Description

Umbrella DNS Based Services solutions for the Education Market

**Targeted Audience…Higher Education Technology Professionals and K12 IT Management                        

Presenters

Brian Cooley -NFF Senior Account Manager

Anjali Hedge-Cisco Senior Sales Manager

Kristy Patullo- Cisco Consulting Systems Engineer

Veritas 360 Approach to Data Management with CDWG

Description

Join us for a Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Teacher Academy to learn more about Microsoft’s hottest tools and resources to empower your students to achieve more! Bring your own laptop device to this one-day professional learning experience to learn how to maximize your use of Office 365. You will get the opportunity to explore tools such as Teams, Office Online, OneNote Class Notebooks, Microsoft Forms, and Sway, including how to provide your students with learning experiences beyond the four walls of your classroom using Skype in the Classroom and the Microsoft Educator Community.

Location

Microsoft Elkridge Training Center

6518 Meadowridge Road, Suite 200
Elkridge, MD 21075

Targeted Audience: K-12+ educators

Presenters

Microsoft - NCCE Professional Learning Specialist

Description

Join us to learn about how Nutanix is helping schools reduce complexity and risk, and simplify, modernize and automate legacy tasks that exist within data center operating environments.

Nutanix makes datacenter infrastructure invisible by delivering an on-prem Enterprise Cloud that enables IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. Nutanix leverages a hybrid delivery model to capitalize on public cloud advantages while retaining the security and control of private datacenters. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud integrates server, storage, virtualization and networking in a Hyperconverged platform to run any workload, at any scale, while removing the complexity of legacy infrastructure.

**Targeted Audience… CIO, VP Infrastructure, IT Director, Data Center Director, Server Admin/Engineer, Storage Admin/Engineer, Virtualization/VMWARE Admin/Engineer  

Presenters

Erica Kordes - CDWG Account Executive

Dave Goodwin - Nutanix Territory Account Manager SLED

Mike Umphreys - Nutanix Sales Engineer"

Description

Unlocking creativity in each student

Students should be given an environment in which they can work and learn naturally through multiple modalities. Maker education, design thinking, and problem based learning provide an environment in which students of all abilities can innovate, solve real problems, and engage in content in new ways.

Theme: Creating and consuming content confidently

Products: Minecraft: Education Edition, CodeBuilder, digital inking, Hacking STEM, MakeCode, Office 365 accessibility tools, Paint 3D

Hero Product: Minecraft: Education Edition

**Targeted Audience… Teachers and Administrators

Presenters

Tammy Brecht Dunbar, M.Ed., STEM

Vendor Registration

MEEC is happy to report that  all of our sponsorships for the 2018 Conference have sold out!  Thank you to all the Vendors who have already registered.  If you have registered, you will receive your invoice and the link to register your reps.  If you haven’t registered yet, participation in the Showcase is open to all MEEC Vendors. Please register ASAP.  Registration will close 12/21 and reopen 1/3. 

Session Proposals due by 1/16

Sessions presented by MEEC Members and Vendors are critical to the success of this conference.  Member-focused sessions are always highly rated by our attendees.  In the past, Member/Vendor sessions have showcased case studies, the work they have done, their experiences, new tools, new ideas and new approaches to the use of products/services purchased from MEEC agreements. Here is your chance to help others by presenting on a topic that supports technology in education.  The deadline for Session Submissions is January 16, 2018 at noon.

The MEEC Conference Team will be determining which proposals have wide interest and appeal as the submissions are evaluated.  Our aim is to balance the program for product/software/service among K-12, Higher Ed, Libraries and general topics.  Sessions that offer wide appeal to the MEEC Membership will be rated highly.  The MEEC Conference is attended by staff from Information Technology, Purchasing, Instructional Technology, Instruction, Administration, End-users etc.   Not all submissions are awarded a session.

Please contact Darby Ashmore with any questions.

F5 will be detailing next generation cloud agnostic solution’s for both inbound threat mitigation and visibility as well as outbound visibility and control to meet CIPA requirements.

https://www.k12usa.com/company-pages/cipa-and-e-rate-information/

F5 will also present an externally managed cloud partner solution to enforce CIPA requirements for school owned external or mobile assets.

**Targeted Audience… C-Level IT, Network/Application Management, IT Directors, IT Architects/Engineers                      

Presenters

Brad Scherer  - Specialist System Engineer - F5

James Stankard - Territory Account Manager - F5

Erica Kordes - Account Executive - CDWG

Description

•             Global Data Visibility:  understanding your most critical IT asset – your data, to reduce costs, complexity and mitigate unnecessary risks.

•             Predictable, Integrated Resiliency:  orchestrating services and applications for business resiliency and on-demand access from anywhere across private, public, hybrid- and multi- clouds.

•             Integrated Copy Data Management: eliminating isolated data islands and centralizing all copy management using your existing infrastructure or purpose built appliances.

•             Unified Data Protection:  across multi- and hybrid-clouds, physical, and virtual environments

**Targeted Audience… CxO to Admins across Applications, Virtualization, Storage, Dev/Ops, Data Protection, Legal, Servers                                                                                

Presenters

Erica Kordes, CDWG Account Executive

Karyn Victory, Veritas Principal Sales Engineer

Jeff Peyton, Veritas Account Executive