Keynote

Agenda

08:00 - 09:15 Registration & breakfast

• 09:15 - 10:00 Breakout sessions

  • VMware on AWS

    AWS Speaker: John Enoch, Principal, Technical Business Development/EMEA Cloud Economics

    Location: Interact

  • Digital transformation

    AWS Speaker: Mark Preston, Strategic Engagement Lead - Enterprise Transformation

    Abstract: AWS Digital Transformation outlines the business and technology objectives and how they are aligned to drive prescriptive transformation journeys for digital business. The session contrasts the conflict in enterprise between agility and efficiency and reflects on how Amazon have transformed.

    We introduce transformation journeys and this includes alignment to sponsors for change and associated strategic objectives and outlines the blueprint for the operating model. The presentation includes the AWS enterprise transformation framework approach to driving broad change with scale and pace to deliver results in shorter time frames but as part of a longer term vision.

    Location: Synergy

  • Driving smart transformational change through the use of AI and ML (Public Sector)

    AWS Speaker: Neil Mackin, Technical Business Development Manager

    Abstract: The application of AI/ML can provide enable digital transformation with smart capabilities that enable a step change in the potential benefits. AWS provide a range of AI and ML services to enable organisations to realise this potential. We will review some of these technologies and a number of use cases, as well as considering the keys to success for embedding AI/ML into your transformation projects.

    Location: Engage

10:15 - 12:00 Keynote

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

• 12:25 - 13:10 - Breakout sessions

  • The talent you already have is the talent you need

    AWS Speaker: Jennifer Davis, Head of Product Marketing Management, Training & Certification

    Abstract: One of the biggest misconceptions we hear from IT leaders is the belief that not having the right people on staff stops you from moving faster, saving money, and expanding your business on the cloud. You already have the people you need to succeed in the cloud, and these highly skilled, experience and dedicated employees have the ability to learn AWS cloud skills and become certified experts. Transforming your talent has a profound impact on workforce productivity and satisfaction, and in this session we will walk through best practices and AWS capabilities to help you along the way.

    Location: Enterprise 2

  • Balancing Innovation and Governance with AWS Marketplace

    AWS Speaker: TBC

    Abstract: Cloud computing is disrupting the way organisations do business. Users can spin up hundreds, or even thousands, of servers in minutes. From start-ups to global Enterprises, businesses are moving to the cloud at scale to take advantage of the agility, cost savings and innovation that cloud enables.
    
    How do Enterprises manage third party governance and risk in this rapidly evolving technology environment?
    
    This session looks at tools and mechanisms available to help procurement unlock the benefits of cloud for their organisation while maintaining governance and managing risk.

    Location: Synergy

  • How Public Sector organisations can break through the barriers to IoT adoption

    AWS Speaker: Francisco Gonzalez, Solutions Architect
    

    Abstract: IoT adoption in the Public Sector is perhaps the most complex of any sector with many difference use cases across a single organisation such as transport, building management, staff and health & safety. This talk will explore some of the hurdles to implementing IoT and the steps organisations can take to help foster adoption such as:

    - Building the technology infrastructure

    - Empowering department teams to build PoC's

    - Citizen engagement by opening data and infrastructure

    - Technology Selection

    - Scaling considerations

    - Long term management

    Location: Interact

• 13:30 - 14:15 - Breakout sessions

  • An Amazonian approach to enterprise transformation

    AWS Speaker: Paul Hannan, Enterprise Technology Lead (UKI)

    Abstract: As cloud becomes the ‘new normal’ for digital ‘breakouts’ from enterprises and startups, many are asking how they can accelerate cloud adoption within their large estate of existing business applications.

    Large scale enterprise migrations run the risk of stalling or failing, unless changes to controls, processes and operational models within the traditional IT department and beyond are addressed. AWS have taken a customer-centric view, utilising insight from experienced practitioners, to develop a prescriptive approach to accelerate and de-risk the large scale adoption of cloud. This enables our customers to be ‘enterprise-ready’ to operate cloud at scale within 180 days.

