Reactive Commerce Transformation Journey with Verizon

With today’s growth in web traffic, sticking with legacy technologies and monolithic architectures is no longer an option. Join this webcast to learn about the journey Verizon made to Reactive architecture to transform its commerce platform leading them to double their business and performance results on half the hardware, and remain available and responsive even during a massive product launch

Introducing new technologies into a Fortune 15 company has many challenges. Learn how the team overcame these for a successful launch:
• A natural aversion to risk and experimentation, when an existing solution is perceived to be working.
• The need to understand and educate developers, operations and management on a completely different paradigm for architecting systems and writing code.
• Inevitably falling into the many traps and anti-patterns that come with adopting reactive technologies
• Moving towards a DevOps approach for delivering software with tighter integration between development and operations teams

In this session speakers will talk about about the key drivers leading to the wireless dotcom’s move to Reactive technologies using Play and Akka. They will also discuss how these new technologies were introduced in Verizon Wireless, including lessons learned along their implementation journey.

Speakers:

Neeraj Garg, Director, Digital Sales at Verizon
Neeraj is championing the Digital Transformation at Verizon Wireless by driving change in Process, Culture, Operations and Technology. Multi-disciplined executive with strong academic credentials coupled with 10+ years of experience in senior leadership roles, Neeraj has solid track record in leading transformational projects. His recent accomplishment includes delivering entirely new mobile experience for Verizon Wireless which has skyrocketed both sales and channel mix for mobile platforms. He has solidly positioned digital channels in sales mix by increasing customer loyalty & NPS, improving customer experience , growing revenues while controlling costs by technology migration and increasing productivity.

Shashidhar Hiremath, Associate Director at Verizon
Shashi is seasoned technology leader focused on driving Digital Architecture, Stratergy & Innovation at Verizon. Expertise in designing & building high scalable & perfoming cloud solutions , innovations & machine Learning technologies.

Saurabh Raisinghani, Senior Director Technology, SapientRazorfish
Saurabh leads the cloud native commerce practice for SapientRazorfish. He is a passionate technologist, with deep expertise in cloud native commerce solutions for several Fortune 500 companies. Saurabh was directly involved in the telecommunications company's Reactive architecture rollout, and will discuss the experiences and results