Wrapping up IMPACT 2020

Last week, more than 120 technologists joined CMG in Las Vegas for IMPACT 2020. Over 4 days, attendees enjoyed tech demos, technical sessions, keynote speakers and tours of Black Fire Innovation and Flexential data center.

We started our conference with a welcome reception and tech expo on Sunday afternoon. IMPACT 2020 sessions kicked off Monday morning with presentations on AI, anticipatory design, and DevOps. Over the next 3 days, attendees enjoyed sessions on IT infrastructure, cloud, performance engineering, mainframe, and much more.

At the close of the conference, we awarded our “Most Social” attendee award (Chris Walker); raffled off 3 LG 70″ 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TVs; and recognized our “Audience Choice” winners:

Most Useful Session
The story of a Bank, a Bot, and an ELK (or how Banca d’Italia used Machine Learning to enable Capacity Planning and Anomaly Resolution) – Pietro Tiberi and Marco Capotosto of Banca d’Italia)

Most Fun Session
Four Recent Advances in AI and Machine Learning for IT Organizations – James McCaffrey, Microsoft Research

Best Graphics
The #1 Challenge of Digital Transformation. It’s NOT what you think.- Allan Zander, omNovos

Most “Wow” Session
The role of the CISO in an Ever-Changing World – Elena Seiple, MGM Resorts International

Most Inspiring Session
Practically Magic: How Anticipatory Design is the Future of Product Development – Heather Wilde

Thank you to our supporters of the 2020 conference: Broadcom, Moviri/Neotys, DataKinetics, HelpSystems, BMC, Flexential, Luminex, Scale Computing, LeanIX, QuickStart, and omNovos.

Videos will be released in the coming months. Want immediate access to all IMPACT 2020 videos when they become available? The IMPACT 2020 Video Subscription is available for $299 here.

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