montpellier

9:00-9:30 Welcome Coffee

9:30-10:30 Welcome by Monique Schardijn, IBM Alliance Manager EMEA Brocade Storage Networking & Key Note session, Olivier Fraimbault, IBM

10:30-11:15 Storage Networking: Why FibreChannel Matters for Enterprise Infrastructures, AJ Casamento, Principal R&D Engineer, Brocade Storage Networking

11:15-11:20 Coffee Break

11:20-12:05 What’s new on FlashSystems ? Antoine Maille & Stéphane Couteau IBM

12:05-13:50 Lunch

13:50-14:50 Brocade Gen7 Solutions: Highest-density on 64G and best cyber resilient replication connectivity for enterprise storage, AJ Casamento, Principal R&D Engineer, Brocade Storage Networking

14:50-15:50 Brocade Gen7, Autonomous Data Highway for High Performance Servers and Flashsystems, AJ Casamento, Principal R&D Engineer, Brocade Storage Networking

15:50-15:55 Coffee break

15:55-16:40 Demo : How your SAN is protected with QRadar Integration, Guillaume Legmar, IBM

16:40-17:25 Watson X: your enterprise-ready AI and data platform, Marie-Laure Pessoa, IBM

17:25 Bus from IBM Montpellier to Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte

19:00 Bus from Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte to La Voile Bleue

19:30-23:00 Network drinks & dinner, Beach Restaurant

23:00 Bus from La Voile Bleue - Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte

Wednesday 6th September

• Check-Out for all participants leaving on Wednesday 6th September.
• You can bring your suitcases with you onto the bus to La Voile Bleue.
• We can help you reserve a taxi from La Voile Bleue to the airport / train station.

9:00-9:30 Bus from Hotel Mercure La Grande Motte to La Voile Bleue

9:30-10:00 Welcome Coffee

10:00-10:45 FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize Roadmap, Barry Whyte, IBM (via webex)

10:45-11:30 SanNav Management Tools, AJ Casamento, Principal R&D Engineer, Brocade Storage Networking

11:30-12:30 IBM Storage Defender: data protection to real data resilience, Antoine Maille & Gerd Franke, IBM

12:30-14:30 Lunch & B2B meetings

14:30 Departures