HP: "We'll See You at Microsoft Lync Conference 2014"

HP is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor of the Lync Conference 2014, February 18-21, in Las Vegas. The conference will inspire you with in-depth content, world-class speakers, and networking opportunities you won't find anywhere else. Join our HP sessions to hear firsthand how customers like you have standardized on Lync to increase productivity and reduce costs.

HP Breakout Sessions

For all HP breakout sessions, attend and register for a chance to win an HP notebook. As an added bonus, all attendees will receive a $25 HP Shopping gift card.

Under the microscope: A close look at Lync implementation

Tuesday, February 18
12:15pm - 2:00pm

Join us for this session to learn about implementing Lync from two different perspectives. Industry consultant James Meade will tell you how he worked with HP to deploy Lync Voice for a client company, enabling annual telecom savings of $5M. HP Mobility Practice Leader Jordan Lee will share HP's perspective on Lync and UCC, and will provide an overview of a sampling of recent HP Lync projects, including the world's largest Lync implementation - for 410,000 users - which is nearing completion at HP. They will engage you in an interactive discussion about overcoming obstacles, lessons learned and best practices to make your Lync journey a smooth one.

Location: Sirio Restaurant | Promenade Level

A winning solution with Lync & HP in the Midmarket

Wednesday, February 19
11:30am - 1:00pm

Join Datalink and their customer Carmichael International Services to gain valuable insight into the challenges and opportunities they were looking for Lync/HP to solve when evaluating their communication strategy. Learn from their deployment experiences as they share the results, business benefits and best practices.

Location: Sirio Restaurant | Promenade Level

Meet the HP Experts Breakfast

Thursday, February 21
8:00am - 9:00am

You're invited to join HP as we wrap up the week. Tap into our knowledge, expertise, and innovation to as you begin or continue on your Lync deployment. You'll be positioned for success. And see the results of YOUR inspiration as the "Words are Art" paintings from the HP booth are unveiled.

Location: Aria Suite

HP Speaking Sessions

How to change your Network from a Footpath to a Super-Highway for Lync

Wednesday, February 19
10:15am - 11:30am

As the adoption of interactive and media-rich applications, like Microsoft Lync, continues to grow within the Enterprise, IT staff is coming to terms that the required manual configuration of network QoS policy and traffic engineering to deliver a quality user experience is a complex, tedious and error prone process... and even harder to diagnose when things do go wrong. Learn how Software Defined Networking (SDN) from HP and Microsoft Lync works under-the-hood to deliver application-awareness along with rich diagnostics to optimize network policy provisioning without any human intervention required and unlocking the full potential of Lync Enterprise Voice.

Speaker: Manfred Arndt, Chief Architect for Unified Communications (UC) strategy in the HP Networking Advanced Technology Group

Room: Bluethorne 1-3

Lync Partner Theatre Sessions

Join HP at the Lync Partner Theatre in the Expo Hall to learn more about our UC solutions:

HP In Context Analytics (almost) reads your mind

Tuesday, February 18
1:30pm -1:40pm

Wednesday, February 19
1:00pm - 1:10pm

During a Lync conversation, In Context Analytics understands what you're discussing and displays relevant, complementary content in real-time alongside your conversation window. Did someone mention last quarter's sales report? Forget about searching for it. There it is on the screen. In Context Analytics gives you just the right information at just the time you need it. In Context Analytics can find information from parts of your organization that you can't easily reach: it can even find information you didn't know existed.

Speaker: Kieran McCorry, Strategist, Enterprise Services CTO Office, HP

SDN - your Fast-pass to the carpool lane

Monday, February 17
6:40pm - 6:50pm

Learn how Software Defined Networking (SDN) from HP and Microsoft Lync works under-the-hood to deliver application-awareness along with rich diagnostics to optimize network policy provisioning without any human intervention required and unlocking the full potential of Lync Enterprise Voice.

Speaker: Manfred Arndt, Chief Architect for Unified Communications (UC) Strategy, HP Networking Advanced Technology Group

HP Booth #400

Join us at 4:00pm on Tuesday, February 18, or Wednesday, February 19, for a demonstration of the HP in Context Analytics solution.

In Context Analytics understands what you're discussing and displays relevant, complementary content in real-time alongside your conversation window. Did someone mention last quarter's sales report? Forget about searching for it. There it is on the screen. In Context Analytics gives you just the right information at just the time you need it. In Context Analytics can find information from parts of your organization that you can't easily reach: it can even find information you didn't know existed.