Secure Your Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Environment With These Achievable Steps

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Session Overview

As organisations rapidly adopt hybrid and multi-cloud environments, they must consider the unique security challenges associated with this digital evolution. Discover the basic steps required to secure your hybrid and multi-cloud environment effectively, with the investments you have likely already made.

Attend this session to gain an understanding of the security challenges associated with hybrid and multi-cloud environments and to explore practical and achievable strategies for securing these cloud environments effectively. Plus actionable insights on the essential security controls and best practices required to protect your organisation from potential cyber threats.

Session Key Takeaways:

  • Gain insight into the essential security controls and best practises required to secure your hybrid and multi-cloud environments effectively
  • Understand the importance of continuous monitoring and risk assessments within the cloud
  • Understand the unique security challenges associated with hybrid and multi-cloud environments and practical strategies to overcome these challenges

This session is for you if… you are looking to gain practical insights into securing your hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It is also suitable for IT professionals who are involved in cloud migrations and those interested to learn about the security challenges associated with hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Please note all of the concepts included in this talk will be demonstrated with a Go example application, but pre-existing knowledge of Go is not required.

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1:40pm
Presentation

Future Proofing Architecture: Ensuring Technical Success

30 mins
  • Leadership
  • Non-Technical
  • Transformation
  • Victoria Bunyard

    ,

    IBM

Fast decisions were made through a period of COVID-driven accelerated digital transformation but were they smart or have we set ourselves up with brittle architectures that could fail? As we drive towards the future and organisations prioritise upgrading IT foundations that enable speed, security and resiliency, it’s time for a technical reset.

What does your technical landscape look like based on that digital transformation? Are you setting yourself up for technical success in the future? With the rise of cloud and shared environments, technology landscapes are more complex than ever and it’s important to understand where you are and where you need to be. Join this session to explore future technology landscapes and architecture.

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2:15pm
Presentation

Unlocking The Power Of Purpose Led Transformation

30 mins
  • Leadership
  • Sustainability
  • Transformation
  • Julia Palle

    Formula E

Why does purpose matter so much? Within a competative tech and hiring landscape, organisations that embed purpose at the heart of their organisations will stand out from the crowd. So how do you connect purpose into everything you do, from leadership, vision, to processes and cultural change.

We’ll explore how being driven by a core purpose can help you accelerate and over deliver on goals such as sustainability but also benefit commercial value and consumer perspective.

Session Key Takeaways:

  • Understand the value purpose-led businesses can create for organisations, consumers and society
  • How do you maintain that purpose as your grow as an organisation
  • How can you ensure new initiatives, partnerships and products have purpose at the very heart of it
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3:30pm
Presentation

Delivering World Class Products With Limited Resources

30 mins
  • Data
  • Non-Technical
  • Transformation
  • Lisa Pickett

    Deliciously Ella

In today’s economic climate, consumers are expecting more from less, and reassessing their relationship with products that don’t add significant value to their lives. It’s never been more important to make the resources you have go further to create and maintain world-class digital products. Lisa Pickett, Head of App at Deliciously Ella, shares her 5 top pieces of advice for creating world-class products with finite resources.

Session Key Takeaways:

  • Get familiar with failure: When used correctly, failure can help you reach the right solution quickly for maximum growth
  • Speak up: Connect with your network and community as much as possible to uncover key insights and plug knowledge gaps
  • Grow smartly: Know when and where to streamline resources while still maintaining product excellence
  • Sweat the small stuff: How percentage point differences really can add up to big changes
  • Swot up: How to look to other industries to grow your knowledge and expertise, fast
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2:15pm
Presentation

Scalable Teams For Security And Velocity

30 mins
  • Transformation
  • Workforce
  • Sarah Polan

    HashiCorp

As an industry, we are always looking for the latest and greatest to lower cost and risk and increase velocity. For every new threat, vulnerability, technology challenge, there is a new tool. But new tools mean higher cost, more complexity, and ultimately, more attack vectors. So how do we address these issues?

People and processes are the key. We’ll address how to build scalable teams which will simultaneously improve your IT landscape and your cyber security posture.

Cyber security is an increasingly important topic, but we also know that the speed of iteration is key to the productivity of a team. The way we are looking at both of these things isn’t working, and we need to take a more holistic approach by zooming out and looking at more variables.

Session Key Takeaways:

  • The unpredictability of humans can be an asset, especially when threat modelling
  • The misperception of risk can be mitigated by diversity
  • The composition of your teams can ultimately help you scale your organisation
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3:45pm
Presentation

Building For Two Audiences: Artists & Fans

30 mins
  • Data
  • Non-Technical
  • Transformation
  • Agustina Sacerdote

    TIDAL

TIDAL is a global music platform that helps artists and fans fully immerse themselves in their love of music. Join TIDAL’s Global Head of Product, Agustina Sacerdote, to learn about how she navigates the challenges of leading innovative product development for two distinct audiences within a single platform.

