The IDC Qatar CIO Summit 2022 features a tailored agenda filled with handpicked topics, discussions, panel sessions, and keynote presentations from regional and global technology experts that will explore all of today's hottest ICT issues.
Responding to swift market changes and making the necessary adjustments at the leadership and operation levels are crucial elements in achieving business resiliency. In the constantly changing world filled with challenges, digital resiliency will be critical for organizations transitioning to the ‘Next Normal.’ Accordingly, this session will show how the adoption of secure cloud strategies will help instill a culture of innovation and continuous transformation, allowing organizations to fully capitalize on the massive surge in digital opportunities. This session will also highlight why digitally resilient organizations need to embrace digital trust by putting security at the heart of the conversation. Working in line with government regulators and technology/service providers, organizations will have the strength and agility to respond to security threats while protecting the digital assets generated by their customers, employees, and partners.
9:5010:05
Innovate, Change, and Grow with Digital Dexterity
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that organizations need to develop digital dexterity to ensure survival, growth, and a differentiated standing in today's increasingly complex business environment. The drive for imagination and innovation, the quest to change and build for the better, and the need to run with agility have become key priorities for every CXO. Organizations need to thrive on change that is powered by digital yet human-centric and purpose-driven connected experiences. Businesses must also build seamless yet simple enterprises that collaborate, synergize, and drive change. This session will showcase methodologies and best practices that can help organizations innovate, change, and grow with speed and agility in the new world environment.
10:0710:22
How should digital leaders approach this challenge in 2022?
Advances in technology are reshaping competition and value creation in every industry. Customer demand is shifting faster than many organizations can react, and as companies consider their operating paradigms for the future, formulas for past success often matter less than they ever have. How should digital leaders approach this challenge in 2022?
10:2210:37
AIOps and Observability
As applications and infrastructure get more complex, the frequency of changes rises and the amount of data and metrics for monitoring and management explodes. Leveraging AI and machine learning to make sense out of data – as well as using such technologies for automatic root cause analysis to support humans – has become necessary. This presentation will highlight how AIOps, together with the growing standardization of observability of applications, helps organizations fulfil their promises.
10:3710:52
Advancing the Digital Enterprise with Unified Observability and Actionable Insights for a Seamless Digital Experience
Transformational shifts to hybrid work, hybrid networks, and distributed, multi-cloud applications make it difficult for IT to keep digital services accessible, high-performing, and secure for all end users. IT lacks visibility and control over complex digital ecosystems that generate massive volumes of data and alerts across numerous siloed monitoring tools. This presentation highlights how actionable insights and performance solutions can inform, accelerate, and protect the digital enterprise. A unified observability solution can capture every business activity and transaction across the network and application service without sampling and transform full-fidelity telemetry into actionable insights for a seamless digital experience.
10:5210:57
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
10:5711:12
The Experience Economy: Customer Experience and the New Economy
11:1211:17
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
11:2211:37
The Role of CIOs in Mergers & Acquisitions
Bringing Two Distinct IT Hubs Together
Seamless IT integration plays a pivotal role in determining the success of any M&A deal — which means, from the early stages of a deal through to its completion and integration, the CIO is the guiding star of the ship. The CIO steps into the strategic planning process early, carries out a careful assessment of the two IT environments to be merged, and ensures that the integration goes smoothly, while also making note of software, initiatives, and projects that no longer make business sense going forward.
This is easier said than done. The role of a CIO during and after an M&A transaction is complex and vast. As a CIO, one must bridge all the gaps among different departments and groups, while making sure the business processes and requirements are in sync. The CIOs have the challenge of merging their own departments while being sensitive and responsive to the significant and changing demands of the business.
The CIO not only manages meetings with CXOs to ensure cost savings and synergies, but also provides support to other business units in their planning. It is critical for the organization to reach its goals and this can be ensured by having the CIO involved throughout the deal. This session will discuss how IT leaders can navigate the complexities of bringing two distinct organizations — and two distinct IT hubs — together.
11:3711:42
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
11:4211:57
How Not to Sabotage Your Transformation
Many C-Level executives reveal that their own operating models are preventing them from transforming their organizations. Fortunately, through thousands of engagements with executives from some of the world’s largest organizations and extensive research, the patterns of success and failure that influence how work gets done in organizations have been identified. This executive keynote will go beyond the theory and establish – based on real-world experiences – the things organizations should look at to become truly competitive. The keynote will also look at the organizational and staffing implications needed to meet transformation goals and showcase how progressive organizations are managing their people to deliver outstanding results.
11:5712:02
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
12:0212:30
Tea / Coffee & Networking Break
12:3014:10
Best Practice Session (Parallel Sessions)
Best Practice Session A From Secure to Trusted: A Journey to Digital Leadership
12:30 - 12:35
Wellness Session
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC
IDC Overview
Given the host of critical emerging threats and the increase in sophisticated attacks, CISOs need to focus on the big picture. They must manage the biggest and most imminent threats to their organizations to achieve business objectives. This session will provide guidance on key cybersecurity considerations such as the impact of security automation, the relevance of securing software and devices, and the role of real-time, actionable intelligence in securing digital supply chains.
