Cloud Acceleration (CloudAx) Day

Migrate with Intention. Modernize with Impact

June 10, 2025 - New York City, NYC

Join us and other cloud experts to explore strategies for unlocking the full potential of digital transformation within your organization, to drive agility, scalability, and innovation through migration and modernization.

Visionaries

James Bland EPAM
James Bland

Director Technology Solutions

EPAM

Custom Speaker

Highly experienced and versatile Senior Solution Architect and Cloud Architect adept at overseeing the entire customer journey, spanning pre-sales, design, and implementation phases. Known for successfully leading large-scale digital modernization programs for enterprise clients as a Delivery Lead. Possess a comprehensive skill set encompassing various infrastructure technologies from multiple vendors. Recognized for consistently delivering exceptional customer satisfaction throughout an extensive consulting career. Holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Applied Computing from the University of East Anglia.

Maria Armstrong AWS
Maria Armstrong

Principal WW EBA Partner Lead

AWS

Custom Speaker

With over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and business development, I am a dedicated and passionate leader who helps organizations become more agile, so they can innovate and respond to change faster. I am currently the AMER Partner GTM Leader for Modernization at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where I work with cross-functional teams internal and external to AWS to ensure smooth GTM operations. My core competencies include solution selling, relationship building, and strategic planning in areas such as application modernization, cloud, security, data center, software, networking, and virtualization. I take the time to understand my Customers' and Partners' needs and connect them to the solutions that will help solve their business challenges. I have also earned multiple honors and certifications, including the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Fortinet Security NSE 1, and Sales Excellence awards. My mission is to empower customers and partners with the best cloud solutions and services that AWS has to offer.

June 10, 2025

Agenda

All times Eastern Time

8:30 AM-9:00 AM

Networking & Coffee


9:00 AM-9:15 AM

Kick-Off & Introductions



9:45 AM-10:15 AM

Use Case Overview


10:15 AM-12:15 PM

Team Working Session

Simulating a realistic team environment and fostering collaboration, participants will work as a team to navigate a migration use case. Participants can expect prescriptive and non-prescriptive guidance from migration & modernization experts to stimulate discussion, creative thinking, and technical problem solving.


12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Lunch


1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Group Discussion & Knowledge Sharing

Teams will share their unique methodology and thought process in how they approached the use case with the wider group. Unlike traditional workshops, this discussion will be open-ended to encourage knowledge sharing and foster group-based problem solving.  


2:00 PM-2:15 PM

Break



3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Group Activity


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