Name: Maximize your corporate value & differentiate your offerings by enabling AI
Start: 2022-08-10T12:00:00Z
End: 2022-08-10T12:00:31.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Cloud computing is a general concept that incorporates software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and other recent well-known technology trends in which the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users.  

This channel features presentations by thought leaders who cover the key topic areas in this increasingly important field.

They hybrid clouds have been the norm for a long time now. We have spent a long time applying consistent tooling across our various clouds but protecting them is still a big challenge. We use public clouds, private clouds and SaaS solutions and yet we don’t have a consistent approach to protecting the data. What happens if your SaaS provider fails? How do you get your data back? When did you last check this?

How well are the cloud systems protected? Where is the demarcation line? Is your business aware of the risks it might be taking? And that’s even before we find those SaaS environments that were bought on a credit card without IT's knowledge.

Securing and protecting these environments is a huge challenge so join this webinar to get a strong checklist of areas to consider and approaches you can take that will protect you, your organisation and the data you own.

Wrapping Your Head Around Your Cloud Environment

Securing the cloud ecosystem goes beyond traditional cybersecurity -- it requires a holistic approach that integrates security, compliance, and financial governance. As organizations expand their cloud footprint, misconfigurations, shadow IT, and uncontrolled costs pose significant risks. This session will explore best practices for securing cloud workloads, enforcing compliance standards, and aligning FinOps strategies with security objectives. 

Tune into this session from TD Bank's Pankul Chitrav as she teaches attendees how to leverage automation, policy-driven controls, and cross-functional collaboration to build a resilient, cost-efficient, and secure cloud environment.

Fortifying the Cloud: Integrating Security, Compliance, and Cost Governance

The move to cloud-native architectures increases the security complexity, demanding more efficient and automated solutions. Manual security processes struggle to keep pace with the dynamic nature of cloud environments. Addressing these concerns requires a tailored approach that leverages advanced technologies.

This webinar presented by industry thought leader Atulpriya Sharma will explore how AI can enhance cloud-native security, particularly in hybrid cloud settings. Discover how AI automates policy enforcement, vulnerability scanning, and threat detection, with a focus on open-source tools.

Tune in to learn how to future-proof your cloud security with AI-driven solutions, ensuring your organization stays ahead of emerging threats and maintains a strong security posture.

Transforming Cloud Native Security with AI

Tune into this talk from industry thought leader Atulpriya Sharma as he explores how to build a unified observability strategy using open source, cloud native tools like Prometheus, Loki, Jaeger, and Grafana. 

Attendees will learn strategies to implement a multi-cluster observability infrastructure to collect and analyze metrics, logs, and traces across your multi cluster setups. By implementing these tools and best practices, organizations can overcome the challenges of disparate data sources, inconsistent monitoring, siloed operations and get a complete view of their landscape.

Achieving 360-Degree Visibility in Multi-Cloud Setups

The rise of multi-cloud environments presents unprecedented opportunities for businesses to leverage the best features and services from different cloud providers. This talk will explore the multifaceted landscape of multi-cloud networking, highlighting the vast potential it offers for enhanced performance, cost optimization, and operational resilience.

Join us to delve into the strategic considerations and technical solutions that can help your organization navigate the complexities of multi-cloud networking, maximizing its potential while mitigating its challenges.

Key takeaways:
- Opportunities: Multi-cloud strategies enable organizations to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize workloads across different cloud platforms, and enhance service availability. By integrating multiple clouds, businesses can tailor their infrastructure to specific needs, achieving greater agility and scalability. Furthermore, multi-cloud deployments can enhance data sovereignty and compliance by distributing data across various jurisdictions.
- Challenges: Despite its benefits, multi-cloud networking introduces significant complexity. Key challenges include ensuring seamless interoperability between different cloud services, managing increased security risks, and maintaining consistent network performance. 
- Solutions: These include leveraging automation tools for orchestration and management, adopting robust security frameworks, and utilizing unified monitoring platforms to gain comprehensive visibility across all clouds. Additionally, the talk will cover strategies for optimizing network architecture to ensure high performance and reliability, and methods for effective cost control.

