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The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.
This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.
The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.
This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.
Building Tomorrow’s Smart and Secure Infrastructure
Our almost-famous Crash Courses are coming to cities near you with partners HPE Aruba, StorageCraft, and KnowBe4
Join us at this free event series covering the intelligent edge, scalable data storage and recovery, and a special security awareness session. The August training series is hosted in cities near you across North Carolina and feature technical sessions with engineers from HPE Aruba Networking and StorageCraft, with a bonus lunch-n-learn session on cyber security awareness training from KnowBe4.
Who should attend:
• Security analysts, engineers, directors
• Cyber security awareness and training managers
• Network and wireless admins and managers
• Server, storage, and datacenter managers
• Technology Directors, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs
• Anyone with cyber security, networking, wireless, DR, or storage expansion projects
Dates and locations:
• Tuesday, August 8th @ Scrub Oaks, Fayetteville, NC
• Wednesday, August 9th @ Hops Supply Co, Wilmington, NC
• Thursday, August 10th @ Baker’s Kitchen, New Bern, NC
Building Tomorrow’s Smart and Secure Infrastructure
Our almost-famous Crash Courses are coming to cities near you with partners HPE Aruba, StorageCraft, and KnowBe4
Join us at this free event series covering the intelligent edge, scalable data storage and recovery, and a special security awareness session. The August training series is hosted in cities near you across North Carolina and feature technical sessions with engineers from HPE Aruba Networking and StorageCraft, with a bonus lunch-n-learn session on cyber security awareness training from KnowBe4.
Who should attend:
• Security analysts, engineers, directors
• Cyber security awareness and training managers
• Network and wireless admins and managers
• Server, storage, and datacenter managers
• Technology Directors, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs
• Anyone with cyber security, networking, wireless, DR, or storage expansion projects
Dates and locations:
• Tuesday, August 8th @ Scrub Oaks, Fayetteville, NC
• Wednesday, August 9th @ Hops Supply Co, Wilmington, NC
• Thursday, August 10th @ Baker’s Kitchen, New Bern, NC
Building Tomorrow’s Smart and Secure Infrastructure
Our almost-famous Crash Courses are coming to cities near you with partners HPE Aruba, StorageCraft, and KnowBe4
Join us at this free event series covering the intelligent edge, scalable data storage and recovery, and a special security awareness session. The August training series is hosted in cities near you across North Carolina and feature technical sessions with engineers from HPE Aruba Networking and StorageCraft, with a bonus lunch-n-learn session on cyber security awareness training from KnowBe4.
Who should attend:
• Security analysts, engineers, directors
• Cyber security awareness and training managers
• Network and wireless admins and managers
• Server, storage, and datacenter managers
• Technology Directors, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs
• Anyone with cyber security, networking, wireless, DR, or storage expansion projects
Dates and locations:
• Tuesday, August 8th @ Scrub Oaks, Fayetteville, NC
• Wednesday, August 9th @ Hops Supply Co, Wilmington, NC
• Thursday, August 10th @ Baker’s Kitchen, New Bern, NC
The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.
This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.
IT Hot Topics Conference 2020 is being rescheduled due to COVID-19.
The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.
This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.
Call for Speakers – https://www.papercall.io/itht2020
In our third shorter episode, we’ll take a vendor-neutral look at the Wi-Fi technology and trends shaping today and tomorrow. Join Shital and Jen for the latest trends in WiFi 6 (802.11ax), WiFi 6e, cloud-managed solutions, security integrations, CBRS, and more. We’ll talk about what’s real, what’s hype, and how to start planning for what’s on the horizon. Since it’s a shorter session we’ll try to manage Q&A throughout. Hosted by Jennifer Minella.
- 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6, features and how/when to upgrade
- Update on wired needs for Wi-Fi
- New security standards, WPA3, Open Enhanced, and SAE
- On the horizon Wi-Fi 6e and what you should know
- Non-Wi-Fi wireless, CBRS and Private LTE moving in
- The real scoop on BLE, Location Services, and Contact/Proximity Tracing
- Today’s hot topic- MAC randomization, impact on guest portals, BYOD, and NAC; what behavior OS’s have, and how to work around it
- COVID and Wi-Fi, supporting expansions, pop-ups and more
- What’s new from our partners- Aruba’s announcements of AOS 10, Fortinet and the future of legacy Meru controllers, what’s cooking at Mist