S4 has three stages with great content … but wait there’s more … including sessions in the nine Prime Rooms. The Prime Room agenda is now up. They are listed in the agenda as a single Prime Room track with subsessions, so they don’t overwhelm attendees in the S4 mobile app. Think of it as four stages. The Main Stage, Stage 2 Technical Deep Dives, and Stage 3 that S4 selected and runs, and the Prime Rooms as a fourth stage with up to nine sessions.
The Prime Rooms are sponsored rooms on the third floor, one floor up from the stages. The sponsor controls the agenda and activities in their room. Don’t let this discourage you. The Prime Room sponsors bring their top technical experts and lots of gear for indepth demos.
For example, Siemens and Rockwell Automation are two of the nine Prime Room sponsors. If you have Siemens or RA gear, or are thinking about purchasing it, this is your best chance to learn about it, get your tough questions answered, and make relationships to help with future problems.
Monday is the pre-show day. Badge Pick-Up and the Prime Rooms open at 2PM. The POC Pavilion opens at 4PM. All this activity is taking place on the third floor. Monday is a great day to see all this because Tuesday – Thursday are full of other sessions and activities. As an added bonus, a lot of the Prime Rooms have a happy hour late afternoon / early evening in their Prime Room.
This is a long way of saying check out the S4x26 agenda and see what’s happening in the Prime Rooms.
The Prime Room sponsors are:
- Forescout
- Fortinet
- OPSWAT
- OTbase
- Palo Alto
- Rockwell Automation
- SEL
- Siemens
- TXOne