Rear Admiral Robert E. Day Jr. - Assistant Commandant for C4IT - Director, Coast Guard Cyber Command

Frank Konieczny - Chief Technology Officer, Office of Information Dominance, US Air Force

Dr. Kevin Charest - Chief Information Security Office, US Department of Health and Human Services

Marcelo Olacoaga - Cloud Program Manger, Office of Integrated Technology Services, GSA

COL Steve Birch - Mil Dep, Army Architecture Integration Center, HQDA, CIO\G6

Mike McCarthy - Director of Operations/Program Manager, Mission Command Complex, Army Brigade Modernization Command

Jeffrey Lush - Chief Technology Officer, Dell Services Federal Government

Rob Zitz - SVP & Chief Systems Architect, Leidos

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               Why should you attend the Symposium?

Today – there is no question cloud computing has the potential to play a major part in addressing major Information Technology inefficiencies and improving defense & government service delivery. A cloud computing model can significantly help agencies tackling with the need to provide highly reliable, innovative services quickly despite resource constraints. For the Federal Government, cloud computing holds tremendous potential to deliver public value by increasing operational efficiency and responding faster to constituent needs and for DoD Increased mission effectiveness and operational efficiencies are key benefits that can be achieved with cloud computing.

DSI’s Defense and Government Cloud Computing Symposium 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 symposium will provide valuable information on efforts to build partnerships for the latest technology in defense, homeland security & federal government civilian IT workforce.

DSI’s team specializes in the extensive research and development of our Summits' content and focus areas, and we will assemble the most respected minds in the tactical and combat vehicle community from operational leaders, intelligence providers, key policy-makers, as well as solution providers from Industry and Academia. Our non-partisan approach allows us to reach across all involved organizations bring together a truly holistic group of decision makers and solution providers.

- Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program

- Use of the NIST cloud reference architecture as well as agency involvement in standards are necessary for cloud procurements

- Expanding infrastructure to support wireless and mobile capabilities

- Providing decision frameworks and case examples to support agencies in migrating towards cloud computing

- Shutting down and consolidating under-performing data centers and optimizing the data centers in the Federal inventory

- Warfighter Protection and Reducing interference with operational platforms and communications

- E-Discovery & the Cloud: Ensuring data stored in a CSP environment is available for legal discovery

- Private & Public Partnerships

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 Defense and Government Cloud Computing Symposium 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 Defense and Government Cloud Computing Symposium is open to all Federal employees and is considered a compliant education and training forum. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

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