EVENT

Fast Start to Digital
Resilience

AMER Virtual Event
Tech Trends & Product Portfolio
On-Demand

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Agenda Highlights

1:00 PM
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1:45 PM
Breakout Session #1 - Room A

Detect Threats Faster with Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk’s AI-enhanced platform provides unified visibility by analyzing data from all sources, ensuring that no critical signals are overlooked.

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Breakout Session #2 - Room B

Aligning IT and Business with Service Monitoring

Are you looking to optimize your business services, while reducing complexity, and improve visibility, resilience and operational efficiency? Learn how ITOps teams can prevent unplanned downtime, deliver reliable services, and improve operational efficiency with end-to-end visibility, predictive analytics, and automated incident response.

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Breakout Session #3 - Room C

Reducing Alert Noise

Finding the root cause of a service failure becomes complicated and time-consuming when teams have to deal with disparate, inaccurate alerts that are slow to detect problems and offer no business content to the impact of each change. Learn how you can leverage Splunk to make your on-call nights tolerable by proactively detecting problems and only alerting you about the ones that really matter.

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9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Breakout Session #1 - Room A

Detect Threats Faster with Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk’s AI-enhanced platform provides unified visibility by analyzing data from all sources, ensuring that no critical signals are overlooked.

Learn More

Breakout Session #2 - Room B

Aligning IT and Business with Service Monitoring

Are you looking to optimize your business services, while reducing complexity, and improve visibility, resilience and operational efficiency? Learn how ITOps teams can prevent unplanned downtime, deliver reliable services, and improve operational efficiency with end-to-end visibility, predictive analytics, and automated incident response.

Learn More

1:00 PM
-
1:45 PM
Breakout Session #1 - Room A

Detect Threats Faster with Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk’s AI-enhanced platform provides unified visibility by analyzing data from all sources, ensuring that no critical signals are overlooked.

Learn More

Breakout Session #2 - Room B

Aligning IT and Business with Service Monitoring

Are you looking to optimize your business services, while reducing complexity, and improve visibility, resilience and operational efficiency? Learn how ITOps teams can prevent unplanned downtime, deliver reliable services, and improve operational efficiency with end-to-end visibility, predictive analytics, and automated incident response.

Learn More

Breakout Session #3 - Room C

Reducing Alert Noise

Finding the root cause of a service failure becomes complicated and time-consuming when teams have to deal with disparate, inaccurate alerts that are slow to detect problems and offer no business content to the impact of each change. Learn how you can leverage Splunk to make your on-call nights tolerable by proactively detecting problems and only alerting you about the ones that really matter.

Learn More

1:00 PM
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1:45 PM
Breakout Session #1 - Room A

Detect Threats Faster with Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk’s AI-enhanced platform provides unified visibility by analyzing data from all sources, ensuring that no critical signals are overlooked.

Learn More

Breakout Session #2 - Room B

Aligning IT and Business with Service Monitoring

Are you looking to optimize your business services, while reducing complexity, and improve visibility, resilience and operational efficiency? Learn how ITOps teams can prevent unplanned downtime, deliver reliable services, and improve operational efficiency with end-to-end visibility, predictive analytics, and automated incident response.

Learn More

Breakout Session #3 - Room C

Reducing Alert Noise

Finding the root cause of a service failure becomes complicated and time-consuming when teams have to deal with disparate, inaccurate alerts that are slow to detect problems and offer no business content to the impact of each change. Learn how you can leverage Splunk to make your on-call nights tolerable by proactively detecting problems and only alerting you about the ones that really matter.

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09:00
10:30

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Partner Zone

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09:00
10:30

IT Ops

AIOps Basics: predictive alerts and machine learning.

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Security

Modernize and transform your security operations.

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Dev Ops

What is observability and why is it important to digital transformation?

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Platform

Take the fast lane to Splunk cloud.

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Digital resilience is evolving rapidly.
AI is shifting from novelty to necessity.
The race to prove business value and ROI is on.

Join our stellar line up of Splunk experts as they reveal the latest from Splunk’s Security & Observability portfolio, highlight key leadership predictions for 2025, and explore how to leverage AI in your business to maximize investments.

Explore our full agenda below and select the sessions that work best for you. You can still watch our sessions, just register to get the on-demand link.

