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April 8, 2026
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Join us for a day of insightful keynotes, immersive breakout sessions, and collaboration with the Riverbed customer community. No matter where you are on your digital experience journey, we’re ready to help get you there faster — with confidence. Hope to see you there!
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Hyatt Regency Frisco - Dallas
2615 Preston Road Frisco, TX 75034
April 8, 2026
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM CDT
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Intelligent Network Observability
2nd Floor, Connectivity 1 & 2
In today’s AI-powered, hybrid environments, even brief network disruptions can undermine productivity, security, and user satisfaction. Traditional monitoring and observability are no longer enough.
In this session, we’ll show how forward-thinking organizations are transforming network observability with Riverbed Intelligent Network Observability. Discover how to gain real-time visibility into traditionally hard-to-monitor area such as Zero Trust architectures, remote work environments, and the cloud, so you can proactively prevent issues, speed resolution, and consistently deliver exceptional digital experiences.
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Opening Keynote
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10:05 AM CDT
Keynote
The Future of Digital Experience Starts Here
2nd Floor, Connectivity 1 & 2
Join Riverbed CEO Dave Donatelli for a keynote that provides you with a clear path to staying ahead in today’s fast-moving AI landscape. You’ll gain insights into the future of digital experience—powered by Riverbed innovations delivered at record speed, practical AI that drives measurable ROI, and the significant benefits of a unified platform that increases visibility and performance across the enterprise. Discover practical strategies you can apply right away—including consolidating tools, modernizing and automating IT operations, and lowering overall costs—while positioning your organization to lead in the era of AI.
10:35 AM CDT
Panel
Customer Panel – Fireside Chat
2nd Floor, Connectivity 1 & 2
Join us for a dynamic customer panel where industry leaders share their journeys in transforming digital experiences through automation, AIOps, and performance acceleration. Hear how Riverbed’s platform has helped drive innovation, streamline operations, and improve collaboration across teams. From DEX initiatives to integrated observability, this session offers practical insights from Riverbed’s largest customers.
11:05 AM CDT
Break
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11:30 AM CDT
EMPOWEREDx Interactive Breakout Sessions
1:00 PM CDT
Lunch
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1:45 PM CDT
EMPOWEREDx Interactive Breakout Sessions
3:15 PM CDT
Keynote
Agentic AI: The Future of Automation and Orchestration
2nd Floor, Connectivity 1 & 2
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3:45 PM CDT
Wrap Up
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The world is shifting — faster, smarter, and more connected than ever before — driven by the unstoppable force of Artificial Intelligence. In this transformative session, discover how AI is reshaping industries, rewriting the rules of success, and opening doors for those bold enough to step through them. Learn how to harness the power of AI not as a replacement, but as a revolutionary partner in your growth, creativity, and leadership.
2:30 PM CDT
EMPOWEREDx Interactive Breakout Sessions
10:00 AM CDT
Welcome
2nd Floor, Connectivity 1 & 2
4:30 PM CDT
Event Concludes
360º Digital Experience
IT and business leaders face constant pressure to deliver exceptional digital experiences, while balancing performance, cost efficiency, and operational agility...
Intelligent Network Observability
In today’s AI-powered, hybrid environments, even brief network disruptions can undermine productivity, security, and user satisfaction. Traditional monitoring...
Practical AI at Scale
Organizations everywhere are racing to harness the power of AI, driven by its tremendous potential to unlock innovation, make IT operations efficient, and...
The Power of Unified Visibility
Data is the foundation of fast, effective decision-making that drives real business outcomes. The ability to collect and leverage comprehensive data at scale is what...
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IT and business leaders face constant pressure to deliver exceptional digital experiences, while balancing performance, cost efficiency, and operational agility. But achieving this with incomplete visibility is difficult.
In this session, we’ll explore how Riverbed Aternity’s 360° Digital Experience helps leaders achieve better business outcomes such as enabling driving cost efficiency, streamlining M&A transitions, and enabling a productive mobile workforce. Discover how to transform digital experience data into actionable insights that deliver measurable results.
2nd Floor, Connectivity 1 & 2
360º Digital Experience
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Data is the foundation of fast, effective decision-making that drives real business outcomes. The ability to collect and leverage comprehensive data at scale is what separates leaders from followers.
In this session, we’ll showcase Riverbed’s latest innovations that empower you to capture visibility data from across your entire IT environment. Whether analyzing with our AI-driven platform or openly sharing through the Riverbed Data Store, you’ll see how our platform delivers complete visibility, supports open standards, and enables you to unlock the full potential of your data to achieve your business goals.
