We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming Cloud Architect Alliance Dinner event dedicated exclusively to professionals like you! Together, we will explore the role of the future Cloud Architect, focusing on the mix of technical skills and the ability to engage with business to drive innovation. We’ll address essential questions to define the role: What defines a future Cloud Architect today and in the future? What skills and behaviors are critical for success in this role?
Date: June 26th, 2025
Time: 16:00 – 23:00
Watch out for our more details soon.
We invite you to join us at Restaurant Dauphine for an interactive session followed by a networking reception. As part of our commitment to sustainability, we will be serving a vegetarian meal to reduce our environmental impact and support a more sustainable food system.
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Speakers
Annika Garbers
Eelko Lommers, a renowned expert in design, sustainability, and innovation. With his wealth of experience at IKEA, Eelko will share a captivating story that unveils the transformative power of design, innovation, and technology in addressing pressing environmental challenges.
Discover how IKEA leverages cloud technology to define human-centered services and operations, promoting circularity, efficiency, and profitability. Gain insights into their data processing techniques, connecting global to local repositories, and learn how sustainable practices drive their decision-making.
Annika Garbers
Annika Garbers, Product Manager at Cloudflare, is leading Cloudflare’s sustainability initiatives. Annika is responsible for their Climate Impact Report, where they incorporate actions to contribute to a more sustainable internet. Through their report, Cloudflare showcases their commitment to advancing their mission, making a positive impact on billions of internet users worldwide.
Annika Garbers
Eelko Lommers, a renowned expert in design, sustainability, and innovation. With his wealth of experience at IKEA, Eelko will share a captivating story that unveils the transformative power of design, innovation, and technology in addressing pressing environmental challenges.
Discover how IKEA leverages cloud technology to define human-centered services and operations, promoting circularity, efficiency, and profitability. Gain insights into their data processing techniques, connecting global to local repositories, and learn how sustainable practices drive their decision-making.
Annika Garbers
Annika Garbers, Product Manager at Cloudflare, is leading Cloudflare’s sustainability initiatives. Annika is responsible for their Climate Impact Report, where they incorporate actions to contribute to a more sustainable internet. Through their report, Cloudflare showcases their commitment to advancing their mission, making a positive impact on billions of internet users worldwide.
Marjolein Pilon
Marjolein Pilon has developed several workshops in how to reduce the carbon footprint of your IT organization. Marjolein’s talk will inspire you to tackle the challenge of reducing the carbon footprint of IT. Drawing from her experience at Rabobank, she will share her journey of raising climate awareness and carbon efficiency in Scrum teams.
Through interactive discussions, Marjolein will explore the “greening” of IT and guide participants in defining actionable steps towards achieving carbon efficiency in their IT environments.
Sebastiaan van der Meer
Sebastiaan van der Meer, Global Solution Architect at Trend Micro, will discuss the concept of designing carbon-neutral cloud solutions. Join him as he explores how we can demonstrate the sustainability of moving to the public cloud. Sebastiaan will focus on the Well-Architected Framework and its role in providing evidence of the quality of cloud deployments, highlighting the challenges of integrating sustainability into existing controls.
Gerrit Ouderkerken
Gerrit Ouderkerken, board member of the Strategy Council at the National Coalition for Sustainable Digitalization, will educate you on the ecological impact of data storage. Discover the importance of a national approach to minimize the environmental footprint of digital systems. As a director at NetApp, Gerrit’s knowledge of driving sustainability through efficiency and optimization will provide valuable insights for shaping a more sustainable future
Program
Time | Session |
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16:00 – 17:00 | Walk-in with bubbles |
17:00 – 17:05 | Official welcome Bart Veldhuis & Freek Beemster |
17:05 – 17:35 | Unlocking Sustainability: How IKEA Leverages Cloud Technology for Human-Centered Services and Operations Eelko Lommers, IKEA |
17:35 – 18:15 | Starter |
18:15 – 18:30 | The Planet as a Stakeholder Marolein Pilon, The Agile Playground |
18:30 – 19:20 | Appetizer + Mini Workshop: The Planet as a Stakeholder |
19:20 – 19:50 | Minimizing the Environmental Footprint: The Ecological Impact of Data Storage Gerrit Ouderkerken, National Coalition for Sustainable Digitalization |
19:50 – 20:50 | Main course |
20:50 – 21:20 | Designing Carbon-Neutral Cloud Solutions: Demonstrating Sustainability in Public Cloud Deployments Sebastiaan van der Meer, Trend Micro |
21:20 – 21:55 | Dessert & coffee |
21:55 – 22:25 | Building a Sustainable Internet: Insights from Cloudflare’s Climate Impact Report Annika Garbers, Cloudflare |
22:25 – 22:40 | Closing word Bart Veldhuis & Freek Beemster |
22:40 – | Drinks and networking |
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