Fall 2007 Conference Agenda


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Green IT Greening of IT discussed in this session
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2007
Registration Open 8:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m.
9:20–11:55 a.m. Next-Gen Data Center Track Managing Complexity Track Security Track SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Storage SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Virtualization / Standards SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Professional Development Storage Networking Certification Program
9:20–10:05 a.m. The Next Generation Data Center - Lean, Mean and…Green!

Green ITTom Clark
Principal Engineer, Technical Marketing and SNIA Board Member, Brocade
Plan - Roadmap - Analyze - Execute - Repeat: The Lifecyle for Storage Success

UserSteve Hight
Director of Strategic Technology Projects, Office of the CIO, Catholic Healthcare West
Storage Security Risks: The Big Picture

UserAlan Lustiger
Security Architect, TD Ameritrade
Desktop, Nearline and Enterprise Disk Drives: Deltas by Design

Willis Whittington
Senior Manager Product Marketing, Seagate Technology
Storage Networking Standards: Recent Developments

David Black
Senior Technologist, EMC Corporation
Survivor Guide:  Leading in Difficult Times

Harriet Pea
Senior Director, Storage Technology Service Center, Sun Microsystems
SNIA Certification Overview

David Deming
President, Solution Technology
10:15–11:00 a.m. Next Generation Enhanced Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet Networks

Pompey Nagra
Product Marketing Manager, QLogic Corporation
Best Practices for an SMB in Selecting, Deploying and Managing a Storage Network

Green ITJay Kramer
Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, iStor Networks, Inc.

Going on the Offensive Against Hackers

Craig Edland

Global Product Manager, EDS

Green Storage

Green ITSW Worth
Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Extensible Access Method (XAM) Storage Development Kit (SDK)

Mark Carlson
Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems
Working Together: Expand Your Career by Expanding Your Skills

Stephen Hultquist
Principal, Virtual CIO/CTO, Infinite Summit
Storage Networking Foundations

Rich Mitchell
President, The Institute for Software Advancement
11:10–11:55 a.m. Emerging Technologies in the Storage Infrastructure

Tim Symons
Principal Engineer, PMC-Sierra
An Intelligent FAN Architecture for Improved Branch Office File Data Protection and Management

UserLeon Verriere
Infrastructure Consultant, Mohawk Industries
Security Encyption: Getting from Here to There

Phil Bullinger
Senior Vice President, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Corporation
Storage Performance 101

Ray Lucchesi
President, Silverton Consulting, Inc.
Storage Grids: Relevance and Overview

Abbott Schindler
Senior Technologist, HP
Developing Successful Technical Presentations

Howard Goldstein
President,
Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. (HGAI)
11:55 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Special Luncheon Presentation
12:00–5:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Golf Outing
12:40–5:25 p.m. Information Management Track High Performance Computing Track Security Track SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Data Management SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Virtualization / Standards SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Networking Storage Networking Certification Program
1:00–1:45 p.m. Unstructured Content Management: Moving from Server Room to Court Room to Board Room

David Vellante

Co-founder, The Wikibon Project

UserMichael McCreary
Senior Director, Legal Business Technology, Pfizer , Inc.
Managing the Petabyte Data Center…Are You Ready?

Bernard Gilbert
Chief Executive Officer, IBRIX, Inc.
Security Zones Basics

Green ITDouglas Conorich
Principal Security Analyst, Managed Security Services, IBM
Solving the Coming Archive Crisis

Michael Peterson
President of Strategic Research Corporation, Chief Strategy Advocate for SNIA Data Management Forum
Virtualization I: What, Why, Where and How

Rob Peglar
Vice President, Technology, Xiotech Corporation
TCP/IP Optimizations for Block Storage

Joseph White
Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks
 
1:55–2:40 p.m. SCSC's Power Managed Storage Architecture

Green IT
User
Les Martin
Tactical Systems Engineer, U.S. Navy Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems
Super-Fast Storage: The Revolution of Clustered Compute Solutions

Bruce Moxon
Vice President, Strategic Technology, Network Appliance
How to Stay Out of Tomorrow's Data Breach Headlines with Storage Security and Global Key Management

Dore Rosenblum
Vice President, Marketing, NeoScale Systems, Inc.
Disk and Tape Backup Mechanisms

Michael Fishman
Strategic Technologist, EMC Corporation
Storage Virtualization II: Effective Use of Virtualization

Rob Peglar
Vice President, Technology, Xiotech Corporation
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet

John Hufferd
Senior Executive Director of Technology, Brocade Communications, Inc.
NetApp University Certification Programs

