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LIVE Roundtable on
Cloud…
Elevate to Innovate
- Location : Top Golf, Dubai UAE
- 12:30 PM -03:30 PM (GST)
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Cloud… Elevate to Innovate
Overcoming the challenges of cloud migration and benefits of moving to the AWS platform
The hybrid cloud ecosystem is evolving to a point where private cloud, public cloud co-exist with on-premise IT infrastructure. 80% organizations in the Middle East are expected to have more than one cloud platform by the end of 2021. Lack of talent availability and inability to create a cloud adoption road map are on-going challenges. Working with a qualified cloud partner to plan out your cloud journey and accelerate the milestones can avoid typical pitfalls and generate better ROI.
Join us for an in-person roundtable at Dubai’s premier golfing arena “The Top Golf”, and compete with your peers in golf strokes while networking with cloud solutions specialists from AWS and Zero&One, and consulting company IDC.
Speakers
Harish Dunakhe
Director, Research – Software Program, IDC
Rached Dabboussi
Head Of Sales, Middle East & North Africa at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rached Dabboussi
Head Of Sales, Middle East & North Africa at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rached Dabboussi Heads the Business Development Functions for Amazon Web Services, Middle East and North Africa (MENA). He is focused on delivering a great Amazon experience to customers and partners, whilst earning their trust. Rached engages with business leaders to drive enterprise transformation initiatives with the AWS cloud. He guides a team of customer obsessed account managers who help companies, to achieve meaningful outcomes with technology. Prior to joining AWS, Rached led enterprise sales and business development teams at Dell EMC and Informatica, across MENA.
Ashwani Kumar
Business Development, AWS Migration Acceleration Program, EMEA
Ashwani Kumar
Business Development, AWS Migration Acceleration Program, EMEA
Ashwani Kumar is a cloud migration expert and business development lead in AWS Migration Acceleration Program in EMEA. He has strong international experience of advising customers to strategize, shape and deliver large scale cloud migration and transformation programmes for enterprise customers in the UK, Middle East, Australia and emerging markets. He has worked for a diverse range of customers spanning multiple industries including Financial Services, Telecommunications, Retail, Oil & Gas and Logistics. He is AWS certified Solutions Architect and has an MBA degree from Cranfield School of Management UK.
Ali El Kontar
Founder & CEO, Zero&One
Ali El Kontar
Founder & CEO, Zero&One
A Seasoned entrepreneur and Cloud Technology expert, Ali El Kontar is the Founder and CEO of Zero&One - AWS Advanced Consulting Partner which leads complex technology projects across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). With over 17 years’ experience in IT and telecoms, Ali, has steered Zero&One since 2017 into a pioneering business cloud solutions provider with operations in the UAE, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. Ali has worked both in the MENA region and the USA leading private and public IT projects at major industry names including Orange Business Services and Cisco. Ali has also earned the coveted Amazon Partner Network (APN) Ambassador status joining an elite, worldwide network as the first MENA representative. His status as an AWS Instructor Champion and 10x AWS Certified expert underline his standing at the forefront of AWS expertise and best practice.
Agenda
12:30 PM (GST)
Networking & Lunch
01:30 PM (GST)
Hybrid Cloud: The Platform for Innovation in the Next Normal
IDC is observing an evolution of a Hybrid ecosystem where private cloud, public cloud will coexist with on-premise IT infrastructure. IDC predicts that 80% organizations in the Middle East will have more than one cloud by the end of 2021. While there are benefits of cloud adoption, a few challenges such as lack of talent availability and inability of organizations to create a cloud adoption road map are also seen to be emerging. This essentially calls for a structured and thought-out approach to take the cloud journey to avoid any pitfalls and challenges that might outweigh the benefits.
IDC’s Keynote session will highlight the trends of cloud adoption and provide the audience with practical insights that can be applied in your IT environment.
by Harish Dunakhe, Director, Research – Software Program, IDC
02:00 PM (GST)
Reinvent your business with AWS.
AWS Head Of Sales, MENA, Rached Dabboussi, will kick off with AWS UAE’s most recent milestones and local customer innovation stories. He will discuss how moving applications, data, and workloads to the cloud provides the flexibility you need to reinvent your business.
by Rached Dabboussi, Head Of Sales, Middle East & North Africa at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
02:15 PM (GST)
How to accelerate your cloud migration and modernization journey with an outcome-driven methodology
Enterprise cloud migrations can be complex and time-consuming, but AWS’s Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) can help you accelerate your cloud migration and modernization journey with an outcome-driven methodology. MAP is a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program based upon AWS’s experience migrating thousands of enterprise customers to the cloud.
In this session, you will get insights into MAP’s value proposition including the tools that reduce costs and automate and accelerate execution, tailored training approaches, a global partner ecosystem, and AWS investment. You will also learn how to get started on cloud migration journey using AWS’s proven cloud migration framework to help achieve your migration goals and business outcomes.
by Ashwani Kumar, Business Development, AWS Migration Acceleration Program, EMEA
02:45 PM (GST)
Case Study: Customer Journey to the Cloud
In this session, Ali will share the after math of an all-in migration for one of their Enterprise customers as well as how Zero&One helped to accelerate the journey.
by Ali El Kontar, Founder & CEO, Zero&One
03:00 PM (GST)
Q & A
Coffee Break
Golf Challenge Briefing – Announcement of Special Prize
03:15 PM (GST)
Golf Activity
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