BriForum 2013 Agenda

The 2013 agenda is now posted!

During this educational and interactive three-day desktop virtualization conference, you’ll have the opportunity to choose between 40+ technical sessions with our independent expert speakers (which you’ll receive online access to after the show as well), view live demos and ask all your questions to the top solution providers in the desktop virtualization space in the Demo Lab, and network with hundreds of your peers from across the globe.

New for 2013, we have included categories for each session so you can better plan your time at BriForum. You will find the key at the bottom of this page.

Please note that the agenda is subject to change.

MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013
4:30 - 6:30 PM	Early Registration

DAY 1 - TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2013
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Registration and Welcome Refreshments
8:00 - 8:30 AM	Welcome Address with Brian Madden
8:30 - 9:45 AM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	Real Time Intelligence for Securing VM Environments Presented by Jim Libersky	Enterprise Mobility Management: Jack Madden's new book in 75 minutes Presented by Jack Madden	Hijacking Dropbox for Fun and Profit (Or Maybe Just for Software Distribution) Presented by Randy Cook	How Do the New Storage Improvements in vSphere 5.1 Help Your Desktop Virtualization Project? Presented by Jim Moyle
9:45 - 9:55 AM	Moving Break
9:55 - 11:10 AM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	One Ring to Rule Them All: Why Every Endpoint Will Be Virtualized Presented by Simon Crosby	Performance Analysis and Monitoring of Multiple Servers on the Cheap Presented by Ian Parker	Customize All the Things! How to Brand Web and Windows UI Presented by Jason Conger	Ingredients to a Successful Desktop Virtualization Bake-off: Results from Past Bake-offs and How to Create Your Own Presented by Shane Kleinert & Jarian Gibson
11:10 - 11:20 AM	Moving Break
11:20 AM - 12:35 PM	Four Sponsor Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	Sponsor Session 1	Sponsor Session 2	Sponsor Session 3	Sponsor Showcase 4 15-minute presentations
12:35 - 1:50 PM	Lunch
12:35 - 1:25 PM	Lunch & Learn session (Please note: the Lunch and Learn sessions are first-come, first-served)
1:50 - 2:00 PM	Moving Break
2:00 - 3: 15 PM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	The Future of Desktop Deployment: What’s Happening with MCS & PVS, Plus an Alternative Presented by Jim Moyle	Passwords Are Dead. Two Factor Authentication is Ready for the Masses Presented by Shawn Bass	XenApp Printing: Still Painful After All These Years Presented by Jo Harder	Sponsored Session 4
3:15 - 3:45 PM	Afternoon Refreshment Break
3:45 - 5:00 PM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	NetScaler Monitoring and Reporting: Who, What, Where, When? Presented by Mike Nelson and Henrik Johansson	XenApp 6: Back to Basics Presented by Theresa Miller	What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There: Today’s IT Needs to Get with the Times Presented by David Stafford	Lightning Round Sessions: 1) How IT People Can Speak “Developer” (Michael Thomason) 2) Why Application Proxy Network Services is Critical to Secure and Manage All Mobile Apps and BYOD (Srini Gurrapu) 3) What’s New in Microsoft App-V (Tim Mangan) 4) Using Windows 8 Hyper-V and Azure to Build Great Demo and Test Environments (Benny Tritsch)
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Evening Event - details TBA

