Private Event Series
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Date: Thursday, 24th October 2024
Time: 12:00pm – 2:30pm (AEST)
Location
Eureka 89 Restaurant, Melbourne
Level 89, Eureka Tower, 7 Riverside Quay,
Southbank VIC 3006
www.eureka89.com.au
Synopsis and overview of the session
As businesses adapt to the cloud and hybrid work models, Infrastructure and Operations leaders face the critical challenge of modernising their networks. The traditional reliance on technologies such as MPLS and legacy web proxies is increasingly insufficient to meet the demands of today’s dynamic, distributed environments. The move towards solutions like SD-WAN and BWAN offers promising alternatives, but they require careful integration and re-architecting of existing infrastructures.
This executive lunch roundtable will delve into the complexities of transitioning to a modern network architecture that not only supports hybrid work but also enhances performance, security, and visibility. The discussion will emphasize the shift from legacy MPLS to agile SD-WAN and BWAN solutions, exploring how these technologies can complement a holistic strategy that reduces costs and improves scalability.
This roundtable aims to equip IT leaders with a deep understanding of how to leverage SD-WAN, BWAN, and SASE technologies to drive network modernisation, enabling faster, more secure, and more agile IT operations.
Focus Network, in partnership with Netskope invites you to join this upcoming lunch, where we will bring together a group of leading Networking, Infrastructure and Operational executives and learn more around:
Key Discussion Points:
- Why traditional MPLS networks struggle in the cloud era and how SD-WAN and BWAN can offer greater flexibility, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Strategies for re-architecting networks to support cloud and hybrid work environments, including best practices for deploying SD-WAN and BWAN.
- How the Netskope One platform provides a converged security and networking solution that meets modern access, security, visibility, performance, and speed requirements.
- Case studies of organisations that have successfully moved from legacy networks to modern, agile infrastructures using SD-WAN, BWAN, and Netskope’s solutions.
- Peer insights and collaboration from other VPs of IT Operations and Heads of Networking to share their experiences, challenges, and strategies for navigating the journey to the network of tomorrow.
Presenters
Brian Zerafa – Regional Director, ANZ South, Netskope
Brian Zerafa is a Regional Sales Director at Netskope, and passionate about working with organisations to help them reduce their cyber security risks. Having started out in technical roles, developing client-facing applications and consulting into organisations both in Australia and across Asia, Brian has 25+ years of experience from engagement across the spectrum of Large Enterprise through to SMB, on IT Transformation, Cloud Security and Data Protection programs. In his current capacity at Netskope, Brian and his field sales team engage businesses across all verticals within New Zealand and the southern states of Australia around modernisation of their Security Service Edge.
Con Ioannou, Senior Solutions Engineer, ANZ, Netskope
Con Ioannou has 35+ years of experience in the Technology industry. With a deep understanding of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Zero Trust and SD-WAN solutions; Con plays an integral role working with Netskope customers and partners, and helping them navigate the ever-evolving landscape of networking, cloud adoption and mitigating cyber security risks.
Anthony Caruana, Principal Advisor, Focus Network
Anthony Caruana has worked for almost every major masthead in the Australian IT press with his work appearing around the world. As an experienced IT professional – having worked as the lead IT executive in several businesses, he brings a unique insight to his reporting. He is the CEO of Media-Wize and continues to also work as a freelance writer for corporate clients. He is also a regular presenter on radio and television, as well as at events and webinars.
His work has covered the Australian and Asian markets. He writes about enterprise and consumer technology, information security, customer advocacy and the channel.
He also has an extensive career in IT having started his career as a trainer before becoming a business analyst and eventually rising into senior management positions.
His social media profiles are
https://twitter.com/Anthony_Caruana
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-caruana-australia/
About Netskope
Netskope, a global SASE leader, helps organizations apply zero trust principles and AI/ML innovations to protect data and defend against cyber threats. Fast and easy to use, the Netskope platform provides optimized access and real-time security for people, devices, and data anywhere they go. Netskope helps customers reduce risk, accelerate performance, and get unrivaled visibility into any cloud, web, and private application activity. Thousands of customers trust Netskope and its powerful NewEdge network to address evolving threats, new risks, technology shifts, organizational and network changes, and new regulatory requirements. Learn how Netskope helps customers be ready for anything on their SASE journey, visit netskope.com
Website: www.netskope.com
Moderator
Andrew Milroy, Founder, Veqtor8
Andrew Milroy is the founder of Veqtor8, a digital risk advisory firm, based in Singapore. His work involves empowering organisations to manage risk more effectively.
He is a well-known technology thought leader and speaker in the APAC region. Since moving to Singapore in 2011, he has held regional leadership roles with Frost & Sullivan, IDC, Nelson-Hall and Ovum (now Omdia). These roles have also given him the opportunity to live and work in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
He has been providing advisory services relating to cybersecurity for over 20 years. In his 10 years at Frost & Sullivan, Andrew grew the technology business into one of APAC’s leading sources of cybersecurity research and consulting services. Andrew works closely with leading buyers and vendors of cybersecurity products and services. Andrew is frequently invited to speak, chair and moderate at major technology events. He is also widely quoted in the press and often appears on broadcast media, including BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia.
Agenda at a glance
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Registration & networking
4.00 pm – 4.05pm – Welcome address
4.05 pm – 5.15pm – 3 course lunch served4.05 pm – 4.45pm – Embracing disruption in the financial services industry: A Privacy versus Security conundrum – Amanda Chan, BlackBerry
4.45 pm – 5.15pm – Demo
5.15pm – 5.45pm – Discussion
5.45 pm – 6pm – Closing remarks
