Cloud Acceleration (CloudAx) Day

Migrate with Intention. Modernize with Impact

June 25, 2025 - Chicago, IL

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

Ruslan Kusov SoftServe
Ruslan Kusov

Director, Cloud Coe

SoftServe

About Me

Ruslan is a Cloud COE Director at SoftServe with more than 15 years of IT industry experience. He has created and optimized architectures for global tourism, payment services, healthcare, and mobile development companies. He is a certified AWS expert, an AWS Ambassador and an AWS Community Builder. Ruslan was named as the DevOps Engineer of the Year 2018 by Computing magazine's DevOps Excellence Awards (United Kingdom), and as Ukrainian IT Awards' DevOps of the Year 2018.

June 25, 2025

Agenda

All times Central Time

11:00 AM-11:30 AM

Lunch & Registration


11:30 AM-11:35 AM

Opening Remarks


11:35 AM-12:30 PM

Migrate with Intention. Modernize with Impact

As organizations evaluate their virtualization and cloud strategies, many are rethinking how they manage legacy workloads in light of rising costs, limited scalability, and shifts in the technology landscape. This session will explore how enterprises can transition traditional virtualized environments to modern cloud infrastructure, while minimizing disruption and maintaining performance.

With the right migration approach, IT teams can align workload placement with business needs, reduce operational complexity, and unlock greater scalability and resilience. Attendees will gain insights into various migration pathways, cost-optimization strategies, and modernization techniques that support long-term flexibility and innovation across the enterprise.


12:30 PM-1:30 PM

AWS Migration Funding & Tooling

Learn how your organization can harness cloud benefits that will accelerate your migration and modernization journey with AWS and SoftServe, including tooling and funding offered by AWS.


1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Accelerating Migration with EBA

Learn how Experience Based Acceleration (EBA) offered through AWS can speed up your organization’s digital transformation and cloud value realization. Hundreds of enterprises at various levels of cloud maturity have harnessed EBA to build cloud foundations, migrate at scale, modernize their businesses, and innovate for their customers. They have succeeded because of a proven learn-by-doing working model that seamlessly scales to drive business value.


2:30 PM-2:45 PM

Networking Break


2:45 PM-3:15 PM

Group Use Case Walk Through

Showing the real case of AWS migration and modernization and fostering collaboration, participants will work as a team to navigate their modernization use case and address related challenges. Participants can expect prescriptive and non-prescriptive guidance from migration & modernization experts to stimulate discussion, creative thinking, and technical problem solving.



3:45 PM-4:30 PM

Group Activity


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