Conference Day Two
Wednesday 31 August 2016
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08:30 | Welcome coffee
08:50 | Opening remarks from the Chair
Craig Horne, Chairman, ACS Victoria
DESIGNING AND UTILISING INFRASTRUCTURE TO DELIVER INNOVATION
09:10 | OPENING KEYNOTE: Information Security - enabler or blocker of innovation?
- Gaining insights into the key issues when implementing a one size fits all approach for security controls and risk management
- Implementing innovation to effectively react to dynamical changes in technology and market demands
- Balancing both innovation and information security in order to create competitive advantage
Greg Gale, National Security Officer, Microsoft Australia
09:50 | CASE STUDY: How GYG is embedding new innovations into their existing infrastructure
- The approach GYG takes to integrate new innovations
- Challenges faced and overcome when integrating new innovations at GYG
- The importance of having an infrastructure strategy to support future innovation
Julian Dabbs, Chief Technology Officer, Guzman y Gomez
10:30 | Morning tea
HARNESSING CLOUD COMPUTING TO ENABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE AND ENHANCED OUTCOMES
11:00 | CASE STUDY: The new path of IT - increasing agility and adoption with service orchestration
- Examining the sourcing model behind Clough’s rapid migration to AWS with software defined infrastructure
- Implementing a global sourcing model
- Benefits Clough have achieved and the challenges faced along the way
Emma Whitty, Vice President, Information Systems, Clough
Michael Simkovic, General Manager Strategic Accounts, ASG
11:30 | CASE STUDY: How Fintech Moven built a global distributor on AWS to maximise opportunity, disrupt traditional models and deliver customer experience
- Using infrastructure as an enabler to deliver unsurpassed end-user experience
- Embracing a radically different business model by using 100% AWS capabilities
- Infrastructure to facilitate the delivery of comprehensive Moven stack for a new partner within minutes
Andrew Clark, Vice President Asia Pacific & Global Solution Architect, Moven
DELIVERING AND GOVERNING SECURE ENVIRONMENTS
12:00 | Navigating regulatory compliance and widespread perceptions that influence how organisations utilise and secure cloud based environments
- What can and cannot be placed in the cloud due to government regulations?
- Why are regulations in place – is the cloud a less secure environment, or is it fuelled by common perception?
- How do you secure and govern a cloud based environment?
Abbas Kudrati, Chief Information Security Officer, KPMG
12:30 | Networking lunch
13:30 | PANEL DISCUSSION: How do you uphold security while capitalising on vendors and services that reduce costs?
- Is it more secure to remain vendor independent, or to fully outsource? And why?
- What are the potential risks to security when passing ownership of your core infrastructure, and how does it impact the value of your business?
- Improving security with managed services by ensuring visibility, trust and strong communication
Panel Moderator:
Craig Horne, Chairman, ACS Victoria
Panellists:
Abbas Kudrati, Chief Information Security Officer, KPMG
Rob Stocker, Manager IT Infrastructure, Newcrest Mining
Andrew Clark, Vice President Asia Pacific & Solution Architect, Moven
Julian Dabbs, Chief Technology Officer, Guzman y Gomez
ENABLING THE NEXT AGE OF DIGITAL ENTERPRISE
14:15 | Unlocking the creative potential of an organisation through a focus on automation and adopting a DevOps mindset
- Reframing an approach to infrastructure that focuses on meeting speed of delivery expectations of internal stakeholders and customers
- A case study in moving to a self-service cloud based infrastructure model
- The importance of cultural change and mindset shift in unlocking the true potential of infrastructure automation
Cameron Gough, General Manager, Digital Delivery Centre, Australia Post
14:45 | CRYSTAL BALL PANEL DISCUSSION: Identifying significant technologies, approaches, investments and IT direction to enable your enterprise
- Finding optimal balance between cost-saving, efficiency, value, performance and investment
- Adding business value by using the capabilities of the “SMAC Stack” (Social, Mobile Analytics and Cloud Stack / Methodology)
- Which technologies should be deployed for greatest speed and agility?
- Discussing proven strategies to orchestrate a successful digital transformation journey
- Examining the learnings from the past two days
Panel Moderator:
Craig Horne, Chairman, ACS Victoria
Panellists:
Chris Gough, Director of Digital Innovation, Department of the Environment
Hartley Olley, Head of Architecture, Governance and Infrastructure, AIA Australia
Rhys Evans, Delivery Manager, NAB Labs, National Australia Bank
Emma Whitty, Vice President, Information Systems, Clough
Michael Simkovic, General Manager Strategic Accounts, ASG
15:30 | Closing remarks from the Chair and drawing of lucky door prize!
15:40 | End of Day Two and close of the conference