Name: The Canadian CIO Future of Cloud Summit
Start: 07/06/2022 05:00 PM +00:00
End: 09/06/2022 09:00 PM +00:00

At Bell, we do more than build world-class networks, develop innovative services and create original multiplatform media content - we advance how Canadians connect with each other and the world.&nbsp; Bell enables the digital transformation of businesses and governments nationwide through solutions in areas including Internet and private networks, voice and unified communications, contact centre, security, Internet of Things, data centre and cloud. We're proud to be Canada's leading provider of broadband network and communication services for businesses and governments.&nbsp; &nbsp; To learn more, visit <a href="business.bell.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">business.bell.ca&nbsp;</a>

Bell 

ManageEngine crafts the industry&rsquo;s broadest suite of IT management solutions, offering more than 100 products and free tools. We have everything you need to manage all of your IT operations, including networks, servers, applications, service desks, Active Directory, security, desktops, and mobile devices.&nbsp;
Since 2002, IT teams have turned to ManageEngine for affordable, feature-rich software that&rsquo;s easy to use. Our on-premises and cloud solutions power the IT of over 280,000 companies around the world, including nine of every ten Fortune 100 companies.&nbsp;&nbsp;
As you prepare for the IT management challenges ahead, we&rsquo;ll lead the way with new solutions, contextual integrations, and other advances that can only come from a company solely dedicated to its customers. And as a division of Zoho Corporation, we&rsquo;ll continue pushing for the tight business-IT alignment you&rsquo;ll need to seize future opportunities.&nbsp;
While we provide tools that aid IT teams across the globe, we also wanted to put forth knowledgeable content to our audience. So, in 2020, <a href="https://insights.manageengine.com/">ManageEngine Insights</a> was launched with the main aim to provide thought-provoking, vendor-neutral content around technology, leadership, and culture, and to nurture a community of tech enthusiasts in the process.&nbsp;
CSO Future of Cybersecurity one-on-one meeting: If you would like to speak to our staff, please scroll down to the People section below, and click one of our friendly staff profiles to make an appointment. ManageEngine's privacy policy: https://mnge.it/privacy

ManageEngine

Carbon60 accelerates companies on their cloud journey with our managed hybrid IT services. We provide cloud assessment, migration, 24/7 SOC2 compliant managed operations and security services combined with cloud adoption, app modernization and data insights services to organizations across several industries. Our white-glove service is delivered by our certified experts using multiple clouds including AWS, Azure, Google and our VMware clouds across Canada.&nbsp;
CIO's Future of Work 1:1 Meeting - if you like to speak with our staff, please scroll below to "People" section, and click one of our friendly staff profile to make an appointment. &nbsp;

Carbon60

Darktrace (DARK.L), a global leader in cyber security AI, delivers world-class technology that protects over 6,800 customers from advanced threats. Darktrace&rsquo;s fundamentally different approach applies Self-Learning AI to understand the business in order to autonomously defend it. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine&rsquo;s &lsquo;Most Influential Companies&rsquo; for 2021.&nbsp;

Darktrace

VMware software powers the world&rsquo;s complex digital infrastructure. The company&rsquo;s cloud, app modernization, networking, security, and digital workspace offerings help customers deliver any application on any cloud across any device. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for good, from its breakthrough technology innovations to its global impact. For more information, please visit <a href="https://www.vmware.com/company.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.vmware.com/company.html&nbsp;</a> &nbsp;

VMware 

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform delivers the agility, pay-as-you-grow economics and operational simplicity of the public cloud, without sacrificing the predictability, security and control of on premises infrastructure. Nutanix solutions leverage web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution that delivers any application at any scale.&nbsp;

Nutanix Inc. 