Program Overview

Unify Security & Observability: How to go from visibility to action at scale
Explore the latest technology trends and use cases across the Splunk platform to build a more digital resilient strategy.
On-Demand

The Future of the SOC

As cyber threats evolve in complexity and grow in frequency, traditional methods are no longer sufficient to keep pace with these challenges. The need for an advanced, adaptive Security Operations Center (SOC) has never been more critical in order to build a proactive SOC capable of addressing the dynamic challenges of the modern threat landscape and keeping your organization digitally resilient.

Splunk will highlight:
  • Key transformational strategies needed to power the SOC of the future.
  • Splunk Security innovations to enhance visibility, accelerate response, and reduce the complexity typically associated with security operations.
  • How balancing security risk and reward of generative AI has gone mainstream.
Speakers:
  • David Dalling, Group Vice President, Global Security Strategist
  • JK Lialias, Senior Director and Head of Product Marketing for Splunk Security

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Observability Predictions: How the Next ‘Killer App’ Will Protect the Next ‘Killer App’ Built By the Next ‘Killer App'

We asked GenAI to write Observability Predictions. Just kidding — we asked the Splunk Observability experts for their Observability predictions and they all agree; there are many unknown unknowns. And if you know even a little bit about what we do, you know Splunk Observability is built to alert you to the unknown unknowns with early detection of business impacting issues. Join this webcast to hear Splunk’s experts in Observability share their predictions on:
  • How AI powered Applications will be the new ‘killer app’ that will fundamentally change your customer experience
  • How AI will revolutionize ITOps and Engineering teams in the years ahead *Why is there a need to consolidate Observability Platforms!
  • The convergence of ITOps, Engineering and Security to provide unified visibility to drive digital resilience of your critical digital assets
Don’t miss your chance to hear what ITOps and Engineering leaders can do this year to lead the GenAI revolution. We promise, the conversation will be led by real people with their own thoughtful predictions in a conversation completely free of questions generated by AI…refreshing, right?

Speakers:
  • Dan Holmes, Observability Advisor Lead
  • Jennifer Chang, Observability Advisor

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Predictions for 2025

The future is closer than you think. As the digital landscape evolves at breakneck speed, staying ahead of emerging trends is critical for building resilience and driving innovation. From revolutionary shifts in cybersecurity to the transformative potential of AI and observability data, 2025 is set to redefine the way organizations operate.

Join Craig Robin and Anthony Pierce, Field CTOs-Americas at Splunk, for an exclusive session where they’ll reveal their predictions for 2025. Gain actionable insights into how these trends will reshape cybersecurity, digital resilience, and operational strategies—and learn how your organization can prepare to thrive in this dynamic environment.

This session will cover:
  • Game-Changing Technologies in Cybersecurity: Learn how AI and quantum computing are evolving to meet increasingly sophisticated exploits—and how their eventual convergence will combat these ever-evolving threats.
  • Cybersecurity Redefined: Discover how governments will establish clear definitions of cybersecurity materiality in response to record-breaking AI-driven cyberattacks.
  • Vendor Resilience Matters: Learn how organizations and vendors will align IT protocols and security governance to ensure resilience against mass disruption events.
Speakers:
  • Craig Robin, Field CTO
  • Anthony Pierce, Field CTO

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The Roadmap to Digital Resilience
These sessions will explore our Splunk Security and Observability product roadmap and latest releases, through best practices and demos.
*We have updated the content and product information that was released last year.
Security - On-Demand

Reduce Investigation and Response Time With Automated Threat Analysis

As the volume and sophistication of phishing and malware attacks increases, analysts frequently struggle with an overwhelming number of alerts and staying ahead of threat actors.

While detection-based products play a critical role in alerting security teams to an attack, analysts need additional visibility and context to fully understand the scope of an incident and respond as quickly as possible.

Join us for an overview and demo of Splunk Attack Analyzer to learn how automated threat analysis helps security teams:
  • Take the manual work out of credential phishing and malware threat analysis to efficiently handle large volumes of alerts and save analysts time.
  • Gain consistent, comprehensive, high-quality threat analysis to fully understand the scope of complex attack chains.
  • Build intelligent automation for end-to-end threat analysis and response by pairing Splunk Attack Analyzer with Splunk SOAR.
Speakers:
  • Neal Iyer, Senior Principal Product Manager
  • Tyne Darke, Product Marketing Manager

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Accelerate Your SecOps With Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence

As modern infrastructures continue to grow increasingly complex, keeping track of all of the important assets in your organization can be a daunting task. As your digital presence continues to expand across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments via numerous devices, users, and applications it’s more important than ever to ensure you have a dynamic and comprehensive view of all of your assets to reduce your risk exposure and maintain key compliance standards and best practices.