12:40 - 12:50
Secure Your Supply Chain with Better Data
Secure Your Supply Chain with Better Data
Supply chain issues no longer center around material goods. Today, digital supply chains are threatened by cybercriminals that can shut down operations via ransomware attacks and third-party data breaches. To gain complete visibility into threats facing your digital supply chain, you need a holistic view that provides real-time, actionable intelligence that allows you to focus on the risks that matter most to your business. This session will highlight how you can prioritize vendor risk based on business needs. It will also explore how you can automate the vendor assessment process and produce actionable, executive-level metrics out of your third-party risk management programs.
12:50 - 12:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
12:55 - 13:05
Security Automation for the Digital Journey
Security Automation for the Digital Journey
Threat actors leverage automation and take advantage of sophisticated intelligence capabilities by collecting signals and data in real time to swiftly infiltrate companies and organizations. This session shares a vision for leveraging more automation and data collection to strengthen cybersecurity posture and cyber-resilience.
13:05 - 13:10
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:10 - 13:20
Addressing the Massive Security Blind Spot
Addressing the Massive Security Blind Spot
By 2025, there will be 41.6 billion connected devices, 90% of which will be unmanaged. These unmanaged devices cut across all sectors, including printers and card readers in enterprises, security cameras and robots in manufacturing, and even MRIs and blood infusion pumps in healthcare. Because these rising numbers of devices are hard to identify and secure, they provide an ever-expanding attack surface that malicious actors can use to disrupt production, impact patient care, or cause financial loss. This presentation will reveal how these devices – which cannot be seen or protected – are creating huge security blind spots for businesses that hackers are exploiting.
13:20 - 13:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:25 - 13:35
Five Reasons Why Software Security Is More Critical Than Ever
Five Reasons Why Software Security Is More Critical Than Ever
These days, technology is evolving at a pace like never seen before, forcing organizations into "adapt or die” situations. Moreover, everyone is feeling these evolutionary effects as digital transformation accelerates. DevOps leaders, AppSec managers, and developers are certainly no exception, given that they are being tasked with developing and deploying software at faster rates in order to keep their organizations competitive and relevant. As the proliferation of software continues – bringing with it an ever-expanding attack surface that is ripe for targeting by malicious actors – the securing of software must remain a priority above all else. This presentation will explore five reasons why it is now necessary to prioritize software security.
13:35 - 13:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:40 - 14:10
Panel Discussion: Vendor Selection and Management - Best Practices and What to Look Out For
Panel Discussion: Vendor Selection and Management - Best Practices and What to Look Out For
For the IT sourcing and procurement professional, demanding workloads and deadlines leave little time for an in-depth review of technology markets and vendors, sourcing best practices, and specific IT investment opportunities and partnerships. This session addresses key sourcing challenges related to digital transformation and the evolving role of vendor management within the enterprise, combined with actionable intelligence on best practice for driving better deals and reducing costs without risking vendor relationships.
Best Practice Session B Cloud Computing: The Springboard for Digital Transformation
12:30 - 12:35
Wellness Session
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
Harish Dunakhe
Research Director, Software and Cloud, META IDC
12:40 - 12:50
Multicloud Data Integration with Data Virtualization
Multicloud Data Integration with Data Virtualization
A growing number of companies are adopting multicloud strategies to provide flexibility, cost savings, and performance optimization. However, such organizations must often spread data across different cloud regions to support different business units. The result is a highly distributed infrastructure that makes finding and accessing the data very challenging. This session will discuss how data virtualization can provide a data discovery and access layer that allows users across the organization access the data that they need for their work - irrespective of whether the data is situated in a datacenter or the cloud.
12:50 - 12:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
12:55 - 13:05
Utilizing a Cloud-Native Approach to Build Distributed IoT Operations with Hundreds of Edge Devices
Utilizing a Cloud-Native Approach to Build Distributed IoT Operations with Hundreds of Edge Devices
This presentation will highlight how gathering data for central analytics from remote locations can give organizations valuable knowledge, insights, and actionable information. Large-scale distributed operations are naturally complex, but cloud-native technologies can dramatically simplify and reduce challenges, enabling data gathering and distillation of valuable knowledge to an extent not known before.
13:05 - 13:10
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:10 - 13:20
Digital First Requires Continuous Cloud Modernization
13:20 - 13:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:25 - 13:35
Create, Automate, Integrate, and Analyze
Create, Automate, Integrate, and Analyze
This presentation will highlight how you can use a unique platform to create intelligent apps, build powerful workflows, integrate data sources, and perform deep analyses for data-driven decisions.
