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IDC Dinner Series | Dallas, TX

III Forks Steakhouse Frisco

Sep 04, 2025
Frisco TX
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM CT
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Speaker Daniel Saroff Group Vice President, Consulting and Research, IDC

Daniel Saroff is Group Vice President of Consulting and Research at IDC. As a senior practitioner in the end-user consulting practice, he provides support to boards, business leaders, and technology executives in their efforts to architect, benchmark, and optimize their organization's IT. He is currently a leader in AI research and analysis. Mr. Saroff also leads the CIO/End-User Research Practice at IDC, that guides business and technology executives to leverage technology to achieve innovative and disruptive business outcomes.

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The Future of Technology Leadership

Thursday, September 4th | 6:00 PM CT


In today’s evolving business climate, staying ahead of technology changes and innovations quarterly is no longer enough – it’s a daily race to remain competitive. TechTalk's IDC Dinner Series has been designed to bring you the information and solutions that you need to know now. Here's where you will gain invaluable insights into how to best leverage legacy and emerging technologies to ensure your organization is implementing the most effective strategies and staying current.

Advance your career and your business with TechTalk Summits, the #1 leader in short-format events for technology professionals. You’ll get the full benefits of TechTalk networking while discussing the latest innovations, solutions, and industry trends. Meet and interact with the leading technology organizations, get your questions answered by top experts and enjoy a gourmet dining experience at a top-rated restaurant.

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Our research partners at IDC are constantly working to bring current, relevant analysis that CIOs need. Join us and senior analysts from IDC for a critical analysis on a range of relevant topics.  


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III Forks Steakhouse Frisco , 1303 Legacy Dr Frisco TX 75034

Agenda

Time Title Description
6:00 pm Registration opens

Networking, Hors D'oeuvres & Open Bar

6:30 pm First Course
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm IDC

About IDC International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,100 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC’s analysis and insight helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community to make fact-based technology decisions and to achieve their key business objectives. Founded in 1964, IDC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading tech media, data and marketing services company. To learn more about IDC, please visit www.idc.com. Follow IDC on Twitter at @IDC and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the IDC Blog for industry news and insights: http://bit.ly/IDCBlog_Subscribe

7:05 pm - 7:15 pm Expereo

Expereo is the Intelligent Internet company that connects people, places and things anywhere. With 20+ years of designing, implementing and managing IP networks around the world, our solutions and approach can be trusted to give enterprise customers the very best in connectivity. Every solution in our portfolio is designed for better experiences and deeper insights, supported by expert partners who help us constantly develop and refine what we offer. Whatever your company needs when it comes to global IP connectivity, we have the right solution to meet your needs now and in the future, wherever your business takes you.

7:15 pm - 7:25 pm NetApp

NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining unified data storage, integrated data, operational and workload services to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing observability and AI to enable the industry’s best data management. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in the world’s biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application agility. Our operational and workload services provide continuous optimization of performance and efficiency for infrastructure and workloads through observability and AI. No matter the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can transform your data infrastructure to realize your business possibilities. Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on XLinkedInFacebook, and Instagram

NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

7:25 pm - 7:35 pm Cohesity

Cohesity is a leader in data security and management. We make it easy to secure, protect, manage, and derive value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. We offer a full suite of services consolidated on one multicloud data platform: backup and recovery, data security, disaster recovery, file and object services, dev/test, and analytics — reducing complexity and eliminating mass data fragmentation. Cohesity can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner.

7:35 pm - 7:45 pm Panzura

Panzura helps you unlock the full potential of your unstructured data. CloudFS is a hybrid cloud file platform that transforms disparate storage into a high-performance collaboration layer with universal access. Symphony is a data services platform that delivers data movement, governance, and AI data preparation across the entire data estate.

7:45 pm Main Course
8:30 pm Dessert, Coffee & Networking
8:45 pm Win Big with Sponsor Raffle Prizes!

Visit each vendor table for a chance to score incredible rewards generously offered by our sponsors.

9:00 pm Event Concludes