Siemon recently announced a series of 'expert seminars' to be held during May across the Middle East and Africa to deliver qualified learning on data centre architecture and efficiency, convergence, 10Gb/s migration, next generation infrastructure and future-ready cable sharing design. The IT infrastructure specialist today disclosed that it will be partnering with BT, Maxxess and other technical experts to host the series and confirmed the venues for the lecture tour.
Spanning centres in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kenya and South Africa, the series of seminars will be hosted by distinguished industry speaker John Siemon, chief technology officer at Siemon. Internationally recognised, he has served on industry standards boards since 1988 and held a number of leadership positions, including four separate chairman positions with the TIA, ISO/IEC and BICSI.
The series launches in Saudi Arabia where Siemon will partner with BT and Maxxess. It begins at the Radisson Blu in Riyadh on Sunday 6 May before moving to Jeddah on Monday 7 May. Qatar is the next destination where Siemon and Q-Soft will jointly host the 'Expert Seminar' at the Marriott in Doha on Wednesday 9 May. On Sunday 13 May, Siemon partners with Bahwan and Nasma at the Shangri-La Resort in Muscat, Oman. The tour then moves to Africa on Tuesday 15 May in Nairobi, Kenya, where the event will be delivered by Siemon and Coast at Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel, and concludes on Thursday 17 May in Johannesburg, South Africa at the Radisson Blu Sandton.
The series entitled 'Infrastructure Expert' has been designed, says Siemon, to update attendees on the hottest topics in the market: 10Gb/s-ready will be a key theme as will data centre design and optimisation, looking towards 40Gb/s. The latest information on industry standards will be presented and Siemon claims that all the academic and theoretical content will be supported and brought to life by real-world application stories.
Attendance is free by registered application and places are strictly limited. Delegates are expected to include industry professionals from data centres, infrastructure, networking and IT, holding CIO, CTO, management and consultant titles. The programme runs throughout the morning (0830-1400) at each Middle Eastern destination and Johannesburg, and will conclude with lunch. In Nairobi the schedule is set for 1730-2100, with dinner to follow. On each date attendees are invited to join the speakers following the formal lectures, with an exclusive opportunity to gain expert views and insight first hand.
For further information regarding the seminar programme and to register visit http://www.siemon.com/2012roadshow/register
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About John Siemon,
CTO and vice president of global operations
John is has been actively involved in the development of connection systems since graduating from college, starting with an engineering position at Teradyne from 1982 to 1985. He then joined the Siemon Company and was responsible for establishing its Development Engineering Group and research and development laboratory. He currently holds the positions of chief technology officer and vice president of global operations. Since taking operations responsibility in 2002, Siemon has opened manufacturing and logistics locations in Mexico, China, Czech Republic and Brazil, and has implemented a unified global ERP platform for order processing, inventory management, planning and production control. All of these operations and systems have been certified to both ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 standards governing quality and environmental management systems.
Having served with distinction on industry standards boards since 1988, John has held a number of leadership positions, including chairman of the TIA TR42.1 subcommittee responsible for commercial IT cabling (authors of TIA-568-B.1 and Building Automation Systems Cabling standard TIA-862); chairman of the US advisory group on international cabling standards (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25/WG 3; authors of ISO/IEC 11801); and chairman for BICSI's Technical Information and Methods Committee (authors of the Telecommunications Distribution Methods Manual and others). He is chairman of the US Advisory Group on Interconnection of Information Technology Equipment (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25) and project manager for Amendments 1 and 2 of ISO/IEC 11801. He is a named inventor on over 50 US patents in the field of telecommunications cabling.
About Siemon
Established in 1903, Siemon is an industry leader specialising in the manufacture and innovation of high quality, high-performance network cabling solutions. Headquartered in Connecticut, USA, with global offices and partners throughout the world, Siemon offers the most comprehensive suite of copper (unshielded and shielded twisted-pair) and fibre cabling systems available. With over 400 patents specific to structured cabling, Siemon Labs invests heavily in R&D and development of industry standards, underlining the company's long-term commitment to its customers and the industry.
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