Cloud Acceleration (CloudAx) Day

Migrate with Intention. Modernize with Impact

June 25, 2025 - Chicago, IL

Cloud Acceleration (CloudAx) Day is an interactive workshop that invites participants to work through a migration use case in a team environment, simulating a real-world scenario. Unlike traditional workshops, CloudAx Day leverages exploratory and experience based learning, encouraging participants to creatively problem-solve technical and organizational challenges with insight from migration & modernization experts. 

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

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 25, 2025

Agenda

All times Central Time

8:30 AM-9:15 AM

Networking & Coffee


9:15 AM-9:30 AM

Kick-Off & Introductions


9:30 AM-10:00 AM

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.


10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Team Working Session

Simulating a realistic team environment and fostering collaboration, participants will work as a team to navigate a modernization 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


2:15 PM-3:00 PM

Use Case & Best Practice Guidance

Migration & modernization experts will share guidance on best practices to work through the CloudAx Day use case. Participants can expect insight into AWS solutions, methodology for problem solving, and technical guidance aligned to the use case.


3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Group Activity


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