
IDC, Google Cloud & Broadcom
Future-Ready Infrastructures: Enabling AI and Workload Modernization
Future-Ready Infrastructures: Enabling AI and Workload Modernization
Infrastructure and platforms are the fundamental building blocks for digital businesses today, making their reliability, stability and business value a key C-suite priority. With AI appearing everywhere, infrastructure must be flexible and agile to support innovation, while maintaining the desired level of control and risk mitigation across all environments. But are enterprises’ infrastructures ready for this AI-enabled future?
There are many aspects of infrastructure modernisation to consider in transitioning to a future-ready state. Getting the balance right between on-premises private cloud and public cloud infrastructure is critical, with most enterprises recognising a hybrid model as key to success. Modernising workloads to take advantage of cloud services can be a challenge, but one that will deliver optimal outcomes. Many enterprises also worry about perceived risks as they migrate to the public cloud: how do they avoid losing visibility and control? How do they maintain the operational consistency and familiarity they value from their on-premises environments in a public cloud environment? What new security risks accompany the public cloud, and could public cloud actually be an answer to security concerns? What sovereignty concerns emerge, both regulatory and self-imposed?
Agenda
Tuesday – September 30, 2025
IDC, Google Cloud & Broadcom
One day event
Champagne Reception
Welcome from IDC, Google Cloud & Broadcom

Archana Venkatraman
Senior Director Research, Cloud Data Management, IDC

Joseph Langford
Strategy Director UK&I, Broadcom Software

Michael Rylance
Head of Cloud Solution Architecture EMEA – Hyperscalers, Broadcom

Vivek Lodha
EMEA Solution Lead, Infrastructure Modernization, Google Cloud
Are our current infrastructures ready for the future? What challenges and risks exist in addressing infrastructure modernisation?
What are the business drivers for infrastructure and workload modernisation? And how can a unified approach enable seamless integration with cloud services, including AI, to accelerate your organization’s needs and ambitions?
What does the optimal future state of infrastructure look like – one that combines the familiarity of private cloud with the agility of public cloud and how do we achieve it?
Coffee Served & Evaluation Forms Distributed
Thank you from IDC, Google Cloud & Broadcom
Speakers

Archana Venkatraman
Archana Venkatraman is a Senior Director for IDC’s European Datacenter Research. She covers datacenter technologies including software-defined infrastructures, storage and data management, virtualization, containers, hyperconverged infrastructure, infrastructure performance monitoring, systems management, application development, and cloud services.
Archana also leads IDC’s European thought leadership program on open source technologies. She also contributes to European Digital Transformation, DevOps, Blockchain and IoT research practices.
Before joining IDC, Venkatraman was the datacenter editor at Computer Weekly, the digital magazine and website for IT professionals based in London, where she focused on datacenters, server virtualization, storage, open source technologies, software-defined infrastructures, and cloud computing, liaising with enterprise CIOs and technology vendors to develop deeper insight into the enterprise IT industry. Venkatraman has a master’s degree in journalism from Mumbai University.
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Tuesday, September 30 2025 6:30 pm | Location:
Welcome from IDC, Google Cloud & Broadcom

Joseph Langford
Event Sessions
Tuesday, September 30 2025 6:30 pm | Location:
Welcome from IDC, Google Cloud & Broadcom

Michael Rylance
Event Sessions
Tuesday, September 30 2025 6:30 pm | Location:
Welcome from IDC, Google Cloud & Broadcom

Vivek Lodha
Event Sessions
Tuesday, September 30 2025 6:30 pm | Location:
Welcome from IDC, Google Cloud & Broadcom
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Venue

JW Marriott Hotel Marina
L’oscar London
2-6 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AA
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