About the Event

You are invited to LicensingLive! 2014

The only free software monetization event where you can network, share ideas and learn from software executives, product managers, software developers, analysts and industry experts.

This year’s event will focus on:

  • Revenue opportunities in the top licensing and packaging trends
  • Application delivery in the IoT
  • The Sharing Economy – matching what end users want and what drives revenue
  • Real Life Case Studies: Challenges and Solutions
  • Round table discussion moderated by Rhianna Collier, Vice President Software Division, SIIA

Come and engage!


Event Video Resources

How can a well-designed licensing portal double customer satisfaction - LicensingLive! 2014

Event Schedule / Agenda

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day time speaker presentation
MonOct 20 7:00pm

Pre-Event

Welcome Reception and Early Registration

Welcome Reception & Partner Forum (Solei) and Early Registration (Lobby)

TueOct 21 8:30am

LicensingLive! 2014

Registration, Breakfast and Partner Expo Kick-Off

10:00am

LicensingLive! 2014

Welcome and Introductions

Welcome and Introductions by Ansgar Dodt, VP of Worldwide Sales, SafeNet

10:10am

Prakash Panjwani President & Chief Executive Officer, SafeNet, Inc.


Getting from $20M to $400M – Challenges and Opportunities for Growth

10:40am

Shlomo Weiss Senior Vice President, Software Monetization, Gemalto, SM


The Evolution of Software Monetization in a Connected World

11:10am

Coffee Break


11:25am

Ray Wang Principal Analyst, Founder, & Chairman, Constellation Research Inc.


The Shared Economy

12:05pm

Amy Konary Research Vice President, Software Licensing and Mobile Enterprise Applications, IDC


Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device: Changes in Access and Licensing

12:45pm

Lunch


1:45pm

Jeff Kaplan Managing Director, THINKstrategies


The Internet of Things Changes Everything

2:25pm

Customer Guest Speakers

Case Studies: Real Life Challenges and Solutions

Learn from Dr. Andy Lingard, Global Leader, Risk Software Dev., Towers Watson, Guillaume Chevallier, IT Program Director, Neopost and Darren Learmonth, VP of Engineering, HID Global

3:40pm

Coffee Break


3:55pm

Rhianna Collier Vice President, Software Division, SIIA


Panel Discussion

Panel includes Rhianna Collier, Vice President, Software Division, SIIA, Moderator, Dr. Andy Lingard, Global Leader, Risk Software Dev., Towers Watson, Guillaume Chevallier, IT Program Director, Neopost, Darren Learmonth, VP of Engineering, HID Global, Jam Khan, VP of Professional Services, SafeNet and David DiMillo, Principal Consultant Rights Management, SafeNet

4:35pm

LicensingLive! 2014

What Does Skeleton Racing and Software Development Have in Common?

Matt Antoine, National & USA Olympic Team, Skeleton Athlete - 2014 Bronze Medalist – Sochi

5:45pm

Shlomo Weiss Senior Vice President, Software Monetization, Gemalto, SM


Closing Remarks

6:00pm

Cocktails


Cocktail Reception (Outside by fountain)

7:00pm

LicensingLive! 2014

Executive Sponsored Dinner (Parkview Ballroom - Invitation Only)

WedOct 22 9:00am

Breakfast

10:00am

Madhavan Ramanujam Partner, Simon Kucher & Partners


Julie Armstrong Solutions Architect, Software Monetization division at Gemalto


Darim Rahmatallah Product Manager, Software License Enforcement Solutions, Gemalto


Extracting the Full Value of a New Product Launch: Packaging and Pricing | Entitlement Management; Operational Efficiency

Two presentations will take place at 10AM.

10AM - Solie Room - Extracting the Full Value of a New Product Launch: Packaging and Pricing by Madhavan Ramanujam, Partner, Simon Kucher & Partners.

