Cloud and AI Virtual Forum

Why attend?

Join technology leaders form organisations like Natwest Group and Unipart Group who will discuss the demands placed on enterprises in today's highly dynamic digital business environment. How organisations that are intelligent, flexible and resilient will be better placed to respond with pace, to improve business agility and manage strategy for the future.

We invite you to join this year's Cloud and AI Forum by IBM, an online event showcasing how businesses can adapt and evolve to new ways of doing business in challenging times. Alongside your fellow peers and industry experts, learn how to adopt a holistic hybrid cloud architecture with IBM and Red Hat. Helping you to more easily build and modernise your applications and deploy AI throughout your business.

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Three major shifts

Modernisation

The modernisation of critical workloads to build scalable applications at speed

Kubernetes

The adoption of Kubernetes to orchestrate applications flexibly across any environment

AI and edge

The growing use of operational AI and edge applications to create data-driven insights that shape business outcomes

IBM and Red Hat

Unlock the full potential of Cloud and AI with IBM and Red Hat

We invite you to see for yourself how we’ve architected our hybrid multicloud and public cloud offerings with modularity, open source standards, and secure distributed cloud management fit for the enterprise. We will show you how to adopt a holistic, hybrid multicloud architecture, where you can more easily build and modernise applications and deploy AI throughout your business. With IBM and Red Hat, you can unlock the potential of cloud and AI. Deploy on the most open and secure public cloud for business, modernise applications to reduce costs and achieve digital readiness, ensure business continuity while accelerating transformation, and scale the value of your data and accelerate the journey to AI.

Keep one jump ahead. Unlock the full potential of Cloud and AI

Experience the story of IBM's cloud and AI solutions and their outcomes for business while trying to top our leaderboard. Cloud and AI Runner is an endless runner style game that has you always trying to keep one jump ahead. Jump from cloud to cloud to capture the true value of cloud & AI. Run further for a more successful business. Collect power-ups to boost your business sky high.

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Cloud and AI Forum – Unlock the full potential of Cloud and AI

09:30	Welcome & Introduction: Hybrid Cloud – Unlock the full potential for Cloud and AI with IBM and Red Hat Andrew Wilcock, VP Cloud and Cognitive Software, IBM UK & Ireland
09:40	Smarter Architecture is Smarter Business Panel discussion hosted by Danny Wilks, Director, Cloud and Cognitive Software, UK & Ireland who will be joined by Fiona Morris, Head of Service Delivery and Operational Resilience, NatWest Group Manish Chandela, Group Chief Information Security Officer, Unipart Group
	Rely on the most open and secure public cloud	Modernise applications to reduce costs and achieve digital readiness with IBM and Red Hat	Optimise and manage Technology Transformation securely with velocity	Scale the value of your data and accelerate the journey to AI
10:00	Why an open, hybrid cloud architecture is essential to your customer’s experience Mark Cox, Director, Public Cloud, IBM UK & Ireland	Drive digital transformation with AI-powered Automation Mike Kefford, UK Cloud and Cognitive Leader, IBM UK & Ireland Claudio Tag, Cloud Solution Architect, IBM UK & Ireland	Accelerate business innovation through technology transformation Paul Martin, Head of GTS Consulting & Advisory Services, IBM UK & Ireland	Breaking out of Pilot Purgatroy to embed AI into everyday operations Alastair Mackenzie, Brand Leader, Data and AI, IBM UK & Ireland Clare Mortimer, Analytics, Data Science and AI Leader, IBM UK & Ireland
	Multi-cloud Application Development with OpenShift Mo Haghighi, Head of Developer Ecosystem, IBM Europe	Transform and Accelerate using IBM Garage methodology Holly Cummins, IBM Garage, IBM Europe	How to enhance your operational resilience with Natwest Group Fiona Morris, Head of Service Delivery and Operational Resilience, NatWest Group Flick March, Security and Resiliency Director, IBM UK & Ireland	Rethinking the Mayflower with AI and Edge Don Scott, Chief Technology Officer of MarineAI and the Mayflower Autonomous Ship, Promare. Jonathan Batty, Head of Content and Storytelling, IBM Europe
	Cloud Computing in the UK Dr Paul Miller, Principal Analyst, Forrester	Modernising your workloads with containers in the cloud Simon Greig, Distinguished Engineer, Cloud and Red Hat	Cybergeddon – The Inquest Flick March, Security and Resiliency Director, IBM UK & Ireland	AI in Colorectal Surgery Prof Ronan Cahill, Professor of Surgery, Mater Misericordiae University College Hospital, Dublin Pol Mac Aonghusa, PHD, Senior Research Manager, IBM Research Europe
	IBM Cloud for Financial Services Bharat Bhushan, Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Banking and Financial Markets, IBM EMEA	Key imperatives to help drive innovation and digital transformation using Cloud and AI Panel discussion hosted by Professor Sally Eaves, CTO, Author and Speaker on Digital transformation joined by Mike Kefford - UKI Cloud sales Leader Holly Cummins - Worldwide Development Leader, IBM Cloud Garage, Claudio Tagliabue - Cloud Solution Architect, IBM UK & Ireland Simon Greig - Distinguished Engineer in IBM Global Business Services and Dario Molinari Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat	Container Modernisation: From adoption to scaling. How to transform and manage a modern infrastructure Carla Arend, IDC Senior Program Director: Lead Analyst, Cloud in Europe Marco Sebastiani, IBM Infrastructure Services CTO, EMEA	Journey to Modernisation – Getting started on your Cloud and AI modernisation projects Jon Simmons, Data and AI Platform Solution Engineer, IBM United Kingdom & Ireland
	Migrating Complex workloads to the Cloud Panel discussion hosted by Mark Cox, Director, Public Cloud, IBM UK & Ireland. Panelists: Ed Seymour, Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat John Steele, Cloud Migration Architect, IBM Global Business Services Steve Dockar, Cloud Solutions Architect, VMware		Accelerate technology transformation while minimizing risk with guest panelist Carla Arend, Senior Program Director Cloud Research Europe at IDC and Paul Martin, Flick March, IBM	Accelerating your journey to AI Panel discussion with IBM Experts Hosted by Alastair Mackenzie. Brand Leader, Data and AI, IBM UK & Ireland Jonathan Batty Head of Content and Story Telling, IBM Europe, Pol MacAonghusa, PHD, Senior Research Manager, IBM Research Europe, Derek Carroll - AI Architect - IBM UK and Ireland

Guest Speakers

Carla Arend

IDC Senior Program Director: Lead Analyst, Cloud in Europe

Prof Ronan Cahill

Professor of Surgery, Mater Misericordiae University College Hospital, Dublin

Manish Chandela

Group Chief Information Security Officer, Unipart Group

Steve Dockar

Global Technical Alliance Manager, VMware

Prof. Sally Eaves

Chief Technology Officer, Professor in Advanced Technologies and Global Strategic Advisor, Author and Speaker on Digital Transformation, Sustainability and Social Impact