All organisations need to architect their sprawl of infrastructure and optimise environments for an indefinitely distributed workforce. At CCDC 2021, we gather the strategic leaders in charge of our region’s digital infrastructure and cloud enablement to learn from use cases, examples and advice from those ahead on similar journeys.
ADAPT’s research and advisory team reveal the latest local fact-based insights, based upon 10,000 conversations and over 1,000 detailed surveys of our region’s executive digital and IT leaders. Matt reveals the common drivers and challenges distilled from your aggregated pre-event surveys and those of your executive peers.
The Nike spirit is ‘Just Do It’ – which is what Mark and his team had to do when Nike made the decision to close all of their retail stores across the globe last April, pushing their commerce to be strictly digital. The lockdown presented the opportunity to become a digitally transformative organisation and shifted Nike’s Global Technology team to invest in innovation to move quickly before their competitors caught up. It showed that years of tough technology decisions and decades of making infrastructure work at scale had been worthwhile. It was time to invest even more in Technology and Innovation to adapt to meet Nike’s consumers where they were.
Eight months into Covid, after enabling key stakeholders and making tough decisions, Mark took the crisis and used it to accelerate their team’s offense. His team executed on strategic initiatives and projects that they had planned to do over the next few years in just a matter of months. With the help of Mark’s leadership and team, Nike emerged to be an even better company presenting an elevated digital consumer experience post-Covid.
What will he discuss?
How to leverage digital potential to fuel a higher purpose delivered by the enterprise’s infrastructure, applications, and data.
“It is no longer about capacity or cost – it is all about the data and what you’re doing with it.”
How do we balance cost avoidance and security concerns without missing out on the greatest global shift in Technology digital transformation?
In this forward-looking session, Mark will give inspiration and actionable insight into the next waves of technology’s digital transformation and shifts – and how they will impact you.
According to ADAPT’s most recent survey of more than 200 of Australia’s leading businesses, 59% expected increased rates of innovation in their organisation. 47% of these same businesses said they were increasing focus and funding on innovation. Innovation today requires open collaboration and teamwork across a broad ecosystem, and while moments of inspired brilliance still exist, innovation is predominantly driven by data and insight.
It is fast becoming the art and science of predicting the future and understanding what the full potential of new technologies will be, and knowing what customers need and want, even before they know it themselves. But what does it take to relentlessly innovate?
We’ll unpack this question and gain some insight into what it takes to succeed at innovation from a technology, organisational and cultural standpoints, with two industry giants: Hillery Hunter, Vice President and CTO, IBM Cloud and Andreas Spanner Chief Architect, Australia and New Zealand, Red Hat.
Having deep technical roots, both Andreas and Hillery understand not only what cultivating an innovation mindset requires but have also led technical innovation within the industry and have helped many organisations relentlessly innovate. This is one masterclass you don’t want to miss.
ADAPT have tracked the problem of capital city data centres increasing the latency challenge across regional metros for several years.
With the rapid growth, demand and adoption of digital innovation, the same consumption experience in metro cities is now expected in regional sites and is a key priority for governments and businesses alike. This is bringing about a surge in reliance on data centres to process and store huge amounts of data locally at unprecedented rates in regional Australia.
At this panel, first hand insights will cover:
Those who hesitate in migrating to the cloud, may very well be left behind. But attempting to boil the ocean in your cloud approach may result in big plans with little execution.
Join Mike Reddie, Senior Director of Cloud ANZ at VMware as he navigates a practical and tangible pathway to balance big plans with delivering tangible business value that can help take your organisation into the cloud fast and cost effectively.
As one of the technology leaders in the NSW Government, Simon will briefly outline a case study of the NSW Government, showing the evolution and strategy of cloud first policies.
Explaining:
Attend your preselected roundtable to participate in a peer discussion moderated by ADAPT analysts with subject matter experts.
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, IBM and your peers in a private room.