Annina Puccio
Senior Manager,
NetAppU, Network Appliance
2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Hands-On Lab
2:50–3:35 p.m. Pushing the SMB Storage Envelope by Making Sense of Scalability Demands and Keeping Cool on Costs

Karen Dutch
General Manager, Advanced Storage Products Group, NEC Corporation of America
Efficient Web Search Performance and Storage Capacity Scaling Using NFS-RDMA and InfiniBand

Green IT
User
Dr. Ekechi Nwokah

Storage Architect, Alexa Internet
Securing Data at Rest: From Laptops to Data Centers

Dave Anderson
Director of Strategic Planning, Seagate Technology
Trends in Data Protection and Restoration Technologies

Michael Rowan
Consultant and Storage Expert

Jason Iehl
Consulting Systems Engineer, Co-chair of SNIA's Data Protection Initiative and VTL-SIG, Network Appliance
Leveraging the Power of Compute and Storage Grids

Richard Jooss
Senior Manager - Product and Partner Engineering, Network Appliance
PCI Express and Storage

Ron Emerick
IO Archtiect / Technologist, Sun Microsystems
 
3:45–4:30 p.m. Panel Discussion: The Varied Approaches to Data De-Duplication - Which Approach is Right for You?

Arun Taneja
Founder & Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group
How DreamWorks Decreased their Dollar-per-GB and their Watts-per-GB with Primary Data Compression


Green IT
User
Skottie Miller
Senior Technologist, Dreamworks
The Truth about Security and Storage Area Network (SAN)

Roger Bouchard, BCSD, BCSM, CISSP
Worldwide Security Practice Lead, Brocade
Identifying and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks: Taking Your Existing Backup System To the Next Level

Jacob Farmer
Chief Technology Officer, Cambridge Computer Services
Multipath Management API: Standards Based SCSI Multipathing Administration

Hyon Kim
Staff Engineer, Solaris Storage SW - SAN Software

Giri Basava
Consultant Software Engineer, EMC Corporation
SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Storage Management EMC Proven Professional Program

Karen Mancini
EMC Education Services,
EMC Corporation
SRM and SAN Management:  Reduce Management Costs and Complexity

Andy Namynanik, Senior Storage Software Consultant, Hewlett-Packard
4:40–5:25 p.m. Storage Attached Networking + WAN Optimization: Empowering Distributed Project Teams to Share Information Fluidly and Efficiently

UserKarl Fischer
Information Technology Manager, Traffic Planning and Design, Inc.
Good Enough Storage: SATA RAID Systems in Mid-Range RAID Market

Jerry Hoetger
Director of Product Management, Xyratex
Integrating Encryption in Information Lifecyle Management

Russell Dietz
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Hifn
Single Instance Strategies for Storage Using De-Duplication.  Which Method is Best for You?

Michael Fahey
Director of Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems
SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Storage Records Managers and Storage Managers Speak: Get the Real Story Behind ILM

Moderator:
John Webster

Principal IT Analyst, Illuminata, Inc.

Panel: 
Marty LeFebvre, Vice President of Technology Strategy, The Nielsen Company

Wendy Betts
, Manager, Distributed Systems Storage Management group, Hewitt Associates
 
Storage Consolidation with IP Storage: Capabilities, Best Practices and Futures

David Dale
Director, Industry Standards, Network Appliance, Inc.
5:30–7:30 p.m. End-User Council Town Hall Meeting
7:00–9:00 p.m. Welcome Reception


TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2007
Registration Open 7:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
7:45– 8:45 a.m. Breakfast
  General Sessions Storage Networking Certification Program 8:00 a.m.–
5:00 p.m.

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8:30–8:45 a.m. Opening Remarks

8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
SNIA Certification Preparation & Testing Center Open

(Last seating time 5:00 p.m.)
8:45–9:15 a.m. V. James OnalfoInnovations in Policing, Technology and the Use of Crime Information - The NYPD Real-Time Crime Center
V. James Onalfo, Deputy Commissioner and Chief Information Officer, New York City Police Department End User
9:15–9:45 a.m. Brian CobbBuilding Highly Efficient Data Centers: The Case for Going Green
Brian Cobb, Senior Vice President - Enterprise Systems Management, Fannie Mae Green IT End User
9:15–9:55 a.m.
SNIA Certification Overview


Howard Goldstein
President, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. (HGAI)
9:45–10:00 a.m. Break
10:00–10:30 a.m. Arthur CovielloGeneral Session Presentation
Arthur Coviello, Jr.
, Executive Vice President; President, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, EMC Corporation
10:00–11:45 a.m.
SNCP Certifications: Storage Networking Foundations

Howard Goldstein
President, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. (HGAI)
10:30–11:00 a.m.

