Registration and networking breakfast

AWS Summit | ExecLeaders keynote part I

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AWS Summit | ExecLeaders keynote part II

Breakout tracks (join one of the below)

• Succeeding in economies of speed: Rethinking your levers

  When leaders look to change their organization, they often begin with restructuring, defining new processes and guidelines, or granting exceptions to innovation units. However, transformation isn’t about doing existing things better; it’s foremost about doing different things and doing them differently. This talk highlights why transformation is different from any other project and challenges you to rethink your levers for change.

  Speakers:
  Ishit Vachhrajani, AWS Global Director of Enterprise Strategy and former CTO of A+E Networks 

• Reskilling at the speed of cloud: Turning employees into entrepreneurs

  The cloud unleashes your organization’s talent to innovate at speed, but there’s a challenge. With people at the heart of agile organizations, how do you successfully release this potential by establishing the skills you need throughout your company, from the boardroom down? In this session, find out why learning agility is at the heart of digital transformation and why it can be a powerful measure of your organization’s future success. Learn about patterns and approaches that can help you create the time and momentum to reskill your entire organization so you can capitalize on the potential of the cloud.
  

  Speakers:
  Phil Le-Brun, Enterprise Strategist, Amazon Web Services
  

• Building future-ready infrastructure

  In recent years, our world has changed repeatedly—through pandemics, supply chain crises, economic volatility, and geopolitical turmoil, core business infrastructure has faced unprecedented pressure. In this panel, industry experts and executives from Centrica and Coventry Building Society will discuss how, in collaboration with AWS and Cognizant, their cloud journeys have evolved through this uncertainty, and how they are continuing to transform their infrastructure to face whatever the future brings.
  

  Speakers:
  James Boswell, Director of Cloud, Centrica
  Jayne Showell, CIDO, Coventry Building Society
  Niraj Seth, VP & Head of Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities (UK&I), Cognizant
  Duncan Roberts, Director of Research, Cognizant
  

Breakout tracks (join one of the below)

• What Technology Leaders Should Learn from Wall Street

  As Jeff Bezos once noted, the only sustainable advantage is organizational agility which is enabled by the speed of migration. Unfortunately, McKinsey observed that today's legacy thinking slows the development of this agility by stalling migrations thereby limiting the value that can be realized through technology. This session explores how leaders can learn from the strategies and tactics of Wall Street to crush this legacy thinking, unblock stalled migrations and get credit for their digital transformations true impact.
  

  Speakers:
  Lora Lindsey, Principal, AWS Industries Value Innovation & GTM Strategy, Amazon Web Services
  

• Data-driven enterprise: Going from vision to value

  Businesses want to unleash the value of data to increase agility, drive innovation, and improve efficiency. While data is abundant and growing rapidly, just producing or storing a lot of it doesn’t automatically create value. Value is realized by creating a culture and operating model that use the data to invent on behalf of customers using actioned insights, analytics, and AI/ML. However, cultural challenges, outdated governance models, organizational silos, and legacy execution approaches stand in the way of realizing this vision. Join this session to learn strategies rooted in the first-hand experience of two former CXOs on how to overcome these barriers to turn this vision into a reality.
  

  Speakers:
  Deirdre Toner, Director Data, Worldwide Specialist Organisation
  

• Atos CloudCatalyst: Atos and AWS partnership to supercharge cloud adoption

  Through market-leading technology, a deep understanding of legacy infrastructure and customer needs, Atos have the experience needed to de-risk cloud migration and modernization. As a result, we are leading the way to successful cloud migrations, and delivering customers a fast-track to cloud-enabled transformation. CloudCatalyst is a new strategic partnership launched by Atos and AWS to transform the infrastructure outsourcing industry. In this session you will learn how Atos' customers are able to realise the benefits of moving to the cloud, including reduced operating costs and carbon emissions, as well as increased business value and accelerated digital innovation.
  

  Speakers:
  Brooks Borcherding – AWS Global Practice Lead - AtosClive Grethe – Global Head of Hybrid Cloud – Atos Dwayne Kirk Fernandez – Senior Manager, Technical Business Development, Enterprise Transformation - Amazon Web Services
  

Coffee break

Breakout tracks (join one of the below)

• Untangling your Organisational Hairball

  Implementing small multi-skilled business outcome-focused teams which can take true advantage of the cloud, what we call 2-Pizza Teams, is actually much harder than it first appears. Enterprises are complex. Implementing new ways of working can feel overwhelming, with perceived challenges and real blockers, all of which can cause inertia. In this keynote we will go beyond high-level concepts. Delving into the weeds, we’ll share real world experience grounded in principles, methods and lessons learned on how to bring these teams to life. The dream of faster, better outcomes can be real.
  

  Speakers:
  Jonathan Allen, AWS Global Strategist and former CTO of Capital One Bank
  

• Shipping securely: How strong security can be your strategic advantage

  Organizations turn to digital transformation initiatives and use the AWS Cloud to increase agility, drive innovation, and improve efficiencies. However, they often overlook a strong security program’s strategic business advantage. Designed for line of business, information technology, and security leaders, this session covers how high-performing organizations, including AWS, develop the culture, mechanisms, and organizational constructs that allow for increased velocity and execution while maintaining a high bar for security and compliance.

  Speakers:
  Matthias Patzak, Enterprise Strategist, Amazon Web Services

• Customer centricity: How well is your organisation responding to changing customer needs?

  Being in the business of change requires sustained efforts in culture, processes, organization, and technology. In this session we’ll discuss how mechanism, culture, and data can fuel customer centricity, and hear from Drax, who have transitioned from Europe’s largest fossil fuel power plant, to a world leader in decarbonisation. Drax have used Amazon mechanisms, and AWS cloud computing, to support operational and strategic decisions in their mission to tackle runaway climate change.
  

  Speakers:
  Rob Hodges, Innovation Lead UKI, Amazon Web Services
  Bjoern Reinke Director of Data Science at Drax Group