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IDGA’s Cloud Computing for DoD & Government is your opportunity to claim your place in the virtual world of DoD and federal government data storage. You will be able to meet with key decision-makers and top-notch innovators for your chance to tap into the emerging market of cloud computing for defense and government!
Lead the way with revolutionary cloud computing initiatives by attending sessions on:
- Implementation of SaaS solutions
- The immediate need to coordinate cloud standards and how they provide benefit to the enterprise
- Security challenges and solutions for government organizations planning a move to the cloud
- Current DoD and Government programs and future plans for cloud computing activities
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Lead the way with revolutionary Meet key decision-makers and hear from a
cloud computing initiatives by distinguished speaker faculty that includes:
attending sessions on: Mark Krzysko
Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business
• Implementation of SaaS solutions Transformation
• The immediate need to coordinate cloud Maj Gen Stephen Gross, USAFR
standards and how they provide benefit Mobilization Assistant to the Chief of Warfighting
to the enterprise Integration and Chief Information Officer
• Security challenges and solutions for Henry Sienkiewicz
government organizations planning a Technical Program Director, DISA
move to the cloud Doug Bourgeois
Director, National Business Center, Department of Interior
• Current DoD and Government programs
and future plans for cloud computing William C. Barker
activities Chief Cyber Security Advisor, NIST
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February 22 - 24, 2010
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There is an ever-increasing number of companies buying Who You Will Meet
computing, storage, and networking power as they need it IDGA’s Cloud Computing for DoD & Government is
from the cloud. Now there is an even greater need for a one-stop a forum on the revolutionary challenges the IT
community currently faces in data storage and
event that brings together players from the main layers of the management. You will have the unique opportunity to
Cloud ecosystem - the infrastructure players, the platform interact and network with an audience of military,
government, academic and private sector leaders with
providers, and those offering applications. job functions such as:
• CIO
This year, President Obama appointed the first Federal CIO • IT Manager
propelling the government into new age of computing. The • Cyber Security
• Chief Technology Officer
current economic situation brings forth new opportunities • Enterprise Architecture
for the government to spend more money on leaner yet • Architecture Integration
• Technology Services
necessary supercomputing technologies. Leading integrators • Engineers
are jumping at the opportunity to establish “clouds” of • Business Transformation
• Enterprise Transformation
partnerships in order to maximize interoperability across all
government agencies and services.
About IDGA
IDGA’s Cloud Computing for DoD & Government is your The Institute for Defense &
Government Advancement
opportunity to claim your place in the virtual world of DoD and (IDGA) is a non-partisan
federal government data storage. You will be able to meet with information-based organization
dedicated to the promotion of innovative ideas in public
top-notch innovators for your chance to tap into the emerging service and defense through live conferences and
market of cloud computing for defense and government. events. We bring together speaker panels and events
comprised of military and government professionals
while attracting delegates with decision-making power
This premier event will emphasize the following key issues: from military, government, and defense industries.
• Survivability of a cloud In addition to our live events, IDGA also offers an online
community dedicated to providing defense industry
• Technical definitions and security roles professionals with breaking news, business
opportunities, introductions, podcasts, webinars, and
• Tactical cloud computing presentations from key industry leaders. Members of
our online community are able to extend their live event
• Securing cloud based applications experience and interact with the defense industry by
leveraging the opportunity to network, share ideas, best
• and much more!
practices, and business solutions.
For more information, please visit www.idga.org.
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3. CLOUD COMPUTING WORKSHOP DAY Cloud Computing Workshop Day
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sign up for this in-depth and interactive workshop day examining the strategies behind cloud standards and security. During this focus
day, you can expect smaller, classroom-style sessions, live applications, in-depth discussions with the class leaders and fellow attendees.