That’s where our solution, Splunk® Asset and Risk Intelligence comes in! Splunk® Asset and Risk Intelligence (ARI) seamlessly leverages your existing Splunk data sources to create a comprehensive, accurate asset inventory. Join us as we explore how your organization can enhance your approach to asset discovery and compliance monitoring and redefine how you tackle security investigations and risk management.

Learn:
  • How you can leverage your existing Splunk data to improve the way you tackle asset and compliance challenges.
  • How you can develop better risk and compliance best practices with the dynamic and comprehensive view into your asset inventory provided by Splunk ARI.
  • How Splunk ARI can help you improve your approach to security investigations and risk management.
Speakers:
  • Coty Sugg, Senior Product Marketing Manager
  • Madhura Kumar, Director, Product Manager Compliance

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Splunk SOAR Evolved: A Unified TDIR Approach to Automation

To power the SOC of the Future, Splunk brings a unified TDIR approach to automation. This brings the next evolution of SOAR where through a series of innovations we redefine how automation is built, consumed and shared across the SOC.

Join this webinar to learn about exciting new Splunk SOAR capabilities, including:
  • Unified security workflows across Splunk SOAR and Splunk Enterprise Security
  • Prompt-driven automation to increase SecOps collaboration and streamline response workflows
  • Guided automation that overlays real incident data atop logical sequencing for easier playbook building
  • Talos Integration with Splunk SOAR that provides OOTB playbook and SOAR App
Speakers:
  • Mandeep Singh Sandhu, Senior Director of Product Management, Security Products
  • Nicholas Astor, Senior Product Manager - SOAR

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Observability - On-Demand

Mastering OpenTelemetry: Integrate Your App With Observability Platforms

Join us for a comprehensive webinar on preparing your application to send data to OpenTelemetry. This session will provide an in-depth overview of OpenTelemetry, explaining what it is, how it can be used, and how it integrates with an observability platform. Learn about the various data types supported by OpenTelemetry and the components of a telemetry pipeline. Discover the flexibility and control OpenTelemetry offers for managing your data.

Additionally, we will guide you through the process of configuring a sample Java application to transmit data to OpenTelemetry, ensuring seamless integration with observability tools. Whether you are new to OpenTelemetry or looking to optimize your observability strategy, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge and skills to get started.

  • An overview of OpenTelemetry, including its purpose, usage, and supported data types.
  • The components of a telemetry pipeline and how OpenTelemetry offers full control over data.
  • A demonstration of Splunk Observability Cloud's zero-touch instrumentation for Java applications, highlighting seamless integration without configuration or code changes.
Speakers:
  • Greg Leffler, Director of Developer Evangelism

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Getting Started With Event Analytics: Turning Alerts Into Actions

Overwhelmed by constant alerts across a myriad of monitoring tools? Struggling to identify service-impacting issues? In this webinar, see how Event Analytics inside Splunk IT Service Intelligence gives IT Operations teams the visibility and insight to stay ahead of critical incidents.

We’ll showcase how to kickstart alert correlation and achieve fast time to value with incident response following an easy step by step process. We’ll also discuss how to minimize alert noise at the source and prioritize the most important issues first with historical KPI data analysis and ML-Assisted Thresholding (powered by Splunk AI). You’ll discover where AI and machine-learning is enhancing the effectiveness of problem identification and upcoming capabilities to look forward to.

Whether you are just starting or want to optimize your current strategy, join this session to learn:
  • Approaches to aggregate events and reduce alert noise with out-of-the-box content
  • How to identify issues and avoid false positives before they impact your business
  • Ways to accelerate incident investigation and response
Speakers:
  • Connor Tye, Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Observability
  • Isha Gandhi, Product Manager, Observability for IT

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Optimizing Data Management for Improved Observability and Digital Resilience

The exponential growth of data creation, consumption, and storage can quickly lead to a lack of actionable insights if not properly managed. With data volume and complexity only increasing, finding that proverbial "needle in the haystack" is becoming more challenging. SREs and developers relying solely on logs for observability monitoring can limit the ability to optimize performance. Instead, adopting a service-centric pipeline management strategy can help you align data collection more effectively, improving service efficiency and driving digital resilience.

