This two-day conference in San Jose, CA, is designed for Information and Computing Technologies (ICT) educators from high school to university level. It is organized by the Western Academy Support and Training Center (WASTC) serving Cisco Networking Academy Programs in Arizona, California, Nevada, and beyond. The conference promises to deliver "IoT, Big Data Analytics, Cyber Security and a Cisco Academy Conference all in one place!"

Planned keynotes for the conference include:

• Kathy Mulvany, Cisco Vice President of Corporate Affairs
• Amy Tong, California's state CIO and Department of Technology director
• Laura Chappell, founder of Chappell University and Wireshark University
• Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce