According to Forrester’s Business Priorities Survey, 2023, 60% of government organisations across the Asia Pacific region are increasing investment in sovereign cloud capacity, sovereign data protection and self-sovereign digital identity initiatives. But do these investments really deliver the robust digitally enabled society that is being demanded by citizens? Given the fragility exposed in globalised supply chains during the COVID19 pandemic, ongoing economic turmoil and rising geopolitically drive trade tensions achieving true digital sovereignty may be necessary but it is not easy. It requires more than just having multinational cloud providers deploying their technology in onshore data centers, or implementing regulations regarding the internet, data protection, cybersecurity, and other aspects of the digital world that can’t be enforced unilaterally. It extends to national policies that support domestic digital innovation and growth, while also engaging in international efforts to establish common standards and best practices for use of existing and emerging technologies.
Join this webinar commissioned by Red Hat, where our guest speaker, Forrester’s Principal Analyst, Sam Higgins, will share the latest insights from Forrester’s Priorities Survey, 2023, and the increasing desire of public sector agencies world-wide to leverage technologies in a way that addresses the citizen demand from their governments to digitize services and yet protect their digital sovereignty. During this interactive session Red Hat’s APAC Chief Field Technologist for APAC, Vincent Caldeira will provide his observations and reflections on these trends. Vincent will then invite Colin Gniel, Federal Government Director, Microsoft, Australia to join a panel discussion exploring how Red Hat is addressing the needs of government agencies in delivery of digital sovereign outcomes.
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Sam Higgins
Principal Analyst, Forrester
SamHiggins is a Principal Analyst at Forrester. Sam’s professional engagements in the private sector, as well as the state and federal government, assist him in addressing the unique technology challenges found in diverse industries such as financial services, healthcare, education, transportation, and mining. Sam's research focuses on business and IT alignment, CMO and CIO collaboration, and the employee experience for IT teams and technology leaders, as well as local and regional adoption of emerging technology and digital transformation. With more than 20 years of strategic and tactical experience in the application of information and communications technology (ICT), Sam helps achieve modern digital business outcomes for large, complex organizations.
Colin Gniel
Federal Government Director, Microsoft, Australia
Colin Gniel is the Federal Government Director at Microsoft. In this role, Colin leads the Microsoft business in Canberra and is responsible for all aspects of the business engagement with the Federal Government. He has extensive experience in the Public Sector, having worked with Governments in Australia and across the broader Asia Pacific region. Colin has spent most of his professional career engaging on how technology can enable Governments to deliver improved services and have a real impact on the lives of their citizens, businesses and overall economic prosperity.
Vincent Caldeira
Senior Director Field CTO, Red Hat APAC
Vincent Caldeira is Field CTO, APAC at Red Hat. In this role, he is primarily responsible for engaging and building partnerships with strategic customers to explain Red Hat’s vision and establish and reinforce Red Hat as an industry leader while establishing trusted relationships with customer's technology leaders and advocating for relevant emerging technologies. Vincent has spent more than 20 years of his career in the financial technology sector, both as a Chief Technology Officer shaping technology strategy, enterprise architecture and driving technology transformation roadmaps, as well as driving talented engineering teams to design, build and deliver software solutions in the financial software vendor industry. Vincent also contributes to OS-Climate, a Linux Foundation-backed open source project that intends to build the breakthrough technology and data platforms needed to more fully integrate the impacts of climate change in global financial decision-making and risk management, where he acts as the lead architect and Technical Advisory Council member.
Girija Balasubramanian
Director - Enterprise Public Sector, APAC Red Hat
Girija Balasubramanian is Director, Enterprise Public Sector, Government Healthcare and Education, APAC at Red Hat. Girija is a seasoned people leader who has more than 22 years of experience leading Sales, Business Development, Customer success and emerging technology teams across multiple organizations in Asia Pacific. Girija has successfully led prime departments of leading organizations like Hewlett Packard, and others. As a people’s manager she is experienced in leading large team sizes across different geographies.
Girija comes from an entrepreneurial background where she has helped built and successfully scale Next-Gen startups in building service models and new revenue streams. Her past success has been driven towards transforming and optimizing sizable IT delivery operations and improving organization, and team performances by adopting / implementing devised disruptive strategies.
