Organizations have been forced to work in siloes. While working on the cybersecurity and cloud strategies, they have acquired a vast array of digital assets which have not been connected to each other.
 
There has been no way to convert vast amounts of data emanating from critical offline assets into valuable information, integrate such information across the value-chain and associated partner ecosystems in a secure way that creates real-time value, and put actionable real-time insights at every stakeholder’s fingertips. Until Now.
 
The next nexus of forces – 5G, Hybrid Cloud, Edge Computing, IoT and AI are converging to form a new substrate that makes the above possible. This new digital fabric makes a Secure Intelligent Connected Economy possible. Learn from what organizations are planning in this emerging space, and the new solutions and offerings that are promising to be the building blocks of this connected future.

Organizations are currently faced with dual mandates of Digital Transformation and ESG. As enterprise stakeholders are driving digitization of their business, sustainable technology practices are imperative to meet the dual mandates. We will discuss how we can leverage the cloud to drive convergence of digital transformation and ESG objectives. The keynote will share perspectives from both the provider (Hitachi Vantara) and a hyperscaler (AWS) looking to share proof points of past successes, challenges, and the future of this convergence.

Organizations stand to gain exponential business value by driving insights and intelligence from a connected ecosystem across their customers, value chains, enterprise systems and operational technology. This value acceleration can’t be delivered effectively without adopting a federated “boundaryless” information architecture underpinned by a robust security & governance strategy.

It’s imperative to effectively leverage emerging security and risk management capabilities that enable the realization of an enterprise without systemic boundaries that crimp both innovation and efficiency.

It is estimated that the use of cloud infrastructure to provide access to corporate applications and technology consumes approximately 50-90% less power than traditional methods but what is the whole story?  The future of work is about hybrid working, which requires cloud but also further connectivity and technologies to make hybrid work a success.  In this session, we will investigate how cloud and other technologies drive sustainability goals.

We’ve all seen the tremendous shift to cloud since the beginning of the pandemic – but there are issues that have surfaced.  Using real world examples and experience, our panelists will provide pointers on how to identify and mitigate those pitfalls and how to get the best out of your transformation journey.

As organizations continue to accelerate their Digital Transformation, it also creates a higher degree of potential vulnerability to a never-ending array of new attack vectors. Companies require advanced operating models to protect their core business. We will review industry-best-practices of how organizations are leveraging new ways of sourcing Cybersecurity to address these new challenges.

Organizations everywhere are facing an accelerating, unprecedented threat landscape. As regulatory pressure heats up, threat actors evolve and changes to the business introduce new risk. Protecting your brand, your users and your critical data has never been so complex and challenging. During this session, IBM Security leaders will share their insights and experiences working with enterprises of all sizes to address today's most pressing cybersecurity challenges.

As organizations of all sizes continue to execute a transformation strategy through the adoption of new technologies, they often find themselves immersed in numerous cloud computing environments. While these initiatives provide opportunities for organizations to quickly create new services and products; they also introduce new risks that require understanding and capability to implement more up-to-date security and control functionality.

This presentation will provide an overview of the guidance, tools, research and community engagement that the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has created for it’s members and followers. It will highlight the most impactful capabilities and services to keep pace with the organizational and environmental demands generated by continuous business transformation. From identifying the new inherent risks, to choosing the right security and control framework, and monitoring for continuous conformance – the rules have changed and so have the business requirements. 

Whether you are trying to keep pace, or even get ahead of the game – this session will enlighten and introduce techniques and requisites for success and sustainability.

Many clients are establishing multi-cloud estates which allow firms to select multiple cloud services from different providers. A multi-cloud strategy enables clients to enhance their performance by selecting platforms that are optimized for their key applications. Multi-cloud estates also provide business resiliency and disaster recovery capability and are a hedge against vendor lock-in.

In this session we will discuss the benefits, challenges and use cases of implementing and running a multi-cloud estate.

Cybersecurity is an ongoing concern of almost all organizations. As companies enter into sourcing relations, they need to segregate and manage responsibilities on security controls in the context of the managed service. Reliance on the provider's generic Information Security Management System  is no longer sufficient.

Under conditions of cyber-warfare with increasing direct and supply chain attacks organizations need cutting-edge platforms and approaches mitigate risk. This session will focus on the requirements and critical components of establishing a best-practice security risk awareness methodology.

Over the past five years, most organizations have focused on migrating workloads to cloud. The top driver of this cloud adoption and workload transformation was an expectation of gaining business agility at a substantially reduced cost. For many, that value proposition has not been fulfilled. While FinOps and TBM frameworks have focused on traditional IT cost management, and have adapted to include some constructs around public cloud management, the overall Hybrid Cloud Value Management challenge still remains unaddressed – and getting even more challenging by the day as more enterprises progress on their cloud journey.

In this session, we will showcase a game changing framework underpinned by an innovative Technology Value Management (TVM) platform that enables any enterprise to manage their cloud investments and ROI from an end-to-end Hybrid Cloud lens – the ability to make investments decisions and track the value derived from these investments using a single pane of glass for Private Clouds (Data Centers) to Public Clouds to shape their transformation, migration and modernization decisions.

As threat vectors continue to expand and Nation State activities skyrocket, Cybersecurity maturity has become a Board level topic. However, many organizations view Cybersecurity Maturity Assessments as a 'one and done' activity focused on technology only. This session will focus on the intersection of Risk and Operational Security, the need for continual monitoring and evolution of assessments, and ways to articulate relevant information at the Board level.

