Cloud Acceleration (CloudAx) Day

Migrate with Intention. Modernize with Impact

June 4, 2025 - Boston, MA

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

Viswasarathy Rajasekaran Converge Technology Solutions Corp.
Viswasarathy Rajasekaran

Sr Software Architect

Converge Technology Solutions Corp.

Custom Speaker

Director of Application Migration & Modernization at Converge Technology Solutions / Pellera Technologies, with over 18 years of experience leading enterprise-scale cloud transformation and application modernization initiatives across AWS. He has successfully guided enterprise clients through complex migrations by aligning technical strategies with business goals, optimizing performance, and reducing technical debt. As a trusted advisor, he blends deep architectural expertise with AI-First strategic insight—specializing in application portfolio assessments, modernization roadmaps, and phased migration planning—to help organizations confidently accelerate their cloud journey.

Paul Ward Converge Technology Solutions Corp.
Paul Ward

Cloud Solutions Architect

Converge Technology Solutions Corp.

Custom Speaker

Paul Ward is an AWS Consulting Architect Leader at Converge Technology Solutions / Pellera Technologies, where he plays a key role in guiding clients through important cloud strategy decisions. He leads the practice with a team of cloud architects and engineers responsible for AWS Cloud assessments, migrations, advanced deployments, AI-first transformations, and ongoing support services. With a strong focus on delivering scalable and secure cloud solutions, Paul combines technical expertise with leadership in complex cloud initiatives. Before joining Converge / Pellera, Paul spent 18 years as an architect in a large enterprise healthcare environment, gaining extensive experience designing and managing mission-critical IT infrastructure.

Tulika Biswas Avid Technology
Tulika Biswas

Senior Director, Digital Transformation Program

Avid Technology

Custom Speaker

Avid Technology delivers a media platform, connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution, and consumption to their customers. Avid Technology is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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 4, 2025

Agenda

All times Eastern 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



2:00 PM-2:17 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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