Name: Containing Cloud Costs
Start: 2022-12-14T11:00:00Z
End: 2022-12-14T11:00:39.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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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

Is your team developing AI solutions at pace with business demand? Modern cloud architectures have enabled a scale and flexibility for production AI not possible less than a decade ago. However, data science teams are seeing increased demand for new models often exceeding their capacity. 

In this session, we'll share why Agile AI is necessary for modern data science teams and practical learnings on how to leverage the cloud to:
- Increase time to value
- Decrease time to production
- Ensure the success of your models over the long term

Plus, we'll share multiple DataRobot customer stories and examples of Agile AI across the AI lifecycle.

Leveraging the Cloud for Agile AI Development

As a Service models have gained significant traction across businesses of all sizes and industries. Leaders are seeking solutions that accelerate cloud adoption and support agility while also allowing transformation at whatever pace works best. Many business leaders don’t want to change the way they operate, they just want to consume differently. They want to pay only for what they use – running applications and the business without worrying about how or where everything is being hosted.

As a Service is not a lease, capital purchase or cloud contract. It’s a way to use the latest technologies, with expert management, to the extent and capacity required.

Join Insight’s Kent Christensen as he unpacks the top benefits of as a service, from the financial to operational – and how to determine the right use cases for your business. Discover a new way to consume on-premises infrastructure that’s like the public cloud; a best-of-both worlds offering that will accelerate cloud adoption and drive impact across your organization.

Accelerating Cloud Transformation with As a Service

From the digital core to the data fabric, the data landscape has evolved dramatically over the past decades. We have witnessed the rise in complex data-driven applications, providing solutions to challenges which were previously thought to be unsolvable. Data fabrics will accelerate the development of these type of solutions, to create a seamless experience across disparate data technologies and their varied connection mechanisms. Most importantly, data fabrics will provide the protective umbrella-like cover for effective data management across an organization and when done right, simplify data partnerships across multiple organizations.
 
Join Dr. Pragyansmita Nayak for this data management-focused session to:
1. Define Data Fabric. 
2. Understand its critical role in the data management ecosystem.
3. Gain insight into how it enables data-driven solutions.

Data Fabric 101

The impact of the business need for faster cycles and increasing flexibility is driving DevOps and Cloud ideas throughout the IT value stream.  This has significant meaning for the compute side of the world.  We will explore the  “Environments on Demand” and how it impacts the IT Value Stream.  We will examine key elements of DevOps and cloud that help address the new world and optimize the investment.

In this session, we will discuss: 

1. Accelerating Change – Driving Forces (eg. Change Drivers, Industry Impact)
2. DevOps and Cloud – The Foundation (eg. Continuous Flow, Pipeline, Cloud Services)
3. Environments on Demand – Key Elements (eg. Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Automation, Integration & Ephemeral)
4. Environments on Demand – Real World Scenarios

Presented by: 
Terry Brennan, Managing Director, Orasi

DevOps and Cloud: Driving Environments On Demand and Optimizing Investments

AI brings unprecedented opportunities to businesses, but also incredible responsibility. Its direct impact on people’s lives has raised considerable questions around AI ethics, data governance, trust and legality. In fact, Accenture’s 2022 Tech Vision research found that only 35% of global consumers trust how AI is being implemented by organizations. And 77% think organizations must be held accountable for their misuse of AI.  

As machine learning and AI become more ubiquitous, businesses will need to find ways of overcoming these questions, deploying AI systems that empower employees and fairly impact customers and society.   

Join Monark Vyas (Managing Director – Applied Intelligence, Accenture) to explore how to leverage Responsible AI practices to design and deploy AI systems that engender trust and allow your business to flourish.    

Topics for discussion include:  
- Why AI and Machine Learning systems need to be built responsibly  
- The principles of responsible AI   
- How to put them into practice  
- And more...

Responsible AI: Scaling AI with Confidence

Today’s cloud teams have a lot on their hands. Some are working to modernize and migrate legacy applications to the cloud, others are struggling to keep up with the fast pace of change with cloud resources and services, all while managing a multi-cloud world, with workloads spanning on-prem data centers, private clouds, and public clouds. 