Many organisations have adopted a hybrid cloud computing strategy – combining a private cloud with a mix of public cloud solutions – as it provides the agility and flexibility organisations need to spin up new applications and services as required. In this session, we’ll explore why open source technology within hybrid cloud can deliver unmatched performance and flexibility for data-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA and SAS – freeing up budget by giving you a framework to drive innovation across the business.
The discussion will include but not be limited to:
A moderated session led by ADAPT analyst Aparna Sundararajan, and your peers in a private room.
Cloud computing is one of the most sought-after IT investments right now – yet it’s also one of the least understood technologies in terms of costs and economics. Especially now, amidst economic uncertainty, organisations must be smart about how they consume cloud services to optimise costs while driving innovation and value.
In this session, we’ll discuss and debate:
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, Equinix and your peers in a private room.
Every time business or social circumstances change, such as with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers telecommuting from home, new edge use cases appear.
The post COVID reality is that the working landscape of how companies will operate in the future has changed, and remote working is the new norm. Whether it’s ensuring your remote workforce has reliable access to mission-critical systems and unified communications services (UCS) tools like Zoom and Webex, or being able to rapidly and remotely scale your network capacities according to sudden fluctuations in demand, a digital infrastructure is critical to building a robust and sustainable business continuity model.
Business continuity has been redefined by the pandemic, and we expect the edge to continue to evolve as new use cases take shape such as mobile edge computing and micro data centres. Organisations need to plan ahead and be ready for another unpredictable challenge in the future.
Join Guy Danskine, Managing Director of Equinix Australia, and Tamas Horvath, Global Solution Architect at Equinix, where they will:
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst and your peers in a private room.
Join this private invite only lunch to hear from Schneider and your peers on the 2021 Edge Vision. Schneider will be sharing exclusive research that is shaping up Edge trends and Leading Edge will also be present to provide first hand examples of what this means. The lunch will be interactive so you can share your vision for 2021 Edge and also hear from your peers across different segments their views and experiences. We’re excited to invite you to this lunch so we can collectively and individually shape our 2021 Edge Vision.
The pandemic has driven companies to double down on digitisation, increase agility, look again at business continuity plans as well as their workforces as they move into a ‘new normal.’ In order to be effective in the ‘new normal’ companies need to be nimbler, more customer centric and cost effective.
Core technology is of critical importance given the type and scale of changes required for many companies, and the approach to making material changes is core to future growth.
Alexey Goldov is an Associate Partner at McKinsey and leader in their Technology practice in Asia. He specialises in large scale technology transformations in service industries – financial, telecommunication companies and public sector organisations.
The Edge data centre has moved past the evaluative stage and is now being rolled out for a number of applications. Hear Duncan Clubb, the Senior Director for CBRE Data Centre Solutions based in the UK describe how networks of edge data centres are being designed and deployed, what is driving the need, and which are industry verticals that are moving first.
Briefly at the end of presentation Robert Linsdell, the local MD of Vertiv (ANZ) will provide actual visuals of Edge sites and a view of the IT architecture that is behind them.
Intelligently matched opportunities connecting the right people at the right time for the right reasons.
Attend your preselected roundtable to participate in a peer discussion moderated by ADAPT analysts with subject matter experts.
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, LogicMonitor and your peers in a private room.
When it comes to IT’s ability to provide business continuity in the face of a crisis, automation helps.
Automation, in which IT professionals use software and integrations to make routine tasks more efficient and less manual, is a top priority for many businesses as part of their larger digital transformation initiatives.
In fact, the majority of IT decision makers (88%) say there has been an increasing focus on automation in their department over the past three years. An even greater majority of IT professionals, 94%, say they expect this focus on automation to increase in the coming three years.
Discussion points and questions to debate and benchmark with your peers:
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, Lenovo and your peers in a private room.
Over the last 10 years, public cloud has become prevalent in the IT landscape mainly for its consumption-based utilisation, modern application development and flexibility. However, it is not a one size fits all solution, and there are many scenarios where the public cloud is not the best option for an organisation, primarily concerning cost, application latency and governance. In addition, on-premise infrastructure is becoming more cloud like with fractional consumption, integrated LifeCycle Management and consumption based finance models. These are some of the reasons why hybrid cloud models are becoming the IT outcome of choice.