End-User Case Study

11:00 a.m.–11:30 p.m. Tom EdsallTechnology Convergence in the Next Generation Data Center
Tom Edsall, Senior Vice President/Chief Technology Officer, Data Center Business Unit, Cisco
11:30 a.m.–Noon Joe LacikThe Business Continuity Mandate, Tight Budgets and How One Company Rose to the Challenge of High Data Availability and Performance
Joe Lacik, Senior Vice President, Information Services, Aviall Services, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company) End User
Noon–2:00 p.m. Expo with Luncheon in Showcase  
2:10–5:40 p.m. Infrastructure / Data Center Track Business Continuity / Data Protection Track Storage Management Track Virtualization Track SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Storage SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Security Storage Networking Certification Program
2:10–2:55 p.m. Beyond Green-wash, IT Data Center Power, Cooling and Environmental Topics

Green ITGreg Schulz

Founder and Senior Analyst, The Storage IO Group
Requirements for Next Generation Data Protection

Laura DuBois
Research Director, Storage Software, IDC
Deploying and Managing Storage Networking for Small/Medium Businesses

UserRandy Walker
Technical Architect, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.
Storage Virtualization: Perspective of an Early Adopter

UserDaryl Anderson
Portfolio Manager, Application & Data Hosting/Housing, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Storage Protocol Analyzers: Not Just for R&D Anymore

Brandy Barton
Training Manager / Lead Instructor, Finisar - Medusa Labs
Introduction to Storage Security

Andrew Nielsen
CISSP, ISSAP, INAL; Product Strategist, Security, Hitachi Data Systems
Storage Networking Design / Assessment

Peter Coleman
President, Infinity I/O Ltd.
3:05–3:50 p.m. Anthony Marano Company: Highly-Reliable Storage + Fresh Produce = Bottomline Results

UserChristopher Nowak
Chief Technology Officer, Anthony Marano Company
VTL, CDP, Near CDP, De-Dupe, ROBO, WAFS - Sort Out the Alphabet Soup of Data Protection Technologies

Christopher Poelker
Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, FalconStor Software

SRM for the Super-enterprise

Sean Garvey
Chief Executive Officer and President, NovusCG
The Bottom Line on Services Oriented Storage

Steve TenBarge
Vice President, Global Product Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems
The Storage Evolution: From Blocks, Files and Objects to Object Storage Systems

Christian Bandulet
Senior Technical Architect, Data Management Ambassador, Sun Microsystems
Building a Key Management Strategy: Standards and Solutions  

Bob Lockhart
Chief Systems Architect, NeoScale Systems, Inc.
4:00–4:45 p.m.

The Elephant in the Room: Continuous Innovation with Fibre Channel

Green ITTom Hammond-Doel

Board Member, Fibre Channel Industry Association

Smart, Healthy Encryption Practices:  A Case Study by Weill Cornell Medical College

UserJohn Ruffing
Assistant Director, Information Technologies and Services Department, Weill Cornell Medical College
Really, can storage management software help manage your storage infrastructure and save you money?

Noemi Greyzdorf
Research Manager, Storage Software, IDC
Putting the "Freeze" on Poor Storage Utilization  

Green IT
User
Gary Hensel
IT Director, Freezing Equipment Sales, Inc.
NAS and iSCSI Technical Overview

Wolfgang Singer
IBM Technical Experts Council, IBM
A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Storage Forensics

Richard Austin
Member of Technical Staff, Knowledge Transfer
Storage Networking Management / Administration

Phil Huml
Instuctor, Knowledge Transfer
4:55–5:40 p.m. Piecing Together a Cost-Effective Storage Solution for the Small to Mid-Enterprise

UserJohn Anderson
Chief Technical Architect, Interdent - Gentle Dental
The Changing Data Protection Landscape for a Windows World

Green ITJason Buffington
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Virtual Data Center: Is SRM Relevant?

Rohit Ghai
Vice President of Engineering, Storage Management Product Line, Data Center Management Group, Symantec
Storage Resource Management with Virtual Infrastructure

Manoj Sharma
Staff Engineer, VMWare, Inc.
Solid State Storage for the Enterprise

Woody Hutsell
Executive Vice President, Texas Memory Systems
TCG Trusted Storage Specification

Michael Willett
Senior Director, Security, Seagate Technology
5:40–8:40 p.m. Expo with Dinner


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2007
Registration Open 8:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
7:45–8:45 a.m. Breakfast
  General Sessions Storage Networking Certification Program 8:00 a.m.–
5:00 p.m.

