Agenda
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
“Visibility, Simplification, Orchestration & Optimisation”
Please note that 1:1 meetings will be running throughout the day.
Registration & Check-In
Secure your seat in the keynote room for the day.
Welcome to the 12th Cloud & Infrastructure Edge: “Visibility, Simplification, Orchestration & Optimisation”
Jim Berry - CEO & FounderTechnology now differentiates how and when companies achieve their organisational objectives. All need to deliver resilience, efficiency, speed, security, compliance, and innovation while reducing costs.
To do so, everyone is somewhere on their modernisation, data, and AI roadmap – orchestrating multiple hybrid cloud environments – whilst dealing with complexity and trying to simplify.
Facing challenges of legacy kit, technical debt, limited resources, and visibility – how can you ensure your infrastructure and IT is fit-for-purpose in the digital age?
With emerging technology requiring even more capacity – what’s the ideal blend of on-premise, co-lo, 3rd party and cloud to optimise your compute, network, and storage efficiency?
ADAPT Research: Insights from ADAPT 2024 surveys - How do you compare?
Gabby Fredkin - Head of Analytics & Insights at ADAPTADAPT’s Research and Advisory service of fact-based insights are based upon 25,000 interactions and surveys of our region’s digital and IT leaders running over 60% of Australia’s GDP – more than any other advisory firm in our region. Gabby reveals the core findings distilled from your aggregated pre-event surveys and those of your executive CFO, CIO, Data, Digital and Security peers to show your common aims, investments, workload stats and funding plans – while reviewing solutions to your group challenges and barriers to delivery.
Get an Edge: Making the Most of Your Day
Tenar Larsen - Head of Community & Ecosystem Partnerships at ADAPTGlobal Keynote: Modern Cloud Adoption Strategies: What Works?
Patrick Maes - CTO, Chief Architect & IT StrategistADAPT welcome back Dr. Patrick Maes, the renowned former CTO of ANZ, who took on the CTO Group Strategy & Architecture role at Credit Suisse in Zurich in 2016. There he designed the strategy and architecture for Credit Suisse global infrastructure services, transforming the Bank to a service-oriented operating model to prepare for an accelerated adoption of cloud. He then became CIO of Bank User Solutions serving 50,000 staff across 45 countries.
Patrick was also for many years the Chair of the European Banking Federation Cloud Expert Group and Cloud Forum working with regulators and cloud providers to promote cloud adoption at scale in financial services. He was also founding EXB Member of the European Commission sponsored SWIPO organization to implement market standards for cloud switching & porting which were adopted by all major cloud providers.
Patrick contends that despite being typified as “done” by some companies, a recent study from Bain indicates that only 16% of companies have an effective cloud strategy that covers both business and technology objectives. He found similar findings with peers at the European Banking Federation for the last few years.
The questions he will address:
- What are valid reasons to adopt cloud?
- When are you ready for cloud adoption at scale?
- What are the adoption strategies that create immediate business benefits?
- How could we avoid the massive wholesale migrations which often run out of steam?
We’ll then open to audience debate.
ADAPT EVR Insights: The 3 Pillars of Modernisation & Performance Risks of Investing Less
with ADAPT Research & AdvisoryADAPT have now assessed 60,000 maturity, resource allocation and performance data points from almost 500 local enterprise and government organisations, between them responsible for 1/5 of Australia’s workforce and 66% of the GDP. Mapped on ADAPT’s Exponential Value Roadmap benchmarking reports, they show:
- The Top Performers are highly modernised, having invested the time and money to evolve legacy and embrace new ways of doing things.
- They are now delivering higher YoY revenue, net profits, EX, CX – and investing more, rather than cutting costs.
- They are more digitised, automated, data-driven – and deploying emerging tech – with much less friction across their tech stacks.
ADAPT are codifying the successes of these national top performers, showing the correlations across strategy, risk, execution, people and technology. We reveal the 3 pillars that are the foundation to all successful modernisation strategies – and equip you with fact-based insights to help articulate to your leadership why to spend more now, and the clear risks of investing less.
Morning Break
Refreshments, Snacks & Connections
Infrastructure Masons: Global Keynote Guest live from USA (to be announced shortly)
with Infrastructure MasonsInfrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a global, nonprofit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all. An Infrastructure Mason is a person entrusted with building or managing the physical and logical structures of the digital age. Led by Dean Nelson, a 30+ year tech executive who has driven $10B in infrastructure projects across three contents for Sun Microsystems, Ebay, PayPal and Uber, with his passion to unite the digital infrastructure community to aggregate and amplify their work.
iMasons has launched numerous initiatives to advance its mission across four pillars: Education, Inclusion, Innovation, and Sustainability.
Over the years ADAPT have brought you insights from some of the world’s top technologists at Uber, Paypal, Starbucks, Bloomberg and more. We’ll announce our 2024 speaker shortly.