In this roundtable we will facilitate and encourage discussion to better understand how these hybrid outcomes can be achieved and what the future looks like for your business.
Questions:
What are some of the key factors that you look at to determine whether your strategy will be predominantly public or private cloud?
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, Cohesity, Sparke Helmore Lawyers and your peers in a private room.
Is your organisation experiencing limitations with its data management infrastructure due to a legacy approach? Across industries, IT leaders are being asked to evaluate technology investments and look for ways to maximize value whilst reducing spend, simplifying operations and boosting scalability. This was no different for Sparke Helmore Lawyers (Sparke).
Like many enterprises, Sparke has experienced exponential data growth in recent years. The prolific growth of data led the IT team at Sparke to identify a modern data management solution to replace their traditional, siloed storage infrastructure. Sparke set out to improve its backup and recovery performance, extend its disaster recovery (DR) capability, and leverage the cloud for cost-efficiency and scalability. Since deploying Cohesity, the IT team at Sparke is seeing an overall time saving of more than 95 percent for data management.
Sparke now has a robust infrastructure, which will support its growth well into the future. Join the discussion with Sparke and Cohesity to discover how you can do the same for your organisation and learn first-hand how a modern approach to IT infrastructure can yield big benefits.
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, Macquarie Cloud Services and your peers in a private room.
69% of organisations in Australia will be adopting a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environment by 2022. With no ‘standard’ hybrid cloud deployment, interconnectivity between on-premises, public and private clouds is being driven by a need to improve customer service and keep up with customers. From agile development, to edge computing, most IT solutions that provide competitive advantage to enterprises rely on hybrid cloud foundations.
As Australia’s leading cloud provider (based on an industry leading Net Promoter Score), we’ll share our examples from our hybrid cloud playbook which details real-life scenarios where organisations across industries optimised their IT infrastructure across multiple clouds.
The Macquarie Cloud Services roundtable will feature factual and insightful learning across a subset of anonymised customers that have taken the Hybrid Cloud journey with us. We’ll share the challenges associated with helping Australian businesses control spend, secure their environment and enable remote working.
What you can expect:
CBA has embarked on a transformation at the bank to become ‘architecture led’ by continually maturing their architecture across people, process and technology. The aim is for technology to enable the banking groups vision and strategy.
This presentation will reveal where CBA are on this transformation, the journey they have been on, and the challenges they face.
With over two decades as a technology visionary and almost half of that in the heart of AWS, most recently as their global Chief Architect, Glenn creates architectural best practices for how to use cloud and innovation to transform businesses and disrupt new markets.
In this exclusive session at CCDC, Glenn will discuss what he sees to be the future of not ‘distributed’ – but ‘decentralised’ technologies – including edge computing, 5G, cloud and blockchain – and the implications of what that means, for you to act upon today.
Now relocated from Seattle to Singapore, he hopes to join us live in person for the whole event.
Aparna Sundararajan – Senior Research Strategist at ADAPT will moderate a session with our global guest Glenn Gore – CEO, Affinidi Group & former global Chief Architect of AWS – joined by 3 local CTO, architect and infrastructure leaders.
Critical areas to debate will include key strategies and common challenges around architecting an interconnected and agile digital infrastructure for resilient workloads across hybrid environments, including:
Drinks and canapes will be served during this session leading in to our relaxed and COVID-safe networking session.
Based in our keynote room – an opportunity to mingle and meet the other attendees – your counterparts at the region’s top companies, compliant to physical distancing.
ADAPT helped the local launch of the global Infrastructure Masons in March 2020, and proudly partner their local chapter meeting onsite after CCDC 2021. CCDC attendees are invited to attend and each will receive 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.
Welcoming ADAPT & Infrastructure Mason Guests. The first Infrastructure Masons Australian Chapter meeting for 2021. Virtual presentation from Infrastructure Masons International Guests and a briefing on progress by the Australian Chapter across key iMason Strategic Priorities. Networking drinks & canapes to follow presentations.
