As the world cautiously reopens and IT leaders strive to build a seamless transition into hybrid working, the focus should be firmly on building a platform for future growth and innovation. In this new world, we all learnt quickly that disruption is a constant, and IT leaders must find effective and sustainable ways to lead through uncertainty. Despite the challenges in balancing IT agility with continued governance, and creating efficient automation against a backdrop of increasingly decentralized IT spend, the opportunities for innovation and growth remain significant.

Bridging the visibility gap is a critical step in empowering your teams for a hybrid world. According to Gartner, IT teams have around 80 percent of their budget tied up in the “run” side of their business, and empowering them to have visibility of how they can effectively optimize costs allows leaders to operate strategically and repurpose budget for mission critical digital transformation projects -essential in a hybrid work place. Equally there’s the matter of managing a hybrid IT environment, which in this next phase, is expected to move beyond cost optimization to optimizing resource via automated provisioning, governance and performance observability across distributed locations.

Join Snow Software and a select group of industry peers to discuss what’s next for IT in a hybrid world and how to fund growth to drive further transformation across your organization.

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Jonathan Paul, VP, Director of IT Data Governance at Fifth Third Bank, brings a lot of passion in creating an effective and sustainable governance frameworks that deliver value and measurable outcomes. In this session, he will share how the new data strategy for the bank with data management as a core pillar is driving culture change and accelerating business outcomes.

In this session you will learn:

• How to drive Self-service Data Culture by deploying a single source of cataloged, tagged, and governed data in a secured environment.
• Creating data-driven processes to enhance data quality, reduce operational and regulatory risk, reduce waste, and make faster decisions with more certainty.
• How to enable data owners across the bank to deliver superior customer engagements and outcomes?

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Traditional cybersecurity infrastructure can’t stop new and emerging threats, particularly in the email channel, and cybercriminals are constantly changing their methods to stay one step ahead. Your employees are continuously being targeted, and you must protect them from these attacks—often ones that have never been seen before. Fortunately, there are insights you can use to protect your company and your employees.

Theresa Payton, first female White House CIO and leading cybersecurity expert, and Mike Britton, CISO at Abnormal Security, will discuss:

• How and why cybercriminals change their methods to create new, never-before-seen threats
• What tactics can be used to to block emerging threats before they reach your employees
• What you can do today to protect your organization from new, high-risk threats

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Modern enterprise applications are no longer the single-vendor, monolithic software packages of a generation ago. Today’s modern enterprise application is a thin layer of business logic code sitting on top of a complex web of third-party platforms, frameworks and libraries so that for every 1 line of business logic code that you write, there are 10 lines of invisible third-party code executing inside your application stack that you didn’t write and have no security control over.

New approaches to securing the software supply chain are emerging which go inside the application at runtime to secure the invisible code and memory that comes from outside of your developers and outside of your security control. During this session we will discuss the vulnerability and compliance trends that are driving the rise of autonomous, zero-trust runtime security solutions for third-party code components and the various forms that such solutions take. We will conclude with a look to the future convergence of these runtime security solutions with other runtime, in-app products widely deployed today.

Key Takeaways:

• The security of today’s enterprise applications is overwhelmed by large quantities of third-party code that comes from outside your organization and outside of your security control
• Until recently the principal (and often-times, only) solution for securing third-party code has been continuous SCA with manual software upgrades that require considerably developer effort, testing and cost
• In spite of the widespread adoption of SCA tools in the last several years, vulnerable and/or outdated third-party components has risen from 9th to 6th position in the most recent OWASP Top 10 2021 draft rankings with OWASP warning that this rise reflects the ongoing struggle to test and secure the software supply-chain
• New runtime security solutions are emerging which use live access to an application’s executing code and memory to provide autonomous security without manual developer effort or tuning
• Autonomous runtime security solutions are an important new tool in the fight to secure the software supply-chain of modern enterprise applications
• Runtime application security, runtime container security and APM tools will converge over time as customers look to consolidate the number of runtime products used with their applications

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2022 is shaping up to be a critical year for CISOs and their security programs. From new regulations to increased oversight to supply chain risk management to incident response, CISOs will have their hands full. How should CISOs address these major challenges? What should they prioritize within their security programs? What steps should they take now?

Join Jake Olcott, VP of Government Affairs at BitSight to understand what’s coming in 2022 and how to best prepare. Topics to be discussed include:

• New regulatory requirements
• Board oversight and reporting
• Cyber risk quantification
• Supply chain risk management
• Incident response preparedness

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In the ever-evolving world of the data supply chain, you may have experienced one or more of these trends: you depend on more and more data that you can’t control; you need to provide data at the speed of thought; your digital transformation is happening faster than your data infrastructure can keep up. As a data leader, you have pressures all around to do more and faster. But just how fast can you go given the enormous complexity of data, platforms and architectures today?

