Saul Van Beurden, Head of Technology at Wells Fargo, discussed the bank's modernization, innovation, and digital transformation initiatives with Yugabyte CEO Bill Cook during a fireside chat. The conversation covered key areas such as building skills for future technologies, ensuring secure and stable plans, driving business speed, scalability, and full cloud migration to both public and private clouds. Van Beurden emphasized the importance of knowing one's point of departure well, articulating an ambition and vision, breaking down strategic pillars or initiatives, getting resources and priorities, promoting or hiring talent onto the team, and baking compliance and security requirements into solutions. He also highlighted the need for a "stacked" approach to technology, distinguishing new applications from existing workloads, and ensuring upskilling is adopted at scale through the entire organization.