13:35 - 13:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:40 - 14:10
Panel Discussion: Alignment, Collaboration, and Co-Innovation with Lines of Business
Panel Discussion: Alignment, Collaboration, and Co-Innovation with Lines of Business
CIOs need to acknowledge that technology initiatives will increasingly happen outside the traditional IT organization as LOB executives become digitally savvy and cloud-based apps and services become more powerful and appealing. This shift means that traditional partnerships with LOB peers will become more fragile and difficult to orchestrate. To maintain IT relevance and boost integration across functions, CIOs should build alliances with LOB organizations and ecosystem partners that transcend transactional project-focused efforts. By doing so, they can build broad-based and programmatic support for the IT mission and goals. This session will explore how business and IT teams can be permanently fused to deliver more advanced organizational capabilities. It will further identify some of the biggest challenges IT is facing in working with LOBs and reveal how low-code tools aimed at citizen developers can help increase IT and LOB collaboration
Best Practice Session C The Future of Work and the Long-Term Implications of a Distributed Work Environment
12:30 - 12:35
Wellness Session
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
Wilson Xavier
Research Director, Telecom & IT Services (META), IDC
12:40 - 12:50
Leveraging Intelligent Automation to Enhance Customer Experience
Leveraging Intelligent Automation to Enhance Customer Experience
For years, organizations have been leveraging digitization/automation to drive cost efficiencies without considering the impact it would have on customer experience. With the introduction of digital workers, organizations can now pay more attention to our customer needs without any escalation to the cost of service. With advanced artificial intelligence and neurolinguistic programming techniques, organizations – particularly financial institutions – can generate more opportunities for customer delight. This session will identify the opportunities that can be leveraged to improve customer experience.
12:50 - 12:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
12:55 - 13:05
A Human-First and Purpose-Driven Future-of-Work Strategy
A Human-First and Purpose-Driven Future-of-Work Strategy
As the hybrid home/office model takes root, organizations will leverage a fact-based employee experience approach to drive decisions, optimize workers’ digital experiences, boost productivity, and manage IT costs.
13:05 - 13:10
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:10 - 13:20
Unlocking Business Value with Every Technology Investment
Unlocking Business Value with Every Technology Investment
How do you quickly and accurately scrutinise technology spend to make decisions that deliver the most value? This session will provide information on how to achieve end-to-end visibility on financial and operational transactions and uncover trusted, actionable insights that connect technology investments to strategic business outcomes. This session will reveal how easy it can be to compare updated forecasts to actuals, identify budget variances, and reallocate funds from underspent projects to growth projects that deliver maximum ROI.
13:20 - 13:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:25 - 13:35
Single, Hybrid, or Multicloud? How to Craft Your Cloud Transformation with Confidence
Single, Hybrid, or Multicloud? How to Craft Your Cloud Transformation with Confidence
Because cloud adoption is complicated, there are myriad questions you will need to answer before really embarking on the migration process – Public or private cloud? Hybrid or not? Who will manage the environment? Is it well-architected? What deployment model makes workloads secure and compliant with local regulations and industry standards? The list goes on. However, one of the more pertinent questions you should be asking is whether you will adopt a single cloud model or multiple. Determining how you will host the applications and services that you believe are better suited for the cloud – and identifying the ideal road map that justifies cloud investments – are decisions that should not be taken lightly. In this presentation, we will help you to craft your cloud transformation journey with confidence and ease.
13:35 - 13:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:40 - 14:10
Panel Discussion: Talent Development and the Demand for New Skills: How Do You Optimally Structure Your Team?
Panel Discussion: Talent Development and the Demand for New Skills: How Do You Optimally Structure Your Team?
As the world of work continues to evolve and organizations shift to hybrid work models, new challenges and opportunities present themselves. How can technology leaders leverage these shifts to enhance online and virtual experiences and strengthen competitiveness by developing people, talent, and skills? This panel session will examine how the pandemic has changed the technology talent market and compelled organizations to leverage innovative work models. It will highlight the latest trends in hiring and managing talent amid the move toward hybrid work policies. In addition, panelists will discuss how organizations can change themselves and their team structures to leverage the current situation and enhance productivity. The session will conclude by highlighting how organizations can address the shortage of skilled technology professionals, given that the shift to distributed workforces has enabled them to retain global talent.
Best Practice Session A From Secure to Trusted: A Journey to Digital Leadership
12:30 - 12:35
Wellness Session
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
Given the host of critical emerging threats and the increase in sophisticated attacks, CISOs need to focus on the big picture. They must manage the biggest and most imminent threats to their organizations to achieve business objectives. This session will provide guidance on key cybersecurity considerations such as the impact of security automation, the relevance of securing software and devices, and the role of real-time, actionable intelligence in securing digital supply chains.
Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC
12:40 - 12:50
Secure Your Supply Chain with Better Data
12:40 - 12:50
Secure Your Supply Chain with Better Data
Supply chain issues no longer center around material goods. Today, digital supply chains are threatened by cybercriminals that can shut down operations via ransomware attacks and third-party data breaches. To gain complete visibility into threats facing your digital supply chain, you need a holistic view that provides real-time, actionable intelligence that allows you to focus on the risks that matter most to your business. This session will highlight how you can prioritize vendor risk based on business needs. It will also explore how you can automate the vendor assessment process and produce actionable, executive-level metrics out of your third-party risk management programs.
12:50 - 12:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
12:55 - 13:05
Security Automation for the Digital Journey
12:55 - 13:05
Security Automation for the Digital Journey
Threat actors leverage automation and take advantage of sophisticated intelligence capabilities by collecting signals and data in real time to swiftly infiltrate companies and organizations. This session shares a vision for leveraging more automation and data collection to strengthen cybersecurity posture and cyber-resilience.
