Name: Digital Transformation: Crafting a Modern Data Solution for IT & OT
Start: 2025-08-21T14:13:00Z
End: 2025-08-21T14:13:32.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Insight is a full-service solutions integrator that helps businesses transform to overcome challenges and achieve more. We drive speed, scale and resilience, to our clients across the globe through a combination of technical expertise, broad solutions portfolio and supply chain capabilities. Our areas of expertise encompasses six vital areas for business acceleration: Modern Workplace, Data and AI, Cybersecurity, Intelligent Edge, Modern Apps, and Modern Infrastructure. 

AI is only as powerful as the network behind it. As enterprises race to deploy AI at scale, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7, and edge compute are transforming how data moves, decisions are made, and innovation happens in real time.

In this session, you’ll hear how advances in AI-driven network optimization, predictive maintenance, and ultra-low latency connectivity are creating self-learning, self-healing networks built for the AI era.

Discover how organizations are:
• Powering next-gen AI with high-throughput, low-latency architecture
• Using AI for traffic management, security, and predictive operations
• Moving from centralized to distributed intelligence at the edge
• Delivering real-time inference for mission-critical AI applications

Whether you’re modernizing your infrastructure or building the foundation for AI innovation, this session will help you understand what’s next and how to prepare for it.

How Wireless Networking Powers the AI Revolution

Ein Gespräch zwischen Thomas Roth, Vendor Alliance Manager von Insight und Stephanus Schulte, Cloud Solution Architect Security & Compliance von Microsoft 

Möchten Sie die Vorteile von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) nutzen, sind aber besorgt um den Schutz Ihrer Daten und Systeme?
Fragen Sie sich, wie Sie NIS2- und GDPR-Anforderungen erfüllen können, ohne auf Innovation zu verzichten?
Suchen Sie nach einer Lösung, die sowohl die Einführung von KI als auch die Sicherung Ihrer Daten und IT-Systeme erleichtert?
Dann ist unser Webinar genau das Richtige für Sie!

Nehmen Sie an einem spannenden und informativen Gespräch zwischen Thomas Roth, Vendor Alliance Manager von Insight und Stephanus Schulte, Cloud Solution Architect Security & Compliance von Microsoft teil und erfahren Sie, wie Sie mit Microsoft Data Security-Lösungen Ihre Daten und Systeme schützen und gleichzeitig die Möglichkeiten von KI ausschöpfen können.

Lernen Sie, warum es so wichtig ist, „Ihren Keller sprichwörtlich trocken zu legen“, bevor Sie KI einführen. Data Governance und Berechtigungsstrukturen müssen überprüft und optimiert werden, um sicherzustellen, dass nur die richtigen Personen Zugriff auf die richtigen Daten erhalten. So vermeiden Sie unerwünschte Datenlecks und Compliance-Verstöße, die Ihre KI-Projekte und IT-Landschaft gefährden können. 

Erfahren Sie außerdem, wie Insight Ihnen mit Cybersicherheits-Services helfen kann, eine sichere IT-Basis für Ihre KI-Lösungen zu schaffen und zu erhalten. Insight bietet umfassende Beratung, Implementierung und Betreuung von Microsoft Data Security-Lösungen, die auf Ihre Bedürfnisse zugeschnitten werden. Konzentrieren Sie sich auf Ihr Kerngeschäft, während Insight sich um Ihre IT-Sicherheit kümmert.

KI & Sicherheit: So schützen Sie Ihre Daten und Systeme effektiv

Live from Microsoft Ignite, this bonus episode features Alysa Taylor, Microsoft CMO for Commercial Cloud & AI, and Parker Johnston, Insight Agentic Field CTO, sharing what leaders need to know about AI adoption today.

You’ll learn:
• Why companies embedding AI into daily operations see three times higher ROI
• What “Frontier Firms” are doing differently — and why it matters
• How Microsoft’s new Agent 365 and Foundry updates improve security and reduce costs
• Practical steps for aligning Copilot with workflows instead of just buying licenses

If you want real strategies for moving beyond pilots and hype to measurable outcomes, this episode is for you.

