Agenda

Tuesday, 23 July 2024

“Visibility, Simplification, Orchestration & Optimisation”

Please note that 1:1 meetings will be running throughout the day.
07:45 - 08:30

Registration & Check-In

Secure your seat in the keynote room for the day.

Jim Berry

CEO & Founder

About

Jim founded ADAPT with a vision to help Australia thrive commercially, now and for the future.  To enable that, Jim leads ADAPT’s mission to connect, inform and equip our local business and tech leaders.

Leading the development of ADAPTs agenda’s and content strategy whilst also advising executive leadership teams from global technology service providers, Jim is uniquely experienced to be the voice of the end-user, the customer and the vendor.

Bringing his deep knowledge of the local market, Jim regularly presents “Know your Customer” webinars and guides the world’s largest vendors with their G-T-M and content strategies.

Through entrepreneurial product development and a servant leader mentality with his team and clients, ADAPT grows annually with clearly differentiated value for all stakeholders.
08:30 - 08:45

Welcome to the 12th Cloud & Infrastructure Edge: Visibility, Simplification, Orchestration & Optimisation

Jim Berry - CEO & Founder Read More

Technology 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?

Matt Boon

Senior Research Director at ADAPT

About

As Director of Strategic Research at ADAPT Matt Boon, is responsible for directing and developing ADAPTs research content and positions. In his role at ADAPT Boon advises C-Suite executives across the end-user and technology provider landscape. Boon is also responsible for bringing together groups of C-Suite leaders to discuss and prepare for the myriad of challenges and opportunities they face.

ADAPT host’s numerous industry leading IT focused events annually and Boon is responsible for hosting, chairing and delivering ADAPT independent content and positions to help attendees make informed IT decisions.
08:45 - 09:05

ADAPT Research: Insights From ADAPT 2024 Surveys – How Do You Compare?

Matt Boon - Senior Research Director at ADAPT Read More

ADAPT’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. Matt 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.

Tenar Larsen

Head of People & Performance, Executive Programs

About

Tenar has spent the last 18 years working in sales, running her own company consulting to corporate Australia around Workplace Wellness / Employee Experience and now she finds herself back over on the dark side as an employee, part of a well oiled machine – and loving it! As a Senior Manager of the ADAPT Advisory team, Tenar runs the team that fulfils over 60 private advisory events each year across Asia Pacific. Tenar build genuine relationships quickly and easily, loves connecting people, finding out how to solve a problem and then delivering.
09:05 - 09:10

Get an Edge: Making the Most of Your Day

Tenar Larsen - Head of People & Performance, Executive Programs Read More

Dr. Patrick Maes

CTO, CIO, Chief Architect & IT Strategist

About

Dedicated to empowering individuals, businesses, and enterprises to thrive through cutting-edge IT solutions, Patrick serves as an esteemed ADAPT Advisor.

With a profound passion for facilitating success in the realm of high-performing IT, Patrick brings forth a wealth of expertise, specialising in the Financial Services Industry, honed across diverse domains.

Having collaborated closely with regulatory bodies like the European Commission, EBA, ECB, and Executive Boards of prestigious institutions, Patrick offers invaluable counsel on critical facets including risk & security, compliance, IT strategy & transformation, digitisation strategies (in collaboration with MIT CISR), and large-scale cloud adoption.

Patrick’s leadership has seen the creation and nurturing of a top-tier global IT organisation spread across 45 countries, leading a team of 2000+ FTEs to unparalleled success.

His vision and expertise have resulted in the successful implementation of multi-year IT strategies, groundbreaking digitisation initiatives, and the establishment of market-leading practices in application development and infrastructure engineering encompassing cloud, AI & ML, API, Agile, and DevOps methodologies.

Patrick’s track record boasts the creation and delivery of pioneering capabilities such as the world’s first online IPO engine, Unified Payments Platform, and innovative New Way of Working initiatives.

A stalwart in the field, Patrick leverages his profound knowledge and experience to navigate the complex landscapes of IT operations and program management, optimising services on a global scale, all while focusing on elevating employee (EX) and client experience (CX).

