Richard Hale, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity, DoD CIO

Dr. Michael Valivullah, Chief Technology Officer, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA

Steve Cooper, Chief Information Officer, Department of Commerce

Bajinder Paul, Chief Information Officer, Federal Trade Commission

Jennifer Gray, Federal Cloud Lead, Security Design & Innovation Team, HHS

Matt Goodrich, FedRAMP Program Manager, GSA

Fred Whiteside, Program Manager, Office of Enterprise Services - Data Center Consolidation Initiative ,  Department of Labor

LTC Paul Stanton, Ph.D, NSA Cyber Fellow, US Army War College

Chris C. Kemp, Former NASA CTO, Co-founder, OpenStack & Nebula

Tarrazzia Martin, Senior Technical Advisor for Transformation CIO Department of Housing and Urban Development

Skip Jentsch, Cloud PMO Manager, Office of Integrated Technology Services, GSA

Rick Kuhn, Computer Security Division, National Institute of Standards & Technology

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               Why should you attend the Summit?

Currently the government’s  IT environment is characterized by low asset utilization, a fragmented demand for resources, duplicative systems, environments which are difficult to manage, and long procurement lead times. These inefficiencies negatively impact the DoD and federal agencies ability to serve the American public and National Security. Recently the Federal IT apparatus ability to achieve the significant cost, agility and innovation benefits of cloud computing are begging to move quickly.

Cloud computing presents the Government Agencies, Departments and Military Services with an opportunity to transform its IT portfolio by giving agencies the ability to purchase a broad range of IT services in a utility- based model. This allows agencies to refocus their efforts on IT operational expenditures and only pay for IT services consumed instead of buying IT with a focus on capacity. Procuring IT services in a cloud computing model can help the Federal Government to increase operational efficiency, resource utilization, and innovation across its IT portfolio, delivering a higher return on our investments.

DSI’s Cloud Tech & Government IT Summit will provide the latest updates from key organizations involved in the Enterprise Cloud Environment, Defense & Government Information Systems, Enterprise Systems, & Data Center Consolidation addressing cloud computing as the means to deliver the innovative, efficient and secure information.

You can expect to hear from Senior Leaders and Federal Agency CIO’s in policy, defense, and government agency’s, Balancing Security & Innovation for the Defense & IT Community, Mobile Uses & Mobile COTS in Cloud Environments, and Emerging Technologies for Teleport Services.

The summit will provide valuable information on efforts to build partnerships for the latest technology in federal IT modernization efforts.

-Next Gen Private/Public Partnerships in Cloud Technology

-Infrastructure Diversification Town Hall Debate: Prioritizing Cost Saving Tools

-Data Center Consolidation track on how federal agencies are successfully implementing Cloud Tech

-Virtualization & Operating Under the New Deployment Context of Cloud Services

-Ask the Experts Panel: Exploring how to meet directives within Cloud First, Big Data, and Data Center Consolidation

Gain Education & Insight:  Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing special operations forces today.

Build Partnerships: The agenda is designed to allow for ample learning & networking opportunities for the ability to discover some of the latest technologies related to emerging data center consolidation and cloud technologies in the military and government space.

Impact:  Help foster ideas! Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. All attendees are given the opportunity to address our speaker faculty with their questions or comments and will receive a pre-Symposium questionnaire for precise questions and subject matters you would like our speakers to address.

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COMPLIANT:

The Cloud Tech & Government IT is compliant with Department of Defense operating guidelines, and adheres to the most recent standards of the Office of General Counsel, Standards of Conduct Office:

*Currently, SOCO advisory 09-03: 7.(a)… purposes of jer 3-211 (a)(7) the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), OGE standards of ethical conduct for employees of the executive branch: currently 5 cfr part 2635 and 31 u.s.c. 1353 as it pertains to OGE standards

*Qualifies as training in compliance with 5 U.S.C. Chapter 41 and is compliant with The Office of Government Ethics, Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch: currently 5 CFR part 2635 and 31 U.S.C. 1353 as it pertains to OGE Standards.

*The Cloud Tech & Government IT Summit is open to all Federal employees and is considered a compliant education and training forum.

Exhibit & Sponsorship Opportunities: DSI's Cloud Tech & Government IT Summit provides opportunities in exhibit space, round table discussions, product demonstrations, to luncheon and cocktail receptions.

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