October 16, 2025
8 AM - 5 PM
The Baird Center - 400 W. Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee, WI
Sessions spanning a variety of technology topics, including data analytics, cloud migration, zero trust, identity and access management, workload migration, and much more! See full event agenda below.
Event welcome and introduction to the days schedule.
As organizations face the growing threat of ransomware and data exfiltration, many are reevaluating their preparedness for a large-scale data loss event. The problem is that legacy backup systems, which were designed to protect against hardware failure or natural disasters, are now being targeted by cybercriminals as their first point of attack. In this session, we will discuss why traditional backup systems and cyber recovery solutions are fundamentally different capabilities. We will also explore the steps that organizations can take to prepare for and recover from a cyber-attack, including implementing a modern cyber recovery tool like Rubrik.
Having immutable backups is only the first step in recovering from a ransomware event: you still need somewhere to restore those backups to. For a variety of reasons, restoring onto your normal production hardware may not be a possibility. Join us for a joint presentation from AE's Infrastructure and Security practices on designing and building isolated recovery environments that address this need.
A walk through of what enterprise network automation looks like in the Cloud today, and how we can then apply some of those same lessons and techniques in our own datacenters. Join AE's Network and Cloud & DevOps practice leads for a technical deep-dive on making network automation a reality in your environment.
Presented By: John Moser - AE Business Solutions, Alex Holt - AE Business Solutions
Join AE's Security and AI teams to learn about getting started with governance and visibility strategies for workforce and developer AI use cases.
Keynote details to be announced
Enterprises continue to invest in tools, but attackers adapt faster, using automation and identity abuse to slip past defenses. This session looks at the SOC from the attacker’s viewpoint, highlighting where blind spots remain and how telemetry pipelines, AI-driven detection, and stronger identity controls can close the gap. Attendees will walk away with a clear sense of what attackers exploit today and what a modern SOC must prioritize to stay ahead.
Operational efficiency often relies on repetitive scripts that manage infrastructure, monitor systems, and resolve common issues. In this session, we explore how Agentic AI can transform the way organizations create, maintain, and execute operational scripts. Attendees will learn how AI-driven agents can autonomously generate and optimize scripts across IT operations by reducing manual effort, minimizing human error, and acceleration time-to-resolution.
Are you a Security Engineer or Analyst who wants to do more with the security data your organization has? Join Phil Henrickson, AE's Senior Data Scientist, for an introduction to data science with a security focus.
Digital twins aim to streamline network testing by creating perfect virtual replicas of your production network, but how well do they actually work? We'll explore the current state of digital twin platforms and see how they compare
The role of the IT professional is undergoing rapid evolution. From the early days of mainframes and sysadmins keeping the lights on, to today's cloud-native, security-first, and AI-driven environments, survival in IT has always been about adaptation. In this session we'll explore the "evolutionary tree" of IT careers, examine how natural and artifical selection apply to technical skills, and predict how artificial intelligence will accelerate change in the industry. Most importantly, we'll discuss practical strategies IT professionals can use to not only avoid extinction, but thrive in the competitive landscape of tomorrow.
This talk will cover Cloud architecture from the ground up. Learn what Landing Zones are and how they are implemented in practice.
Keynote details to be announced.