In his role as an ADAPT Advisor, Patrick serves as a beacon of expertise and guidance, offering invaluable insights and strategies to propel businesses towards unparalleled success in the ever-evolving digital landscape.
09:10 - 09:50

Global Keynote: Modern Cloud Adoption Strategies: What Works?

Dr. Patrick Maes - CTO, CIO, Chief Architect & IT Strategist Read More

ADAPT 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.

Matt Boon

Senior Research Director at ADAPT

About

As Director of Strategic Research at ADAPT Matt Boon, is responsible for directing and developing ADAPTs research content and positions. In his role at ADAPT Boon advises C-Suite executives across the end-user and technology provider landscape. Boon is also responsible for bringing together groups of C-Suite leaders to discuss and prepare for the myriad of challenges and opportunities they face.

ADAPT host’s numerous industry leading IT focused events annually and Boon is responsible for hosting, chairing and delivering ADAPT independent content and positions to help attendees make informed IT decisions.

Warren Jennings

Industry CTO at Telstra

About

Warren Jennings is the Industry CTO for Agribusiness, Manufacturing, Logistics and Retail in Telstra’s Enterprise division. For over two decades he has focused on helping customers and industries derive value from digitisation and create value through the use of innovative and emerging technologies to solve real world problems in sectors such as agribusiness, retail, logistics, health, financial services and mining.

Justyn Green

Head of Architecture at Versent

About

Justyn Green aims to lead and support teams in designing, building, and delivering services that are reliable, unique, and fast. He is committed to continuous improvement, ensuring each project matures with every change. Justyn strives to be an approachable reference point for his team, stakeholders, and partners, working collaboratively to deliver services to both internal and external clients.
09:50 - 10:20

Realising the Promised Business Value of Cloud

Matt Boon - Senior Research Director at ADAPT Warren Jennings - Industry CTO at Telstra Justyn Green - Head of Architecture at Versent Read More

The cloud paradigm has promised a wide variety of avenues to business value, from cost reduction to greater agility, availability, security and maintainability. Some organisations have struggled to realise those benefits while others have leveraged cloud to consistently unlock sustained business value. What differentiates the approach of those that have been successful?

Meanwhile regulatory changes in areas like data management, AI and critical infrastructure make the IT infrastructure world more complex. Along with economic pressures, these changes are driving fast evolution of infrastructure governance models. IT organisations and their leaders face the challenge of simultaneously realising those long-touted benefits of cloud while increasing compliance and minimising risk.

Join Telstra and Versent to explore the strategies that help successful cloud organisations move from pockets of excellence to implementing holistic scalable governance and unlocking the promised value of cloud technologies.
10:20 - 10:40

Morning Break

Refreshments, Snacks & Connections

Dean Nelson

Chairman & Founder at Infrastructure Masons

About

Dean Nelson is the Founder and Chairman of Infrastructure Masons, an independent industry group of executive and technology professionals entrusted with building and operating the physical and logical structures of the Digital Age.

Dean has led $10B in infrastructure projects in 9 countries. His extensive architecture, engineering and operations experience includes 29 years in Hardware, 22 years in Network, 17 years in Infrastructure Software and 17 years in Data Centers. He has produced numerous award winning innovations in mission critical facilities and compute environments. He also holds four US patents.

Until 2019, Dean was Head of Uber Compute, at Uber. His team is responsible for Metal as a Service (MaaS) technical infrastructure (data center, compute, storage, network and infrastructure software) and business functions serving Uber’s global leading ridesharing business, as well as UberEats, UberFreight, UberHealth, UberForBusiness, and Autonomous vehicle and UberAir development.

Prior to Uber, Dean worked at Ebay Inc for 6 ½ years as the Vice President of Global Foundation Services, which served over 300 million active users enabling over $250Bn of enabled commerce volume annually. At end of his tenure at ebay, his team successfully integrated, then split ebay and paypal infrastructures into two independent internet companies. Prior to ebay, Dean worked at Sun Microsystems for 17 years in various technical, management and executive leadership roles in Manufacturing, Engineering, IT and Real Estate. His final project was the consolidation of Sun’s multi-billion dollar global technical infrastructure portfolio of over 1,000 facilities.

