AGENDA
The IMPACT agenda is jam-packed with remarkable keynote speakers, provocative customer panels and technical sessions, and opportunities to network with and hear insights from business luminaries and Google Cloud executives. Plus, you won’t want to miss an unforgettable celebration at SoFi stadium, the most technologically advanced stadium on the planet.
/ WELCOME RECEPTION TUESDAY, SEPT 13
- 3:00-7:00 PM - Registration Open
- Location: Sheraton Universal Lobby
- 5:00-7:00 PM - Welcome Reception
- Join SADA and Google Cloud executives and technical experts for a kickoff networking event. Mingle with industry colleagues, enjoy cocktails, break bread together, and get to know the movers & shakers in your industry.
- Location: Sheraton Universal Reel Pool Bar
- Sponsored by:
/ DAY 1 WEDNESDAY, SEPT 14
7 AM - 4 PM - Registration Open
Location: Lobby, Sheraton Universal
Breakfast Buffet
Location: Ballroom Circle, Sheraton Universal
SADA IMPACT Kickoff and Welcome
Speaker: Tony Safoian, President & CEO, SADA
The Moneyball Method: The art of winning an unfair game
Join one of the biggest names in baseball, Billy Beane, to hear about his landmark ‘Moneyball’ philosophy, named for the bestselling book and Oscar nominated film chronicling his journey to becoming an MLB management genius. Beane’s strategic methodology shows that organizations of all shapes and sizes can implement data driven techniques to effectively and efficiently manage resources. In a data-driven world, relying on data to influence your decisions is key. Beane's keynote will reflect on the art of success and how anyone can achieve greatness with the resources and data that they have available to them. He will cover using data to create and sustain a competitive advantage – a key component to success in the tech industry and beyond.
Speaker: Billy Beane, General Manager, Oakland Athletics
10:35-11:15 AM - Turning challenges into opportunities in an era of accelerating transformation
Multiple global disruptions starting in 2020 have created new and unique business challenges and opportunities. There has never been a more critical time for customers to select the right partner to guide their digital transformation and ensure a reliable return on their investments. Join us for a candid conversation with SADA President & CEO Tony Safoian and Jim Anderson, Vice President, North American Partner Ecosystem & Channels at Google Cloud. They will discuss the trends and challenges our customers face today and how their companies are partnering to tackle them.
Speakers:
- Jim Anderson, VP, NorthAm Partner Ecosystem & Channels, Google Cloud
- Tony Safoian, President & CEO, SADA
11:20-11:50 AM - Accelerating biomedical discovery: a conversation with Bill Mayo, CIO of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The researchers of the Broad Institute are true pioneers: Since 2003 over 5,000 Broad-affiliated scientists have collaborated on breakthrough discoveries at the intersection of our genetic makeup and our health, spanning our understanding of underlying biology to a wide range of diseases. You’d be hard-pressed to find a major recent biomedical advancement that can’t trace at least some of its roots back to the work of the Broad. What’s more, the Broad Institute has been a cloud pioneer, launching their first workloads on Google Cloud in 2014. Every healthcare and life sciences customer of Google Cloud since then has benefitted from this groundbreaking collaboration, and SADA is proud to call Broad a partner. Bill Mayo has been CIO of the Broad Institute since 2016, with a front-row seat to the aggressive shift of biomedical research to the cloud and one objective in his sights: accelerate discovery. Bill will be interviewed by Tony Safoian, CEO of SADA, unlocking insights gained from this remarkable period of innovation and looking forward to what must happen to drive the next wave of discovery.
Speakers:
- Bill Mayo, CIO, Broad Institute
- Tony Safoian, Presidet & CEO, SADA
11:50 AM-12:20 PM - Pizza meets cloud: Papa John's taps SADA and Google Cloud to carry out digital transformation
Join us for a riveting fireside chat with Papa John's as we take a deep dive into how Google Cloud is helping the leading pizza restaurant chain fuel innovation and better serve customers. Learn how the cloud is enabling it to scale faster and empower retail stores with the real-time data they need to make deliveries on time and cost efficiently. Hear how focusing on resiliency and cost optimization is playing a vital role in the company's cloud transformation strategy.
Speakers:
- Joshua Sullivan, Director of Engineering, Papa John's
- Courtney Graham, VP Sales, Central, SADA
Networking & Lunch
Lunch Sponsored by:
Location: Ballroom Circle, Sheraton Universal
1:30-2:00PM - The cloud transformation journey: charting the course ahead
Cloud transformation isn't merely a destination—it's a journey. Join us for this informative panel discussion covering a range of topics pertaining to the cloud transformation journey. From potential pitfalls to best practices, you'll get candid insight into what it takes to achieve the resiliency, agility, cost-efficiency, and scalability needed to adapt and thrive in today's business environment.
Speakers:
- Peter FitzGibbon, Vice President - Professional Services, SADA
- Patrick Lea, Senior VP, Enterprise Infrastructure and Architecture, Revionics
- Piuter Kogan, Global Head of Infrastructure, TS Imagine
2:05-2:50PM - SaaS Alliances: the power of working together
Tune in as innovators in the technology space discuss how they amplified their Google Cloud experience as a SADA SaaS Alliance Program partner. You’ll hear firsthand from ISVs and SaaS companies on how choosing the right cloud provider and the right partner to scale your business go hand in hand.
Speakers:
- Nikki Harley, Senior Director, Strategic Alliance, SADA
- Alan Harris, Vice President, WW Sales, Blue Triangle
- Alfred Saad, CRO, LumApps
- Anna Claiborne, CTO, CPO & Co-Founder, PacketFabric
- Kelly Hopping, CMO, HYCU
2:55-3:10PM - Tech to support the future of work
Employee flexibility is now a requirement in the workplace, but without analytics that drive key decision-making and tools that ensure accountability, flexibility is an unrealistic expectation. Learn how Prodoscore’s cloud-based Employee Productivity Monitoring (EPM) solution ensures that decisions about personnel are rooted in data, not gut feelings. You'll hear how insights into daily productivity and engagement provide certainty around what employees are doing without being invasive or disruptive. You'll walk away from this session with a better understanding of how these critical insights empower employee flexibility and ensure accountability--a win-win for everyone.
