Why Attend
The cloud has rapidly grown from being a market disrupter to an essential IT strategy for enterprise. 77% of businesses have at least one application or portion of their enterprise IT infrastructure in the cloud.
Migrating to the cloud is tough. Whether you are fully cloud-native, in a hybrid cloud environment or just taking the first steps, The Cloud Migration Summit will debunk migration myths and help IT Strategists and I&O leaders properly foster a corporate cloud culture and avoid migration pitfalls that might ramp up expenses bureaucracy and hamper digital transformation efforts.
Discover how the cloud front runners and industry leaders accelerated their digital transformations through a series of dedicated case studies, panel discussions and round tables.
83% of IT workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. Don't get left behind the curve.
Talk to our speakers about...
- Cloud: What are the legal risks? GDPR & the NIS Directive
- Scalability and Flexibility benefits of the cloud
- Cloud Cost optimisation: CapEX vs OpEx, Vendor Selection
- Cloud Security and data protection
- Common migration pitfalls and mitigating risk
- Utilising AI and ML in the cloud
- Implementing a corporate cloud culture
- Hybrid Cloud
- Multi-cloud management
- Migration of SaaS workloads to the cloud
- Cloud & Shadow IT
- Cloud Native Technologies
- Migration of SAP environments to the cloud
- Vendor Lock-In
ROUND TABLES
COST CONTROL & OPTIMISATION
Discuss the techniques & strategies put in place by your peers to ensure your migration outlay doesn’t spiral out of control when moving from a CapEx to an OpEx IT model. Understand the practical steps you can take to cut your cloud bill including shutting down idle cloud & development instances to leveraging discount optionsfrom your service provider.
MULTI-CLOUD & HYBRID CLOUD
Discuss best practices & strategies for managing your multi & hybrid cloud environments for optimum speed, security and cost savings. Understand the tried & tested methodologies of your peers for picking which workloads to migrate to the cloud and which service provider to use.
The Speakers
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Mark Davies
Mark is an Enterprise Technology Architect in the “Chief Technology Office” of Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd. Having left school at 16 in the late 80’s, started work in a local Insurance Company before taking on his first serious IT role, within a Software House developing motor insurance quotation systems. Since then he’s worked in the Insurance, Utilities, Travel & Retail industries, moving from Operations Support into Architecture & Strategy. He has worked on projects all over the world, but always returning to his roots in good old Sussex by the sea. With an inquisitive mind and a love for technology, both old and new, he also recognizes that technology is the simplest piece of the puzzle. Father of two, husband, qualified FA coach, part of the Les Mills Bodycombat Tribe; he brings commitment and dedication to everything he does.
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Kuan Hon
I am a director in the Privacy, Security and Information group at Fieldfisher, focusing on data protection law and information law.
As I have a computing science degree and a passion for technology (especially technical security aspects), I enjoy working on projects relating to new and emerging technologies such as cloud computing and IoT. I also advise clients on security breaches and other security-related matters, such as NIS Directive issues.
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Karan Darroch
Karan Darroch joined Dunedin in 2012. She is responsible for the provision of detailed financial information for Dunedin’s investors, as well as the analysis of portfolio performance.
Karan has an honours degree in Accountancy from Glasgow Caledonian University. Whilst at university she worked as a team leader at First Direct Bank. Following graduation, she joined KPMG where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant. She spent 2 years seconded to KPMG Melbourne before returning to the UK as a senior manager in the Financial Services Audit team.
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Russell Warman
Russell Warman is Head of Infrastructure and Operations at Auto Trader, the UK's largest digital automotive marketplace
He leads the team charged with the capacity and performance of one the UK’s busiest websites - autotrader.co.uk, which sits at the heart of the UK's vehicle buying process. The team have a cloud native approach to enable our developers to make more frequent changes safely and are increasingly looking at public cloud services to help achieve that aim.
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Aubrey Stearn
Aubrey is currently CTO of the Nationwide Digital Accelerator Platform, she deeply believes that the DevOps movement redefines what we need to nurture and grow in our current and future engineers, actives seeks to build super awesome teams of excellent people.
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Michael Cade
Michael Cade is a Global Technologist for Veeam Software. Based in the UK, an IT Professional with over 14 years of industry experience with a key focus on Data Center technologies including Virtualisation, Storage and Data Center. Michael’s role at Veeam is to engage those new to availability technologies as well as those who are experts, speaking at events and sharing the Veeam vision and strategy of the company whilst providing feedback from the field into product management to shape the future success of Veeam Software.
Michael is very active around the social media sphere blogging and tweeting relevant technical content.
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Andy Nelson
Andy works in Illumina’s Product Development organization on cloud operations & architecture for the BaseSpace suite of Informatics SaaS platforms.
These providing data management and analysis capabilities for full genome DNA sequencing, and during 2018 consumed over 4 Million compute hours, processing over 10PB of genomic data… equivalent to the entire Netflix video library every quarter.
Prior to working at Illumina, Andy was a cross-industry technical consultant, and brings over 2 decade’s experience in designing and managing high volume data storage and distributed compute systems across a diverse range of industries including telecommunications, insurance, banking, pharmaceutical and biotechnology.
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Thomas Alisi
Software engineer with entrepreneurial attitude, problem solving approach and a particular propensity for large scale cloud computing projects.
I can lead and implement the deployment of software architectures for data driven digital products and award winning digital campaigns for international brands and agencies.
With my scientific background, I have published for international conferences and journals and I have been awarded numerous research grants.
I am also the proud founder and manager of an invitation only community of ~200 London-based technical leads and developers.
The Agenda
Please download the agenda to find out more information about the Cloud Migration Summit 2019 including the main topics of discussion and our full lineup of speakers.
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Who Will Be There
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartCIOs / CISOs / CTOs / CFOs25%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartIT Infrastructure & Operations Directors40%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartSenior Cloud Architects15%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartDevOps Management10%
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Kisaco Audience Breakdown ChartService Providers10%
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CIOs / CISOs / CTOs / CFOs25%
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IT Infrastructure & Operations Directors40%
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Senior Cloud Architects15%
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DevOps Management10%
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Service Providers10%
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