Cloud Journey Program
Optimise, Innovate, and Secure your Cloud Future
Scope Cloud Journey Program
In the last decade many organisations have made conscious, as well as unconscious decisions in their cloud journeys. There is room for optimising cloud environments from a performance and a cost perspective.
Furthermore, organisations are transforming and embedding information technology and data in their products and services, in combination with enhancing their business models. The current artificial intelligence waves fuel opportunities to disrupt. Data in the heart of these business innovations. These dynamics demand advanced cloud environments.
In addition, regulatory requirements are impacting data location strategies and mandate additional data privacy and cyber security measures, striving for resilience.
It’s about time that organisations are willing to plan for an overhaul of their cloud environment.
September 24, 2025 – Session 1: optimising cloud environments from a performance and a cost perspective
Is it time to reconsider your hyperscaler strategy?Start by gaining a comprehensive understanding of your current Cloud environments, go beyond contractual terms and include insights from your technology teams in the assessment. Optimising cloud environments is a strategic priority and fuels...
December 2, 2025 – Session 2: Managing dynamics demand advanced cloud environments
During our December roundtable, we explored how organisations can align cloud strategy with real-time business and ecosystem dynamics. Organisations are in a constant state of transformation, requiring advanced cloud environments that drive data-powered business innovation. As the pace of digital...
February 4, 2026 – Session 3: keeping your cloud environments compliant and cyber secure
Cyber security, digital resilience and technology sovereignty can no longer be treated separately. At the final Cloud Journey session, one theme dominated: Decision-making under uncertainty defines digital leadership.The use of data and advanced models continues to accelerate, delivering clear...
Assets
Cloud Journey Session 1 - Recap
Cloud Journey Session 2 - Recap
Organisations are in a constant state of transformation, and in need for advanced cloud environments that enable data-powered business innovation. As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, the rapid adoption of AI further intensifies the demand for more advanced cloud capabilities. To fully capitalise on these opportunities and ensure technology resilience, organisations must involve their technology teams earlier in the innovation process. This early collaboration is key to leveraging cloud environments effectively and aligning technological foundations with business goals.
Cloud Journey Session 3 - Recap
Organisations are in a constant state of transformation, and in need for advanced cloud environments that enable data-powered business innovation. As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, the rapid adoption of AI further intensifies the demand for more advanced cloud capabilities. To fully capitalise on these opportunities and ensure technology resilience, organisations must involve their technology teams earlier in the innovation process. This early collaboration is key to leveraging cloud environments effectively and aligning technological foundations with business goals.
Your moderator
Erik Beulen is The Digital Knowledge Institute’s Program Director. He is also an Information Management professor at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Erik’s research focuses on digital transformations, data analytics, and platforms. He is also an external advisor of Bain & Company and an independent member of the data committee at Royal FloraHolland. Erik has 30 years of international experience in the industry and consulting.
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