Speakers:
- Mike Perrone, CRO, Prodoscore
- Nadine Sarraf, CMO, Prodoscore
3:10-3:40PM - How Beautycounter is getting value from the cloud
Sit in on this exciting fireside chat to learn how Beautycounter, a direct to consumer company that sells skincare and cosmetic products, is responding to industry trends. You’ll hear how the company is tapping into the power of Google Cloud’s leading retail solutions to manage supply chain processes, gain access to real-time insights, simplify workflows, reduce IT costs, leverage data analytics to design unique customer experiences, and more.
Speakers:
- Peter-Mark Verwoerd, Associate CTO, Infrastructure, SADA
- Abigail Cloft, Director, Engineering, Beautycounter
3:45-4:15PM - How to consolidate your productivity environment using Google Workspace
Looking to tap into the full potential of Google Workspace? You won’t want to miss this informative session featuring leading customers who are leveraging Workspace to thrive in today’s hybrid and flexible working environment. Join the session to learn how they’re maximizing the power of Workspace’s core communication and collaboration capabilities and how you can do the same in your organization.
Speakers:
- Kelly Wright, Director, Workspace, SADA
- Chad Pierce, Head of Architecture and Solutions, WeWork
- Alvina Antar, CIO of Okta
4:20-4:50PM - How startups are achieving their loftiest ambitions with SADA and Google Cloud
Learn how startups are achieving their loftiest business ambitions by leveraging Google Cloud and SADA services. In this informative panel, we’ll take a deep dive into what tools and solutions startups are utilizing on GCP to scale and build out their big ideas. You’ll also get insight into how startups get ROI from SADA services designed to help them meet their unique business objectives.
Speakers:
- Billy Franz, Sr. Sales Director of Emerging Business & Channel, SADA
- Cameron Sechrist, CEO & Co-Founder, Streamlined
- Tyler Logtenberg, Head of Operations, Datastreamer
1:30-2:00 PM - Neustar’s tech transformation journey with Google Cloud and SADA
Neustar has traveled a long way in their journey to Google Cloud from their legacy cloud provider, with a total technology transformation. Hear from a core Engineering Director and transformation leader about how it all started with a large-scale foundation utilizing Infrastructure as Code. You’ll learn how the partnership with SADA enabled the company to manage a hybrid cloud data pipeline with workflow orchestration and petabyte-scale data transfer. You’ll also hear how establishing a firm technical foundation allowed SADA and Neustar to jointly manage the significant technical challenges posed by Neustar’s migration to Google Cloud.
Speakers:
- Jackie Luppi, Sr. Director of Engineering, Neustar a TransUnion Company
- Saurav Bengani, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, SADA
2:05-2:35 PM - The infinite game of security
In the wise words of Simon Sinek, “to succeed in the infinite game of business, we have to…start thinking about how to build organizations that are strong enough and healthy enough to stay in the game for many generations to come.” In this session, we’ll explore how a cloud security strategy is key to long-term success—today’s business leaders can’t even have a discussion about staying in the game without first thinking about operating securely in the cloud. You’ll hear from SADA customers that are players in this infinite game on how they’re achieving success with SADA's Security Team.
Speakers:
- Hayden Holland, Manager, Cloud Security Engineering, SADA
- Nicholas Laferriere, Lead Cloud Architect, Tamr
- Wes Etheredge, VP, Head of Data Science, JeniusBank
2:40-2:55 PM - 5 tips to help customers choose the right data protection solution
Every customer needs to keep data safe and prevent disasters. This applies equally to data stored on Google Cloud and every other data source. Many assume that public clouds automatically protect their data or that traditional, on-premises backup and recovery solutions are good for the cloud. In this session, you'll learn how to find the right data protection solution, application/data strategy, and disaster recovery solution for every customer. You'll learn how to help customers set and forget, leverage their Google commits, and save money in the process. You'll also hear how Google’s largest customers are cutting costs and using HYCU, a cloud-native solution custom-built for Google.
Speaker: Tim Stephenson, Cloud Partner Manager, HYCU, Inc.
3:00-3:30 PM - Ranker efficiently allocates resources to achieve massive cost savings
Learn how Ranker’s engineering team achieved their goals of saving money and reducing complexity while increasing the stability and redundancy of their infrastructure. As a result of working with SADA to implement GKE Autopilot, Ranker was able to simplify managing the Kubernetes cluster infrastructure, control plane, and nodes, reduced the need to learn nitty-gritty details of cluster configuration, and allowed Ranker to spend more time focusing on innovation, building feature-rich systems, and delivering value to users.
Speakers:
- Skylar Wolf, Chief Architect, Ranker
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
3:35-4:05 PM - Demystifying migrations to GKE: hosting comments for news organizations worldwide
Join Vox’s Engineering Manager, Jessie Rushing, and SADA’s Cloud Engineering Director, Nick Pan, for a fireside chat on The Coral Project by Vox Media’s journey to Google Cloud. The Coral team undertook a Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) migration to enable better scaling as their SaaS customer base grew. Hear from Jessie on their lessons learned and how SADA and Vox worked together to get their team effectively on-ramped to Google Cloud. This session will cover best practices around GKE architectures and scaling, automation and CI/CD deployments, and what’s next for Coral’s SRE team.
Speakers:
- Jessie Rushing, Engineering Manager, Vox
- Nick Pan, Cloud Engineering Director, East, SADA
4:10-4:40 PM - Managing your multi-cloud deployments with Anthos + Crossplane
Learn how to leverage Anthos and Crossplane to build a GitOps-driven multicloud platform with a centralized cluster, lifecycle management, and cluster configuration
Speakers:
- Chris Hendrich, Associate CTO, Anthos, SADA
- Brian Kaufman, Product Manager, Google
Location: Ballroom Circle, Sheraton Universal
6-10 PM - Party at SoFi Stadium
We’ll wrap day one with the biggest party in SADA history at the SoFi Stadium East Patio Club!