10AM - Cali C - Entitlement Management; Operational Efficiency by Julie Armstrong of SafeNet and Darim Rahmatallah, Product Manager, SafeNet

11:00am

Omkar Munipalle Director of Strategy and Business Development, Cloud Monetization, Gemalto


Dave DiMillo Principal Consultant for the Software Monetization division at Gemalto


Jake Fox Vice President of Product Development, Software Monetization, Gemalto


Leveraging Cloud for Anywhere, Anytime Licensing | Customer Experience Through Your Licensing Web Portal

Two presentations will take place at 11am.

11AM - Solie Room - Leveraging Cloud for Anywhere, Anytime Licensing by Omkar Munipalle, Director of Strategy and Bus. Development – Cloud Monetization, SafeNet and Jake Fox, VP of Product Development, SafeNet

11AM - Cali C - Customer Experience Through Your Licensing Web Portal by Dave DiMillo, Principal Consultant, SafeNet and Martin Pedersen, Managing Director, Stellar

12:00pm

Lunch


1:00pm

Shlomo Weiss Senior Vice President, Software Monetization, Gemalto, SM


Jake Fox Vice President of Product Development, Software Monetization, Gemalto


Todd Steel Director, Product Management in the Software Monetization division at Gemalto


Julie Armstrong Solutions Architect, Software Monetization division at Gemalto


Customer Connect (for Customers Only Cali A & B)

Introductions and Opening Remarks - Shlomo Weiss, Sr. VP & General Manager Software Monetization, SafeNet, Jake Fox, VP of Product Development, SafeNet, Julie Armstrong, Director of Product Management, SafeNet, Darim Rahmatallah, Product Manager, SafeNet and Sourabh Bhandari, Product Manager, SafeNet

1:15pm

LicensingLive! 2014

Product Strategy and Roadmap

3:00pm

LicensingLive! 2014

Technical Breakout Tracks: Opportunity to discuss technical aspects with Product Managers and PreSales Consultants

Back Office Integration: ESD, SSO, connectors, custom end user portals, etc.

Application Security: virtualization, key value pair, new hardware keys, etc.

Cloud Licensing: leveraging usage, cloud licensing deployment options, etc.

4:00pm

LicensingLive! 2014

Open time for pre-scheduled* one-on-one time with Product Management and PreSales Consultants to further address additional questions, or current installation/design topics.

David Read, Manager NorAm PreSales Consulting, SafeNet
Dale Hopkinson, PreSales Consultant, West, Safenet
Rafi Pinto, PreSales Consultant, West, SafeNet
Jake Fox, VP of Product Development, Safenet
Julie Armstrong, Director of Product Management, Safenet
Darim Rahmatallah, Product Manager, SafeNet
Sourabh Bhandari, Product Manager, SafeNet

*One-on-one meetings must be scheduled in advance with PreSales Consultants

Event Resources

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How can a well-designed licensing portal double customer satisfaction - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

A well-designed customer web portal for license and entitlement management can help your business win on two fronts: increasing customer satisfaction and lowering your operational costs. This session will include a demonstration of the web portal so you can get a first-hand view of true customer self-service and automation in an enterprise environment. Presented by David DiMillo, Principal Consultant, Software Licensing Professional Services and Martin Pedersen, Managing Director, Stellar

Dave DiMillo
Principal Consultant for the Software Monetization division at Gemalto

Panel Discussion - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

The LicensingLive! 2014 panel discussion includes Rhianna Collier, Vice President, Software Division, SIIA, Moderator, Dr. Andy Lingard, Global Leader, Risk Software Dev., Towers Watson, Guillaume Chevallier, IT Program Director, Neopost, Darren Learmonth, VP of Engineering, HID Global, Jam Khan, VP of Professional Services, SafeNet and David DiMillo, Principal Consultant Rights Management, SafeNet.

