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Some analysts say that DevOps is starting to reach maturity, and as such there are numerous tools flooding the market. But all good tools only reap true benefits if there is a solid strategy to their use and implementation.

Join this webinar as we take a closer look at how solid DevOps strategies can support emerging tools and foster transformation in mission-critical software environments.

Topics will include:

- Why it’s crucial to build a culture of continuous, collaborative improvement and evolution between dev and ops
- What metrics and approaches can help to forecast the value of DevOps accurately
- Foundational success factors, including management buy-in, the maturity of current processes, and CI/CD tools

Moderator:
- Jeanne Morain - Founder, iSpeak Cloud

Panellists:
- Graham Berry - EMEA Sales Lead - OpenShift, RedHat
- Mark Berry - DevOps Director, 6point6
- TJ Gonen - Head of Cloud Security Programs, Check Point

Hear Chris Porter interview Mark Debney, our Director of DevOps at 6point6 talk about his latest White Paper that uncovers how businesses can address gaps in their DevOps capabilities in the real world.

"In short, let's not get hung up on creating a 'culture of DevOps', but instead focus on targeting and improving capabilities that allow us to deliver code to production faster and more reliably. More importantly, let’s provide value to the organisation's profits, productivity and customer satisfaction."

As businesses look for ways to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has come into focus as the go-to technology option to achieve these goals without the need to undergo massive technology change programmes - an attractive option in most companies.

With a recent survey by EY, finding that 30-50% of initial RPA projects fail to realise their expected returns. Join Andrew Tarry and Zahid Anwar to uncover the common mistakes and how to avoid being part of this failure statistic.

In this webinar, we will explore how to get the best out of RPA by isolating its use to straight forward integration, rather than allowing its unchecked expansion. This enables businesses to remain agile and to make continued, incremental improvements to their technology estates rather than freezing them in time.

The pursuit of meaningful business insights has introduced a seemingly endless variety of tools and techniques to enhance the decision-making process. Many successful organizations now analyze the enormous volumes of data generated by everyday business activities for key trends and patterns that will inform the direction of the business. Attend this live interactive panel of experts to learn how to build your own BI and analytics solution for the enterprise and discover which important factors to consider when it comes to empowering your data-driven organization.

You'll Learn:
- How to scale your BI and analytics solutions to meet your enterprise needs
- Tools and techniques to implement to accelerate big data insights
- Challenges and opportunities to consider when planning out your BI technology stack
- and more!

Tim Carmichael, Chief Data Officer, Ensifera
Andrew Morgan, Head of Data Science, 6point6
Richard Corderoy, Managing Director, Oakland Analytics
Ted Orme, Head of Enterprise Data Integration Strategy, EMEA, Qlik
Vincent Fages-Gouyou, Director of Product Management EMEA, Denodo

The drive to extract insights from big data continues to accelerate as the volume of data generated by businesses skyrockets on a global scale. As innovation around data analytics tools and solutions has kept a steady pace, organizations have been able to accelerate their time to insight and make critical business decisions faster than ever before. Join this live interactive panel and hear from industry experts how successful companies are applying their big data insights to achieve real-world results.

You'll Learn:
- How businesses are using big data analytics tools to transform their digital strategy and see tangible results
- How to address the challenges and opportunities that arise when building your big data analytics solution
- How machine learning and AI are changing the playing field and revolutionizing the way we extract and understand big data insights
- and more!

Richard Corderoy, Managing Diretor, Oakland Analytics
Gary Richardson, MD for Data and Emerging Technology, 6point6
Martin James, VP, EMEA, Percona
Louis Polycarpou, Presales Director, Big Data Technologies, Informatica

Companies across the globe are digitally transforming as they are challenged to improve business processes and develop new capabilities and business models. Join our expert panelists as they discuss the key considerations and share insights and best practices.

Moderated by Cloud Industry Forum

Panelists:
Bethan Williams, EMEA APO, Cloud Native & DevOps, Dell Consulting
Chris Porter, Managing Director, Digital Transformation, 6point6

Graph databases have historically struggled to scale to the volumes of data that are now being generated across the enterprise. In this talk Dr. Daniel Smith with discuss how third-generation graph databases are now able to achieve deep link analysis at petabyte scale.

Companies are embracing automation technology to reduce the effort for high-volume, laborious and repeatable processes. But a great deal of this automation technology is implemented in isolation, which ties you into existing systems and hampers your digital transformation journey. Instead, combining existing process management with both RPA and AI when looking to realise value-driven transformation ultimately creates a more efficient and productive outfit, solving your operational efficiency problems.

In this interview with Andrew Tarry, Director of Engineering, we will explore why automation isn’t always the solution. There is a need for expertise in process modeling and to look at the whole organisation’s processes otherwise you’ll miss the bigger picture. RPA does put power into the business but we advise caution as it tends to end up with a proliferation of robots. Instead, this interview will explore how best to use RPA to turn legacy systems into modern processes, and how to move towards Intelligent Process Automation (IPA).

Join the 6point6 Director of Engineering, Andrew Tarry, and Chris Porter, Managing Director, as they uncover the best approach to automating business processes.

