Agenda

08:55 - 09:30 Arrival Registration & Refreshments

09:30 - 09:35 Introduction

Jon Bernstein, Associate Editor, NTN

09:35 - 09:45 Welcome to Data Innovation Discussions

09:45 - 10:15 CIO Trends

David Clemente, Research Director, European C-Suite Tech Agenda, IDC

What comes next? How European technology leaders are responding to storms of disruption
This is the moment when organisations were supposed to be enjoying the fruits of their pandemic-related technology investments. Things haven't quite worked out as expected, but there are reasons for optimism, and opportunities for those who are prepared to navigate their own storms of disruption.

In this session, IDC's European C-Suite research lead will:
• examine key business trends among European technology function leaders (CIO, CTO, CDO),
• show how these European trends compare to other regions,
• offer thoughts on what comes next for technology investments (e.g. sustainability, cloud, CX)

10:15 - 10:45 The Eco-Friendly Data Centre and Beyond

Tom Christensen, Global Technology Advisor, Hitachi Vantara

Discover the evolving megatrend of sustainability and decarbonizing technology and how to find answers to the environmental crisis. Learn about life-cycle perspective and what steps can be taken to empower your customers, partners, and key stakeholders to make conscious decisions around the environmental impact of their technology.

10:45 - 11:00 Data Centre Transformation

Kane Nimmo, Head of Storage Services, Experian

Hitachi partnered with Experian to modernise their storage infrastructure environment and rationalise an aging heterogenous landscape. Through the simplification of operations learn how technology has enabled autonomy, empowered their teams, and improved their customer experience.

11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 - 11:40 Application Modernisation - the Velocity of App Delivery 

Ali Abbas, Strategist Digital Solutions - Innovation, Insights and IoT, Hitachi Vantara

Is it possible to build, operate and optimize business-critical applications with limited resources. Can you evolve to meet changing market conditions faster? And lower your TCO? Learn how cloud migration and application modernization provide the foundation to modern app portfolios - improving resiliency, performance, and cost.

11:40 - 11:55 Raiffeisen Bank International’s Cloud Transformation  

Marek Chlebicki, Head of Group IT Strategy & Transformation, Raiffeisen Bank International

Learn how Raiffeisen Bank International AG Group (RBI) accelerated it’s cloud migration program across 12 banks in 12 CEE markets. The session will focus on the underlying complexity, importance of having ambitious goals and a defined strategy. As well as sharing RBI’s own experience, challenges and lessons learn, along with a few practical tips

11:55 - 12:00 Main Session Wrap

12:00 - 13:00 Optional Tour & Break

The expert guide-storytellers will provide a fascinating tour of the Globe Theatre auditorium, vividly recreating colourful stories of the 1599 Playhouse, the London Shakespeare would have known and the Globe reconstruction process in the 1990s. Our guides will also bring the theatre to life, exploring how the ‘wooden O’ works today as an imaginative and experimental space for performance.

13:00 - 14:30 Luncheon

Guests are invited to select from a pre-registered roundtable

13:00 - 14:30 Roundtable (to include lunch)

The Future of Storage, Hybrid Cloud and Sustainability in the Datacentre

This roundtable session will focus on the ways in which cloud infrastructure and AIOps are helping companies to build the data centre of the future while constructing an agile application infrastructure. The discussion will explore how businesses are responding to pressure to scale up and scale out their storage to public cloud as well as the need to build hybrid IT environments.

13:00 - 14:30 Roundtable (to include lunch)

Redefining hybrid CloudOps: striking a balance between cost, agility and quality

Learn how to gain better visibility into your hybrid operations, increase development velocity and innovation through modern applications, and architect a self-healing incident response system with AI Driven automation.

15:00 onwards Networking & Drinks