All organisations need to architect their sprawl of infrastructure and optimise environments for an indefinitely distributed workforce. At CCDC 2021, we gather the strategic leaders in charge of our region’s digital infrastructure and cloud enablement to learn from use cases, examples and advice from those ahead on similar journeys.
ADAPT’s research and advisory team reveal the latest local fact-based insights, based upon 10,000 conversations and over 1,000 detailed surveys of our region’s executive digital and IT leaders. Matt reveals the common drivers and challenges distilled from your aggregated pre-event surveys and those of your executive peers.
The Nike spirit is ‘Just Do It’ – which is what Mark and his team had to do when Nike made the decision to close all of their retail stores across the globe last April, pushing their commerce to be strictly digital. The lockdown presented the opportunity to become a digitally transformative organisation and shifted Nike’s Global Technology team to invest in innovation to move quickly before their competitors caught up. It showed that years of tough technology decisions and decades of making infrastructure work at scale had been worthwhile. It was time to invest even more in Technology and Innovation to adapt to meet Nike’s consumers where they were.
Eight months into Covid, after enabling key stakeholders and making tough decisions, Mark took the crisis and used it to accelerate their team’s offense. His team executed on strategic initiatives and projects that they had planned to do over the next few years in just a matter of months. With the help of Mark’s leadership and team, Nike emerged to be an even better company presenting an elevated digital consumer experience post-Covid.
What will he discuss?
How to leverage digital potential to fuel a higher purpose delivered by the enterprise’s infrastructure, applications, and data.
“It is no longer about capacity or cost – it is all about the data and what you’re doing with it.”
How do we balance cost avoidance and security concerns without missing out on the greatest global shift in Technology digital transformation?
In this forward-looking session, Mark will give inspiration and actionable insight into the next waves of technology’s digital transformation and shifts – and how they will impact you.
According to ADAPT’s most recent survey of more than 200 of Australia’s leading businesses, 59% expected increased rates of innovation in their organisation. 47% of these same businesses said they were increasing focus and funding on innovation. Innovation today requires open collaboration and teamwork across a broad ecosystem, and while moments of inspired brilliance still exist, innovation is predominantly driven by data and insight.
It is fast becoming the art and science of predicting the future and understanding what the full potential of new technologies will be, and knowing what customers need and want, even before they know it themselves. But what does it take to relentlessly innovate?
We’ll unpack this question and gain some insight into what it takes to succeed at innovation from a technology, organisational and cultural standpoints, with two industry giants: Hillery Hunter, Vice President and CTO, IBM Cloud and Andreas Spanner Chief Architect, Australia and New Zealand, Red Hat.
Having deep technical roots, both Andreas and Hillery understand not only what cultivating an innovation mindset requires but have also led technical innovation within the industry and have helped many organisations relentlessly innovate. This is one masterclass you don’t want to miss.
ADAPT have tracked the problem of capital city data centres increasing the latency challenge across regional metros for several years.
With the rapid growth, demand and adoption of digital innovation, the same consumption experience in metro cities is now expected in regional sites and is a key priority for governments and businesses alike. This is bringing about a surge in reliance on data centres to process and store huge amounts of data locally at unprecedented rates in regional Australia.
At this panel, first hand insights will cover:
Those who hesitate in migrating to the cloud, may very well be left behind. But attempting to boil the ocean in your cloud approach may result in big plans with little execution.
Join Mike Reddie, Senior Director of Cloud ANZ at VMware as he navigates a practical and tangible pathway to balance big plans with delivering tangible business value that can help take your organisation into the cloud fast and cost effectively.
As one of the technology leaders in the NSW Government, Simon will briefly outline a case study of the NSW Government, showing the evolution and strategy of cloud first policies.
Explaining:
Attend your preselected roundtable to participate in a peer discussion moderated by ADAPT analysts with subject matter experts.
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, IBM and your peers in a private room.
Many organisations have adopted a hybrid cloud computing strategy – combining a private cloud with a mix of public cloud solutions – as it provides the agility and flexibility organisations need to spin up new applications and services as required. In this session, we’ll explore why open source technology within hybrid cloud can deliver unmatched performance and flexibility for data-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA and SAS – freeing up budget by giving you a framework to drive innovation across the business.
