CIO National Digital Transformation Virtual Summit
December 7, 2021
CIO National Digital Transformation Virtual Summit
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Agenda
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12:00pm-12:05pm
Opening Remarks
12:05pm-12:50pm
Keynote Panel: “Rise of Machines and the Impact on Digital Transformation“
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University of California, Merced |
Fifth Third Bank |
Republic Services |
7-11 |
| Kevin Bocek VP of Security Strategy and Threat Intelligence |
Tolgay Kizilelma Chief Information Security Officer |
John Podboy SVP Cyber Security |
Patrick Cooper Director Cybersecurity |
Sujeet Bambawale CISO |
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12:55pm-1:10pm
Keynote Presenter: “Enterprise Technology Management’s Role in Managing Digital Transformation”
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| Arthur Lozinski CEO and Co-Founder |
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As business proliferates in the Cloud, managing technology across the enterprise has become the de facto standard for optimizing IT resources to support security, compliance and lifecycle management. In this session, Oomnitza co-founder and CEO Arthur Lozinski provides examples of the critical role Enterprise Technology Management plays in providing a comprehensive and integrated view into the enterprise IT estate. Key takeaways include:
- Improving security: how to create a more uniform security stance and policy adherence
- Simplifying compliance: how to automate and scale core compliance processes
- Enabling employees: how to provide a superior procurement and provisioning experience
- Optimizing Spend: reduce over-provisioning, gain control of software and cloud licensing
- Lifecycle Orchestration: manage technology assets across their entire lifecycle through automated workflows
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1:15pm-1:35pm
CXO Fireside: “Defying (Data) Gravity | Building Data-Centric Hybrid IT Architecture for Your Digital Business”
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| Wes Jensen Director of Solution and Innovation |
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Almost half (49%) of the world’s stored data could reside in public cloud environments by 2025. 1 Within every industry, IT tech leaders and C-level executives are positioned to influence their organization’s digital transformation, which needs to leverage exponential data growth and solve data gravity’s impact on hybrid IT infrastructure.
The acceleration of digital transformation comes with heightened urgency to address the intensifying presence of data found in the digital economy. Already by next year, in 2022, more than 50% of enterprise data will be created outside the data center or cloud. 1 This rapidly increasing intensity of data gravity, across all industries, underpins the necessary shift to a data-centric hybrid IT architecture and capabilities. As applications and services move closer to the data, centralized backhaul architectures incur higher costs, complexities and risks. A plan to “pivot and adapt” to a pervasive data-centric hybrid IT architecture that optimizes data exchange, especially as more data gets stored in the cloud, through a connected data community approach has become mission critical.
Enabling connected data communities allows for integration between core, cloud and edge at centers of data exchange, implementing a secure, data centric hybrid IT architecture at global points of presence deployed in multi-tenant datacenters. The result is faster data access and aggregation, secure data near the customer and effectively embedded edge, cloud and core solutions.
In this session, you’ll learn:
- About the rapid growth of data globally and the implications of data gravity intensity
- Why it’s important to re-think hybrid IT architecture with a focus on optimizing data exchange
- How to move the needle on digital transformation and the benefits of a connected data
community approach - Strategies designed to yield greater competitive advantages and new growth opportunities
Key Takeaways:
- Learn strategies to overcome the implications of accelerated data growth and data gravity intensity on cloud migration
- Learn how a connected data community approach helps remove legacy barriers across the
interconnection industry and tackles data gravity head on - See why data gravity forces a shift to a data-centric architecture, where data is at the center of
the architecture and integration is the challenge
1 “The Digitization of the World – From Edge to Core,” IDC White Paper, November 2018
2. “How Much Data is Generated in a Day,” World Economic Forum, April 2019
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1:40pm-2:10pm
CXO Panel: “Requirements for the Open Data Stack in a Microservices Oriented World“
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Deutsche Bank |
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| Bryan Kirschner Vice President, Strategy |
Linda Zhang Director |
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In order to build next decade’s competitive advantage, enterprises need to go beyond the early stages of digital transformation and embrace modern use cases characterized by the exponential growth of data and the utilization of real-time analytics to inform business decisions.
