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CLOUD TRANSFORMATION CONFERENCE

FREE VIRTUAL EVENT





DRIVING DIGITAL FIRST STRATEGY WITH EDGE TO CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE



14 JUNE 2022 | 9AM EDT / 2PM BST / 3PM CEST


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WHY ATTEND?



Cloud Transformation Conference is a free virtual event consisting of top-level
content and thought leadership discussions exploring the importance of leading
with a Digital First strategy and the ways in which digital infrastructure can
enable Edge to Cloud transformation.

Register for your ticket today to learn how establishing a strategic hybrid
cloud can align IT resources with business and application needs to accelerate
optimal business outcomes and achieve excellence in the cloud.


WHO ATTENDS?



This virtual event will bring together over 500 industry leading IT Directors
from across the UK, EMEA and Americas.

We will be joined by attendees from within SMEs and large corporates responsible
for driving digital first strategies and cloud migration within their
organisations, including Cloud Specialists, Programme Managers, Heads of
Innovation, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Infrastructure Architects, Chief Data Officers,
Chief Engineers, Consultants and Digital Transformation Executives.


KEY TOPICS



Key takeaways from this event will include:
 
● The importance of a “Digital First” leadership & culture
● Exploring the value of a cloud-centric digital infrastructure
● The role of green data centres within the sustainability challenge
● Leveraging bare metal cloud for digital transformation
● Delivering enterprise level agility and scale
● Hybrid / multi-cloud business case studies
● Data management in the cloud


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FREE VIRTUAL
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EXPERT INDUSTRY SPEAKERS



500+ LIVE
ATTENDEES



ON-DEMAND SESSIONS




2022 SPEAKERS INCLUDE


ERIK THORWIRTH

HEAD OF GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE

HENKEL


VIDYA LAXMAN

TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR AT TESCO PLC

TESCO


GARY CRISCI

PRINCIPAL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

GE


ANU KRISHNAN

HEAD OF INFORMATION, DATA & ANALYTICS

SHELL


LEANNE STARACE

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE AND SALES ENGINEERING

EQUINIX


VAIBHAV VERDHAN

ANALYTICS LEADER, GLOBAL ADVANCED ANALYTICS

ASTRA ZENECA


GRACE ANDREWS

PRINCIPAL PRODUCT EVANGELIST

EQUINIX


MIKE BURROUGHS

GLOBAL HEAD OF HOSTING AND DATA CENTRE STRATEGY

HSBC


JOHN LUNN

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT FOR MICROSOFT CLOUD

BT


MAGNUS FALK

CIO ADVISOR, TECHNOLOGY LEADER

ZOOM


FERNANDO VELAZQUEZ

CTO - DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & INNOVATION DIRECTOR

WALMART


DAX GRANT

CEO GLOBAL TRANSFORM

FORBES TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL


IDRISS SELHOUM

HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY - CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTURE

MARKS AND SPENCER


ANDREW MCCREATH

DIRECTOR, CLOUD & DIGITAL EDGE

EQUINIX


FLORA NANDA

BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY LEAD

PFIZER


CHRISTINE HART

HEAD OF ENTERPRISE NETWORK SERVICES

KPMG


TEJAS CHOPRA

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

NETFLIX


MATTHEW GEORGE

DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION EMEA

EQUINIX


DUNCAN MACRAE

CHIEF EDITOR - CLOUDTECH NEWS

TECHFORGE MEDIA


CHRISTIAN SIEGERS

SENIOR MANAGER DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

KPMG DIGITAL ADVISORY


STEEN DALGAS 

CLOUD ECONOMIST

NUTANIX




AGENDA

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01.
9:00 – 9:05 (EDT)

14:00 – 14:05 (BST)


EVENT WELCOME ADDRESS

Duncan MacRae, Editor in Chief, Techforge 

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INTERCONNECTING THE DIGITAL CORE


02.
09:05 – 09:30 (EDT)

14:05- 14:30 (BST)


PRESENTATION: BECOMING A DIGITAL FIRST BUSINESS

● Exploring what are the key considerations when thinking about the Foundational
Infrastructure you need in place to drive Cloud to Edge Transformation

  Leanne Starace, Senior VP Solutions Architecture, Equinix

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03.
09:30 – 10:00 (EDT)

14:30 – 15:00 (BST)


PRESENTATION: HENKEL – DIGITAL IS IN OUR DNA

● A deep dive into the hybrid infrastructure strategy that underpins the market
leading industrial and consumer operations at Henkel

● End-to-end digitization and innovation through cooperation

Erik Thorwirth, Head of Global Infrastructure, Henkel

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04.
10:00 – 10:50 (EDT)