Join us in this webinar to explore best practices for service-centric data management and observability strategies. We’ll cover essential topics such as context propagation, service tagging, and how AI can be leveraged to optimize services.

Tune in to learn:
  • How to design a services-centric data pipeline for better observability
  • The limitations of relying exclusively on logs for monitoring
  • Best practices for context propagation and service tagging
  • The role of AI in optimizing services and driving efficiency
  • Strategies for improving digital resilience through smarter data management
Speakers:
  • Chris Crocco, Director, Observability Interlock
  • Kyle Prins, Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Platform
  • Courtney Wright, Principal Product Marketing Manager, Platform

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The Future of the SOC

As cyber threats evolve in complexity and grow in frequency, traditional methods are no longer sufficient to keep pace with these challenges. The need for an advanced, adaptive Security Operations Center (SOC) has never been more critical in order to build a proactive SOC capable of addressing the dynamic challenges of the modern threat landscape and keeping your organization digitally resilient.

Splunk will highlight:
  • Key transformational strategies needed to power the SOC of the future.
  • Splunk Security innovations to enhance visibility, accelerate response, and reduce the complexity typically associated with security operations.
  • How balancing security risk and reward of generative AI has gone mainstream.
Speakers:
  • David Dalling, Group Vice President, Global Security Strategist
  • JK Lialias, Senior Director and Head of Product Marketing for Splunk Security

Learn More

Observability Predictions: How the Next ‘Killer App’ Will Protect the Next ‘Killer App’ Built By the Next ‘Killer App'

We asked GenAI to write Observability Predictions. Just kidding — we asked the Splunk Observability experts for their Observability predictions and they all agree; there are many unknown unknowns. And if you know even a little bit about what we do, you know Splunk Observability is built to alert you to the unknown unknowns with early detection of business impacting issues. Join this webcast to hear Splunk’s experts in Observability share their predictions on:
  • How AI powered Applications will be the new ‘killer app’ that will fundamentally change your customer experience
  • How AI will revolutionize ITOps and Engineering teams in the years ahead *Why is there a need to consolidate Observability Platforms!
  • The convergence of ITOps, Engineering and Security to provide unified visibility to drive digital resilience of your critical digital assets
Don’t miss your chance to hear what ITOps and Engineering leaders can do this year to lead the GenAI revolution. We promise, the conversation will be led by real people with their own thoughtful predictions in a conversation completely free of questions generated by AI…refreshing, right?

Speakers:
  • Dan Holmes, Observability Advisor Lead
  • Jennifer Chang, Observability Advisor

Learn More

Predictions for 2025

The future is closer than you think. As the digital landscape evolves at breakneck speed, staying ahead of emerging trends is critical for building resilience and driving innovation. From revolutionary shifts in cybersecurity to the transformative potential of AI and observability data, 2025 is set to redefine the way organizations operate.

Join Craig Robin and Anthony Pierce, Field CTOs-Americas at Splunk, for an exclusive session where they’ll reveal their predictions for 2025. Gain actionable insights into how these trends will reshape cybersecurity, digital resilience, and operational strategies—and learn how your organization can prepare to thrive in this dynamic environment.

This session will cover:
  • Game-Changing Technologies in Cybersecurity: Learn how AI and quantum computing are evolving to meet increasingly sophisticated exploits—and how their eventual convergence will combat these ever-evolving threats.
  • Cybersecurity Redefined: Discover how governments will establish clear definitions of cybersecurity materiality in response to record-breaking AI-driven cyberattacks.
  • Vendor Resilience Matters: Learn how organizations and vendors will align IT protocols and security governance to ensure resilience against mass disruption events.
Speakers:
  • Craig Robin, Field CTO
  • Anthony Pierce, Field CTO

Learn More

Speakers

David Dalling

First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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Dan Holmes

First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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First Lastname

Director Risk Management and Data Protection,
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Splunk Inc.

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