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Accelerating Migration and Modernization in Financial Services - BRK368

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Overview

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Explore how financial services organizations can accelerate their cloud transformation journeys through Microsoft's Cloud Accelerate Factory (CAF) in this 44-minute breakout session from Microsoft Ignite 2025. Discover how CAF streamlines migrations, modernizes legacy applications, and deploys scalable solutions including Azure Arc and AI-powered monitoring to drive agility, resilience, and innovation across financial organizations' technology estates. Learn about Microsoft's two-part approach focusing on both innovation and implementation support, with hands-on, zero-cost, scalable delivery methods. Examine how AI adoption serves as a common solution across industry challenges and understand the transformative role of agentic AI in modernization economics and speed. Gain insights into the distinction between migration and re-architecture roles of AI agents in modernization processes, and discover what these advancements mean for the future of financial services. The session includes audience polling focused on the financial services industry and concludes with recommendations for reassessing modernization assumptions while embracing agentic automation. Presented by speakers Pradeep Raman and Jesse Sheldon, this intermediate-level session provides practical guidance for accelerating cloud journey implementation in financial services environments.

Syllabus

0:00 - Audience Poll and Focus on Financial Services Industry
00:06:30 - AI Adoption as the Common Solution Across Challenges
00:10:14 - Introduction: Transforming Business and Microsoft's Partnership Approach
00:10:31 - Microsoft’s Two-Part Focus: Innovation and Implementation Support
00:18:30 - Cloud Accelerate Factory Benefits: Hands-On, Zero-Cost, Scalable Delivery
00:21:28 - Introduction to acceleration of cloud journey
00:31:36 - Closing summary urging reassessment of modernization assumptions and embracing agentic automation
00:32:12 - Introduction to agentic AI transforming modernization economics and speed
00:41:02 - Clarifying migration vs. re-architecture roles of AI agents in modernization

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