Events like this are so important because it brings so many key decision makers together to provide thought-provoking questions and answers to different providers, and really just being able to think outside the box and hear differing opinions. It really challenges where you stand on a lot of those and gives you an opportunity to learn from that.

I think that Network X Americas really appealed to me because anytime you can bring the industry together and drive this transformation that needs to occur forward is good.

Conferences like this help to facilitate these processes by allowing us to connect the people from the industry who would not normally meet, and by being exposed to the ideas and challenging conversations with colleagues in the industry which normally may not happen.

The idea of this conference really is about the industry coming together, aligning our roadmaps, making sure that where it’s necessary we have standardization or clarity of where we need to go.

What I see in the evolution of this conference, as well as the industry, is that there are more pieces coming together to provide solutions.

Events like this are so important because it brings so many key decision makers together to provide thought-provoking questions and answers to different providers, and really just being able to think outside the box and hear differing opinions. It really challenges where you stand on a lot of those and gives you an opportunity to learn from that.