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Please see details below of appearances by Christer Swartz, Palo Alto Networks Consulting Engineer for Data Center and Virtualization. **[The Future of Cable Business Services 2014](http://www.cvent.com/events/the-future-of-cable-business-services/agenda-64ab5acbd5764aa5a4b9d60c06f7ef6c.aspx)** WHEN: Tuesday, December 2 WHERE: Westin Times Square, New York City WHAT: Christer is part of Panel IV: The Transition to SDN and NFV for Business Services, (2:50pm - 3:40pm) which includes experts from several companies and will be moderated by Carol Wilson, Light Reading Editor-at-Large **[Mobile Network Security Strategies 2014](http://www.cvent.com/events/mobile-network-security-strategies/event-summary-6236821df4414cbbb513e4386f1a0dda.aspx)** WHEN: Wednesday, December 3 WHERE: Westin Times Square, New York City WHAT: Christer is part of Panel II: Telco Cloud: New Opportunities \& Threats for Mobile Security (2:45pm-3:40pm), which also includes experts from Symantec, Ericsson and F5 Networks. Christer is an acknowledged subject matter expert in the carrier space, focused on security for network virtualization architectures, service provider, SDN and NFV deployments. He's worked for many years in carrier networking, designing traditional route/switch networks and emerging SDN and overlay network architectures used in large-scale carrier environments. 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