Join us for the inaugural Evolving Solutions Modern Operations Summit, presented by Cisco. This half-day summit brings together IT leaders, practitioners, and innovators who are shaping the future of modern operations. The Summit will offer a practical, forward-looking perspective on how organizations can modernize and operate with confidence at scale.
We are honored to welcome globally recognized technology thought leader David Linthicum as our keynote speaker.
Time: 11:30 am – 4:45 pm followed by a Happy Hour from 4:45 – 6:00 pm
Location: Minneapolis Marriott Southwest, 5801 Opus Parkway, Minnetonka, MN 55343
Registration will open soon.
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Keynote Session featuring David Linthicum
Reframing Modern Operations for an AI-Accelerated World
Enterprises have invested heavily in cloud, automation, and analytics but operational maturity is not keeping pace. As organizations scale faster than ever, many are discovering that fragmented CloudOps, overhyped AIOps, and narrowly applied FinOps models are often creating friction instead of resilience.
As organizations pursue operational excellence, many are discovering that transformation depends less on adding tools and more on aligning architecture, governance, and execution across cloud, AI, and operations.
In this keynote, David Linthicum brings practical clarity to how CloudOps, AIOps, and FinOps must work together as a single operating discipline, not three disconnected motions. Drawing on decades of experience advising global enterprises, David will explore why CloudOps maturity frequently lags despite significant cloud investment, where AIOps expectations diverge from operational reality, and why FinOps must evolve from cost reporting into a true governance framework.
This keynote cuts through the hype to highlight a common pattern behind stalled progress: organizations that rush to automate before building the right architectural foundation. Attendees can expect straight talk, clear framing, and actionable insights to modernize their operating models, strengthen decision-making, and build operations that scale with confidence in an AI-driven world.
Learn more about David Linthicum.
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Breakout Sessions
Track One: Networking
- Session 1: From Flat to Segmented: Modernizing Your Network Architecture to Reduce Your Blast Radius
- Session 2: To be announced
- Session 3: Modernizing Connectivity: Building the Invisible Edge
Track Two: Security
- Session 1: Artificial Intelligence & The Enterprise
- Session 2: Sponsored by Aurascape
- Session 3: Evolving Risk: Caring About It All Again (For The First Time)
Track Three: Platform Modernization
- Session 1: To be announced
- Session 2: To be announced
- Session 3: The Future of Virtualization
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