Chris Peterson, Vice President of Global Channels at Veracode, explains how the enhancements to Veracode’s Velocity Partner and Partner Technical Certification Programmes are a direct result of partner feedback and tailored to meet their varying levels of engagement, investment and needs. The clarity and simplicity of the programme will allow Veracode’s customers to focus more on delivering value and less on navigating complexities, as well as driving advancements in application risk management.
Watch OnlineSteve Young, UK SVP and MD, Dell Technologies, explains how can businesses can navigate the high upfront cost of AI while aiming for cost-saving and efficiencies, the importance of adopting an 'AI-first' approach to investment and how to go about devising and implementing an organisation-wide AI strategy that balances upfront costs versus anticipated benefits.
Watch OnlineDr Chris Ballance, co-founder and CEO of Oxford Ionics, explains how the company has developed and proven the building blocks of a high-performance, scalable quantum computer, and has also demonstrated that its quantum chips can be produced at scale in a standard semiconductor factory. Chris says that its chip provides over twice the performance of previous world records - achieved without using error correction – detailing why he believes that useful quantum computers are now within touching distance.
Watch OnlineIvana Bartoletti, Global Chief Privacy and AI Governance Officer at Wipro, also a Council of Europe adviser on AI and human rights, provides some fascinating insights into the EU AI Act, the UK’s upcoming AI Bill, as well as relevant US legislation, in terms of how much AI regulation is actually based on existing laws around privacy and non-discrimination and also about achieving the balance between AI innovation and AI ethics. Ultimately, AI is set to make a major, positive contribution to our quality of life, so long as AI-driven challenges, such as misinformation and bias, can be kept under control.
Watch OnlineDor Eisner, CEO and Co-Founder of Guardz. Discusses the launch of the company’s new, free Community Shield plan for MSPs. The offering is designed to help MSPs secure and insure their internal operations, offering automated detection and response across identities, emails, devices, and data. The Community Shield plan features a unified security platform that eliminates the need for multiple vendors, offering both ease of use and comprehensive protection. Advanced automation and AI streamline security operations, while the Guardz Growth Hub provides tools and resources to help MSPs confidently grow their businesses.
Watch OnlineAlkesh Soneji, Director - Sales & Marketing, Infrassist, discusses the problems facing SMB MSPs as they are often too busy ‘keeping the lights on’ to be able to devote enough time an effort into growing their businesses. Alkesh offers some excellent advice as to the ways in which these MSPs can overcome this challenge, with industry and/or technology specialisation seen as a great strategy to win new customers relatively easily. He also emphasises the importance of working with digital marketing experts to provide their specialist knowledge along this growth journey.
Watch OnlineHugo Bishop, Regional Sales Director - Northern Europe, Stellar Cyber, explains how MSSPs need to ensure that their SOC platform is designed to address the many, constantly evolving cybersecurity challenges they and their customers face in today’s digital workplace. Hugo goes on to explain that the features of a modern SOC platform should include: data integration, detection, signal correlation, analyst assistance and hyper automation.
Watch OnlineFevzi Konduk, EMEA Head of Software and ISV partners at Red Hat, explains Red Hat how the company’s ongoing work to transform the global partner engagement experience and offer greater simplicity, choice and flexibility to partners collaborating with the company, has already delivered a modular, globally standardised Partner Program, with streamlined partner incentives and an enhanced digital experience, as part of an ongoing process based on regular partner ecosystem feedback.
Watch OnlineDr. Avesta Hojjati, VP of Engineering at DigiCert, explains the thinking behind the creation of the first ever World Quantum Readiness Day – detailing the very real threat that quantum computing could compromise existing cryptographic algorithms used to secure data and the need for organisations to adopt a proactive stance on quantum readiness to safeguard against potential attacks.
Watch OnlineEric Herzog, Infinidat CMO, outlines the company’s recent technology launch – the InfiniBox G4 family of cyber secure storage arrays, which incorporates InfiniSafe, InfiniVerse and Storage as a Service innovations. As ever, Eric’s technology and business insights, with a particular focus on the need for end users to understand how storage and security come together as the foundation for an effective and optimised cyber resilience strategy, are invaluable.
Watch OnlineDennis Xu, VP Analyst, KI Leader, Gartner, discusses the coming together of AI and cybersecurity – in particular the rapid evolution of generative AI and its likely impact on cybersecurity – providing some valuable, actionable insights for navigating the GenAI hype to create real value. Dennis also comments on the need for organisations to reconsider their cyber resilience strategies in the wake of the recent Crowdstrike incident.
Watch OnlineMichael Ćaćić-Escalera, Director of Pax8 Academy, Pax8, discusses the importance of MSPs and other channel organisations ensuring a constant programme of upskilling – both in terms of the technologies they are selling to their customers and the development of the skills required to develop and grow their businesses to best meet end users’ expectations. Indeed, in such a dynamic IT sector, ongoing upskilling has never been so important, and Pax8’s own Beyond EMEA 24 event is a great education opportunity later this year.
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