DataOps is an approach that can tease order out of the accelerating chaos of modern architectures, and reconcile the apparent contradiction of complexity and agility. Continuous design, operation and observability of your data is fundamental to a DataOps approach. Hear from a panel of industry leaders:

• Approaches for keeping pace with the relentless business demand for more data
• Best practices for managing ever more complex data infrastructures
• Viewpoints on how to balance agility with transparency and control

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Jonathan Paul, VP, Director of IT Data Governance at Fifth Third Bank, brings a lot of passion in creating an effective and sustainable governance frameworks that deliver value and measurable outcomes. In this session, he will share how the new data strategy for the bank with data management as a core pillar is driving culture change and accelerating business outcomes.

In this session you will learn:

• How to drive Self-service Data Culture by deploying a single source of cataloged, tagged, and governed data in a secured environment.
• Creating data-driven processes to enhance data quality, reduce operational and regulatory risk, reduce waste, and make faster decisions with more certainty.
• How to enable data owners across the bank to deliver superior customer engagements and outcomes?

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Couchbase Analytics service helps users to analyze JSON data in near real-time without the need to Extract-Transform-Load your data into a separate system. Real-time analytics integrated within a business operation, processing current and historical data to prescribe actions in response to events helps achieve a competitive advantage for your business.

Join this session to learn about how you can:

• Integrate Python UDFs with Couchbase Analytics
• Use advanced analytics domains like predictive analytics (customer churn, customer sentiment, etc.)
• Gain real-time analytics from your Python-based Machine Learning models

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Cloud environments have the potential to deliver greater efficiency, performance, availability and agility and most enterprises are at some stage of a cloud transformation journey. Adopting a multi-cloud strategy helps avoid vendor lock-in but there are often trade-offs to be made and inhibitors are standing in the way. Often lack of visibility to applications and dependencies, insufficient migration planning, purchasing too much capacity, incurring excess costs, sub-optimal performance and availability, and lack of integrations with IT service management can stand in the way or serve as a roadblock to transformation. While some IT leaders state they have failed to realize notable benefits from cloud computing, others are far more successful in that journey. What are the keys to successful cloud transformation and in not only ensuring a higher level of service assurance but also optimizing resources and costs? There are many factors that need to be considered for successful multi-cloud deployments.

In this panel session, these leaders will discuss their cloud transformation experiences and plans and cover critical success factors including application discovery and dependency mapping, migration planning, capacity optimization, controlling cloud costs, automating cloud security, increasing performance and availability for service assurance, and intelligent IT service management – to name a few.

• Cloud Transformation needs to consider multiple factors from planning to migration to optimization to post-transformation management
• Successful cloud transformation is more than just “lift and shift” and involves optimization
• There is a trade-off between optimizing and being locked into a cloud platform vs. having the flexibility to operate across multiple platforms
• Most customers will be in a hybrid state for the foreseeable future and your technology choices need to reflect that
• You’re responsible for service assurance and optimization and that can be key to successful cloud transformation

 

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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.

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:

• I 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

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There’s a common cloud computing conundrum most IT and business leaders ask themselves; How much cloud flexibility and choice is enough, and how much is too much? The importance of this issue has been heightened in the last several years with the acceleration of workload migrations to cloud and application modernization. While the answer to this critical business and IT operations question is a bit complicated, in this session, Snow Software will talk about how you can successfully answer it by taking an informed, strategic and balanced approach.

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How have Cloud Data Warehouses evolved, and how can they help your business? During this session, Qlik’s Director of Product Marketing Clive Bearman will explore Data Warehouse Automation options and help your organization to evaluate which one is the best for you.

Takeaways: There are many great cloud data warehouse options, but determining which is the best for your business is paramount. All Cloud Data Warehouses are highly scalable and performant, and all are on-demand. Remember though, warehouse automation is the key productivity enabler.

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How are you reducing the cost and energy spent on data management and focusing on the innovations of that data to move your business forward?

The ability to act on data-based insights in real-time has never been more critical than it is now. Faced with demands for modernization, cost optimization and digital business transformation, IT leaders are looking at how data and analytics programs can support expanding their digital business and increase their data and analytics maturity.

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These days it seems no organization or industry is adverse to cyber attacks. From open-source software tools to critical infrastructure, threats are coming in all shapes and sizes. It’s more critical than ever to understand the threats facing your organization from the inside and your vendor ecosystem.

Managing your digital supply chain risk does not have to be a cumbersome process. Firms can look beyond security assessments and questionnaires to ensure that their vendor network is operating securely and efficiently.

During this session, attendees will learn:

• New methods for managing supply chain risk
• What tools are most effective to combat vendor risk
• How to generate key data points to make effective third-party risk decisions

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Hybrid work is the future, but how will it actually work? Last year saw a significant acceleration of digital transformation to accommodate remote work, which involved moving to the cloud and adopting synchronous remote meeting technologies. Now we’re facing a new wave of complexity as we return to the office, and IT has the power to make or break the new work experience. To navigate the complexities that come with hybrid workforces and the explosion of new tools, companies need to embrace an AI-enabled collaborative work management solution.