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8:45–9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks 8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
SNIA Certification Preparation & Testing Center Open

(Last seating time 5:00 p.m.)
9:00–9:30 a.m. Frank AbagnaleCatch Me If You Can
Frank Abagnale, The world's foremost authority on fraud and identity theft and the inspiration behind the now-classic book and film, Catch Me If You Can
9:30–10:00 a.m.

Steve FastookNo More Waiting: Staying Competitive at CNBC with Disruptive Storage Technology
Steve Fastook, Vice President, Technical and Commercial Operations, CNBC

10:00–10:30 a.m. Ted KummertDelivering Enterprise Class Storage and Services for Everyone
Ted Kummert, Corporate Vice President, Data and Storage Platform Division, Microsoft Corporation
10:00–11:45 a.m.
SNCP Certifications: Storage Networking Foundations


David Deming
President, Solution Technology
10:30–10:45 a.m. Break
10:45–11:15 a.m. Parker MabryUsing Virtualized Storage to Improve Mission-Critical Application Service Delivery
Parker Mabry, Senior Vice President and Manager of Network Systems Engineering, Morgan Keegan Green IT End User
11:15–11:45 a.m. Darren ThomasSimplifying IT through Innovative Storage Strategies
Darren Thomas
, Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Storage, Dell Inc.
11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Roland EtcheverryUsing Storage Virtualization to Manage Data Growth in SMBs; Improving Productivity and Reducing Cost
Roland Etcheverry, Ph.D.
, Chief Information Officer, Champion Technologies User
12:30–2:00 p.m. Expo with Luncheon in Showcase
2:10–5:40 p.m. Infrastructure / Data Center Track Business Continuity / Data Protection Track Storage Management Track Virtualization Track SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Networking SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Data Management Storage Networking Certification Program
2:10–2:55 p.m. Myth or Reality: Recognizing Successful Emerging Technologies

Ken Male
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TheInfoPro

Surviving the M&As with Easy Data Migration

Green IT
User

Andy Abbas
Senior Systems Manager, AT&T, Inc.

Measuring Storage Performance for Oracle and Exchange


Green IT
User
David Gerlach
Computer Systems Manager, University of North Texas
Virtualization and Storage: A 360 Degree Strategy For Building a Virtual Data Center

Richard Villars
Vice President, Storage Systems, IDC
InfiniBand Technology Overview

Dror Goldenberg
Director of Architecture, Mellanox Technologies
Information Classification: the Cornerstone to Information Management

Sheila Childs
Director of Marketing, EMC's Information Management Software Group, EMC Corporation
Storage Networking Management / Administration

Phil Huml
Senior Instructor, Knowledge Transfer
3:05–3:50 p.m.

iSCSI and Fibre Channel: Racking Up Power and SAN Connectivity - Without Racking Up Costs

Green ITRob Davis

Vice President of Advanced Technology, QLogic Corporation

Best Practices for Backup and Recovery of Oracle 10g Databases

Green ITAustin Gonyou
Engineer, Customer-Focused Testing, HP
Managing Storage Networks - What is Up with That?

Green ITRussell Warren
Storage Software Product Manager, IBM
Deploying Low-Risk, Heterogeneous File Virtualization Across High-Tech Enterprises

UserRaymond Lockley
Manager, Core Systems, Interwoven

UserDuke Phu
Systems Administrator, Interwoven
Fibre Channel Technologies: Current and Future

Mahmoud Jibbe
Manager and Lead Test Architect Team, LSI Corporation

Steven Wilson
Director of Technology and Standards, Brocade Communications, Inc.

Tom Hammond-Doel
Senior Alliance Manager, LSI Corporation
SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: File Management
High Availability and Disaster Recovery for NAS Systems

Paul Massiglia
Chief Technology Strategist, agami Systems










4:00–4:45 p.m. Consolidating Branch Office IT into the Data Center

Green IT
User
Justin Skelton
Chief Information Officer, AAA Michigan, Auto Club Group
Best Practices for Database High Availability

Ashish Ray
Director of Product Management, Oracle
Dr. Fred, the Storage Administrator

UserFred Vernacchia, MD
Medical Director, San Luis Diagnostic Center
Dare to Go Tapeless:Tape-Free Data Centers Recuce Capital and Operating Costs

UserPeter Amstutz
Chief of Network Design, Defense Contract Management Agency
IP Storage Protocols: iSCSI

John Hufferd
Senior Executive Director of Technology, Brocade Communications, Inc.
Recent Advances in WAN Acceleration Technologies

Joshua Tseng
Director of Technical Marketing, Riverbed Technology
Storage Networking Design / Assessment

Peter Coleman
President, Infinity I/O Ltd.
4:55–5:40 p.m.

