Roundtable

Application Delivery, Secured at the Edge: Protecting and Scaling Your Business

3 June 2026 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST
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Data-driven.
People first.
Executive Engagement.

Is your application delivery infrastructure ready to scale securely across partners, regions, and clouds?

Enterprise application ecosystems are growing in complexity—spanning multiple clouds, partner networks, and edge locations. Yet many organizations still rely on manually assembled or fragmented application delivery environments that create security gaps, slow partner onboarding, and increase operational overhead.

Modern application delivery demands more than point solutions. It requires validated, production-tested architectures that integrate secure networking, edge compute, and enterprise-grade application services into a unified framework.

Join peers and industry leaders to discuss how organizations can accelerate partner connectivity, strengthen edge security, and simplify operations across hybrid environments. Together, we’ll take a look at blueprints for secure and scalable application delivery.

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GDS Roundtable Environment with host, Jade
GDS Roundtable Environment with host, Ben

Speakers &
Featured Attendees

Terry Barbounis

Director, Product Innovation Validated Solutions & Partner Strategy

Rahul Phadke

Director of Product Management, Distributed Cloud

Discussion Topics

1

Why legacy application delivery approaches fall short in a multi-cloud, multi-partner world

2

How fragmented application security creates risk, delays, and hidden costs and how to build resilient, production-tested application delivery architecture at the network edge

3

The role of carrier-grade networking in application security and performance

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Jeffrey Johnson, Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Security Officer, Siemens Health Affairs for North America
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