2.1 Becoming cloud native for growth and flexibility

FIRESIDE CHAT: Agility and innovation through cloud transformation – key learnings and outcomes

• Creating a successful cloud transformation journey: defining roadmaps and goals, identifying barriers to remove, evolving leadership requirements
• Key learnings and achievements: how to gain agility and accelerate time to market through culture change
• Focus innovation: use case examples driving tangible end customer improvements
• Creating the cloud-native fly-wheel effect: how to tackle “what’s next” 

Interviewer: George Glass, CTO, TM Forum
Peter Leukert, Global CIO, Deutsche Telekom
Fabio Cerone, Managing Director EMEA, Telecom Industry, AWS

INTERVIEW: Driving growth through new networks and services – winning strategies and lessons learned

• Where do we start and what are you starting with? How to effectively balance short-term and long-term goals  
• How to streamline operations and processes to enable effective collaboration with partners to drive new services 
• Investment in talent and culture   
• What new opportunities has ODA unlocked? 

Interviewer: George Glass, CTO, TM Forum
Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO, Telus

PANEL: Leveraging DevOps and CI/CD for maximum agility, cost efficiency and scalability 

• How CI/CD makes software development easier, faster and less risky to deploy and manage solutions with components created and supplied by multiple vendors (such as 5G) throughout their lifecycle 
• Unifying development and operations teams into a shared repository for coding, testing, deploying and supporting software 
• Building cross-functional teams to achieve the agility, speed, and partner-centricity required to succeed with cloud native

Moderator: George Glass, CTO, TM Forum
Hesham Fahmy, CIO, TELUS  
Luca Cassani, Technology Strategist and Account CTO, Microsoft 
Padma Ravichander, CEO, Tecnotree