CTO series: Episode 2: -What does a Good Strategy look like...?

Join this live panel discussion with experts from Splunk and AWS Marketplace to learn the latest trends and best practices for better cloud monitoring.

Tune into this interactive Q&A session to hear from Cloud and Storage experts on:

- How to ensure adherence to security and compliance standards
- How to manage AWS costs
- The benefits of analytics and visibility for your AWS workloads
- Why moving mission-critical workloads to AWS improves agility
- The latest updates from Splunk and AWS Marketplace on industry trends

This session will be broadcast LIVE straight from the AWS Summit in London.

Moderator: Simon Ratcliffe, Principal Consultant, Ensono & Cloud Industry Forum Chair
Panelists: James Hodge, AVP Field Technology, Splunk, Andrew Bird, Chief Digital Officer, Oryzus Consulting, and Benjamin Andrew, Global Lead - Security & Network Infrastructure, AWS Marketplace

Technology is a tool, pure and simple. It’s part of a capability that along with people and processes that solves a business challenge.
However, all too often the justification falls short and budgets are not approved.

In this talk, Andrew Bird describes how he presents technology in business terms. How to relate the new world in an irresistible way.
It's all very well having a great idea, but if you can't justify the benefit you may be unlikely to get the budget.

We are currently witnessing an increased adoption of cloud and big data technologies. However, in the near future, specialists predict that these technologies will become a thing of the past and IoT will dominate the world. IoT is going to infiltrate every aspect of our lives: work, home, city, hospitals etc. It is also going to change the way we shop in physical stores and online.

Join this webinar to discover how shopping centres will be transformed from a bricks and mortar purchasing experience to an open sourced market place.

Allow Matthew to discuss how the market is changing, the challenges this will cause and the application of the advances in IoT technology which will drive a shopping revolution.

As devices become more intelligent, autonomous and self-aware. They will form part of a fractal universe in which they will deliver against unknown use cases. This will be at a scale and order of magnitude far more complex than perhaps humans could simplify. Yet we have merely scratched the surface.

Block chain seeks to be the golden goose to the IoT security dilemma. Perhaps it’s the common thread to weave the people, homes, cities and governments together. Is block chain the new “Magna Carta” the new order to span the globe and standardise interop between devices?

Join this webinar to discover how IoT and block chain will support each other’s victories and overcome the significant challenges ahead.

Allow Andrew to share his insight as to how the market is changing, the challenges this will cause and the application of the advances in both IoT and block chain which will drive an even more connected future.

How an organisation operates doesn't happen by magic!. It happens by DESIGN. As an organisation grows, previous ways of working become less appropriate and new alternatives become fashionable.
In part 3 of this series, we discuss the challenges organisations face and how a Target Operating Model aids communication and minimises effort an organisation needs to formulate a working model.

An organisations strategy should be unique in terms of fit for its business model. In this context, good strategy should show direct linkage to the operating model of the business and the road map of how growth will be achieved.
In this Episode 2 of the CTO series, we discuss the measure of linkage to the operating model and the tools which can be used to show alignment or otherwise to the business vision.
Andrew Bird is a Chief Digital Officer with a unique outlook of 9 years direct sales experience plus 20 years in Software Architecture with over 300 Solutions Methodologies and strategies delivered and a successful sales director

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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We interview Ray O’Farrell (Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer, VMware) & Richard Munro (CTO Cloud Services, EMEA, VMware) to find out what they think about the digital IT revolution and what is the role of CTOs and CIOs in this regard.

Among topics discussed:

- What are the main prerequisites for digital transformation? Is there such a term as “being ready or not” for digital transformation?
- How can companies pursue digital transformation in case they don’t have a strategic expertise in house nor any experience in platform building?
- Does the type of cloud define the way digital transformation is going to progress or digital transformation defines the cloud strategy that the enterprise should adopt?
- How does DevOps and Containers fit into the digital transformation process? How do they contribute to innovation?
- What are the best reality checked strategies to accelerate transformation?

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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In this interview Christopher Wroath, Director of Digital Transformation, NHS Education for Scotland, shares with us the lessons he has learned from his digital transformation experiences and how his current job is different from all the other ones he had in the past.

Among topics discussed:
- The story behind NHS digital transformation
- Differences between digital transformation in public and private sectors
- Triggers for digital transformation
- Stages of digital transformation
- Barriers to a successful digital transformation
- Culture need for digital transformation

About the speaker:

Christopher is a digital leader working in the Scottish NHS to transform a disparate and complex information landscape into a single unified environment putting individual members of the NHS and social care workforce at the centre of delivery. Defining and delivering the NHS Education for Scotland (NES) vision for a comprehensive digital transformation by implementing dynamic change through innovative and agile approaches to technical, cultural and organisational challenges by leading the design and in house build of the NES Digital Platform.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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In this discussion, Nigel Williams, IT Evangelist at Commvault, described what it means to drive digital transformations in the cloud.

