This year’s theme Where X Meets Y, the Power of the Hybrid, is about uncovering collaborations that are hiding in plain sight. What happens when unique and unexpected forces come together? The possibilities are limitless, and we want to put the spotlight on what those are.
The future of IT will not be on-premises, in the cloud, in IoT or at the edge. But rather IT will transform into a combination of all of these. Rather than being defined by the technology, it will be driven by business outcomes. This transformation of IT infrastructures must evolve to support a shift from the traditional centralized datacenter backhauling point to point connections, toward globally enabled centers of data globally placed and optimized to provide the most business value.
Morning Keynote | Longpath and the futures of tomorrow
Ari Wallach, Founder of Fast Company's Futures
Join us on the main stage to hear from our featured keynote speaker Ari Wallach. What is the future of the future? How has our understanding of “the future” both propelled us and held us back from true move-the-needle innovation. Ari will show how - using the Longpath mindset - we can boldly move forward and shape “the tomorrows” across all areas of endeavor: personal, professional and societal.
Where Technology Meets Diversity
Madonna Park, Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets
Andy Power, Chief Financial Officer, Digital Realty
Building community by connecting the world. One of the largest impediments to success is lack of access to resources that enable learning, dreaming and growth. Hear as a strategic leader shares how resources include much more than the necessary and obvious technology needed to connect people to resources, but also the criticality of access to diverse skillsets, backgrounds and role models.
Where AI Meets Creativity
Cassian Harrison, Channel Editor, BBC Four
George Wright, Head of Internet Research & Future Services, BBC
We already know how Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are reshaping the worlds of Speech Recognition, Medical Diagnosis and Banking, but what about the world of media and creativity? The BBC has stood at the forefront of technical research since its foundation almost a century ago, and its world-famous R&D department has been exploring how AI and ML might transform one of the world’s biggest and most trusted media organizations. Two of its senior creatives will demonstrate some cutting edge experimentation and some thoughts of the future of AI in the creative industries.
The Infrastructure Imperative - Announcing Results from 451 Research Global Enterprise IT Leaders Survey
Kelly Morgan, VP of Digital Infrastructure and Services for 451 Research
Kelly Morgan, VP of Digital Infrastructure and Services for 451 Research, will announce and share insights from their recent survey of 750 global enterprise IT leaders. The survey explored the effect of digital transformation on enterprise IT infrastructure strategies. Attendees at the session will be the first to receive the newly published report “The Infrastructure Imperative – Optimizing Data Exchange to Ensure Global Digital Transformation” which details the survey’s findings and 451’s recommendations. The report identifies the top infrastructure strategy IT leaders face is to address how to optimize data exchange globally across an increasing number of points of business presence.
Digital business requires a new IT architecture to enable companies to operate ubiquitously and on-demand, augmented by real-time intelligence and provide a rich omnichannel experience globally. This is forcing IT to implement a decentralized infrastructure
and enable centers of data exchange to accommodate distributed workflows and interconnect global digital ecosystems. In this session, Digital Realty’s CTO will introduce our Platform Vision, Strategy and Roadmap to provide the single global datacenter platform
that fully enables Enterprises, Service providers and Hyperscalers to remove data gravity barriers, implement decentralized infrastructure and scale digital business globally.
Solutions Showcase
Re-wiring the Enterprise Network with Cisco Secure Agile Exchange + Digital Realty
Sridhar Sikha, Product Solution Manager, Cisco
Kha Phan, Principal, Asperitas Consulting
Digital business requires a new enterprise network architecture. One that is localized at global points of business presence, consolidates traffic flows and end point management into network hubs and implements direct interconnection. Learn how Asperitas Consulting leveraged Cisco’ Secure Agile Exchange + Platform Digital’s Network Hub Solution to help Syngenta Corp rewire their network for digital business by bringing users, multiple clouds, and networked systems to the data.
Solutions Showcase
Implementing Hybrid IT Controls with IBM + Digital Realty
Paul Hertzfeldt, Offering Manager, IBM Cloud
Digital Business requires a new infrastructure architecture, one that localizes network traffic, hybrid cloud connectivity and infrastructure controls at global points of business presence. Learn how IBM Cloud + Platform Digital’s Network Hub Solution improves performance and infrastructure management control by instantiating colocation hosted controls combined with secure interconnection to IBM Cloud and Service Provider Ecosystem at centers of data exchange on Platform Digital. Hear about IBM’s own Hybrid IT deployments of Blockchain and Skytap on zSeries in multiple locations on Platform Digital.
Solutions Showcase
Connecting Distributed Workflows and the Edge with Vapor IO + Digital Realty
Cole Crawford, Founder & CEO, Vapor IO
Digital business requires the ability to bring the edge to enterprise at global points of business presence. Learn how the combination of Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge + Platform Digital’s Network Hub extension implements SDN and Interconnection to build an extension between centers of data exchange and end points at the edge to unlock new workflows and scale digital business. Hear about emerging use case deployments.
What’s the definition of customer success? There isn’t one answer. With a myriad of variables and advancements in technology, the customer journey is continuously changing. Catherine Blackmore brings her passion for customer success to the stage and shares her vision and tips for turning customer experience into customer advocacy.
Where Decentralization Meets Cybersecurity
Don Freese, Cyber Resilience & Zero Trust Strategy, PWC
Ed Diver, Chief Information Officer, Digital Realty
Digital transformation is forcing IT to re-architect towards a decentralized infrastructure that removes data gravity barriers and accommodates ubiquitous and on-demand operations. However, this inevitably introduces new security concerns with more points of entry. Cybersecurity expert, Don Freese, joins us with 22+ years under his belt at the FBI’s Global Data Privacy division and as the Cyber Strategy, Transformation & Risk Principal a PwC to share his thoughts on what this move towards decentralization means for cybersecurity and how to safeguard your IT infrastructure from data breaches.
Where Urbanization Meets Connectivity
Joshua Breitbart, Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the Mayor’s Office of the CTO for the City of New York
David Pickeral, Co-founder, Parkofon
Rhonda Binda, Co-founder & COO of the Smart Regions Initiative
Jason Elliott, Global 5G Portfolio Market Development, Nokia
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