For the second year running, the editors of InformationWeek will be interviewing executives and IT professionals live from the Interop conference in Las Vegas and streaming it all to you through InformationWeek.com.

Hosted by Editor Sara Peters and Brian Gillooly, vice president of Events Content and Strategy at UBM Technology Group, the InformationWeek News Desk will stream live from the showroom floor in Las Vegas from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, May 4, and 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. PDT on Thursday, May 5.

The 2016 InformationWeek News Desk schedule will include:

Wednesday, May 4:

11:00-11:20: Dr. James McCaffrey: Microsoft Research Labs

11:20-11:35: Tom Butts, CEO of Accelerated Concepts

11:35-11:45: Lisa-Marie Namphy, Software Developer and Engineering Community Advocate, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

11:45-12:00: Shan Sinha, Cofounder and CEO, Highfive

12:00-12:10: Will Murrell, Senior Network Engineer, UNICOM Systems

12:10-12:25: Curtis Franklin, Technical Editor, InformationWeek

12:25-12:40: Break

12:40-12:50: Susan Nunziata, Editorial Director for InformationWeek and Brian Gillooly, VP Events Content and Strategy, UBM Technology Group

12:50-1:05: Drew Lentz, Solutions Architect, Frontera

1:05-1:15: Brian Gillooly, VP Events Content and Strategy, UBM Technology Group

1:15-1:30: Dom Delfino, VP Worldwide Sales & Systems Engineering, Networking & Security, VMware

1:30-1:40 Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst, 451 Research

1:40-1:55: Tom Burns, Vice President and General Manager, Dell Networking  

Thursday, May 5:

11:00-11:20: John Pironti, President, IP Architects LLC

11:20-11:35: James Bowling, Principal Consultant, Data Center Transformation, Sigma Solutions Inc.

11:35-11:45 Amin Vahdat, Google Fellow & Networking Technical Lead, Google

11:45-12:00 Jeff Reed, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure and Solutions Group, Cisco 

12:00-12:10 Susan Nunziata, Editorial Director for InformationWeek and Brian Gillooly, VP Events Content and Strategy, UBM Technology Group

12:10-12:25: Break

12:25-12:40 Todd McDole, Product Line Manager, Dell

(Please note that all broadcast times are Pacific Daylight Time.)