Multi-Cloud Networking: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions

Hybrid and multi-cloud environments, now a weapon-of-choice for many companies, are facing increased regulations with their sharp increase in use. To ensure compliance against a range of international requirements, cloud providers are now aiming to establish a joint approach with customers regarding operational resilience requirements.

So, what does this mean for companies? Organizations should ask themselves, as a starter, what their risk appetite is and if they really understand the criticality of their critical cloud services. The next steps are to consider just how they can meet the new compliance regulations for third parties, outsourced operations and cloud providers as well as what level of communications they should establish with them.

Tune into this session presented by business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and major incident expert Steve Yates, as he shares his views on managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments, in what until recently had been put into the “secret” file! Yates will explore current challenges and  provide a series of “joined-up” options to consider when managing cloud services. In addition, he will delve into the more recent compliance world, where partnerships may be the answer. Viewers are encouraged to share, in confidence, their major concerns before the presentation, if they wish to gain the most from this session.

By the end of the session, you will learn:
- The challenges you may likely encounter. 
- How to redefine your risk appetite.
- How to be conversant in a joined-up thinking approach with your cloud provider(s).

Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments: What is the Secret?

As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid and multi-cloud environments to enhance agility and scalability, they face mounting challenges in managing complexity and ensuring peak performance. This session presented by KFC's Manager of Business Intelligence Farid Sheikhi will explore practical strategies to optimize your hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems, with a focus on maximizing ROI, enhancing security, and simplifying operations.

Join us to learn how to:
- Navigate the complexities of hybrid and multi-cloud environments with effective governance and automation.
- Enhance security through integrated frameworks and real-time threat detection.
- Leverage innovative tools and best practices to boost performance and drive business outcomes.

Simplifying Complexity: Strategies for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Optimization

We have been hearing that cloud is the answer to digital transformation for many years now and yet research suggests that many organisations still aren’t experiencing the promised benefits. Cloud repatriation is still increasing as organisations pause and take stock of growing costs with limited benefit. So why has cloud not delivered against the promise for so many?

Like many technologies, cloud alone cannot be the answer. How do we maximise on the investment we have made? This webinar from industry thought leader Simon Ratcliffe will take a step back and explore some of the common mistakes and offer pragmatic advice and guidance on how to re-align a strategy that shifts thinking towards maximise the transformational opportunities of the cloud.

About the speaker
Originally a trained psychologist specialising in organisational change, Simon also trained as an accountant and served as a CFO where he specialised in automating financial reporting systems. This led to a career change into technology, first within a training company specialising in developing solutions enabling organisations to extract the maximum benefit from their IT investments.  

Simon has spent the last 15 years specialising in maximising the value from technology investments and creating the organisational and cultural change necessary to maximise these investments. Now working as an independent Management and Technology Consultant, Simon works with a variety of organisations exploring how effective change yields maximum value from technology.

Simon is also a recognised industry speaker, a published author and a leading member of a number of forums, writing and contributing regularly to both the IT and business press as both an author and commentator.

Cloud is the Answer! What is the Question?

Join us for an in-depth webinar where we will explore the transformative power of generative AI in the highly regulated financial services industry. This session will delve into the technical and business aspects of AI and cloud integration, with a focus on compliance, talent development, data quality and accessibility, and practical implementation.

Topics:
1. Integrating GenAI in Financial Services: Understand how generative AI models can enhance financial operations within regulatory frameworks, including detailed use cases and implementation strategies.
2. Developing AI Talent: Explore approaches to building and nurturing AI expertise within your organization to maximize its potential while adhering to industry standards.
3. Data Accessibility and Security: Learn how to manage and secure vast amounts of data in the cloud (private or public), ensuring efficient, compliant, and secure AI implementations.

