Cloud Acceleration (CloudAx) Day

Migrate with Intention. Modernize with Impact

May 20, 2025 - New York City, NY

Cloud Acceleration (CloudAx) Day is an interactive workshop that invites participants to work through a modernization 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

Khalilah (Kaylah) Abdullah Boehringer Ingelheim
Khalilah (Kaylah) Abdullah

Director of Omnichannel Operations

Boehringer Ingelheim

Aditi Sinha MarketCast
Aditi Sinha

Global Head - Operations

MarketCast

Monserate Fernandez IBO
Monserate Fernandez

CIO

IBO

Gilad Globen American Exchange Group
Gilad Globen

CTO

American Exchange Group

Brian Riesgraf Mission Cloud
Brian Riesgraf

Mission Cloud

Custom Speaker

Senior Solutions Architect at Mission Cloud Services, bringing over 25 years of experience across AWS and on-premises infrastructure. He works closely with customers to understand their business and technical needs, designing scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient AWS solutions. Brian excels at bridging the gap between technical strategy and business goals, helping organizations confidently advance their cloud journey.
Sarah Perkins National Grid
Sarah Perkins

Head of Product

National Grid

Sharon Rochford BNY
Sharon Rochford

Director, KYC/AML Technology

BNY

Yuriy Litvinov AWS
Yuriy Litvinov

VMware Migration Program Mgr

AWS

Louis Celiberti Guggenheim Partners
Louis Celiberti

Managing Director of Application Development

Guggenheim Partners

Eugene Kogan Population Council
Eugene Kogan

Global Head of IT, IT Director, Data & Security

Population Council

Eric Litvak Ribbon Communications
Eric Litvak

Director of Engineering

Ribbon Communications

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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.

Brian Riesgraf Mission Cloud
Brian Riesgraf

Mission Cloud

Senior Solutions Architect at Mission Cloud Services, bringing over 25 years of experience across AWS and on-premises infrastructure. He works closely with customers to understand their business and technical needs, designing scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient AWS solutions. Brian excels at bridging the gap between technical strategy and business goals, helping organizations confidently advance their cloud journey.
10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Migration Use Case Overview & 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.

Yuriy Litvinov AWS
Yuriy Litvinov

VMware Migration Program Mgr

AWS

Brian Riesgraf Mission Cloud
Brian Riesgraf

Mission Cloud

Senior Solutions Architect at Mission Cloud Services, bringing over 25 years of experience across AWS and on-premises infrastructure. He works closely with customers to understand their business and technical needs, designing scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient AWS solutions. Brian excels at bridging the gap between technical strategy and business goals, helping organizations confidently advance their cloud journey.
12:00 PM-12:30 PM

Lunch

12:30 PM-1:00 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.

Yuriy Litvinov AWS
Yuriy Litvinov

VMware Migration Program Mgr

AWS

1:00 PM-1:15 PM

Break

1:15 PM-2:00 PM

Optimizing Migration & Modernization through Experience Based Acceleration

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.

Yuriy Litvinov AWS
Yuriy Litvinov

VMware Migration Program Mgr

AWS

Brian Riesgraf Mission Cloud
Brian Riesgraf

Mission Cloud

Senior Solutions Architect at Mission Cloud Services, bringing over 25 years of experience across AWS and on-premises infrastructure. He works closely with customers to understand their business and technical needs, designing scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient AWS solutions. Brian excels at bridging the gap between technical strategy and business goals, helping organizations confidently advance their cloud journey.
2:00 PM-4:00 PM

Group Activity

Together With

Mission Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Attended the C-Vision International CISO Dinner last night and to sum it up in one word, "Wow!" Incredibly well moderated discussion and investigation into different viewpoints. I appreciate the openness of all the attendees to share their unique experiences and perspectives. I learned a lot, had a ton of fun, and look forward to further events like this!

Tory Knapp

Director of Strategic Accounts, IL Enterprise

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Recently updated my "event vendors I will NEVER work with again" list, DM me if you're interested in the names and stories. On the other hand, I want to recommend Nelson Soares and C-Vision International who are true partners to our success, and I really enjoy working with. Happy to also share the great list of vendors we liked, as there are many of them, and we've recently had the pleasure of joining wonderful events, which we immediately renewed.

Lior Yaari

CEO and Co-founder

Martin

The day was awesome and the evening exceeded my wildest expectations. I've never been to a dinner like that where a table with 12 CIOs/CISOs was focused exclusively on Netskope. Just fantastic.
Thank you for including me!
I look forward to the next time we have the opportunity to meet

Martin tePoele

Regional Sales Manager

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I had the pleasure of joining the C-Vision International, Nordics CISO Council Roundtable with a wonderful group of cyber executives. We had a wonderful, insightful conversation and the whole experience was enjoyable. I made great new contacts and reconnected with existing contacts on really important topics that matter to CISO’s and all in cybersecurity. I’d highly recommend joining in any C-Vision event.

Connie McIntosh

Head of Security Assurance & Head of Solution Security

Maarten Ectors

Intimate, immersive experiences provided by a group of individuals always available to support our needs. Fantastic organization and very high-level executives. The promise was delivered!

Maarten Ectors

Chief Innovation Officer

Bjorn Watne

C-vision's events combine relevant topics with a suitable audience. I found great value at my last attendance, and would definitely consider upcoming events.

Bjørn R. Watne

SVP & CISO

Larry Whiteside

A group very focused in bringing diversity to the discussion table

Larry Whiteside Jr.

CISO

Jeff Vinson 1

I love the engaging format of the councils. Very high level discussions and never a sales pitch. The C-Vision staff members are amazing.

Jeffrey Vinson

SVP CISO

Allison Miller

A very warm welcome and interesting speakers. I was very pleased to be among such a dynamic group.

Allison Miller

CISO

Paige Adams

The process was very well organized by C-Vision. Perfect organization, honest and authentic speakers of high level.

Paige Adams

Group CISO