Unlocking Agility: Warner Hotels Shift to a On-Demand Network Infrastructure with Alkira – Industry Keynote
Join Warner Hotels’ Madoc Batters, Head of Cloud and IT Security and Alkira’s CTO and Co-Founder, Atif Khan as they explore how Warner Hotels redefined their network infrastructure by embracing a cloud-first strategy. You’ll hear how they achieved unprecedented flexibility, faster deployment times, and significant cost savings. Then, take a deep dive into their journey of overcoming legacy limitations to build a modern, scalable network, setting new standards in the hospitality industry.
Atif Khan is a renowned routing expert with extensive experience bringing ground-breaking networking solutions to market and in architecting some of the largest and most sophisticated global networks. He is responsible for Alkira’s technology vision and overall engineering and product development of the Alkira Cloud Networking platform. Atif was VP Technology and Solutions, and a founding team member at Viptela, where he developed a world-class, cloud-first, highly scalable SD-WAN solution with advanced routing, segmentation, and security capabilities. Following the Viptela acquisition, Atif was Senior Director of the Enterprise Networking Business at Cisco. Prior to Viptela he held senior positions at Alcatel, Huawei and Juniper Networks and holds 7 patents in routing, security and overlay multicast. Atif received a BS in Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Madoc Batters is currently Head of Cloud and Information Technology Security at Warner Leisure Hotels.