This entails not only building new applications or refactoring existing ones as microservices but also moving certain workloads off relational monoliths to the modern data stack. Relational databases are poorly equipped to handle the demands of modern workloads involving either rich customer interactive applications or streaming industrial data.
Unlike relational monoliths, the modern data stack supports microservices-oriented development patterns that free business logic from the data layer and place it in the application layer where it rightly belongs. It supports modern APIs that free developers from having to learn database languages before they can become productive. And just like microservices, the modern data stack is distributed and runs on Kubernetes.
Join DataStax as we discuss the requirements of the modern data stack in the world of microservices.
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2:15pm-2:45pm
CXO Fireside: “From Survive to Thrive: Mastering digital disruption”
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GM Financial |
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| Thom Farrell Software Enterprise Architect |
Srini Alagarsamy Vice President, Digital Software Solutions |
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As business and technology supply and demand patterns change, how are organizations prioritizing effort and investment? What standards and innovations are accelerating successful digital transformation? In this session, explore key elements of successful technology stewardship and critical capabilities that serve as the foundation of profitable growth; while appropriately prioritizing time to market, customer satisfaction, value, cost elasticity, and level, while maintaining cyber resilancy.
Key Takeaways:
Digital disruption, profitable growth, and changing workplace and consumer habits are key motivators to address technical debt and apply the innovation curve to enterprise functions like plan, build, run, deliver, and cyber resiliency
Micro Focus has breadth and depth in digital transformation with a value stream orientation enabling organizations to bridge the old and new; specifically in four key focus areas
- Accelerate Your Application Delivery
- Simplify Your IT Transformation
- Strengthen Your Cyber Resilience
- Analyze Your Data In Time to Act
Micro Focus digital transformation use cases and service factory describe key capabilities and value streams associated with improving IT provider and business services in terms of time to market, customer satisfaction, quality, cost elasticity, cost level, and cyber resiliency
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What is the dress code?
We recommend business attire. Most attendees wear suits or comparable attire. Ties are optional.
Can I bring a colleague with me?
Yes! We always urge our members to refer their colleagues! We love adding new members to the community, especially if they come highly recommended by a current member. Either have them reach out to your Apex POC or have them fill out the Member Registration Form.
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No problem! Please let your Apex POC know as soon as possible in order for us to work with the venue on providing alternate options for you at the event.
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Apex is always looking for speakers that can contribute their valuable insight. If you would like to speak, please contact your Apex POC or fill out the Speaker Registration Form on the Assemblies page. Please keep in mind that we receive many inquiries for speaking and sessions are available on a first come first served basis. But no need to worry, we have plenty of opportunities available at future assemblies.
I plan on being in attendance, but what if something comes up and I have to cancel?
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In today’s digital landscape, the role of the CXO has become the most dynamic amongst their peers. CXOs are focused on finding the most transformative technologies that enable them to bring value to their enterprise and customers.
Apex Assembly is proud to host an exclusive and private CIO National Digital Transformation Summit focusing on Cloud Optimization, Analytics, DevOps, Security, ML, AI and IT Transformation related topics. Enterprise executives are on the hunt for the right platform to deploy in order to achieve faster innovation, secure seamless delivery and flexible deployment.
With unceasing demands, technology has become more complex and solution providers more difficult to decipher.
Apex Assembly will unite visionary leaders and industry experts for a half day of content and discussion, where we will examine the challenges of 2021 and concentrate on the most pressing issues of 2022 in the information technology sector.
Through collaboration with our executive community, we have discovered key industry challenges and trends. These topics form the foundation of the Summit and will be addressed through Panels, Disrupter sessions, and Fireside chats.
Hosted using video conferencing technology, our Virtual Summit gives executives and service providers the opportunity to engage with like-minded executives and industry leaders without having to leave their office or home.