Migrate with Intention. Modernize with Impact

Cloud Acceleration (CloudAx) Day

Date

June 4, 2025

Location

Boston, MA

Community

CIO

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.

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Agenda

June 04, 2025
All times Eastern Time
8:30 AM-9:00 AM
Networking & Coffee
9:00 AM-9:05 AM
Kick-Off & Introductions
9:30 AM-10:25 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.

11:00 AM-11:30 AM
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.

11:30 AM-11:40 AM
Break
12:10 PM-12:45 PM
QA
Speakers
BJ Schwein

Speaker

BJ Schwein

Cloud Solution Architect leading our VMware public cloud offerings

Converge Technology Solutions Corp.

Solution Architect focusing on VMware Public Cloud solutions at Converge Technology Solutions / Pellera Technologies, where he helps clients evaluate and migrate into the Public Cloud leveraging VMware technologies. BJ’s strong technical background in VMware and the Data Center allows him to provide architectural, migration and operational guidance using VMware in the Public Cloud. BJ has spent the last 17 years in both Engineer and Architect roles supporting VMware in the Healthcare industry and as a VMware Partner here at Pellera Technologies.
Yuriy Litvinov
Yuriy Litvinov

Program Manager, VMware Migrations

AWS

Maria Armstrong

Speaker

Maria Armstrong

Worldwide EBA Partner Lead

AWS

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.
Paul Ward

Speaker

Paul Ward

Cloud Solutions Architect

Converge Technology Solutions Corp.

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.
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
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