In this session with Wrike’s Brian Kelley, you’ll learn:

• Lessons gleaned from IT leaders on managing an at-home workforce.
• The role that AI-enabled collaborative work management will play in the future of IT and working remotely.
• The top three priorities of successful IT teams managing distributed workforces.

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In this session, Vidya Shankaran discusses best practices which can help minimize the loss a critical event can have on business. Learn how Chart Industries used Commvault Intelligent Data Services to ensure business continuity within their global operation which resulted in rapid recovery, efficient use of resources, and minimized the impact to their business.

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Digital transformation, competitive advantage, and saving money are driving factors for any organization moving to the cloud. But if you still need to support critical on-prem legacy applications, a hybrid cloud IAM strategy can make your migration and management seamless. Gain insights on the realities of hybrid cloud and IAM strategies to secure them.

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The threat of ransomware and other credential theft attacks has only grown over the last year. According to the Verizon Data Breach Incident Report, credential theft accounted for 89% of web application breaches, and phishing attacks increased by 44% across 2020. The recent attack against the Colonial Pipeline company proves that these attacks are only getting bolder. What are the most effective strategies that security leaders can use to defend against this threat? Is multifactor authentication (MFA) the answer? What about new passwordless tech? Join our conversation as we discuss how organizations can prevent ransomware and credential theft attacks by understanding the tactics threat actors are using along with eliminating the insecure password.

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SaaS applications are the new normal for organizations of all shapes and sizes. And the recent acceleration of digital initiatives — and the cloud’s coming of age — have magnified the importance of proactive data protection strategies.

More than 60% of SaaS users rely on default backup and recovery capabilities, according to IDC. Can you afford to risk data loss using default CRM data exports? If not, where do you start?

Join OwnBackup’s Demetrius Malbrough, Director of Technical Evangelism, and Travis Howe, CISO, as they discuss how to navigate the evolving dynamics of cybersecurity and how to guard against data loss and corruption.

Highlights include:

-Why you need a third-party backup and recovery solution
-Factors to consider when selecting a SaaS CRM data protection partner
-Benefits of using OwnBackup

Because whether you have 1 user or 1 million, no company operating in the cloud should ever lose data. Learn more about how OwnBackup can help you protect your mission-critical data.

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Zero Trust is becoming an imperative everywhere for good reason. Digital identity is a key part of the equation, and luckily you no longer have to decide “security, privacy, experience — pick two”. Join us to learn how powerful Zero Trust can be when you apply usernameless login and machine learning for identity governance along with a wide range of risk signals silently assessing users.

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As leaders within the Finance and Insurance sector remain focused on enhancing organizational adaptability while growing revenue, how does digital transformation play a part? Digitally advanced enterprises are able to support employees doing higher value, creative work to take advantage of new opportunities and quickly adjust to shifting markets and preferences. They’ll be driven by agility, customer centricity and actionable insights, incorporating AI and other advanced technologies into their core operations. This session will discuss what becoming an ADE (Autonomous Digital Enterprise) really means for the Finance and Insurance sector and what to expect from these changes both short and long-term.

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In the last year and a half, digital transformation has become a top priority for business leaders across all industries, including financial services industries. Maintaining operational equilibrium by reinvention of processes, customer interactions and faster response to service disruptions has become crucial in saving operational costs.

Join us on July 22nd, 2021, as we discuss how faster restoration of service processes is becoming a competitive advantage for many organizations.

Key takeaways:

• Automating Response to Issues
• Reducing Time to Engage Incident Commanders
• Guiding and Automating Incident Management
• Deliver Post Incident Reports and Analysis for continuous improvement

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Infrastructure and Data Exchange within FS organizations have become themes that are discussed on a regular basis at Board level. The vital role that FS organizations play in a globally connected and interdependent world leads regulators across the globe to have a razor-sharp lens on activities, data, cyber threats and technical infrastructure.

IT tech leaders within the financial services industry are positioned to influence how their organizations can succeed amidst many digital transformation challenges, such as the explosion of data growth and its implications on legacy IT architecture.

A data-centric IT infrastructure that optimizes data exchange is mission critical. Implementing this strategy will allow financial services firms to defy data gravity, secure data near the customer, enforce data compliance, overcome data infrastructure barriers and ultimately leverage massive data sets as their most strategic asset.

In this fireside chat featuring Bill Fenick, Vice President, Enterprise Verticals at Digital Realty, and moderator Dan Jennings, Head of Portfolio Management at Apex Assembly, you’ll gain:

• A deeper understanding of why it’s important to re-think IT architecture in financial services
• Expert insights about the industry’s push toward data-driven digital transformation
• Strategies designed to yield greater competitive advantages and new growth opportunities

This session will also feature Digital Realty’s Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) Optimizing Financial Services Data Exchange Strategy and Solution models that address industry-specific business challenges for banking, securities, trading & investment banking, wealth management and insurance lines of business.

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How the world of digital transformation changed overnight and why existing systems can’t keep up.

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