Most enterprises have spent years moving to the cloud — and many are still mid-journey. Now AI is raising the bar again, demanding changes that go far beyond compute power: real-time data availability, new platform architectures, rethought security models, and infrastructure that doesn't just run workloads but enables learning at scale.
In this keynote, Alwin Penner — Global Head of Cloud at adesso, one of Europe's largest IT service providers — draws on hundreds of enterprise IT transformations to answer the question every CIO and CTO now faces: What must actually change in my IT landscape when AI moves from experimentation to core capability?
He explores why migration today is no longer about moving data but about making contextual intelligence accessible — why legacy systems must stop being silos and start becoming skills for autonomous agents — and what IT leaders can learn from the cloud era, and where they need to think entirely differently.
A practical compass for CIOs, CTOs, and IT leaders who want to build infrastructure that is not just cloud-ready, but AI-ready.
