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Cloud Frontiers 2021

Live online conference. An open window into the conversations around the cloud prevailing in Asia-Pacific today. 

18+ Speakers

 10 Sessions

Two days

100+ Attendees

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We are in the eye of the cloud storm.

Within a decade, the cloud has become the infrastructure of choice for many traditional enterprises; for startups, it is the default as all-cloud unicorns become the norm. The enterprise technology sector has a plethora of offerings for every conceivable workload and deployment model — from a custom-built legacy app on a hybrid cloud to containerised apps with data orchestrated across the multi-cloud.

Produced after extensive consultation with practitioners, the conference will bring together 100+ end-user and industry experts across two days to take stock of the industry and its capabilities. It will be an opportunity to share roadmaps towards cloud adoption, and strategies that drive unfettered innovation for developers, business leaders and enterprise customers.

Speakers

Dr Michael Gorriz

Group Chief Information Officer, Standard Chartered Bank

Lim Shih Hsien

Chief Security Officer, Singapore Power Group

Unal Altay

Chief Information Officer, V/Line

Shiv Kumar Bhasin

Chief Technology and Operations Officer, National Stock Exchange of India

David Backley

Chief Information Officer, TAFE NSW

Shaun Chong

      Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Ninja Van

Steven WONG Weng Leong

Chief Digital and Global Banking Strategist, China Construction Bank (Malaysia)

Joseph Ng

Director of IT, Baring Private Equity

Saiful Bakhtiar Osman

Head of IT APAC, Ascent Fund Services

Abhishek Pradhan

VP/ Head of Cloud Technology, Mission Software & Services, Digital Systems, ST Engineering

Varun Gupta

Director of IT, IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd)

Sourabh Chitrachar

   Regional VP(Asia), IT Transformation and Strategy, GRM East Regional IT, Liberty  Insurance Private Limited

Emil Chan

Chairman, Association of Cloud and Mobile Computing Professionals

Abhilash GK

Software-Defined Infrastructure Lead, Lenovo ISG, Asia Pacific

Sean Hong

Regional Director, Strategic Alliance - Cloud, Fortinet

Mac Lewis

Director of Asia Pacific Strategic Alliances, Equinix

Simon Lewry

Head of Services, Asia, Telstra Purple

Geraldine Kor

Managing Director, South Asia, Telstra

Patrick Quesnel

Infrastructure & Hybrid Product Marketing Lead, APAC, Microsoft Azure

Rahul Joshi

Managing Editor, Frontier Enterprise

John Tanner

Contributing Editor, Frontier Enterprise

Conference schedule

Action packed 2 days, click on a topic to read more.

Day One: 22 July

Viewing of Booths & Networking

09:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Get to know the other participants and visit the sponsor booths.

Opening Remarks

10:00 AM - 10:05 AM

Chairperson to introduce the event, the platform and housekeeping.

Fireside Chat: Standard Chartered's Cloud Migration Case Study

10:05 AM - 10:25 AM

A real-life example of how an enterprise moved to the cloud, along with the roadblocks it encountered and the benefits it realised. This session will take the audience on a step-by-step journey of migrating workloads to the cloud.

  • Dr Michael Gorriz, Group Chief Information Officer, Standard Chartered Bank


Moderator:

  • Rahul Joshi, Managing Editor, Frontier Enterprise
Keynote: Navigating The Cloud Journey and The Rise of Hybrid World

10:25 AM - 10:45 AM

There are times when one cloud just isn’t enough — but how do you figure out the right cloud for the right workload? This session will address all the different permutations of cloud models and what it takes to orchestrate data, resources, speed and security across multiple clouds to maximise performance and efficiency — without drowning in complexity.

  • Abhilash GK, Software-Defined Infrastructure Lead, Lenovo ISG, Asia Pacific
Panel: State of the Industry

10:45 AM - 11:25 AM

Where do we stand when it comes to cloud providers? What are some of the most interesting innovations happening on part of vendors? Our panel will decode some of the most exciting developments when it comes to the cloud industry at the moment, as well as what the panelists are looking forward to and what the solutions out there are lacking.

Panelists:

  • Emil Chan, Chairman, Association of Cloud and Mobile Computing Professionals
  • Sean Hong, Regional Director Strategic Alliance – Cloud, Fortinet
  • Abhishek Pradhan, VP/ Head of Cloud Technology, Mission Software & Services, Digital Systems, ST Engineering

 

Moderator:

  • John Tanner, Contributing Editor, Frontier Enterprise
Break

11:25 AM - 11:35 AM

Get to know the other participants and visit the sponsor booths.

Fireside Chat: The Role of the Cloud in Post-Covid Business Digitalization

11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

The coronavirus pandemic has created a state of emergency for organisations as they are required to be agile and adapt to the changing business and health environment. The pandemic situation has forced organization to achieve this by working remotely and minimising human interaction. This session will address the post-COVID "new normal" and the various ways the cloud can play a role across various job scopes and workflows in the enterprise. 