7:30am Registration & Coffee
8:00am-10:00am Obtain vital information on cloud computing standards
Coordinating Cloud Standards
As cloud computing is becoming a reality for enterprise data centers, How you will benefit:
standards are increasingly important to provide interoperability • Investigate the true opportunity that cloud computing offers
between enterprise clouds and cloud service providers. This workshop • Learn best practices to effectively use these applications
will focus on current and emerging standards that will be utilized to
enable enhanced portability and flexibility of virtualized applications in Session Leader: Doina Bein, Research Associate, Information
this emerging cloud computing paradigm. Science and Technology Division of the Applied Research
Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University
What will be covered:
• Mapping cloud use cases to standards
• Leveraging the enumerable and quantifiable benefits of the cloud
• Maintaining total control over private and sensitive data
10:15am-12:15am The Cloud’s impact on IT users
Adopting the Cloud: Privacy, Residency, and Security
Cloud computing has dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for What will be covered:
new web entrepreneurs wanting to start innovative businesses. • Learn how enterprises have adopted the cloud
However, the lack of interoperability, consistency and security • Laying the groundwork for the cloud
concerns across services keeps many businesses from adopting. There
have been several calls for standards to help make services from How you will benefit:
different cloud providers interoperable and ultimately more useful and • Discover safeguards to protect your databases
secure to enterprises. This workshop will explore the pros and cons of • Developing policies to ensure security
standards, address myths surrounding security in the cloud.
Session Leader: Joseph Gonzalez, Carnegie Mellon University
12:15pm-1:15pm Lunch for Workshop Attendees and Speakers
1:15pm-3:15pm Ensuring availability in volatile resources
Cloud Computing on Volatile Resources
Increasingly services are being deployed over large-scale What will be covered:
computational and storage infrastructures. To meet ever-increasing • Explore the endless opportunities of cloud computing
computational demands and to reduce both hardware and system • Learn best practices to effectively use these applications
administration costs, these infrastructures have begun to include
Internet resources distributed over enterprise and residential How you will benefit:
broadband networks. As these infrastructures increase in scale to • Learn key strategies for empowering agency-wide participation
hundreds of thousands to millions of resources, issues of resource • Understand how to develop applications that are cost-effectively in
availability and service reliability inevitably emerge. This workshop will scale
drive a change in software development methodology.
Session Leader: Wu-chun Feng, Associate Professor, Director,
SyNeRGy Laboratory, Virginia Tech
3:30pm-5:30pm Securing your Cloud
Secure Cloud Computing: A Researcher's Viewpoint
Due to several hard-to-resist benefits, Cloud Computing, in such current security protection tools? How could these hurdles be
forms as Storage as a Service, Software as a Service, and Platform as a overcome?
Service, has been increasingly embraced by the industry as well as
governments. However, security (e.g., data protection, availability, How you will benefit:
data loss, sense of control) tops the list of concerns with cloud • Gain a deeper understanding of the security issues associated with
computing (InformationWeek Survey). This session will discuss the cloud computing, particularly from a technical point of view
truths and misunderstandings about secure cloud computing. • Distinguish the truths from the misunderstandings about secure
cloud computing
What will be covered: • Learn the emerging R&D challenges in making cloud computing
• Does cloud computing really make enterprise IT solutions secure and trustworthy
more vulnerable?
• Securing an enterprise's clouds is more a management issue Session Leader:
or a technical issue? Dr. Peng Liu, Associate Professor, Director, Cyber Security Lab,
• What are the new technical hurdles beyond properly deploying Penn State University
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4. Main Summit Day One Main Summit Day Two
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Wednesday, February 24, 2010
7:15 Registration & Coffee 7:30 Registration & Coffee
8:05 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks 8:05 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:15 Cloud Computing Priorities: Managing Technical 8:15 The USAF’s Position and Initiatives in Cloud Computing
Definitions and Security Roles •Strategic goals and requirements on cloud computing
Keynote
Mark Krzysko, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of •Current USAF cloud computing projects
Defense for Business Transformation Maj Gen Stephen Gross, USAFR, Mobilization Assistant to the
Chief of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer
Keynote
9:00 Requirements for Collaboration in the Cloud
• Best practices for implementing a secure on-premise and cloud 9:00 Implementing Storage-on-Demand
deployment mix •Managing infrastructure and middleware
• Crossing boundaries and taking the full benefits from Cloud •Strategies to avoid common pitfalls when implementing an
Computing SaaS solution
Patrick Dowd, Chief Architect, NSA Daud Santosa, Chief Technology Officer, National Business
Center, Department of Interior
9:45 Networking Break
9:45 Round Table Discussion: The Future of the Cloud
10:30 The Federal Cloud Computing Initiative and the Take part in facilitated roundtable discussion about successful
Progress-to-Date cloud computing applications and how your organization can
•Establishing a cloud-based collaboration environment benefit from this new era of data storage.