Key Takeaways:
1. Strategic AI Integration: Gain deep insights into effectively incorporating genAI, enhancing capabilities such as risk assessment and customer service while navigating regulatory challenges.
2. Talent Development: Discover actionable strategies for training and retaining AI talent to drive your organization’s transformation within a regulated environment and ready for the future.
3. Data Management and Security: Learn best practices for managing data in the cloud, ensuring both accessibility for AI applications and stringent security to protect sensitive information and comply with regulations.

This webinar is designed for financial professionals, IT leaders, and business strategists eager to leverage AI and cloud technologies within the confines of a regulated industry. Attendees will walk away with actionable insights and practical knowledge to implement AI solutions, ensuring their financial services are at the forefront of innovation while remaining compliant.

Harnessing AI in the Cloud Era: Transforming Finance with Gen AI

Quantum computing stands at the forefront of technological innovation, promising to revolutionize various industries, with financial services being one of the most significant beneficiaries. From automating complex trading strategies to optimizing risk management and portfolio diversification, quantum computing is set to revolutionize financial decision-making processes. Also, by leveraging the power of quantum algorithms, financial institutions can achieve unprecedented computational speeds and accuracy, enabling them to solve problems previously deemed intractable.  

In this session, Youssouf Traore (Deeptech Investor, MARTRAM Ventures) delves into the core principles of quantum computing and its applications within the financial sector. He shares real-world examples and case studies, illustrating how quantum computing is being used to enhance predictive analytics, improve fraud detection, and streamline regulatory compliance.  

Topics for discussion include: 
- The basic principles of quantum computing and how it differs from classical computing. 
- Use cases of quantum computing to transform decision-making in financial services. 
- Insights from case studies demonstrating how quantum algorithms can be leveraged in financial institutions. 
- The advantages of quantum computing in financial services and the technological and operational challenges involved in its adoption. 
- The future of quantum computing in finance and how to prepare for the technological shift. 


About the Speaker
As an early-stage investor in Deep Tech, I am an Adjunct Professor at IE Business School and IE School of Science and Technology, where I lead the "Deep Tech Venturing and Investment" elective course. I also serve as a Leadership Team Member at the Entrepreneurship Forum Spain and Board Member at the MIT Club of Spain, dedicated to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.

Optimize Decision-Making Outcomes in Financial Services with Quantum Computing

The advent of cloud computing has ushered in a new era of financial services, characterized by unprecedented levels of innovation, agility, and scalability. As the finance sector grapples with the dual challenges of increasing regulatory scrutiny and rapidly changing consumer expectations, the cloud emerges as a pivotal force for transformation. This presentation aims to dissect the multifaceted impact of cloud technology on the finance industry, highlighting key strategies for leveraging cloud computing to foster innovation and competitive advantage.

We will delve into the core aspects of cloud-powered financial innovation, beginning with an exploration of how cloud technology is reshaping traditional banking, investment, and insurance models. We will examine case studies of fintech startups and established financial institutions that have successfully harnessed the cloud to launch innovative services, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experience.

Furthermore, the presentation will address the critical role of security, compliance, and data governance in cloud-based financial services. With the increasing frequency and sophistication of cyber threats, we will discuss best practices for securing sensitive financial data in the cloud, ensuring compliance with global financial regulations, and building trust with customers.

Navigating the Cloud: Driving Financial Innovation for Tomorrow’s Economy

If you work for a financial services firm or as a supplier, it is imminent you are familiar with forthcoming regulations impacting global cloud providers in 2025. These new regulations, based upon operational resilience, help prevent service failures that could lead to a ﬁnancial crisis.  

These new regulations will take effect within the European Union in January 2025 and for the U.K. in March 2025. A long time in the planning, the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the UK Bank of England (BoE) Operational Resilience Policy may introduce stresses for customers and suppliers but in the long-term, offers relievers to help mitigate service disruptions. 