  • Sourabh Chitrachar, Regional VP (Asia), IT Transformation and Strategy, GRM East Regional IT, Liberty Insurance Private Limited

 

Moderator:

  • Rahul Joshi, Managing Editor, Frontier Enterprise
Panel: Cloud Enablement for a Sci-Fi Future

11:55 AM - 12:35 PM

Ten years from now, we’ll live in a different technological world. 5G, AR/VR, drones, self-driving cars and IoT devices in the billions are nearly here — and it is not possible to imagine this world without the cloud as its backbone. This session will explore the shape of the cloud in the future, and what enterprises can do to ensure that they are ready for this sci-fi era.

Panelists:

  • Steven WONG Weng Leong, Chief Digital and Global Banking Strategist, China Construction Bank (Malaysia)
  • Joseph Ng, Director of IT, Baring Private Equity
  • Saiful Bakhtiar Osman, Head of IT APAC, Ascent Fund Services
  • Varun Gupta, Director of IT, IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd)


Moderator:

  • Rahul Joshi, Managing Editor, Frontier Enterprise
Closing Remarks

12:35 PM - 12:40 PM

Chairperson to round off the first day.

Day Two: 23 July

Viewing of Booths & Networking

09:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Get to know the other participants and visit the sponsor booths.

Opening Remarks

10:00 AM - 10:05 AM

Chairperson to introduce the event, the platform and housekeeping.

Keynote: National Stock Exchange of India's Transformation Using Cloud

10:05 AM - 10:25 AM

  • Shiv Kumar Bhasin, Chief Technology and Operations Officer, National Stock Exchange of India
Keynote: Adaptive Cloud Security to Protect All Environments

10:25 AM - 10:45 AM

Modern enterprise networks are diverse and often span multiple environments, each with its own unique requirements and standards. Securing each network ecosystem independently creates a challenge for consistent policy enforcement, transparency, and unified orchestration and response. In this session, you will learn interesting insights from the newly published Fortinet Cloud Security report 2021 and how a future-proof security architecture looks for the cloud-enabled enterprise.

  • Sean Hong, Regional Director Strategic Alliance – Cloud, Fortinet
Panel: Understanding Cost Issues with the Cloud

10:45 AM - 11:25 AM

Not all clouds are equal, and migration to the cloud is no guarantee of lower costs. In fact, there are reports of companies moving from cloud-based email back to on-premise MX servers - just to save costs. This session will address the expenses associated with the cloud and each of its models - the panelists will evaluate the cost-benefit equation involved with cloud services.

Panelists:

  • Lim Shih Hsien, Chief Security Officer, Singapore Power Group
  • Unal Altay, Chief Information Officer, V/Line

  • David Backley, Chief Information Officer, TAFE NSW


Moderator:

  • John Tanner, Contributing Editor, Frontier Enterprise
Break

11:25 AM - 11:35 AM

Get to know the other participants and visit the sponsor booths.

Panel: Executing an Interconnected Cloud Strategy

11:35 AM - 12:35 PM

Businesses need to ensure secured and direct connectivity to their distributed cloud-centric digital infrastructure, cloud providers, and data sources across the industry ecosystem. Also critical is having an IT environment that can help minimize system integration risks across different cloud types, support applications, data-using containers, and cloud-native technologies. Experts from Telstra, Microsoft and Equinix share and discuss why having a future-ready cloud architecture is at the core of building long-term enterprise resilience to support interconnectivity, interoperability, and integration.

Panelists:

  • Mac Lewis, Director of Asia-Pacific Strategic Alliances, Equinix
  • Geraldine Kor, Managing Director, South Asia, Telstra
  • Simon Lewry, Head of Services, Asia, Telstra Purple
  • Patrick Quesnel, Microsoft Azure Infrastructure & Hybrid Product Marketing Lead, APAC, Microsoft
Keynote: The World of Cloud-Native Applications

12:35 PM - 12:55 PM

Containerisation, hybrid possibilities and DevOps are exciting developments in the enterprise world. The speed of application deployment is unprecedented, and it has changed the way enterprises look at both consumer-facing and internal applications. This case study will go through how an IT team modernised its application development and deployment process with the help of cloud infrastructure.

  • Shaun Chong, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Ninja Van
Closing Remarks

12:55 PM - 1:00 PM

Chairperson to round off the second day and the conference.

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Saiful currently serves as the Head of IT – APAC, for ASCENT Fund Services, a Singapore-based, Global Independent Fund Administrator company. He is responsible for providing the technology, solutions, security, and support for all ASCENT Fund Services offices in APAC. He has been ranked as Top 50 Chief Information Officer (CIO50) for ASEAN in 2019 and 2020 by IDG. He was also listed as World CIO 200 in the Book of Titans (BOTS 3.0) in 2020 by the Global CIO Forum.