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Scott Evers

Scott Evers

Enterprise Architect

Involta

John Kehoe

John Kehoe

Executive Vice President of Manufacturing

Involta

Varun Taware

Varun Taware

Edge Solutions Marketing - Dell NativeEdge

Dell

Adam Knobloch
Moderator

Adam Knobloch

VP & Head of Data Centers

Bisnow

Scott Evers

Enterprise Architect

Involta

Over a 24 year career in IT, Scott has covered a lot of ground. As our

self-proclaimed “cloud nerd” and maverick at Involta, he’s always

conceptualizing and delivering amazing new ways cloud technologies can

empower companies of all sizes to achieve their business objectives.

Previous lives as a Cybersecurity Architect for a Fortune 500 Aerospace &

Defense company, as well as a Developer, DBA, and Software Architect have

positioned Scott to help customers adopt hybrid architectures in a secure,

repeatable, and efficient manner. He’s the person you want leading the charge

when making a transformational change in technology.

Scott’s accomplishments include:

● Enabled a secure and compliant transition of 22,000 users to G Suite, the first

large scale deployment in the Defense Industrial Base

● 2019, 2022 Involta Presidents Club winner

● 2016 Rockwell Collins Engineer of the Year Semifinalist

● Established enterprise standards for secure adoption of AWS and Azure

● Provided infrastructure and security guidance for migration of SAP HANA to

IaaS

● Guided organizations of all sizes on successful cloud transformations

John Kehoe

Executive Vice President of Manufacturing

Involta

John Kehoe, Involta Executive Vice President of Manufacturing, is an industry leader who deeply understands he connection between technology, business growth and customer success. With 30 years of global experience across multiple industries, John is an accomplished senior executive with a proven track record of leading teams and empowering organizations to improve productivity, increase efficiency and drive digital transformation. John brings extensive experience leading organizations of global manufacturing companies within the industrial, high-tech, agriculture, aviation and aerospace industries and was a managing owner of a $1.2B aerospace services company. Most recently, John served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a multibillion multinational manufacturing company. He has also served on Involta’s Manufacturing Advisory Board for several years, sharing acute industry and business insights that helped shape Involta’s manufacturing vertical strategy. John is a proud United States Air Force veteran and outdoorsman. He is passionate about supporting organizations that promote Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) opportunities in education. He is also active in global water conservation initiatives to ensure clean water is available for future generations.

Varun Taware

Edge Solutions Marketing - Dell NativeEdge

Dell

Varun has over two decades of software engineering and marketing experience spanning across IT infrastructure management, Travel, E-commerce, and Healthcare IT solutions. At Dell Technologies, Varun drives product marketing for the recently launched Dell NativeEdge— an edge operations software platform.

Varun has an MBA from Babson College and Bachelors in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai

Adam Knobloch

Moderator

Bisnow

Adam Knobloch has been involved in the commercial real estate event and media space since 2010, having held roles in sales, account management, production and coordination. He joined Bisnow Media as the Global Director of Data Centers after having led event sales and strategy efforts in the CRE space for nearly a decade. Since 2012, he has found a significant passion for the data center and technology sectors, while building an international network of active followers across numerous asset classes in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland. In his current role, Adam oversees Bisnow Media's event and sponsored media strategy for the data center sector, having expanded its Datacenter Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Series event offerings to more than 15 markets, with an international presence in the UK and Canada.

He previously held a board member role on the Telecom Exchange (TEX) Advisory Board, collaborating on content, speaker recommendations and event strategy. Additionally, he has made a point of promoting local and national organizations with a focus on STEM education and advancing the next generation into the technology sector through support, collaboration and ambassadorship. Notable organizations include the Nomad Futurist Academy, Infrastructure Masons, H5 Data Centers' STEM Fest and local chapters of both 7X24 Exchange and AFCOM.

In his personal life, Adam is a musician, having toured the east coast as the drummer of The Gantry. He was a frequent member of the NYC folk/indie rock music scene and is currently the drummer for A.M. County.

Adam holds a Bachelor's Degree of Business Administration from American University's Kogod School of Business, with a focus on Marketing and Public Relations.

Elevating the Edge: Strategies for Empowering Smart Manufacturing

The network edge remains a significant opportunity for application proliferation and experiences but the network fabrics to enable these outcomes have yet to deploy at scale. What is the current state of edge deployment and what types of solutions are needed for today’s applications? Hear from data center operator Involta and industry partner Dell, on how they are solving to meet the needs of their customers and how enterprises can make the edge a strategic enabler for businesses across industries.

Topics to address include:

  • What are the top 2-3 challenges enterprise users are trying to solve through edge technology?

  • What enterprise-edge solutions are commonly adopted to increase modernization, optimization and automation efficiencies?

  • How is adopting AI shifting priorities related to others – security, systems consolidation, sustainability efforts, etc.?