Workload placement is now a strategic decision no longer just a technical exercise in compute, storage, or networking. With licensing resets, rising hardware costs, selective cloud adoption, and new AI and data sovereignty demands, platform choice now anchors infrastructure strategy. Every other decision follows from this point. Organizations that make placement decisions by default or act under pressure risk years of added cost and limited flexibility.

This session gives you a practical framework for making high-impact workload placement decisions—balancing latency, resilience, data gravity, sovereignty, and cost. Compare real-world options across on-premises, private, hybrid, and public cloud. See how Everpure’s unified data layer enables true workload mobility, so you can adapt as needs change without re-buying storage or overhauling recovery. Join us to turn infrastructure strategy into a competitive edge.

Agentic AI is rapidly transforming how organizations automate work, make decisions, and interact with critical business systems. Unlike traditional AI tools that respond to prompts, agentic systems can independently plan, execute tasks, access data, interact with applications, and make decisions across multiple environments. As demand for these capabilities accelerates, many organizations are deploying AI agents faster than governance, security controls, and risk management frameworks can adapt.

This session explores how the race to adopt agentic AI is exposing fundamental weaknesses in traditional cybersecurity oversight models. Security programs built around human users, static identities, and clearly defined system boundaries are now being challenged by autonomous agents capable of operating at machine speed with expansive privileges across cloud, SaaS, and enterprise environments. Attendees will examine emerging risks including agent sprawl, excessive permissions, data exposure, autonomous decision-making, third-party agent integrations, and the growing difficulty of maintaining visibility and accountability.

Modern identity controls are facing unprecedented complexity. Users, applications, devices, workloads, APIs, and AI agents now interact across hybrid, multicloud, SaaS, and decentralized environments, often outside traditional network boundaries. As a result, static access policies, fragmented identity stores, excessive privileges, and inconsistent lifecycle processes can no longer provide reliable protection.

This session examines the key challenges organizations face in modern identity security, including identity sprawl, machine and non-human identities, privilege escalation, third-party access, shadow IT, passwordless adoption, and the rapid emergence of AI-driven identities and agents. It explores how security teams can move beyond authentication to establish continuous, context-aware, risk-based controls that verify identity, device posture, behavior, workload intent, and business necessity.

AI experimentation is easy. Delivering measurable business value is much harder. Join leaders from Grand Circle Corporation, Kailera, and EchoStor as we discuss how organizations are moving from AI pilots to practical, repeatable outcomes using Microsoft-native technologies, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Platform, Azure AI, and workflow automation. We will share real-world use cases, implementation lessons, governance considerations, and the challenges encountered along the way.

This session will dive into how organizations are measuring ROI, what success looks like beyond productivity anecdotes, and where teams are seeing the greatest business impact. Whether you are evaluating your first AI initiative or scaling existing deployments, you will gain practical insights from peers navigating the same journey and hear what is next on the roadmap.

The browser has quietly become the primary control point for enterprise work and increasingly, the primary blind spot. As SaaS, GenAI tools, contractor access, and BYOD converge at the browser layer, security teams are discovering that their existing identity, endpoint, and network investments don't automatically extend to where work actually happens.

This session moves beyond any single product category to map the full spectrum of options now available at the edge: browser-agnostic security overlays and secure enterprise browsers that isolate sessions without forcing a browser switch, SASE/SSE fabrics that apply consistent access policy regardless of network path, and the rapidly emerging discipline of browser detection and response that turns the browser itself into a telemetry source for the SOC. We'll also confront the fastest-growing risk in this space — shadow AI — where employees paste sensitive data into unsanctioned or personal-account AI tools faster than policy can keep up.