Cloud native development helps businesses embrace flexibility and innovation. Whilst legacy technology doesn’t make adopting ‘cloud native’ impossible, it does require a shift in mindset. Maximising its potentially requires an understanding of the technology, terminology and organisational culture shifts that need to happen, as well as a clear vision of what you mean by cloud native in the first place.
A digital discussion, in association with IBM, brings together experiences to discuss the myriad challenges organisations face in adapting to a cloud native model. You will learn which applications and workloads to move first and how to reap the rewards of such a drastic culture shift, as well as demystifying some key cloud native concepts and lay out a roadmap to help you get started yourself.
During this webcast, IBM experts and clients will offer tips on how to streamline your transition during this difficult time. You will also hear about ways IBM can help businesses stay agile as they make embrace the flexibility, security and scalability of cloud.
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Scott Carey
Group Editor - UK B2B
IDG UK
An experienced enterprise technology journalist, he is as comfortable writing analysis as he is hosting industry events and appearing on broadcast media. He has a keen interest in big IT and cloud vendors, deep knowledge of the SaaS market and digital transformation at some of the UK's biggest companies, and a contacts book that covers the industry from top to bottom.
He has a diploma in magazine journalism from Cardiff University and appreciates sport, the media and travel, both personally and professionally.
Dr Holly Cummins
Development Practice Lead
IBM
Holly Cummins is the worldwide development practice lead for the IBM Cloud Garage. As part of the Cloud Garage, Holly delivers technology-enabled innovation to clients across a range of industries, from banking to catering to retail to NGOs. She has led projects to count fish, help a blind athlete run ultra-marathons in the desert solo, improve health care for the elderly, and change how city parking works. Holly is also a Java Champion, IBM Q Ambassador, and JavaOne Rock Star. Before joining the IBM Cloud Garage, she was Delivery Lead for the WebSphere Liberty Profile (now Open Liberty). Holly co-authored Manning’s Enterprise OSGi in Action. She is an active speaker and has spoken at JavaOne, Devoxx, JavaZone, JFokus, The ServerSide Java Symposium, JAX London, QCon, GeeCon, and the Great Indian Developer Summit, as well as a number of user groups.
Dr Hassan Shuman
Enterprise Architect
IBM
Hassan has worked in IT infrastructure consultancy and outsourcing for 18 years in varying advisory and leadership roles across multiple industries. His technical foundation (based on 7 years of hands-on experience prior to moving to consultancy) with strong interpersonal skills and business insight has enabled him to lead large teams to win and run a number of multi-million-dollar outsourcing contracts and migrate global applications & large-scale infrastructures to the cloud.
Ricky DeLandro
Managing Partner
Apater Capital
Ricky has recently joined innovation focused Private Equity house Apater Capital as Managing Partner from his role as Head of Business Innovation for UK Corporate Banking at HSBC.
Most of his 20-year career has been spent in financial services business change, with the majority being focused in Investment Banking Structured Products. His natural curiosity and entrepreneurial spirit however, steered him away from the world of derivatives over recent years and towards more innovation centric roles.
Mark Osborn
Partner Ecosystem Technical Leader Europe
IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software
Mark is an experienced technology leader passionate about enabling organisations to exceed their business goals through digital and cloud transformation. Mark began his career coaching corporations with their first tentative steps to the Internet. He gained invaluable experience in Asia, managing dot-coms in Singapore, moving then to a London-based digital start-up, which was acquired by IBM in 2003.
At IBM he has worked in sales, services and technical leadership roles in digital and Cloud technology, both in Europe and Asia. Mark currently leads IBM's Cloud Architect team in Europe.