13:05 - 13:10
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:10 - 13:20
Addressing the Massive Security Blind Spot
13:10 - 13:20
Addressing the Massive Security Blind Spot
By 2025, there will be 41.6 billion connected devices, 90% of which will be unmanaged. These unmanaged devices cut across all sectors, including printers and card readers in enterprises, security cameras and robots in manufacturing, and even MRIs and blood infusion pumps in healthcare. Because these rising numbers of devices are hard to identify and secure, they provide an ever-expanding attack surface that malicious actors can use to disrupt production, impact patient care, or cause financial loss. This presentation will reveal how these devices – which cannot be seen or protected – are creating huge security blind spots for businesses that hackers are exploiting.
13:20 - 13:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:25 - 13:35
Five Reasons Why Software Security Is More Critical Than Ever
13:25 - 13:35
Five Reasons Why Software Security Is More Critical Than Ever
These days, technology is evolving at a pace like never seen before, forcing organizations into "adapt or die” situations. Moreover, everyone is feeling these evolutionary effects as digital transformation accelerates. DevOps leaders, AppSec managers, and developers are certainly no exception, given that they are being tasked with developing and deploying software at faster rates in order to keep their organizations competitive and relevant. As the proliferation of software continues – bringing with it an ever-expanding attack surface that is ripe for targeting by malicious actors – the securing of software must remain a priority above all else. This presentation will explore five reasons why it is now necessary to prioritize software security.
13:35 - 13:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:40 - 14:10
Panel Discussion: Vendor Selection and Management - Best Practices and What to Look Out For
13:40 - 14:10
Panel Discussion: Vendor Selection and Management - Best Practices and What to Look Out For
For the IT sourcing and procurement professional, demanding workloads and deadlines leave little time for an in-depth review of technology markets and vendors, sourcing best practices, and specific IT investment opportunities and partnerships. This session addresses key sourcing challenges related to digital transformation and the evolving role of vendor management within the enterprise, combined with actionable intelligence on best practice for driving better deals and reducing costs without risking vendor relationships.
Best Practice Session B Cloud Computing: The Springboard for Digital Transformation
12:30 - 12:35
Wellness Session
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
Harish Dunakhe
Research Director, Software and Cloud, META IDC
12:40 - 12:50
Multicloud Data Integration with Data Virtualization
12:40 - 12:50
Multicloud Data Integration with Data Virtualization
A growing number of companies are adopting multicloud strategies to provide flexibility, cost savings, and performance optimization. However, such organizations must often spread data across different cloud regions to support different business units. The result is a highly distributed infrastructure that makes finding and accessing the data very challenging. This session will discuss how data virtualization can provide a data discovery and access layer that allows users across the organization access the data that they need for their work - irrespective of whether the data is situated in a datacenter or the cloud.
12:50 - 12:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
12:55 - 13:05
Utilizing a Cloud-Native Approach to Build Distributed IoT Operations with Hundreds of Edge Devices
12:55 - 13:05
Utilizing a Cloud-Native Approach to Build Distributed IoT Operations with Hundreds of Edge Devices
This presentation will highlight how gathering data for central analytics from remote locations can give organizations valuable knowledge, insights, and actionable information. Large-scale distributed operations are naturally complex, but cloud-native technologies can dramatically simplify and reduce challenges, enabling data gathering and distillation of valuable knowledge to an extent not known before.
13:05 - 13:10
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:10 - 13:20
Digital First Requires Continuous Cloud Modernization
13:20 - 13:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:25 - 13:35
Create, Automate, Integrate, and Analyze
13:25 - 13:35
Create, Automate, Integrate, and Analyze
This presentation will highlight how you can use a unique platform to create intelligent apps, build powerful workflows, integrate data sources, and perform deep analyses for data-driven decisions.
13:35 - 13:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:40 - 14:10
Panel Discussion: Alignment, Collaboration, and Co-Innovation with Lines of Business
13:40 - 14:10
Panel Discussion: Alignment, Collaboration, and Co-Innovation with Lines of Business
CIOs need to acknowledge that technology initiatives will increasingly happen outside the traditional IT organization as LOB executives become digitally savvy and cloud-based apps and services become more powerful and appealing. This shift means that traditional partnerships with LOB peers will become more fragile and difficult to orchestrate. To maintain IT relevance and boost integration across functions, CIOs should build alliances with LOB organizations and ecosystem partners that transcend transactional project-focused efforts. By doing so, they can build broad-based and programmatic support for the IT mission and goals. This session will explore how business and IT teams can be permanently fused to deliver more advanced organizational capabilities. It will further identify some of the biggest challenges IT is facing in working with LOBs and reveal how low-code tools aimed at citizen developers can help increase IT and LOB collaboration
Best Practice Session C The Future of Work and the Long-Term Implications of a Distributed Work Environment
12:30 - 12:35
Wellness Session
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
12:35 - 12:40
IDC Overview
Wilson Xavier
Research Director, Telecom & IT Services (META), IDC
12:40 - 12:50
Leveraging Intelligent Automation to Enhance Customer Experience
12:40 - 12:50
Leveraging Intelligent Automation to Enhance Customer Experience
For years, organizations have been leveraging digitization/automation to drive cost efficiencies without considering the impact it would have on customer experience. With the introduction of digital workers, organizations can now pay more attention to our customer needs without any escalation to the cost of service. With advanced artificial intelligence and neurolinguistic programming techniques, organizations – particularly financial institutions – can generate more opportunities for customer delight. This session will identify the opportunities that can be leveraged to improve customer experience.
