Webinar: Accelerating App Modernization: Balancing Agility, Innovation, and Security by Techstrong Learning

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Accelerating App Modernization: Balancing Agility, Innovation, and Security

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Modernizing applications has become essential for businesses seeking to enhance agility, scalability, and cost efficiency in today’s competitive landscape. By transitioning from monolithic architectures to microservices-based designs in cloud environments, organizations can unlock new levels of flexibility and performance. Coupled with AI and other cloud-based services, modernized apps can deliver richer, more engaging user experiences.

However, as the pace of app modernization increases, so do the associated challenges. The integration of AI models, third-party APIs, and cloud services often expands the attack surface of applications, leaving them vulnerable to evolving security threats. Organizations must find effective strategies to protect their apps without compromising performance, scalability, or innovation.

Join us for a live panel discussion in the latest episode of The Last Great Cloud Transformation series, where industry experts will share actionable insights, real-world experiences, and practical guidance to help your organization modernize with confidence.

Presenters

Amanda Scheldt

Cybersecurity Writer and Webinar Host

Amanda Scheldt is a cybersecurity writer with an extensive background in cybersecurity research, threat intelligence, national security intelligence, and security awareness training. She has a Masters of Science in Cybersecurity from Webster University. Amanda combines her past industry expertise along with a passion for writing to promote more awareness and education in cybersecurity.

Mitch Ashley

VP and Practice Lead, DevOps and AppDev - The Futurum Group

Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead of DevOps and Application Development for The Futurum Group. Mitch has over 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, industry analyst, product development, and IT leader, with deep expertise in software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, and AI. An in-demand CTO, CIO, engineering, and DevOps leader, Mitch has the pulse on the latest in software engineering, including the AI's impact in development, testing and security, cloud-native architecture, application and software supply chain security, platform engineering, ITOps, SecOps, AIOps, and DataOps. In his career, Mitch has brought to market multiple industry-impacting software-based products, including cybersecurity products, SaaS applications, Internet services, large telecommunications and financial applications, mobile applications, managed PKI services, and broadband networks. At Futurum, Mitch advises and guides leaders in delivering contemporary and next-generation software and security strategies critical to their business strategies.

Tracy Ragen

Creator & CEO - DeployHub

Tracy is CEO and Co-Founder of DeployHub. DeployHub is the first microservice catalog designed to facilitate the sharing, relationship mapping and versioning of microservices. Tracy is expert in configuration management and pipeline life cycle practices with a hyper focus on microservices and cloud native architecture. She currently serves as a board member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) where she is the elected General Member Representative. Tracy is a recognized evangelist in microservices and the continuous delivery pipeline. She is the creator of the Continuous Delivery Foundation Interactive Landscape, a blog contributor for the CDF and speaks at many DevOps events such as KubeCon and DevOpsWorld. Tracy is also a DevOps Institute Ambassador and speaks at AWS Marketplace webinar educational events.

Johnny Halife

CTO - SOUTHWORKS

Johnny Halife is the Chief Technology Officer at SOUTHWORKS, the software engineering partner with an action-first approach designed to take you from zero to sixty better than anyone else. With over 20 years of experience in the IT software and services industry, Johnny leads and delivers cloud engineering projects for clients across various sectors and regions, including Microsoft, BBC, 7-Eleven, SAP, Ubisoft, and many others.

Outside of his leadership role at SOUTHWORKS, Johnny is the founder of MURAL, a San Francisco-based startup that enables teams to collaborate visually and creatively. He served as the chief technology officer of MURAL from 2012 to 2017, overseeing product development and innovation. Johnny is passionate about design thinking, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurship, and has mentored and coached several startups and organizations, such as Startup Weekend, Microsoft Azure Accelerator, and IDEO U.

Saikrishna Chavali

Senior Product Marketing Manager - cloudflare

Saikrishna (Sai) Chavali has a decade of experience building and growing application security testing, data loss prevention, and cloud security products. He's had product management and product marketing stints at Veracode, CA Technologies and Proofpoint.