    The session will cover how AWS has utilised their own key tenets to provide an approach to cloud adoption and migration, designed to address the key challenges of ‘enterprise-inertia’ and enable our enterprise customers to benefit from cloud in a secure, reliable and cost effective way, operating within appropriate enterprise controls.

    Location: Enterprise 1

     

  • Are you Well Architected?

    AWS Speaker: Philip Fitzsimons, Well-Architected Lead, AWS

    Location: Enterprise 2

  • Executing a large-scale migration to AWS

    AWS Speaker: Mary McDaniel, Global Application Migration and Modernization Practice Manager, EMEA

    Abstract: Enterprises have developed complex portfolios of enterprise applications and virtualized with VMware vSphere. Moving these application portfolios to the cloud is imperative in order to free up resources and gain agility for the business. This session shows how AWS can help your enterprise achieve value faster, reducing its time to cloud maturity by utilizing best practices and strategies developed by working with hundreds of customers on their large-scale migrations.

    Location: Synergy

  • Quantifying the impact of AWS on your business

    AWS Speaker: Muneeb Ahsan, Enterprise Transformation - Principal Partner

    Abstract: Most organisations know that they can achieve cost savings and greater business agility by moving to the cloud, but they often struggle to develop a comprehensive business case that quantifies the benefits they will see beyond just infrastructure cost savings. In this session, we will introduce the AWS Cloud Value Framework (CVF) and explain how it can be used to quantify not only cost savings, but also the value of business agility, operational resilience, and staff productivity. After this session, you should be able to describe the benefits of the cloud to different stakeholders across your organisation and present a comprehensive value-based business case.

    Location: Interact

  • Partner Session

    Speaker: TBC

    Location: Engage

• 14:25 - 15:10 - Breakout sessions

  • 12 Steps to get started with cloud

    AWS Speaker: Jonathan Allen, Enterprise Strategist

    Abstract: With the benefit of hindsight, find out what are the best 12 steps enterprises can take to get started with cloud to enable them to go fast and safely.

    Location: Enterprise 1

  • Partner Session

    Speaker: TBC

    Location: Enterprise 2

  • SAP on AWS

    AWS Speaker: TBC

    Location: Synergy

  • Partner Session

    Speaker: TBC

    Location: Interact

  • People and op-model accelerator

    Speaker: Russell Easter, Senior Consultant

    Abstract: You know your business can benefit from the cloud, but what does this mean for your staff and operating model? In this webinar, we share best practices we've learned from helping thousands of organisations transform their operating models to accelerate cloud adoption and create innovation flywheels. We show you how you can start with a small, dedicated team from your existing business, design, engineering, and operations staff to free development teams to focus on delivering applications instead of focusing on platform or governance concerns.

    Location: Engage

15:10 - 15:35 - Coffee & refreshment break

• 15:35 - 16:20 - Breakout Sessions

  • Transforming & Modernising BBC TV Licensing’s Data Management Platforms on AWS

    BBC TV Licensing (TVL) faced the obsolescence and end of support of their Campaign Management System (CMS) and the related Data Management System (DMS). The crucial data resided in disparate source systems, resulting in inconsistent customer insights and intelligence. The organisation wished to modernise these systems while enabling the agility and business analytics granted by cloud technology.
    
    Cognizant is working with BBC TVL to transform and migrate the incumbent DMS platform to AWS. With a layered architecture, the solution comprises of Informatica, Cloudera and BMC components tightly integrated on the AWS platform. This combination delivers a bespoke, scalable, natively resilient and agile platform that allows the BBC to derive a greater understanding of its licence fee customers than ever before.
    
    In this interview-style session we will explore how the BBC is leveraging AWS technology to use TVL data, which increases their understanding of customer behaviour and preferences, and ultimately enables the organisation to serve their customers better.
    

    Customer Speakers: Sanjiv Dodeja - Head of IT, BBC TV Licensing & Keshav Nagaraja - Client Partner, Cognizant
    

    Location: Synergy

  • Differentiation through innovation

    Speaker: Mike Bainbridge, Digital Transformation and Innovation

    Abstract: The acceleration of technology change is disrupting all industries and provides an opportunity for organisations, of any size, to truly differentiate their business through innovation. In this session, we will discuss the key drivers for innovation that will help your organisation differentiate itself by improving your pace of innovation, getting to market faster and building an operating model that enables continuous innovation so you can stay ahead of your changing business needs.

