May 22, 2018
The Big Cloud Debate: Public vs Private
Debate Moderators:
Monica Graham, Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer
Brent Burgess, Head of Digital Technology, IAG
Tim Otton, Head of Cloud Platforms, Telstra
Michael Ewald, Executive Manager, (Large Financial Institution)
Public Cloud Debate Team:
Rory Chatterton, Lead DevOps Consultant, Contino (AWS SME)
Anthony Leverington, Country Manager, NGINX
Phoebe Goh, Cloud Architect, NetApp
Natalie Piucco, Google Cloud SME, Google
Private Cloud Debate Team:
Danny Elmarji, Director of Systems Engineering, DELL EMC
David Lloyd, Solutions Architect, VMware
Dirk De Vos, Technical Manager, ANZ, Pure Storage
Chris Gascoigne, Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco
Format:
8 Rounds
Each Round: 30 second huddle, followed by 2min for each team, followed by 2min back and forth
End of Each Round an Audience Vote
Some Audience Questions accepted throughout the debate.
At the end of the night the team that wins the most rounds wins the debate