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.