12:50 - 12:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
12:55 - 13:05
A Human-First and Purpose-Driven Future-of-Work Strategy
12:55 - 13:05
A Human-First and Purpose-Driven Future-of-Work Strategy
As the hybrid home/office model takes root, organizations will leverage a fact-based employee experience approach to drive decisions, optimize workers’ digital experiences, boost productivity, and manage IT costs.
13:05 - 13:10
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:10 - 13:20
Unlocking Business Value with Every Technology Investment
13:10 - 13:20
Unlocking Business Value with Every Technology Investment
How do you quickly and accurately scrutinise technology spend to make decisions that deliver the most value? This session will provide information on how to achieve end-to-end visibility on financial and operational transactions and uncover trusted, actionable insights that connect technology investments to strategic business outcomes. This session will reveal how easy it can be to compare updated forecasts to actuals, identify budget variances, and reallocate funds from underspent projects to growth projects that deliver maximum ROI.
13:20 - 13:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:25 - 13:35
Single, Hybrid, or Multicloud? How to Craft Your Cloud Transformation with Confidence
13:25 - 13:35
Single, Hybrid, or Multicloud? How to Craft Your Cloud Transformation with Confidence
Because cloud adoption is complicated, there are myriad questions you will need to answer before really embarking on the migration process – Public or private cloud? Hybrid or not? Who will manage the environment? Is it well-architected? What deployment model makes workloads secure and compliant with local regulations and industry standards? The list goes on. However, one of the more pertinent questions you should be asking is whether you will adopt a single cloud model or multiple. Determining how you will host the applications and services that you believe are better suited for the cloud – and identifying the ideal road map that justifies cloud investments – are decisions that should not be taken lightly. In this presentation, we will help you to craft your cloud transformation journey with confidence and ease.
13:35 - 13:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
13:40 - 14:10
Panel Discussion: Talent Development and the Demand for New Skills: How Do You Optimally Structure Your Team?
13:40 - 14:10
Panel Discussion: Talent Development and the Demand for New Skills: How Do You Optimally Structure Your Team?
As the world of work continues to evolve and organizations shift to hybrid work models, new challenges and opportunities present themselves. How can technology leaders leverage these shifts to enhance online and virtual experiences and strengthen competitiveness by developing people, talent, and skills? This panel session will examine how the pandemic has changed the technology talent market and compelled organizations to leverage innovative work models. It will highlight the latest trends in hiring and managing talent amid the move toward hybrid work policies. In addition, panelists will discuss how organizations can change themselves and their team structures to leverage the current situation and enhance productivity. The session will conclude by highlighting how organizations can address the shortage of skilled technology professionals, given that the shift to distributed workforces has enabled them to retain global talent.
14:1015:05
Lunch & Networking Break
15:0516:05
Technology Focus Group Sessions (Parallel Sessions)
Technology Focus Group 1 Next-Generation Security & Resilience
15:05 - 15:06
IDC Overview
Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC
IDC Overview
App transformation is increasingly moving from on-premises environments to the cloud, becoming cloud native in the process. Cloud-native app development equips organizations with needed agility and operational excellence. Agility is vital for customer experience transformation, and operational excellence helps organizations deliver superior customer experiences and remain ahead of the competition. Leveraging data in real time is key to ensuring agility as well as understanding customers and internal business processes. This session will reveal how you can use the power of new age app modernization technologies and advanced analytics to deliver on your customers' strategic priorities.
15:06 - 15:10
15:10 - 15:20
Achieve Faster Economic Rebuild without having to Rip Out Legacy Software
Achieve Faster Economic Rebuild without having to Rip Out Legacy Software
Replacing legacy technology is the last thing organizations want to do in the post-pandemic period as they will have to invest millions and months – if not years – of work. However, most legacy technology hinders companies from realizing their true digital transformation potential. In this context, what if companies could modernize what they have, as fast and as lean as possible, to speed up recovery? This session will show an approach to building software faster than ever before while maintaining the existing systems as they are and supporting rapid and low-risk business recovery. The session will reveal how AI and an extensive focus on software development can help your business recover faster than you thought possible.
15:20 - 15:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:25 - 15:35
Innovate Everywhere with Open Source and Build Digital Resilience Through Linux and Kubernetes
Innovate Everywhere with Open Source and Build Digital Resilience Through Linux and Kubernetes
In today’s hyper-connected world, innovation is occurring virtually everywhere – in the datacenter, in the cloud, and at the edge and beyond. Such open innovation can enhance and accelerate the digital transformation journey of any business. This webinar will showcase how businesses can enhance and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives by using an adaptable enterprise Linux system and a leading container management solution that provides full management of all Kubernetes distributions and security. Via a truly open approach, businesses can choose the right combination of technology and solutions to ensure success and transform the ways they design, build, run, and dramatically scale their applications.
