Agenda
5 tracks and 25+ sessions. Countless Opportunities to Revolutionize Your Online Business.

What makes an Internet revolutionary? Akamai believes it is a combination of early insight into industry trends, a keen understanding of cutting-edge technology, and the boldness to turn a vision into reality. The Akamai Global Customer Conference will gather some of the world's most successful and influential industry leaders and technology visionaries to deliver compelling keynotes, thought-provoking panels, and enlightening sessions on technology trends and visions that you can use to revolutionize your online business.

The conference includes a series of sessions across three industry tracks and two technical tracks to help you create a customized agenda that best suits your needs and interests. The industry track focuses on Media & Entertainment, Commerce, and The Global Enterprise. The Technical track concentrates on Media and Dynamic Content.





  12:00-7:00pm Registration Opens    
  1:00-6:00pm Pre-Conference Technical Workshop Sessions  
  7:00-10:00pm Welcome Reception    
  7:00am Registration    
  8:00am-12:00pm Technology Fair and Partner Pavilion  
  8:00-9:00am Group Breakfast    
  9:00-10:00am Welcome Session Keynote (Paul Sagan)  
  10:00-10:45am Diamond Sponsor Keynote    
  10:45-11:00am Break  
  11:00am-12:00pm "Internet Revolutionary" Customer Keynote  
  12:00-1:00pm Lunch    
  1:00-4:30pm Technical Track I
Technical Track II
Industry Track I: Media & Entertainment
Industry Track II: Commerce
Industry Track III: Enterprise
 
  1:00-6:00pm Technology Fair and Partner Pavilion  
  6:00-9:30pm Anniversary Party
Boarding Time: 6:00pm at Common Wealth Pier, Boston
Cruise Time: 7:00-9:30pm
 
  7:30-8:30am Group Breakfast    
  8:00am-12:00pm Technology Fair and Partner Pavilion  
  8:30-10:15am Technical Track I
Technical Track II
Industry Track I: Media & Entertainment
Industry Track II: Commerce
Industry Track III: Enterprise
 
  10:15-10:45am Break and Technology Fair/Partner Pavilion Time  
  10:45-11:45am Akamai Keynote (Tom Leighton)  
  11:45am-12:30pm Keynote by Clayton M. Christensen  
  12:30-1:30pm Closing Ceremony & Lunch  
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In-depth technical sessions for those interested in taking a closer look behind the curtain.

The Pre-Conference Technical Workshops are a half-day jam packed with "power user" technical sessions led by Akamai's finest. These sessions are reserved for those that are truly willing to step behind the curtain and explore topics such as security and PCI compliance, leveraging Akamai's Open Developer Toolkit to rapidly build video player applications, and take an in-depth look at the state of the Internet, including broadband adoption/penetration and user behavior.

    TRACK 1 TRACK II  
  1:00-2:20pm Site

Configuring and Optimizing Dynamic Site Accelerator
Media

Configuring and Optimizing Akamai's Media Delivery and Streaming solutions
 
  2:20-3:40pm Application

Configuring and Optimizing Web Application Acceleration and IP Accelerator Service
Site

Configuring and Optimizing Downloads
 
  3:40-5:00pm Security and PCI Compliance
  • DDOS mitigation
  • PCI Data Security Standard review
  • Web Application Security - top threats, best practices
Stream OS - Media Player Framework

Deconstruct Akamai's MPF and leverage our open developer toolkit to rapidly build video player applications
 
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Countless Opportunities to Revolutionize Your Online Business.

The conference agenda is designed to let you explore the trends that will transform your online business today and in the future. The conference focuses on topics from three industry events. You can choose to attend one track or mix it up with topics from all five.

    Technical
Track I
Technical Track II Industry
Track I:
Media & Entertainment
Industry Track II: Commerce Industry Track III:
Enterprise
  1:00-1:55pm Akamai Engineering Pushing the Limits of Interactivity.... How Rich Can Your Site Get? Customer Case Study: Ecommerce and Distribution Best Practices for Global SaaS Delivery
  2:00-3:00pm Stream OS-Making Rich Media Work Dynamic Web site Content Acceleration for high performance online retail and commerce The Syndicated Video Economy-Reality or Hype? Customer Commerce Panel: The Akamai Experience in Commerce Conducting eBusiness in China
  3:00-3:30pm BREAK and Technology Fair/Partner Pavilion Time
  3:30-4:30pm Applications over the Internet with High Performance and Availability Akamai Analytics What Advertisers Want: Improving Video Ad Effectiveness Web 2.0 & RIA Adoption High Tech Customer Panel
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    Technical
Track I
Technical Track II Industry
Track I:
Media & Entertainment
Industry Track II: Commerce Industry Track III:
Enterprise
  8:30-9:25am Engineering to a Changing Internet Inside the Media Factory — Building an Efficient Broadband Distribution Workflow Enterprise Applications & Performance Customer Case Study: Global Application Acceleration
  9:30-10:15am Managing the Complexity of a Highly Distributed Network Customer Case Study: Best Practices for Media Management The Importance of SSL Certificates and PCI Compliance for Site Security Customer Panel: The Challenges of Measuring Download Performance
  10:15-10:45am BREAK and Technology Fair/Partner Pavilion Time
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See "Behind the Curtain" at the Akamai Technology Fair
Ever wonder what makes it possible for Akamai to intelligently optimize routes and replicate content for fast, reliable delivery of rich content and applications? At the Akamai Global Customer Conference, you'll have a front-row seat as some of the brilliant minds behind the Akamai "magic" explain the applied mathematics and algorithms that have enabled Akamai to power the Internet for the last 10 years. Gain insight into the embedded technologies used to fuel Akamai solutions such as Stream OS, Akamai Media Delivery, and NetStorage, to name a few.

Akamai's Network Operations Command Center
The Akamai NOCC enables proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of all servers in the global Akamai network, currently comprising more than 25,000 servers deployed in 71 countries. Its proactive stance and unique view ensures a seamless response to network conditions - enabling Akamai to deliver rich media content and applications, regardless of network traffic volume or Internet problem spots. At the Global Customer Conference you'll have the opportunity to get a bird's eye view into the inner-workings of the Internet - monitoring the traffic flow to Global online events. Meet Akamai's Chief Architect and see how the Command Center technology team monitors traffic flow, manages information security, and more.

Akamai Partner Pavilion
We've achieved amazing things in our first ten years-and it wouldn't have been possible without the strong partnerships we've developed. The Partner Pavilion provides you an opportunity to meet some of our most valued partners and explore how their services and solutions could help you get the most from Akamai.
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