Finding the Greebacks in Going Green

Green ITMichael Jensen

Chief Information Architect, Dot Hill Systems

Managing Remote Data Replication in a Complex SAN Environment

Harish Nayak
Vice President, Network Tools Division, Enterprise Solutions, Finisar Corporation
Careful What You Ask For: A Storage Administrator's Guide to Survival in a World of Over-provisioned

Green ITRick Clark

President and Chief Executive Officer, APTARE,  Inc.
Arup: Shaping a Better World with the Help of File Storage Virtualization

UserDaniel Probert
Data Infrastructure Director, Arup
SAS & SATA Combine to Change the Storage Market

Martin Czekalski
Interface and Emerging Architecture Program Manager, Seagate Technology, Vice President, SCSI Trade Association

Harry Mason
Director, Industry Marketing, LSI Corporation
SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Storage
Benefits of Hardware Data Compression in Storage Networks

Gerry Simmons
Director of Sales, Comtech AHA

Tony Summers
Applications Engineer, Comtech AHA
5:40–8:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception
Gala Evening - Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
"Best Practices in Storage Awards" Program, Dinner & Entertainment


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007
Registration Open 8:00–10:00 a.m.
7:30–8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. –Noon SNIA Certification Preparation & Testing Center Open
(Last seating time 5:00 p.m.)
8:30 a.m. –Noon Infrastructure / Data Center Track Business Continuity / Data Protection Track Regulatory Compliance Track SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Data Management SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Storage Management SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Security
8:30–9:15 a.m. The Landscape of Storage for High-Performance Computing - A Hardware Perspective

Benjamin Woo
Vice President, Enterprise Storage Systems, IDC

Proactive Data Protection to Assure Business Continuity

Kumar Malavalli
Chairman of the Board and Chief Strategy Officer, InMage Systems

What IT Professionals Need to Know about Electronic Discovery

Thomas Petrocelli
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Software, IP.com
Information-centric Policy Management

Edgar St.Pierre

Senior Technologist, EMC Corporation
Part II: ITIL Foundation for SNIA Certification - Service Delivery & Storage Management

Dr. D. Akira Robinson
Consulting Computer Scientist, Dept Navy - SPAWAR
ABCs of Encryption

Roger Cummings
Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Symantec
9:25–10:10 a.m. Strategies for Enhancing Energy Efficiency

Dick Sullivan
Director of Enterprise Solutions Marketing, EMC
Recovery Best Practices: Lessons Learned from Katrina

UserKenneth Allen

Imaging Technology Manager, South Central Veterans Healthcare System
Important Lessons to Mitigate Litigation Risk

Green ITMichael Ivanov
Senior Director, Archiving Business, CommVault
Implementation Practices for the Archiving and Compliance Infrastructure

Gary Zasman
Practice Director, Network Appliance
Storage Management from SMI-S to Management Frameworks

Mark Carlson
Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems
An Introduction to Key Management for Secure Storage

Walt Hubis
Software Architect, LSI Corporation
10:20–11:05 a .m. Data Compression Makes Storing All Data on Disk More Affordable for the Oil and Gas Market

UserHaris Rahi
Business Development Manager, Optimized Computing Solutions & Services, Landmark - a brand of Halliburton
Medically Speaking: A Business Continuance Strategy

UserMichael Bliss
Senior Systems Programmer, Kindred Healthcare

Privacy, Network Security and the Law

Robert Scott
Managing Partner, Scott & Scott, LLP
Storage Considerations and Requirements for Database Archiving

Julie Lockner
Vice President, Sales Operations, Solix Technologies
SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Applications Cryptographic Use Cases and the Rationale for End-to-End Security

Larry Hofer
System Architect, Office of Technology, Emulex
Applications Infrastructure for Distributed Storage

Kevin Przybocki
Chief Operating Officer, Anue Systems, Inc.
11:15–Noon Network Implications of Disaster Recovery

Stephen Barr
Director of Solutions Sales & Systems Engineering, Ciena Corporation
Getting the Most Out of Your WAN/LAN Investment for Data Management

Saxon Amdahl
Principal Architect, F5 Networks
eDiscovery from A-Z: What Every Storage Administrator Should Really Know About the FRCP Rules

Sudhakar Muddu
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Kazeon
The Secret Sauce of ILM

Bob Rogers
Chief Technology Officer, Application Matrix, LLC
SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Professional Development SNIA Technical Tutorial Track: Storage Management
Trust Technology – The Key to Productive Teams & Profitable Organizations

David Deming
President and Founder, Solution Technology
SRM: Can You Get What You Want?

John Webster
Principal IT Analyst, Illuminata, Inc.
Noon Conference Concludes


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