Dean is creator of the Digital Service Efficiency methodology, the first miles per gallon measurement for technical infrastructure, used to measure ebay.com as a single system. He served as the Chair of the Technology Business Management Council High Tech Workgroup, and Chairman & Founder of Data Center Pulse in 2009 – an exclusive datacenter owner community with over 9,000 members in 100 countries. In 2016, Dean founded Infrastructure Masons, an industry association where infrastructure professionals connect, grow and give back. Dean was identified by SearchDatacenter.com as one of the top five people who changed the data center. Dean is also the recipient of Sun’s prestigious Innovation Award, Modular DC Deployment award and Best DC Design award from Uptime Institute as well as the Operational Excellence and Infrastructure Trailblazer awards from The TBM Council and Outstanding Contributions to the Data Center Industry award from Data Center Dynamics.

In his personal time he gives back by building schools and dorms providing access to education for impoverished children through his Mother and Son Just Let Me Learn Foundation. He also enjoys spending time with his wife and performing with his daughter.
10:40 - 11:10

Infrastructure Masons: Global Digital Infrastructure Capacity Will Double in Less Than 5 Years, Possibly Triple in 10

Dean Nelson - Chairman & Founder at Infrastructure Masons Read More

Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) is a global, nonprofit, professional association of individuals connected and empowered to build a greater digital future for all. Led by Dean Nelson, a 35 year tech executive who has driven $10B in infrastructure projects across four contents for Sun Microsystems, Ebay, PayPal, Uber and Cato Digital, 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.

Dean will deliver insights from the iMason’s inaugural 2024 State of Industry Report for Digital Infrastructure. Driven by digitization and AI, we face unprecedented demand and four critical challenges to scale – Power, People, Perception and Planet. Never before has the world’s digital infrastructure been more critical to our work our life and the very survival of our planet.

Digital infrastructure is the new utility and necessity for the digital economy enabling trillions in economic prosperity. Join Dean as he provides insights into the industry’s global challenges and very real implications for Australia.

Shane Hill

Principal Research Analyst

About

Shane Hill is part of ADAPT’s Strategic Research and Advisory team. As Senior Research Analyst, he produces pragmatic insights tailored to the specific needs of technology leaders in Australia and New Zealand.

Hill has worked in technology delivery and market intelligence roles for the past 15 years. His expertise encompasses automation, data science, and machine learning domains. He focuses on how emerging technologies will impact the business models, frameworks, and operations of end-user and vendor organisations.

Formerly of Gartner and with IT services experience across multiple jurisdictions, Shane has led business transformation, technology modernisation, vendor management, and advisory programs for leading consultancies, major corporates, government agencies, and boutique firms.

Nathan McGregor

Senior Vice President, APAC at Cradlepoint

About

Nathan McGregor is the Senior Vice President, Sales for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region at Cradlepoint. Nathan has over 20 years’ of leadership experience in the telecommunications and IT industry working for prominent companies, including Cisco Meraki, Hitachi, Juniper Networks, Ericsson and Alcatel Lucent. He has successfully led technology businesses across APAC delivering networking, IoT, and analytics solutions across all industries. Working closely with indirect channel and carrier partners, he has a strong track record in supporting customers success in the use of innovative technologies to drive business value.
11:10 - 11:30

Unlocking Network Performance: Navigating the 5G and AI Era for Australian Organisations

Shane Hill - Principal Research Analyst Nathan McGregor - Senior Vice President, APAC at Cradlepoint Read More

While 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.

Join this fireside chat where Shane Hill, Principal Research Analyst at ADAPT and Nathan McGregor – Senior Vice President at Cradlepoint will explore:

  • 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

Astrid Groves

GM Channels, Alliances and Operations of APC at Schneider Electric Australia

About

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.
11:30 - 11:50

Navigating the AI-Driven Edge: Resilience and Sustainability in Focus

Astrid Groves - GM Channels, Alliances and Operations of APC at Schneider Electric Australia Read More

Unravel 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.
11:55 - 12:55

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.

