2017 Autumn

LATVIAN NETWORKING SCHOOL, September 29/30 2017, JURMALA

29^th of September
08:30 – 09:00	Registration
09:00 – 09:15	PRESENTATION “IT: What’s New?” (LV) Quick and sharp feed of what’s on in IT and IT-related world: news, trends, milestone events and happenings, acquisitions and mergers, directions and paths. Aivars Rudzišs, Member of the Board at OptiCom
09:15 - 10:00	PRESENTATION “Memories of Future Past: The Rise of the Machines” (EN) In a not so distant future, machines will lead the way. They will provide guidance and will even have their own language -that we will not understand- to deal with situations. They will decide what is best for us… and for them. This is the era not for an evolution but for a re-evolution where machines will declare to have rights and govern a great deal of our digital (and physical?) life. We are living through times when we have to present questions about the limits of using bots, the risk perimeter of artificial intelligence and the challenges of machine learning. In that closer-than-we-think time, we have the unique opportunity to ask the right questions to the right individual… since, soon, those questions will be answered by a machine. Do you think that those machines would like to be turned off? Don’t you think that they will fight it? This is a new epoch: The Rise of the Machines. Ramsés Gallego, Past International Vice President, ISACA
10:10 – 10:40	PRESENTATION “Execution of Fortinet’s vision” (EN) Jukka Saarenmaa, Regional Director at Fortinet
10:50 – 11:20	PRESENTATION “HPE Gen10 Servers: A New Compute Experience” (LV) Gen10 Servers are key to infrastructure modernization, accelerating business insights across a hybrid world of traditional IT, public and private cloud. Adapt performance to applications with the world’s most secure industry standard servers1 using HPE Scalable Persistent Memory and Intelligent System Tuning. Tarass Vercešuks / Pre-Sales, HPE / ALSO Latvia
11:50 – 12:20	PRESENTATION “Extreme Networks: Visionary Wired and Wireless Access LAN Solutions according to 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant” (EN) Timo Lonka, Country Manager Finland & Baltic
12:30 – 13:10	PRESENTATION “Transform Networking & Security” (EN) Businesses today are routinely faced with the need to adapt to a changing landscape and keep pace with business and security requirements. Each of these changes requires IT and Security organizations to support them. The challenge they face is in their ability to deliver and keep pace without starting from scratch and removing their existing infrastructure to start over?) Anders Krus, Senior Systems Engineer at VMware specializing in virtualization and SDN	DEMONSTRATION “Fortinet Security Fabric Live Demonstration” (EN) An Intelligent, Collaborative Approach to Solve Today's Security Challenges. Jani Ekman, Team Lead Systems Engineering, Finland & Baltics at Fortinet	TECHNICAL SESSION BY GOOGLE “Android for Enterprises: Technical Tips and Tricks” (EN) Andy Zmolek, Ecosystems Cat Herder for Android Enterprise at Google
13:20 – 14:00	PRESENTATION “General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) And Importance Of Breach Detection For GDPR Compliancy” (EN) In keeping with this year’s Data Privacy Day theme, Respecting Privacy, Safeguarding Data and Enabling Trust, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes center stage in reminding both organizations and individuals the importance of data privacy. Since all organizations come under the scope of the GDPR, small to medium businesses (SMBs), or companies with less than 250 employees and an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 50 million also need to fully understand the components and stipulations around their data protection practices. What companies have to be prepared for in May 2018? Dmitri Belotchkine, Principal Sales Engineer at Trend Micro EMEA Ltd.	PRESENTATION “Welcome: HPE Nimble – an Advanced Storage for Hybrid IT” (EN) HPE and Nimble Storage combine predictive analytics, flash storage, and multicloud infrastructure to simplify operations in your data centre and in the cloud. Martynas Skripkauskas, Storage Specialist at HPE	TRAINING CAMP SESSION 1 Introduction to Fortinet: From User Interface to Hands-on Testing (EN) Mindaugas Kubilius, Systems Engineer, Baltics at FORTINET
