Modernization for Cloud Best Practices

Paul is Senior Vice President and the Global CIO of MMC, managing over 5,000 technologists supporting the company’s global businesses. He has been instrumental in unifying, simplifying, and modernizing the Technology organization as well as creating closer collaboration with the company’s lines of business.

Former Broadridge CIO Mark Schlesinger is currently a member of the Broadridge Technology Leadership Team focusing on bridging the gap between security/technology and sales/account management, supporting new sales and renewals, and expanding and enhancing client relationships. He is also board member of Accelerated Innovators and Qosina, technology advisor to start-ups Defy Photo Shield and Alkymi, and is regularly featured in thought leadership outlets including Forbes.

A financial services cloud migration leader with more than two decades of experience in application modernization, Ravi Khokar is Capgemini’s executive vice president and head of cloud. He has a proven track record of long-tenured client partnership and leveraging cutting-edge technology to disrupt the status quo, demonstrably improving long-term business outcomes.

Vincent is a Software Intelligence pioneer, entrepreneur, and a true believer in "you can’t manage what you don’t see”. He started a movement aimed at helping LOB & IT executives make objective decisions, transform faster, and raise the resiliency of critical custom-built applications.

Harish combines over two decades of experience in enterprise development and solutions engineering. Prior to Google he held leadership positions at Dell, Microsoft and Nokia and holds a master’s in computer science from MSU and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Aniruth brings in-depth knowledge of design and implementation of enterprise-grade systems cloud-native architecture, and event-driven systems to help lead Google’s modernization efforts. He has previous architecture leadership experience at VMWare, Accenture, Cognizant, and Infosys.

Shawn is a leader of the Global Architecture team for Canada’s largest insurance company, computer science Ph.D. and senior-level IT executive with close to 20 years of experience. He brings insight into the proven methods he and his team have used, leveraging software intelligence, to minimize modernization risks.

Gayathri manages Automation strategy and deployment at Accenture. She has implemented enterprise-wide automation-based solutions and successful change management to enable seamless adoption for hundreds of clients across industries. She is a renowned innovator in automation analytics, prediction models, and tools to deliver automation effectively, a patent holder, and most recently the co-author of the book “The Automation Advantage”.

John is a recognized entrepreneurial leader with more than 20 years' telecoms and media consulting experience. He has a distinguished track record of solutioning, sales and delivery of professional services programs across business and technology consulting, systems integration, infrastructure, and managed services.

Previously with Bank of America and Accenture, Subhadeep now heads up global enterprise quality assurance efforts for Chicago-based Northern Trust. In this session he’ll share how software intelligence has enabled automation of open-source risk control across one of the largest banking institutions in the United States and one of the oldest banks in continuous operation.