2015 Autumn

LATVIAN NETWORKING SCHOOL | SEPTEMBER 25/26 2015 | JURMALA

25^th of SEPTEMBER

Registration

PRESENTATION
“IT: What’s New?” (LV)
Aivars Rudzišs, Member of the Board at OptiCom

PRESENTATION
“Hewlett-Packard Enterprise – Journey to New Style of Business” (EN)
Introducing the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise strategy and discussing market dynamics and how any size of company can benefit from transforming to New Style of Business.
Anu Korhonen, Director, Indirect sales, Enterprise Group General Western Europe at Hewlett-Packard

PRESENTATION
“HPE Technology Services in Latvia: How do we deliver our services after October 1st” (EN)
HP Technology Services Manager, Baltic countries at Hewlett-Packard

PRESENTATION
“The Unknown Unknowns – the Future Threat Landscape; New Level of Local Expertise Announcement” (EN)
Malware and threats are evolving: How do you protect against what you do not know? How to stay one-step ahead?
Petri Sonkeri, Country Manager, Finland and Baltics at Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd

PRESENTATION
“WiFi Network Performance Optimization: Site Survey & WiFi Signal Troubleshooting” (LV)
Andris Darviņš, Corporate Client IT Development Manager at OptiCom

PRESENTATION
"Fortinet Meru - next generation Wifi" (EN)
Fortinet Meru intro, basic architecture (Microcell vs Virtual cell), reference cases
Rickard Kenttä, Systems Engineer - Sweden, Finland & Baltics at Fortinet Meru

DEMONSTRATION
“Network Monitoring Solution overview & demo” (LV)
Practical cases of challenging monitoring tasks on the example of Zabbix
Ģirts Baņķis, IT Expert at OptiCom

TRAINING CAMP
“Introduction to Check Point” (RU)
IT Expert at OptiCom

MAX – 10 users

PRESENTATION
“Addressing Emerging Security Threats with WatchGuard” (EN)
Mads Christiansen, Regional Sales Engineer, Nordics, Baltics and Russia

DEMONSTRATION
“HP Aruba Instant Wi-Fi solution overview & demonstration” (LV)
IT Expert at OptiCom

TRAINING CAMP - continued
“Introduction to Check Point” (RU)
IT Expert at OptiCom

MAX – 10 users

PRESENTATION
“Veeam v9 – redefining availability for the modern data center” (EN)
As virtualization is becoming increasingly popular in all segments of IT infrastructure the legacy backup solutions, although adjusted to the needs of virtualization, are not fully utilizing all the benefits of virtualization technology. Veeam Backup&Replication is a modern data protection solution built specifically for virtualization giving the administrator a powerful, easy-to-use solution for protection of virtual servers. Veeam ensures all levels of granular recoveries, automated testing environment for backups and replicas, as well as built-in replication to establish a safe datacenter.
Tomasz Turek, Sales Engineer at Veeam Software

PRESENTATION
“CyberArk Threat Analytics: Automatic reaction on credentials theft and suspicious behavior” (EN)
CyberArk Privileged Threat Analytics (PTA) provides intelligence-driven analytics that enable you to detect malicious activity caused by privileged accounts and proactively responds to in-progress attacks and protect against known and unknown threats.
Anton Fridrikh, Technical Account Manager/North Eastern Europe at CyberArk

TRAINING CAMP
“Introduction to VMware” (LV)
IT Expert at OptiCom

MAX – 10 users

PRESENTATION
“Microsoft Windows 10: Highlights & Overview” (LV)
This presentation is aimed at IT managers, IT administrators, system engineers responsible for administering software. Presentation would cover different Windows 10 OS topics: OS support, technical and security features news, free upgrade opportunities, privacy, Windows 10 in corporate environment. You would have the chance to ask questions and participate in discussion.
Aleksandrs Frolovs, Account Technology Strategist at Microsoft

PRESENTATION
“Rapid7: Vulnerability assessment and control, penetration testing. Demonstration of taking control over compromised system, validation of vulnerabilities” (EN)
How to discover all your network components? How to check the resistance to hacking of your network? Where to start remediation of vulnerabilities? Who of your employees will help the hacker to take over your data?
Vladislav Krukovsky, Business Development Manager/CIS/Softprom

TRAINING CAMP - continued
“Introduction to VMware” (LV)
IT Expert at OptiCom

MAX – 10 users

PRESENTATION
“The latest and the most modern technologies in Tele2 network” (LV)
Telco evolution from GSM to LTE. Tele2 in the field of the latest and the most modern technologies. LTE network delivery to Tele2 customers. Success factors to build the widest LTE network in Latvia in short time period.
Līga Krūmiņa, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Tele2

PRESENTATION & DEMONSTRATION
“Check Point SandBlast Zero-Day Protection demo” (EN)
Rami Rauanmaa, Senior Technical Consultant at Check Point Software Technologies at Check Point

26^th of SEPTEMBER

PRESENTATION
“The HP 3PAR StoreServ (Good) News Just Keeps Coming!” (LV)
Introducing HP 3PAR StoreServ 8000 series
Tarass Vercešuks, Pre-Sales Consultant HP Enterprise Servers & Storage at Hewlett-Packard

DEMONSTRATION
“Next Generation Content Security Solution demonstration” (LV)
IT Expert at OptiCom

DEMONSTRATION
“Video Conferencing Solution Overview, News & Demonstration” (LV)
Alex Libenson, DAN Communications

PRESENTATION
“VMware VMworld 2015 News” (EN)
Virtualization flagman ship- what is the destination, new technologies & new development stages
Darius Spaicys, Strategic Partner Business Manager Baltic at VMware

PRESENTATION
“Radware Alteon Solution Overview” (RU)
Alteon – universal platform for SLA application enforcement, upgrade & control
Michael Soukonnik, Territory Manager at RADware

TRAINING CAMP
“Introduction to Trend Micro Deep Security” (LV)
Guntis Bumburs, Technical Expert at Arrows ESC

MAX – 10 users

DEMONSTRATION
“Log Incident Investigation: Practical Case” (LV)
Security Information Event Management is not a simple yet extremely important task. This presentation would cover general guidelines and best practices for Log management from IT security perspective. After the overview there would be live demo of Attack and Example of how to identify attack flow and methods.
Vladimirs Orehovs, IT Expert at OptiCom

DEMONSTRATION
“SDDC for moderate IT budgets” (RU)
Seva Semouchin, Technical Account Manager at VMware

TRAINING CAMP - continued
“Introduction to Trend Micro Deep Security” (LV)
Guntis Bumburs, Technical Expert at Arrows ESC

MAX – 10 users

GUEST SPEAKER: VIRAC (Ventspils International Radio astronomy Center)
"VIRAC overview; Practical Satellite & Aviation Data Use & Live Demonstration" (LV)
Linda Gulbe, Cosmic Technology Department at VIRAC