Among topics discussed:

- Digital transformation struggles
- Cloud computing contribution to the digital revolution
- Top 5 enterprise cloud priorities to help with digital transformation
- The criteria for a smart cloud strategy
- Backup/recovery challenges in digital transformation
- And others

About the speaker:

Nigel Williams is an IT Evangelist and responsible for Marketing in EMEA at Commvault. Prior to his current role, he held the same position at OpenText and a variety of senior positions at EMC/Legato and EMC/Documentum. Nigel has over 25 years experience in Information Management and is a keen industry watcher. He holds an Honours Degree in English Literature and also studied Electronic Engineering as part of his entry to the IT industry."

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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In this in-depth discussion about the future of cyber security, Daniele Catteddu, CTO of Cloud Security Alliance, analyses the following topics:

- Changes and trends in the threat landscape
- Leading prevention technologies against cyber attacks targeting IoT
- Protecting critical infrastructure with AI and machine learning
- Yahoo breach lessons
- The most overlooked area of cyber security
- Main security challenges in digital transformation

About the speaker:
Daniele Catteddu is an information security and risk management practitioner, technologies expert and privacy evangelist with over 15 of experience. He worked in several senior roles both in the private and public sector. Daniele is member of various national and international security expert groups and committees on cyber-security and privacy, keynote speaker at several conferences and author of numerous studies and papers on Risk Management, Cyber Security and Privacy.

Currently he is the Chief Technology Officer, at Cloud Security Alliance, where he is responsible to drive, on a global scale, the adoption of the technology strategy roadmap within key CSA lines of business: Research, Membership Services, Standards, Education and Products. He identifies technology trends, global policies and evolving social behavior and their impact on information security and on CSA’s activities.
Daniele leads the product management for CSA and chairs the Futures Advisory Committee.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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Rik Ferguson, VP of Security Research at TrendMicro, joined us for a video interview to discuss the following trending topics:

- The evolution of attack vectors in the past years
- Antwerp Seaport shipping container system hack and what can we learn from it
- What to do when hit by a ransomware attack
- Cyber security and Brexit
- Cyber security and the Russian hack of the US election
- The most overlooked area of cyber security that professionals should concentrate on
- Leading prevention technologies against ransomware
- Ransomware of Things
- Security challenges in digital transformation

About the Speaker:

Rik Ferguson, Vice President of Security Research at Trend Micro, is a Special Advisor to Europol EC3, project leader with the International Cyber Security Prevention Alliance (ICSPA), Vice Chair of the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace & Security Science and advisor to various UK government technology forums. In April 2011 Rik was inducted into the Infosecurity Hall of Fame

As a presenter at global industry events such as RSA, Mobile World Congress, InfoSecurity, Virus Bulletin, RUSI and the e-Crime Congress, Rik addresses the challenges posed by emerging technology and online crime. He is frequently interviewed by the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Channel 4, Sky News and Al-Jazeera English and is quoted by national newspapers and trade publications throughout the world.

Rik writes the Countermeasures blog and is the lead spokesperson for Trend Micro, he also writes regular columns for CIO, ZDNet, T3 and several other European publications. In this position, Rik is actively engaged in research into online threats and the underground economy. He also researches the wider implications of new developments in the Information Technology arena and their impact on security both for consumers and in the enterprise.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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Mathew Finnie, CTO of Interoute, got on camera to analyse with Andrew Bird, EA Visionary, the impact of global political and economical changes on digital transformation.

Among topics discussed:

- Opportunities of digital transformation
- Complex issues to be aware at every stage of digital transformation
- Brexit, Trump election and digital transformation
- Cloud and digital transformation
- Other technologies to remember when undergoing digital transformation
- Top 5 tips for CIOs implementing a digital strategy

About the Speaker:
Never afraid to challenge the status quo of existing technology and traditional industry thinking, Matthew Finnie is one of the most provocative technology thinkers in Europe. When Matthew became Interoute¹s CTO, he had a vision that if companies centralised technology development, then Europe could produce technology success stories on par with Silicon Valley. Proving that the US model can be put to work in Europe, Interoute now owns and operates the largest networked cloud computing asset in Europe and is redefining how businesses deploy advanced communications platforms in the Cloud.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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In this interview John Abel, the Head of Technology and Cloud for UK, Ireland and Israel at Oracle, is discussing the latest innovations in the cloud and how these impact the modern business environment.