Don’t miss out on this exclusive experience to see the most technologically advanced stadium in the world. Join industry colleagues, SADA, and Google executives for a cocktail reception and party at the stadium. Enjoy tours of the facility (and get a backstage pass), including access to the field. Party continues with DJ and a special guest performance. SADA’s CEO Tony Safoian will make an appearance on the infinity screen. Transportation between SoFi Stadium and the Sheraton Universal will be provided. Parking will also be available to those who prefer to drive.
Location: SoFi Stadium | East Patio Club
Sponsored by:
- 7 AM - 4 PM - Registration Open
- Location: Lobby, Sheraton Universal
- Breakfast Buffet
- Location: Ballroom Circle, Sheraton Universal
- SADA IMPACT Kickoff and Welcome
- Speaker: Tony Safoian, President & CEO, SADA
- The Moneyball Method: The art of winning an unfair game
- Join one of the biggest names in baseball, Billy Beane, to hear about his landmark ‘Moneyball’ philosophy, named for the bestselling book and Oscar nominated film chronicling his journey to becoming an MLB management genius. Beane’s strategic methodology shows that organizations of all shapes and sizes can implement data driven techniques to effectively and efficiently manage resources. In a data-driven world, relying on data to influence your decisions is key. Beane's keynote will reflect on the art of success and how anyone can achieve greatness with the resources and data that they have available to them. He will cover using data to create and sustain a competitive advantage – a key component to success in the tech industry and beyond.
- Speaker: Billy Beane, General Manager, Oakland Athletics
- 10:35-11:15 AM - Turning challenges into opportunities in an era of accelerating transformation
- Multiple global disruptions starting in 2020 have created new and unique business challenges and opportunities. There has never been a more critical time for customers to select the right partner to guide their digital transformation and ensure a reliable return on their investments. Join us for a candid conversation with SADA President & CEO Tony Safoian and Jim Anderson, Vice President, North American Partner Ecosystem & Channels at Google Cloud. They will discuss the trends and challenges our customers face today and how their companies are partnering to tackle them.
- Speakers:
- Jim Anderson, VP, NorthAm Partner Ecosystem & Channels, Google Cloud
- Tony Safoian, President & CEO, SADA
- 11:20-11:50 AM - Accelerating biomedical discovery: a conversation with Bill Mayo, CIO of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- The researchers of the Broad Institute are true pioneers: Since 2003 over 5,000 Broad-affiliated scientists have collaborated on breakthrough discoveries at the intersection of our genetic makeup and our health, spanning our understanding of underlying biology to a wide range of diseases. You’d be hard-pressed to find a major recent biomedical advancement that can’t trace at least some of its roots back to the work of the Broad. What’s more, the Broad Institute has been a cloud pioneer, launching their first workloads on Google Cloud in 2014. Every healthcare and life sciences customer of Google Cloud since then has benefitted from this groundbreaking collaboration, and SADA is proud to call Broad a partner. Bill Mayo has been CIO of the Broad Institute since 2016, with a front-row seat to the aggressive shift of biomedical research to the cloud and one objective in his sights: accelerate discovery. Bill will be interviewed by Tony Safoian, CEO of SADA, unlocking insights gained from this remarkable period of innovation and looking forward to what must happen to drive the next wave of discovery.
- Speakers:
- Bill Mayo, CIO, Broad Institute
- Tony Safoian, Presidet & CEO, SADA
- 11:50 AM-12:20 PM - Pizza meets cloud: Papa John's taps SADA and Google Cloud to carry out digital transformation
- Join us for a riveting fireside chat with Papa John's as we take a deep dive into how Google Cloud is helping the leading pizza restaurant chain fuel innovation and better serve customers. Learn how the cloud is enabling it to scale faster and empower retail stores with the real-time data they need to make deliveries on time and cost efficiently. Hear how focusing on resiliency and cost optimization is playing a vital role in the company's cloud transformation strategy.
- Speakers:
- Joshua Sullivan, Director of Engineering, Papa Johns
- Courtney Graham, VP Sales, Central, SADA
- Networking & Lunch
- Lunch Sponsored by:
- Location: Ballroom Circle, Sheraton Universal
- 1:30-2:00PM - The cloud transformation journey: charting the course ahead
- Cloud transformation isn't merely a destination—it's a journey. Join us for this informative panel discussion covering a range of topics pertaining to the cloud transformation journey. From potential pitfalls to best practices, you'll get candid insight into what it takes to achieve the resiliency, agility, cost-efficiency, and scalability needed to adapt and thrive in today's business environment.
- Speakers:
- Peter FitzGibbon, Vice President - Professional Services, SADA
- Patrick Lea, Senior VP, Enterprise Infrastructure and Architecture, Revionics
- Piuter Kogan, Global Head of Infrastructure, TSImagine
- 2:05-2:50PM - SaaS Alliances: the power of working together
- Tune in as innovators in the technology space discuss how they amplified their Google Cloud experience as a SADA SaaS Alliance Program partner. You’ll hear firsthand from ISVs and SaaS companies on how choosing the right cloud provider and the right partner to scale your business go hand in hand.
- Speakers:
- Nikki Harley, Senior Director, Strategic Alliance, SADA
- Alan Harris, Vice President, WW Sales, Blue Triangle
- Alfred Saad, CRO, LumApps
- Anna Claiborne, CTO, CPO & Co-Founder, PacketFabric
- Kelly Hopping, CMO, HYCU
- 2:55-3:10PM - Tech to support the future of work
- Employee flexibility is now a requirement in the workplace, but without analytics that drive key decision-making and tools that ensure accountability, flexibility is an unrealistic expectation. Learn how Prodoscore’s cloud-based Employee Productivity Monitoring (EPM) solution ensures that decisions about personnel are rooted in data, not gut feelings. You'll hear how insights into daily productivity and engagement provide certainty around what employees are doing without being invasive or disruptive. You'll walk away from this session with a better understanding of how these critical insights empower employee flexibility and ensure accountability--a win-win for everyone.
