The cloud has rapidly grown from being a market disrupter to an essential IT strategy for enterprise. As the workforce has shifted to remote work, and next-generation technologies like edge computing and artificial intelligence have become a reality, the need for cloud-centric infrastructure and applications has become critical.
But – migrating to the cloud is tough. That's why we gathered a panel of experienced IT and DevOps leaders to share their best practices and methodologies for building a world-class cloud strategy. Whether you are fully cloud-native, in a hybrid cloud environment or just taking the first steps, you'll want to listen in.
Briana is an Intrepreneur who believes exceptional product design is rooted in solving problems for users with empathy and data. As an example, Briana lead the team that built the IBM Cloud Kubernetes service in 5 months and now manages 10’s of thousands of clusters worldwide.
Briana specializes in building high performance teams and high grow products in the emerging technology category. Recent product launches include IBM Cloud Satellite and IBM Cloud Code Engine. Other services include the IBM Cloud Kubernetes service, registry, Istio, monitoring, logging, Code Engine and IBM Cloud Satellite. Briana directed incubation teams within IBM Cloud and owned Marketing and Design for a startup which achieved double digital annual growth.
Mandi Walls is a DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty. For PagerDuty, she helps organizations along their IT Modernization journey. Prior to PagerDuty, she worked at Chef Software and AOL. She is an international speaker on DevOps topics and the author of the whitepaper “Building A DevOps Culture”, published by O’Reilly.
Based in Miami, Marc is a Brit and top ranked cloud influencer, who has certifications in AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Security - Speciality. In 2015 Marc founded databasable, an IT consultancy that specializes in all things AWS. Prior to starting databasable Marc had 15 years of experience doing IT consulting for large investment banks in London, Sydney and New York, predominantly in the field of databases.
Marc is a sought-after instructor on all things AWS. He has been an instructor and SME for Simplilearn, a global online IT training and certification site, as well as for A Cloud Guru, world leader in cloud computing training. Marc has been ranked many times as a top influencer in cloud computing
Phil is a visionary IT transformation leader for Echo Global Logistics. He is an expert in meeting business stakeholder concerns and rapidly translating into product improvements which directly impact the bottom-line. At Echo, Phil drives Cloud Strategy, Containerization, DevOps & CI/CD, Agile Software Engineering Practices & Core Market Product Engineering, Engineering Management Strategy, Engineering Talent Attraction, Hiring, & Retention, Resource Planning, QA Automation, and Engineering Culture.
Phil is also an instructor of Data Analytics, Cyber Security, & Web Development @ Northwestern University, University of Toronto, University of Texas, Vanderbilt, and University of Minnesota.