Agenda

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?

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. 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.

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. He designed the strategy and architecture for Credit Suisse infrastructural services transforming them to a service-oriented operating model to prepare the Bank for an accelerated adoption of cloud. He then became CIO of Bank User Solutions serving 50,000 staff across 45 countries.

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 Association for the last few years.

The questions he will address:

• Should we adopt Cloud? If so, why?
• 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 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.

Infrastructure 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.

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.

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

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.