Virtual Roundtable
Modernizing Infrastructure to Boost Resiliency and Drive Business Value of AI
June 30, 2026 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT
Modernizing enterprise infrastructure is essential for organizations aiming to achieve greater resilience and agility in today’s dynamic environment. As digital transformation accelerates, investments in IT modernization, cloud migration, and cyber-resiliency are increasing to ensure business continuity and provide the foundation required for value-driven next-generation workloads.
Nutanix and IDC will examine how organizations are modernizing infrastructure and operationalizing AI to adapt to an increasingly dynamic business environment and connect IT investments with measurable business outcome.
In particular, as an attendee you will:
• Discover best practices for building resilient, scalable platforms that drive business agility and protect your organization’s bottom line.
• Learn how to architect AI foundations that scale with your organization, moving from experimentation to governed, production-grade deployments that deliver tangible ROI.
• Explore approaches for making AI operations predictable, manageable, and cost-efficient ensuring that as adoption spreads, operational spend translates directly into business growth.
• Gain expert perspectives on sovereign and secure AI, including strategies for regulatory compliance, data protection, and proactive risk governance.
What To Expect
A live video meeting led by a skilled host/moderator
An intimate gathering of leaders from diverse industries, grappling with similar issues
A secure, private conversation open only to a carefully vetted group (no recording, no playback)
Session Focus Areas
- Platform Simplification for Business Agility.
- Building Resilient and Scalable Enterprise Platforms.
- Architecting an AI-Ready Foundation.
- Operationalizing AI for Predictable Outcomes.
- Ensuring AI Sovereignty and Compliance.
Speakers
Parag Karnik
CTO, Enterprise Platforms
Nutanix
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Parag Karnik
Ashish Nadkarni
Group Vice President and General Manager, Global Domain Lead, Enterprise Infrastructure
IDC
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Ashish Nadkarni
Ashish Nadkarni leads IDC’s enterprise infrastructure global research domain. Ashish oversees five global research subdomains: core infrastructure, cloud infrastructure and services, network infrastructure and services, semiconductors and enabling technologies, and digital and datacenter infrastructure and services. Ashish’s coverage spans infrastructure software platforms, cloud and edge services, storage and converged systems, compute infrastructure, service provider trends, enterprise, emerging and performance intensive workloads (AI and HPC).
Ashish draws upon his experience working in the IT industry to take a long view on the lifecycle of infrastructure-related services, deployments, systems, platforms, and technologies. Examples of his research coverage include heterogeneous, accelerated, edge, analog and quantum computing, rackscale, composable/disaggregated architecture, memory, flash and other data persistence technologies, high-speed fabrics and interconnects, operating systems, and software-defined infrastructure.
Partner
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Nutanix
Nutanix provides organizations a secure, unified platform for running applications and AI and managing data anywhere. The Nutanix software platform helps simplify operations for traditional and modern applications, freeing you to focus on organizational goals. Trusted by over 29,000 customers worldwide, Nutanix empowers you to transform digitally and run hybrid cloud environments consistently, easily, and cost-effectively.