The discussion will include but not be limited to:
A moderated session led by ADAPT analyst Aparna Sundararajan, and your peers in a private room.
Cloud computing is one of the most sought-after IT investments right now – yet it’s also one of the least understood technologies in terms of costs and economics. Especially now, amidst economic uncertainty, organisations must be smart about how they consume cloud services to optimise costs while driving innovation and value.
In this session, we’ll discuss and debate:
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, Equinix and your peers in a private room.
Every time business or social circumstances change, such as with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers telecommuting from home, new edge use cases appear.
The post COVID reality is that the working landscape of how companies will operate in the future has changed, and remote working is the new norm. Whether it’s ensuring your remote workforce has reliable access to mission-critical systems and unified communications services (UCS) tools like Zoom and Webex, or being able to rapidly and remotely scale your network capacities according to sudden fluctuations in demand, a digital infrastructure is critical to building a robust and sustainable business continuity model.
Business continuity has been redefined by the pandemic, and we expect the edge to continue to evolve as new use cases take shape such as mobile edge computing and micro data centres. Organisations need to plan ahead and be ready for another unpredictable challenge in the future.
Join Guy Danskine, Managing Director of Equinix Australia, and Tamas Horvath, Global Solution Architect at Equinix, where they will:
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst and your peers in a private room.
Join this private invite only lunch to hear from Schneider and your peers on the 2021 Edge Vision. Schneider will be sharing exclusive research that is shaping up Edge trends and Leading Edge will also be present to provide first hand examples of what this means. The lunch will be interactive so you can share your vision for 2021 Edge and also hear from your peers across different segments their views and experiences. We’re excited to invite you to this lunch so we can collectively and individually shape our 2021 Edge Vision.
The pandemic has driven companies to double down on digitisation, increase agility, look again at business continuity plans as well as their workforces as they move into a ‘new normal.’ In order to be effective in the ‘new normal’ companies need to be nimbler, more customer centric and cost effective.
Core technology is of critical importance given the type and scale of changes required for many companies, and the approach to making material changes is core to future growth.
Alexey Goldov is an Associate Partner at McKinsey and leader in their Technology practice in Asia. He specialises in large scale technology transformations in service industries – financial, telecommunication companies and public sector organisations.
The Edge data centre has moved past the evaluative stage and is now being rolled out for a number of applications. Hear Duncan Clubb, the Senior Director for CBRE Data Centre Solutions based in the UK describe how networks of edge data centres are being designed and deployed, what is driving the need, and which are industry verticals that are moving first.
Briefly at the end of presentation Robert Linsdell, the local MD of Vertiv (ANZ) will provide actual visuals of Edge sites and a view of the IT architecture that is behind them.
Intelligently matched opportunities connecting the right people at the right time for the right reasons.
Attend your preselected roundtable to participate in a peer discussion moderated by ADAPT analysts with subject matter experts.
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, LogicMonitor and your peers in a private room.
When it comes to IT’s ability to provide business continuity in the face of a crisis, automation helps.
Automation, in which IT professionals use software and integrations to make routine tasks more efficient and less manual, is a top priority for many businesses as part of their larger digital transformation initiatives.
In fact, the majority of IT decision makers (88%) say there has been an increasing focus on automation in their department over the past three years. An even greater majority of IT professionals, 94%, say they expect this focus on automation to increase in the coming three years.
Discussion points and questions to debate and benchmark with your peers:
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, Lenovo and your peers in a private room.
Over the last 10 years, public cloud has become prevalent in the IT landscape mainly for its consumption-based utilisation, modern application development and flexibility. However, it is not a one size fits all solution, and there are many scenarios where the public cloud is not the best option for an organisation, primarily concerning cost, application latency and governance. In addition, on-premise infrastructure is becoming more cloud like with fractional consumption, integrated LifeCycle Management and consumption based finance models. These are some of the reasons why hybrid cloud models are becoming the IT outcome of choice.
