8:15 am Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:30 am Developing the Cloud to Provide Cutting- Edge Capabilities for America’s Warfighters

• First tactical deployment of a Cloud node in DoD
• Leveraging Cloud technology where it is needed
• Depending on the Cloud for critical surveillance and decision-making information via secure networks

COL Charles Wells, USA
Program Manager, Distributed Common Ground Systems
PEO IEWS, US Army

9:00 am DoD Cloud Computing: Secure and Collaborative Intelligence

• DoD initiatives for security in the Cloud
• Collaborating in the Cloud
• DoD advances and challenges in Cloud Computing

David L. DeVries, SES
Principal Director
Office of DoD CIO, OSD NII CIO

9:30 am Akamai Technologies: The Future of the Cloud

• Latest industry advancements in the cloud
• Challenges and solutions within the field
• Future Akamai Technologies initiatives in cloud computing

Kimberly Askin
Senior Manager, Marketing
Akamaia Technologies

11:00 am Providing Technical Services for the Cloud

• Future technical services in the Cloud
• Latest challenges in the Cloud, an Applied Technical Systems perspective
• Current initiatives and latest Cloud advances at Applied Technical Systems

Brian Tower and Nathan Evans
Senior Software Architects
ATS

11:45 am Analytical Technology in the Cloud to Improve Decision Making

• Latest Cloud Front Group initiatives
• Advancements in the field of Cloud Computing
• Challenges, solutions and lessons learned at Cloud Front Group

Bob Gourley
CTO
Cloud Front Group

1:15 pm Cloud Computing Design Considerations

• Legacy environment constrains performance
• Convergence with InfiniBand
• Superior Performance in the Cloud using InfiniBand
• Compute Acceleration: Hadoop & Memcached over RDMA

Eyal Waldman
CEO
Mellanox Technologies

2:00 pm Enterprise Transformation using the Cloud

• Enterprise Transformation Strategy using the Cloud
• Development of the Enterprise Modernization Roadmap for the Cloud
• Cloud Migration Challenges

Ajay Budhraja
Chief Technology Officer
US Department of Justice, IR

2:30 pm Latest Cloud Computing Initiatives at Terremark

• Explore opportunities of cloud computing
• Learn best practices to use applications
• Understand how to develop applications that are costeffectively in scale

Annie Williams
VP, Federal Sales
Terremark Federal Group

4:00 pm The Architecture of Cloud Computing

• Design, development and modification of federated architectures
• Corporate level systems, processes and data standards
• Recent advances in Cloud Computing architecture

Dennis Wisnosky, SES
Chief Architecture and CTO
Office of the Secretary of Defense

4:30 pm Survivability of Cloud Computing: Environmental Risks and Disaster Recovery

• Environmental risks of a Cloud in different geographical locations
• Disaster recovery in the storage Cloud
• Future initiatives of survivability of the Cloud

Fred Whiteside
Cloud Team
National Institute for Standards and Technology

5:00 pm Requirements for Collaboration in the Cloud

• Latest requirements and regulations in the Cloud
• Advantages to collaborating in the Cloud
• Challenges to collaborating in the Cloud

COL Joseph Adams
Chief Information Officer
National Defense University

5:30 pm End of Day One