About the speakers:

Andrew Tarry, Director of Engineering, Digital Transformation, 6point6

Chris Porter, Managing Director, Digital Transformation, 6point6

How data lineage is more important than ever in the drive towards AI-driven analytics:

Historically Business Intelligence and Analytics has been providing businesses with the insights into how their businesses are operating and what trends are emerging. If a number looked funny an eagled eyed executive could take action and reset the machine, in the world of AI-driven analytics these days are drawing to an end as we increase the ability of machines to take action. The result is data lineage and governance in the age of AI-driven analytics is more important than ever.

Speaker:
Gary Richardson, MD, Emerging Technology, 6point6

Toby Wright is the longstanding Chief Technology Officer of the Telegraph Media Group, having been in the job for over a decade. During that time he has guided the organisation through an ever-changing technology journey in an industry with an insatiable appetite for technology transformation driven by the demand for constantly evolving forms of digital content.

6point6 has had the pleasure working alongside Toby on The Telegraph’s ongoing change programme for over 4 years. Chris Porter, now MD for Digital at 6point6, worked as Interim Head of Engineering for 18 months, which turned out to be one of the most fast-paced, disruptive, enjoyable and formative periods of his career.

In this chat, we will get up close and personal with Toby to explore the Trade secrets of a transformational CTO.
Theme 1: Winning the Talent War
Theme 2: Doing More with Less
Theme 3: The CTO’s Perspective

The first step in DevOps implementation at scale involves building a solid foundation of tooling, automation, architecture and testing to provide a standardised level of consistency for development teams to build upon. But where to from here?

How do we move from dedicated DevOps engineering teams to a robust DevOps capability ingrained within multi-disciplinary teams?

What steps can we put in place to ensure DevOps works effectively at scale?

When we acknowledge that scaling DevOps is really about strengthening DevOps capabilities within development teams, we can identify which capabilities are core to our delivery process, how we can strengthen and share these effectively across the wider development practice and which capabilities, if any, are better suited to sit outside of a development team when running at scale.

Join the 6point6 DevOps Director, Mark Debney, as he sets out the process for running robust and empowered DevOps at scale.

About the speaker:
Mark Debney, DevOps Director at 6point6

Mark is an IT infrastructure specialist with over 20 years’ experience in technology and computer systems. His expertise lies in systems architecture and he has built a number of large-scale high transactional platforms using agile and DevOps methodologies.

Mark is the Director for DevOps at 6point6, a leading technology consultancy, and helps to shape their DevOps offering with a focus on deploying DevOps at scale for Enterprise solutions.

Prior to joining 6point6 Mark spent eight years at BSkyB where he was a Principal Engineer and led the Platform as a Service team, assessing emerging technologies and implementing solutions across the wider DevOps group. Before BSkyB Mark held System Administrator roles at The Prytania Group, Reading Room, AM International and was an Electronics Technician in the Royal New Zealand Navy.

Building on the FCA/PRA discussion paper of July 2018, operational resiliency is now one of the 5 key priorities for the UK regulators for 2019/2020 as published in their annual business plans on 17 April 2019.

"Technology is integral to the delivery of financial products and services. It is evolving more rapidly than ever before, bringing significant benefits for consumers, market participants and the wider economy. The disruption from technology outages and cyber-attacks is an ongoing challenge and cyber-enabled fraud is a focus of the Government’s economic crime reform agenda. The potential for harm is increased by complex and ageing IT systems, increasing use of third-party service providers and complexity of changes to systems and processes. " - FCA Business Plan 2019/2020

Join 6point6 and DataStax as we explore how architecting and delivering the operationally resilient bank can be achieved by focusing on architecting and designing for failure, legacy workload offloading onto modern resilient data fabrics and adopting a multi cloud hybrid approach delivers value for the bank and ultimately benefits customers.

Presenters:

Gary Richardson, MD, Emerging Technology, 6point6
With over 17 years’ of consulting experience, Gary leads a team of data scientists and data engineers in the agile development of Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning solutions. The focus of the team is bringing a collaborative approach to analytics, underpinned by machine learning and data engineering. He believes mainstream business adoption of AI solutions are the key to accelerating innovation enabling businesses to compete, reduce cost and ensure compliance.

Aaron Regis, Solution Architect, DataStax
Aaron previously worked as a Solutions Engineer in the Cyber Threat Analytics space and as a Technical Consultant implementing Financial Crime Detection software in the Financial Services sector. He is passionate about technology particularly Database technology.

As the evolution of cloud technologies and providers jostle for position in their respective USPs, many enterprises are opening their eyes to multicloud to leverage the best-of-breed to cover all aspects of their business and IT needs. Along with this, we tend to create a trust boundary between either (a) the cloud and the user on the internet (b) the cloud and users on the enterprise network in hybrid architectures. But what about the inter-cloud security considerations, potential threats, disparate support teams and governance? In this session, we discuss some real-life scenarios, potential issues and solutions.