15:35 - 15:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:40 - 15:50
The Modern Architecture to Integrate Microservices and Cloud Native Apps
The Modern Architecture to Integrate Microservices and Cloud Native Apps
As we move into the era of microservices and cloud, organizations face the challenge of disconnecting from locally hosted systems and applications. By integrating microservices and using a modern architecture, businesses can utilize all the data they already have to perform real-time analytics and make real-time decisions, just like their digitally-native competitors. This session will reveal how you can tie all your microservices together, much like a central nervous system. It will delve into how organizations can overcome hosting challenges and modernize services to remain competitive in this new era.
15:50 - 15:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:55 - 16:05
16:05 - 16:10
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
Technology Focus Group 2 Artificial Intelligence: A Slow-Motion Explosion
15:05 - 15:06
IDC Overview
Wilson Xavier
Research Director, Telecom & IT Services (META), IDC
IDC Overview
Any digital journey is incomplete if it is not secured or does not result in enhanced customer satisfaction. Aligning and securing digital objectives with an organization’s core business is pivotal in an era of uncertainty and heightened competition. Leveraging the right cybersecurity measures with early threat insights and establishing trusted identities to conduct highly secure transactions are no longer afterthoughts. Progressive organizations are also increasingly looking to drive business value tailored to their industries. Reducing costs and improving compliance and team productivity are key sought-after attributes from software partners. Given these profound shifts in business and digital dynamics, up-skilling the distributed workforce is more relevant than ever. This session will outline a blueprint and share best practices covering the key aspects of any organization’s digital aspirations.
15:10 - 15:20
Complexity: The Enemy of Security and Incident Response Teams
Complexity: The Enemy of Security and Incident Response Teams
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that organizations need to develop digital dexterity to ensure survival, growth, and a differentiated standing in today's increasingly complex business environment. The drive for imagination and innovation, the quest to change and build for the better, and the need to run with agility have become key priorities for every CXO. Organizations need to thrive on change that is powered by digital yet human-centric and purpose-driven connected experiences. Businesses must also build seamless yet simple enterprises that collaborate, synergize, and drive change. This session will showcase methodologies and best practices that can help organizations innovate, change, and grow with speed and agility in the new world environment.
15:20 - 15:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:25 - 15:35
Leveraging Key Management and Automation to Secure Your Public and Hybrid Clouds
Leveraging Key Management and Automation to Secure Your Public and Hybrid Clouds
When migrating from on-premises to the cloud, maximizing the control of cryptographic keys is essential. An organization can use the native keys provided by the cloud service provider for less critical applications; however, for high assurance use cases, it will be more reassuring for organizations to control exactly where and how their keys are created. This session will highlight how organizations can own and control their keys while automating the key management process from inception through to retirement. Doing so will enable organizations to improve their overall security postures.
15:35 - 15:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:40 - 15:50
Connecting the Digital Workplace with Enterprise Service Management
15:50 - 15:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:55 - 16:00
The New Paradigm for Cloud Adoption: Democratizing Cloud Skilling Across The Enterprise
The New Paradigm for Cloud Adoption: Democratizing Cloud Skilling Across The Enterprise
Cloud is disrupting IT, and businesses are increasingly adopting cloud to realize its benefits. However, successful cloud adoption depends on people, technology, and effective alignment with business requirements. Shortage of cloud skills is a big challenge hindering cloud adoption. Cloud skilling consequently requires a strategic as well as programmatic approach. Successful organizations must put training in core initiatives for their survival. In addition to effective skilling, what more should organizations consider for a successful cloud journey? Join this session to learn how your organization can adopt the cloud to achieve a successful business transformation.
16:05 - 16:10
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
Technology Focus Group 3 Building Hybrid Clouds for the Digital Era
15:05 - 15:06
IDC Overview
Harish Dunakhe
Research Director, Software and Cloud, META IDC
IDC Overview
Hybrid cloud became a reality when organizations started accelerating cloud adoption during the pandemic. While hybrid cloud ensures greater control and visibility as well as superior performance, effective multi-cloud management and limited availability of skilled resources are key challenges that adopters need to address. This session will present practical insights into leveraging the power of hybrid cloud and effective connectivity while minimizing the impact of challenges on your organization.
15:10 - 15:20
Why Hybrid Cloud? An Overview of the Top Benefits
Why Hybrid Cloud? An Overview of the Top Benefits
Despite the growth in public cloud computing, enterprises often need to use a combination of public and private (on-premises) clouds. Often overlooked in the hype around public cloud computing, private clouds offer greater flexibility, security, and compliance. This session will discuss why organizations need not choose between public and private clouds when they can benefit from both platforms. It will also explore how the significant benefits of hybrid cloud make it worthwhile for enterprises, even though there may be considerable effort involved. The session will conclude by identifying opportunities for hybrid cloud strategies and presenting an overview of hybrid cloud trends, market developments, and outlooks.
15:20 - 15:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:25 - 15:35
Getting the Highest ROI from your SD-WAN Edge Platform
Getting the Highest ROI from your SD-WAN Edge Platform
Accelerate your edge-to-cloud journey with a unique edge services platform. Digital transformation requires an edge-to-cloud architecture that securely connects users and devices to applications and services. This presentation will highlight how WAN, security transformation, SD-WAN, a cloud networking solution, and an edge services platform can all serve as a unified foundation.
