Morning Briefing

Friday, September 18, 2026  ·  Dan Abreu  ·  DTCC Automation Connect overlaps the EY automation session at 7:30  ·  Two more double-bookings today (9 AM and 11 AM)  ·  CIBC-NSX opportunity flagged stale — 30 days since the last Next Steps update

Schedule

Today — Friday, September 18
TentativeConflict6:30–8:30 AM ET — DTCC - NetBrain Automation Connect
Zoom  ·  Org: Krishna Makani  ·  NB: Shiladitya Sen, Dan Abreu  ·  DTCC: rkumar24, DTCC-NB distribution
Fully spans the EY automation session below (7:30–8:30) — decide which to prioritize or send a delegate.
TentativeConflict7:30–8:30 AM ET — EY - automation session
Teams  ·  Org: Anvesh Kosna  ·  NB: Edgar Sanchez, Pradeep Gaddameedi, Shaun Watson, Amlan Mukherjee, Dan Abreu  ·  EY: sunil.p.d1, sivaprasad.sivadasan.pillai, and others
Discuss automation requirements, implementation plan, and project deliverables. Overlaps DTCC Automation Connect above.
Conflict9–10 AM ET — CIBC - NetBrain Weekly Meeting
Teams  ·  Org: Laky Singh  ·  NB: Appachu KP, Ian Ballantyne, Reza Shokraie, Terry Fera, George Jiang, Dan Abreu  ·  CIBC: jim.dalby, David Mullings, Margaret Chen, vadim.sclear
Fully overlaps the Dream Team Forecast Meeting below — pick one or delegate.
Conflict9–10 AM ET — Dream Team Forecast Meeting
Zoom  ·  Org: Michael Pasqualoni  ·  Dream Team distribution, Dan Abreu, and sales leadership
Fully overlaps CIBC - NetBrain Weekly Meeting above.
Cancelled9:30–11 AM ET — DTCC - NetBrain Automation weekly
Zoom  ·  Org: Attaluri Sandeep  ·  DTCC, HighPoint, NetBrain — recurring automation sync
Organizer cancelled this instance — frees up 9:30–11 AM.
Conflict11–12 PM ET — JetBlue Airways Corporation - NetBrain Training
Zoom  ·  Org: Ajeet Kumar  ·  NB: Rakesh Mandava, Abhay Bhardwaj, Timothy Richardson, Dan Abreu  ·  JetBlue: ITNetworkEngineering, Manish Madwal, Vincent Cammarata
Overlaps the last half hour of the NetBrain/HP Cadence below.
TentativeConflict11:30–12 PM ET — NetBrain/HP Cadence
Teams  ·  Org: sperdomo@highpoint.com  ·  NB: Dan Abreu, Ian Ballantyne  ·  HighPoint: nspencer-maggs, lmend
Overlaps the second half of the JetBlue Training above.

Important Emails

Action Required
CIBC- NSX opportunity flagged stale
Salesforce Chatter (automated digest)  ·  "Your Daily Digest for NetBrain Technologies Inc"  ·  12:25 AM ET
Tagged directly to you and Michael Pasqualoni — 30 days since the last Next Steps update on CIBC- NSX ($142,190, close date 11/16). Log a Next Steps update in Salesforce.
FYI
MSCI-NB weekly working session recap
Ramesh Kumar Pittala  ·  "MSCI-NB: Weekly Working Sessions 15th & 16th September 2026"  ·  12:06 PM ET, Sep 17
Recap of the MNET2→MNET3 Golden Configuration and NetFlow parser sessions — next steps assigned to MSCI's Masarrat Siddiqui, no action needed from you.
MSCI Kubernetes Ingress Controller thread — meeting invite shared
Prasad Umredkar (MSCI)  ·  "RE: MSCI-support for discovering the Kubernetes Ingress Controller as a new device type"  ·  11:22 AM ET, Sep 17
Prasad shared a meeting invite on the new device-type request — Ashhar/Nicole's thread to own, no action for you.
TD software audit trail — SD-WAN coverage question
Irwin Chan (TD)  ·  "RE: NetBrain/TD - RE: NetBrain - Software Audit trail"  ·  10:25 AM ET, Sep 17
Irwin asked whether Cisco/HPE Silverpeak SD-WAN are covered in the audit-trail report — Ty (Eyituoyo Grage) already confirmed Silverpeak is included, no action needed.
Viva Engage weekly digest
Viva Engage notification  ·  "Great company-wide update this week: Bernadette opened…"  ·  9:37 PM ET, Sep 17
Celina Chan started a new conversation in the NetBrain Central community — FYI only.

Action Items

Log a Next Steps update on CIBC- NSX in Salesforce
Automated stale-opportunity flag, 30 days with no update — tagged to you and Michael Pasqualoni.
Resolve today's 6:30 AM conflict
DTCC Automation Connect (6:30–8:30) fully spans the EY automation session (7:30–8:30) — decide which to prioritize or delegate.
Resolve today's 9 AM conflict
CIBC Weekly Meeting and the Dream Team Forecast Meeting fully overlap — decide which to attend and delegate the rest.
Resolve today's 11 AM conflict
JetBlue Training and NetBrain/HP Cadence overlap from 11:30–12 — decide which to attend and delegate the rest.