- Speakers:
- Mike Perrone, CRO, Prodoscore
- Nadine Sarraf, CMO, Prodoscore
- 3:10-3:40PM - How BeautyCounter is getting value from the cloud
- Sit in on this exciting fireside chat to learn how BeautyCounter, a direct to consumer company that sells skincare and cosmetic products, is responding to industry trends. You’ll hear how the company is tapping into the power of Google Cloud’s leading retail solutions to manage supply chain processes, gain access to real-time insights, simplify workflows, reduce IT costs, leverage data analytics to design unique customer experiences, and more.
- Speakers:
- Peter-Mark Verwoerd, Associate CTO, Infrastructure, SADA
- Abigail Cloft, Director, Engineering, BeautyCounter
- 3:45-4:15PM - How to consolidate your productivity environment using Google Workspace
- Looking to tap into the full potential of Google Workspace? You won’t want to miss this informative session featuring leading customers who are leveraging Workspace to thrive in today’s hybrid and flexible working environment. Join the session to learn how they’re maximizing the power of Workspace’s core communication and collaboration capabilities and how you can do the same in your organization.
- Speakers:
- Kelly Wright, Director, Workspace, SADA
- Chad Pierce, Head of Architecture and Solutions, WeWork
- Alvina Antar, CIO of Okta
- 4:20-4:50PM - How startups are achieving their loftiest ambitions with SADA and Google Cloud
- Learn how startups are achieving their loftiest business ambitions by leveraging Google Cloud and SADA services. In this informative panel, we’ll take a deep dive into what tools and solutions startups are utilizing on GCP to scale and build out their big ideas. You’ll also get insight into how startups get ROI from SADA services designed to help them meet their unique business objectives.
- Speakers:
- Billy Franz, Sr. Sales Director of Emerging Business & Channel, SADA
- Cameron Sechrist, CEO & Co-Founder, Streamlined
- Tyler Logtenberg, Head of Operations, DataStreamer
- 1:30-2:00 PM - Neustar’s tech transformation journey with Google Cloud and SADA
- Neustar has traveled a long way in their journey to Google Cloud from their legacy cloud provider, with a total technology transformation. Hear from a core Engineering Director and transformation leader about how it all started with a large-scale foundation utilizing Infrastructure as Code. You’ll learn how the partnership with SADA enabled the company to manage a hybrid cloud data pipeline with workflow orchestration and petabyte-scale data transfer. You’ll also hear how establishing a firm technical foundation allowed SADA and Neustar to jointly manage the significant technical challenges posed by Neustar’s migration to Google Cloud.
- Speakers:
- Jackie Luppi, Sr. Director of Engineering, Neustar a TransUnion Company
- Saurav Bengani, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, SADA
- 2:05-2:35 PM - The infinite game of security
- In the wise words of Simon Sinek, “to succeed in the infinite game of business, we have to…start thinking about how to build organizations that are strong enough and healthy enough to stay in the game for many generations to come.” In this session, we’ll explore how a cloud security strategy is key to long-term success—today’s business leaders can’t even have a discussion about staying in the game without first thinking about operating securely in the cloud. You’ll hear from SADA customers that are players in this infinite game on how they’re achieving success with SADA's Security Team.
- Speakers:
- Hayden Holland, Manager, Cloud Security Engineering, SADA
- Nicholas Laferriere, Lead Cloud Architect, Tamr
- Wes Etheredge, VP, Head of Data Science, JeniusBank
- 2:40-2:55 PM - 5 tips to help customers choose the right data protection solution
- Every customer needs to keep data safe and prevent disasters. This applies equally to data stored on Google Cloud and every other data source. Many assume that public clouds automatically protect their data or that traditional, on-premises backup and recovery solutions are good for the cloud. In this session, you'll learn how to find the right data protection solution, application/data strategy, and disaster recovery solution for every customer. You'll learn how to help customers set and forget, leverage their Google commits, and save money in the process. You'll also hear how Google’s largest customers are cutting costs and using HYCU, a cloud-native solution custom-built for Google.
- Speaker: Tim Stephenson, Cloud Partner Manager, HYCU, Inc.
- 3:00-3:30 PM - Ranker efficiently allocates resources to achieve massive cost savings
- Learn how Ranker’s engineering team achieved their goals of saving money and reducing complexity while increasing the stability and redundancy of their infrastructure. As a result of working with SADA to implement GKE Autopilot, Ranker was able to simplify managing the Kubernetes cluster infrastructure, control plane, and nodes, reduced the need to learn nitty-gritty details of cluster configuration, and allowed Ranker to spend more time focusing on innovation, building feature-rich systems, and delivering value to users.
- Speakers:
- Skylar Wolf, Chief Architect, Ranker
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- 3:35-4:05 PM - Demystifying migrations to GKE: hosting comments for news organizations worldwide
- Join Vox’s Engineering Manager, Jessie Rushing, and SADA’s Cloud Engineering Director, Nick Pan, for a fireside chat on The Coral Project by Vox Media’s journey to Google Cloud. The Coral team undertook a Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) migration to enable better scaling as their SaaS customer base grew. Hear from Jessie on their lessons learned and how SADA and Vox worked together to get their team effectively on-ramped to Google Cloud. This session will cover best practices around GKE architectures and scaling, automation and CI/CD deployments, and what’s next for Coral’s SRE team.
- Speakers:
- Jessie Rushing, Engineering Manager, Vox
- Nick Pan, Cloud Engineering Director, East, SADA
- 4:10-4:40 PM - Managing your multi-cloud deployments with Anthos + Crossplane
- Learn how to leverage Anthos and Crossplane to build a GitOps-driven multicloud platform with a centralized cluster, lifecycle management, and cluster configuration
- Speakers:
- Chris Hendrich, Associate CTO, Anthos, SADA
- Brian Kaufman, Product Manager, Google
- Location: Ballroom Circle, Sheraton Universal
- 6-10 PM - Party at SoFi Stadium
- We’ll wrap day one with the biggest party in SADA history at the SoFi Stadium East Patio Club!
