Startups, scaleups do you know how to architect the cloud for your growth phases? Managed services or do it yourself? Proprietary or open standards solutions? Start simply and then rearchitect or build for the future from the start? What about hybrid cloud and multi cloud options as well as backup and disaster recovery? Get answers to these and other questions at this panel of cloud experts and startups.
Cloud solutions provide huge flexibility, scalability and cost savings for startups and scaleups but they are not always simple to manage, especially through the different startup growth phases. Do you choose from managed services or do it yourself? Do you choose proprietary solutions or open standards solutions? Do you start simply and then rearchitect or build for the future from the start? What about hybrid cloud and multi cloud options as well as backup and disaster recovery? Get answers to these and other questions at this panel session.
Key learning points:
- How to manage the cloud through the various stages of startup growth
- What cloud solutions will work best with your use case
- Whether to start simply and then rearchitect or build for the future from the start
Agenda:
- Introduction from the Silicon Roundabout Team
- Event Sponsor Introduction by Philip Marais, OVHcloud Startup Program Leader – Northern Europe
- Followed by a panel discussion with: OVHcloud team Member, Early stage startup Founder and CEO of Fidsy and Later stage startup team member, moderated by Philip Marais.
- Followed by Q&A with guests (startup audience)
Panel Information:
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- Samson Son, Product Marketing Manager, Public Cloud, OVHcloud
- Yigit Erol, Founder and CEO, Fidsy (early-stage Startup Program member)
- Gus Barrett, Director, Virso (cloud management platform & Startup Program member)
- Later-stage Startup Program member alumnus
- Philip Marais, Startup Program Leader – Northern Europe, OVHcloud
Guest speaker bio:
Philip Marais, Startup Program Leader – Northern Europe, OVHcloud: Philip has been working with startups for the last 20 years within the VC, technology transfer and business incubation industries. He has accreditation as a mentor and business coach and currently leads the OVHcloud Startup Program in Northern Europe. OVHcloud is a leading European hyperscaler and pure-play cloud provider.
Gustav Barrett, Operations Director - ViRSO group of companies: Veteran technologist in Cloud, IT, Telco, Internet Services in B2B sectors, delivering services to B2B or B2C customers. Export Africa trade award two consecutive years in a row, Dell EMC (VMware) partner, 3 years consecutively. Making complex development & service integration systems, more affordable and automated, with AI and RPA (Robotic Process Automation). Architecting, Secured -Multi-Cloud and Multi-Site Automation, wrapped in Standards Based Data Governance, delivered in Multi-Geo - BCDR (Business Continuity-Disaster Recovery).
Yigit Erol, Founder and CEO - Fidsy: With a background of Computer Engineering and Engineering Management, Yigit has spent his professional career of over 17 years specializing in cross platform software development, digital transformation, targeted marketing, content optimization, business intelligence and data analytics. He has worked within developer, lead, architect and management roles and currently is getting his 3rd start-up off the ground focusing on conversational business intelligence with AI and NLP.
Samson Son: Samson is a Product Marketing Manager for Public Cloud at OVHcloud. He has strong architecture knowledge and helps companies with their cloud journeys. Oh! And he also has a YouTube channel dedicated to explaining IT!
Ahmet Oguz Mermerkaya, Co-founder of Ant Media & Head of Development: Oguz worked as a software developer in various defence industry projects (Gun Systems, Electronic warfare, Cryptography, etc.). After spending some years in the defence industry, he was looking for a new challenge and decided to co-found Ant Media. Oguz has written two books about Android Application Development and HTML5 & CSS3.