    Location: Enterprise 2

  • Partner Session

    AWS Speaker: TBC

    Location: Synergy

  • Database freedom

    Speaker: Michael Matta, Head of Business Development - Database Services - EMEA

    Location: Interact

  • Building an effective Cloud Finance Office

    Speaker: Mario Thomas, Global Executive Advisory

    Abstract: We often find that customers are focussed on immersing themselves in the AWS platform from a technology perspective in the early stages of adoption; often leaving financial management and operations (FinOps) to a later date after adoption has commenced. This can lead to customers paying more for their use of AWS than otherwise would have been the case, or delaying adoption at a critical point while FinOps is brought up to speed. The route to maximising these opportunities is to ensure that the CFO and their finance leaders are aware of the best practices that exist around cloud financial management and operations (“FinOps”), and have the necessary finance policies in place to accelerate adoption, and operate in AWS.

    In this session, Mario Thomas from our Global Advisory team, shares insights gained from working with finance and non-finance leaders in some of our largest customers to transform their FinOps capabilities to support adoption of the cloud; supporting modernising existing applications and innovating new ones to drive material organisational transformation through the Cloud Finance Office.

    Location: Engage

• 16:30 - 17:15 - Breakout Sessions

  • Are we stupid or what? Why is change that difficult?

    AWS Speaker: Anya Epishcheva, Principal Consultant (Advisory)

    Abstract: Have you ever wondered why change in organisations is painful? As human beings, it seems that we know how to deal with change: we learn new skills, move countries, change careers, find new friends and hobbies. But when it comes to groups of people (organisations) the rate of success for company-wide transformations is 16% in digitally-advanced industries (and single digits for normal industries). Does it mean that when many people come together, they suddenly lose their ability to cope with change? Come to this talk and learn about some underlying concepts that shed light on the complex world of organisational transformation.

    Location: Enterprise 1

  • Leveraging artificial intelligence across the enterprise

    Speaker: Chris King, Solutions Architect , AWS
    

    Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as a future technology with transformational impact across society. In reality, many enterprises already use innovative AI powered solutions to drive new levels of scale, create new efficiencies, and generate new predictions. In this session, we will explore real world use cases that demonstrate how AI helps organisations innovate for realised business outcomes.

    Location: Enterprise 2

  • Re-architecting for Innovation

    AWS Speaker: Thomas Blood, EMEA Enterprise Strategist

    Location: Synergy

  • Modernise your security, risk management, and compliance strategy

    AWS Speaker: Brian Wagner, Head of Compliance, EMEA, AWS Financial Services 

    Abstract: The practice of cloud security and compliance now enables enterprises to innovate both quickly and securely. Many enterprises moving to the cloud may find that some aspects of the cloud security model differ from the model used in their traditional on-premises infrastructure. At AWS, security is our top priority, and this session provides an overview of our security model and best practices to help your organisation innovate quickly while maintaining enterprise-level security in the cloud.
    

    Location: Interact

  • A CFO's perspective on Business Transformation and the Cloud

    Speaker: Jonathan Smare, Finance Leader - Enterprise Transformation

    Abstract: Today we’re going to talk about the role that the CFO can play in an organization’s digital transformation and business evolution. CFOs are already pursuing the elements of the digital transformation journey. They want actionable insights and value from data. They want to become hyper-aware and have insights inform their strategy. They want to be able to be agile and change. AWS absolutely has the tools to help your organization become a more agile, innovative organization, but that’s only half the picture.

    The real goal and prize is developing new, modern ways of working. It’s about adopting 21st century working practices and developing a culture of innovation, agility and speed. And it’s an executive decision that has to be driven from the top. So today we’re going to discuss the accelerating business challenges that are driving a huge wave of digital transformation. We’ll talk a little bit about Amazon’s journey of digital transformation, just as an example. Most importantly, we’ll focus on the nimble, inventive enterprise of the future – and how we can go about building it.  

    Location: Engage

17:15 - 18:30 - Networking & drinks

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