Frontier Firms, AI Adoption & Agentic Future

Adrian Gregory, President of Insight EMEA, unpacks what truly drives AI success across global enterprises. His core argument: technology isn’t the bottleneck — people, process, and change management are. 

Adrian shares how Insight is stress-testing AI internally before rolling it out to clients, using a “client zero” approach to refine use cases and drive real outcomes. He warns against labeling everything as AI and urges leaders to solve for automation, data, or workflow — whatever the actual problem is. 

The episode dives into why bravery beats protectionism. Companies that cling to legacy revenue streams will fall behind. The winners will be those willing to rethink their operating models, prototype fast, and embed AI into value-driving processes — even if it disrupts the current quarter.

The Hidden Factors That Determine AI Success

Die Verwendung von KI-Technologien ermöglicht es Unternehmen, schnell große Datenmengen zu analysieren und nützliche Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen, die zur Verbesserung von Geschäftsprozessen, Produkten und Dienstleistungen genutzt werden können.

Ein effektives Datenmanagement ist ein wichtiger – wenn nicht sogar der wichtigste - Schritt vor der Einführung von KI. Unternehmen müssen sicherstellen, dass ihre Daten ausreichend vorhanden und von hoher Qualität sind sowie effektiv gespeichert und verwaltet werden, um die Verwendung von KI-Modellen zu erleichtern.

Was gilt es bei diesem Prozess zu beachten? Wie sehen wie ersten und nachfolgenden Implementierungsschritte aus?

Das Zeitalter der KI ist da. Sind Ihre Daten bereit?

In this episode, Michael Nardone, Cloud Solutions Director and Distinguished Technologist at Insight, joins host Jillian Viner to unpack the shift from AI as a tool to AI as a teammate. They explore how agentic AI is transforming workflows, freeing up human capacity, and enabling more strategic thinking.  

From vibe coding to agentic Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC), Michael shares real-world examples of how organizations are deploying AI to automate low-value tasks, improve operational efficiency, and drive innovation. He also offers a reality check on AI maturity across industries, emphasizing the importance of governance, interoperability, and business alignment. 

For leaders wondering how to start — or scale — their AI journey, this episode delivers a clear playbook: focus on business outcomes, ensure technical feasibility, and treat AI as a strategic partner, not just a tool.

High-Performing Teams Aren’t Using AI — They’re Working With It

Digital transformation is a race. To win, your organisation must innovate at speed, harnessing the power of AI, IoT, and the cloud. But this acceleration comes with a dangerous trade-off: every new technology expands your digital footprint and attack surface. This is the Trust Paradox: the faster we innovate, the harder it is to maintain the very trust that is essential for success. So how do you secure innovation without hitting the brakes?
 
Join Insight’s EMEA CISO, Rob O’Connor, to explore why security isn’t a brake but a steering wheel —a critical function that guides your innovation strategy safely and effectively. This session moves beyond fear, providing a practical framework for balancing protection and progress.

You will leave with a clear understanding of how to:

• Navigate the new landscape of risk: Unpack the hidden vulnerabilities in cloud misconfigurations , SaaS sprawl , IoT devices , and opaque AI decision-making.
• Confront next-generation threats: Learn how threat actors are weaponising AI for deepfakes and automated attacks and exploiting the supply chain dependencies of the cloud.
• Turn your human factor into an asset: Discover how to transform employees from a common point of error into your strongest defence through empowerment and scenario-based training.
• Embed security into your innovation DNA: Get actionable strategies for integrating security at every stage of a project , from DevSecOps pipelines to leveraging defensive AI for machine-speed threat detection.

Don't choose between innovation and security. Learn how to design for both and turn cyber resilience into your ultimate competitive advantage.

The Trust Paradox - Securing Innovation

Sensitive data in public AI prompts. 
Thousands of AI agents operating without oversight. 
An incident response plan that’s just a PDF. 

These are the kinds of surprises security leaders hate — and Insight CISO Jason Rader has 20 ways to help you avoid them.

20 Security Tips for Leaders Who Hate Surprises

Insight CISO Jeremy Nelson walks through what smart cyber recovery looks like when your environment is already compromised. From executive missteps to AI-powered DeepFakes, Jeremy shares how to recover without making things worse — and how to spot the signs that your response plan isn’t working.  

