January 14-15, 2015 | Marriott Metro Center | Washington, DC
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2015
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Registration
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Opening Remarks & Logistics
1:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Collaboration Sessions
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Break
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Session Out Briefs
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
ATARC Reception
Challenge Area 1: When to choose Public, Private, Government, or Hybrid clouds?
This session will focus on the following topic areas:
- How is the category of cloud selected?
- When are each category appropriate for use by the government?
- What are the concerns and best practices for implementing or adopting each category?
Session Leads: Karen Caraway (MITRE); Scott Chapman (Project Hosts)
Challenge Area 2: The umbrella of acquisition: Contracting pain points and best practices
This session will focus on the following topic areas:
- How can contract vehicles be defined ?
- What are best practices for cloud budgeting?
- How can ROI be defined and determined with cloud computing?
Session Leads: Stan Kaczmarczyk (GSA); Michael Kristan (MITRE); Domenic Cipicchio (Deloitte)
Challenge Area 3: Tiered architecture: mitigating concerns of geography, access management, and other cloud security constraints
This session will focus on the following topics areas:
- Identity access management in the cloud
- Jointly shared environments
- Best practices for ensuring the integrity and safety of cloud operations
Session Leads: Nicole Gong (MITRE); Mark Odell (CGI Federal)
Challenge Area 4: The role of cloud computing in emerging technologies
This session will focus on the following topics areas:
- How can cloud computing enable the adoption of:
o Mobile
o Internet of Things
o Big data
- What will cloud computing’s role for the future be?
- How can the government establish cloud computing as a tool to ease future technological advances?
Session Leads: Nancy Ross (MITRE); Dominic Delmolino (Agilex)
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
1. Participants come prepared to:
- Break out into teams
- Contribute and participate from specific domain/experience
- Write ideas on the table space whiteboard
- Share ideas and build off each other’s contributions
- Attend and complete session that you have signed-up
- Support the moderator and team members
- Create sets of best practices to support the event’s objectives and goals
- No business development
2. All discussed material must be publically releasable
- No Classified discussions
- No proprietary discussions
3. None of the discussions or artifacts constitute Government direction, nor should be interpreted as official Government position