Join us for an introduction to VMware AriaTM, a new multi-cloud management solution, and a deep dive into cloud cost optimization. 

 Learn how VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth (formerly CloudHealth):
• Gives business visibility into multi-cloud usage and costs
• Delivers recommendations for cost and usage optimization
• Governs your multi-cloud environment with policy-based alerts and automation
• Helps businesses implement FinOps best practices

Cost Optimization in a Multi-Cloud World: Drive Accountability with FinOps

Cloud technology has experienced massive growth, driven by the explosion of remote and hybrid workforces. Cloud computing provides a myriad of benefits for companies like increased growth, improved efficiency and faster workflows. But with this technology rapidly evolving, it is essential to stay on top of the new trends to ensure your company is gaining the most leverage from its cloud use and practicing a forward-thinking approach.

Tune into this panel discussion to hear top experts in the field discuss the key cloud computing trends to keep an eye on for this coming year and suggest how companies can practically apply these technologies while avoiding the trap of immediately jumping on a new cloud technology simply because it's another buzzword. 

Key discussion points:
- The multi-cloud strategy and its many benefits.
- The growing role AI and machine learning capabilities in cloud services.
- The increased adoption of cloud-native apps and how companies can best leverage them.
- The green cloud computing frameworks and how it emphasizes the environmental sustainability of cloud computing.

Moderated by: Simon Ratcliffe, Mentor and Adviser, Ensono
Alicia Howard, Product Manager, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth

What's on the cloud's horizon for 2023?

This fireside chat provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the Arsenal Football Club is leveraging a cloud solution to create a single namespace interface, collaborate on media assets regardless of where they are stored, and improve overall workflows, all while maintaining a high level of confidence that critical security and access measures are not compromised.

Fireside chat with Arsenal Football Club: Winning with the Cloud

Using cloud and cloud-migration to accelerate business growth and explore new ways to innovate and quickly implement new services emphasizes the need to adopt the mindset of security-by-design and zero trust. Without a solid foundation of cyberprotection, businesses open a gateway for cyberattacks and cybercriminals to cause severe and irreparable damage. 

The core and foundation of true cybersecurity is validated digital identities (eID): The prerequisite of all other cybersecurity measures. Validated digital identities must be the one and only authorized way to identify and gain access across all user groups, services, and devices. 

For more than 15 years, Denmark has provided public access to the eID-solution MitID. 3rd. generation is now available delivering one unified system giving both citizens, employees, public authorities, and businesses easy access to validated digital identities. Bjarke Alling has been closely involved in the development of the solution and will share insights into how it is used and how validated digital identities can be implemented. 

Takeaways: 
1.) How the Danish solution for validated digital identities works 
2.) What the Danish solution for validates identities gives access to 
3.) How to adopt validated digital identities as the foundation of a truly cybersecure cloud infrastructure 

About the speaker:
Bjarke Alling is co-founder and acting Group Managing Director of cybersecurity company Liga. He is a current member and prior co-chair of the National Danish Cyber Security Council, former chair of their IT-security committee, member of the board at The Danish ICT Industry Association (ITB), and member of the board of D-Mærket (D-Seal)

Building a Cybersecure Cloud Infrastructure with Validated Digital Identities

The decentralized cloud (dcloud) is emerging as a cost-effective alternative to conventional public cloud services. 

Research universities, for example, love the convenience of cloud services, but find it hard to afford to store all the data they have to collect and maintain. 

As storage and compute become less tightly coupled, price-sensitive, early adopter customers have been storing their big data via services that harness the power and cost advantages of the dcloud: newly capable peer-to-peer data networks such as the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) and the cloud-friendly infrastructure that’s already being built on top.

Other early adopter organizations such as the Chrome development unit of Alphabet, Netflix and Opera have been using IPFS-based storage as a simpler, cheaper and in some other ways more suitable alternative for certain classes of data storage. Tape and other “cold storage” methods are under replacement threat as a result. 
 
This talk will provide an overview of dcloud (a.k.a., services that use the dgraph/dweb/web3)  or P2P data network cloud storage alternatives for enterprise, what the pros and cons are of these new services, and how they promise to expand the storage options available to mainstream companies.

