Thought Leadership Forum 2020 | Agility

[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”23001″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column][vc_separator color=”white” border_width=”10″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today’s fast-changing business landscape has defined a new operating environment that demands real-time connectivity, frictionless data exchange and personalised customer experiences at the edge.

While traditional IT toolkits and processes struggle to keep pace with modern day business needs, organisations are leveraging the flexibility of the enterprise Cloud with embedded automated productivity tools and opportunities for omni-channel business models.

Many tech leaders have discovered that the ‘lift and shift’ approach with their existing on-premise systems often result in performance issues, unexpected breakages and minimal cost savings. How then can tech leaders realise the full benefits by adopting best practices in Cloud orchestration? How can we identify and pay close attention to critical areas for a successful Cloud migration journey?

This session brings together tech leaders and Cloud domain experts talking sharing case studies and valuable tips for industry practitioners embarking in their own Cloud transformation journeys.

This session will offer practical insights of the following areas:

  • Effective Cloud architecture design for organisations with complex legacy systems and processes
  • Achieving greater efficiencies and improving risk management by adopting a multi-cloud approach
  • Embedding security by design into enterprise Cloud transformation strategy – technology toolkits designed for Cloud-native technology operations
  • Optimising technology cost and performance through Software Defined-Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) in Cloud-enabled delivery of digital services over a distributed geographical network

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”REGISTER” color=”green” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fcioacademyasia.tempurl.host%2Fthought-leadership-forum-2020-agility-registration-form%2F||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”FEATURED SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Source%20Sans%20Pro%3A200%2C200italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:900%20bold%20regular%3A900%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”19245″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]

Soh Siew Choo
Managing Director, Group Head of Consumer Banking and Big Data/AI Technology, DBS Bank

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Dean Vaughan
Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan,
Silver Peak

[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” modal_size=”container” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”80″]Dean Vaughan
Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Silver Peak

Dean Vaughan is vice president of sales for Asia Pacific and Japan and is responsible for enterprise and service provider sales, including go-to-market and channel strategies to drive partner engagement and customer acquisition across the region. Prior to Silver Peak, Vaughan served in various enterprise technology sales leadership positions at Oracle, most recently as senior director of Cloud Platform Solutions for ASEAN where, in a short period of time, he significantly expanded the public cloud IaaS and PaaS businesses. Vaughan began his career at Oracle in 2009 where he established and scaled the Oracle Virtualization and Linux business units in Australia and New Zealand. By 2012, Vaughan was promoted to oversee the Cloud Infrastructure business unit for Asia Pacific and Japan. During this time, Vaughan delivered consistent double-digit annual growth by expanding the business to India, Korea and Japan and restructuring the business in China, ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand. Previously, Vaughan built NCR Corporation’s Cisco Systems Network Integration business across Asia Pacific.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”22975″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]

Sherif El-Nabawi
Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan Sales Engineering,
CrowdStrike

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Sherif El-Nabawi
Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan Sales Engineering, CrowdStrike

Sherif El-Nabawi is the Vice President of Sales Engineering and Security Services at CrowdStrike Asia Pacific & Japan. In this role, Sherif is responsible for CrowdStrike Asia Pacific and Japan operation field engineering, security services and customer education.

Sherif is a senior technology executive and recognized thought leader in the cyber security industry. Before joining CrowdStrike, Sherif was the Vice President of systems engineering at Symantec Asia Pacific & Japan. While at Symantec, he was responsible for leading the team of systems engineers across the region and providing security advisory to Symantec clients across all verticals. Prior to Symantec, Sherif worked at Blue Coat Systems and Mandiant in variety of leadership and technical role which involved in technical sales execution, product strategy, go-to-market, and all areas of customer success.

El-Nabawi holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication Engineering, and a Master of Science in Satellite, Personal, and Mobile Communications from the University of Westminster, London. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), ISO 27001 Lead Auditor and CEng (Chartered Engineer) MIET.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”22995″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]

Sandeep Bhargava
Managing Director, Asia Pacific / Japan
Rackspace

[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” modal_size=”container” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”80″]Sandeep Bhargava
Managing Director, Asia Pacific / Japan
Rackspace

Sandeep Bhargava is the Managing Director, Asia Pacific / Japan, for Rackspace. With over 20+ years of IT Services experience, Sandeep is poised to drive Rackspace’s growth across the APJ region and establish strong local teams to ensure our customers receive Rackspace’s renowned Fanatical Experience.

Sandeep has held multiple roles in managing business unit P&L, managing customer relationships and leading sales & leading delivery teams in DXC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Dell-EMC and Procter & Gamble.

Sandeep holds a MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow and a degree in Electronics Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering. He lives in Singapore with his wife and two children.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”19928″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Koh Kok Tian
Deputy CEO
CIO Academy Asia[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” modal_size=”container” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″]Koh Kok Tian
Deputy CEO
CIO Academy Asia

Koh Kok Tian brings more than 20 years of executive and leadership experience in the Tech industry, helming various leadership roles.

