Webinar: Modernization That Ships with AI by Techstrong Learning

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Modernization That Ships with AI

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Key Takeaways:
1. Why adding agents on top of legacy systems often preserves the bottlenecks enterprises are trying to eliminate.
2. How to identify the applications, data, workflows, and dependencies that must be modernized before agentic use cases can scale.
3. How AI agents can accelerate discovery, mapping, validation, test generation, and repetitive modernization work.
4. Where experienced engineers must retain ownership of architecture, judgment, risk, and cutover.
5. How to progress from assessment to a sequenced cloud modernization plan and then into agentic execution.
6. How to reduce reliance on internal engineering capacity while moving modernization and AI initiatives into production.

When

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 · 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -4:00)

Presenters

Jared Harris

Webinar Host

Bal Heroor

CEO & Senior Principal Consultant - Mactores Cognition, Inc.

Founded Mactores in 2008 and built it into a 200+ customer enterprise services company — bootstrapped, profitable through every cycle, and scaled from India to the United States.

Mactores is an AWS Premier Partner delivering large-scale systems, data platform, and AI engineering for enterprises including DocuSign, The New York Times, Seagate, Poshmark, American Electric Power, and USANA Health Sciences. The team stayed deliberately lean — revenue tripled without headcount tripling — because we automated our own delivery long before AI made that fashionable.

Eighteen years of sitting across the table from CIOs, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering at 200+ enterprises is the demand signal Aedeon is built on.

Tom Hollingsworth

Event Lead - Tech Field Day

Tom Hollingsworth, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day events series. He also writes about networking and related technolgies on his blog. With over 18 years of experience in the IT field, Tom has covered the breadth of technology from desktop deployment to data center installation. He brings his unique perspective to his writing both on his blog and at Network Computing. Tom can also be found prognosticating and commenting about technology from his Twitter account.

Alastair Cooke

Research Director, Cloud and Data Center - The Futurum Group

Alastair has made a twenty-year career out of helping people understand complex IT infrastructure and how to build solutions that fulfill business needs. Much of his career has included teaching official training courses for vendors, including HPE, VMware, and AWS.
Alastair has written hundreds of analyst articles and papers exploring products and topics around on-premises infrastructure and virtualization and getting the most out of public cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Alastair has also been involved in community-driven, practitioner-led education through the vBrownBag podcast and the vBrownBag TechTalks.