Speaker bio:
Alan Morrison is an independent consultant and freelance writer on data tech and enterprise transformation. He is a contributor to Data Science Central with over 35 years of experience as an analyst, researcher, writer, editor and technology trends forecaster, including 20 years in emerging tech R&D at PwC.

The Rise of Decentralized Cloud Storage

Content may be king, but API traffic makes up most requests between a user and an application. APIs provide data and personalization critical to users' experience but don't benefit from caching in the traditional sense. Instead, accelerating APIs needs global reach and an architecture that can quickly sync read-replicas to minimize latency and failures. In this webinar, we'll cover best practices to help improve the performance and availability of APIs regardless of the backend technology stack.

Global Data Replication for Improved API Performance and Availability

There’s a reason only 32% of global data is currently being put to work. Though projections expect 180 zettabytes of data will be created by 2025, these deep troves of information are often locked up, behind skills gaps, data gravity problems, and incomplete hybrid architectures. Even when the data is accessible, diverse teams struggle to collaborate to create, refine, understand, govern, and innovate with their data. Meanwhile, costs are always a factor. Amidst all these challenges — is there a better way?

In this session, Faction CTO Matt Wallace will explore:

 - How a multi-cloud approach solves data gravity and skills gravity
 - How multi-cloud creates huge cost and innovation advantages over “multiple clouds”
 - What the future of data warehouses, data lakes, and innovation looks like
 - How a fluid, hybrid multi-cloud approach can give you the best of all worlds - and what pitfalls to avoid that drive up cost and complexity

Unleash Innovation with Multi-Cloud

Microservices architectures can be a game-changer for business agility and incremental application modernization. 

Join the session to discover the following key takeaways:

- Learn best practices for building microservices leveraging a real-time data layer
- How DevOps teams can easily manage, administer and deploy Redis clusters on Kubernetes
- The key capabilities of cloud-native Redis Enterprise that make it the ideal data platform for real-time microservices-based applications

Overcoming the Challenges of Deploying a Microservices Data Layer on Kubernetes

Today there is a large gap in quality and access to pediatric healthcare between major cities in rich countries and rural areas in those same countries as well as the entire developing world. We have the power to help repair those gaps and raise the standards of children’s healthcare across the globe, through the development and deployment of pediatric cardiology, orthopedic, neurology, oncology and radiology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. 

Born out of his early commercial work in cloud computing and inspired by a student in his Stanford cloud computing class, Timothy Chou formed BevelCloud to transform children’s healthcare globally by creating privacy-preserving real-time pediatric applications based on access to 1,000,000 healthcare machines in all 500 children’s hospitals in the world. 

In this talk, Timothy Chou describes how his team have constructed a widely distributed, privacy-preserving edge cloud service that optimizes communication and collaboration in pediatric healthcare to drive better outcomes for patients across the globe. He’ll discuss the benefits and challenges of using central architectures for AI in medicine and highlight real-time collaboration and privacy-preserving federated learning applications.  

Join the session to discover: 
- How software can do good in the world and transform children’s healthcare globally. 
- The challenges central architectures have to advance AI in pediatric medicine. 
- An introduction to a new edge cloud service.

A Moon-Shot Mission: Transforming Pediatric Healthcare with AI

With concerns about the environment constantly on the forefront, businesses should seek to do their part and reduce waste while maintaining efficiency and optimizing costs. The green cloud covers the many environmental benefits provided by cloud use such as reduced data center carbon footprint. Green cloud computing can even reduce costs when properly applied, making it a no-brainer for cloud-invested companies to explore. Tune into this panel discussion to hear experts in the field discuss some practical, real-life tips to making your cloud infrastructure more environmentally friendly:

• How to select a green cloud service provider.
• The action steps to help “green” your data center such as optimizing infrastructure and tracking usage.
• The newer technologies like machine learning that can replace the older more wasteful ones.
• How the green cloud can ultimately speed up digital transformation efforts.

