Summit Agenda and Session Guide

What to expect?

As part of FORTE CLOUD’s mission to empower and guide businesses in their cloud innovation journey, we bring you this day for all things cloud from migrations to modernization. Throughout the day you will be able to attend talks and discussions on diverse topics, such as cloud migration, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and more. Not only that, but you will also be able to hear about customers’ cloud journey from the customer themselves. Whether you are just starting on the cloud or a proficient user, join us and learn all about AWS cloud technologies at CloudTech Summit 2022.

8:30 – 9:15  Registration

9:30 – 9:40  Opening & Keynote

9:40 – 1:15  Sessions

1:15 – 2:30  Launch and Networking

2:30 – 5:00  Sessions

5:00  Closing, Q&A

Session Guide

Registration & Welcoming

Registration and Welcoming
Time:
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Keynote

Opening Keynote
Speaker:
Husam Alhmoud, FORTE CLOUD | Time: 9:30 AM - 9:40 AM

About FORTE CLOUD

Accelerate your cloud innovation journey with FORTE CLOUD
Speaker:
Abdelrahman Elposhi, FORTE CLOUD | Time: 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Learn about ForteCloud services & solutions, announcements, and how we can help organizations digitize their business and accelerate their cloud innovation journey.

Cloud Economics

How to maximize your Cloud ROI
Speaker:
 Sandrine Palmer, AWS | Time: 10:00 AM - 10:40 AM

Topics and takeaways of the session

  • Understand the business value and benefits of the AWS cloud.
  • Build an AWS business case for migration around 4 pillars: total cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, and business agility.
  • Understand how to manage, optimize, and plan AWS costs and usage post-migration & capture the value of AWS Cloud.
  • Build FinOps/ Cloud Financial Management (CFM) capabilities across tech and finance teams through CFM's See, Save, Plan, and Run pillars.

Migration

How to build a successful migration strategy?
Speaker:
Nael Osman, FORTE CLOUD - Hashim Serag, AWS | Time: 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Windows, Database, and MAP programs:

Understanding how to design a sound migration strategy through testing, performance, and best practices including license optimization and shaping the modernization path.

Break & Networking

Break & Networking
Time: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM

SAP

SAP Cloud migration & modernization with AWS
Speaker:
Moataz Wagih, FORTE CLOUD - Arvind Chandragiri, AWS | Time: 11:45 PM - 12:15 PM

Migrating SAP systems to the cloud is a central part of many customers’ strategy to modernize and future-proof their core business functions, and disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to accelerate this journey.

ML/AI and IoT

Unleash the power of ML/AI and IoT with AWS
Speaker:
Mohammed Ezzat, AWS | Time: 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Machine learning went from being an aspirational technology to mainstream extremely fast. For a long time, the technology was limited to a few major tech companies and hard-core academic researchers. However, things began to change when cloud computing entered the mainstream. In this session, we will discuss how Amazon Web Service supports customers by making an impact across every industry (such as finance, retail, fashion, real estate, healthcare, and others) with different machine learning services in simple and cost-effective ways.

We will discuss:

  • Machine learning use case
  • AWS Machine learning Stack
  • Sagemaker, quickly and easily get started with machine learning
  • Introduction to AWS IOT and Machine learning integration

AMD

Step Up your Cloud with AWS & AMD
Speaker: Moutaz Saleh, AMD | Time: 12:45 PM - 01:15 PM

Tune in to hear how Amazon EC2 Instances powered by AMD can enable organizations to optimize both cost and performance for your chance to win.

Lunch & Networking

Lunch & Networking
Time: 01:15 PM - 02:30 PM

Customer Case Studies

Customer Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Moheeb Darwish, FORTE CLOUD | Time: 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM

Cloud Security

Raise the bar of your security standards with AWS
Speaker:
Mohamed Mostafa, FORTE CLOUD - Kamran Habib, AWS | Time: 03:15 PM - 03:45 PM

Join this session to learn about how easily you can raise the bar on cloud security, automation, and out-of-the-box detective and preventative controls. Cloud security has never been more important: as you continually evolve your use of the AWS platform, you also need to improve your security posture and take advantage of new security services and features complimenting your defined standards.

Break

Break & Networking
Time: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM

Application Modernization

Drive growth and reduce costs with application modernization on AWS

Speaker: Hashim Serag, AWS | Time: 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM

Join us for a brief overview of what Application Modernization means, what it can do for you, and how this can affect your bottom-line cost.

Application Modernization is a sure way to both future-proof your workloads and helps drive down your hosting costs. AWS and its ForteCloud provide you with the necessary knowledge, tools, and hosting to accomplish this mission that is becoming more relevant.  

Data Analytics

Reinvent your business with data analytics on AWS
Speaker:
Ismail Makhlouf, AWS | Time: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM

The next wave of digital transformation will be data-driven, and organizations will have to reinvent themselves using data to make decisions quickly and gain faster and deeper insights to serve their customers. In this session, Ismail Makhlouf, Data Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, addresses the current state of analytics on AWS, focusing on the latest service innovations. Learn how you can put your data to work with the best of both data lakes and purpose-built analytics services.

Closing, Q&A

Summit Closing, Q&A
Time: 05:00 PM

Frequently Asked Question

From entrepreneurs to developers, IT managers, CXOs, and Directors – all of our 200+ attendees are looking to stay on top of the latest trends

JW Marriott Hotel Cairo, on Monday 12th September, New Cairo, Egypt.

Everyone’s welcome. but this summit is specially prepared for commercial and public industries but not for Government organizations.

Unless stated explicitly in the event information, the company does not cover transport costs to and from events. It is your responsibility to arrange transport to and from the event. However, the organizers may provide specific information, if necessary, to those attending.

This is a free summit tailored to our valuable customers and there will be a number of free parking for you.

To reserve a ticket for our event, you must first register through this link. When you sign up please make sure that you use the same name and email address that we have on file for you. After you have registered you will receive your registration details and on arrival guide.

We do not provide details of other attendees to anyone. Please use our social media accounts to enquire about others and for in-advance networking.