Main Summit Day Two: Wednesday, February 24, 2010

7:30 Registration & Coffee

8:00 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

Jim Graves
Senior Vice President, Homeland Security Solutions
QinetiQ North America

8:10 Keynote: The USAF’s Position And Initiatives In Cloud Computing

  • Strategic goals and requirements on cloud computing
  • Current USAF cloud computing projects

Maj Gen Stephen Gross
USAFR
Mobilization Assistant to the Chief of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer

8:50 Service Oriented Architecture & Cloud Computing

Jim Graves
Senior Vice President, Homeland Security Solutions
QinetiQ North America

9:30 Supporting DoD Operations With Cloud Computing

Providing a vision of how cloud computing technologies and techniques can be used to support DoD operations in the not to distant future

Kevin L. Jackson
Author & Founder
Cloud Musings

10:10 Networking Break

10:50 Mission Critical Cloud Computing: The Importance Of Transparency

  • Changes in operational and security risk management moving from on-premise to the cloud
  • Why “as-a-Service” needs to actually include “service.”
  • Tales from the front: experience with C&A in the cloud

Laef Olson
CIO
RightNow Technologies

11:20 Applying Various Virtualization Techniques Within The Cloud

  • Understanding the realities of both virtualization and Cloud Computing security
  • Deal with the things that don't change and also the things that do profoundly

William C. Barker
Chief Cybersecurity Advisor
NIST

12:00 Lunch

1:15 Cloud Computing: Secure And Effective Use

  • Technical guidance and standards
  • Cloud architectures, security, and deployment strategies

Peter Mell
Cloud Computing Project Lead & Senior Computer Scientist
NIST

James Tsujimoto
Office of Government Wide Policy
GSA

2:00 Application Hosting And Cloud Computing

  • Integrating external cloud applications with on-premise data and processes
  • Reducing IT costs through cloud computing

June Hartley
CIO
Department of Interior

2:45 Networking Break

3:15 Management And Policy Challenges Related To The Cloud

  • Understanding the tectonic shift in how computing is done
  • Embracing new paradigms in computing
  • How to change the mindsets and assumptions of users, IT staff, managers, and policy makers

Michael R. Nelson
Visiting Professor, Internet Studies, Communication, Culture & Technology Program
Georgetown University

4:00 Tactical Cloud Computing

  • The tactical cloud and interoperability
  • Supporting the warfighter in joint, interagency, and coalition environments

Mary Ann Malloy
PhD, Principal Information Systems Engineer, Data Transparency Group Leader
Department

4:45 Round Table Discussion: The Future Of The Cloud

Take part in facilitated roundtable discussion about successful cloud computing applications and how your organization can benefit from this new era of data storage.

Moderated by:

Jeremy Geelan
Senior Vice President, SYSCON Media & Events, & Founder
Cloud Computing Journal

4:45 End Of Main Summit

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