QBITS, Quadbridge’s Information and Technology Summit, was launched in 2016 with the purpose of creating connections. Our yearly event allows our clients not only to discover our values, but also to hear from the leading IT manufacturers and uncover new opportunities to grow.
Partner Technology Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Business Development Director
Integrate.AI
VP Marketing
Leadweb
VP Cloud DC/DCI
Juniper Networks
Technical Specialist - Advanced Computing Solutions
IBM
Enterprise Technologist
Dell/EMC
Founder /CTO, High Performance Computing Expert
Cancer Computer
Channel Director
Microsoft Corporation
Security Evangelist
Kaspersky Lab
Technical Marketing Director
Juniper Networks
Workstation Specialist
Lenovo
We are living in a digital era where technology is shaping the world and developers are shaping technology. As the foundational platform for DevOps processes shift to Multi cloud environments,
Juniper Networks has a vision that cuts across its product line and solutions to unify network and security tooling and policy across the Multicloud, delivering speed with portability.
Ashok Ganesan is Vice President, Product Management for Data Center at Juniper. In this role, he is responsible for driving Juniper’s secure multi-cloud fabric architecture and products. Ashok has 27+ years of professional experience and has delivered many successful products that has transformed the networking industry.
He has keen interest in Prescriptive / Predictive Data Analytics and how it can be applied to improve end user experience specifically in the networking and application performance space. He has a Bachelors in Computer Engineering degree from Delhi University, India, MBA from Ottawa University, Canada and MS in Business Analytics (MSBA)
from NYU Stern, USA.
Wednesday June 13 2018 - From 9:15am to 10:15am
Around the world, Microsoft is working to develop solutions that give time back, make us safer and healthier, and bring significant environmental benefits.
Get insights on how Microsoft can help you reimagine the way to bring together people, data, and processes and create value for your customers while maintaining a competitive advantage in a digital-first world.
Marc Gagne is a Partner Technology Manager with Microsoft Canada who’s passionate about all things tech, startups, the cloud & coffee. The best part of his career is getting to work with the amazing technology companies and communities across Canada and in particular in his hometown of Ottawa. With over 15 years of experience in product development, team leadership, technology education and startup mentorship Marc is continuously learning how little he really knows.
Thursday June 14 2018 - From 9:15am to 10:15am
Learn how to get the most from both hardware, software and services working together! Devices such as Surface enhance the way people work naturally and invite collaboration in the workplace. Azure helps deploy multi-platform apps. Both Greg and our cloud specialist will help you enhance the latest technologies.
Wednesday June 13 - From 10:30am to 11:30am
Discover how to run powerful applications with stability and speed during this Lenovo workstation hands-on workshop.
Wednesday June 13 - From 10:30am to 11:30am
As 2018 is poised to become the year where we see AI transition from hype to reality, many companies still find themselves contemplating their AI development strategies.
Join us for this discussion as we explore how the death of Moore's law has presented challenges in addressing compute requirements for new and emerging workloads such as machine and deep learning. We will revisit the fundamentals of ML/DL, share a brief history and review the endless application possibilities of this technology. Finally, we review the considerations for embarking on and establishing AI and Deep Learning initiatives within enterprise organizations and illustrate how you can get started with Deep Learning to compete in this new intelligence economy and WIN the AI arms race.
Wednesday June 13 - From 1:45pm to 2:45pm
Turn off you mobile phone, put down your tablet and hear about real world data breaches (not just the big ones that make the 5 O’clock news) but also the APT’s causing the greatest harm.
How quickly could your organization be breached? How you could help?
Please join our special guest, Matthew Balcer a globally recognized security professional, as he will share with you, real world experience in the world of cyber security and remember kids “Security never takes a holiday.”
Wednesday June 13 - From 3:00pm to 3:45pm
This talk will focus on grasping the unique value proposition of blockchain technology, to give leaders the tools to understand the specific situations where blockchain can add value to business processes.
Eamon Leonard has a self-described “unquenchable thirst” for learning, which befits the man who began his career as a teacher. It’s a trait that has informed his work building a number of blockchain projects in the furtherance of the impact economy and the evolution of cryptoeconomics.
Prior to becoming VP of Marketing for Leadweb (which specializes in the design, financing and creation of B2B applications that require new technologies such as blockchain, AI and big data) and Timechain (a cryptocurrency management app), Eamon worked communications and strategy for the first regulatory-compliant ICO in North America, impak Coin. He is active in the Canadian blockchain community and serves as global strategy advisor for the Blockchain Association of Canada.
Wednesday June 13 - From 4:00pm to 4:45pm
The future is Multicloud. Companies need to have a cloud-first or cloud-only strategy to survive in this digital age. Discover the steps you can take to make your data centers, campus and branch multicloud ready
Anupam currently leads the Juniper Data Center Product marketing team responsible for creating messaging, value propositions and driving the go-to-market strategies for the $1B product portfolio. He also drives the new product launches, sales enablement and leads engagements with leading analysts in the Enterprise Networking space. Before this Anupam led product management teams at Juniper and Cisco.
Thursday June 14 - From 10:30am to 11:30am
How do I think about privacy and trust? How do I decide where to invest first? How good does my data really need to be? When do I build vs buy? Why does implementation always seem to be slower and more complicated than expected? What skills do I need on my team?
In this session Megan, Business Development Director at Integrate.ai, will dive into the practical realities of tapping into the promise of AI in an enterprise environment. Drawing from her experience at integrate.ai helping large companies implement the integrate.ai platform combined with her years of experience managing large scale digital transformations at McKinsey & Company, Megan comes armed with front line experience to help you navigate the realities of implementation.
Megan is a Business Development Director at Integrate.ai where she leads customer accounts to ensure that the IAI platform is driving impact on her clients’ most important business outcomes. Megan was formerly a consultant at McKinsey & Company where she specialized in large scale digital transformations across Canada, the UK and Australia. She is also passionate about inclusion both inside and outside of integrate.ai and co-founded #GoSponsorHerlast year.
Thursday June 14 - From 10:30am to 11:30am
Discover what aspects of operation I&O teams should prioritize to turn over either to automation or external cloud services.
Thursday June 14 - From 2:00pm to 3:30pm
