Featured Sessions 2024

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Cloud AI Horizon Keynote Theatre

This theatre offers a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements and trends in the Cloud AI landscape, empowering attendees to stay ahead in the ever-evolving digital landscape. Gain valuable insights into harnessing AI's transformative power across various sectors while exploring a diverse range of topics including the intelligent cloud, smart infrastructure, AI-driven innovation, market intelligence and upcoming trends.

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PANEL I

Beyond the Horizon: Exploring Next-Generation Applications of Cloud AI 

This panel will delve into the frontier of next-generation applications enabled by cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI). Explore emerging trends and gain insights into the future landscape of Cloud AI applications and how organisations can prepare to leverage these advancements for competitive advantage and innovation.

Discussions will focus on the transformative potential of these technologies, their implications for various industries, and the challenges and opportunities they present for businesses.

Key Discussion Points:

  • Emerging Frontiers of Cloud AI Applications: Gain insights into the cutting-edge applications of cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) and understand how these next-generation technologies are reshaping industries and opening up new opportunities for innovation and growth.
     
  • Implications for Business Strategy and Innovation: Explore the potential impact of next-generation Cloud AI applications on business strategy and innovation. Learn how organisations can leverage these advancements to gain a competitive edge, drive operational efficiency, and deliver enhanced customer experiences. Understand the importance of strategic foresight and adaptability in navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of Cloud AI.
     
  • Addressing Challenges and Ethical Considerations: Delve into the challenges and ethical considerations associated with the adoption of next-generation Cloud AI applications. Discuss topics such as data privacy, security, transparency, and bias mitigation, and explore strategies for ensuring responsible AI deployment and fostering trust among stakeholders. Gain insights into best practices for navigating the ethical and regulatory complexities of leveraging advanced AI technologies in business contexts.

     

PANEL II

The Next Frontier: Scaling and Securing Cloud AI for Enterprise Transformation 

This session will explore the evolving landscape of cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) and its pivotal role in driving enterprise transformation. As organisations increasingly rely on AI to enhance decision-making, optimise operations, and deliver innovative products and services, scaling and securing Cloud AI solutions become imperative.

Explore strategies for effectively scaling AI initiatives across the enterprise while ensuring robust security measures to protect sensitive data and mitigate potential risks.

Key Discussion Points:

  • Scalability for Enterprise Impact: Gain insights into best practices for scaling Cloud AI initiatives across the enterprise to drive impactful business outcomes. Learn how to effectively manage resources, infrastructure, and workflows to accommodate growing AI workloads and support organisational growth and innovation.
     
  • Security in the Cloud AI Landscape: Understand the critical importance of implementing robust security measures to safeguard sensitive data and mitigate cybersecurity risks in Cloud AI environments. Explore strategies for ensuring data privacy, regulatory compliance, and resilience against emerging threats in the evolving cybersecurity landscape.
     
  • Optimising Performance and Efficiency: Discover approaches for optimising the performance and efficiency of Cloud AI solutions to maximise their value and impact on enterprise transformation initiatives. Explore techniques for fine-tuning AI models, optimising data pipelines, and leveraging cloud-native technologies to achieve greater agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

     

Digital Transformation & Strategy Theatre

Building upon the foundation of digital customer experience, digital-first strategy, and data-driven decision-making, this theatre explores how companies can further advance their transformation journey towards customer-centricity and sustainable growth.

Delve into the next stage of organisational evolution beyond the initial steps of digital transformation. From large-scale enterprise transformations to fostering a culture of innovation, explore insights and strategies needed to navigate the complexities of modern business landscapes while accelerating digital transformation initiatives, optimising operations, and enhancing customer experiences.

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Maximising ROI in the Cloud: Cost Optimisation Strategies and Best Practices 

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organisations are increasingly turning to cloud technology to drive innovation, agility, and scalability. However, with the myriad of cloud services and resources available, optimising costs while maximizing ROI presents a significant challenge. This panel will explore strategies and best practices for achieving cost efficiency in the cloud, ensuring organisations derive the maximum value from their cloud investments. Delve into the key principles of cost optimisation, including rightsizing resources, implementing effective cost allocation policies, and optimizing performance and availability.