Warren Jennings

Industry CTO at Telstra

About

Warren Jennings is the Industry CTO for Agribusiness, Manufacturing, Logistics and Retail in Telstra’s Enterprise division. For over two decades he has focused on helping customers and industries derive value from digitisation and create value through the use of innovative and emerging technologies to solve real world problems in sectors such as agribusiness, retail, logistics, health, financial services and mining.
Roundtable 1

How to Finally Realise the Promised Business Value of Cloud?

Warren Jennings - Industry CTO at Telstra Read More

Rapid growth in Data & AI is simultaneously driving demand for more compute, greater compliance, and improved flexibility. Cloud is a key tool to deliver these, but continuously optimising run models to drive savings is crucial. For many, the promise of Cloud value is frustratingly close: the tech is available but challenges around people, process, finance, governance, and security impede the realisation of that value. In fact, some organisations are considering repatriation from the cloud – but going backwards is not a sustainable solution.

Successfully leveraging cloud is far from simple – in fact 63% of projects fail to deliver the expected value. What can you do about this?

  • How can your organisation realise the business case value of cloud initiatives?
  • How do organisations move from isolated pockets of excellence to sustained adoption at scale?
  • What cloud governance controls improve cost, repeatability, and compliance?
  • What needs to be done to be ready for the demands of AI?

Join the CTO of Versent, other experts, and a room of your peers to debate these challenges, explore strategies for success and leave with practical, actionable takeaways.

Matt Preswick

Enterprise Solutions Engineering at Wiz

About

Matt Preswick is the Enterprise Solutions Engineer for Wiz in APJ, with experience in network, email and cloud security at leading security vendors in EMEA and APAC. Before joining Wiz, he lead operations at a Sydney based network analytics startup before returning to Cloud security with Wiz.

Matt is passionate about developing scalable and actionable security practices within APJs largest organisations.
Roundtable 2

CNAPP - Are You Ready to Adopt a New Cloud Security Operation Model?

Matt Preswick - Enterprise Solutions Engineering at Wiz Read More

A successful cloud security strategy needs to evolve to meet the changing needs of the business and growth of the cloud. As cloud infrastructure adoption continues to soar in the ANZ region, organisations are rethinking their approach to cloud security to reduce risk, ensure compliance with regulation, and enable the organisation to innovate with AI.

Join an exclusive leadership roundtable with Australian cybersecurity leaders as we discuss and share insights on simplifying your security stack by using a new operating model to accelerate cloud adoption across your organisation.

In this session, participants will share strategies and stories on:

• Reducing complexity and gaining complete visibility into cloud ecosystems
• Preparing and responding to new regulatory requirements hitting the region
• Improving your cloud security by democratising it across your organisation

Nik Jain

Regional Director (Solution Engineering), ANZ at Dynatrace

About

Nik Jain is Director of Solutions Engineering at Dynatrace APAC. Nik is motivated to apply his blended business and technical skills for advocating observability (BizDevSecOps usecases) to business and technical end users alike.

He is passionate about delivering customer excellence to 100s of ANZ Enterprise who tackle fire containment, scaling exercises and digital transformation challenges. Nik is up to this challenge with his team of seasoned solution advisors, consultants and architects.
Roundtable 3

Business, Process and Technology, Best Practices for Hyper-Modal AI

Nik Jain - Regional Director (Solution Engineering), ANZ at Dynatrace Read More

Hyper-Modal AI has created an unprecedented wave of investment, and any organization who moves too slowly, or not at all, stands to be left behind as the AI boom is well under way.

Early adopters formulated strategies and prioritised investments for their Hyper-Modal AI initiatives and quickly demonstrated value in key areas. Cloud & Infrastructure leaders must play a crucial role in developing AI strategy & process to ensure the business can fully capitalise, securely, compliantly, with optimised infrastructure to scale.

Join this Roundtable to discuss:

  • Establishing centers of excellence for responsible Hyper-Modal AI programs and oversight
  • Prioritising technology investment areas targeted at fast results
  • Making Hyper-Modal AI a foundation for business planning and maximizing productivity

Nick Sone

Chief Customer Officer at Brennan

About

A people-centric leader, Nick understands the importance technology plays in empowering people to thrive in their working lives and is passionate about delivering exceptional outcomes for our customers and their people. He’s on a mission to empower organisations by providing innovative and secure technology solutions that support their strategic initiatives.

