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Driving business value from Azure cloud in 2025 

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Identify and prioritise business-value with your cloud roadmap in 2025

Join Version 1’s Azure cloud experts as they dissect the root cause of many organisations’ struggle to realise tangible business value from cloud investment in 2025. Understand the historical decisions that have led many to this point, and more importantly, gain actionable advice to help you pivot cloud roadmap to drive revenue, solve inefficiencies, and open new routes to market this year.

Key takeaways

  • Framing the problem: Understand how cloud investment strategies driven by technical efficiencies and fear of missing out, have led to a disconnect from tangible “business value”
  • Turning the ship: Learn in the context of real-world examples and technologies, how to realign your cloud roadmap to drive business revenue, solve inefficiencies and open new routes to market
  • Making a plan: Learn from SMEs, with decades of Azure cloud experience, actionable strategies and next steps to help your organisation get more out of its investment

Who should attend?

Technical leaders – In this session you will learn best practice for smarter integration of your technology roadmap with organisational goals and outcomes with tangible business value

Commercial leaders – In this session you will learn how to reframe Cloud adoption, from a technology expense, to a driver of business value

Meet the speakers

Alex Montgomery – Monty has spent 20+ years in the technology industry, including 15 years at Microsoft across product, partner, sales and strategy roles. Throughout his career, Monty has worked with a wide range of technologies, across various industries helping drive customer value through data-centric intelligent solutions and business applications.

Rukaya Ogazi-Khan – Rukaya is an Azure Cloud Architect with a particular emphasis and passion for Cloud, DevOps and Artificial Intelligence.  She has 5+ years experience in leading teams in the design and implementation of cloud technologies and has brought a range of products to live service successful.