Key Discussion Points:

  • Rightsizing and Resource Optimisation: Discussing strategies for rightsizing cloud resources to match workload requirements, including leveraging cloud-native tools and services for monitoring resource utilization and identifying opportunities for optimisation.
     
  • Cost Allocation and Tagging Policies: Exploring the importance of implementing robust cost allocation and tagging policies to track and manage cloud spend effectively. Emphasizing the value of transparency and accountability in managing cloud costs and optimising resource usage to maximise ROI.
     
  • Optimising Performance and Availability: Examining strategies for optimising performance and availability in the cloud while minimising costs. Discussing techniques for implementing cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery solutions and considering the trade-offs between performance, availability, and cost.

Minds & Machines: AI in Tomorrow’s Workplace Theatre

This theatre will explore the multifaceted impact of AI across various aspects of the modern workforce.  Gain valuable insights into how organisations are leveraging AI technologies to reshape workforce capabilities and inspire innovation.

Discover how AI is revolutionising talent acquisition, predictive analytics, and workplace safety protocols, and uncover the exciting possibilities and ethical considerations of an AI-enhanced workforce.

 

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Navigating the AI Frontier: Transforming Workforce Dynamics, Innovations, and Ethical Considerations 

From reshaping talent acquisition to revolutionising predictive analytics and workplace safety protocols, AI is driving significant transformations across organisations. This session will explore the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on various aspects of the modern workforce. Gain valuable insights into how AI technologies are being leveraged to enhance workforce capabilities and inspire innovation, while also uncovering the ethical considerations inherent in this AI-enhanced landscape.

Key Discussion Points:

  • Enhancing Workforce Capabilities: Discover how organisations are harnessing AI technologies to redefine workforce capabilities, enabling employees to focus on higher-value tasks while automating mundane and repetitive activities.
     
  • Inspiring Innovation: Explore the ways in which AI is fostering innovation within organisations, driving new approaches to problem-solving, product development, and customer engagement through data-driven insights and predictive analytics.
     
  • Ethical Considerations: Delve into the ethical frontiers of an AI-enhanced workforce, examining issues such as fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI-driven decision-making processes, and discussing strategies for ensuring responsible AI deployment while safeguarding employee well-being and privacy.

DevOps Automation & Evolution Theatre

This theatre delves into the core principles emerging trends, and transformative practices that define modern DevOps methodologies. Throughout this track, we'll navigate a diverse array of topics, including Cloud-Native Development, Chaos Engineering, Continuous Integration/Deployment, Serverless Computing, Shift-Left Testing, Collaborative Practices, Microservices Architecture, Kubernetes and Container Orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, and Edge Computing.

Uncover the latest strategies, tools, and best practices that empower organizations to accelerate delivery, enhance reliability, and drive continuous innovation in today's dynamic digital environment.

 

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Container Orchestration Wars: Kubernetes vs. Alternatives 

With the growing popularity of containerization, organizations are evaluating various container orchestration solutions. This panel will provide insights into the technical considerations and trade-offs involved in selecting the right orchestration platform for specific deployment scenarios, understanding the differences between Kubernetes and alternative solutions, along with their respective strengths and weaknesses, can help organizations make informed decisions and optimize their containerized environments effectively.

Key Discussion Points:

  • Scalability and Performance: Explore the scalability limits and performance characteristics of Kubernetes compared to alternative container orchestration platforms. Discuss real-world use cases and performance benchmarks to understand how each platform handles large-scale deployments and resource-intensive workloads.
     
  • Ecosystem and Tooling: Evaluate the ecosystem and tooling available for Kubernetes and alternative solutions, considering factors such as ease of use, integration with existing workflows, and support for third-party plugins and extensions.
     
  • Deployment Considerations: Discuss factors such as deployment complexity, resource requirements, high availability, and support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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