EXECUTIVE DINNER
AI-Powered Secure Networking: Making your network the catalyst for business growth and AI
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TIME: 6:00PM (CT) Venue: The Capital Grille
Address: 500 Crescent Ct, Dallas, TX 75201
CONVERSE.
DINE.
CONNECT.
AI is revolutionizing networking across industries, offering unprecedented opportunities for growth, insights, and efficiency. The underlying AI-ready infrastructure will be an essential component of this strategy requiring a network that must deliver speed, security and resiliency, which will be foundational for AI success. IDC and NTT DATA will share the latest trends in infrastructure and networking for AI, including best practices, how to start, as well as learn how to extract maximum value from network investments.
Discussion topics include:
- Transformation of the data center network
- AI workloads are moving from public clouds to private/on-premises for sovereignty and data privacy concerns. The data center network will require a re-think of speed, resiliency and security
- Networking for AI: Higher throughput requirements of AI workloads are driving the need to refresh the DCN.
- Understanding network architectural paradigms – 100Gb, 200Gb/400Gb and Infiniband choices
- New network skills and operational processes to support AI workloads in the private/on-premises data center.
- What is required – infrastructure as code, operational insights, process management
- How to start
- The value of leveraging professional services that have the right expertise, vetted processes, as well as tools and technologies to help organizations more efficiently adopt new networking technologies and processes to support AI workloads
An executive dinner led by a skilled IDC analyst
An intimate gathering of senior IT leaders from diverse industries, grappling with similar issues
A secure, private conversation open only to a carefully vetted group (no recording, no playback)
Agenda at a Glance
Host
Leslie Rosenberg
Research Vice PresidentIDC
Subject Matter Experts
Grant Donald
Senior Director, Technology Solutions
NTT DATA
Matt Hyson
CTO, Global Service Provider
HPE Aruba Networking
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