Tune into this session presented by business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and major incident expert Steve Yates, as he shares his views to transform ﬁnance in the cloud era. Yates will explore current global operational resilience regulations, whilst exploring the beneﬁts to cloud users and suppliers such as no need for “lock-in” contracts. In addition, he’ll provide real case studies supporting the need for such changes, and why this compliance is the only way forward. Viewers are encouraged to share, in conﬁdence, their major concerns before the presentation if they wish to gain the most from this session. 

By the end of the session, you will be able to understand:
- The scope of the changes being made and benefits they will bring.  
- Operational resilience framework to support business operations.
- How this new regulation aims to create a formal partnership between the customer and supplier.

Transforming Finance in the Cloud Era: What are the Stresses and Relievers?

Video: Navigating the Cloud: Driving Financial Innovation for Tomorrow’s Economy

Some multi-cloud strategies are accidental, for compliance purposes, or arise from M&A activity. But some others are deliberately aimed at driving value. The cost benefits that come with buying the cheapest services from different providers is only a small part of the value creation process. 

This webinar presented by industry thought leader Simon Ratcliffe will examine different ways some organisations have driven exceptional value from a multi-cloud approach, creating investor and shareholder value through the decisions they have made.

Join us to gain a whole new perspective on how multi cloud can not only help reduce operational costs but can shine a value creation light on the tech function.

Creating Value From a Multi-Cloud Approach

In the discussion, Sean Heide, Research Technical Director of Cloud Security Alliance, will cover the last Top Threats to Cloud Computing report by the Cloud Security Alliance. This document, though not a framework in a traditional sense, is a powerful research paper that outlines the cloud's top risk and threat areas as identified by the entire security community. Through extensive research and collaboration, these findings have been stripped down to be able to describe business impacts, mitigations, and lessons learned from use cases. Whether you are a seasoned veteran in this business, or just getting started on your cloud journey, you will be able to use these findings to begin to put the pieces together to enhance your security posture.

Navigating the Top Cloud Threats: A Practical Approach for Risk Identification

Today’s cloud environments are intricate, interconnected ecosystems. Identifying and tracking cloud assets are a challenge. Effectively securing them is an even more daunting task.

This webinar will take it from the top to define the problems and present prescriptive recommendations that can be implemented by organizations of all sizes.

You will learn:
- Standard cloud concepts and terminology.
- Strategies for discovering and maintaining a cloud asset inventory.
- Guidance on how to protect, detect, and respond to cloud-based incidents.

Cloudy with a Chance of Breach: Controlling Cloud Chaos and Complexity

* This presentation focuses on the Arm SystemReady ES and IR program that makes software “just work” on IoT devices
* It describes the hardware and firmware specifications and recipes suitable for the IoT devices
* It also presents the test suites and compliance certification requirements and processes
* It will also provide the ecosystem status and information on how to participate

Making Software “Just Work” on IoT Devices!

In this session you will learn about some of the unspoken challenges of deploying at the Edge. Many times we focus on a Proof of Value, and we overlook realities of deploying and supporting our solutions at the Edge. Stratus will address considerations and solutions to make sure that your Edge deployments deliver on their promises of value where they matter most, at the Edge.

The Role the Edge Plays in delivering on Digital Transformation Goals

In the era that your watch can track your vitals, your car get started with your cellphone, your digital speaker tells you a joke; how does it matter that your QSR drive thru talks to your freezer?