15:00 – 15:50 (BST)


PANEL DISCUSSION: SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

● How do you balance the increasing demands of digitization with protecting the
environment

● How do you effectively measure ‘Green IT’

● Aligning ESG as core business drivers



Moderator: Grace Andrews, Principal Product Evangelist, Equinix

Steen Dalgas, Cloud Economist, Nutanix

Erik Thorwirth, Head of Global Infrastructure, Henkel

Mike Burroughs, Enterprise Architect & Sustainability Leader, HSBC





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INTEGRATING DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS


05.
10:50 – 11:20 (EDT)

15:50 – 16:20 (BST)


FIRESIDE CHAT: M&S – FROM STORE TO DOOR

● Developing a cloud platform for sustainable omni-channel retailing

● The digital transformation journey of Marks & Spencer

Idriss Selhoum, Head of Technology – Cloud & Infrastructure, Marks & Spencer

Matthew George, Director of Enterprise Transformation, Equinix



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06.
11:20 – 12:10 (EDT)

16:20 – 17:10 (BST)




PANEL DISCUSSION: RE-THINKING BUSINESS: A CULTURAL MINDSET SHIFT TO ‘DIGITAL
FIRST’

● Technology is now central to the business with IT no longer seen as a fixer
but a strategy driver

● The relationship of people, process and technology

● Being agile, sustainable and cost-effective

Moderator: Dax Grant, Forbes Technology Council

Vidya Laxman, Technology Director, Tesco

Christian Siegers, Senior Manager Digital Transformation, KPMG

Idriss Selhoum, Head of Technology – Cloud & Infrastructure, M&S

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07.
12:10 – 12:40 (EDT)

17:10 – 17:40 (BST)






PRESENTATION – KPMG – FROM THE ‘BACK OFFICE’ TO THE ‘FRONT OFFICE’

● How the enterprise network is fundamental to serving both internal and
external customers and underpins the ‘digital first’ journey

● How agile IT working drives positive customer facing outcomes

Christine Hart, Head of Enterprise Network Services, KPMG

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INTERACTING AT THE DIGITAL EDGE


08.
12:40 – 13:10 (EDT)

17:40 – 18:10 (BST)




PRESENTATION: INVENTING A NEW WORK FUTURE

● Prior to the pandemic, only 3% of the world’s workforce was remote. The
pandemic shifted that to nearly 100% overnight. While we saw massive development
in collaboration technology over the last two years we have also uncovered
challenges in how we connect with our employees and clients.

● Understand more how companies have handled these challenges, what the future
holds and the platform capabilities required to enable globally consistent user
experience

Magnus Falk, CIO Advisor EMEA, Zoom

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09.
13:10 – 14:00 (EDT)

18:10 – 19:00 (BST)




PANEL DISCUSSION: ENABLING YOUR ORGANISATION’S EDGE JOURNEY

● Defining and building the ‘edge’ in your organisation

● Effectively combining cloud to edge technology

● Edge use cases – solving for the vertical and/or horizontal

Moderator: Matthew George, Director of Enterprise Transformation, Equinix

Vaibhav Verdhan, Global Advanced Analytics Leader, AstraZeneca

Anu Krishnan, Head of Information, Data & Analytics, Shell

Magnus Falk, CIO Advisor EMEA, Zoom

John Lunn, Technical Architect for Microsoft Cloud, BT

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10.
14:00 – 14:50 (EDT)

19:00 – 19:50 (BST)




PANEL DISCUSSION: HOW INTERCONNECTED ECOSYSTEMS ARE REDEFINING GLOBAL BUSINESS

● How data drives ecosystems

● Define and optimise ecosystems for your business

● Interconnected ecosystems use cases that work

Moderator: Andrew McCreath, Director Cloud & Digital Edge, Equinix

Fernando Velazquez, CTO – Digital Transformation & Innovation Director, Walmart

Gary Crisci, Principal Enterprise Architect, GE

Flora Nanda, Blockchain Technology Lead, Pfizer

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11.
14:50 – 15:20 (EDT)

19:50 – 20:20 (BST)


PRESENTATION: DESIGNING FOR MULTI-CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

● What engineers, architects and enterprises must do to adopt multi-cloud
environments

● What are some of the commonalities in designing for multiple clouds?

● What is critical in the design and the implementation phases?

Tejas Chopra, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

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12.
15:20 – 15:30 (EDT)

20:20 – 20:30 (BST)


CLOSING REMARKS

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ALL SESSIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND FOR 30 DAYS AFTER THE EVENT HAS
FINISHED!

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