15:35 - 15:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:40 - 15:50
How to thrive sustainably in the cloud wave
How to thrive sustainably in the cloud wave
In a world where cloud is changing everyday lives, transformation and sustainability top the strategic agendas in most organizations. Speed is the new scale, cloud is the new platform, and data is the new currency. To successfully transform, data must become the lifeblood of an organization. This session will explore how unique solutions can help your organization unleash the power of data to meet business demands and gain a competitive edge. These solutions allow your IT organization to better harness the power of hybrid cloud, build a hybrid multi-cloud experience, and modernize storage via data management.
15:50 - 15:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:55 - 16:05
The Dynamic Shift in the Digital World
The Dynamic Shift in the Digital World
With organizations currently employing the work-from-home model and progressively looking into hybrid working models, catching up with new digital transformations is the biggest concern facing IT administrators all over the world. For seamless business continuity, organizations must optimize IT operations, improve security of endpoints, integrate artificial intelligence into IT service management, and find ways to adopt cloud solutions. This session will present ways to transform business models and improve organizational readiness for digitalization.
16:00 - 16:05
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
Technology Focus Group 1 Next-Generation Security & Resilience
15:05 - 15:06
IDC Overview
15:05 - 15:06
IDC Overview
App transformation is increasingly moving from on-premises environments to the cloud, becoming cloud native in the process. Cloud-native app development equips organizations with needed agility and operational excellence. Agility is vital for customer experience transformation, and operational excellence helps organizations deliver superior customer experiences and remain ahead of the competition. Leveraging data in real time is key to ensuring agility as well as understanding customers and internal business processes. This session will reveal how you can use the power of new age app modernization technologies and advanced analytics to deliver on your customers' strategic priorities.
Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC
15:06 - 15:10
15:10 - 15:20
Achieve Faster Economic Rebuild without having to Rip Out Legacy Software
15:10 - 15:20
Achieve Faster Economic Rebuild without having to Rip Out Legacy Software
Replacing legacy technology is the last thing organizations want to do in the post-pandemic period as they will have to invest millions and months – if not years – of work. However, most legacy technology hinders companies from realizing their true digital transformation potential. In this context, what if companies could modernize what they have, as fast and as lean as possible, to speed up recovery? This session will show an approach to building software faster than ever before while maintaining the existing systems as they are and supporting rapid and low-risk business recovery. The session will reveal how AI and an extensive focus on software development can help your business recover faster than you thought possible.
15:20 - 15:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:25 - 15:35
Innovate Everywhere with Open Source and Build Digital Resilience Through Linux and Kubernetes
15:25 - 15:35
Innovate Everywhere with Open Source and Build Digital Resilience Through Linux and Kubernetes
In today’s hyper-connected world, innovation is occurring virtually everywhere – in the datacenter, in the cloud, and at the edge and beyond. Such open innovation can enhance and accelerate the digital transformation journey of any business. This webinar will showcase how businesses can enhance and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives by using an adaptable enterprise Linux system and a leading container management solution that provides full management of all Kubernetes distributions and security. Via a truly open approach, businesses can choose the right combination of technology and solutions to ensure success and transform the ways they design, build, run, and dramatically scale their applications.
15:35 - 15:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:40 - 15:50
The Modern Architecture to Integrate Microservices and Cloud Native Apps
15:40 - 15:50
The Modern Architecture to Integrate Microservices and Cloud Native Apps
As we move into the era of microservices and cloud, organizations face the challenge of disconnecting from locally hosted systems and applications. By integrating microservices and using a modern architecture, businesses can utilize all the data they already have to perform real-time analytics and make real-time decisions, just like their digitally-native competitors. This session will reveal how you can tie all your microservices together, much like a central nervous system. It will delve into how organizations can overcome hosting challenges and modernize services to remain competitive in this new era.
15:50 - 15:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:55 - 16:05
16:05 - 16:10
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
Technology Focus Group 2 Artificial Intelligence: A Slow-Motion Explosion
15:05 - 15:06
IDC Overview
15:05 - 15:06
IDC Overview
Any digital journey is incomplete if it is not secured or does not result in enhanced customer satisfaction. Aligning and securing digital objectives with an organization’s core business is pivotal in an era of uncertainty and heightened competition. Leveraging the right cybersecurity measures with early threat insights and establishing trusted identities to conduct highly secure transactions are no longer afterthoughts. Progressive organizations are also increasingly looking to drive business value tailored to their industries. Reducing costs and improving compliance and team productivity are key sought-after attributes from software partners. Given these profound shifts in business and digital dynamics, up-skilling the distributed workforce is more relevant than ever. This session will outline a blueprint and share best practices covering the key aspects of any organization’s digital aspirations.
