11:00
11:10
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Welcome Address
Mark Walker
Associate Vice President, South Africa, IDC
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11:10
11:20
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Speech by Government Institution
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11:20
11:40
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IDC Keynote: The Future Enterprise: Developing Digital Resiliency
Meredith Whalen
Chief Research Officer, IDC
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The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated why organizations need to be able to rapidly adapt and respond to business disruptions. But this will not be the last disruption they face. The digital economy — which relies heavily on the continued flow of goods and services around the globe, as well as on transformational technology platforms and business innovation — will create more cycles of disruption to business operations and models than any other economic period. Organizations looking to succeed in the digital economy will need to employ a new C-Suite agenda if they are to become masters of pivoting rapidly, capitalizing on change, and driving innovation in times of uncertainty. This session will outline the new digital enterprise agenda and explain how organizations can develop digital resiliency. |
11:40
11:55
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Digital Business Demands Data Resiliency and Business Continuity
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Over the course of the last two years, disaster recovery and business continuity have taken center stage, emerging as one of the top digital transformation priorities for any organization looking to survive further disruptive events. Those with tried-and-tested business continuity plans (BCPs) in place have managed to adjust course with agility and at scale to the new remote work, security, virtualization, and collaboration needs of the workforce, while others with “on-paper” plans are now struggling to catch up to the demands of the new reality. This session will provide insights into the cornerstones of successful BCPs, including resilient data-centric infrastructures, cloud-based platforms, services and applications, online collaboration tools, and secure remote access. |
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11:55
12:15
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The Post-Pandemic Evolution of the Future of Work
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The Future of Work has been drastically changed — and accelerated — by the ongoing global pandemic. Moving forward, more and more organizations are looking to limit onsite employee headcounts and redesign their office spaces to become fully contactless, redefining IT towards a more distributed architecture. This shift requires innovative approaches to infrastructure, networking, storage, enterprise security, application performance, and collaboration tools. Join this session for an in-depth look at best practices for workspace automation, remote infrastructure management, resource optimization, process efficiency creation, and a host of solutions for the workplace of tomorrow. |
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12:15
12:35
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The Future of Innovation: Enterprise IT Driven by an Agile DevOps Culture
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Today, organizations are primarily consumers of packaged software — and most of that is focused on automating their own operations. Their ability to produce software-based digital innovations at a rapidly increasingly scale and pace — essential for sustainably competing in the digital economy — is severely limited by traditional software, tools, skills, methodologies, supplier relationships, and distribution/partner models. This session will explore how enterprises can become major producers of software-based digital services for their own customers and markets as well as consumers of software for their own operations. It will explain how they can transform themselves into software-driven digital innovation factories with a genuine and sustainable competitive advantage. |
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12:35
13:40
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Best Practice Session (Parallel Sessions)
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Best Practice A: The New Normal Requires Zero Trust
12:34 - 12:35
Early Bird Raffle Draw!!
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
Mark Walker
Associate Vice President, South Africa, IDC
12:40 - 12:50
Adopting a Zero-Trust Security Model
Adopting a Zero-Trust Security Model
In a digitally transforming world, the end-user choices are all about trust. Accordingly, organizations are replacing old castle-and-moat architecture with modern zero-trust architecture. An evolving set of cybersecurity paradigms that move network defenses from static, network-based perimeters to focus on users, assets, and resources.
12:50 - 13:00
Security Strategies for the Digital Era: Reshaping Security Using Digital Transformation
13:00 - 13:30
Fireside Chat
(IDC Invited CIO)
13:29 - 13:30
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Best Practice B: Return to Growth: Data-Driven Decision Making
12:34 - 12:35
Early Bird Raffle Draw!!
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
Jonathan Tullett
Senior Research Manager, IT Services
12:40 - 12:50
Driving Transformation from Data: How Insights at Scale Holds the Key
Driving Transformation from Data: How Insights at Scale Holds the Key
Digital Transformation is not a new term; but as maturity builds, organizations are having to cope with envisioning what their organization will look like in 10 years time, and the practicalities of devising and implementing a strategy to get there. What's clear is that intelligence – data driven processes with rising degrees of autonomy – will play a leading role in the Future Enterprise.