15:00 – 15:40	PRESENTATION “HPE SimpliVity 380: All-In-One Data Center Box Technical Demonstration“ (LV) The HPE SimpliVity 380 is designed for IT leaders struggling to achieve the agility and economics of the cloud, with the control and governance of on-premises IT. It delivers a powerhouse hyper converged solution capable of running some of the world’s most efficient and resilient data centers. This solution dramatically simplifies IT by combining infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads onto the bestselling server platform in the market. IT Specialist at OptiCom	DEMONSTRATION “Extreme Networks Application Analytics & Wlan Demonstration” (EN) Extreme Application Analytics is a Network-Powered Application Analytics and Optimization solution that captures network data and aggregates, analyzes, correlates, and reports on it to enable better decision making and improved business performance. Timo Leppiniemi, Systems Engineer at Arrow	TRAINING CAMP SESSION 2 “VMware NSX Exploration Workshop: From Basics to Deep Technical Dive-in” (EN) Anders Krus, Senior Systems Engineer at VMware specializing in virtualization and SDN
16:00 – 16:40	PRESENTATION “Superb Wi-Fi performance: A smarter network that’s mobile and IoT ready” (EN) Tomas Muliuolis, Baltic’s Lead at HPE Aruba	DEMONSTRATION “HPE 3PAR Compression Functionality Demonstration” (LV) IT Specialist at OptiCom	TRAINING CAMP SESSION 2 continued “VMware NSX Exploration Workshop: From Basics to Deep Technical Dive-in” (EN) Anders Krus, Senior Systems Engineer at VMware specializing in virtualization and SDN
17:00 – 17:40	PRESENTATION “GDRP Assessment Scenario: Steps, Check List, Technical Demonstration” (LV) Learn how to establish GDPR compliance and evaluate live demonstration of technical tools. HOW companies should prepare for May 2018? Rudīte Spriņģe, Manager at Deloitte Latvia; Gints Puškundzis, Data Protection Officer; IT Specialist at OptiCom	PRESENTATION “Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing Platform & Services” (EN) Learn what you get with Microsoft Azure and why It’s everything you need in a one solution. Tarmo Tikerpäe (Partner Technical Strategist) at Microsoft	TRAINING CAMP SESSION 3 Introduction to Trend Micro Deep Security (EN) Dmitri Belotchkine, Principal Sales Engineer at Trend Micro EMEA Ltd.
17:50 – 18:30	GUEST SPEAKER “Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for IT Department of Finance Organization” (LV) Rolands Citajevs, Member of the Board, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at ABLV	TRAINING CAMP SESSION 3 Introduction to Trend Micro Deep Security (EN) Dmitri Belotchkine, Principal Sales Engineer at Trend Micro EMEA Ltd.
30^th of September
10:00 – 10:40	PRESENTATION “Block Chains – New Standard of Operations” (EN) A continuously growing list of records, which are linked and secured using cryptography, soon to become a new standard for operations with financial, business and personal information. Learn how blockchain could be used in enterprise environments. Alexander Dudarev, Member at Riga Tech Park	PRESENTATION “Splunk SIEM Usage Exapmle: Security Investigation Case” (LV) Join this session to learn how Splunk’s SIEM could be efficiently used for security investigation cases. IT Specialist at OptiCom
11:00 – 11:40	GUEST SPEAKER “Cross-Vendor Firewall Migration Experience: From Existing Firewall To FortiGate” (LV) Aivars Muravjovs, IT infrastructure department manager at Riga Stradins University	GUEST SPEAKER “Container virtualization : Overview, Experience and Challenges” (LV) Jānis Orlovs, IT Infrastructure Manager at Twino	TRAINING CAMP SESSION 1 repeated Introduction to Fortinet: From User Interface to Hands-on Testings (EN)
12:00 - 12:40	GUEST SPEAKER “Android for the Enterprise: Management and Security” (EN) Although Android is the world's most popular operating system (with over 2 billion active devices globally), Android's enterprise features are less well known. Google recently added powerful new features for enterprise IT administrators and app developers. We'll examine related topics around security, device and app management, single sign-on, and special management modes now available on Android and discuss how to make the most of these new tools and services. Andy Zmolek, Ecosystems Cat Herder for Android Enterprise at Google
12:45 - 13:15	GUEST SPEAKER “Artificial Intelligence: An Overview of AI Technology Development, Achievements in the field of AI in Latvia, Cases of Use” (LV) Dr.sc.comp. Renārs Liepiņš, Senior Research Scientist at Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia (IMCS UL)

29^th of September

08:30 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:15

PRESENTATION

“IT: What’s New?” (LV)

Quick and sharp feed of what’s on in IT and IT-related world: news, trends, milestone events and happenings, acquisitions and mergers, directions and paths.

