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UPCOMING EVENTS

IT Infrastructure, Operations Management & Cloud Strategies: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois

May 19, 2026

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois

  

 

Overview

Your business stakeholders and financial leaders demanding more value, reliability and agility from IT investments. But a dynamic economic and a rapidly changing technology ecosystem create tremendous challenges.

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • The Future Implications of ChatGPT and Generative AI on I&O
  • Using Cloud Services to Deliver Valuable Business Services
  • Is Quantum Computing the Right Path for Your Organization Regarding Future Opportunities?
  • How to Take Control of Your Cloud Strategy
  • How to Work Through the Challenges of Infrastructure Automation
  • How to Extract Business Value Through Technical Debt Management

Conference Price: $349.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

CONFERENCE AGENDA

8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am: Operating Modern Infrastructure in a Constant-Change Environment

Infrastructure and operations teams are no longer supporting static systems. This opening session explores how I&O leaders are adapting operating models to support continuous change, increasing complexity, and rising expectations.

Includes:

  • Shifts in infrastructure and operations responsibilities
  • Balancing stability with speed and innovation
  • Redefining success metrics for modern I&O teams

10:00am – 10:30am: Sponsor & Refreshment Break

10:30am – 11:30am: From Reactive to Predictive Operations

Modern operations require anticipating issues, not just responding to them. This session examines how organizations are evolving from reactive support models to proactive and predictive operations.

Includes:

  • Observability vs. traditional monitoring
  • Event correlation and early-warning indicators
  • Reducing alert fatigue and noise

11:30am – 12:30pm: Designing Infrastructure for Resilience, Not Perfection

Failures are inevitable — resilience is a design choice. This session focuses on building infrastructure that absorbs disruption and recovers quickly without over-engineering.

Includes:

  • Resilient infrastructure patterns
  • High availability vs. recoverability trade-offs
  • Aligning resilience with business impact

12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch and Exhibit Break

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Cloud Strategy as an Operating Model

Cloud strategy is not just a technology roadmap — it defines how infrastructure and operations teams work. This session explores cloud strategy as an ongoing operating model rather than a one-time initiative.

Includes:

  • Cloud operating models and ownership
  • Governance without bottlenecks
  • Defining cloud success beyond migration

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment Break

3:00pm – 4:00pm: The Infrastructure–Operations–Security Intersection

Infrastructure, operations, and security are increasingly interdependent. This session examines how tighter alignment across these functions improves reliability, response times, and risk management.

Includes:

  • Shared responsibility across I&O and security
  • Operationalizing security controls
  • Improving coordination during incidents

4:00pm – 5:00pm: I&O Leadership Panel: Running Infrastructure in the Real World

Panelists will include Enterprise Identity Executives sharing the strategies, tactics, and lessons learned.

This closing panel brings together infrastructure and operations leaders to discuss practical challenges, hard trade-offs, and lessons learned while running modern IT environments.

Includes:

  • Managing technical debt at scale
  • Balancing on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments
  • Skills and roles evolving in I&O teams
  • Audience Q&A

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.