Karen Dutch
General Manager, NEC Corporation of America
Karen Dutch has over 30 years of experience within the storage industry and developed advanced storage solutions for both open systems and mainframe platforms. As general manager of the Advanced Storage Products Group at NEC Corporation of America, Dutch is responsible for the strategy, marketing, and sales of next generation storage products.

Heidi Biggar
Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Heidi is an ESG analyst focusing on disk-to-disk (D2D) backup solutions, including VTL, D2D appliances, and CDP solutions. Heidi is a 10-year veteran of the storage industry and former senior technical editor at InfoStor magazine, one of the industry's premiere storage-focused publications. She is well-known in end-user, vendor and analyst circles for her thorough and insightful coverage of existing and emerging storage technologies, markets and trends. In addition to her expansive editorial role, Heidi played a key business role at InfoStor, helping to design and grow the publication over its eight-year history. In particular, she was responsible for initiating new areas of coverage in the publication, including compliance, security, document/content management and disaster recovery. Heidi is a graduate of Tufts University in Medford, MA, holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.