• AWS Springboard
    VMware Cloud on AWS

    The seamless cloud migration for your VMware on-premises workloads

    • Taj Santacruz, Mumbai
    • 24th February 2023
    • 6:00 PM Onwards

AWS Springboard

AWS Springboard is an initiative that empowers enterprises to jumpstart their cloud journey by moving their on-premise workloads. In this series, we will share best practices for your cloud migration and will traverse an end-to-end migration journey, from exploring the benefits of moving your workloads, learning success stories directly from customers, exploring how AWS supports both the partner and client ecosystem, to addressing challenges that you might have to encounter.
After attending this series, you will be able to assess your current landscape, pinpoint your application and infrastructure modernization needs and subsequently define the best path to migrate.

About

The need for greater agility and access to latest innovations have driven cloud infrastructures to become increasingly attractive to organizations.

Organizations migrate to the cloud, to support business growth, drive digital transformations, improve development cycles and to optimize costs. During this transition, several migration, post-migration, and modernization challenges emerge that increase time, risks, and costs.

At this exclusive event, experience how AWS along with VMware solve these migration and modernization challenges, by delivering a hybrid cloud service that provides an enterprise ready platform option for organizations to modernize their existing applications while ensuring that they are future proofing their investments for new application development.

You will also hear from our esteemed customers how AWS and VMware have helped transform their digital journey, making their organization more agile and innovative.


Why attend?

Accelerate your business transformation goals by leveraging familiar VMware tools, skill sets and governance across your on-premises and cloud environments. Key benefits are:
  • Migrate and scale rapidly
  • Lower costs and reduce risk
  • Enable remote workforce
  • Ensure business continuity and Disaster Recovery (DR) with ransomware protection
  • Modernize applications and increase innovations
  • Flexibility to choose where to run apps based on business needs

Who should attend?

  • CIO
  • CTO
  • Head Infrastructure
  • Head Cloud Products
  • Head IT
  • Head Data Center and Virtualization

Expert Speakers

Bhavesh Lakhani

EVP & Global Chief Information Officer
A progressive technology leader with 23 years of experience in BFSI and IT Services across US and India. History of successful transformation leveraging existing and emerging technologies and directing strategies to develop leading-edge products. Deep expertise in technology management strengthened by hands-on experience.

Akshath K Balachandra

Head of Enterprise Greenfield
Akshath K Balachandra, leads a team of builders focused on helping financial Services enterprises in India to start their cloud journey & build competitive advantage in their businesses. At Amazon over the past 7 years, he has worked across enterprises in financial services, telecom and manufacturing, leverage AWS platform to infuse agility in their businesses, while unleashing innovation by adopting cloud to transform their existing businesses or build entirely new digital businesses from within. Akshath has over 17 years of experience in business consulting, solution sales and strategy. He has successfully built & scaled businesses across Enterprise applications, analytics, IT Infrastructure and the cloud over the years, working with a range of Start-ups, mid-market companies and enterprises alike. Prior to joining Amazon, Akshath was driving technology sales for Oracle in Banking & Financial services in India. He holds an MBA in Marketing from SP Jain Institute of Mgmt & Research, and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Mohit Arora

Sr. Director - BFSI VMware India
Mohit Arora is Senior Director - BFSI at VMware India. Mohit is responsible for driving sales for the Banking, Finance Services, and Insurance Sector for VMware. As a sales leader, Mohit helps VMware’s BFSI customers to simplify and transform their business with industry-leading multi- cloud and application architecture software.
Mohit has been a part of the IT industry for over two decades. Over the years, he has served multiple roles as an IT Solutions Sales & Marketing professional with special focus on IT Advisory, business applications and cloud computing solutions & services. Prior to joining VMware in Jan 2015, Mohit was a part of organizations such as Oracle, IBM, Diebold, CA & CMC in various roles helping and advising customers to choose & consume IT consulting solutions and professional services for their varied requirements.
He holds an MBA degree from University of Pune. He has also completed Executive Management Programs from CEIBS, Shanghai, INSEAD Singapore & ISB Hyderabad

Jayant Mahale

Specialist,VMC, AWS
Jayant Mahale is an experienced professional, in a career spanning more than 22 years, with expertise in the fields of Direct sales, Business Development with P&L Management and establishing partner ecosystems.
He is working with Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd. (AWS), managing VMware Cloud on AWS business. Prior to AWS, Jayant Mahale had a stint with VMware as Country Channel Sales Manager – Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) for India OEM, Channel and Alliance partners, where he successfully established partner ecosystem for VMware’s Hyperconverged systems (HCI) and Cloud portfolio.
He has worked for little over 11 years in Hewlett Packard, where he played pivotal roles in establishing Storage, Backup and HCI businesses for Enterprise and SMB segments.
Jayant had been in the industry of System Integration, Telecom & IT Distribution since the past decade before joining HP. He is based at Mumbai and can reached at jmmahale@amazon.com and his Mobile Number is +919833 577667.

Agenda

6:00 PM
6:30 PM

Registration, Networking Hi-Tea & Demos

6:30 PM
6:40 PM

Keynote by AWS Leadership

Akshath K Balachandra, Head of Enterprise Greenfield, AWS

6:40 PM
6:55 PM

Better Together

Jayant Mahale, Specialist,VMC, AWS

6:55 PM
7:10 PM

VMWARE Cloud Innovations on AWS

Mohit Arora, Sr. Director - BFSI VMware India

7:10 PM
7:45 PM

Customer Success Story

Bhavesh Lakhani, EVP & Global Chief Information Officer

7:45 PM
7:55 PM

Question & Answer Session

7:55 PM
8:00 PM

Closing Remarks

8:00 PM
Onwards

Networking Cocktails & Dinner