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Expert Industry Speakers
500+ Live
Attendees
On-Demand Sessions
Agenda
01.
9:00 – 9:05 (EDT)
14:00 – 14:05 (BST)
Event Welcome Address
Duncan MacRae, Editor in Chief, Techforge
Interconnecting the Digital Core
02.
09:05 – 09:30 (EDT)
14:05- 14:30 (BST)
Presentation: Becoming a Digital First Business
● Exploring what are the key considerations when thinking about the Foundational Infrastructure you need in place to drive Cloud to Edge Transformation
Leanne Starace, Senior VP Solutions Architecture, Equinix
03.
09:30 – 10:00 (EDT)
14:30 – 15:00 (BST)
Presentation: Henkel – Digital is in our DNA
● A deep dive into the hybrid infrastructure strategy that underpins the market leading industrial and consumer operations at Henkel
● End-to-end digitization and innovation through cooperation
Erik Thorwirth, Head of Global Infrastructure, Henkel
04.
10:00 – 10:50 (EDT)
15:00 – 15:50 (BST)
Panel discussion: Sustainable Digital Transformation
● How do you balance the increasing demands of digitization with protecting the environment
● How do you effectively measure ‘Green IT’
● Aligning ESG as core business drivers
Moderator: Grace Andrews, Principal Product Evangelist, Equinix
Steen Dalgas, Cloud Economist, Nutanix
Erik Thorwirth, Head of Global Infrastructure, Henkel
Integrating Digital Ecosystems
05.
10:50 – 11:20 (EDT)
15:50 – 16:20 (BST)
Fireside chat: M&S – From Store to Door
● Developing a cloud platform for sustainable omni-channel retailing
● The digital transformation journey of Marks & Spencer
Idriss Selhoum, Head of Technology – Cloud & Infrastructure, Marks & Spencer
Matthew George, Director of Enterprise Transformation, Equinix
06.
11:20 – 12:10 (EDT)
16:20 – 17:10 (BST)
Panel discussion: Re-thinking business: a cultural mindset shift to ‘Digital First’
● Technology is now central to the business with IT no longer seen as a fixer but a strategy driver
● The relationship of people, process and technology
● Being agile, sustainable and cost-effective
Moderator: Dax Grant, Forbes Technology Council
Vidya Laxman, Technology Director, Tesco
Christian Siegers, Senior Manager Digital Transformation, KPMG
Idriss Selhoum, Head of Technology – Cloud & Infrastructure, M&S
07.
12:10 – 12:40 (EDT)
17:10 – 17:40 (BST)
Presentation – KPMG – From the ‘back office’ to the ‘front office’
● How the enterprise network is fundamental to serving both internal and external customers and underpins the ‘digital first’ journey
● How agile IT working drives positive customer facing outcomes
Christine Hart, Head of Enterprise Network Services, KPMG
Interacting at the Digital Edge
08.
12:40 – 13:10 (EDT)
17:40 – 18:10 (BST)
Presentation: Inventing a New Work Future
● Prior to the pandemic, only 3% of the world’s workforce was remote. The pandemic shifted that to nearly 100% overnight. While we saw massive development in collaboration technology over the last two years we have also uncovered challenges in how we connect with our employees and clients.
● Understand more how companies have handled these challenges, what the future holds and the platform capabilities required to enable globally consistent user experience
Magnus Falk, CIO Advisor EMEA, Zoom
09.
13:10 – 14:00 (EDT)
18:10 – 19:00 (BST)
Panel discussion: Enabling your organisation’s Edge Journey
● Defining and building the ‘edge’ in your organisation
● Effectively combining cloud to edge technology
● Edge use cases – solving for the vertical and/or horizontal
Moderator: Matthew George, Director of Enterprise Transformation, Equinix
Vaibhav Verdhan, Global Advanced Analytics Leader, AstraZeneca
Anu Krishnan, Head of Information, Data & Analytics, Shell
Magnus Falk, CIO Advisor EMEA, Zoom
John Lunn, Technical Architect for Microsoft Cloud, BT
10.
14:00 – 14:50 (EDT)
19:00 – 19:50 (BST)
Panel discussion: How interconnected ecosystems are redefining global business
● How data drives ecosystems
● Define and optimise ecosystems for your business
● Interconnected ecosystems use cases that work
Moderator: Andrew McCreath, Director Cloud & Digital Edge, Equinix
Fernando Velazquez, CTO – Digital Transformation & Innovation Director, Walmart
Gary Crisci, Principal Enterprise Architect, GE
Flora Nanda, Blockchain Technology Lead, Pfizer
Raman Sharma, Vice President of Product Marketing, DigitalOcean
Nick Fryer, CTO, Dojo
11.
14:50 – 15:20 (EDT)
19:50 – 20:20 (BST)
Presentation: Designing for multi-cloud environments
● What engineers, architects and enterprises must do to adopt multi-cloud environments
● What are some of the commonalities in designing for multiple clouds?
● What is critical in the design and the implementation phases?
Tejas Chopra, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix
12.
15:20 – 15:30 (EDT)
20:20 – 20:30 (BST)
Closing Remarks
All sessions will be available on-demand for 30 days after the event has finished!
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