Having held senior roles in both the telecommunications and systems integration businesses over the last 20 years he has empathy for the complex challenges businesses face and understands the importance that a technology partner plays in assisting customers to achieve their goals.

He is a member of CPA Australia, holds a Master of Commerce and an MBA and is a member of Brennan’s executive leadership team, where he is responsible for delivering on the strategic growth goals of the organisation.
Roundtable 4

Losing Faith in your Cloud Solutions? The Contemporary Cloud: Navigating it's Challenges, Complexities, and Opportunities.

Nick Sone - Chief Customer Officer at Brennan Read More

Whether its public, private, hybrid, or multi, there’s no doubt the contemporary cloud is a complex place to live.

Spending on public cloud services continues to rise unabated, with end-user spending set to top $679B in 2024 and exceed $1T in 20271. But with many business leads feeling they’ve yet to reap substantial value from their cloud investments, and eight of the top ten cloud gripes related to costs2, where did the love go? And how can faith be restored in your cloud solutions?

Join us in what promises to be a fascinating roundtable as we explore the answers.

• The cloud complete. How to take a holistic approach to your cloud investment and why an honest assessment of your cloud maturity matters.
• Costs versus value. Which one wins?
• Restoring cloud faith. Resolving the tension between investment and outcomes.
• Cloud turbulence. How to build robust cloud solutions in volatile times.
• Security detail. Exploring the primacy of security across everything the cloud touches.
12:55 - 13:50

Peer Networking Seated Lunch

13:55 - 14:55

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.

Stefan Avgoustakis

Security Practice Lead, Customer Engineering at Google Cloud

About

Stefan leads Google’s technical security engagements with some of Australia’s largest organisations across financial, government and other industries. Stefan has been with Google for over 2 years, based in Sydney. Stefan has been working as a trusted advisor to Google’s most strategic customers focusing on managing CyberSecurity, Identity, & Compliance risks.

Ric Centellas

Senior Director Customer Engineering, Australia & New Zealand at Palo Alto Networks

About

Ric is Senior Director Customer Engineering for Australia and New Zealand at Palo Alto Networks. In this role, he leads the Engineering and Architecture teams for the region.

With over 30 years experience in the IT and security industry, he acts as a trusted advisor to organisations across the region, providing thought leadership for customer executives, helping them effectively align their security posture with their business priorities.

Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, he spent more than 25 years in a variety of Engineering, Architecture and Consulting leadership roles. Ric is a passionate technologist who loves to champion change. He leverages his broad and diverse industry and technology background to help advise his clients with a more holistic system thinking approach.
Roundtable 5

Unleash AI with Confidence: A Security Discussion

Stefan Avgoustakis - Security Practice Lead, Customer Engineering at Google Cloud Ric Centellas - Senior Director Customer Engineering, Australia & New Zealand at Palo Alto Networks Read More

In the face of escalating threats and the growing challenge of recruiting security professionals, it’s crucial to assess how these factors impact your business’s security posture.

Join us for an exclusive roundtable, hosted by Palo Alto Networks’ and Google Cloud. Together, we’ll explore the future of AI-powered security and its potential to revolutionise your organisation’s approach to cyber threats.

The evolving threat landscape demands innovative solutions that can proactively adapt to sophisticated attacks. Discover how Google Cloud’s secure and scalable AI platform seamlessly integrates with Palo Alto Networks’ industry-leading security solutions, redefining cybersecurity boundaries.

During this discussion, you’ll:

• Gain insights into the strategic partnership between Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks and its implications for your security posture.
• Learn strategies for leveraging AI to develop a more resilient and proactive security approach.
• Network with peers and exchange valuable insights on navigating the dynamic threat landscape.