Enhance sustainability and reduce costs with green cloud computing

Cloud infrastructure today is all built by composition. A disparate mix of hardware and software that must be composed into a final solution that is complex to build and costly and fragile to operate. But does it have to be this way?
Join SoftIron CTO Kenny Van Alstyne in this session to explore and understand the transformative technology that underpins SoftIron’s HyperCloud - the world’s first complete technology for building clouds.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to discover this groundbreaking new technology. 

Join us in this webinar to learn:
- The drawbacks with how clouds have traditionally been composed
- How rethinking the “silos” of compute network and storage can be transformative
- How the concepts like “state and statelessness” can empower a new cloud architecture 
- How fragmented  lifecycle management can be transformed into holistic fleet management deep in the the fabric of the technology
- How this enables HyperCloud to be deployed in as little as half a rack and half a day, yet to scale to almost infinity with just generalist IT skills, and with a fraction of the management overhead

Not Your Average Cloud: Transforming Cloud Technology With HyperCloud

Cloud is quickly becoming the tech enabler of choice to disrupt markets and sectors with differentiated products and services. Savvy business leaders are waking up to the Cloud arms race and utilising its innovative power to re-shape operations and gain competitive edge whilst at the same time harnessing opportunities to embed long term sustainability.

We’re no longer in the decade of lift and shift. If businesses aren’t using Cloud to innovate and drive sustainable outcomes in the next, they’ll simply be left behind. Cloud coupled with industry leading knowledge and insight holds real potential for businesses to be successful in both strategy and ambition whilst future-proofing at speed and scale.

In this session, Bijit Sikdar, Klairi Liis and Jason Sutherland explore the Current state of cloud Adoption & Maturity, Challenges & Mitigation approaches, the industry-centric thinking and trends driving accelerated adoption to the Cloud; with innovation, global issues and emerging challenges such as sustainability management at the heart of shaping solutions using Cloud products and services.

Meet our Panel of experts in the field:

Jason Sutherland (Director - Cloud CoE: Innovation & Strategy Lead, PwC)
Bijit Sikdar (Director - Cloud CoE: Multi Cloud Pre-Sales Architect, PwC)
Klairi Liis (Director - Consulting: Cloud Transformation and Sustainability Tooling, PwC)

Cloud Revolution: Accelerating Innovation to Future-Proof Business and Society

When we speak of innovation we invariably default to conversations about technology and how and where it can change our organisations, but true innovation requires creative, original thinking to create the innovative ideas in the first place. It is said that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process and expecting a different result. The same applies to how we think. We need a different approach to enable innovation.

Join us in this webinar to explore how different approaches to organisational thinking can unlock potential within your organisation and release the potential for greater innovation.

The Future of Innovation: Changing the Mindset

Organizations are looking for new ways to accommodate accelerating cloud growth and edicts. Business agility, competitive differentiation, and the desire to grow overall are the driving factors for cloud adoption. Cloud approaches are necessary in order for the business to evolve, but the transition isn’t easy. Many CIOs are tasked with adopting a cloud strategy but are equally challenged with keeping core business operations going. This puts a tremendous burden on IT as well as lines of business. In this keynote session, ESG Senior Analyst Paul Nashawaty will discuss the skill gaps that make it difficult for organizations to tackle cloud projects, how most organizations are adopting a distributed approach to cloud adoption, why application portability is important, and how the market is evolving to adapt to this new way of doing business.

Overcoming Obstacles to Cloud Innovation

Accelerating Cloud Innovation in 2023

Whether they know it or not, most companies' IT infrastructure is multi-cloud. Even when using a single cloud strategy to drive digital transformation, companies have workloads hosted in AWS, Office365 for the desktops, Salesforce for CRM, SAP Concur for travel and expenses. It doesn’t get more multi-cloud than that. 

The challenges are many:
·       How does a company manage all these different SaaS, PaaS and IaaS environments?
·       How do they keep security guardrails consistent?
·       What about keeping track of cloud native innovations?
·       And, most of all, how do they control costs?

In this session, join Jeroen Mulder (Principal Consultant at Fujitsu) as he discusses the principle of the single pane of glass view in managing business environments across cloud propositions, from security and cost management perspective. Attendees will come away with a deeper understanding of how to keep their company safe and financially sound on the road to digital transformation.

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Containing Cloud Costs

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Cloud Computing