September Symposium Agenda
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Registration |
| 12:00-12:30pm | Welcome & Invite to Lunch Buffet |
| Joe Klimavicz, Chief Information Officer, NOAA (President GITEC) & Darren Ash, NRC (Vice President, AFFIRM) | |
| 12:30 - 1:45pm | Panel 1: Business Driving Data Center Optimization - What Works – What Doesn’t When Managing Change? |
| Panel will discuss best practices to optimization, roadblocks they overcame or avoided. Is history repeating itself from 15 years ago – will there be limited success or mass appeal to moving to a business driven data center, a private or public cloud, a revamped fee for service/Center of Excellence model. Is the federal government ready? Are the business drivers strong enough? Do mandates work? | |
| Moderator: | Amy Morris, Executive Editor and Anchor, Federal News Radio, 1500 AM |
| Panelists: | Michael Brown, Executive Director, IT Services Office,Office of the CIO,DHS Charles De Sanno,Executive Director, Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering and Enterprise Operations, VA Alfred Rivera, Director, Computing Services, DISA |
| 1:45-2:00pm | Break |
| 2:00-3:15pm | Panel 2: Architecting the Business Solutions |
| Panel will discuss the models that they have used or are looking at for crafting the right business solution. Questions such as buy v. lease, private v. public cloud, security v. transparency, performance requirements. Where do the technologists fit in v. business owners? Move to a new center or refit the old? Where do network providers fit in the mix? How do you contract to meet the business requirements? | |
| Moderator: | John Ortego, President, Ortego & Associates, Past GITEC President |
| Panelists: | Adriane Burton, DCSS, CIT, NIH Mark Hamilton, Program Manager Infrastructure Technology Services, DOJ, Justice Management Division Raghav Vajjhala, Chief Enterprise Architect, Treasury, OCIO |
3:15-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30 - 4:45pm | Panel 3: Managing Implementation for Business Success |
| Panel will discuss the metrics needed to make implementation work, the organizational change management that needs to take place to ensure success? | |
| Moderator: | Mark Day,Chief Technology Officer, HUD |
| Panelists: | Gary Albert, Manager, Enterprise Data Center Operations, Air Traffic Organization, FAA Tony McMahon, Director, Enterprise Computing Center, IRS Charlie Wisecarver, Deputy Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer, DOS |
| 4:45 - 6:00pm | Networking Cocktail Reception - Sponsored by IBM |
| Cash bar and hors d oeuvres |
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