Wilson Xavier
Research Director, Telecom & IT Services (META), IDC
15:10 - 15:20
Complexity: The Enemy of Security and Incident Response Teams
15:10 - 15:20
Complexity: The Enemy of Security and Incident Response Teams
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that organizations need to develop digital dexterity to ensure survival, growth, and a differentiated standing in today's increasingly complex business environment. The drive for imagination and innovation, the quest to change and build for the better, and the need to run with agility have become key priorities for every CXO. Organizations need to thrive on change that is powered by digital yet human-centric and purpose-driven connected experiences. Businesses must also build seamless yet simple enterprises that collaborate, synergize, and drive change. This session will showcase methodologies and best practices that can help organizations innovate, change, and grow with speed and agility in the new world environment.
15:20 - 15:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:25 - 15:35
Leveraging Key Management and Automation to Secure Your Public and Hybrid Clouds
15:25 - 15:35
Leveraging Key Management and Automation to Secure Your Public and Hybrid Clouds
When migrating from on-premises to the cloud, maximizing the control of cryptographic keys is essential. An organization can use the native keys provided by the cloud service provider for less critical applications; however, for high assurance use cases, it will be more reassuring for organizations to control exactly where and how their keys are created. This session will highlight how organizations can own and control their keys while automating the key management process from inception through to retirement. Doing so will enable organizations to improve their overall security postures.
15:35 - 15:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:40 - 15:50
Connecting the Digital Workplace with Enterprise Service Management
15:50 - 15:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:55 - 16:00
The New Paradigm for Cloud Adoption: Democratizing Cloud Skilling Across The Enterprise
15:55 - 16:00
The New Paradigm for Cloud Adoption: Democratizing Cloud Skilling Across The Enterprise
Cloud is disrupting IT, and businesses are increasingly adopting cloud to realize its benefits. However, successful cloud adoption depends on people, technology, and effective alignment with business requirements. Shortage of cloud skills is a big challenge hindering cloud adoption. Cloud skilling consequently requires a strategic as well as programmatic approach. Successful organizations must put training in core initiatives for their survival. In addition to effective skilling, what more should organizations consider for a successful cloud journey? Join this session to learn how your organization can adopt the cloud to achieve a successful business transformation.
16:05 - 16:10
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
Technology Focus Group 3 Building Hybrid Clouds for the Digital Era
15:05 - 15:06
IDC Overview
15:05 - 15:06
IDC Overview
Hybrid cloud became a reality when organizations started accelerating cloud adoption during the pandemic. While hybrid cloud ensures greater control and visibility as well as superior performance, effective multi-cloud management and limited availability of skilled resources are key challenges that adopters need to address. This session will present practical insights into leveraging the power of hybrid cloud and effective connectivity while minimizing the impact of challenges on your organization.
Harish Dunakhe
Research Director, Software and Cloud, META IDC
15:10 - 15:20
Why Hybrid Cloud? An Overview of the Top Benefits
15:10 - 15:20
Why Hybrid Cloud? An Overview of the Top Benefits
Despite the growth in public cloud computing, enterprises often need to use a combination of public and private (on-premises) clouds. Often overlooked in the hype around public cloud computing, private clouds offer greater flexibility, security, and compliance. This session will discuss why organizations need not choose between public and private clouds when they can benefit from both platforms. It will also explore how the significant benefits of hybrid cloud make it worthwhile for enterprises, even though there may be considerable effort involved. The session will conclude by identifying opportunities for hybrid cloud strategies and presenting an overview of hybrid cloud trends, market developments, and outlooks.
15:20 - 15:25
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:25 - 15:35
Getting the Highest ROI from your SD-WAN Edge Platform
15:25 - 15:35
Getting the Highest ROI from your SD-WAN Edge Platform
Accelerate your edge-to-cloud journey with a unique edge services platform. Digital transformation requires an edge-to-cloud architecture that securely connects users and devices to applications and services. This presentation will highlight how WAN, security transformation, SD-WAN, a cloud networking solution, and an edge services platform can all serve as a unified foundation.
15:35 - 15:40
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:40 - 15:50
How to thrive sustainably in the cloud wave
15:40 - 15:50
How to thrive sustainably in the cloud wave
In a world where cloud is changing everyday lives, transformation and sustainability top the strategic agendas in most organizations. Speed is the new scale, cloud is the new platform, and data is the new currency. To successfully transform, data must become the lifeblood of an organization. This session will explore how unique solutions can help your organization unleash the power of data to meet business demands and gain a competitive edge. These solutions allow your IT organization to better harness the power of hybrid cloud, build a hybrid multi-cloud experience, and modernize storage via data management.
15:50 - 15:55
Q&A (Ask questions and stand a chance to win)
15:55 - 16:05
The Dynamic Shift in the Digital World
15:55 - 16:05
The Dynamic Shift in the Digital World
With organizations currently employing the work-from-home model and progressively looking into hybrid working models, catching up with new digital transformations is the biggest concern facing IT administrators all over the world. For seamless business continuity, organizations must optimize IT operations, improve security of endpoints, integrate artificial intelligence into IT service management, and find ways to adopt cloud solutions. This session will present ways to transform business models and improve organizational readiness for digitalization.
International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,300 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC's analysis and insight helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community to make fact-based technology decisions and to achieve their key business objectives. Founded in 1964, IDC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading media, data and marketing services company. To learn more about IDC, please visit www.idc.com.
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