PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS EXCHANGE: TECHNICAL DEBT, LEGACY MODERNIZATION & ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE CHALLENGES (Wednesday, June 24, 2026)

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:30:00 GMT

As organizations continue to invest in cloud, digital transformation, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies, many remain constrained by aging applications, complex technology stacks, legacy infrastructure, and years of accumulated technical debt. While modernization initiatives are often viewed as strategic priorities, balancing innovation with the realities of maintaining business-critical systems remains a significant challenge for technology leaders.

At the same time, increasing demands for agility, scalability, security, integration, and operational efficiency are placing additional pressure on enterprise architecture and technology teams. Organizations are evaluating how best to modernize legacy environments, rationalize application portfolios, reduce technical complexity, manage modernization risk, and align technology investments with long-term business objectives while continuing to support day-to-day operations.

In this highly interactive, member-driven working session, the event moderators will facilitate a structured, open exchange where all attendees are expected to actively contribute to the group conversation - sharing what is working, what is not, and to engage in a candid, group problem-solving dialogue around the most pressing challenges facing technical debt, modernization, and enterprise architecture initiatives.

Please Note: This is not a passive event. Throughout the event, all attendees are expected to actively participate in the discussion and contribute real-world challenges and solutions.

Topics of discussion will include, yet will not be limited to:

Identifying, measuring, and prioritizing technical debt across complex technology environments
Legacy modernization strategies, approaches, lessons learned, and common pitfalls
Application portfolio rationalization and reducing unnecessary technology complexity
Balancing modernization initiatives with ongoing operational, security, and business requirements
Modernization approaches involving cloud migration, re-platforming, refactoring, and system replacement
Enterprise architecture strategies for improving scalability, agility, maintainability, and long-term technology sustainability

Moderator: Jay Dhar, AI & Process Transformation Leader & Architect, U.S. BANK

Moderator: Sudipta Dey, Cloud Infrastructure Modernization Lead, ELSEVIER

Moderator: Sai Krishnan Mohan, Vice President, Data & Analytics, BAJAJ AUTO

Moderator: Ezhil Vendhan, Former APAC Director & Head of Enterprise Data Strategy & Platform Transformation, HSBC

ENTERPRISE TECH EXCHANGE PODCAST: ENTERPRISE FRAUD, TRUST & THE EVOLVING IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Thursday, June 25, 2026)

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT

An Unfiltered Conversation with Enterprise Technology Leaders

An “Open Network” public virtual event, hosted by the IA FORUM.

Presented by Doug Shannon, in association with the IA FORUM

About this Podcast

As fraud tactics continue to evolve alongside advances in artificial intelligence, organizations are facing new challenges around trust, identity verification, risk management, and fraud prevention. In this candid discussion, Doug Shannon and SriHarsha Pushkala will explore how enterprise leaders are navigating the rapidly changing fraud landscape, the opportunities and risks AI is introducing, emerging threat trends, and practical strategies organizations are implementing to strengthen fraud detection, prevention, and trust across the enterprise.

About the Podcast Series

Enterprise AI and technology leaders are navigating one of the most significant technology shifts in modern business history. Yet behind the headlines, product announcements, and market hype are the real-world experiences of the executives, architects, engineers, and transformation leaders responsible for operationalizing these technologies inside complex enterprise environments.

The Enterprise Tech Exchange podcast series, hosted by Doug Shannon, in association with the IA FORUM, was created to provide a candid, in-depth, and conversational look into how enterprise leaders are approaching AI, automation, data, infrastructure modernization, governance, organizational change, and large-scale transformation initiatives in real-world production environments. Each podcast features an in-depth one-on-one conversation between Doug Shannon - an IA FORUM Advisory Board and community member who’s also a globally recognized top thought leader in the space - and a featured IA FORUM member speaker.

Throughout each podcast discussion, the conversation will explore the featured guest’s professional background, technical expertise, leadership perspectives, enterprise challenges, lessons learned, industry observations, and strategic outlook on a given technology industry topic - as Doug Shannon also digs deeper by providing his insights throughout the candid conversation.

Host: Doug Shannon, Global Intelligent Automation & GenAI Thought Leader & Global Intelligent Automation Manager, GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

IA FORUM Member Guest Speaker: SriHarsha Pushkala, Director, Fraud Strategy & Analytics, ATLANTICUS

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Who Can Attend

Attendance is open to all IA FORUM members, their internal and external colleagues, peers, professional contacts, and industry friends - as well as other technology and business professionals interested in the featured topic.

Please Note: This podcast series is open to IA FORUM members, yet also to the public - and will take place live as scheduled IA FORUM events - in turn being video-recorded for ongoing distribution through the IA FORUM’s public YouTube channel, IA FORUM Magazine, and related promotional platforms. To maintain the integrity and production quality of the recording, attendees will not be permitted to appear on camera or actively participate during the live broadcasts.

IA FORUM upcoming events

PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS EXCHANGE: TECHNICAL DEBT, LEGACY MODERNIZATION & ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE CHALLENGES (Wednesday, June 24, 2026)

ENTERPRISE TECH EXCHANGE PODCAST: ENTERPRISE FRAUD, TRUST & THE EVOLVING IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Thursday, June 25, 2026)