Cloud technologies have served as the foundation for growth and innovation, but the management of cloud models across the enterprise is a challenge that has stymied many firms. With some estimates of total spend on cloud services surpassing $1.0 trillion in 2024 while sustaining a double-digit compound annual growth, enterprises are seeking guidance on how to responsibly scale and manage their cloud footprints while maximizing the value from the cloud. This session will discuss effective cloud management by using a Cloud Center Of Excellence as the foundation.

Throughout companies, stakeholders are managing silos of risk to your organization. How can you connect the dots, improve efficiencies and gain visibility into your overall cybersecurity? Today, it’s more important than ever to be effective in identifying where your weaknesses lie—both inside and outside your organization.

Join Dave England for insights on how to establish a third-party risk management program with enforceable cybersecurity controls at the forefront. From intake assessments, validation of security controls, and continuous monitoring of vendor risk, the session will cover one of the more important topics challenging almost every organization today.

News making, sensational, cyberhacker nightmare stories happen often because employees clicked on something they shouldn’t have – whether through company email or social media – granting hackers extraordinary access to company systems. Cybersecurity education has taken a backseat to the cooler engineering functions or AI & ML disciplines that promise to bring in revenue or save money.
- How does the CISO prevent and mitigate people failure, not just technical failure?
- In addition to defense technologies, is there an offensive human approach?
- How do you build cyber-skepticism into the core of every employee, the enterprise DNA?
- Examples of successful COE and COP models? 
- Is it possible to rebuild the culture and employee behavioral patterns to establish security as a core value?

Spending on Cloud Computing technologies and services continue to grow at a rapid pace and will surpass $1 trillion dollars in the next several years. Investments in cloud hold the ‘promise’ of driving digital transformation, innovation, agility, speed, and lower cost.

Most clients have cloud computing as a part of their IT strategy and many clients are discovering that the ‘promise’ of cloud benefits are often difficult to realize. Cloud migrations and business operations can be fraught with delays, cost over runs, security issues, skills shortages, and many other challenges. Some clients deal with cloud chaos daily as a way of the new normal.

This panel will share the benefits and rewards of cloud computing implementations. End user clients and providers will retell their stories and share lessons learned and best practices.

These sessions provide hands-on demonstrations of innovative and cutting-edge technologies that are helping to shape the future of business.

How does the secure intelligent connected enterprise scale, while being kept secure and yet fully integrated from a business perspective? Just addressing zero trust alone while important is not the whole story, what about secure and scalable cloud operations, full integration with an enterprises existing infrastructure and the holy grail end to end digital transformation? Our panel will discuss this challenge and how to focus on security while continuing to grow at scale.  
 
The premise of our session is that improving a secure, intelligent, connected enterprise with zero trust concepts is crucial and important foundational piece of the puzzle but don’t forget the rest, for example is it DevSecOps that you need or is secure DevOps? Or while Multi-cloud is your reality if your existing cloud security and infrastructure isn’t ready or worse you believe that you outsourced it, then Houston we have a problem.

As organizational boundaries evaporate, network and cybersecurity are converging at an astounding pace. No longer held within the confines of an organization’s wide area network, how do we protect every branch office or device connecting directly to the Internet. Secure Access Service Edge and Zero Trust Architectures offer a converged solution marrying Identity and Access Control with traditional network security.  We’ll explore the common capabilities, use cases, and vendors in this discussion.

Everything is becoming software defined.  For years momentum has been building around software defined storage and software defined networking. And now – with the influence of cloud – we have software defined infrastructure (SDI).  Yet with all of the speed, scale and reliability benefits that SDI can bring, it also comes with challenges.  This session will focus on adding structure, repeatability, automation, security and compliance to your multi-cloud infrastructure strategy. Through real examples Persistent and our customers will team to discuss how key challenges can be conquered to deliver the benefits of SDI.

Many companies struggle with how they are going to make their business strategy a reality.  There are major considerations to creating their strategy and many obstacles to achieving successful execution.  Considerations include pairing strategy and execution, the company’s shift-forward data strategy, how it consumes and modernizes data and how they leverage cloud technologies given complex environments and cybersecurity risks.  All of this without losing sight of how the company defines the business value of data?  What’s today’s company’s data strategy that will sustain the vibrant digital brand growth of tomorrow?  It can be overwhelming.  Join this panel discussion to learn more about how these issues have been successfully addressed and lessons learned along the way.

Organizations are increasingly looking at connected & intelligent assets to take them to propel them into a higher orbit. Typically, technology teams own these intelligent assets while business teams monetize them. AI/ML models are primarily designed to bridge the gap between technology and business. In the fireside chat, ISG will engage with an enterprise client to understand their current challenges and expectations and share our viewpoint on how the SICE framework can solve their business problems.

Discuss the reality of how a major cybersecurity incident can significantly impact your supply chain and are you and your partners ready? We will dive into key questions such as Who are your supply chain partners, who are theirs? What do they provide and how critical is it to your business? Are both parties protected, do you even know what protections are in place on both sides? Can you and your supply chain partners respond and recover effectively? We need to be answering these questions and many more in order to fully participate as a Secure Intelligent Connected Enterprise.

Why do organizations struggle to protect themselves and recover from ransomware incidents? In this session, we are going to cover the latest ransomware trends. In addition, we will take a deep dive into how organizations can effectively reduce the risks of ransomware attacks and mitigate the damages they can cause. A key component to this will include ISG’s view on efficient and effective approaches to recovering data, restoring systems, and insights into effective backup and recovery testing.

After a day of great content, what do you do with it? ISG’s Doug Saylors will provide guidance on what your next steps should be to transform your Cybersecurity and embrace SICE!