Conference Day One
Tuesday 30 August 2016
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08:15 | Registration and welcome coffee
08:50 | Opening remarks from the chair
Kevin Noonan, Lead Analyst, Government, Ovum
PREPARING FOR THE NEXT AGE OF DIGITAL ENTERPRISE
09:00 | OPENING KEYNOTE: Examining the demands IT infrastructure must meet to keep the organisation competitive and exceed future expectations
- Identifying future demands and expectations from internal and external stakeholders, and how your infrastructure must accommodate these continuously growing needs
- Key priorities to consider when re-thinking and re-designing core infrastructure and choosing service providers
- Identifying the best investments to make for the future to ensure agility and flexibility for change
Alex Adams, Group Head of Infrastructure & Operations, ANZ and Asia Pacific, Jetstar
09:30 | Harnessing the collaborative power of Open Source technologies to speed innovation across your organisation
- Maximising Open Source technologies to accelerate innovation by leveraging its community, and accessing the benefits it brings to business
- Adapting and customising Open Source to meet unique needs and scope of organisation
- Embedding Open Source into infrastructure to ensure new technologies and innovations are deployed faster
Nicholas Tan, Chief Infrastructure Architect, News Corp Australia
10:00 | Aligning your IT infrastructure and integration strategy with the business direction to drive excellent outcomes
- Technology as core business strategy – designing infrastructure in response to the changes and demands of the external and internal business environment to drive and enhance business outcomes
- How do you translate business demands into good user experience across the enterprise?
- Ensuring every investment will improve efficiency and help enhance business performance, to maximise return on investment
Leesa Addison, General Manager Technology, CPL – Choice, Passion, Life
10:30 | Morning tea
11:00 | CASE STUDY: How NAB’s using labs to engineer innovation and take its experiments to production
- How NAB is innovating quickly with experimental labs to enhance customer outcomes
- Challenges faced and overcome when taking new experiments to production
- How to shift culture to enable taking new ideas to production with speed
Rhys Evans, Delivery Manager, NAB Labs, National Australia Bank
OPTIMISING UNDERLYING INFRASTRUCTURE TO DELIVER SPEED, BRING SIMPLICITY AND SUPPORT AGILITY
11:30 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Identifying the best outsourcing models to meet continuously changing needs
- Examining the benefits and limitations of Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service
- How can you strategically identify different service providers to create a suitable platform for your enterprise?
- Choosing an outsourcing model that will support greater efficiency, simplicity, agility and reduce costs for your organisation?
- Is it a business investment to maintain ownership of your core infrastructure?
Panel Moderator:
Kevin Noonan, Lead Analyst, Government, Ovum
Panellists:
Rainer Rhedey, General Manager Information Technology Infrastructure, Operations and Enterprise, Fairfax Media
Chris Gough, Director of Digital Innovation, Department of the Environment
Basile Sepsakos, Head of IT, United Energy and Multinet Gas
BUILDING EFFECTIVE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE TO MAXIMISE LONG TERM OUTCOMES
12:15 | CASE-STUDY SESSION: Achieve future financial benefits and enhanced end-user experience by seizing opportunities offered from a cloud migration
- How the City of Adelaide used a migration to the cloud as an opportunity to re-think and re-design infrastructure and the systems stack to maximise future potential
- Taking a GreenFields approach to capture value and improve IT infrastructure operations from end-to-end
- Reducing costs and building for the future by embedding strong principles into redesign process - IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Information Management Security Framework (IMSF), orchestration and governance
David Carroll, Chief Technology Officer, City of Adelaide
12:45 | Networking lunch
13:45 | Harnessing cloud and automation to increase speed, agility and competitive advantage for an organisation
- Utilising the cloud and automation to increase speed of innovation
- Preparing for the automation of everything
- Approaches to increase automation across your organisation
Andre Bertrand, Head of IT Risk and Security, SEEK
Andrew Hatch, DevOps Manager, SEEK
14:15 | Transforming legacy systems using micromoves and microservices
- Identifying blockers in both technology and culture
- Surviving the Technical Debt Factory
- Strategy convergence to build momentum
- Using Docker, mini services and APIs to update legacy systems
Katherine Squire, General Manager, Application Development and DevOps, ASX
14:45 | Afternoon tea
15:15 | Developing a Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC) to enhance organisational performance and achieve IT-as-a-service (ITaaS)
- What are the opportunities and key challenges that enterprises face dealing with SDDC?
- Restructuring key personnel in structure and hierarchy to deliver ITaaS and SDDC
- Treating Infrastructure-as-Code to facilitate migration to modern infrastructures
Mike Brett, General Manager ICT Infrastructure, Department of Human Services
15:45 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Exploiting new IT tools and technology to drive agility, efficiency and scale across the organisation
- What are the benefits and limitations of the various approaches in the integrated infrastructure market?
- What factors should organisations consider as they seek to modernize their server and storage infrastructure for the digital era?
- Successfully integrating ‘software defined’, ‘converged infrastructure’, ’OpenStack’ and ‘ITaaS’ into the strategic plan and maintain cost control
Panel Moderator:
Kevin Noonan, Lead Analyst, Government, Ovum
Panellists:
Bernard Wansink, Chief Information Officer, Schiavello Group
Mike Brett, General Manager ICT Infrastructure, Department of Human Services
Helen Robson, Branch Head, Technology Infrastructure, Australian Bureau of Statistics
Luke Kendall, Technology Manager, CPA
16:30 | Closing remarks from the Chair
16:40 | Close of Day One and networking drinks