- Don’t miss out on this exclusive experience to see the most technologically advanced stadium in the world. Join industry colleagues, SADA, and Google executives for a cocktail reception and party at the stadium. Enjoy tours of the facility (and get a backstage pass), including access to the field. Party continues with DJ and a special guest performance. SADA’s CEO Tony Safoian will make an appearance on the infinity screen. Transportation between SoFi Stadium and the Sheraton Universal will be provided. Parking will also be available to those who prefer to drive.
- Location: SoFi Stadium | East Patio Club
- Sponsored by:
/ DAY 2 THURSDAY, SEPT 15
7 AM - 2 PM - Registration Open
Location: Lobby, Sheraton Universal
Breakfast Buffet
Location: Sheraton Universal Ballroom Circle
DAY 2 Welcome Remarks
Speaker: Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
From Waffle House to Reddit: a conversation with Alexis Ohanian
Join tech founder, venture capitalist, and co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, for a fireside chat with Tony Safoian, CEO of SADA. Learn how Ohanian began his unconventional journey in the tech industry with his ‘Waffle House’ epiphany’ which led him to leave law school and launch Reddit, one of the most iconic social networks in the world. Ohanian will also share his involvement in other successful ventures, including HipMunk and BreadPig. Outside of successes in the business world, Ohanian will discuss how his failures have shaped his worldview today and how important it is to always be one step ahead.
Speakers:
- Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder, Reddit and Seven Seven Six
- Tony Safoian, President & CEO, SADA
10:10-10:55 AM - Customers for life: no gimmicks, no games
When SADA says “customers for life,” we mean it. SADA, together with Google Cloud, understands that no two companies are alike. The way you do business is unique. No playbook predicts how the fourth quarter will play out, but you need a partner who will be there to guide you through it. In this session, SADA CRO Sandy Hogan will be joined by Google leaders Darren Mowry, Managing Director, North America, and Rob Harper, Director, North America Channel Sales, Partner Development and Activation. Together, they’ll discuss the positive and lasting impact they believe their respective companies can bring to their customers and the steps they’re taking to address today’s changing tech landscape, and how it is shaped by the current market.
Speakers:
- Sandy Hogan, CRO, SADA
- Darren Mowry, Managing Director, North America, Google Cloud
- Rob Harper, Director: Channel & ISV Sales, Google Cloud
Join Daniel Brusilovsky, VP Technology, Golden State Warriors, for a fireside chat with Jacob Youshia, VP Sales, West, SADA, on how the franchise’s focus on data and analytics has transformed what it means to be a sports, media, and entertainment franchise in the 21st century. Learn how the team is leveraging Google Cloud to spur its business operations to provide a next-level experience for fans. You’ll also get insight into how the team is planning to utilize new technologies along the way to build the fan experience of the future.
Speakers:
- Daniel Brusilovsky, VP Technology, Golden State Warriors
- Jacob Youshia, VP Sales, West, SADA
11:30 AM-12:00 PM - Real digital transformation
Think migrating to the cloud is challenging? How about migrating between a legacy provider and GCP? What about guiding your company through a total digital transformation, moving petabytes of data, and challenging your engineers to work in entirely new ways?
How about doing it all at once?
Join SADA CTO Miles Ward and Venkat Achanta, previous CTO of Neustar (now a Transunion company), as they recount the story of one of SADA’s largest ever migrations, how they overcame challenges, and how this story could inform your own path to digital transformation.
Speakers:
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- Venkat Achanta, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Transunion
Networking & Lunch
Location: Ballroom Circle, Sheraton Universal
1:00-1:30 PM - Supporting Neustar's technology evolution with SADA ProServe and FinOps
Discover how Neustar is leveraging SADA services in a number of ways, enabling the leading information services and technology company to masterfully respond to shifting business and technical priorities. From providing value for a regularly growing number of workstreams to using FinOps as a guiding north star to make decisions, you’ll hear how Neustar’s multi-faceted journey with SADA supports the company’s growth objectives and technology evolution.
Speakers:
- Sairam Tadigadipa, VP - Engineering, Neustar a TransUnion Company
- Eric Lam, Head of FinOps, Google Cloud
- Rich Hoyer, Director of Customer FinOps, SADA
1:35-1:50 PM - Enhancing your employee’s experience through LumApps and Google Workspace
Join this session to learn how the combined power of LumApps and Google Workspace can enhance the employee experience, streamline internal communications, and improve company alignment and employee engagement. You'll walk away with a better understanding of how LumApps and Google Workspace can improve the cohesive experience of your digital workplace, tips and strategies for improving Google Workspace adoption with LumApps, and insight into how to take the next steps if you’re looking for an employee experience tool.
Speaker: Sean Manzanares, Head of Partnerships & Alliances, Americas LumApps
1:55-2:35 PM - Healthcare impact: three unique technology companies making healthcare better for all of us
The healthcare experience is all about journeys: the patient journey, starting with looking up symptoms and finding your way to the right doctor. The doctor’s journey, from first contact with the patient to making diagnoses and decisions using experience and data. And the data’s journey, from that first Google search through your detailed medical records and reports. All this travel makes healthcare complicated and expensive, but… does it have to be?
In this panel you'll hear from forward-thinking companies that are using Google Cloud to take some of the cost and complexity out of healthcare. You’ll learn how leading healthcare innovators are using cutting-edge technology and expertise to shorten and simplify healthcare journeys, resulting in better care for all of us.
Speakers:
- Michael Ames, Managing Director, Vertical Markets, SADA
- Gregg Church, President 4Medica
- Nate Perry-Thistle, CTO Cipher Health
- Ian Shakli, Founder. Augmedix
2:40-2:55 PM - How to achieve company-wide work productivity across projects
Project management and productivity have become more challenging in today's hybrid work environments. Employee productivity benefits from transparent systems designed to handle complex, large-scale projects. Swit, a collaboration management platform, helps individual employees focus on their projects in alignment with shared team goals. Learn how to leverage Swit with Google Workspace (or Microsoft 365) to overcome information silos, fragmented workflows, functional divisions, hierarchical approvals, and disjointed apps.
