ST. LOUIS, March 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — TierPoint, a leading provider of secure cloud and data center solutions at the edge of the internet, today announced it will host the inaugural BraveIT event at Revel Fulton Market in Chicago on September 13.  Dr. Daniela Rus – recognized as the world’s leading authority on robotics and artificial intelligence – will deliver the keynote presentation.

In an era of rapidly accelerating opportunity and risk, BraveIT offers a dynamic community of technology leaders, their peers and partners a unique platform to stay current with industry best practices, pressure-test operating assumptions, and enrich plans to address a range of shared challenges, from cybersecurity to business continuity. The 2018 event will feature a fast-moving and diverse array of workshops, panels, interviews, and peer-to-peer sessions on disaster recovery, artificial intelligence, the Darknet, post-breach recovery, cryptocurrencies, and more.

As director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, keynote speaker Dr. Daniela Rus has led groundbreaking research projects in the areas of transportation, security, environmental modeling and monitoring, underwater exploration, and agriculture.  Her team has developed modular and self-reconfiguring robots, systems of self-organizing robots, networks of robots and sensors for first-responders, mobile sensor networks, techniques for cooperative underwater robotics, and new technology for desktop robotics.

Future updates on agenda, speakers and registration will be available at tierpoint.com/braveit.

About TierPoint
With a unique combination of secure, reliable, and connected infrastructure solutions at the edge of the internet, TierPoint (tierpoint.com) specializes in meeting enterprises where they are on their journey to IT transformation, helping them solve data storage, compute, and recovery challenges. TierPoint has one of the largest customer bases in the industry, with over 5,000 clients ranging from the public to private sectors, from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises. TierPoint also has one of the largest and most geographically diversified footprints in the nation, with 40 world-class data centers in 20 markets and 8 multi-tenant cloud pods, connected by a coast-to-coast network. Led by a proven management team, TierPoint’s network of highly experienced IT professionals offer a comprehensive solution portfolio of private, multitenant, hyperscale, and hybrid cloud, plus colocation, disaster recovery, security, and other managed IT services.

Contact: Pete Abel, 314-720-3129, Pete.Abel@tierpoint.com

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