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The future of tech infrastructure: A new paradigm for enterprise resilience
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 12:00 p.m. ET

Virtual - Dbriefs

CPE credits | Event language: English

21 Oct. 2026

Wednesday, 12:00 p.m. ET | 1 Hr.

The future of tech infrastructure: A new paradigm for enterprise resilience

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Technology Executives

Participants will identify the major shifts reshaping technology infrastructure and evaluate approaches to modernize without creating constraints that limit future flexibility

Host:
Diana Kearns-Manolatos, Firm Enterprise Solutions associate director, subject matter specialist, Center for Integrated Research

Presenters:
Ram Ravi, Managing director, Strategy, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Chris Thomas, Principal | Hybrid cloud infrastructure offering leader | Deloitte Consulting LLP
Iram Parveen, Specialist Assistant Manager, Center for Integrated Research​, Deloitte Support Services India Private Limited​

1 Overview CPE credit | Information Technology

Kay takeaways

Join Deloitte specialists as they discuss findings from Deloitte’s three-part research series on the future of tech infrastructure, exploring how modernization happening layer by layer—without coordination—can create constraints that limit what enterprises can do next. We’ll discuss:

  • The four shifts reshaping compute, coordination, interaction, and trust across the tech stack
  • How “architected disadvantage” takes hold through a series of well-intentioned, uncoordinated modernization choices
  • Practical considerations for designing systems that remain adaptable as artificial intelligence agents, real-world interfaces, and quantum computing advance

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Diana Kearns-Manolatos

Diana Kearns-Manolatos

Deloitte - Global
Diana Kearns-Manolatos is a senior manager with Deloitte Services LP’s Center for Integrated Research, where she leads Deloitte’s global research on digital transformation. She is based in New York, United States.
Ram Ravi

Ram Ravi

Deloitte - United States
Ram Ravi is a managing director in Deloitte’s strategy practice and a Deloitte-certified chief architect. With more than 20 years of technology consulting experience, he coleads the technology architecture and platforms practice. Ravi’s expertise encompasses transforming and optimizing energy, utilities, and cross-sector organizations by leveraging AI and GAI, cloud, and digital technologies. He excels in orchestrating complex tech-enabled business transformations and is adept at enhancing tech estates’ resilience, agility, and stability using enterprise architecture practices. His wide-ranging experience includes advising clients on IT strategy, technology architecture and engineering, IT operations, IT cost-effectiveness, agile transformation, and transformation program management. Ravi regularly shares his insights at trade and industry conferences. He is based in Nashville, United States.
Chris Thomas

Chris Thomas

Deloitte - Global
Chris Thomas is a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP and serves as Deloitte’s hybrid cloud infrastructure offering leader. He has close to 25 years of global, cross-industry experience in strategy consulting and transformation in the hybrid cloud and AI data center and core technology infrastructure domains. Thomas has shaped and implemented large-scale technology transformations, cloud-centric operating models, strategic cost optimizations, global outsourcing programs, and workforce-of-the-future initiatives. He is based in Chicago, United States.