It's an undeniable fact that cloud systems offer unparalleled advantages to enterprises. Yet, despite this, many workloads have yet to be migrated. In this session, AWS will share their experiences in terms of what has held some enterprises back in terms of migration. Most importantly, they will share examples of what is driving the migration of workloads that enterprises have previously been loath to move. What lies behind a change in attitude and how are blockers as well as concerns being successfully tackled.
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Visionaries


Rami El Outa
CTO - Cybersecurity
Luminor Group


Ngozi Nwosu-Aligwekwe
VP Finance Market & Credit Risk Tech
Citi


Kristen French
Director of Data Strategy
Havas Media Group


Krishna Challa
Director, Technology Solutions
EPAM
Custom Speaker
Krishna Challa leads EPAM’s AWS Technology and Consulting practice in the UK and Emerging markets and comes with over 18 years of experience helping organizations solve increasingly complex application, data, and infrastructure modernization challenges by adopting modern technologies. Krishna and his team help customers through their cloud transformation journeys by providing technology due diligence, solution design and engineering capabilities. Prior joining EPAM, Krishna worked in the areas of SDN, VNF deployments, building and operating large distributed systems at both AT&T and Verizon. In his free time, Krishna enjoys hiking, rowing and spending time with friends and family.


Mike Brass
Head of Security Architecture
National Highways


Supraja Sutti
Cloud Security Engineer
Kurt Geiger


Ange Johnson De Wet
Director, Head of Engineering
Royal Bank of Scotland


Ime Akpan
Head of Data Engineering
Vanguard


Daniel Vaughan
Director, Software Engineering
Mastercard


Sachin Gaba
Managing Director, Head of Software Development
State Street


Sameer Durbhaka
SVP, Data & Reg Operations Data Governance Office
Citibank

Kevin Kincaid
Group Director, Technology
Grosvenor


Pallavi Deshpande
Director - Technology Transformation
Pearson


Mia Axtell
Senior Security Manager
Arm


Jig Patel
Cyber Security - CISO Strategic Advisor
UK Ministry of Defence


Pramod Tek
IT Director
Balfour Beatty


Don Mlambo
Vice President, Technology Audit
BlackRock
Custom Speaker
BlackRock, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors including corporate, public, union, and industry pension plans, insurance companies, third-party mutual funds, endowments, public institutions, governments, foundations, charities, sovereign wealth funds, corporations, official institutions, and banks. It also provides global risk management and advisory services. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also launches and manages open-end and closed-end mutual funds, offshore funds, unit trusts, and alternative investment vehicles including structured funds. The firm launches equity, fixed income, balanced, and real estate mutual funds. It also launches equity, fixed income, balanced, currency, commodity, and multi-asset exchange traded funds. The firm also launches and manages hedge funds. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, real estate, currency, commodity, and alternative markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, SMID-cap, large-cap, and multi-cap companies. It also invests in dividend-paying equity securities. The firm invests in investment grade municipal securities, government securities including securities issued or guaranteed by a government or a government agency or instrumentality, corporate bonds, and asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a focus on bottom-up and top-down approach to make its investments. The firm employs liquidity, asset allocation, balanced, real estate, and alternative strategies to make its investments. In real estate sector, it seeks to invest in Poland and Germany.


Maria Papademetriou
Senior Engineering Manager, Data, ML & AI
American Express
Agenda
All times United Kingdom Time
8:30 AM-9:20 AM
Welcome & Registration
9:20 AM-9:30 AM
Opening Remarks
9:30 AM-9:50 AM
Embracing the Future: Migrating Workloads in the Digital Age
9:55 AM-10:35 AM
Accelerating Migration with AI
This presentation will explore how AI can be used to significantly accelerate migration to the cloud as well as ensure that migration is successful. The speaker will discuss optimizing resource allocation, enhancing data security, and automating migration processes. Key considerations such as data and application modernization will be discussed as well as how AI can improve discovery and readiness phases. Attendees will learn how AI-driven tools can streamline the transition, reduce costs, and ensure a secure and efficient migration experience.
10:35 AM-10:55 AM
Networking Break
10:55 AM-11:45 AM
Real-World Insights
AWS and EPAM will share their experience of AI being used to accelerate migrations and modernizations - what were the key drivers behind the migration, how was the migration approached, number of workloads, timeframe etc. What processes and tools were used that made this successful. How was automation used. How were risks related to performance, stability and security mitigated. How were costs managed. Key advice for those considering a migration.