Achieving Operational Resilience and Observability in the Hybrid Cloud 🇦🇪
Discussing Challenges of Moving to the Cloud
- 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM GST
- Wednesday, 7th February
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About the Event
Achieving operational resilience and compliance in cloud security is a critical concern for all organisations.
Join our exclusive discovery forum focused on Achieving “Operational Resilience and Observability in the Cloud”, showcasing the use cases and lessons learnt.
Our expert speakers, including executives from Binance and Splunk, will share their insights:
- Explore the benefits of rationalising and articulating the cloud security strategy for an organisation.
- Understand the required level of platform and product visibility required to realise a rationalised strategy.
- Appreciate what value is being provided, how to improve value through “cumulative capability”, Interoperability in order to ensure measurable outcomes.
Immerse yourself in our exclusive invitation–only event, where you can indulge in exquisite refreshments and appetisers while engaging in meaningful conversations with esteemed industry peers.
This forum is more than just an event; it’s an unparalleled opportunity to connect with industry leaders, exchange ideas, and collectively shape the future of success.
Limited to just 30 participants this gathering promises to be a unique opportunity, however, if your schedule doesn’t permit attendance, we warmly welcome you to extend this invitation to another esteemed colleague within your organisation who can benefit from this event.
We look forward to sharing this exclusive experience with you.
Industry Expert Speaker Panel
Nathan Swain,
Chief Information Security Officer - Binance
Forum Agenda
Arrival and Refreshments
Introductions, Setting the Scene, and Forum Housekeeping - John Dee, Strategy Director at Somerford Associates
Operational Resilience and Observability in the Cloud - Shaun Cooney, Field CTO and Strategic Adviser (ex Government Security Department)
Lessons of Hybrid Cloud Adoption - Yassar Haneef, Director of Information Technology at Fine Hygienic Holding
Lessons from Moving to the Cloud - Nathan Swain, CISO at Binance
Security Fireside Chat: with Nathan Swain and John Dee
How to Simplify Cloud Adoption- Wael Kasrawani, Sr Partner Solutions Architect at AWS
Open Discussion and Q&A Session
Lunch and Networking
Shaun Cooney
Shaun is a business technologist who’s spent much of his career in government, defence & telecommunications, where he has experience in cybersecurity, resilience, data and product development leadership roles. Until recently, Shaun was the CTO for Security Engineering in the UK Government, responsible for all of the engineering for internal and external capabilities used by the department.
Shaun is Splunk’s Field CTO and Strategy Advisor for EMEA. He spends most of his time helping organisations through their transformations and large change programmes, helping them to think more strategically or differently about their use of data and technology to validate and implement their business strategies. He is not a salesperson and has no interest in selling customers ‘more Splunk’. Instead, he’s able to think strategically and vendor agnosticically to help organisations achieve their business goals - leaving market research and product selection to others.
Yassar Haneef
With over 20 years of business transformation and supply chain implementation experience within the FMCG, Retail, Telco, and Automotive sectors. Yassar provides thought leadership within the full spectrum of Finance, Procurement and Supply Chain, through solutions, strategies, and technological capabilities.
A dynamic business leader & subject matter expert, he is leading the full global digital transformation of Fine Hygienic holding supply chain, having delivered equivalent levels of change at Philip Morris, Jaguar Land Rover & Vodafone. His Leadership and delivery styles has developed throughout years of holding several senior positions at globally renowned companies like Oracle, E2Open & Manhattan Associates.
John Dee
Served for 35 years in the British Army's Intelligence Corps before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2020. During that time he served in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, the Gulf, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
After leaving the Army he joined Somerford Associates in a new post as the Strategy Director, a role that sees him straddle the public and private sector through senior stakeholder engagement, translating strategic business risk to current and emerging technologies. Whilst he does not profess to be a cyber SME, he does know the importance of information and its criticality to support the decision-maker.