Leveraging data lakes is no longer a technical challenge, AWS, Azure and GCP make it easy to provision and harness the technical infrastructure needed in order to leverage your data. The issues that prevent data exploitation are all of the non technical drivers that we have been talking about for years. In this talk we will run through the following provocations:

1. We don't need governance, we have a data lake.
2. We have all our data in one place so we know what data we have.
3. We have a data lake so we now have a data strategy.
4. We have new shiny tools we don't need to think about data engineers.
5. We do agile so we will get results.

Register for our webinar and get the inside track on how to leverage cloud data lakes.


Speaker Bio-
Gary Richardson, MD, Emerging Technology

Gary is the Managing Director for Emerging Technology at 6point6. With over 17 years’ of consulting experience, Gary leads a team of data scientists and data engineers in the agile development of Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning solutions. The focus of the team is bringing a collaborative approach to analytics, underpinned by machine learning and data engineering. He believes mainstream business adoption of AI solutions are the key to accelerating innovation enabling businesses to compete, reduce cost and ensure compliance.

Prior to joining 6point6, Gary was the Head of Data Engineering at a Big 4 consulting firm, focussing on blockchain and bringing sound data engineering to the world of AI.

As the cloud becomes supercharged in 2019 and beyond, so too will your networks. Tune in to hear from leading industry experts for a live discussion on the future of cloud networking in a hybrid world.

Topics to be covered include:
- Securing cloud-managed networks
- Understanding the ins and outs of public, private and hybrid cloud architectures
- Where WAN fits into your hybrid IT strategy

This live panel will be streamed directly from London. Join us from the comfort of your desk and get all your cloud questions answered!

Moderated by: Simon Ratcliffe, Cloud Industry Forum
Justin Day, CEO, Cloud Gateway
David Luke, Enterprise Solutions Architect, NGINX
Panelist to be announced

Having a good mentor or sponsor in your career is invaluable. They can help progress your career, provide support during tough times, and be the sounding board you need.

The panel will cover tips on:
-The difference between mentorship and sponsorship
-How to find the right mentors / sponsors?
-The importance of having mentors from a diverse range of backgrounds, ages, genders, etc.
-Do you ask someone to be a mentor or do they just become one?
-How do you know if someone’s a mentor if you’ve never officially “had the conversation”?

Valentina Kristensen (OakNorth Bank)
Elsa Zekeng (Jobseekrs)
Christine Ng (FT)
Isha Chander (6point6)
Dr. Natoshia Anderson (Girl Scouts of America)

AI, machine and deep learning are making strides in organisations. However, the results of the projects will start to lose their effectiveness as the business environment evolves over time. In order to keep the AI fit and effective you need to rapidly evolve into Model Operations or ModelOps.

This talk will cover how ModelOps will keep AI fit and consistently deliver business value by:
- Keeping an eye on model performance
- Capturing and retraining models whilst constantly engineering features
- Providing model explainability so all stakeholders can interpret the results
- Generating the decision vault to capture the inputs, model and outputs
- Confirming the decision by enabling parallel consideration

Rather than provide you real world examples of AI in action we will give you a peak behind the machine of how you keep AI working in the real world.

About the speaker:
Gary Richardson, MD, Emerging Technology

Gary is the Managing Director for Emerging Technology at 6point6. With over 17 years’ of consulting experience, Gary leads a team of data scientists and data engineers in the agile development of Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning solutions. The focus of the team is bringing a collaborative approach to analytics, underpinned by machine learning and data engineering. He believes mainstream business adoption of AI solutions are the key to accelerating innovation enabling businesses to compete, reduce cost and ensure compliance.

Prior to joining 6point6, Gary was the Head of Data Engineering at KPMG focussing on blockchain and bringing sound data engineering to the world of AI.

Cloud computing has become synonymous with the digital agenda. Looking across the 2018 IT estate, cloud is no longer conspicuous by its presence but by its absence. Gartner projects the market size and growth of the cloud service industry at nearly three times the growth of the overall IT services industry through 2022. Cloud is agnostic of industry sector, having already established a material foothold in banks, schools, governments and healthcare.

In this webinar, we will explore what a cloud-first policy means for you no matter where you are on your cloud journey, with a focus on both where your remaining on-premise IT estate sits and how this fits into a cloud-first world.

About the speaker:
Mike is a TOGAF and SAFe certified architect specialising in the strategic enterprise and solutions architecture space, with a solid background in integration, application, infrastructure and data architecture.

He has a proven track record of delivering strategic business goals through business transformation programmes (up to £30M+) with complex interdependencies across the enterprise. Mike has extensive sector experience having worked in financial services, retail banking, digital eCommerce, not for profit, utilities and FMCG organisations.

He has a comprehensive background of technology leadership and transformation, business process re-engineering and systems integration over a wide range of heterogeneous technology environments, from hybrid cloud solutions to physical on-premise estates.

The biggest threat to any organization is it’s own people, particularly when they have access to its most sensitive data. This talk is about limiting the internal threat through RBAC and segregation of duties, and how to implement these using Active Directory.

Helen has a masters in electronic engineering, specializing in machine learning. She moved into Cyber Security at 10x Future Technologies, a fintech start up founded by the ex-CEO of Barclays Anthony Jenkins. She is now working with 6point6 to provide SME services to HM Government, designing and building a number of Cyber Security tools.