Migrate with Intention. Modernize with Impact

Cloud Acceleration (CloudAx) Day

Date

May 20, 2025

Location

New York City, NY

Community

CIO

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Agenda

May 20, 2025
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
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.

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.

Panelist
Yuriy Litvinov
Yuriy Litvinov

Program Manager, VMware Migrations

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.

2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Group Activity

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