How Complete is your IoT Infrastructure? Where to start, where to end

IoT market has huge potential for growth: 24 billion to 125 billion IoT devices by 2030 from different market research. However, current status shows that only 10% of IoT projects are industrialized.
To overcome all the roadblocks and risks, a group of companies representing the full IoT value chain decided to offer an innovative IoT journey from proof-of-concept to industrialization. It allows any user to leverage from existing devices and ensuring that what loo you have developed at early stage can be reused to scale-up your projects in an industrial way and that they can be deployed internationally. This can be done in three simple steps:  
·        Start : learn and test approach with existing IoT devices and a development platform
·        Prove : to check the viability and benefits of the project with possibilities of customization, and identify ROI
·        Deploy and Scale: to scale efficiently with predictive costs and full customization if necessary
Hence, a continuity is ensured by the full compatibility in hardware, software and connectivity from the start to the scale-up phase.
Such offering is only possible by combining the strength and competences of partners representing the full IoT value chain: silicon components, software, electronic hardware, manufacturing and telecommunication. This is why the core partnership encompasses Orange, telecommunication provider, STMicroelectronics, for microcontrollers, Sierra Wireless, for communication chip and LACROIX for design and manufacturing.
We will share the benefits of this new offering with example.

IoT Scalability at Scale with IoT Continuum

Wouldn’t IoT be easier if you had full control of global deployments, and were able to adapt and scale them as they evolve?  

By 2025, Gartner predicts 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed at the edge. Easily integrating your IoT device to the cloud is the dream. By processing data at the edge, you can optimise device decision making, get a greater view into the enterprise or industrial environments, improve compliance, and securely transmit data without the need to backhaul it over the network. What’s not to like?  

But how do you go about connecting the Edge? 

Introducing the Infinity IoT Platform™: the only platform you need to manage your IoT estate. 

Join us for a live webinar where our CEO Nick Earle will dig into the details of how to achieve best-in-class connectivity control at the edge. 

You’ll discover how Eseye’s global cellular connectivity managed service has helped six customers to de-risk their IoT project and overcome the following challenges: 

-See, manage and maintain all your device SIMs with the right hardware, software and firmware  
-Bring your own contract (BYOC) - import existing MNO contracts and negotiated rates 
-Implement IoT business and security policies and workflow processes automatically to the edge, device by device 
-Protecting your data with secure connectivity from device to cloud  
 
If you can’t attend live, we’ll share the recording with you afterwards. 

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Six customer case studies of device to cloud connectivity at scale

Edge IT is diverse, distributed, and largely siloed. With OT in the network that involves sensors, IoT devices etc., we need coordination with mobile service providers, communications service providers, cloud SPs and enterprises. Edge IT/OT runs on heterogenous compute architectures with some functionality on-premises and some hosted. It may involve different cloud providers. Compute may include standard x86, cloud IaaS and PaaS, and bare metal.

For different industry verticals there are different edge types, at high level you can call it far edge, edge and regional edge. More specifically they can be further categorized as telco edge, device edge, critical communication edge, enterprise edge or industrial edge. Each edge type may represent a different use case and different risk for cyber-attack.

Key Takeaways:
• In a distributed network you want to have Observability and robust security tooling to detect and monitor the issue. In general, we want to be more proactive than reactive in securing the distributed network.
• Use of technologies such as Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DTL) for cloud native security is being considered as well.
• In our world today we have defined ownerships of the networks, i.e. mobile network is owned by MNOs like T-Mobile, ATT and Verizon. Enterprise IT networks are owned by enterprises. It will change as we define and build edge centric networks involving multiple industries, cloud SPs, mobile SPs. Management approaches for multi- stakeholder cloud native networks will become essential. Making all the applications and services work across multi cloud infrastructure, managing them, configuring them in an automated and secure way will be important.

Making 5G Ready to Live on The Edge

Successful Edge Strategies and Enterprise Adoption

Our vision is that all devices, machines and assets in the world will be smart – powered by AI. However, the way AI is being built and deployed today will not work moving forward as the investments are much too high; it requires an interactive infrastructure that is quicker, cheaper and more intuitive. The companies that adapt such a solution will quickly disrupt the market and surpass their competitors. Please join me at Stream Analyze to understand how we are helping disrupt the marketplace with making machines and devices smart: Enabling AI. Everywhere.

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