12:50 - 13:00
Accelerating Paths to Business Value Through Data
Accelerating Paths to Business Value Through Data
While many traditional industry players are looking at BDA and cognitive systems to drive operational efficiencies that will help them reduce their overall cost structure and provide quick ROI, the more progressive companies are starting to utilize these solutions to aggressively enter adjacent industries and market segments. These digital “disruptors” are finding ways to leverage the 3rd Platform technologies – mobile, cloud, analytics and social – as a platform to quickly develop and deploy cognitive systems and BDA solutions that are dramatically changing the way traditional businesses models function.
13:00 - 13:30
Fireside Chat
(IDC Invited CIO)
13:29 - 13:30
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Best Practice C: Cloud Computing: The Springboard for Digital Transformation
12:34 - 12:35
Early Bird Raffle Draw!!
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
Francis Hook
Consulting Manager, Telecoms & Networking, Africa
12:40 - 12:50
Migration and Multi-Cloud Management for a Cloud Enabled Enterprise
Migration and Multi-Cloud Management for a Cloud Enabled Enterprise
In this digital age, more and more enterprises are rapidly migrating to multicloud-based platforms. With its many advantages, organizations need a strategic approach to the entire migration process – planning, assessment, and defined outcomes – that factors in the exact needs of the organizations and whether it’s workloads are better served through public, private, or hybrid cloud architectures. Join this session for an in depth look at migration planning, sequencing, and the various strategies for multicloud management.
12:50 - 13:00
Cloud Data Management for Agile IT
Cloud Data Management for Agile IT
Businesses are facing a new challenge to offer world-class services and building these services in the cloud has become crucial while managing the workloads add a layer of complexity. Managing and leveraging data in this model using legacy solutions is not an option anymore.
13:00 - 13:30
Fireside Chat
(IDC Invited CIO)
13:29 - 13:30
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Best Practice D: The Future Enterprise: The Digital Supremacy Economy and Hyper-X
12:34 - 12:35
Early Bird Raffle Draw!!
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC
12:40 - 12:50
Creating Ecosystems for Building New Market Opportunities
12:50 - 13:00
How Digital Workers Help Achieve Empathy at Scale
How Digital Workers Help Achieve Empathy at Scale
As organizations accelerate and expand digital transformation initiatives – even more so in the aftermath of COVID-19 - traditional work models aren't nimble enough, adaptive nor scalable. “Digital workers” will make up a growing share of the workforce, enabling human workers to drive new value with skills such as imagination, creativity, and empathy. This requires entirely new work environments, organizational structures, and metrics for success.
13:00 - 13:30
Fireside Chat
(IDC Invited CIO)
13:29 - 13:30
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13:40
14:15
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Technology Focus Group Session (Parallel Sessions)
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Technology Focus Group A: Next-Generation Security & Resilience
13:39 - 13:40
Early Bird Raffle Draw!!
13:40 - 13:55
Rethinking Cybersecurity in the Digital Age
Rethinking Cybersecurity in the Digital Age
In the new digital world, the way we look at securing our transforming environment is in transition. The legacy question, "Are we secure?" will shift to "How secure are we?" Metrics and visibility become key. All digital activity and applied controls must be measured, including legitimate events – not just suspicious traffic. It is not uncommon to assert that policies and procedures are more important than inline controls or to suggest that one should eliminate technical information when discussing cybersecurity with executives. But, there is no escaping that 100% of the risk in question comes from digital activity.
13:54 - 13:55
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13:55 - 14:10
Data Privacy Regulation: Navigating the Compliance-Risk Landscape
Data Privacy Regulation: Navigating the Compliance-Risk Landscape
In an era of increased privacy and cybersecurity regulation, enterprise behaviors are under greater scrutiny. Numerous new and more onerous data-privacy requirements are affecting businesses. Join this discussion on the processes and best practices that organizations can use to avoid unnecessary pitfalls and create an atmosphere of privacy compliance.
14:09 - 14:10
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14:10 - 14:15
Summary & Close
14:14 - 14:15
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Technology Focus Group B: Artificial Intelligence: A Slow-Motion Explosion
13:39 - 13:40
Early Bird Raffle Draw!!
