Federal Cloud Computing Summit Agenda

January 14-15, 2015 | Marriott Metro Center | Washington, DC

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
FedRAMP Briefing
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Matt Goodrich (Speaker Presentation), FedRAMP Director
U.S. General Services Administration

12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
MITRE-ATARC Cloud Collaboration Symposium 

Challenge Area 1: When to choose Public, Private, Government, or Hybrid clouds?
Challenge Area 2: The umbrella of acquisition: Contracting pain points and best practices
Challenge Area 3: Tiered architecture: Mitigating concerns of geography, access management, and other cloud security constraints
Challenge Area 4: The role of cloud computing in emerging technologies

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
ATARC Reception hosted by DLT Solutions

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Opening of Registration

8:00 a.m.
Opening of the Cloud Technology Showcase

8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks

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Maria Roat, Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Department of Transportation

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Tom Suder, President
Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC)

8:15 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Cloud Technology Showcase

9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. 
Visionary Keynote
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Maria Roat, Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Department of Transportation

9:20 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.
Visionary Panel – Cloud Strategy from the CTO Perspective

Successful cloud adoption and migration takes strong leadership, planning, and execution. This panel will discuss how CTOs are leading their organization to embrace the culture change and plan effectively to take advantage of cloud computing benefits.

Moderator
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Frank Konkel, Editorial Events Editor
Government Executive Media Group

Panelist
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Dave Mihelcic, Chief Technology Officer
Defense Information Systems Agency

Panelist
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Maria Roat, Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Department of Transportation

Panelist
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Wolf Tombe, Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Customs & Border Protection
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

10:05 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Visionary Panel – Navigating the U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published the U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, which documents the requirements necessary to further the adoption of cloud computing and provides useful information for strategic and tactical cloud deployments. This panel will examine the key components of the roadmap and discuss the strategies that will ensure secure, reliable and interoperable cloud services.

Moderator
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Jason Miller, Executive Editor
Federal News Radio

Panelist
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Bob Bohn
(Speaker Presentation), Cloud Computing Technical Program Manager
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Panelist
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Dawn Leaf
, Chief Information Officer
U.S. Department of Labor

Panelist
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Param Soni, Chief Architect
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

10:50 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.
Visionary Panel – Cloud Success Stories

Attendees at this panel will hear about Federal projects that were able to successfully migrate websites, applications, and e-mail to the cloud. The panelists will share lessons learned, best practices and strategies that allow potential hazards to be avoided during their innovative cloud journeys.

Moderator
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Christopher Dorobek, Founder, Editor & Publisher
DorobekINSIDER
GovLoop

Panelist
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Sean Herron, Project Lead
18F
U.S. General Services Administration

Panelist
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Roopangi Kadakia, Web Services Executive
NASA

Panelist
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Dan McCrae, Director, Service Delivery Division
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

11:35 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Cloud Technology Showcase

12:45 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
ATARC Cloud Innovation Awards

The ATARC Cloud Innovation Awards recognize those individuals and teams that use Cloud Computing to better accomplish the mission of their agency. (ATARC Cloud Innovation Award Winners)

Presenter

Greg Mundell
, Senior Vice President
InfoZen

Presenter
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Tom Suder, President
Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC)

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Cloud Technology Showcase

2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Industry Analyst Insight
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Rick Villars (Speaker Presentation), Vice President, Datacenter & Cloud
IDC Government Insights

2:20 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.
Visionary Panel – Cloud Computing in 2020

It is the Year 2020. If we examine the current cloud computing landscape, what do we find? Where do things stand with Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine technology? What long-standing cloud security concerns have been resolved and what are the new security challenges? How has cloud computing been impacted by advancements in mobile technology? How widespread are cloudlets/decentralized cloud infrastructure? What impacts have been made by virtualization, gamification and artificial intelligence?

Moderator
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Tom Suder, President
Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC)

Panelist
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Jason Matheny (Speaker Presentation), Program Manager
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

Panelist
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Dr. Joshua McCoy, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Game Lab
American University

Panelist
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Dr. Alan Sill (Speaker Presentation), Director
NSF Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center
Texas Tech University

3:05 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.
FedRAMP Forward: Roadmap for 2015-2016
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Matt Goodrich (Speaker Presentation), FedRAMP Director
U.S. General Services Administration

3:25 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
MITRE-ATARC Cloud Collaboration Panel

Moderator
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Justin Brunelle (Speaker Presentation), Application Developer
MITRE

Panelist
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Stan Kaczmarczyk, Director, Cloud Computing PMO
U.S. General Services Administration

Panelist
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Annie Sokol, IT Specialist
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Panelist
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Rick Walsh, Mobility Lead HQDA CIO/G6
U.S. Army

4:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks

atarc_logoThe host organization for the Federal Cloud Computing Summit is the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC). ATARC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides a collaborative forum for government, academia and industry to resolve emerging technology challenges. ATARC also introduces innovative technology from academic research labs to the Federal government and private industry.