ITAM Virtual Summit

April 15 | 11AM – 3PM ET

Join our interactive, half-day summit on IT asset management (ITAM) trends and strategies! You’ll take away actionable steps to help your organization optimize costs, improve business efficiency, and increase visibility across your entire software estate.

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Featured Speakers


  • Jim Ryan
    President & CEO
    Flexera     Jim Ryan leads Flexera, a global, privately-held $400M+ software company headquartered outside of Chicago. He has been with the company since 1998 in roles that included Chief Operating Officer, SVP of Global Sales, and Managing Director of EMEA, where he lived in the UK for seven years. In the five years since Jim Ryan has been CEO, Flexera has experienced dramatic revenue and EBITDA growth, led two ownership changes with private equity and completed over a dozen M&A transactions. He has been instrumental in growing the company's valuation by a factor of 15X+ to now nearly $3B. Jim hold a BA from Marquette University, where he studied Political Science and French.

  • Rich Gibbons
    Service Director
    ITAM Review     Rich Gibbons is ITAM Services Director for ITAM Review and has been in IT for over 15 years as a reseller, a trainer, and an analyst. With a focus on the impact of cloud and future technologies on software licensing & ITAM, he enables organisations to solve challenges and embrace change by keeping them up to date and ready for the future. You can connect with him on LinkedIn here and sign up to his Microsoft newsletter here.

  • Becky Trevino
    VP of Product Marketing & Operations
    Snow Software     Becky Trevino serves as Vice President of Product Marketing and Operations at Snow Software where she is responsible for the commercial success of Snow's product portfolio. She works closely with innovative customers who are leveraging the power of the Snow platform to bring their asset data - software, hardware, SaaS, cloud - together to provide their organizations with technology intelligence. Becky joined Snow after 6 years at Rackspace, where she was most recently Senior Director, Product Marketing for the Hybrid Cloud business unit. During this period, Rackspace grew from $800 million to more than $2 billion in revenue. Prior to Rackspace, Becky held marketing and engineering roles at startup AgentZoom and Dell EMC. Becky holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Engineering from The University of Michigan and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

  • Alastair Pooley
    Chief Information Officer
    Snow Software     Alastair Pooley is the Chief Information Officer at Snow, where he is responsible for global IT strategy and implementation. Before joining Snow, Alastair served as a Global VP of Infrastructure & Cloud Services at Sophos (LSE: SOPH) where he was instrumental in the development of Sophos Cloud and delivered services to 3000 employees and 100 million endpoint users. Prior to this, Pooley spent more than 15 years working with Star Technology (acquired by Claranet) and MessageLabs (acquired by Symantec). He has presented at national and international conferences and maintains currency in industry leading technical/security qualifications including AWS, Linux Professional Institute and ISC(2). He gained a BSc in Physics from the University of Warwick and was awarded an MBA from Cranfield University.

  • Stacy Case
    Director of Operations
    FinOps Foundation     Stacy is the Director of Operations at the FinOps Foundation where she is heavily involved with the community focusing on education, engagement, and career advancement of FinOps members. She has spent the past 15+ years developing and running programs at a variety of technology companies of various sizes.

  • Jaisson Mailloux
    Cloud Services Practice Lead
    SoftwareONE
    • 20+ years in Technology
    • Cloud Services Practice Lead
    • Business Owner for Azure, AWS and Cloud Management and Tools

  • Kevin Hooton
    North America Practice Lead for Software Asset Management, SoftwareONE Mr. Hooton runs a consulting group for North America @ SoftwareONE, specializing in software asset management (SAM) and software procurement. With over 25 years of experience helping clients increase revenues, lower costs and make smarter business decisions, his focus area is enabling clients to maximize the value of the software investments.

  • Dan Ortman
    Professional Services Director
    SoftwareONE
    • 20+ years in Technology
    • 12+ years as CIO and Executive IT leadership
    • SLM Professional Services Leader & NORAM Cross Portfolio Leader

Why Attend

Discover and learn from industry experts how to increase automation and digitization in your organization through new ITAM and software asset management (SAM) technologies.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Structure your ITAM strategy to align with business goals
  • Set priorities for spending throughout the year
  • Allocate budget to drive digital transformation
  • Understand and implement a FinOps strategy
  • Move your organization beyond audits by recognizing publisher priorities

Agenda

  • 11:00 AM
    Welcome
    Kevin Hooton, North America Practice Lead for Software Asset Management, SoftwareONE
  • 11:05 AM
    Maximizing the Value of Technology Investments
    Jim Ryan, President & CEO, Flexera
    CIOs are continually challenged to deliver services at the lowest cost and risk. This session will focus on best practices to maximize business value of technology investments across On-Prem, SaaS, and Cloud.
    Learn how technology value optimization (TVO) enables organizations to deliver the insights that fuel better-informed decisions as you shift to cloud, and enables proactive management of your cloud and on-premises environments.
  • 11:50 AM
    The Future of ITAM: Looking Back to Look Forward
    Kevin Hooton, North America Practice Lead for Software Asset Management, SoftwareONE
    Rich Gibbons, Service Director, ITAM Review
    Reflect on the changes that impacted the ITAM world in 2020 and what 5 trends to watch in 2021.
  • 12:35 PM
    Lunch Break
  • 1:05 PM
    Ensuring Stability, Efficiency & Resilience Today, Delivering a Growth Platform for Tomorrow
    Alastair Pooley, CIO, Snow Software
    Becky Trevino, Vice President of Product Marketing & Operations, Snow Software
    Where CIOs and IT teams around the world have spent the past few months prioritizing stability, security and efficiency, as they provision a world of remote work, attention is now increasingly shifting to balancing these with essential foundations such as visibility, control and cost management on top of a renewed focus on growth and innovation.
    In this presentation, Snow Software’s CIO, Alastair Pooley, and VP of Product & Operations, Becky Trevino, will discuss how to gain true end-to-end visibility of your IT estate, which is essential for:
    • Ensuring ongoing resilience and adaptability in a rapidly changing world
    • Optimizing IT spend to enable investment in vital growth initiatives, innovation and areas of hyper-focus such as sustainability
    • Mitigating risk in three significant areas (security, financial and reputation) when making decisions about technology spend or cuts
    • Staying one step ahead of looming vendor audits, and surges in SaaS and Cloud adoption, that could break the budget
  • 1:50 PM
    What is FinOps?
    FinOps Foundation:
    Stacy Case, Director of Operations, FinOps Foundation
    Jaisson Mailloux, Cloud Services Practice Lead, SoftwareONE
    Dan Ortman, Professional Services Director, SoftwareONE
    Cloud Financial Management: Bringing together every area of an organization to make informed decisions and drive business transformation.
  • 2:35 PM
    Where Do We Go From Here? Developing a “Strive to Scale” Strategy
    Kevin Hooton, North America Practice Lead for Software Asset Management, SoftwareONE
    Dan Ortman, Professional Services Director, SoftwareONE
    Incorporating key learnings from today’s sessions and building a viable plan that aligns business priorities with ITAM industry trends.
  • 3:00 PM
    Session Wrap Up and Take Away's
    Kevin Hooton, North America Practice Lead for Software Asset Management, SoftwareONE

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