Rhianna Collier
Vice President, Software Division, SIIA

What Does Skeleton Racing and Software Development Have in Common? - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

Matt Antoine, National & USA Olympic Team, 2014 Bronze Medalist, discusses what skeleton racing and software development have in common at LicensingLive! 2014

Welcome and Introductions - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

Welcome and Introductions to LicensingLive 2014 by Ansgar Dodt, VP of Worldwide Sales, SafeNet, Inc.

Ansgar Dodt
VP Strategic Development and Managing Director at Gemalto

The Internet of Things Changes Everything - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKstrategies, in his presentation at LicensingLive2014 – The Internet of Things Changes Everything.

Jeff Kaplan
Managing Director, THINKstrategies

The Evolution of Software Monetization in a Connected World - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

Shlomo Weiss, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Software Monetization, SafeNet, Inc – in his presentation at LicensingLive 2014, The Evolution of Software Monetization in a Connected World

Shlomo Weiss
Senior Vice President, Software Monetization, Gemalto, SM

Case Studies: Real Life Challenges and Solutions - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

Learn from Dr. Andy Lingard, Global Leader, Risk Software Dev., Towers Watson, Guillaume Chevallier, IT Program Director, Neopost and Darren Learmonth, VP of Engineering, HID Global

Leveraging Cloud for Anywhere, Anytime Licensing - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014 Presentation – Leveraging Cloud for Anywhere, Anytime Licensing by Omkar Munipalle, Director of Strategy and Bus. Development – Cloud Monetization, SafeNet and Jake Fox, VP of Product Development, SafeNet

Omkar Munipalle
Director of Strategy and Business Development, Cloud Monetization, Gemalto

Getting from $20M to $400M – Challenges and Opportunities for Growth - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

President and CEO of SafeNet, Inc., Prakash Panjwani, presents at LicensingLive 2014 – Getting from $20M to $400M – Challenges and Opportunities for Growth

Prakash Panjwani
President & Chief Executive Officer, SafeNet, Inc.

Entitlement Management; Operational Efficiency - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive 2014 Presentation – Entitlement Management; Operational Efficiency by Julie Armstrong of SafeNet and Darim Rahmatallah, Product Manager, SafeNet

Julie Armstrong
Solutions Architect, Software Monetization division at Gemalto

Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device: Changes in Access and Licensing - LicensingLive! 2014

LicensingLive! 2014

Learn from IDC’s Amy Konary in her presentation at LicensingLive 2014, Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device: Changes in Access and Licensing

Amy Konary
Research Vice President, Software Licensing and Mobile Enterprise Applications, IDC

Event Speakers

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Amy Konary

Research Vice President, Software Licensing and Mobile Enterprise Applications, IDC

Amy Mizoras Konary is a Research Vice President with IDC focusing on software pricing, licensing, and delivery research. In this role, Ms. Konary is responsible for providing coverage of software go-to-market trends including volume license programs, evolving license models, global price management, and licensing technologies through market analysis, research and consulting. Ms.Konary is also spearheading IDC’s coverage of Mobile Enterprise Applications. This research includes an analysis of adoption trends and drivers as well as the associated market opportunity. Ms. Konary was also the lead analyst for IDC’s coverage of software as a service (SaaS) for eight years.

 

Since joining IDC in 1998, Ms. Konary has received a number of honors and awards, including several IDC Research Quality Awards, as well as Analyst-of-the-Year. Ms. Konary was also honored with IDC’s James Peacock award for research excellence. Ms. Konary has authored groundbreaking and award-winning research on many elements of software pricing and licensing, and is often quoted in the industry and business press. She is also a frequent speaker at high-level industry events and seminars around the world.

 

Prior to joining IDC, Ms. Konary worked in marketing at a mid-tier software provider. Ms. Konary holds a B.A. from Lehigh University, where she majored in science and technical writing and minored in environmental science.

 


Prakash Panjwani

President & Chief Executive Officer, SafeNet, Inc.

