Our main conference program kicks off at 08:30 on Tuesday 28th October with our first round of Vendor tutorials.

After coffee at 10:30 our Conference Keynote sessions take place in the main Hall Harmonie featuring among others Chris Baker, Senior VP of ORACLE’s Core Technology Business.  Chris’ keynote presentation is entitled ‘Managing the data explosion in an increasingly complex world. 

After lunch delegates get the chance to select from a range of SNIA Tutorial sessions, European customer case studies and some industry Hot-topics.  Later that afternoon our Platinum Sponsors will be presenting their ‘Strategic Briefings’ before a last round of tutorials, case studies and hot-topics. 

Two of our conference partners will be presenting session on Tuesday afternoon; Brian Garrett of ESG will be presenting ‘Considerations & Methodologies for testing & Evaluating Data Centre Products’ and Ken Male of the research firm TheInfoPro will be presenting on ‘Successful Emerging Technologies for IT Infrastructure’. 

Delegates also have the chance to experience the Hands-on Lab sessions throughout the day.  The conference day finishes with the SNW Europe ’Happy Hour’ in the expo area from 17:30.

Vendor tutorials from: Plasmon, ADVA, Texas Memory Systems, IBM, Quantum, Cisco, Emulex, Pillar Data, HP, Overland, 3PAR and Hitachi GST

SNIA Tutorials on : Green Storage and Data Centres, Storage Virtualisation, Consolidating Server I/O, and sessions on standards such as XAM, FCoE and iSCSI

Case studies from: Leoni AG, The Friedrich Miescher Institute,  KPN, Devon & Cornwall Police, Borussia Mönchengladbach football club, the Steinbuch Computing Center, and Suedharz-Krankenhaus Nordhausen Hospital.

Key times:

Registration opens at 08:00
Conference sessions from 08:30
Hands-on Lab sessions from 08:30
Expo Area opens at 09:00
Keynote presentations from 10:30
Platinum sponsor Strategic Briefings from 15:20
SNW Europe ‘Happy Hour’ at 17:30
Expo Area closes at 19:00
SNW Europe Party @ Living XXL (entry by ticket only) 20:00

Program subject to change without notification.