Session Key Takeaways:

  • Learn how to build products for two different audiences at the same time and within a single platform
  • Understand the complexities of introducing new technologies into an existing platform
  • Learn how to embed the customer’s voice at every step of building new products from the ground up

This session is for you if...you are interested in product development and how to navigate successfully building products for two distinct audiences within one platform.

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2:20pm
Presentation

Why Should You Scale Bottom-Up In Your Organization?

30 mins
  • Leadership
  • Transformation
  • Vânia Santos

    OLX

We all have been through company reorganisations, probably more than once. Some are understandable and produce good outcomes, others aren’t, creating insecurities, lack of confidence in leadership, unnecessary changes, and even more complex paths of communication or decision-making. What is the difference, then?

Team-first thinking and the importance of well-defined boundaries to balance cognitive load within the teams is an important matter to consider: it directly fosters teams’ independence and minimising the overhead of communication, enhancing faster decision-making and increasing the quality and throughput of delivery.

Is there a well-proven way of scaling or changing the current landscape of company organisations? In this session we’ll explore Conway’s Law and the importance of team landscape and interactions, supported by an actual study case in the industry, and how well-designed teams charts can improve independence, autonomy, and motivation of the teams, leading to a faster and better rate and quality of delivery.

Session Key Takeaways:

  • How to scale organisations based on the interactions patterns
  • Exploring the importance of a clear architectural strategy to a clear team topology landscape
  • How to improve productivity with “fast flow”

This session is for you if… you influence the scaling processes of your company at any level or if you are interested in understanding the importance of having effective and efficient teams within your company.

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12:45pm
Presentation

How Technology Is Enabling Inclusive Product Development

30 mins
  • Technical
  • Workforce
  • Dr Emmanuelle Savarit

    Just Eat Takeaway.com

Raising awareness of the interconnection among technology, inclusivity, and UX research is essential for designing products and services. As technological tools have become more accessible to users of all genders, it has become increasingly important to integrate UX research into the development of new digital products and services. In order to be inclusive, UX researchers must systematically consider diverse audiences, taking into account factors such as gender, technology literacy, cultural background, origin, and accessibility.

Today, we can really see how technological evolution has changed the life of researchers (from carrying heavy equipment such as video cameras, tripods or running sessions in labs full of cables to now conducting sessions remotely on any devices with end-users from all over the world). Although the evolution of technology has made it easier to conduct UX research, this can also lead to a lack of context in the data collected. As a result, there is a need for future tools (such as AI or virtual reality) to provide deeper insights into user experiences.

Session Key Takeaways:

  • Technology has improved and can facilitate inclusivity in product development.
  • There is a growing awareness of the importance of inclusivity in creating products and services.
  • UX research is crucial in promoting inclusivity in product development.

This sessions is for you if.. you are a Product manager, Developers, everyone involved in developing digital product of services.

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11:30am
Workshop

Become A Chaos Pilot & Bring Meaningful Change

60 mins
  • Not to be Missed
  • Transformation
  • Workforce
  • Filipa Moura

    bp The Netherlands

  • Monica Norman

    bp The Netherlands

  • Tehsheena Shams

    Dynamo

Bringing transformative change in any business requires a radically different mindset, chaos pilots have that mindset and you can become one too.

Immerse yourself in a hands-on workshop on chaos piloting. Become one yourself and bring meaningful change anywhere – your business, work, and life! Learn from technology start-up founders and engineers at bp who are transforming front-line operations to make them safer and more efficient.

Session Key Takeaways:

  • Who are chaos pilots, and why are they essential in any organisation?
  • How can you become a chaos pilot?
  • Discover the pitfalls to avoid

This session is for you if...you are starting your business, or you are looking to start a business, and/or are working on solving big, complex problems that are ambiguous and challenge the status quo.

 

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1:45pm
Workshop

Minihack: TechRace

120 mins
  • Premium Only
  • Skills
  • Technical
  • Iida Loukkaanhuhta

    Junction

In this TechRace event, you’ll receive a large pool of challenges to solve, ranging from programming puzzles to design problems, from easy to hard. The winning team, or “the techiest of them all”, is chosen based on the total points all team members earned during this TechRace event. So get ready to race!

This TechRace is two-hours long. All participants need to have a laptop to be able to participate. Teams can consists of up to 5 members. You will be put into teams when you arrive in the room.

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2:55pm
Presentation

Responsible AI: Get Inspired To Use Digital Ethics By Design

30 mins
  • Data
  • Technical
  • Judith van Schie

    Considerati

Technology may seem neutral, but this is far from the truth. When technology like AI is used for decision making, this could be problematic since, as we know, AI systems can contain bias and generate discriminatory output. For successful deployment of AI, it is key to maintain trust from stakeholders like consumers, regulators and society as a whole.

In this session we will discuss the risks of decision making AI and how to integrate digital ethics by design for ensuring responsible AI.

Session Key Takeaways:

  • Keeping human bias out of AI is not easy, but it is essential and possible
  • Digital ethics by design is a key method for responsible deployment of AI
  • Embedding digital ethics in your business processes increases both the value of the deployed AI as the trust in your organisation

This session is for you if…

  • Your company is developing or using AI
  • You are interested in responsible AI and digital ethics by design
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