Aivars Rudzišs, Member of the Board at OptiCom

09:15 - 10:00

PRESENTATION

“Memories of Future Past: The Rise of the Machines” (EN)

In a not so distant future, machines will lead the way. They will provide guidance and will even have their own language -that we will not understand- to deal with situations. They will decide what is best for us… and for them. This is the era not for an evolution but for a re-evolution where machines will declare to have rights and govern a great deal of our digital (and physical?) life. We are living through times when we have to present questions about the limits of using bots, the risk perimeter of artificial intelligence and the challenges of machine learning. In that closer-than-we-think time, we have the unique opportunity to ask the right questions to the right individual… since, soon, those questions will be answered by a machine. Do you think that those machines would like to be turned off? Don’t you think that they will fight it? This is a new epoch: The Rise of the Machines.

Ramsés Gallego, Past International Vice President, ISACA

10:10 – 10:40

PRESENTATION

“Execution of Fortinet’s vision” (EN)

Jukka Saarenmaa, Regional Director at Fortinet

10:50 – 11:20

PRESENTATION

“HPE Gen10 Servers: A New Compute Experience” (LV)

Gen10 Servers are key to infrastructure modernization, accelerating business insights across a hybrid world of traditional IT, public and private cloud. Adapt performance to applications with the world’s most secure industry standard servers1 using HPE Scalable Persistent Memory and Intelligent System Tuning.

Tarass Vercešuks / Pre-Sales, HPE / ALSO Latvia

11:50 – 12:20

PRESENTATION

“Extreme Networks: Visionary Wired and Wireless Access LAN Solutions according to 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant” (EN)

Timo Lonka, Country Manager Finland & Baltic

12:30 – 13:10

PRESENTATION

“Transform Networking & Security” (EN)

Businesses today are routinely faced with the need to adapt to a changing landscape and keep pace with business and security requirements. Each of these changes requires IT and Security organizations to support them. The challenge they face is in their ability to deliver and keep pace without starting from scratch and removing their existing infrastructure to start over?)

Anders Krus, Senior Systems Engineer at VMware specializing in virtualization and SDN

DEMONSTRATION

“Fortinet Security Fabric Live Demonstration” (EN)

An Intelligent, Collaborative Approach to Solve Today's Security Challenges.

Jani Ekman, Team Lead Systems Engineering, Finland & Baltics at Fortinet

TECHNICAL SESSION BY GOOGLE

“Android for Enterprises: Technical Tips and Tricks” (EN)

Andy Zmolek, Ecosystems Cat Herder for Android Enterprise at Google

13:20 – 14:00

PRESENTATION

“General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) And Importance Of Breach Detection For GDPR Compliancy” (EN)

In keeping with this year’s Data Privacy Day theme, Respecting Privacy, Safeguarding Data and Enabling Trust, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes center stage in reminding both organizations and individuals the importance of data privacy. Since all organizations come under the scope of the GDPR, small to medium businesses (SMBs), or companies with less than 250 employees and an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 50 million also need to fully understand the components and stipulations around their data protection practices. What companies have to be prepared for in May 2018?

Dmitri Belotchkine, Principal Sales Engineer at Trend Micro EMEA Ltd.

PRESENTATION

“Welcome: HPE Nimble – an Advanced Storage for Hybrid IT” (EN)

HPE and Nimble Storage combine predictive analytics, flash storage, and multicloud infrastructure to simplify operations in your data centre and in the cloud.

Martynas Skripkauskas, Storage Specialist at HPE

TRAINING CAMP

SESSION 1

Introduction to Fortinet: From User Interface to Hands-on Testing (EN)

Mindaugas Kubilius, Systems Engineer, Baltics at FORTINET

15:00 – 15:40

PRESENTATION

“HPE SimpliVity 380: All-In-One Data Center Box Technical Demonstration“ (LV)

The HPE SimpliVity 380 is designed for IT leaders struggling to achieve the agility and economics of the cloud, with the control and governance of on-premises IT. It delivers a powerhouse hyper converged solution capable of running some of the world’s most efficient and resilient data centers. This solution dramatically simplifies IT by combining infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads onto the bestselling server platform in the market.

