Date & Time: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 9:00 AM – 4:15 PM
Location: Charlotte Convention Center, 501 S College St, Charlotte, NC 28202 (view map)
About the event
AWS Transformation Day is designed for enterprise organizations migrating to the cloud to become more responsive, agile and innovative, while staying secure and compliant. Join us for this one-day event and we’ll share our experiences of helping enterprise customers accelerate the pace of migration and adoption of strategic services.
Who should attend?
This event is recommended for IT and business leaders who are looking to create sustainable benefits and a competitive advantage by using the AWS Cloud. CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, CFOs, IT leaders and IT professionals, enterprise developers, business decision makers, and finance executives.
Agenda
Time
Session
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration and Sponsor Booths Open
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Keynote: What Transformation Really Means for the Enterprise
Digital transformation means something new every decade.
This sort of constant change is stressful for any organization, but especially for the large enterprise.
Because while nearly every enterprise began as a small, scrappy team, success means growth, and growth means accumulation—more technology, more processes, more people, and more red tape. In this session, we’ll give an executive-level view of how the cloud removes the stressful
burden of on-premise applications, legacy technology, and outdated processes from the enterprise.
We’ll examine what digital transformation really means, and offer prescriptive guidance around decluttering the enterprise, security, culture, and more. AWS enables every enterprise to invest in strategic innovation and modernization.
With the AWS cloud, enterprises become more agile, more efficient, and are better equipped to keep pace with constant change.
As a partner, AWS enables every enterprise to live its own version of the Amazon Story—one of growth without burdensome accumulation, success without slowness, and constant innovation.
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
An Overview of Best Practices for Large Scale Migrations
Whether you are moving a small application or entire datacenters, migrating to the cloud can be a complex process.
In this session, we will share some of the common challenges that our customers face on their journey to the cloud and discuss how these challenges can be overcome.
We will outline the patterns of success that we have observed from partnering with hundreds of customers on their large-scale migrations as well as highlight the mechanisms we have created to help our customers migrate faster.
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
Morning Break and Sponsor Booths Open
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Transforming Enterprise IT
As more and more enterprises start down the path of their digital transformation, the pressure on their IT organizations to support innovation across the business couldn’t be higher.
In this session, we will outline a number of cutting edge technologies as well as an operating model that will allow IT to position itself as a business enabler and not a blocker.
We will be sharing some mechanisms that will enable the IT organization to meet the pace of innovation that is being set by the business while giving them the flexibility to leverage existing assets.
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch and Sponsor Booths Open
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Realize Value, Reduce Costs And Optimize the Value of Your Microsoft Investments with AWS
Enterprises around the world are driving growth through innovation when they run Windows based solutions on the leading cloud platform.
In addition, enterprises can significantly reduce total cost of ownership and optimize their costs when they choose AWS to host legacy and 3rd party Microsoft applications optimized for Windows Server and SQL Server by taking advantage of our cutting-edge infrastructure, flexible pricing options
and licensing solutions.
AWS also offers solutions and programs that empower .NET developers to leverage their skills and tools to continue developing cutting edge solutions.
So, whether you are migrating a small application or considering divesting an entire datacenter, AWS can scale and support hosting of Windows solutions that help you run your business today.
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Transforming Product Development
Many enterprises who are embarking on a journey to the cloud view this effort as an opportunity to transform their operations and development practices.
DevOps, agile software development, and design thinking are the popular methodologies that are being used to create a more customer-centric mindset and speed up the delivery of new products & features.
This session breaks down the essential components of each methodology and provides best practices on navigating the challenges that are commonly encountered when adopting these methods during a cloud migration.
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Afternoon Break and Sponsor Booths Open
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Achieving Business Value with AWS
It is well understood by the enterprise that cloud computing enables companies to host applications, mission critical workloads, and special projects on infrastructure that is built and managed by a third-party provider such as AWS.
However, many customers find themselves having a difficult time in assigning value to the benefits of the cloud.
In this session we will introduce a framework that can be used to identify the impact of moving to the cloud and the business value around areas such as cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, and business agility.
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Innovation for Everyone
Organizations of all sizes often ask how their companies can innovate like Amazon.
Since it’s humble beginnings as the "World's Largest Bookstore," Amazon has not only innovated across e-commerce and other adjacent segments but has also introduced entirely new and unrelated businesses to the organization.
Over the years Amazon has gotten very good at taking hard to solve problems and making them easy for the masses to use.
This session will look at how Amazon views and leverages technology as a utility to increase the pace of innovation across the organization.
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