Upcoming event - Cloud Architect Alliance

January 30th, 2020

Cloud Architect of the Year Election

During this election night we announce the best cloud architects of the year in two different categories: the best cloud architect and the best cloud security architect. In addition we will discuss what it takes to rearchitect a data lake using cloud native architecture patterns.

More information will follow soon but with the button below you can already nominate your peer!

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Speakers

These are the confirmed speakers for our October event

Jonathan Allen

Senior Evangelist
Amazon Web Services

Jonathan Allen: about the session

In this session AWS’s Enterprise Strategist and former CTO of Capital One Jonathan Allen will share with us the experiences that he gathererd with his numerous cloud customer engagements around the world.

Jonathan will share his vision on how to organise the different stakeholders of the cloud transformation and how to align their different positions.
He is one of the creators of the Cloud Business filosophy and currently part of the group within AWS that develops documentation on the topic of Enterprise Strategy.

Jonathan Allen

Jonathan joined AWS as an Enterprise Strategist & Evangelist in May 2017. In this role, he works with enterprise technology executives around the globe to share experiences and strategies for how the Cloud can help them increase speed and agility while devoting more of their resources to their customers.

Prior to joining AWS, Jonathan was Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director in Capital One Banks UK division. Jonathan was part of the banks Global Technology Leadership team that selected AWS as their Predominant Cloud Partner in 2014, and was accountable for architecting, engineering and execution of the technical build out and system migrations of the banks AWS Cloud strategy in partnership with the US divisions until 2017, by which time the all development had moved Cloud First.

Jonathan managed a global team and held all budgetary responsibility for the technology operations and strategy execution, adoption of agile only, technical talent transformation and recruitment and creation of the banks Cloud Governance framework.

During Jonathan’s 17 years at Capital One he also led large scale transformations including the roll out of regulatory compliance, move from outsourcing to out-tasking, engagement with AWS Cloud Partners, adoption of DevOps at scale and the focus of an engineering led culture.

In 2012, he was awarded IT Manager of the Year by The Chartered Institute for IT. He holds a Diploma in Computer Studies from Loughborough College and a CIO MBA from Boston University.

Arthur van der Wees

Managing Director
Arthur's Legal

Arthur van der Wees: about the session

In Cloud We Trust

How to design, architect, build, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructures and services, and make and keep those trustworthy, resilient and sustainable? Without trust there will be no transformation possible.

In this presentation we will dive into the horizontal imensions and other ‘non-functional’ that are still often forgotten. Retrofitting privacy, security, data management and trust is not the way to be the custodian of trust, trusted data and processes of your customers, partners and people, right? How to get architect a non-functional
specifications as part of the other specs?

Arthur van der Wees

Arthur is Managing director of international strategic X-By-Design law firm Arthur’s Legal, with its headquarters in Amsterdam, founded in 2001. He is a senior lawyer, technologist, enterpreneur,
standardisation expert, investor and frequent speaker
worldwide, who has indepth experience and is well-
connected in the world of technology, data, dynamic
ecosystems & global business.

Arthur is:

Expert Advisor to the European Commission (IoT, Cloud, Data, Cybersecurity, Privacy, AI, Robotics &
Accountability)
Expert Advisor to Rijksoverheid (Digital Ecosystems,
eIDAS, Dynamic Attributes, Data, Cybersecurity, Privacy
& Regulations)
Specialist Task Force ETSI (STF 547) Leader for Security in IoT & Privacy in IoT
Founding Member, Alliance for IoT Innovation (AIOTI),
Security in IoT & Privacy in IoT Taskforce Leader AIOTI Standardization, and Chair AIOTI Policy
Co-Founder & Director of the Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age
Member of the European AI Alliance

Bernard Drost

VP & MD EMEA
Cloud Technology Partners

Bernard Drost: about the session

In this session Bernard will introduce the philosophy of the Cloud Business Office. How does it help with your cloud transformation and how do you organize the governance of a Cloud Business Office?

Bernard Drost

Bernard Drost has over 25 years of experience delivering executive level technology strategy and cloud implementations/migrations to Fortune 500 companies. As a Principal Cloud Architect, he has led engagements fitting new agile cloud processes and technologies into existing data centre environments.

Fred Streefland

Chief Security Officer NEEUR
Palo Alto Networks

Fred Streefland: about the session

This session will be about the experiences from a former CISO of a cloud enabling company and a current CSO of a cloud securing company.

Fred Streefland

With more than 27 years of experience within Security & Intelligence domain, Fred started his career as an Intelligence & security officer at the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) and Military Intelligence Service (MIVD). After 16 years of active duty, he joined IBM as a cyber security professional. After some years, he moved to Accenture and served as a senior manager security focusing on critical infrastructure security. As a result of this focus on ICS/SCADA, he became Director Education & Training at the European Networks for Cyber Security (ENCS). In 2014 he moved to Exact Software and became the CISO. After this, he also fulfilled the role of Global IT Security Director
(Group CISO) at LeaseWeb, a global (cloud) hosting company. In 2017, he left LeaseWeb and started to work for Palo Alto Networks. Fred is currently working as the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for Benelux, North & Eastern Europe (NEEUR) region. In this role, he is a thought leader/trusted advisor for customers of Palo Alto Networks, a spokesman and an evangelist. Fred holds an Executive Master of Security & Defense (EMSD) and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam. While working for Accenture, he passed the SABSA Security Architect course.

Highly recommended

of our attendees would recommend our events to peers

Our next event will be organized at

Café Restaurant Dauphine

Prins Bernhardplein 175, 1097 BL Amsterdam, Netherlands

Program

Time	Session
16:00 – 17:00	Registration and drinks
17:30 – 17:50	Opening Bart M. Veldhuis
17:50 – 18:20
18:20 – 19:00	Starters
19:00 – 19:30
19:30 – 20:15	Main course
20:15 – 20:35
20:35 – 21:10	Dessert
21:10 – 21:40
21:40 – 22:00	Coffee
22:00 – 22:10	Closing Freek Beemster
22:10 – 23:00	Drinks

January 30th, 2020

Cloud Architect of the Year Election

Speakers

Jonathan Allen

Arthur van der Wees

Bernard Drost

Fred Streefland

Highly recommended

Our next event will be organized at

Café Restaurant Dauphine

Prins Bernhardplein 175, 1097 BL Amsterdam, Netherlands

Program

I appreciate the opportunity to come in contact with brilliant minds working in the same area.

SPONSORS

FRIENDS

January 30th, 2020

Cloud Architect of the Year Election

Speakers

Jonathan Allen

Arthur van der Wees

Bernard Drost

Fred Streefland

Highly recommended​

Our next event will be organized at Café Restaurant DauphinePrins Bernhardplein 175, 1097 BL Amsterdam, Netherlands

Program

I appreciate the opportunity to come in contact with brilliant minds working in the same area.

SPONSORS

FRIENDS

Highly recommended

Our next event will be organized at

Café Restaurant Dauphine

Prins Bernhardplein 175, 1097 BL Amsterdam, Netherlands