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October 15-16, 2025
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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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12:00 PM CEST
Registration, Lunch, & Networking
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Stade Roland-Garros
2 Av. Gordon Bennett
75016 Paris, France
October 15-16, 2025
Day 1: 12:00 PM – 11:00 PM CEST
Day 2: 9:00AM – 2:30 PM CEST
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Intelligent Network Observability
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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 organisations 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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1:30 PM CEST
Welcome
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1:35 PM CEST
Keynote
The Future of Digital Experience Starts Here
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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, modernising and automating IT operations, and lowering overall costs—while positioning your organisation to lead in the era of AI.
2:15 PM CEST
Panel
Customer Panel
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3:15 PM CEST
Break & Demo Pods
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4:15 PM CEST
EMPOWEREDx Interactive Breakout Session
11:00 AM CEST
Break & Demo Pods
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9:30 AM CEST
EMPOWEREDx Interactive Breakout Sessions
12:15 PM CEST
Wrap Up
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3:45 PM CEST
Keynote
Main Stage Keynote — Charbel Khneisser, SVP, Global Solutions Engineering, Riverbed
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4:15 PM CEST
Guest Speaker
Ignite Your Inner Power: Leading Fearlessly in the Age of AI
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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.
5:00 PM CEST
AI Innovators Awards Ceremony
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5:00 PM CEST
Networking Event
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2:30 PM CEST
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
Organisations 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.
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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 analysing 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.
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The Power of Unified Visibility
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Organisations 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.
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Practical AI at Scale
Day 02
October 16, 2025
Day 01
October 15, 2025
5:30 PM CEST
Entertainment & Dinner
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9:25 AM CEST
Welcome
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9:00 AM CEST
Registration, Breakfast, Networking, & Demo Pods
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1:00 PM CEST
Lunch
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12:20 PM CEST
Networking Event
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Organisations’ data movement needs are evolving rapidly with the surge in AI workloads and ever-growing data volumes. To unlock business value, timely...
Resilient Networking for AI
EMPOWEREDx Interactive Breakout Session
11:30 AM CEST
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Organisations’ data movement needs are evolving rapidly with the surge in AI workloads and ever-growing data volumes. To unlock business value, timely access to data is critical.
In this session, we’ll explore Riverbed’s latest innovations in accelerating hybrid multi-cloud data fabrics, flexible consumption models, new outcome-based dashboards, and AI-powered service management. You’ll gain a clear view of how to seamlessly move data, from where it resides to where it’s needed, to keep pace with rapidly changing business demands.
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Resilient Networking for AI
CEO
Dave Donatelli
Chief Executive Officier
Riverbed Technology
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.
Dave Donatelli
SVP, Global Solutions Engineering
Charbel Khneisser
Charbel Khneisser is Senior Vice President of Global Solutions Engineering at Riverbed Technology since January 2025, and prior to this, he has held several presales roles at Riverbed in the Middle East region since joining the company in 2013. Charbel is currently responsible for strategically and tactically driving technical sales across Riverbed’s comprehensive portfolio of unified observability and acceleration solutions. He will also have a major focus on cross-functional alignment, best-practice development and knowledge sharing, as well as inspiring Riverbed’s SE community across the EMEA region. Charbel has 18+ years’ technical experience in the IT industry encompassing Networking concepts, Application architectures, Security models and Service Management tools comprising of NPM/APM/FM. During his career, Charbel had held several major roles which included being the Solution Architect Lead Consultant for the Saudi Ministry of Communication & IT (MCIT) where he was responsible for managing and implementing the Yesser eGovernment program and the Saudi National Digital Certification Center NCDC (PKI) that guaranteed a secure exchange mechanism. In addition, Charbel currently lectures in the Faculty of Engineering at Saint Joseph University to graduates undertaking a first year Master’s Degree.
Senior Vice President, Global Solutions Engineering
Riverbed Technology
Charbel Khneisser
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