Solving the Modernization Puzzle: Why It’s All in Your Mind

17 May 2023, Wednesday

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Solving the Modernization Puzzle: Why It’s All in Your Mind

If you’re like most financial services companies, you would have taken the first step in your modernization journey: leveraging the hybrid cloud. But it’s the next step — optimizing the environment to get the 2.5x business efficiency benefit — where many stumble.

In this CDOTrends webinar, organized with IBM, we study the findings of a recent whitepaper, “Fit for purpose: Modernizing with impact”, to discover the hurdles as companies seek modernization benefits. Led by the whitepaper author — John Duigenan, IBM’s global industry leader for financial services — the discussion will go beyond agile methodologies and study why mindsets matter right from the onset and what value fit-for-purpose technologies offer.

You’ll learn:

Why optimizing our platform choices on an ongoing basis needs a mindset unencumbered by conventional thinking
Fresh approaches to tackling technical debt, which is not going away anytime soon
How to invest in differentiation by getting your stakeholders onboard in your modernization journey early
Why flexibility and interoperability unlock you from lock-in traumas and future proofs your modernization efforts
A real-life case study on how a major bank modernized their mainframe-led environment

Date

2023-05-17
Time

11:30am SGT | 09:00am IST | 1:30pm AEST
Place

Online

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Event

AGENDA

11:30 AM

Opening Remarks

Winston Thomas

Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends, HR&DigitalTrends and DataOpsTrends

Winston brings over 20 years of journalistic experience to CDOTrends.com. As the previous editor at Computerworld Hong Kong, CIO Asia and PCWeek Asia, he followed, edited and wrote how the Internet and the rise of the digital economy impacted businesses across various industries. Most recently, Winston served as N. Asia editor of CMOInnovation. As the Editor-in-Chief of CDOTrends.com, he is bringing together intriguing articles, insights from leading thinkers, in-depth lessons from practitioners, and various thought leadership materials to develop a new resource for CDOs and other digital practitioners. Fascinated by new technology trends, he is constantly looking at how digital is reshaping our future lives.

Besides his communication skills, he is well-versed in building conference and marketing programmes externally and internally. Recently, he produced Total Security Conference 2016, Big Data and Business Analytics Forum 2016 and Future Workplace Forum 2016. Previously, he also launched CIO Asia Awards and helped to create the Computerworld Hong Kong Readers’ Choice Awards (today Computerworld Hong Kong Awards under Questex Asia).

As a copywriter, Winston has contributed to South China Morning Post (for finance and IT sections), Asia Week and IT Malaysia. He has also contributed technology-based articles for inflight magazines, including Cathay Pacific’s The Club and Gulf Air magazine, and recently to Benchmark Magazine.

Previous to his career in the media industry, he was a commodities broker and an abattoir manager in Singapore. He currently holds a B Sc. (Biology) with Merit, loves playing the piano and running marathon events.

11:40 AM

Keynote: Modernize with Impact in Financial Services – A New Mindset

Historically, we architected workloads based on the best combination of price, scalability, reliability, regulatory compliance, etc. Once decided, the workload will not change, even though conditions would. In other words, we’re locked in. A modern hybrid cloud takes a different approach, focusing on interoperability, standards, and componentization. This session will explore why such an approach matters to modern banks and introduces the fit-for-purpose concept.

Speaker:

John J. Duigenan

Global Leader, Financial Services Industry
IBM Technology

John J Duigenan is IBM's Global Leader in the Financial Services Industry. His mission is to accelerate clients’ value creation using IBM Technology, leveraging initiatives and use cases that are strategic and applicable across the industry. John and his team partner closely with clients to show how industry-specific uses cases map to IBM technology capabilities, solutions, and outcomes. Use cases are a vehicle to demonstrate relevance, success, scale, reuse, and references.

As General Manager and an IBM Distinguished Engineer, John leads by example as a hands-on technologist. Since joining IBM in 1998 in the UK, he has held technical and business roles spanning the entire product, sales, and implementation lifecycle, with extensive development, service, sales, and technology leadership. He led multi-billion-dollar transformation programs for IBM’s customers.

John is based in New York City and travels globally. He is an Out Executive and active mentor within IBM’s LGBTQ+ community. Additionally, he is a senior member of the Americas Distinguished Engineer Board and the IBM Sales Technology Leadership Team (TLT). John is certified at Advanced Levels in IBM’s Technology.

11:50 AM

Panel: Breaking Down Silos Between Business and Technology to Achieve Competitive Advantage

Banks know they need to break down the silos between business units and technology departments to become more flexible, agile, and competitive. But what’s not obvious is the need for a clear, modernized strategy that drives thoughtful investment in technology. This discussion examines how modernization impacts bank culture and the challenges we must overcome as a business.

Interviewer:

Panelists:

John J. Duigenan

Global Leader, Financial Services Industry
IBM Technology

12:20 PM

Use Cases: Fit-for-Purpose – The Key to Modernizing for Impact

Banking use cases that demonstrate the Fit-for-Purpose Concept.

Speaker:

John J. Duigenan

Global Leader, Financial Services Industry
IBM Technology

12:50 PM

Key Takeaways Recap + Q&A

Winston Thomas

Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends, HR&DigitalTrends and DataOpsTrends

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