Speaker: Josh Lee, CEO, Swit
3:00-3:30 PM - Delivering next-gen trading and banking solutions with Google Cloud
In this engaging fireside chat, you’ll learn how Questrade, Canada’s fastest growing online brokerage, is tapping into the power of Google Cloud to build innovative products and services that provide clients with unparalleled trading and investing experiences. Hear how the company’s transformation journey with Google Cloud has enabled it to successfully address business and technical challenges, respond to fintech industry trends, and quickly leverage secure, scalable capabilities.
Speakers:
- Praneil Ladwa, Chief Product Officer and Head, International Operations at Questrade Inc
- Dana Berg, COO, SADA
3:35-4:05 - Tech for good: sustainability
Google Cloud and the greater Alphabet organization are always working to provide the greenest cloud in the market. Come hear how energy innovations enable customers to run workloads as cleanly as possible, and learn how customers in the sustainability space drive innovation with Google Cloud in partnership with SADA.
Speaker: Brian Suk, Associate CTO, Data, SADA
1:00-1:30 PM - Getting out of the gate with SADA and GCP
In late February 2022, Digital Turbine kicked off a massive program with SADA, migrating from AWS to GCP, that will run through November of 2023. This session will explore why Digital Turbine chose SADA and GCP, with insights gathered from every stage of their migration journey.
Speakers:
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- Joseph Shorter, VP Architecture, Digital Turbine
1:35-2:05 PM - How organizations are powering data-informed decision-making with BigQuery
In this highly informative panel, you’ll hear how customers representing a variety of industries, including healthcare, retail, and media and entertainment, are leveraging BigQuery to reimagine data warehousing. Learn how Google Cloud’s serverless warehousing solution is helping eliminate administrative burdens by quickly generating insights from data. You won’t want to miss key findings on how BigQuery is transforming organizations with real-time and predictive analytics that are powering data-informed decision-making.
Speakers:
- Carl Livadas, VP of Engineering and Data Science, Sojern
- Dan Belcher, Co-Founder, Mabl
- Brian Suk, Associate CTO, Data, SADA
2:10-2:40 PM - Embodied revolutionizes child development with the launch of Moxie
Learn how Embodied is leveraging Google Cloud’s experimental and cutting-edge automatic speech recognition (ASR) models to power Moxie, the company’s revolutionary AI friend that helps children build social and emotional skills through play. You’ll hear how Embodied provides customizable input with predetermined context words that are likely to be used during specific, themed interactions with Moxie. Plus, learn how the company gets the most from Google Cloud Storage, computing signal processing backend services, and robust machine learning algorithms.
Speakers:
- Mario E. Munich, CTO, Embodied, Inc.
- Peter-Mark Verwoerd, Associate CTO, Infrastructure, SADA
- Tim Stahl, TAM, SADA
2:45-3:15PM - Making the most of ARM chips on Google Cloud
Earlier this year, Google Cloud launched an entirely new type of Compute Engine instance type, 2A, which are powered by ARM chips. ARM-based computing has the potential to completely change the calculations companies make for compute-heavy workloads. Join this session to learn how SADA and Momento applied their toughest engineering muscle to grasping the implications of these new instances. Join Subra Chandramouli from the Google product team, SADA CTO Miles Ward, and Momento CEO Khawaja Shams as they talk through how they've taken advantage of these exciting new compute instances.
Speakers:
- Khawaja Shams, CEO, Momento
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- Subra Chandramouli, Sr. Product Manager, Google Cloud
3:35-4:05 PM - Introducing SADA Startup Incubator: bringing startups the power of GCP
Learn about SADA Startup Incubator, a 6-month program to launch bootstrapped startups and enable them to successfully scale on Google Cloud. Primarily focused on startups that have yet to be backed by the venture capital community, SADA Startup Incubator provides emerging companies $10,000 in monthly GCP usage credits, technical enablement offerings, and marketing exposure to support growth and innovation in the cloud.
Speakers:
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- Kate Smith, Executive Business Partner, Office of the CTO, SADA
- Rocco Haro, CEO, Kickback Space
- Nathan Nichols, CEO, SENT TRADE
- Morgante Pell, CEO, Grit
- Moses Ekra, CEO Cangurhu
- Robert Wagner, Field CISO, Fletch
3:00-5:00 PM - Cloud Hero Technical Training
READY TO BE A HERO?
Join us for a fast-paced, hands-on lab gaming experience at SADA IMPACT. Test your skills against other engineers and developers in a friendly competition to become a Cloud Hero!
Register to join the Cloud Hero Infrastructure Challenge and compete to be top of the leaderboard. What do you win? FREE SWAG, shoutouts on SADA social channels, and of course…bragging rights!!
New to the cloud? We’ll also have an introductory game just for you. Feeling pretty advanced? If you complete the challenge and there’s time remaining, skill up on a next-level Kubernetes game.
Cloud Hero can be played whether you’re in-person or remote. We’ll be live streaming the event and providing support both onsite and online.
Following the Cloud Hero Challenge, every participant will receive free 30-day access to Google Cloud Skills Boost to complete the associated Google Cloud Skill Badge. Skill Badges are shareable credentials that recognize your ability to solve real-world problems with cloud knowledge.
Sponsored by: ROI Training
- 7 AM - 2 PM - Registration Open
- Location: Lobby, Sheraton Universal
- Breakfast Buffet
- Location: Sheraton Universal Ballroom Circle
- DAY 2 Welcome Remarks
- Speaker: Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- From Waffle House to Reddit: a conversation with Alexis Ohanian
- Join tech founder, venture capitalist, and co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, for a fireside chat with Tony Safoian, CEO of SADA. Learn how Ohanian began his unconventional journey in the tech industry with his ‘Waffle House’ epiphany’ which led him to leave law school and launch Reddit, one of the most iconic social networks in the world. Ohanian will also share his involvement in other successful ventures, including HipMunk and BreadPig. Outside of successes in the business world, Ohanian will discuss how his failures have shaped his worldview today and how important it is to always be one step ahead.
