The TRUE Innovation series features technology and innovation solutions to common business problems. See how innovative companies are solving their business challenges and leverage their efforts to accelerate your implementations by joining this live, complimentary session over Zoom. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions. This series is brought to you by TRUE, Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) and Entrepreneurs Sandbox.

EVENT OVERVIEW

When it comes to developing a pragmatic infrastructure and cloud strategy, there are key areas to address:

• How do you shift from legacy systems to embrace future needs?
• How do you design for uncertainty?
• What cloud strategies and options should you consider?

Join Gartner Analyst, David J. Cappuccio, Chief of Research for Infrastructure , responsible for research in enterprise data center strategies and trends, data center cloud and hybrid strategies and data center consolidation and migration strategies, answer these key questions and share emerging infrastructure trends and strategies.

New Speaker: Richard Zheng, President of Servpac, a local Telecom and IT solutions provider, will share trends he sees in Hawaii business' adoption of the cloud and how flexibility is a key component to designing a strategy. He will also share how he leverages expertise from Gartner as he prepares his organization to meet the changing needs of customers.

AGENDA

• 10:00 AM - Welcome and Introductions
• 10:05 AM - A Pragmatic Infrastructure and Cloud Strategy with David Cappuccio
• 10:45 AM - Hawaii's adoption of cloud solutions
• 11:55 AM - Q&A

Please register by Wednesday, November 11 at 5:00 PM (HST). After registration closes, we will send a Zoom link to all registered participants.

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500. We equip business and IT leaders with indispensable insights, advice and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities today and build the successful organizations of tomorrow.

Our unmatched combination of expert-led, practitioner-sourced and data-driven research steers clients toward the right decisions on the issues that matter most. We are a trusted advisor and an objective resource for more than 15,000 organizations in more than 100 countries — across all major functions, in every industry and enterprise size.

To learn more about how we help decision makers fuel the future of business, visit gartner.com.

Servpac is Hawaii’s Largest Independent Telecom. A privately held CLEC, we have been delivering next generation VoIP telephone, Fiber Internet, and private Cloud solutions for Hawaii businesses since 2004. We specialize in integrating VOIP business phones, high speed Internet, and secure Cloud computing into a single, seamless platform, enabling customers to compete more cost efficient in the global marketplace. Servpac is one of select few companies who are authorized and capable to lay cables ourselves. We are actively deploying fiber on Oahu’s Windward and South Shore. Because we’re local, we understand the unique challenges of providing first class telecom services throughout the Islands. Our support is 100% local and lives in the local community. As a matter of fact, 100% of our support engineers graduated from a local college on Oahu. Being the largest locally based telecommunications company in Hawaii, we have the size and capability to bring the latest telecom technology to companies of any size.

ABOUT TRUE

TRUE is an initiative of the Hawaii Executive Collaborative, supporting the CHANGE Framework and Movement. Driven by a partnership between the private, public sectors and the State of Hawaii, TRUE aims to create tech-enabled jobs by accelerating the adoption of technology. TRUE accomplishes this through collaboration and sharing of solutions to common business challenges, in turn creating more resilient companies and a thriving Hawaii. www.hec.org/true

Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) is a state agency under the State of Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. Our mission is to diversify Hawaii's economy by developing a flourishing technology industry that provides quality, high-paying jobs for Hawaii residents. www.htdc.org

The Entrepreneurs Sandbox is a co-working facility in Kaka'ako, owned by HTDC and managed by BoxJelly. As the "front door to innovation", our mission is to bring together change agents in Hawaii to enable transformation for a more dynamic Hawaii through technology and entrepreneurship. www.sandboxhawaii.org