•Improving the government’s ability to create a transparent, Moderated by: Jeremy Geelan, Senior Vice President, SYS-
open and participatory government CON Media & Events, & Founder, Cloud Computing Journal
Peter Tseronis, PMP, Deputy Associate CIO, US Department
of Energy 10:15 Networking Break
11:15 Establishing Key Elements of the Security 11:00 Applying Various Virtualization Techniques within
Foundation the Cloud
• Enabling warfighting capabilities through the network • Understanding the realities of both virtualization and Cloud
• Realizing efficiencies while improving effectiveness
Computing security
• Ensuring interoperability across the DoD • Deal with the things that don't change and also the things that
David Honeywell, Chief, Network Managed Services do profoundly
Branch, DISA William C. Barker, Chief Cybersecurity Advisor, NIST
12:00 Lunch 11:45 Driving SOA Initiatives into Cloud
• Managing pragmatic concessions against long term vision
1:15 Securing Cloud-Based Applications • Defining cloud computing through SOA
• Exploring best practices and emerging standards in securing Dr. Scott Sarlin, Acting Director of Science & Technology,
cloud computing solutions Office of National Intelligence
• Methodologies for securing shared resources
Dr. Stephen M. Jarrett, CTO ISR/IO/IA & Cyber Security 12:30 Lunch
Code 50DE, Space & Naval Warfare Systems Center
Atlantic 1:45 Cloud Computing: Secure and Effective Use
•Technical guidance and standards
2:00 Application Hosting and Cloud Computing •Cloud architectures, security, and deployment strategies
• Integrating external cloud applications with on-premise data Peter Mell, Cloud Computing Project Lead & Senior
and processes Computer Scientist, NIST
• Reducing IT costs through cloud computing
James Tsujimoto, Office of Government Wide Policy, GSA
Doug Bourgeois, Director, National Business Center,
Department of Interior 2:30 Survivability of a Cloud
• Understanding the environmental risks of a cloud in different
2:45 Networking Break geographical locations
• Disaster recovery in the storage cloud
3:30 Open Source Infrastructure for Data Intensive Ron Ross, Computer Security Division, Information
Computing Technology Laboratory, NIST
•Understanding an open source cloud application
•Interoperability issues and emerging standards 3:15 Networking Break
Dr. Richard W. Etter, CISSP, Senior Information Assurance
Officer, Acting Director, Cyber Security & Critical 3:45 Management and Policy Challenges Related to the Cloud
Infrastructure, Office of the Chief Information Officer, • Understanding the tectonic shift in how computing is done
Department of the Navy • Embracing new paradigms in computing
• How to change the mindsets and assumptions of users, IT staff,
4:15 Cloud Computing with RACE managers, and policy makers
•Updates on program capabilities and successes Michael R. Nelson, Visiting Professor, Internet Studies,
•Opportunities for standardized computing platforms that they Communication, Culture & Technology Program,
can quickly, inexpensively and securely be set up Georgetown University
Henry Sienkiewicz, Technical Program Director, DISA
4:30 Tactical Cloud Computing
5:00 Cocktail Reception •The tactical cloud and interoperability
•Supporting the warfighter in joint, interagency, and coalition
environments
Mary Ann Malloy, PhD, Principal Information Systems
6:00 End of Day One Engineer, Data Transparency Group Leader, Department
E142 - Warfighter Architecting, The MITRE Corporation
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