How AI and Hybrid Cloud are Reshaping Enterprise IT The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and the adoption of hybrid cloud are two of the most consequential trends in IT today. AI – and generative AI (GenAI) in particular – promises to transform the role technology plays in driving productivity and reinventing business processes, both front-facing and backend. Hybrid cloud, meanwhile, provides the means of supporting new, compute-intensive enterprise applications by combining the strengths of public and private cloud in a single environment. Delivered effectively hybrid cloud offers the elasticity, scale, and convenience of the public cloud with the assurance, security, and guaranteed performance of on-premise. So far, so good. But both trends, separately and together, are not without their challenges. Barriers to deployment include cultural resistant, cost restraints, interoperability, regulatory demands, and the burden of legacy systems. At this invite-only Tech Monitor roundtable we will convene senior IT leaders from a cross-section of industries to discuss the opportunities and challenges of AI and hybrid cloud – and to explore the possibility and potential of both- in partnership with Lenovo and Intel; “Accelerate the fastest-growing workloads with 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors”. At a time of technological volatility and economic uncertainty, this is an opportunity to hear from subject matter experts and to share your thoughts and insights with industry peers.   Among the topics we will discuss during the evening: – The role of GenAI in your organisation – How to support AI deployment with infrastructure – Workload optimisation: public vs. private cloud – The AI skills gap, and how to fill it – Combatting escalating costs of public cloud – Data residency, sovereign, and safety – Safeguarding cloud interoperability

Tech Monitor’s Roundtable: AI, Cloud, and the Data Centre: The Future of IT in an Age of Uncertainty in partnership with AMD, taking place in Munich on the 2nd July 2025.  

In an era of change – where technological opportunity and geopolitical volatility coexist – the role of the senior IT decision maker is being tested like never before. This is a time of reinvention, most likely to be powered by artificial intelligence (AI). It is also a time of reassessment, where data sovereignty is dictating decisions about digital infrastructure.

To help make sense of the current environment, and to share best practice, Tech Monitor and AMD are inviting a select group of IT executives to a special evening of discussion and exploration. This roundtable dinner is part of a series of events taking place across Europe and the Middle East that put technology practitioners at the heart of the conversation.

During the evening we will explore the obstacles to success and the paths to accomplishment. We will discuss plans for AI, and how organisations intend to underpin experimentation and adoption with the necessary compute power. We will seek to understand what the future of cloud computing looks like and ask whether repatriation to the data centre is now the dominant trend. And we’ll set our discussion against a geopolitical backdrop that is prompting senior leaders to reassess their options.

Among the topics we’ll discuss:

Exploring the extent and limits of AI / GenAI

Managing AI workloads on premise and in the cloud

Overcoming regulatory obstacles

Rethinking cloud computing: The merits of hybrid and multicloud

Data privacy, sovereignty, and resilience

Cost-realisation, TCO and ROI

 

Do join us for what promises to be an engaging and insightful evening in the company of subject matter experts and your peers from a range of industries.

Please note: this event will be conducted in English.

Overview

In an era of rapid technological advancement, Agentic AI has the potential to once again transform finance by enabling autonomous decision-making, optimising efficiency, and unlocking new strategic possibilities.

Join us for this exclusive, invitation-only dinner where Eleanor Matthews, Business Leader for UK, Ireland & Nordics at technology research and advisory leaders, ISG Partners, along with Dr. Alfred Sanders, CFO Forum Practice Lead at Genpact, and Patrick Coleman, Regional VP for Digital Transformation at HighRadius, will share their own insights on strategies for finance leaders to embrace transformative technologies, streamline operations, and harness AI-driven automation for competitive advantage.

Agenda

18.00 Champagne Reception & Networking,

18:30 Guests seated and welcome by Sanjeev Dole, Publisher, FDE

18.50 Keynote presentation and fireside chat

19:35 Break & Networking

20:00 Dinner is served, informal discussion continues

21:25 Closing remarks

21:30 End of briefing & further networking

Thank you for your interest in the 15th Annual International Accounting Forum 2025.

The first ticket category is available exclusively for Accountancy Firms/Networks/Associations only.

The second ticket category is available for Vendor/Service/Solution Providers and any other participants.

The third ticket category is for those who would like to attend the International Accounting Awards.

The fourth ticket category is for those who have confirmed and pre-booked as a sponsor/Exhibitor with our sales team.

The fifth ticket category is for those who have confirmed and pre-booked as a speaker with our Production team.

If you have any enquiries, please contact us at Robert.Stevenson@arena-international.com

We look forward to meeting you at the event!