How Can IDC Help Canadian CIOs &amp; Cloud Professionals?
IDC's <a href="https://www.idc.com/promo/future-of-x/digital-infrastructure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Digital Infrastructure</a> research practice provides unique value to business leaders and technology suppliers drawing on broad and deep analyst expertise. The practice includes a dedicated agenda program that identifies the critical technology issues and thought leadership priorities on C-Suite agendas and supplements them with survey-based insights in today's and tomorrow's enterprise challenges, technology adoption plans and strategies. IDC's Future of Digital Infrastructure research and custom solutions help address digital infrastructure priorities such as:
<ul>
<li>Shifting from a product-centric view to a focus on platforms</li>
<li>Connecting with new infrastructure influencers and personas</li>
<li>Better aligning ecosystems with go-to-market strategies</li>
</ul>
Explore our <a href="https://www.idc.com/promo/future-of-x/digital-infrastructure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Digital Infrastructure</a> practice today, to get the advice you need to keep your organization secure. Download some of our ebooks and checklists in the Resources section of our booth.
Check out our <a href="https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=IDC_P42541" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Digital Infrastructure - Agenda</a> program for the research you need to make the right decisions and investments.
IDC's <a href="https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=IDC_P42541" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Digital Infrastructure - Agenda</a> research program highlights CXO perspectives on how changes in cloud, datacenter, network, edge, and AI/ML-powered infrastructure and operations are being used to enable business resiliency and innovation. This program provides forward-looking insights around CXO strategies and priorities for optimizing digital infrastructure architectures, intelligent automation, governance, staffing, skills, vendor relationships, and infrastructure sourcing, including consumption-based subscriptions and online marketplaces.
IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP) make it easy to access the relevant technology research and advice you need to make data-driven decisions as you lead your organization into the digital future.&nbsp;
Visit our IDC <a href="https://www.idc.com/itexecutive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IT Executive Programs microsite</a> today!
Have you heard about our <a title="IDC CIO Executive Council" href="https://cioexecutivecouncil.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IDC CIO Executive Council</a>? Our mission is to build a smart, dynamic community of digital leaders and their peers, supported by the world&rsquo;s premier technology analysts, research and leadership development. We help digital leaders be the best. For more information, check out our eBook resources below or contact Eddy Long at elong@idc.com.
<a title="IDC Corporate Website" href="https://www.idc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Data Corporation (IDC)</a> is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,200 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, Inc.), the world's leading tech media, data and marketing services company. <a title="IDC Canada Website" href="https://www.idc.com/ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IDC Canada</a> is located in downtown Toronto and is part of this vast analyst network. It has more analysts dedicated to understanding the Canadian market than any other global research firm. For more than 35 years, IDC Canada has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve their key business objectives.
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IDC Canada

CIO attracts the highest concentration of enterprise CIOs and business technology executives with unparalleled peer insight and expertise on business strategy, innovation, and leadership. CIO readers gain key insights on career development for themselves and their employees, including certifications, hiring practices, and skills development, along with a strong foundation in digital transformation of their businesses.

How is a cloud native, digital-first world driving change in the role of the CIO? Join us for a panel discussion covering a range of topics including: &bull; How the role of the CIO is becoming more strategic as business digitizes &bull; Driving harmonization of IT and business objectives &bull; How the new breed of CIOs looks at the tools cloud provides &bull; Making strategic links between what tools can do and how to use them to support business objectives &bull; Critical processes for CIOs to implement for IT to understand the business

Laura-Lea Berna

Geoff Cronin

Kin Lee-Yow

Warren Shiau

The Changing Role of the CIO in a Digital-First World

What is Multi-Access Edge Computing? We know it&rsquo;s the future, and the future is now. Join IDC, Bell, and AWS for a 30 minute discussion about edge cloud technologies, identifying and confirming the return on investment, and charting your organization&rsquo;s path to a MEC future through the unique value proposition Bell brings to the table.

Charlie Wade

Scott Renda

Michael Hainsworth

IDC Presents: The Leading Edge (of) Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC)

An unvarnished panel of three of IDC&rsquo;s leading worldwide and Canadian cloud market analysts talk about accelerating cloud maturity, multicloud strategies and the importance of finops in managing cloud costs.

Matthew Eastwood

Jason Bremner

Dave McCarthy

Analysts’ Panel: Cloud Trends with Transformational Impact

In this session we will discuss the realities of leveraging multiple private and public clouds as part of your transformation. What are the challenges involved, what trends are we seeing in Canada, and what are some approaches to solving the cross-cloud operational challenge?