- Speakers:
- Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder, Reddit and Seven Seven Six
- Tony Safoian, President & CEO, SADA
- 10:10-10:55 AM - Customers for life: no gimmicks, no games
- When SADA says “customers for life,” we mean it. SADA, together with Google Cloud, understands that no two companies are alike. The way you do business is unique. No playbook predicts how the fourth quarter will play out, but you need a partner who will be there to guide you through it. In this session, SADA CRO Sandy Hogan will be joined by Google leaders Darren Mowry, Managing Director, North America, and Rob Harper, Director, North America Channel Sales, Partner Development and Activation. Together, they’ll discuss the positive and lasting impact they believe their respective companies can bring to their customers and the steps they’re taking to address today’s changing tech landscape, and how it is shaped by the current market.
- Speakers:
- Sandy Hogan, CRO, SADA
- Darren Mowry, Managing Director, North America, Google Cloud
- Rob Harper, Director: Channel & ISV Sales, Google Cloud
- 11:00-11:30 AM - A winning strategy: how the Golden State Warriors are leveraging data and analytics to power an unrivaled fan experience
- Join Daniel Brusilovsky, VP Technology, Golden State Warriors, for a fireside chat with Jacob Youshia, VP Sales, West, SADA, on how the franchise’s focus on data and analytics has transformed what it means to be a sports, media, and entertainment franchise in the 21st century. Learn how the team is leveraging Google Cloud to spur its business operations to provide a next-level experience for fans. You’ll also get insight into how the team is planning to utilize new technologies along the way to build the fan experience of the future.
- Speakers:
- Daniel Brusilovsky, VP Technology, Golden State Warriors
- Jacob Youshia, VP Sales, West, SADA
- 11:30 AM-12:00 PM - Real digital transformation
- Think migrating to the cloud is challenging? How about migrating between a legacy provider and GCP? What about guiding your company through a total digital transformation, moving petabytes of data, and challenging your engineers to work in entirely new ways?
How about doing it all at once
Join SADA CTO Miles Ward and Venkat Achanta, previous CTO of Neustar (now a Transunion company), as they recount the story of one of SADA’s largest ever migrations, how they overcame challenges, and how this story could inform your own path to digital transformation.
- Speakers:
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- Venkat Achanta, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Transunion
- Think migrating to the cloud is challenging? How about migrating between a legacy provider and GCP? What about guiding your company through a total digital transformation, moving petabytes of data, and challenging your engineers to work in entirely new ways?
- Networking & Lunch
- Location: Ballroom Circle, Sheraton Universal
- 1:00-1:30 PM - Supporting Neustar's technology evolution with SADA ProServe and FinOps
- Discover how Neustar is leveraging SADA services in a number of ways, enabling the leading information services and technology company to masterfully respond to shifting business and technical priorities. From providing value for a regularly growing number of workstreams to using FinOps as a guiding north star to make decisions, you’ll hear how Neustar’s multi-faceted journey with SADA supports the company’s growth objectives and technology evolution.
- Speakers:
- Sairam Tadigadipa, VP - Engineering, Neustar a TransUnion Company
- Eric Lam, Head of FinOps, Google Cloud
- Rich Hoyer, Director of Customer FinOps, SADA
- 1:35-1:50 PM - Enhancing your employee’s experience through LumApps and Google Workspace
- Join this session to learn how the combined power of LumApps and Google Workspace can enhance the employee experience, streamline internal communications, and improve company alignment and employee engagement. You'll walk away with a better understanding of how LumApps and Google Workspace can improve the cohesive experience of your digital workplace, tips and strategies for improving Google Workspace adoption with LumApps, and insight into how to take the next steps if you’re looking for an employee experience tool.
- Speaker: Sean Manzanares, Head of Partnerships & Alliances, Americas LumApps
- 1:55-2:35 PM - Healthcare impact: three unique technology companies making healthcare better for all of us
- The healthcare experience is all about journeys: the patient journey, starting with looking up symptoms and finding your way to the right doctor. The doctor’s journey, from first contact with the patient to making diagnoses and decisions using experience and data. And the data’s journey, from that first Google search through your detailed medical records and reports. All this travel makes healthcare complicated and expensive, but… does it have to be?
In this panel you'll hear from forward-thinking companies that are using Google Cloud to take some of the cost and complexity out of healthcare. You’ll learn how leading healthcare innovators are using cutting-edge technology and expertise to shorten and simplify healthcare journeys, resulting in better care for all of us.
- Speakers:
- Michael Ames, Managing Director, Vertical Markets, SADA
- Gregg Church, President 4Medica
- Nate Perry-Thistle, CTO Cipher Health
- Ian Shakli, Founder. Augmedix
- The healthcare experience is all about journeys: the patient journey, starting with looking up symptoms and finding your way to the right doctor. The doctor’s journey, from first contact with the patient to making diagnoses and decisions using experience and data. And the data’s journey, from that first Google search through your detailed medical records and reports. All this travel makes healthcare complicated and expensive, but… does it have to be?
- 2:40-2:55 PM - How to achieve company-wide work productivity across projects
- Project and Work Management have become more difficult in a hybrid work environment. Employee Productivity at an enterprise level is only possible with transparent systems that are designed to handle complex, large-scale projects. This condition is essential in order for collaborators to identify task dependencies across teams and for managers to have the scope in visibility for multi-project monitoring. Google Workspace (or Microsoft 365) is an important component, but it can’t be a sole solution for eliminating the information silos that come from fragmented workflows, functional divisions, hierarchical approvals, and disjointed apps. To help everyone maintain focus on their own projects while also aligning on shared goals beyond team boundaries, we built Swit - the workspace of Workspace - to serve as a more unified, scalable work hub with a unique architecture that was purpose-built to provide enterprise employees with functional context in service to effortless transparency.
