Dealing with legacy tech, engaging with frontier technologies — in the era of AI, 5G, and global uncertainties.
Technology is at the forefront of conversations today among the masses. Thanks to AI, VR/AR, 5G, Quantum Computing, Blockchain, and a dozen other frontier technologies, enterprise tech has truly gone mainstream.
But the trends within the IT infrastructure world are puzzling.
End-users speak of simplifying infrastructure as more point solutions enter the market. CFOs want to upkeep legacy platforms while CIOs want the latest cutting-edge tools; the CISO wants air-gapped systems while management groans about lack of integration.
Some swear by their cloud-first strategies — others are repatriating workloads. The build-vs-buy debate rages on, as does the tendency to centralise against the natural move to the edge.
On the 15th of August 2024, IT decision makers will converge to resolve these paradoxes and discuss the nuts and bolts of the frameworks on which tomorrow’s technologies will be built. The Cloud and IT Infrastructure Frontiers 2024 conference — now in its third year — will bring together senior decision-makers across enterprises. Case studies will be detailed, ideas exchanged, and new technological paradigms explored by Singapore’s top IT leaders. Join us as we unpack frontier technology implementation strategies through a series of keynotes and panels, debate and discussion.
Chief Information Officer, GLP
Chief Information Security & Chief Privacy Officer, Asia-Pacific, Panasonic
Chief Operating Officer, Transformation, Technology and Operations & Global Head Group Transformation, Standard Chartered
Senior Director of Technology, Love, Bonito
Senior Director of Technology Strategy & Transformation, CBRE
Assistant Vice-President, Digital Products & Services, IHH Healthcare
Head, Cloud Governance & Product Owner, Standard Chartered Bank
Faculty & Patent Examiner, IPOS International
Head of Engineering, Flexxon
Director, Cyber Defense Group - Policy, Risk Management & Capability Development, Synapxe
Group Chief Information Officer, BH Global & Chair, Cyber Security Chapter, SGTech
Account Manager, Synology
Director, Solutions Architecture, Asia Pacific, Digital Realty
Head of Digital Infrastructure, APAC, Orange Business
Head of Secretariat, Asia Cloud Computing Association
Founder, Plataforma
Head of IT Compliance & DPO, Aspire
Director of Technology Services, Gemological Institute of America
Teaching Fellow & PhD Candidate, National University of Singapore School of Computing
Managing Editor, Frontier Enterprise
Action packed one day event, click on a topic to read more.
9.00 AM - 9.30 AM
9:30 AM - 9:35 AM
Chairperson to introduce the event and housekeeping.
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM
“Digital transformation” as a term has been around for decades now, yet the shape of it changes every year. The advent of the cloud era disrupted the client-server model, and the post-pandemic reality necessitates work-from-anywhere communication and collaboration. Containerisation has provided a new model of building scalable applications, and the infrastructure stack is shifting closer to the edge.
This keynote will review where the enterprise today stands when it comes to digital transformation, and inject fresh new ideas into a common IT leadership conversation.
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
From AI-based automation among developers to AI-enhanced workflows and AI-embedded applications, AI is set to sweep across technology systems in enterprises.
What sort of policy, governance, and operational changes does this entail? How will generative AI touch business functions, and how can IT ready itself to incorporate them? And most importantly, what are the cloud and infrastructure requirements needed to ensure that the enterprise is fully AI-ready?
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10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
The financial services industry is on the brink of a major transformation. With the rapid advancement of new technologies, such as GenAI, banks now grapple with the critical task of bridging the gap between traditional banking services and the demands of a digital-first customer base, while fortifying their operational resilience.
11:25 AM - 11:50 AM
Collecting, processing, analysing and deploying customer and organisational data towards better outcomes remains a critical challenge.
How can enterprises better manage data and integrate it across various sources - including from legacy systems and silos? Is a platform strategy ideal in today’s world? How do technologists navigate data governance, ownership, and quality roadblocks?
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Cloud migration today is not a single event — it’s a process. And there is no longer a single cloud — it’s a mix of locations, providers, and models sometimes stitched together by hyper-specialised IT teams.
This panel will address the entire cloud journey, from mixing models to evaluation of providers. The panelists will detail cloud migration considerations, on-premise and data center strategies, and repatriation justifications.
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12.30 PM - 14.00 PM
14.00 PM - 14.40 PM
Methodical, cool-headed cybersecurity is critical in a chaotic tech landscape. How can information security policymakers and practitioners ensure that data is protected without being siloed; available for the right user at the right time without leaking to malicious actors; and secure without being inaccessible? Can CISOs sleep at night with “good enough” cybersecurity?
Considering the proliferation of complex, state-sponsored cyberattacks in today’s world, what steps can information security professionals take to keep data safe? Is managed security the answer? Where do Zero Trust and SASE fit into this picture?
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14.40 PM - 14.55 PM
With cybersecurity threats continuing to evolve in all forms, it’s essential for businesses to reflect their current data management strategies to help survive data disasters such as ransomware attacks. This session will share the practices to help build a security-centric data protection strategy for businesses and dive into ransomware recovery and the 3-2-1 data backup framework.
14.55 PM - 15.35 PM
World leaders today speak of AI, Quantum Computing and 5G in their election rallies. It has never been more exciting for technologists — businesses, nations, consumers stand on the cusp of large-scale global changes catalysed by technology.
Conversations in forward-looking enterprises today center around Quantum Computing and AGI, 5G to 6G and beyond, AR, VR, blockchain, and robotics. This session takes stock of the present and future of cutting edge technologies and the IT infrastructure changes necessary to implement them.
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15.35 PM - 15.40 PM
15.40 PM - 16.30 PM
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Saiful currently serves as the Head of IT – APAC, for ASCENT Fund Services, a Singapore-based, Global Independent Fund Administrator company. He is responsible for providing the technology, solutions, security, and support for all ASCENT Fund Services offices in APAC. He has been ranked as Top 50 Chief Information Officer (CIO50) for ASEAN in 2019 and 2020 by IDG. He was also listed as World CIO 200 in the Book of Titans (BOTS 3.0) in 2020 by the Global CIO Forum.
