Agenda
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8:30 AM EST
Wednesday, February 09
Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks for the FCW Workshop: Pillars of Modernization
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8:35 AM EST
Wednesday, February 09
Opening Keynote: Modernization's Progress and What's Next
Maria Roat, Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer, Office of Management and Budget
Session Opening Remarks: Adam Clater, Chief Architect, Red Hat
Sponsored by: Red Hat
9:25 AM EST
Wednesday, February 09
We Built This IT on Grit and Cloud
G. Nagesh Rao, Chief Information Officer, Bureau of Industry and Security, US Department of Commerce
9:50 AM EST
Wednesday, February 09
Eliminate Data Silos. Unstructured data support in Snowflake
Paul Horan, Principal Sales Engineer - US Public Sector, Snowflake
Sponsored by: Snowflake
As agencies look to modernize their data strategies, the focus has naturally been on integrating structured and semi-structured data to drive mission-readiness. But a vast amount of critical information remains locked away in “unstructured” formats, such as PDF, image, and video. This creates isolated data “silos” that can impact an agency’s goal of becoming truly “Data Driven”. This session will focus on recent innovations in Snowflake that allow our customers to fully integrate unstructured data into the Data Cloud, right alongside their structured and unstructured data assets.
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10:10 AM EST
Wednesday, February 09
Break
A chance to stretch your legs and refill your coffee!
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10:15 AM EST
Wednesday, February 09
Cybersecurity Modernization – What to expect from DoD’s premier IT Combat Support Agency
Brandon Iske, Chief Engineer for the Security Enablers Portfolio, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Increased risks and cybersecurity threats from sophisticated adversaries on government networks have necessitated the implementation of enhanced cybersecurity measures. This session will discuss DISA’s efforts to modernize and strengthen the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity and IT efficiency through the use of state-of-the-art, commercial security capabilities. Hear about DISA’s plans to pilot and expand its zero trust and Enterprise Identity, Credential, Access Management (ICAM) activities, including Thunderdome (a zero trust solution) as well as how these efforts factor into DISA’s strategic plan to enable modernization.
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11:00 AM EST
Wednesday, February 09
Transforming How We Engage Our People and Customers
Nathan Tierney, Human Talent Management Officer, Office of Information Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs
11:45 AM EST
Wednesday, February 09
Considerations and Consequences of Modernization
Kevin Walsh, Director, Information Technology and Cybersecurity, U.S. Government Accountability Office
This session will discuss GAO 19-471 (https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-19-471), which reviewed federal agencies' legacy systems and identified the most critical federal legacy systems in need of modernization, evaluated agency plans for modernizing them and identified examples of legacy system modernization initiatives that agencies considered successful.
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12:10 PM EST
Wednesday, February 09
What you don’t know about the future of Cyber and Supply Chain Security: Identifying and Diffusing Ever-Evolving Risks
Tommy Gardner, Chief Technology Officer, HP
Sponsored by: HP
As technology advances and agencies modernize all aspects of interaction across platforms, one thing is clear, a plan is needed to address cyber security along all aspects of supply chain. Whether it is addressing hardware or software, agencies need to understand, plan, and mitigate the risks along the supply chain. Join Dr. Tommy Gardner, CTO for HP Federal, as he takes a closer look at what it means to truly secure cyber and the supply chain of the future.
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12:30 PM EST
Wednesday, February 09
Closing Government Keynote: Approaches to Funding Modernization in Today's Budget Reality
David Shive, Chief Information Officer, U.S. General Services Administration
CIO David Shive will discuss how GSA is honing its skilled IT workforce to keep pace with rapidly developing technologies and build innovative solutions that can help federal customer agencies along their modernization paths. He will also detail how his agency is strengthening its defenses amid growing and evolving cybersecurity threats, as well as how agencies can use GSA’s cybersecurity framework to defend their own modernized cloud networks.
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12:55 PM EST
Wednesday, February 09
Closing Remarks
Thank You for Joining the FCW Pillars of Modernization Workshop
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