In this roundtable we will facilitate and encourage discussion to better understand how these hybrid outcomes can be achieved and what the future looks like for your business.
Questions:
What are some of the key factors that you look at to determine whether your strategy will be predominantly public or private cloud?
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, Cohesity, Sparke Helmore Lawyers and your peers in a private room.
Is your organisation experiencing limitations with its data management infrastructure due to a legacy approach? Across industries, IT leaders are being asked to evaluate technology investments and look for ways to maximize value whilst reducing spend, simplifying operations and boosting scalability. This was no different for Sparke Helmore Lawyers (Sparke).
Like many enterprises, Sparke has experienced exponential data growth in recent years. The prolific growth of data led the IT team at Sparke to identify a modern data management solution to replace their traditional, siloed storage infrastructure. Sparke set out to improve its backup and recovery performance, extend its disaster recovery (DR) capability, and leverage the cloud for cost-efficiency and scalability. Since deploying Cohesity, the IT team at Sparke is seeing an overall time saving of more than 95 percent for data management.
Sparke now has a robust infrastructure, which will support its growth well into the future. Join the discussion with Sparke and Cohesity to discover how you can do the same for your organisation and learn first-hand how a modern approach to IT infrastructure can yield big benefits.
A moderated session with ADAPT analyst, Macquarie Cloud Services and your peers in a private room.
69% of organisations in Australia will be adopting a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environment by 2022. With no ‘standard’ hybrid cloud deployment, interconnectivity between on-premises, public and private clouds is being driven by a need to improve customer service and keep up with customers. From agile development, to edge computing, most IT solutions that provide competitive advantage to enterprises rely on hybrid cloud foundations.
As Australia’s leading cloud provider (based on an industry leading Net Promoter Score), we’ll share our examples from our hybrid cloud playbook which details real-life scenarios where organisations across industries optimised their IT infrastructure across multiple clouds.
The Macquarie Cloud Services roundtable will feature factual and insightful learning across a subset of anonymised customers that have taken the Hybrid Cloud journey with us. We’ll share the challenges associated with helping Australian businesses control spend, secure their environment and enable remote working.
What you can expect:
CBA has embarked on a transformation at the bank to become ‘architecture led’ by continually maturing their architecture across people, process and technology. The aim is for technology to enable the banking groups vision and strategy.
This presentation will reveal where CBA are on this transformation, the journey they have been on, and the challenges they face.
With over two decades as a technology visionary and almost half of that in the heart of AWS, most recently as their global Chief Architect, Glenn creates architectural best practices for how to use cloud and innovation to transform businesses and disrupt new markets.
In this exclusive session at CCDC, Glenn will discuss what he sees to be the future of not ‘distributed’ – but ‘decentralised’ technologies – including edge computing, 5G, cloud and blockchain – and the implications of what that means, for you to act upon today.
Now relocated from Seattle to Singapore, he hopes to join us live in person for the whole event.
Aparna Sundararajan – Senior Research Strategist at ADAPT will moderate a session with our global guest Glenn Gore – CEO, Affinidi Group & former global Chief Architect of AWS – joined by 3 local CTO, architect and infrastructure leaders.
Critical areas to debate will include key strategies and common challenges around architecting an interconnected and agile digital infrastructure for resilient workloads across hybrid environments, including:
Drinks and canapes will be served during this session leading in to our relaxed and COVID-safe networking session.
Based in our keynote room – an opportunity to mingle and meet the other attendees – your counterparts at the region’s top companies, compliant to physical distancing.
ADAPT helped the local launch of the global Infrastructure Masons in March 2020, and proudly partner their local chapter meeting onsite after CCDC 2021. CCDC attendees are invited to attend and each will receive 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.
Welcoming ADAPT & Infrastructure Mason Guests. The first Infrastructure Masons Australian Chapter meeting for 2021. Virtual presentation from Infrastructure Masons International Guests and a briefing on progress by the Australian Chapter across key iMason Strategic Priorities. Networking drinks & canapes to follow presentations.