DAY 2 - WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2013
8:00 - 8:30 AM	Welcome Refreshments
8:30 - 9:45 AM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	Why IOPS Suck and Everything You Know About Them is Probably Wrong! Presented by Nick Rintalan & Dan Allen	Automation 101: Learning How to Automate Tasks for Horizontal Use Presented by Michael Thomason	Defense in Depth: How Traditional Network Security Applies in Today’s Mobile World, How to Secure Mobile Networks, and What Strategies Can We Use to Keep the Network and Data Secure Presented by Rainer Enders	Building a Private DaaS Solution for 5,000 Users Based on Citrix Excalibur Presented by Vincent Branger
9:45 - 9:55 AM	Moving Break
9:55 - 11:10 AM	Four Sponsor Breakouts
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	Sponsor Session 5	Sponsor Session 6	Sponsor Session 7	Sponsor Session 8
11:10 - 11:40 AM	Morning Refreshment Break
11:40 AM - 12:55 PM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	5x15 from Brian & Gabe Presented by Brian Madden & Gabe Knuth	Debugging App-V 5 Presented by Tim Mangan	Hyper-V and System Center: How Good Can It Be? Presented by Mike Burke	Application Packaging Smackdown Presented by Kevin Kaminski & Nicke Källén
12:55 - 2:10 PM	Lunch
12:55 - 1:45 PM	Lunch & Learn session (Please note: the Lunch and Learn sessions are first-come, first-served)
2:10 - 3:25 PM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	An Insider’s Guide to Virtualization: Best Practices and Performance with Windows 8 and Server 2012, Including VDI & SBC Virtual Reality Check, 2013 Presented by Jeroen van de Kamp	A Crash Course in Hyper-V for VMware Administrators Presented by Mike Nelson	Truth, Lies & HTML5: What the Present and Future of HTML5 Holds in Store for Us Presented by Dan Shappir	Desktop Virtualization Monitoring Bake-off Presented by Jarian Gibson & Shane Kleinert
3:25 - 3:55 PM	Afternoon Refreshment Break
3:55 - 5:10 PM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	Best Practices in VDI & SBC Environments, Part 2: OS Streaming and Optimizations Presented by Pierre Marmignon & Shawn Bass	Windows Tablets in the Real World: Myths Debunked and Lessons Learned Presented by Zach Hughes	From Zero to RDS 2012 Hero: Learn All the New Features and How They Compare to XenApp Presented by Claudio Rodrigues	The Mobile App Platform Debate: Native vs. HTML5 vs. Hybrid Presented by Brian Katz & Dan Shappir
5:10 - 7:00 PM	Geek Out Event Match your wits and test your skills during this exciting, light-hearted "geek" game show!

DAY 3 - THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2013
8:30 - 9:00 AM	Welcome Refreshments
9:00 - 10:15 AM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	Are RDP8 and RemoteFX Finally Suitable for Daily Use? Presented by Benny Tritsch & Shawn Bass	More Things in Active Directory That Can Hurt Your Applications and Desktop Virtualization Efforts and How to Fix Them Presented by Carl Webster	Becoming an IT Hero: Leaping from Desktop Virtualization to Enterprise Mobility Management Presented by Noah Wasmer	An Objective Look at In-Memory Storage for VDI and Virtualization: The Beginning of the Very End for Storage, Compute, and Life as We Know It Presented by Chetan Venkatesh
10:15 - 10:45 AM	Morning Refreshment Break
10:45 am - 12:00 PM	Four Sponsor Breakouts
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	Sponsor Session 9	Sponsor Session 10	Sponsor Session 11	Sponsor Session 12
12:00 - 1:15 PM	Lunch
12:00 - 12:50 PM	Lunch & Learn session (Please note: the Lunch and Learn sessions are first-come, first-served)
1:15 - 2:30 PM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	Why Folder Redirection Sucks, but is a Necessary Evil That Shawn Bass Will Have to Live With Presented by Nick Rintalan & Dan Allen	Citrix Internals: Tracing, Debugging & Troubleshooting Presented by Denis Gundarev	The New Xperf: Analyzing Difficult Problems with Xperf Presented by Ian Parker	Mobile Enterprise Applications: FUIT or ITFTW (IT for the Win) Presented by Jason Conger
2:30 - 2:40 PM	Moving Break
2:40 - 3:55 PM	Four Breakouts (Choose one session)
	Breakout 1	Breakout 2	Breakout 3	Breakout 4
	Going Deep: RDP8 & RemoteFX Session Connectivity Presented by Rick Dehlinger	Sandboxing Smackdown: Separating Fact from Fiction in Sandboxing Solutions Presented by John Whaley	Tips and Tricks on Building Agentless Antivirus Scanners for Virtual Desktops Presented by Yury Magalif	5 Ways to Cut the Cost of VDI (What Vendors Aren’t Telling You) Presented by Dan Brinkmann
3:55 PM	Closing Remarks with Brian Madden/Prize Giveaway

Key	Application Virtualization or management		Enterprise mobility management or consumerization
	Desktop Virtualization		Management, monitoring and performance
	Network and/or security		Platform hypervisor
	Programming and/or scripting		Storage

What's included in registration?

At BriForum 2013, all registered attendees experience the following benefits during the 3-day show:

Access to 40+ technical sessions
Morning refreshments and lunch each day
The Geek Out party
Countless networking opportunities
The chance to view live demos in the Demo Lab
Online access to the recorded sessions after the show
And much more!