Peter Near

The Realities and Best-Practices of Cross-Cloud Operational Management

While vacationers go on cruises to relax and unplug, the reality is that technology fuels many of their interactions, from dining to shopping to shore excursions. With 75 percent of its fleet operational since last summer as the world eased back into travel again, Royal Caribbean&rsquo;s IT team used pandemic-era downtime to solve a number of business challenges around using cloud-based technologies and systems when operating on the open sea &mdash; one of the few places in the world without persistent connectivity. Join us to learn how the company uses a mix of cloud, edge computing and satellite solutions to deliver seamless customer experiences whether ships are in port or untethered on the open ocean dealing with adverse weather conditions. We&rsquo;ll also explore the company&rsquo;s advancing data strategy and how it&rsquo;s powering new marketing capabilities as well as other insights on resiliency, staff development, and more.

Martha Poulter

Maryfran Johnson

Cloud at Sea: How Royal Caribbean Keeps Customers Connected

Now&rsquo;s the time to grab a bite to eat, reply to some emails or get another cup of coffee! &nbsp;If you navigate to the Networking area, you can join a video chat to network with your peers and share the challenges you&rsquo;re facing. Another option is to visit our sponsors&rsquo; virtual booths, or you could check out an Always On session to get ahead in the Contest. Finally, draw your attention to the &lsquo;People&rsquo; tab on the right-hand menu to see who&rsquo;s here and strike up a chat or book a one on one meeting. Enjoy your conversations and we&rsquo;ll see you soon!

Break Time

In this session we will explore an evolving cloud financial management practice that empowers organizations to track and maximize cloud spend and enable tech, finance, and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions. Best practices will be shared from leading practitioners who are delivering products faster while gaining financial control and predictability over cloud spend. The FinOps Foundation will also share its latest data and trends to watch.

Jennifer Hays

How to Maximize the Value of Every Dollar Spent in Cloud

Just three months before the global pandemic began, Ghada Ijam became CIO of the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. central bank that oversees the world&rsquo;s largest financial system. Respected industry-wide as a strategic IT leader and change agent, Ijam will share how she and her team accelerated the Fed&rsquo;s approach to cloud adoption, cybersecurity and innovative cloud-based data strategies.

Ghada Ijam

Leveraging “Cloud Smart” Strategies at the Fed

3M &mdash; maker of familiar items includng Post-it notes and Scotch tape as well as products and services for the automotive, health care, and design and production sectors &mdash; made a big move when its entire ERP system moved to the cloud. Now it&rsquo;s reaping the benefits of moving functions such as accounting, supply chain management, manufacturing, product lifecycle management, e-commerce, and other business-critical enterprise IT applications. In this session, find out how 3M is leveraging machine learning, analytics, security and more to drive efficiencies and gain speed and agility.

David Bellis

Inside 3M’s Public Cloud Strategy to Boost Speed and Agility

Join us for a venture fund perspective on understanding the economics of the shift to hyperscaler cloud organizations and how you can avoid using these tools badly. Get insights into potential pitfalls of multi-cloud strategies from a technology and financial perspective. Hear about changes to watch in software development &ndash; what does it mean for CIOs when organizations are dependent on data and data quality for success? How will you derive value from big data and what is next for AI/ML?

James Cham

John Gallant

Follow the Money: Top Tips and Future Trends From a VC

By integrating multiple cloud solutions, Professional Case Management created a single source of the truth for its globally dispersed workforce and enabled seamless data sharing across the enterprise in a cloud native environment. PCM&rsquo;s innovative and award-winning solution is the first of its kind, allowing the company to provision employee systems and software rapidly in the fast- and ever-changing healthcare sector.

Charlie Billings

Julia King

Integrating Cloud Native Apps into a Seamless Operational Platform

Containers have revolutionized how modern business applications are assembled and put into production. But managing container-based applications at scale is its own challenge. In this non-technical introduction to Kubernetes, we&rsquo;ll explain how it provides a consistent methodology for assembling those apps, launching and keeping them responsive to customers, and abstracting away tedious management details.

Serdar Yegulalp

Kubernetes: The Modern Enterprise Application Platform

Robert Pope

Sherif Sheta

Christopher Marsh-Bourdon

Joseph Sieczkowski

Megha Kumar

Dean Clark

David Mason

Noah Smith

Ram Vaidyanathan

Rob Stevens

Anat Baron

Paula Rooney

Andrea Benito

Avinash Shetty

Andre Champagne

Matthew Trushinski

Arun Kannan

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Agenda

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