Alister Freese

Account Executive at Rubrik

About

A sales leader who can lead high performing sales teams through applying strong commercial, customer and people management skills. Have built a reputation as a highly motivated, results oriented, approachable and engaging leader, able to influence outcomes across multiple stakeholder groups and value chains. Known for the ability to tackle business problems by applying an innovative and inclusive approach that delivers results both internally and for clients.
Roundtable 6

Backup ≠ Cyber Recovery: Navigating the Shift in Required Capabilities and Shared Responsibilities Between IT and Cyber Teams

Alister Freese - Account Executive at Rubrik Read More

The weight of cybercrime is taking its toll not only on CIO and CISOs. An overwhelming 96% of IT and Security leaders suffered significant emotional or psychological impact as they continue to face unending challenges in protecting their company’s data, according to a recent Wakefield Research report ‘The State of Data Security’ commissioned by Rubrik*.

While prevention is impossible, Businesses, Leaders, and the Customers they serve need certainty in their ability to recover critical services in a timely manner.

Join thought leaders from Rubrik along with a select group of your IT and security peers, as we discuss challenges, the human impact of cybercrimes on an organisation, and best practices moving forward to protect your people and your data infrastructure.

*New Rubrik data security survey: 99% of organisations reported a breach in the last year – and 72% paid a ransom; but, only 16% who paid recovered their data.

Bruce Bennie

Vice President and General Manager, ANZ at Juniper Networks

About

With over 30 years’ experience in the IT&T industry, across a variety of leadership roles across sales and general management, ranging from organizations offering large complex solutions, to innovative start-ups operating more nimbly.

Currently responsible for the direction, management, and growth across all aspects of sales and operations in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), ranging from strategic planning and revenue growth to sales development and customer engagement.

Residing in Sydney, Australia with my wife and son, where we enjoy bushwalking, karate, and kayaking, along with an appreciation of good wine and coffee.
Roundtable 7

AI-Native Networking – Making Every User Experience Exceptional

Bruce Bennie - Vice President and General Manager, ANZ at Juniper Networks Read More

This session will look at how the industry’s first AI-Native Networking Platform is already using visibility and orchestration to deliver better operator and end-user experiences with the most comprehensive AIOps across the entire network stack.

– How can your network deliver simplicity, productivity, reliability, reduced risk, performance, and exceptional experiences?
– How to build and operate hybrid cloud infrastructure so that it’s ultra reliable, high performance, secure and easy to manage, no matter if the workload is on-prem, in a co-lo, or hosted cloud?

The discussion will cover how to tackle some of the most critical networking challenges, including how to use AIOps to:

• Reduce Network Complexity
• Unlock Resources
• Deliver predictability
• Unthrottle Network Responsiveness

From transforming and modernising the Data Centre, Campus & Branch, to scaling & automating the WAN, join your peers and experts from Juniper to discuss new ways to reach these network goals.
14:55 - 15:05

Afternoon Break

Refreshments, Snacks & Connections

Wayne Vest

Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company

About

Wayne brings over 25 years of experience in serving banking, telecommunications, and government clients on a broad range of digital issues, including cloud services and security, analytics, data governance, core IT platform architecture, networking, and IT operating model/organisation design, including agile-at-scale.
15:05 - 15:35

McKinsey: How To Get Attention On and Value From FinOps

Wayne Vest - Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company Read More

Cloud adoption continues to rapidly grow as more organisations seek increased speed and flexibility.

Meanwhile cloud cost is growing even faster than adoption, and organisations battling the Global economy are looking for savings opportunities, while still being able to achieve business outcomes.

Wayne will outline the most critical actions to establish a best-in-class Cloud FinOps capability.

Importantly, they will share the steps typically needed to move an organisation into action.

Jason O’Connell

CTO - Banking & Financial Services at Macquarie Group

About

Jason O’Connell is Chief Technology Officer for Macquarie Bank. Macquarie Bank is the Australian retail banking arm of Macquarie Group.

As a Digital only bank, Macquarie has invested heavily in technology, and has close to 100% of its systems running on public cloud. Jason has a strong focus on the power of platforms to improve developer experience, as well as automation at scale. Strategically Macquarie Bank is moving towards cloud-native higher order services, to reduce operations, increase scale and unleash innovation for the business.
15:35 - 16:05

Macquarie Bank: Next Generation Cloud & Data

Jason O’Connell - CTO - Banking & Financial Services at Macquarie Group Read More

Macquarie Bank has rapidly transformed their architecture & infrastructure to leverage the best of cloud.

