With technology changing every industry today . organizations that neglect to invest in market-driven operations risk losing market share to existing competitors and new digital market entries. Therefore every organization, large and small, must rethink how to engage with customers, employees, partners and vendors. That means digitally transforming business processes to respond to increased online competition and the resulting explosive growth in data capital. This shift includes taking advantage of big data analytics and artificial intelligence, accelerating business innovation through DevOps and optimizing IT through hybrid cloud operations.

As such, Digital transformation can be empowering at an organizational scale. It can help transform the customer experience, power innovation, increase agility and flexibility, reduce operating costs and drive data-based decision-making.

Genuine digital transformation, in which enterprises take full advantage of  digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, connected devices and remote collaboration and communications platforms, benefit from a cloud modernization strategy that involves people, processes and technology.

While several types of modernization, including infrastructure modernization, platform modernization, application modernization, business process modernization and cultural/workplace modernization, can enable full digital transformation, advancements in cloud and related technologies can have a significant impact on each of them.

Given this context, SLASSCOM in partnership with Alibaba Cloud and E Guardian will be hosting a webinar titled "MODERNIZATION OF INFRA WITH ALIBABA CLOUD" on Friday, the 21st January 2022, from 4.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.with the aim of  providing organizations the opportunity to gain valuable insights on how you can enhance productivity while gaining a significant addition to your bottom line.

The session will include a panel of renowned expert speakers. The first speaker is E-Guardian CEO Mafaz Fahrid, who started his career focusing on technology and possesses over 18 years of experience in the services and technology industry, and immense experience in the domains of cybersecurity and digital transformation. He holds an MBA in marketing and systems management, along with multiple professional qualifications.

Keynote speakers from the international arena will include Pradeep Guda, who holds 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Currently, he is focused on cloud technology and works as a Senior Solutions Architect with Alibaba Cloud and will also feature Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, India Country Head - South Asia Vivek Sehgal, with over 22 years of experience in the IT Industry. Vivek was previously associated with multiple market leaders like  Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, and CA Technologies, with various leadership roles spanning across business units, such as sales, technology consulting and presales, helping large organizations adopt cutting-edge technologies like BigData, Automation, Cloud Solutions etc allowing them to make significant Business impact by the use of Technology.

They will touch on topics of how coordinated modernization efforts should align with the enterprise’s business and cloud strategies, and developing the cloud modernization plan as well as how to minimize disruption and identify modernization patterns and potential problems across all realms and provide value driven insights on the challenges faced in converting the business into existing systems and apps.

The webinar is also set to offer attendees unique perspectives through this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, making it a must-attend for all decision-makers in any organization. Additionally, attendees will receive USD 500 worth of credit on Ali Cloud, a cloud computing service for online businesses and Alibaba's own e-commerce ecosystem.

The event is sponsored by Alibaba Cloud and E-Guardian, with Dialog as the Corporate sponsor; and is organized by E&I forum, IOI and Startupsrilanka.lk of SLASSCOM. Interested parties who wish to register for the event can visit bit.ly/MIACL