Since joining the company in 2002, Prakash has been instrumental in driving major product strategy, infrastructure, and operational shifts throughout the organization. Prakash led the strategic acquisition of 12 companies resulting in SafeNet being the cybersecurity powerhouse that it is today — Rainbow Technologies marked SafeNet’s entry into the HSM, authentication, and software protection markets, Ingrian Networks, broadened SafeNet’s data encryption and encryption key management portfolio, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, doubled the size of SafeNet’s software monetization business, and most recently, Cryptocard which brought the company’s award-winning authentication business into the cloud.

 

Most recently, Prakash served as the SVP and General Manager of SafeNet’s Data Protection business unit where he has been able to refocus the team on three rapidly growing markes – crypto management, data encryption, and authentication and then successfully executing against a highly aggressive product development and go-to-market plan to support it.


Dave DiMillo

Principal Consultant for the Software Monetization division at Gemalto

As Gemalto’s Principal Consultant for the Software Monetization division, Dave is responsible for guiding enterprise-level software vendors through the daunting challenge of fully integrating license enforcement into their businesses. Dave specializes in top-down methodologies that include helping vendors define their corporate licensing goals and philosophies, designing system architectures, as well as developing business process and technology requirements that serve the myriad of needs across organizations.

 

Dave has an unparalleled amount of experience designing, launching, and managing some of the industry’s most complex licensing systems that manage millions of installed software seats including software development tools and CAD/CAM solutions. Prior to joining Gemalto (formerly SafeNet), Dave spent the previous 11 years leading the licensing strategy and implementation for the Rational software division of IBM.  Dave graduated with honors from the University of Maine with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.


Jake Fox

Vice President of Product Development, Software Monetization, Gemalto

Jake Fox is Vice President of Product Development for SafeNet’s Software Monetization Division. In this role, Jake is responsible for overall product strategy and management of the Sentinel product line. Prior to this role, Jake was responsible for the product development and market launch of the Sentinel Cloud Services.

 

Jake joined SafeNet in July of 2005, as part of SafeNet’s acquisition of MediaSentry, as the Director of Business Development, Digital Media Services. In this role, he brought two new anti-piracy services to market in the entertainment industry. He was responsible from inception to launch of all aspects of product management, business development, and management oversight of all engineering activities.

 

Prior to joining MediaSentry, Jake worked for EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK), a leading Internet Service provider where he spent nearly 8 years in various leadership roles. Jake graduated with honors from UCLA where he received a degree in Economics.


Todd Steel

Director, Product Management in the Software Monetization division at Gemalto

A member of the Gemalto (formerly SafeNet) team for more than a decade, Todd Steel leads the product management efforts associated with Gemalto’s suite of software licensing and entitlement management cloud services.

 

Prior to his focus on cloud services for the software industry Todd has held multiple product management roles all focused on product lines designed to better service the licensing, entitlement management, and software protection needs of the software industry.


Darim Rahmatallah

Product Manager, Software License Enforcement Solutions, Gemalto

Darim Rahmatallah joined SafeNet in 2004 during the merger with Rainbow Technologies. Darim currently serves as a Product Manager within the SRM Business Unit at SafeNet, and focuses in software licensing. Darim has worked exclusively in the software licensing industry for the past 9 years and his expertise is applied in the definition of market requirements and product evolution to support SafeNet’s software licensing strategy going forwards.

 

Darim has a Bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Kingston University in London.


Julie Armstrong

Solutions Architect, Software Monetization division at Gemalto

Julie Armstrong is a Solutions Architect for Gemalto’s Software Monetization Division. Armstrong has over 20 years of experience working in licensing and entitlement management in both strategic and operational roles.

 

Prior to Gemalto (formerly SafeNet), she worked for Open Channel Solutions and was responsible for managing the implementation of entitlement management solutions for high-end clients such as Siemens, Ericsson, EMC, Avaya and Symantec.  In addition to her experience in entitlement management, Armstrong has held several operational roles related to software licensing, delivery and support.  Armstrong holds a BA in Math and Economics from Smith College and an MBA from Northeastern University.