OPNET Announces Speakers and Record Early Registrations for OPNETWORK 2004
BETHESDA, MD - August 4, 2004 --OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a leading provider of management software for networks and applications, today announced keynote speakers and record early registrations for its annual technology conference, OPNETWORK 2004, which focuses on intelligent analysis of networks, applications, and systems.
Based on initial registrations, OPNET expects that the five-day event will attract a record number of attendees from corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers, and network equipment manufacturers from all over the world to the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC from August 30-September 3. Approximately 1,200 people attended last year’s event, OPNETWORK 2003.
OPNETWORK 2004 will offer attendees a broad range of sessions taught by OPNET employees and outside experts, including hands-on labs, case studies, tutorials, and expert panels. The conference will offer over 500 hours of sessions in 20 parallel tracks covering a wide range of topics including application performance management, intelligent network auditing, capacity planning, and network modeling and simulation.
Keynote and featured speakers for this year’s conference include:
- Alain Cohen, OPNET President and CTO
- Marc Cohen, OPNET Chairman and CEO
- Mike Kennedy, Vice President, Infrastructure Performance Management Group at JPMorgan Chase
- William Campbell, formerly Lieutenant General and CIO of the US Army (Retired), now Vice President, C4I Systems Integration at BAE Systems
- Rich Trautner, IS Leader, Capacity and Performance Management at Best Buy
- James Thompson, Network Consulting Engineer at Cisco Advanced Services
- Dr. Dimitri Bertsekas, McAfee Professor of Engineering at M.I.T.
- Debra Curtis, Research Director at Gartner Group
- Russ Daniels, Vice President and CTO, Technology Solutions Group at Hewlett-Packard Company
- Glenn O’Donnell, Program
Director, Technology Research Services at META Group
Over 120 participants are expected to present technical papers and case studies at the conference.
For more information on OPNETWORK 2004 or to register for the event, please visit www.opnet.com/opnetwork2004.
About OPNET Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPNT) is a leading
provider of management software for networks and applications.
For more information about OPNET and its products, please visit www.opnet.com.
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