Key takeaways:  

• How threat actors infiltrate response calls  
• Why rushing to restore backups can backfire  
• What “clean room” recovery really means  
• Why separating executive and technical bridges is critical  

 Watch now to learn how to build a response plan that works — even when the worst has already happened.

Inside Man: What Threat Actors Know About Your Recovery Plan That You Don’t

Creating value with Immersive Technologies. In this session, Jamie Giarraputo (South Thames College Group), Davi de Andrade (Insight) and Morgan Monnet (Meta) will be discussing the adoption of Immersive Technolgy in education, through sharing examples of use cases, best practices and how to go from proof of concept to scale.

Future-Ready Classrooms: Empowering Students and Teachers with Immersive Tech

Meta's vision for the future of education with Immersive Tech - As the industry leader in Immersive Technologies, Meta Reality Labs continues to explore how innovation will create value across multiple industries. In this session, Amone Gbedemah (Meta) will share Meta's vision for the future of Education.

Future-Ready Classrooms: Meta's vision for the Future of Education with Immersive Tech

This presentation guides IT leaders beyond foundational AI to harness Agentic AI and Advanced Analytics for profound business transformation. We establish the Economic Imperative for autonomy, focusing on achieving cost-decoupled growth and exponential value gains that outpace competitors. The focus shifts from merely automating tasks to designing self-optimising systems that autonomously pursue strategic goals.

Key Takeaways & Actionable Guidance:
- Strategic ROI: Quantify the impact of autonomy with expected metrics like 30−50% reduction in Dev Time (via Agentic SDLC) and 90% reduction in Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) through proactive security and self-healing IT operations. (Source: McKinsey, Forrester, and HFS Research, 2024-2025)

- Architecture of Trust: Learn how to ground agents in proprietary, real-time data to ensure traceable, compliant, and highly accurate prescriptive decision-making.

- Governance & Scaling Blueprint: Implement a responsible three-stage adoption framework (Assisted, Delegated, Orchestrated) to mitigate risk. This includes defining Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) oversight points and establishing strict guardrails.

- Partner Evaluation: Utilize a rigorous checklist focusing on Explainability (XAI), LLM Agnostic platform design (to avoid vendor lock-in), system integration capabilities, and the partner's methodology for change management.

- The Evolving Role: Understand the transition of the IT leader role from manager to Chief Agent Designer, focusing on translating business outcomes into clear, measurable agent goals.

The Autonomous IT Leader: Using Agentic AI and Advanced Analytics to Architect a Proactive Business Strategy

Jeremy Nelson, CISO at Insight, breaks down how ransomware attacks have shifted from brute-force encryption to sophisticated impersonation tactics. Using real-world examples — including a $25M deepfake scam — Jeremy explains how attackers scrape social media, interviews, and even dating apps to mimic executive personas and infiltrate organizations. 

He outlines how AI is used on both sides of the battlefield: attackers use it to replicate tone and style, while defenders use threat intelligence platforms to flag anomalies. The conversation dives into oversharing risks, password reuse, and why internal verification protocols are the most effective defense. 

A key insight: attackers follow the path of least resistance — and most companies make it easy. Jeremy shares practical steps for IT and security leaders to tighten identity verification and reduce exposure.

Ransom Attacks Are the New Heist — And They're Easier Than You Think

Partecipa a questo webinar per scoprire come la piattaforma Ivanti Neurons consente alle organizzazioni di rafforzare la propria sicurezza riducendo la superficie d’attacco ed ottimizzare i processi operativi attraverso l’automazione. 

Verranno illustrate le funzionalità di automazione di Ivanti Neurons che aiutano a identificare, prevenire e risolvere rapidamente le vulnerabilità, riducendo il carico di lavoro manuale e il rischio di errori umani. Scoprirai come l’approccio proattivo della piattaforma permetta di migliorare l’efficienza, abbattere i tempi di risposta agli incident e garantire una gestione IT più sicura e snella.

