Welcome and opening remarks With SADA's CTO Miles Ward. 

Join SADA CTO Miles Ward and Forrest Brazeal, Head of Developer Media at Google Cloud, as they discuss how to harmonize cloud services and technology for better business outcomes. They’ll discuss the reasons why people are trying to learn about Google Cloud and how to help customers connect with the most valuable insights to inform their decisions. They will also discuss the balancing act of getting excited about learning and taking action on the product, and share customer success stories and case studies that speak to the impact of learning. This session offers plenty of actionable insights as to how to successfully navigate cloud services and technology landscape.

As technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, it’s more important than ever for professionals in the tech industry to stay up to date on the latest skills and trends. The current macroeconomic environment has made it even more critical for technologists to invest in professional development. In this session, SADA Chief Technology Officer Miles Ward and RedMonk Industry Analyst Kate Holterhoff will help attendees navigate the maze of available certifications and professional development opportunities, focusing on where to direct one's time and energy to stay competitive in today's job market. This session is designed for those seeking new employment opportunities, as well as professionals who wish to move up in their current organizations.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, organizations have increased their cloud infrastructure and platform computing spend by 48% per year; Amalgam Insights forecasts that figure will rise by another 22% in 2023.

This rapid growth represents a massive opportunity for waste. Per Amalgam Insights’ IT Rule of 30, an average of 30% of organizations’ cloud outlay is unnecessary. That puts IT, finance, procurement, and other key stakeholder teams on the hook with the C-Suite. Executives and investors want to know that spending is under control.

Join us as industry research firm Amalgam Insights and managed service provider SADA join forces to deliver the actionable guidance that IT and other leaders need to ensure that cloud investments actually translate into revenue. Together, SADA and Amalgam Insights will provide vital insights to help organizations reduce their cloud computing costs and maximize the value of their cloud estates.
 

Cloud misconfiguration is a major source of risk. Join Concourse Labs co-founder and former Goldman Sachs CIO, Don Duet, as he shares how to assure the security, reliability, and resilience of cloud infrastructure at scale with "security-as-code" automation at every stage of the cloud application lifecycle, from far left through runtime. Learn how enterprises can build and maintain cloud security and compliance requirements 'as code', without writing code, and then automate policy evaluation, violation finding, and remediation workflows.

With the increasing adoption of public cloud services, organizations are facing challenges in managing and optimizing their cloud connectivity costs, particularly the egress costs associated with data transfers from the cloud to external networks. Learn about the current state of public cloud connectivity, the costs associated, and the factors that influence them. We will then introduce the concept of TruNaaS and explain how TruNaaS can help organizations optimize their cloud connectivity costs.

Business Observability expands analytics to the entire business process and increases telemetry data captured across the business, known as TDC. Third-party tech tools and services can produce uncontrolled data leading to Black Boxes and Blindspots, posing financial and security risks. We will showcase successful implementations from McDonald's and AB InBev.

Proactively detect and respond to security threats in real time, by leveraging the latest cloud technologies and advanced analytics.

Rapidly responding to a changing business environment, MariaDB migrated its corporate infrastructure and databases as a service SkySQL to GCP (Google Cloud) via Sada. Together, we were able to accelerate application development; advance productivity and collaboration. And iterating SkySQL so customers use data as a competitive edge.

With SaaS adoption — and SaaS data breaches — exploding over the past decade, SaaS security can no longer be ignored. Learn the key concepts and needs around securing your largest, unmonitored cloud ecosystems.

A fireside chat between world-class data leaders on how they are leveraging attribution AI, machine learning and predictive analytics to increase profitability for Fortune 500s and fast-growing retail brands.

When it comes to cloud security, cloud environment misconfigurations are a leading attack vector. In this session, you'll learn about Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and the tools SADA uses to ensure that customer cloud environments are protected and continuously monitored for misconfigurations before they can be exploited.

As organizations look to do what they can to address the climate crisis, gaining an understanding of emissions is an important starting point. Google Cloud has tools that help measure the scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions caused by your cloud consumption so you can plan on reducing it. Join us for a demonstration and an exploration of Google Cloud's capabilities in this area.

Join us for an in depth discussion on the importance of starting your cloud journey with a secure foundation with Vivek Menon, CISO at Digital Turbine and Rocky Giglio, Director, Security GTM Solutions at SADA. As CISO of Digital Turbine, the leading independent mobile growth platform for advertisers, publishers, carriers, and OEMs, Vivek offers a unique perspective on how design impacts capabilities and security. 

Commencing production operations on Google Cloud requires experienced technical teams working in an intrinsically secure cloud environment. By adopting Google Cloud with SADA's security foundation, Digital Turbine was able to use defense-in-depth principles and security best practices to  architect a hardened cloud posture tailored to their needs.
 