Unlocking Network Performance: Navigating the 5G and AI Era for Australian Organisations
Nathan McGregor - Senior Vice President, APAC at CradlepointWhile Australian organisations harness AI for operational enhancement, stark statics show 57% still grapple with weekly network downtime (associated with fixed wired networks) and over 40% have fallen victim to security breaches. In this landscape the imperative is clear: recalibrate network infrastructure to harness AI, 5G and satellite technologies whilst fortifying security. Join Nathan McGregor as he discusses the roadmap to optimal network performance amidst these challenges.
He will cover:
- The balance between satellite and 5G connectivity
- The future of connectivity and security through SASE
- Decoding the power of SD-WAN when combined with 5G
- How hybrid WAN solutions enable 5G to complement wired connections
- Ensuring network security with AI
Navigating the AI-Driven Edge: Resilience and Sustainability in Focus
Astrid Groves - GM Channels, Alliances and Operations of APC at Schneider Electric AustraliaUnravel with us the profound implications of artificial intelligence on edge environments, emphasising the pivotal role of resilience. We will analyse how AI is poised to revolutionise edge operations and its dual impact on organisational sustainability, encompassing both advantageous and adverse effects.
Astrid Groves is the General Manager – Channels, Alliances and Operations of APC by Schneider Electric. Astrid is invested in leading the Australian IT industry towards a sustainable future. With over 20 years experience working as a customer, partner, distributor and vendor, her unique and broad perspective has seen her develop a customer centric, high performance channel driving sustainable success and opportunity for IT partners.
ADAPT Executive Insight Roundtables
Attend your pre-selected roundtable to participate in a peer discussion with confidence under Chatham House Rules moderated by an ADAPT analyst with subject matter experts.
Peer Networking Seated Lunch
ADAPT Executive Insight Roundtables
Attend your pre-selected roundtable to participate in a peer discussion with confidence under Chatham House Rules moderated by an ADAPT analyst with subject matter experts.
Afternoon Break
Refreshments, Snacks & Connections
McKinsey: Using FinOps in Modern Tech Strategy
Alexey Goldov - Partner at McKinsey & Company Wayne Vest - Senior Expert at McKinsey & CompanyCompanies are moving to the cloud, but many are still operating legacy spend management practices. That thinking has proven hard to change, with economic and financial models grounded in decades of traditional IT practices from “owning” IT instead of “consuming” it.
As a consequence, companies are developing business cases, negotiating contracts, and making economic calculations that don’t take into account the different financial approaches and models that are specific to modern cloud.
Not only is this resulting in value derived from the cloud falling far short of expectations, but it is also, in some cases, threatening cloud programs themselves, with some businesses even considering reversing course.
McKinsey will outline the common mistakes and modern ways to ensure that FinOps solves them.
Macquarie Bank: Next Generation Cloud & Data
Jason O’Connell - CTO at Macquarie GroupMacquarie are almost 100% public cloud; Jason helps define technology strategy and vision for the bank and drives forward new and innovative ways of using cloud-based technologies. He will talk about how data is evolving from a tech perspective:
– Macquarie’s cloud migration journey
– Cloud principles, multi-cloud, and cloud-to-cloud migrations
– The bank’s strategy from here onwards for cloud 2.0
– The shift to higher order SaaS service
Panel: AI Readiness & Impact - How much compute will we really need?
Peter Hind - Principal Research Analyst at ADAPT Craig Scroggie - CEO at NextDC Sarah Carney - National CTO at MicrosoftDigital infra capacity is forecast to triple over the next 10 years due to AI – with an unprecedented rate of global adoption.
With an explosion in digital driven since the Pandemic, Compute has become a vital utility.
Never has the world’s digital infrastructure been more critical – to enable trillions in economic prosperity.
But the challenges are formidable – if demand is doubling or tripling – then so is the need for power and infrastructure.
Our panel of experts debate the impacts and what we can do to plan today for success tomorrow.
Closing Comments
ADAPT proudly host the "2024 Infrastructure Masons Australian Chapter Networking Event"
Meet and network with your industry peers over drinks and canapes.
ADAPT helped the local launch of the global Infrastructure Masons in March 2020, and proudly partner their 4th annual local chapter meeting. All attendees are invited to attend – and each can apply for a free iMasons annual membership.
Established in 2016 in the US, Infrastructure Masons is where technical professionals connect, grow and give back.
End User Members are IT and facilities professionals who are directly responsible to design, build and/or operate the physical and logical structures for a company that provides infrastructure services primarily to their internal customers.
The iM Australia Chapter provides a forum for members to connect and engage in meaningful discussion with their industry peers. As a Member, you are invited to ‘leave your company at the door’ and take advantage of the opportunity to build new connections, gain new knowledge, and generate contributions to the iMasons scholarship fund.