Argomenti principali: 
- Funzionalità di Ivanti Neurons
- Ridurre la superficie d’attacco attraverso la gestione automatizzata delle vulnerabilità  
- Ottimizzare i processi IT tramite l’ automazione e la risoluzione proattiva delle problematiche  
- Esempi pratici

Ridurre la superficie d’attacco e ottimizzare i processi IT con Ivanti Neurons

Es ist unerlässlich, auf dem neuesten Stand der Microsoft Volumenlizenzprogramme zu bleiben, da sie ständigen Updates unterliegen. Nur so können Sie Ihre Software-Assets kosteneffizient und richtlinienkonform verwalten. Unser Microsoft-Lizenzexperte Patryk Schmidt zeigt Ihnen in unserem Update, auf welche Neuerungen der letzten Zeit Sie achten sollten.

Neues aus der Lizenzierung

Your IT infrastructure is the backbone of digital transformation, but with cloud choices multiplying, how do you decide the best path forward? Hybrid cloud and multicloud both promise agility, scalability, and efficiency, yet each introduces new challenges in cost, performance, and governance.

Join Insight’s infrastructure leaders Kent Christensen, director of infrastructure strategy, and Michael Nardone, director of cloud strategy and Distinguished Technologist, as they break down what modern organizations need to know about evolving their cloud infrastructure strategy.

What you’ll learn:
• Hybrid infrastructure in action: Why 90% of organizations are repatriating workloads and rebalancing between cloud and on-premises data centers
• AI and the edge: How new data-intensive workloads demand compute and storage closer to where business happens
• Infrastructure economics: The real costs of running high-performance data and AI workloads in public cloud vs. on premises
• Unified management: Strategies for consistent governance, risk, and compliance across multiple infrastructures
• Real-world use cases: From public safety to healthcare to manufacturing, how organizations are building hybrid-ready architectures

Why watch?
You’ll gain practical guidance to:
• Modernize and optimize your data center infrastructure.
• Leverage hybrid models to maximize flexibility without compromising security.
• Build an infrastructure foundation prepared for AI, edge, and next-gen workloads.

Rethinking Cloud Infrastructure: Hybrid vs. Multicloud

Les pertes de données peuvent coûter cher — erreurs humaines, cyberattaques, pannes techniques… Et si vous pouviez tout prévenir ?
 
Obtenez des informations précieuses de l'expert du secteur Avec Veeam Data Cloud, sécurisez vos environnements SaaS et assurez une restauration rapide et fiable en cas d’incident.

Découvrez comment lors de notre prochain webinaire :
- Les menaces qui pèsent sur vos données SaaS
- Les innovations Veeam pour une protection optimale
- Des conseils pratiques pour une récupération express

Ne laissez plus vos données SaaS sans protection !

Best-in-class immersive experiences is one of the key pillars for successfully deploying and scaling with Immersive tech. In this session, Davi de Andrade (Insight) will be joined by Georgie Ellis (ShapesXR) and James Pallister (Metaverse Learning), two of the best-in-class ISVs, who will share how organisations can work with ISVs to create value for educators and students.

Future-Ready Classrooms: Maximising Value from Immersive Experiences with Best-in-Class Content

To keep pace with today’s competitive market, manufacturing organizations require fast access to information for efficient, data-driven decisions. Slowing down the pace of operations is simply not an option. Watch this webinar to learn how AI-based smart manufacturing solutions from Intel can remove the complexities of top data challenges and streamline operations.

Learn more about:
• How to prepare data for AI solutions
• The importance of balancing IT and OT
• Ways to harness data for operational efficiency

View the webcast now.

More about the speakers: 

Carm Taglienti, Chief Data Officer, Insight 
Carm has more than 25 years of experience as a cloud computing, data science, data analytics and data management expert. As chief data officer for Insight, he focuses on cloud-based business solutions across multiple industries and technical domains. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Professional Studies teaching graduate courses in data science, cloud computing and analytics. Carm is a published author and speaks at industry and technology events.

Ross Turpin, Industrial Engineering Manager, Wachter
Ross is an industrial engineering manager who has been with Wachter for more than seven years. His expertise lies within IoT networking design and upgrades, ensuring robust IoT network security and excelling in PLC programming. Ross is also proficient in HMI development and implementation, adept at field startups and troubleshooting, and skilled in project management.

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