Zero Trust security replaces the traditional idea of perimeters, trusted networks, devices, personas, or processes with multi-attribute-based levels of confidence that enable authentication and authorization policies founded on the concept of least privileged access.
Trust has no place in digital systems, as the trust model gets exploited all the time. In this session, you'll learn what this means to Google and how you can adopt best practices for Zero Trust in your own organization, even in multicloud environments.

Google's Data Cloud has a wide range of capabilities that allow data to live in a variety of technologies. As data is typically a key shared asset across an organization, understanding the sensitivity of your data assets and how to secure and govern them becomes incredibly important. Come hear about some of the approaches SADA takes to ensure customer data environments are secured, and see some of the tools that are used in this process.

This session will provide an overview of market security trends at the end user productivity level and how SADA can support these changing needs. Attendees will learn about SADA's Workspace security capabilities, enhanced controls, and security solutions with ISV partners such as Virtru, JumpCloud, OKTA, and VM Ware. By the end of the session, attendees will have a better understanding of how to use SADA to protect their end user productivity and ensure security.

Adopting cloud technologies can strain traditional security information and event management (SIEM) technologies, causing companies to reduce log retention or filter log ingestion, leading to potential blind spots during an incident response investigation. In this session, you'll learn how modern cloud-focused SIEM technologies with modern threat intelligence capabilities can help teams quickly identify threats, and how additional features like Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response Tooling can help optimize remediation workflows for security events.

From large, digital-native powerhouses to midsized manufacturing firms, companies are creating and deploying more software than ever before. As organizations increase their Kubernetes deployments, creating and enforcing consistent configurations and security policies across a growing GKE environment becomes a challenge. Join us to explore how you can get started with a secure posture for GKE and Anthos deployments in minutes. We'll share a central dashboard and detailed instructions to remediate violations for standards such as CIS benchmark, PCI DSS, PSS, and more.

This session will explore OANDA's journey from multiple on-premise data centres to a cloud computing model, detailing the technical, financial, and business benefits of the transition. We will discuss why OANDA chose SADA and the technical guidance provided by SADA's deep expertise. We will also look at how OANDA explained the move to cloud to their board to get their buy-in,  the migration’s ROI, and how cloud transformation has empowered the company to launch in new markets and envision the next steps of their partnership.

In this discussion with Joe Shorter, VP of Architecture at Digital Turbine, we'll explore instances where technology within an acquisition company must be considered and folded into the technology of the acquiring company as part of a GCP migration. Is platform unification considered? Is technical debt analyzed as part of the process of migration? Is refactoring done? Do you optimize code then shift or shift first? What are the people implications and how does change management play a part? What if the acquired company is overseas? This session will dive deep into these and other unique challenges.

This session will provide an overview of SADA's Google Workspace deployment and ongoing service offerings. Attendees will learn how to customize SADA's services to fit their organization's needs, from SMB to global enterprise. The presentation will include highlights of services from our partner ecosystem, including AODocs, LumApps, as well as Out of Office, and AppSheet. By the end of the session, attendees will have a better understanding of how to use SADA's services to meet their organizations' requirements and optimize their applications.

Services like Instacart, Grubhub, and DoorDash certainly existed before the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand for grocieries, food, and other products purchased online and delivered to your door substantially increased when many of us were forced or chose to stay at home. We'll explore two new solutions, On Demand Rides & Deliveries and Last Mile Fleet, that provide the best options in the mobility space by packaging a group of APIs focused on getting you from point A to point B.

This session will provide an overview of SADA's approach to productivity and collaboration solutions including Google Workspace. Attendees will gain insights on exclusive solutions that incorporate ISVs, as well as how SADA and Google collaborate. By the end of the session, attendees will have a comprehensive understanding of how SADA's solutions-oriented approach will help their organizations achieve maximum productivity and collaboration.

Need help getting your product to customers? SADA has a team dedicated to helping you implement your solution and access a market of potential customers on GCP Marketplace Once on Marketplace, and in partnership with SADA, you'll be well prepared to discover opportunities to bring your solutions to the customers who need them most.

This session offers an overview of observability on Google Cloud, including how SADA implements best practices and tools for monitoring, logging, and tracing applications. Attendees will learn how to use Google Cloud's monitoring, logging, and tracing services to gain insight into the performance and behavior of their applications. The session will also cover how SADA can help you design and use these services in conjunction with other Google Cloud services (such as Kubernetes and Cloud Functions) to build a comprehensive observability strategy. By the end of the session, attendees will have a better understanding of how to use Google Cloud's observability services to troubleshoot and optimize their applications.