In this session learn more about both their biggest challenges and wins, including:

  • Macquarie’s cloud migration journey
  • Approach to multi-cloud
  • Cloud 2.0 strategy

Peter Hind

Principal Research Analyst at ADAPT

About

Peter Hind has spent the last 25 years as an analyst and commentator on the ICT industry. He says his primary areas of interest are the potential of technology to transform the way organisations operate, the change management obstacles executives encounter in realising this potential and the tactics and techniques leaders have deployed to overcome these difficulties.

Peter now takes on multiple roles within ADAPT including the moderation of private events and roundtables, interviewing business executives about the strategies they are pursuing and assisting with the structuring of our delegate surveys and the interrogation and analysis of ADAPT’s treasure trove of end-user and C-level data

Craig Scroggie

CEO and Managing Director at NextDC

About

Craig Scroggie is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of NEXTDC, Australia’s leading Data-Centre-as-a-Service provider. Prior to becoming CEO in June 2012, Mr Scroggie served on the Board of Directors since IPO (2010) as a Non-Executive Director, including as Chairman of the Audit and Risk Management Committee.

Mr Scroggie has more than 25 years’ experience in the ICT industry, having held senior positions with Symantec, Veritas Software, Computer Associates, EMC Corporation and Fujitsu. Prior to joining NEXTDC, Mr Scroggie was Symantec’s Vice President & Managing Director for the Pacific Region.

Mr Scroggie currently serves on the Board of Sovereign Cloud Holdings (ASX:SOV) and also serves on the University of Southern Queensland Business School Advisory Board and is Chairman of the La Trobe University Business School Advisory Board and holds the position of Adjunct Professor.

Mr Scroggie is a Graduate of the University of Southern Queensland and holds an Advanced Certificate in Information Technology, a Graduate Certificate in Management, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management, a Master of Business Administration; and is a Graduate and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

In 2013 Mr Scroggie was awarded the University of Southern Queensland Faculty of Business & Law Alumnus of the Year and in 2015 was inducted into the ARN ICT Industry Awards Hall of Fame.

Sarah Carney

National CTO at Microsoft Australia

About

With over 20 years of work experience across three continents and a multitude of industries, I am currently the Chief Technology Officer for Enterprise Commercial at Microsoft, where I lead the technical strategy, vision, and execution for our largest and most strategic customers. I have a strong background in business strategy, analysis and development and I am also a certified Prosci change practitioner.

I currently serve as the co-chair of the Military Employee Resource Group Board at Microsoft, where I support the recruitment, retention, and development of veterans and their allies. I am passionate about delivering innovative and impactful solutions that enable digital transformation, empower customers, and drive business growth. I am always looking for new opportunities to learn, collaborate, and contribute to the technology community and beyond.

Rahul Arya

Group Chief Architect at National Australia Bank

About

With over 25 years of experience in technology architecture and engineering in banking and financial services, I am a proven leader and innovator in my field. I have successfully led large-scale transformations, delivered cutting-edge solutions, and built high-performance teams across Wall Street, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

As the Group Chief Architect at NAB, I am responsible for our global technology strategy, product roadmap, architecture, and engineering acceleration. My mission is to redefine our products and platforms with a modern technology lens, and to create a customer-centric and agile culture. I leverage my expertise in cloud, data, AI and software development to enable our business growth and competitive advantage. I also collaborate with internal and external partners to foster innovation and excellence.
16:05 - 16:45

Panel: AI Readiness & Impact - How Much Compute Will We Really Need?

Peter Hind - Principal Research Analyst at ADAPT Craig Scroggie - CEO and Managing Director at NextDC Sarah Carney - National CTO at Microsoft Australia Rahul Arya - Group Chief Architect at National Australia Bank Read More

Digital 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.
16:45

Closing Comments

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16:45 - 19:00

ADAPT proudly host the "2024 Infrastructure Masons Australian Chapter Networking Event"

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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.

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