- Speaker: Josh Lee, CEO, Swit
- Project and Work Management have become more difficult in a hybrid work environment. Employee Productivity at an enterprise level is only possible with transparent systems that are designed to handle complex, large-scale projects. This condition is essential in order for collaborators to identify task dependencies across teams and for managers to have the scope in visibility for multi-project monitoring. Google Workspace (or Microsoft 365) is an important component, but it can’t be a sole solution for eliminating the information silos that come from fragmented workflows, functional divisions, hierarchical approvals, and disjointed apps. To help everyone maintain focus on their own projects while also aligning on shared goals beyond team boundaries, we built Swit - the workspace of Workspace - to serve as a more unified, scalable work hub with a unique architecture that was purpose-built to provide enterprise employees with functional context in service to effortless transparency.
- 3:00-3:30 PM - Delivering next-gen trading and banking solutions with Google Cloud
- In this engaging fireside chat, you’ll learn how Questrade, Canada’s fastest growing online brokerage, is tapping into the power of Google Cloud to build innovative products and services that provide clients with unparalleled trading and investing experiences. Hear how the company’s transformation journey with Google Cloud has enabled it to successfully address business and technical challenges, respond to fintech industry trends, and quickly leverage secure, scalable capabilities.
- Speakers:
- Praneil Ladwa, Chief Product Officer and Head, International Operations at Questrade Inc
- Dana Berg, COO, SADA
- 3:35-4:05 - Tech for good: sustainability
- Google Cloud, and the broader Alphabet infrastructure continually drives to be the cleanest cloud infrastructure in the market. Come hear how these clean energy innovations work together to enable customers in running workloads as clean as possible, and also learn about the trends and workloads customers in the sustainability space leverage Google Cloud in partnership with SADA.
- Speaker: Brian Suk, Associate CTO, Data, SADA
- 1:00-1:30 PM - Getting out of the gate with SADA and GCP
- In late February 2022, Digital Turbine kicked off a massive program with SADA, migrating from AWS to GCP, that will run through November of 2023. This session will explore why Digital Turbine chose SADA and GCP, with insights gathered from every stage of their migration journey.
- Speakers:
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- Joseph Shorter, VP Architecture, Digital Turbine
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- 1:35-2:05 PM - How organizations are powering data-informed decision-making with BigQuery
- In this highly informative panel, you’ll hear how customers representing a variety of industries, including healthcare, retail, and media and entertainment, are leveraging BigQuery to reimagine data warehousing. Learn how Google Cloud’s serverless warehousing solution is helping eliminate administrative burdens by quickly generating insights from data. You won’t want to miss key findings on how BigQuery is transforming organizations with real-time and predictive analytics that are powering data-informed decision-making.
- Speakers:
- Carl Livadas, VP of Engineering and Data Science, Sojern
- Dan Belcher, Co-Founder, Mabl
- Brian Suk, Associate CTO, Data, SADA
- 2:10-2:40 PM - Embodied revolutionizes child development with the launch of Moxie
- Learn how Embodied is leveraging Google Cloud’s experimental and cutting-edge automatic speech recognition (ASR) models to power Moxie, the company’s revolutionary AI friend that helps children build social and emotional skills through play. You’ll hear how Embodied provides customizable input with predetermined context words that are likely to be used during specific, themed interactions with Moxie. Plus, learn how the company gets the most from Google Cloud Storage, computing signal processing backend services, and robust machine learning algorithms.
- Speakers:
- Mario E. Munich, CTO, Embodied, Inc.
- Peter-Mark Verwoerd, Associate CTO, Infrastructure, SADA
- Tim Stahl, TAM, SADA
- 2:45-3:15PM - Making the most of ARM chips on Google Cloud
- Earlier this year, Google Cloud launched an entirely new type of Compute Engine instance type, 2A, which are powered by ARM chips. ARM-based computing has the potential to completely change the calculations companies make for compute-heavy workloads. Join this session to learn how SADA and Momento applied their toughest engineering muscle to grasping the implications of these new instances. Join [insert Googler name], from the Google product team, SADA CTO Miles Ward, and Momento CEO Khawaja Shams as they talk through how they've taken advantage of these exciting new compute instances.
- Speakers:
- Khawaja Shams, CEO, Momento
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- Subra Chandramouli, Sr. Product Manager, Google Cloud
- 3:35-4:05 PM - Introducing SADA Startup Incubator: bringing startups the power of GCP
- Learn about SADA Startup Incubator, a 6-month program to launch bootstrapped startups and enable them to successfully scale on Google Cloud. Primarily focused on startups that have yet to be backed by the venture capital community, SADA Startup Incubator provides emerging companies $10,000 in monthly GCP usage credits, technical enablement offerings, and marketing exposure to support growth and innovation in the cloud.
- Speakers:
- Miles Ward, CTO, SADA
- Kate Smith, Executive Business Partner, Office of the CTO, SADA
- Rocco Haro, CEO, Kickback Space
- Nathan Nichols, CEO, SENT TRADE
- Morgante Pell, CEO, Grit
- Moses Ekra, CEO Cangurhu
- Robert Wagner, Field CISO, Fletch
- 3:00-5:00 PM - Cloud Hero Technical Training
- READY TO BE A HERO? Join us for a fast-paced, hands-on lab gaming experience at SADA IMPACT. Test your skills against other engineers and developers in a friendly competition to become a Cloud Hero!
Register to join the Cloud Hero Infrastructure Challenge and compete to be top of the leaderboard. What do you win? FREE SWAG, shoutouts on SADA social channels, and of course…bragging rights!!
New to the cloud? We’ll also have an introductory game just for you. Feeling pretty advanced? If you complete the challenge and there’s time remaining, skill up on a next-level Kubernetes game.
Cloud Hero can be played whether you’re in-person or remote. We’ll be live streaming the event and providing support both onsite and online. Following the Cloud Hero Challenge, every participant will receive free 30-day access to Google Cloud Skills Boost to complete the associated Google Cloud Skill Badge. Skill Badges are shareable credentials that recognize your ability to solve real-world problems with cloud knowledge.
- Sponsored by: ROI Training
- READY TO BE A HERO? Join us for a fast-paced, hands-on lab gaming experience at SADA IMPACT. Test your skills against other engineers and developers in a friendly competition to become a Cloud Hero!