13:40 - 13:55
Beyond The Hype - How Artificial Intelligence is Becoming Reality
Mark Walker
Associate Vice President, South Africa, IDC
Beyond The Hype - How Artificial Intelligence is Becoming Reality
Today, we are at the cusp of this technological quantum leap. AI and other emerging technologies such as RPA, BDA, and IoT are fast being embedded into the core of any "digitally determined" organization looking to compete in the evolving business landscape of the future. However, this does not come without a set of unique challenges and risks that need to be preemptively addressed and mitigated.
13:54 - 13:55
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13:55 - 14:10
The Digital Backbone: Intelligent Process Automation Enabling Multiplied Innovation
The Digital Backbone: Intelligent Process Automation Enabling Multiplied Innovation
Robotic process automation (RPA) has gained much traction over the years as enterprises target seamless, efficient operations and greater levels of productivity. In fact, many enterprises now rank automation in workplace operations among the top three capabilities they expect from their digital workplace environments. Enterprises have realized that the true value of RPA is not in piecemeal automation but in integrated deployment at scale. As lines of business and IT departments now look at RPA as a strategic transformation tool embedded in their digital transformation roadmaps, we are set to witness a rapid adoption of RPA in diverse deployment environments. Enterprise RPA adoption is now moving from simple and standard, rules-based environments of front- and back-office tasks to much more complex processes that need to tackle massive amounts of structured and unstructured data.
14:09 - 14:10
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14:10 - 14:15
Summary & Close
14:14 - 14:15
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Technology Focus Group C: Building Hybrid Clouds for the Digital Era
13:39 - 13:40
Early Bird Raffle Draw!!
13:40 - 13:55
The Impact of Hyperconvergence on People, Process, and Technology
Jonathan Tullett
Senior Research Manager, IT Services
The Impact of Hyperconvergence on People, Process, and Technology
Hyperconverged infrastructure has now matured into a mainstream infrastructure option for small to large enterprise IT organizations and from edge to core datacenters. The collapsing of compute, persistence, and data services brings with it the opportunity for organizations to refine their application architectures, team structures, operational processes, and workload placements. Over the next decade, IT organizations will continue to consolidate workloads on hyperconverged architectures as a means to reduce cost, enable greater levels of automation, and increase efficiency. The ability of the IT organization to streamline and consolidate infrastructure services can have a strong influence on the enterprise's ability to drive IT and business innovation.
13:54 - 13:55
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13:55 - 14:10
Making the Edge the Ultimate Multiplier for Innovation: Delivering Infrastructure at the Edge
Making the Edge the Ultimate Multiplier for Innovation: Delivering Infrastructure at the Edge
Success in digital transformation requires new thinking about the consumption of IT resources in increasingly "smart" edge locations. These are the urban cores, hospitals, factories, transportation hubs, and a wide range of spaces where local people or "smart" things demand an optimal digital experience. They are where IT, operational technology, and customer experience intersect. Join this session to discuss the strategies and challenges that IT organizations and their technology partners must address as they extend new services to edge locations where real-time insight/action, continuous operation despite network degradations, and data privacy/control are paramount.
14:09 - 14:10
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14:10 - 14:15
Summary & Close
14:14 - 14:15
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Technology Focus Group D: The Future of Work: Adapting Your Workplace to the Evolution of People, Processes, and Systems
13:39 - 13:40
Early Bird Raffle Draw!!
13:40 - 13:55
The concept of work to thrive in the Next Normal
Francis Hook
Consulting Manager, Telecoms & Networking, Africa
The concept of work to thrive in the Next Normal
The degree of an organization’s elasticity and adaptability to change – across business processes, technology, and, most importantly, their workforce – will dictate their chances of survival moving forward. Agile collaboration, employee empowerment, lifelong learning, and trust will be ingrained in the culture of any organization wanting to succeed in the digital race.
13:54 - 13:55
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13:55 - 14:10
Building a Future-Ready Digital Workforce
Building a Future-Ready Digital Workforce
Workplace transformation cannot be ignored, and we are moving further than just discussing employee productivity and remote working. The future of work takes collaboration to a completely new level where people work virtually with multi-sourced online communities, work across ecosystems, and work with AI, augmented humans, and machines on a daily basis.
14:09 - 14:10
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14:10 - 14:15
Summary & Close
14:14 - 14:15
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14:15
15:00
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Networking / Close of Summit
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