IDC and HPE Hybrid Cloud Workshop
The Future of Enterprise IT
Optimising for AI, Resilience, and Business Growth
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Organizations are navigating a period of unprecedented technological change. AI adoption is accelerating, hybrid environments are becoming increasingly complex, and business leaders are demanding greater agility, resilience, and return on technology investments. At the same time, many organizations continue to face infrastructure sprawl, limited visibility across their IT estates, and growing pressure to optimize costs while preparing for future innovation.
Drawing on IDC’s latest research and predictions, this keynote will explore the key trends shaping enterprise IT in 2026 and beyond, including AI-driven infrastructure demand, hybrid cloud evolution, cyber resilience priorities, and intelligent operations. The session will also examine why IT landscape optimization is emerging as a critical foundation for modernization, helping organizations align technology investments with business priorities and create a roadmap for future growth.
In this focused track, discover how to
Improve visibility across your IT environment
Align workloads with business priorities
Identify optimization opportunities and infrastructure gaps
Create a roadmap for modernization and long-term resilience
Agenda
IDC and HPE Hybrid Cloud Workshop
One Day Event
Registration
Digital Disruption and Industry IT Trends in 2026
Deepika Giri
Vice President, Research, IDC
Strategy for the Digital Economy
Srikanth Seshadri
Head of Advisory & Enterprise Architects, Asia Pacific, HPE
Lunch
Parallel Track Session
Track 1 – ITLO Workshop
2:00PM – 3:20PM
IT Landscape Optimisation Program – What's involved and outcome expected
3:20PM – 4:00PM
Optimising IT Assets through real-time insights (Opsramp/CloudOps)
Track 2 – Hybrid Cloud Workshop
2:00PM – 3:00PM
IT Operations Today; Understaffed, Overloaded, and Overwhelmed
3:00PM – 3:30PM
Autonomous Ops: How AI Agents Are Redefining IT Ops
Tea Break
Parallel Track Session
Track 1
4:15PM – 4:55PM
Improved Data Protection to increase Cyber Resiliency
4:55PM – 5:35PM
Network Optimisation & Transformation
Track 2
4:15PM – 4:45PM
Live Demonstration of Hybrid Operations Console (HOC-AI)
4:45PM – 5:30PM
Approach to IT Landscape Optimisation
Speakers
Deepika Giri
Vice President, Research
IDC
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Deepika Giri
Deepika manages and leads the research programs in big data and analytics (BDA), artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and Web3.
Deepika is a seasoned data and AI professional and brings extensive knowledge about the impact of data engineering, big data cloud platforms, and data science across critical sectors. She has extensive experience in software delivery as well as sales leadership and management. She also has over 20 years of experience in IT services, including leadership roles, at Capgemini, Infosys, and Accenture, and has strong industry expertise in the telecommunications and retail industries. More so, Deepika has an entrepreneurial spirit and has previously founded her own online retail fashion business.
Deepika holds a master’s degree in communication systems engineering from the University of Kent in United Kingdom and a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications from the University of Madras, India.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 10:00 am
Digital Disruption and Industry IT Trends in 2026
Srikanth Seshadri
Head of Advisory & Enterprise Architects, Asia Pacific
HPE
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Srikanth Seshadri
Srikanth Seshadri is Head of Advisory & Enterprise Architects, Asia Pacific at HPE. Srikanth has over 25 years of experience across systems engineering to IT project management and service delivery management to technology solutions consulting and architecture. Srikanth is a recognized subject matter expert in the area of Cloud Transformation across a diverse set of industries. Srikanth is a trusted advisor to a number of enterprises in the Asia Pacific region, thought leader within technical communities, evangelist in the industry and visionary within Hybrid and Multi-Cloud.
In Partnership With
HPE | Intel
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions delivered as a service – spanning Compute, Storage, Software, Intelligent Edge, High Performance Computing and Mission Critical Solutions – with a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, designed to help customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
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