ADAPT: Connected Cloud & DC Edge 2021 | ADAPT | 16 March 2021 | Hyatt Regency Sydney, 161 Sussex St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Now in our 9th year, at a vital period in our region’s commercial history, join ADAPT’s annual gathering of Australia’s largest IT, compute, and cloud users – alongside their leading service providers, clouds, co-los and data centre operators.

Our Challenge
The modern enterprise was already under incredible pressure to maintain growth and innovation at an exponential pace, with IT trying to keep up with business goals and expectations, while delivering seamless user experiences.

Now the pandemic has driven years of digital transformation in months, and our IT teams and digital infrastructure have flexed to enable it. Technology has been the glue keeping business together, putting IT and infrastructure leaders at the core of every organisation’s ability to respond and recover.

ADAPT’s latest research suggests local organisations will continue to have over 40% of their staff WFH indefinitely even after the pandemic.

All organisations need to optimise their infrastructure and environments to enable an indefinitely distributed workforce.

• Will this sea change demand ‘remote first’ policy and new architecture considerations?
• How can we enable the consistent data, agility, security and performance the organisation demands?
• How do you optimise and modernise existing technology investments?

At CCDC 2021, gather with the strategic leaders in charge of our nation’s digital infrastructure and cloud enablement to learn from use cases, examples and advice from those ahead on similar journeys.

2021 Speakers

SPECIAL GUESTS:

Glenn Gore
CEO, Affinidi Group & Former Global Chief Architect of AWS

Mark Dickerson
VP Infrastructure Engineering, Nike

Chris Thorpe
Founder & CEO at Leading Edge Data Centres

Alexey Goldov
Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company

SPEAKERS:

Jim Berry
CEO, ADAPT

Matt Boon
Director of Strategic Research, ADAPT

Mark Dickerson
VP Infrastructure Engineering, Nike

Hillery Hunter
Vice President and CTO, IBM Cloud

Andreas Spanner
Chief Architect, Australia & New Zealand, Red Hat

Chris Thorpe
Founder & CEO, Leading Edge Data Centres

Mark Deguara
General Manager Data Centres, Schneider Electric

Mike Reddie
Senior Director - Cloud, ANZ at VMware

Simon Geraghty
Executive Director Government Technology Platforms at NSW Department of Customer Service

Wynand Strydom
Director - Cloud Economics APAC at VMware

Guy Danskine
Managing Director, Australia at Equinix Australia

Tamas Horvath
Principal Solutions Architect at Equinix Australia

Alexey Goldov
Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company

Robert Linsdell
Managing Director ANZ at Vertiv

Duncan Clubb
Senior Director, IT Consulting EMEA at CBRE

Derek Cowan
Head of Systems Engineering ANZ at Cohesity

Hugo Evans
IT Platforms and Security Manager at Sparke Helmore Lawyers

Alex Vasilovski
Senior Account Executive at Cohesity

Brendan Harrap
Chief Architect, Enterprise Architecture at Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Glenn Gore
CEO, Affinidi Group & Former Global Chief Architect of AWS

Aparna Sundararajan
Senior Research Strategist at ADAPT

Glenn Gore
CEO, Affinidi Group & Former Global Chief Architect of AWS

Steve Day
EGM Infrastructure, Cloud and Workplace at National Australia Bank

2021 Partners

DIAMOND PARTNER:
• IBM

PLATINUM PARTNERS:
• Schneider
• Vertiv
• VMWare
• Macquarie

GOLD PARTNERS:
• Cohesity
• Equinix
• Lenovo
• Logic Monitor

SILVER PARTNERS:
• ABB
• Cloudera
• Cloud Health by VMWare
• CMD
• Commscope
• ConsultelCloud
• Elastic
• Global Switch
• Aruba
• Micro Focus
• Snow
• Sourced
• Stax