Online Programme

Cybersecurity: What NZ Business Leaders Need to Know 

Fireside Chat | Alex Teh & Michael Wallmannsberger

12:30 PM | Duration: 40 Minutes

As the number of ransomware attacks rise, cybersecurity is more important than ever for NZ business leaders. Understanding the trends and how to manage cyber threats has become a business imperative. Let's explore what business leaders need to know to minimise the risk and save reputational damage in this fireside chat with leaders in the field.

FinOps: A New Approach in Getting Your Cloud Costs Under Control

Masterclass | David Shepherd

4:00 PM | Duration: 20 Minutes

Cost management tools and monthly reports will only get you so far. To truly get your cloud costs under control you need to adopt a FinOps approach. In this session you will learn about the principles, practices and tools needed to make FinOps successful.

We’re sure you’ve experienced the occasional or regular “bill-shock” when the monthly cloud usage invoice turns up from Microsoft or Amazon and the sometimes difficult meetings that result from an unbudgeted or accidental overspend. If you haven’t yet you most likely will soon as your cloud footprint grows.

FinOps is the practice of merging together the finance and DevOps responsibilities and disciplines. When done correctly it enables distributed teams to make business trade-offs between speed, cost and service quality. FinOps is not just a process or set of tools, it’s a cultural practice that needs teams to collaborate and take ownership of cloud usage and spend.

In this session we’ll cover the principles, practices and strategies as well as an approach for adopting and embedding a FinOps culture in your organisation. There are a number of tools available to help you view and manage your cloud costs including some that allow you to estimate your infrastructure cost as you’re designing it. This session will give you a quick start overview of FinOps and share several resources for taking this approach into your organisation.

Creating Your Unique Value Proposition for Recruiting and Retaining Talent in the Tech Landscape 

Masterclass | Khush Sethi

5:30 PM | Duration: 20 Minutes

Create an authentic approach to recruiting and retaining talent in a tight market. We’ll share how to develop your secret sauce to increase employer brand and secure the right people based on our learnings in the current landscape.

In this session, we will build on the core principles of talent and culture to showcase common practices and techniques to hire and retain world-class talent in a candidate short market. We will delve into tips and tricks for securing the right candidate and creating a culture and employer brand that retains your people. We will touch on why having a strong employer brand is so important for increasing visibility in a constrained candidate market. Based on our experience and learnings, we will explore the best approach to establish a seamless, engaging and positive candidate-to-employee experience.

“You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world…but it requires people to make the dream a reality.”– Walt Disney.

How to Plan, Discover, Design and Deliver Value Faster

Masterclass | Dan Cornwall & Chris Lloyd

12:30 PM | Duration: 40 Minutes

Focus on designing value faster – use design techniques to prioritise the delivery of value to market. This session covers recommendations and proven design techniques that ensure initiatives and team activities are right-sized to manage risk, maintain velocity, and prioritise value.

Businesses need to deliver value and innovation at velocity to ensure they maintain an edge in the market and deliver return on investment. In partnership with our clients, we’ve built a core capability to shape and size our work to meet the challenges of our client budgets and business needs.

This session covers recommendations and proven design techniques that ensure initiatives and team activities are right-sized to manage risk, maintain velocity, and prioritise value.

Exploring Cloud Data Warehousing 

Masterclass | Asanka Padmakumara

4:00 PM | Duration: 20 Minutes

This dive into data warehousing will showcase the benefits, types and how everyone can utilise it. We will explore what cloud has to offer for a data warehousing platform and the various benefits.

The concept of Data Warehousing has been there for a long time and most organisations have adopted it as a part of their data and analytics strategy. In recent years, Cloud data warehousing platforms have become increasingly popular, mainly due to innovative technologies that can be leveraged. In this session, we will walk you through core concepts in cloud data warehousing while exploring new cloud data warehousing technologies and buzzwords. Additionally, we will cover the benefits of using cloud data warehousing technologies and how an organisation makes the best use of these cloud services.

Industry Deep Dive: Impact of Technology on Retail

Industry Panel | Mark Wolfenden

5:30 PM | Duration: 20 Minutes

Let's dive into what is front of mind for those in retail and explore how technology and innovation is creating opportunity and disruption in the industry. We will discuss the changing customer interface and interaction model, impact of cloud technologies and building resilience.