2nd Floor, Connectivity 1 & 2
The Power of Unified Visibility
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Organizations everywhere are racing to harness the power of AI, driven by its tremendous potential to unlock innovation, make IT operations efficient, and deliver business value.
In this session, we’ll showcase how Riverbed is applying AI in transformative ways, delivering real-world results at scale using generative, predictive, and agentic AI. Discover how AI-powered observability is already eliminating blind spots, accelerating root cause analysis, providing proactive insights, and enabling automated remediations across the Riverbed platform. Plus, get a glimpse of what’s next.
2nd Floor, Connectivity 1 & 2
Practical AI at Scale
CEO
Dave Donatelli
Chief Executive Officier
Riverbed Technology
Dave Donatelli
Dave Donatelli was appointed CEO of Riverbed Technology in July 2023. Donatelli brings to Riverbed deep knowledge and extensive leadership experience driving growth at scaled technology businesses, including Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and EMC.
Donatelli previously served as Executive Vice President of the Cloud Business Group at Oracle Corporation. Earlier, he served as Executive Vice President of the Enterprise Group at Hewlett-Packard leading the $30 billion division and overseeing storage, server, networking, and converged infrastructure solutions. Donatelli began his career at EMC Corporation, serving in multiple leadership roles, including President of the EMC Storage Division. He most recently served as the lead independent director of MarkLogic, a leading data mangement and data integration solutions provider and Vector Capital portfolio company.
Donatelli holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marketing from Boston College, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
SVP, America Sales
Mark Sommer
Kris Luhrsen is Chief Revenue Officer of Riverbed Technology, responsible for driving the Company's growth and sales strategy, and oversees global sales across all GEOs, channel and alliances, renewals and customer success, consulting arhcitects, professional services, and sales operations.
With decades of experience as a senior revenue generator, Luhrsen is particularly adept at building processes that allow organizations to be more predictable, more consistent and with improved productivity. Luhrsen has a proven track record of scaling organizations to increase sales, ramping go-to-market strategies and building high-quality teams at global technology companies.
Luhrsen most recently served as Chief Revenue Officer of cybersecurity firm Venafi, which was acquired by CyberArk, and before that, served as President of North America Sales at SUSE, a pioneer in open source infrastructure software. He also held senior sales leadership positions at VMware and Cisco.
Luhrsen holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University.
Chief Revenue Officier
Riverbed Technology
Kris Luhrsen
Doug Horner
Senior Vice President, IM Operations, Global Credit Union
Marni Casanova
Senior Director, Technology Service Operations, T-Mobile
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CTO
Richard Tworek
12:15 PM CDT
Richard Tworek is a Chief Technology Officer of Riverbed Technology where he leads the product management, engineering, and data science teams in building and enhancing the Riverbed unified observability portfolio. His position includes developing and delivering the Riverbed Unified Observability Platform and next-generation services such as SaaS-delivered Riverbed IQ, and industry-leading end-user experience, application, network and infrastructure monitoring solutions. He also leads strategic technology relationships, leading innovation to create and bring to market new products leveraging Riverbed’s robust and unique sensor technology.
Tworek is an experienced technologist in rapid product innovation, realignment and delivery including developing and bringing to market new product offerings, technology vision, and strategic relationships for ML/AI. He has enabled strategic go-to-market and technology partnerships such as Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Slack, and Amazon (AWS) Cloud platforms, and has a successful record of transforming and innovating in large complex organizations with the delivery of highly successful software and collaboration products.
Prior to joining Riverbed in 2022, Tworek held various executive leadership roles running within the technology and communication sectors, most recently at Mitel where he served as CTO and VP of Mitel Innovation Labs and Advanced Technology and then General Manager and VP of Next Generation Unified Networks at Nortel Networks. He also has served as a Founder and CEO of a number of technology start-ups including Qovia, Inc., which was sold to Cisco; ZebraPass, which was sold to Softcoin; and Merex that was sold to Infodata, Inc., after which he then joined Infodata as EVP and CTO. Tworek began his professional career as a U.S. Navy officer serving as a Lieutenant Commander on a U.S. nuclear submarine. Tworek holds an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the Naval Nuclear Power school and a B.S. of Mathematics and Physics from Eastern Michigan University.
Chief Technology Officier
Riverbed Technology
Richard Tworek
EMPOWEREDx Interactive Breakout Sessions
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The world is shifting — faster, smarter, and more connected than ever before — driven by the unstoppable force of Artificial Intelligence. In this transformative session, discover how AI is reshaping industries, rewriting the rules of success, and opening doors for those bold enough to step through them. Learn how to harness the power of AI not as a replacement, but as a revolutionary partner in your growth, creativity, and leadership.
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3:50 PM CDT