IT Specialist at OptiCom

DEMONSTRATION

“Extreme Networks Application Analytics & Wlan Demonstration” (EN)

Extreme Application Analytics is a Network-Powered Application Analytics and Optimization solution that captures network data and aggregates, analyzes, correlates, and reports on it to enable better decision making and improved business performance.

Timo Leppiniemi, Systems Engineer at Arrow

TRAINING CAMP

SESSION 2

“VMware NSX Exploration Workshop: From Basics to Deep Technical Dive-in” (EN)

Anders Krus, Senior Systems Engineer at VMware specializing in virtualization and SDN

16:00 – 16:40

PRESENTATION

“Superb Wi-Fi performance: A smarter network that’s mobile and IoT ready” (EN)

Tomas Muliuolis, Baltic’s Lead at HPE Aruba

DEMONSTRATION

“HPE 3PAR Compression Functionality Demonstration” (LV)

IT Specialist at OptiCom

TRAINING CAMP

SESSION 2 continued

“VMware NSX Exploration Workshop: From Basics to Deep Technical Dive-in” (EN)

Anders Krus, Senior Systems Engineer at VMware specializing in virtualization and SDN

17:00 – 17:40

PRESENTATION

“GDRP Assessment Scenario: Steps, Check List, Technical Demonstration” (LV)

Learn how to establish GDPR compliance and evaluate live demonstration of technical tools. HOW companies should prepare for May 2018?

Rudīte Spriņģe, Manager at Deloitte Latvia; Gints Puškundzis, Data Protection Officer; IT Specialist at OptiCom

PRESENTATION

“Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing Platform & Services” (EN)

Learn what you get with Microsoft Azure and why It’s everything you need in a one solution.

Tarmo Tikerpäe (Partner Technical Strategist) at Microsoft

TRAINING CAMP

SESSION 3

Introduction to Trend Micro Deep Security (EN)

Dmitri Belotchkine, Principal Sales Engineer at Trend Micro EMEA Ltd.

17:50 – 18:30

GUEST SPEAKER

“Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for IT Department of Finance Organization” (LV)

Rolands Citajevs, Member of the Board, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at ABLV

TRAINING CAMP

SESSION 3

Introduction to Trend Micro Deep Security (EN)

Dmitri Belotchkine, Principal Sales Engineer at Trend Micro EMEA Ltd.

30^th of September

10:00 – 10:40

PRESENTATION

“Block Chains – New Standard of Operations” (EN)

A continuously growing list of records, which are linked and secured using cryptography, soon to become a new standard for operations with financial, business and personal information. Learn how blockchain could be used in enterprise environments.

Alexander Dudarev, Member at Riga Tech Park

PRESENTATION

“Splunk SIEM Usage Exapmle: Security Investigation Case” (LV)

Join this session to learn how Splunk’s SIEM could be efficiently used for security investigation cases.

IT Specialist at OptiCom

11:00 – 11:40

GUEST SPEAKER

“Cross-Vendor Firewall Migration Experience: From Existing Firewall To FortiGate” (LV)

Aivars Muravjovs, IT infrastructure department manager at Riga Stradins University

GUEST SPEAKER

“Container virtualization : Overview, Experience and Challenges” (LV)

Jānis Orlovs, IT Infrastructure Manager at Twino

TRAINING CAMP

SESSION 1 repeated

Introduction to Fortinet: From User Interface to Hands-on Testings (EN)

12:00 - 12:40

GUEST SPEAKER

“Android for the Enterprise: Management and Security” (EN)

Although Android is the world's most popular operating system (with over 2 billion active devices globally), Android's enterprise features are less well known. Google recently added powerful new features for enterprise IT administrators and app developers. We'll examine related topics around security, device and app management, single sign-on, and special management modes now available on Android and discuss how to make the most of these new tools and services.

Andy Zmolek, Ecosystems Cat Herder for Android Enterprise at Google

12:45 - 13:15

GUEST SPEAKER

“Artificial Intelligence: An Overview of AI Technology Development, Achievements in the field of AI in Latvia, Cases of Use” (LV)

Dr.sc.comp. Renārs Liepiņš, Senior Research Scientist at Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia (IMCS UL)