Among topics discussed:

- Cloud in 2020
- Extreme innovations in the cloud
- Challenges with cloud adoption today
- Legacy organisations and digital transformation in the cloud
- "What does lobsters have to do with innovation"
- Top 3 pieces of advice for aspiring technology leaders

About the Speaker:
John Abel has worked with Oracle for over 20 years and during this time he has worked in Support, Applications, Technology and Consulting.

More recently John has been in Oracle Systems for four years. John's main focus now is Engineered Systems and Oracle Database Cloud (Database as a Service) across Europe, Middle East and Africa and he often uses his prior experience to explain all aspects of technology to customers. In his presentations, John relates to actual customer experience and provides real world answers to real world problems. John is also a successful Oracle Press Author and using his experience of over 300+ customer engagements has produced publications explaining the Oracle Technology and Applications.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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BrightTALK caught up with Darren Thomson, CTO & VP of Technology, Symantec, for an in-depth conversation on the future of cybersecurity in the context of IoT, AI and Machine Learning.

Among topics discussed:

- Trending business vulnerabilities in 2017
- Particularities of pentesting
- How to prepare for GDPR in 2018
- Implications of IoT, AI & machine learning on cyber security
- Yahoo breach
- Brexit and cybersecurity
- Recommendations to CISO's developing security strategies

About the speaker:
Darren is an industry recognised IT innovator and strategist, with +20 years of industry experience. He is a published author. His latest work has recently been published by Wiley Co. and is entitled, “Delivering Utility Computing: Business Driven IT Optimisation”. Details can be found at www.amazon.com.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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Jason Man, the Head of DevOps, ECS-Digital, shared with us his views on how DevOps and Digital Transformation interact with each other and whether DevOps is a prerequisite to a successful digital transformation programme or not.

Topics up for discussion:
- DevOps and Digital Transformation - are they for everyone?
- The prerequisites to a successful digital transformation
- Pitfalls to avoid when adopting digital transformation from the DevOps perspective
- DevSecOps - security challenges in digital transformation
- The future for UK enterprises in terms of digital transformation
- Digital transformation recommendations

About the Speaker:
Jason is a DevOps practitioner covering roles in Development, Build and Release Management to Continuous Delivery and DevOps consultancy across clients in different sectors and across the globe.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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In this interview, Sandra Bell, Head of BC & ISDG Consulting (Europe), Sungard, will share with us how tech innovations impact the moderb BCDR strategies.

Topics up for discussion:

- Innovations in the cloud and BCDR
- Critical things to know when creating a BCDR strategy
- Latest trends in disaster recovery
- Business continuity and digital transformation
- Technology recovery solutions and local resilience strategies
- And others

About the Speaker:
Sandra is a seasoned risk and business continuity professional with over 25 years’ experience of the design and management of strategic, business friendly risk, continuity and security solutions in public and private sectors. Experience ranges from: the management of risk and the protection of data within the UK’s main business process outsourcer to the financial and government sectors; to the protection of the largest part of the UK’s critical national infrastructure.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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BrightTALK caught up with Antonio Piraino, CTO, Science Logic, for an in-depth conversation on the future of technology in the context of digital transformation.

Topics up for discussion:

- The secret to a successful digital transformation
- Management challenges when deploying digital infrastructure
- The most important aspect of digital transformation that should be never overlooked
- Emerging requirements for modern mission critical infrastructure
- Recommendations for tech leaders when adopting digital transformation

About the Speaker:
Antonio Piraino guides ScienceLogic's IT management vision and product strategy. A noted thought leader and speaker in the Datacenter, hosting and cloud computing space, Antonio came to ScienceLogic from The 451 Group as VP of Research.

Antonio is a regular speaker at Managed hosting, virtualization and Cloud Computing conferences, and author of various managed hosting and Cloud Infrastructure series reports.

It's not a secret anymore that cloud represents the main change driver in the IT industry. However, though it is so popular, it still holds many secrets difficult to crack. Where to start when dealing with cloud native applications and what to expect from its future developments?

In this panel, we will discuss the following questions:

* What are the historical changes in the cloud? Do they go hand in hand with the historical needs?
* Legacy cloud native applications - how to take them into the new world?
* Cloud vs Shadow IT
* Cloud from the start up perspective
* Security & change management in cloud native applications
* What does the future hold for us that we don't see?

Panelists:
- Simon Ratcliffe, IT Evangelist, Ensono
- Russ Elsner, Technical Leader in Enterprise Performance Monitoring, Science Logic
- Tiberiu Covaci, Full-Stack Tech Lead, Microsoft Regional Director

Moderator:
- Andrew Bird, EA Visionary

Managing and delivering App's is a seemingly unique adventure. Yet there are key milestones that are only apparent when looking at our history. Join Andrew Bird to show how "Prioritisation" is the key to adoption, but knowing the list in the first place gives you your choices.