He was most recently in charge of business development and strategic projects at Inchcape Singapore – a leading automotive distributor and retailer, where he focused on MaaS, TaaS (Mobile and Transport-as-a-Service) to Autonomous Vehicles initiatives.

Kok Tian also headed the Supply Chain Operations where he oversaw all aspects of the company’s Vertically Integrated Retailing Distribution Model. Prior to that he was the IT Director and a member of the Inchcape global team with responsibilities in Asia.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”18734″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]P. Ramakrishna
CEO
CIO Academy Asia[/vc_column_text][ultimate_modal modal_title=”BIO” modal_on=”text” modal_on_align=”left” read_text=”Click for bio” modal_size=”container” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″]P. Ramakrishna
Chief Executive Officer
CIO Academy Asia

P. Ramakrishna (Rama) has been involved with the tech domain for the last 35 years.

Rama was formerly with Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority (now IMDA and GovTech), his last held position was Director of IDA’s Industry Development, responsible for national level initiatives to develop the tech industry ecosystem. He left in 2015 and became an advisor for several foreign countries to help develop their national tech masterplans.

In 2016 Rama joined CIO Academy Asia and is currently the CEO. CIO Academy builds CIO communities, sharing tech best practices and insights for C-level executives.

Rama is also the co-author of the recently published ‘Intelligent Island: The Untold Story of Singapore’s Tech Journey’ which chronicles the development of Singapore’s tech industry over the last 3 decades.[/ultimate_modal][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=”tlfcyber_agenda”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”AGENDA” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Source%20Sans%20Pro%3A200%2C200italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:900%20bold%20regular%3A900%3Anormal”][vc_column_text]
11:30PM Networking & Registration


12:00PM – 12:50PM Lunch to be served


12:50PM -01:00PM Opening Remarks
By P. Ramakrishna, CEO, CIO Academy Asia


01:00PM – 01:15PM Keynote // Accelerating Business Outcomes in a Multi-Cloud Transformation Journey
By Dean Vaughan, Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Silver Peak


01:15PM – 01:40PM Fireside Chat // Case Study Sharing
Featuring Soh Siew Choo, Managing Director, Group Head of Consumer Banking and Big Data/AI Technology, DBS Bank

Facilitated by P. Ramakrishna, CEO, CIO Academy Asia


01:40PM -01:50PM Brief Sharing // Technology Insights – Cloud Security
By Sherif El-Nabawi, Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Sales Engineering, CrowdStrike


01:50PM -02:00PM Brief Sharing // Best Practices in a Multi-Cloud Transformation


02:00PM – 02:45PM Panel Discussion // Maximising Business Agility – Building an Effective Cloud Architecture

– Soh Siew Choo, Managing Director, Group Head of Consumer Banking and Big Data/AI Technology, DBS Bank
– Dean Vaughan, Vice President of Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan, Silver Peak
– Sherif El-Nabawi, Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Sales Engineering, CrowdStrike

Facilitated by P. Ramakrishna, CEO, CIO Academy Asia


02:45PM – 03:00PM Summary & Closing Remarks


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DIAMOND PARTNER

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”22939″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]About Silver Peak
Silver Peak, the global SD-WAN leader, delivers the transformational promise of the cloud with a business-first networking model. The Unity EdgeConnect™ self-driving wide area network platform liberates enterprises from conventional WAN approaches to transform the network from a constraint to a business accelerant. Thousands of globally distributed enterprises have deployed Silver Peak WAN solutions across 100 countries. Learn more at silver-peak.com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

PLATINUM PARTNER

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”22976″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike® Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, is redefining security for the cloud era with an endpoint protection platform built from the ground up to stop breaches. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform’s single lightweight-agent architecture leverages cloud-scale artificial intelligence (AI) and offers real-time protection and visibility across the enterprise, preventing attacks on endpoints on or off the network. Powered by the proprietary CrowdStrike Threat Graph®, CrowdStrike Falcon correlates over 2.5 trillion endpoint-related events per week in real time from across the globe, fuelling one of the world’s most advanced data platforms for security.

With CrowdStrike, customers benefit from better protection, better performance and immediate time-to-value delivered by the cloud-native Falcon platform.

There’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”22996″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]About Rackspace
At Rackspace, we accelerate the value of the cloud during every phase of digital transformation. Across applications, data, security, hybrid and multiple clouds worldwide, we provide cloud specialists with unbiased expertise, continuous modernization and Rackspace Service Blocks. We work with leading partners and alliances. As a recognized Gartner Magic Quadrant leader, we deliver Fanatical Experience™ across every interaction. Rackspace has been honored by Fortune, Forbes, Glassdoor and others as one of the best places to work.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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