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

Custom Speaker

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.

Maria Armstrong AWS
Maria Armstrong

Worldwide 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 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



3:15 PM-3:45 PM

QA


3:45 PM-4:30 PM

Group Activity


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