Relus Cloud, a leading cloud and big data solutions provider in Atlanta, GA, and innovative technology partners will be hosting its third annual summer event, ‘Alter Your State: Brewing Digital IT Transformation’. The event will take place at SweetWater Brewing Company on Thursday, August 25 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Mark Metz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Relus, will be moderating a lively panel discussion around what IT executives see as driving forces in the changing state of enterprise technology. “To remain relevant, business leaders must rethink customer experience, leverage actionable data insights, and redefine business models. These business transformations can’t happen without digital IT transformation,” said Metz. “We want to bring together Atlanta’s IT leaders and discuss these important topics.”

The panelists will include John Perkins, Senior Vice President of Global Operations at PGi; Don Browning, Chief Cloud Architect at Turner Broadcasting; and Dawit Lessanu, Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture at Macmillan. The event’s keynote speaker will be Paul Soligon, Director of Commercial Sales, Southeast at Amazon Web Services.

Sponsors will include Relus Cloud, a leading cloud and big data consulting firm; Sumo Logic, a real-time, cloud-native data analytics service; ATADATA, a leading software developer of automated compute migration solutions; Actifio, a company that virtualizes the data that is the lifeblood of the business; Datadog, a cloud monitoring solution for data metrics and integrations; Zayo, a provider of bandwidth and connectivity over exceptional network infrastructure; and MapR Technologies, the only platform to integrate the enormous power of Hadoop and Spark with global event streaming, real-time database capabilities, and enterprise storage.

This year’s event will bring in more than 200 IT professionals and will feature complimentary Sweetwater Brewing Company tours and beer samplings, Fox Brothers BBQ, and raffle giveaway prizes, including an Atlanta exotic car driving experience for four, Amazon Echo, and virtual reality headset.

This event is free to attend but advance registration is required. For more details and event registration, please visit: http://reluscloud.com/events/alter-your-state-2016/