
2022 Hybrid Cloud Virtual Summit
March 31, 2022, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM ET | 2.5 CPE Credits Available for this Event*** Register10:00 AM
Visionary Keynote

Thomas Santucci
Director, IT Modernization GSA Office of Government-wide Policy
10:15 AM
Emerging Technology Tech Talk
SBOM, A Big Ask With Very Little What & How.
SBOM (Software Bill of Material) is the elephant in the room. Well, many aren’t avoiding the topic. Its controversy and its current amorphous state make many across the industry uneasy. There are many questions, such as what is an SBOM, what tools do you use, what is my responsibility for an SBOM?
Let’s talk about SBOMs, their many forms, and their many meanings. On our agenda,
- We will cover SBOM basics.
- Give you a starting point for your SBOM capability.
- Discuss a large industry gap with SBOMs in practice.
Spoiler, this industry gap has nothing to do with the lack of agreement on a standard SBOM format. So what’s the gap? Join and find out.

Bill Bensing
Software Factory, Managing Architect, Redhat

10:30 AM
Panel: Managing Millions of Identities Across Hybrid Cloud Environments
Over the past two years, the Federal workforce has made the shift to a hybrid work environment, as a result the security and identity management within the Federal Cloud space has had to strengthen.
Tune into this session to hear from Federal Leaders on the unique challenges of managing these identities across hybrid cloud environments. What are the fundamental capabilities needed for management of millions of identities within this hybrid cloud environment? Listen as subject matter experts address different Federal hybrid cloud use cases, as well as lessons learned throughout this process.

Dr. Christopher Siwy
Data Scientist, Office of Data Science Strategy, National Institutes of Health

Kenneth Myers
Chief Federal ICAM Architect, General Services Administration

Moderator: Lamar Johnson
Tech Reporter, MeriTalk
11:00 AM
Emerging Technology Tech Talk
Composability & Security – How to unlock composable customer and employee experiences while maintaining security and compliance

Maggie Schroeder
Director, Product Marketing - Drupal Cloud, Acquia

11:07 AM
Emerging Technology Tech Talk
Managing Multi-Cloud Hybrid Environments
Today, managing a hybrid IT estate is a complex and difficult endeavor. One that presents a need for simplification and, at the same time, acceleration of service delivery to end users. For government enterprise IT organizations looking to accelerate their digital transformation with maximum agility and across a broad set of new and traditional, private and public cloud-based platforms, an easy-to-use, catalog-based service consumption platform with comprehensive fulfillment orchestration and strong governance with cost controls in place, is what’s required. Does your organization have the right tools to accelerate digital transformation? Join us to learn which critical capabilities setup your organization for future success.

JJ Garcia
Solution Architect, Micro Focus Government Solutions

11:15 AM
Panel: Securing the Hybrid Cloud
New ways of working and sharing information have emerged within the Federal Government. This has pushed agencies to reevaluate their technology needs and develop plans to further their IT modernization strategy. This panel will examine the current challenges, recent successes and lessons learned by Federal IT Government Leaders within the Federal Cloud space.
Hear as topic experts dive into how they reevaluated their agencies’ technology needs during this pandemic, and further strengthened their agencies’ Cloud capabilities. What strategies have been put in place in order to strengthen Cloud as the shift to a “Hybrid Cloud” Environment became the “new normal” within the Federal Government? What type of solutions have been made available to help strengthen securing a Hybrid Cloud?

Trafenia Salzman
Security Architect, U.S. Small Business Administration

Kenneth Miltenberger
CGCYBER Blue Team Branch Chief, US Coast Guard

William Kirkendale
Chief Information Officer, Information Technology, Office of the Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia

Bryan Rosensteel
Principal Solutions Architect, Ping Identity

Moderator: Jory Heckman
Reporter, Federal News Network
11:45 AM
Emerging Technology Tech Talk
Simplifying and Securing your hybrid data management strategy with Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS).
Databases are an essential part of most compute and storage platforms that manage massive amounts of critical data—from containers, virtual machines (VMs), bare-metal servers with dedicated servers to purpose-built database appliances and smartphones to server racks in mammoth data centers. Agencies are burdened with the complexity of managing the database lifecycle, including provisioning new databases, managing existing databases, and driving life cycle day-2 operations.
Join this session to learn about Nutanix Database Service, a DBaaS platform that can manage disparate databases (Oracle, MSFT SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) for hybrid, multi-cloud deployments—whether on-prem, public, hosted or edge. Learn how to automate and simplify database management, bringing one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and life cycle management (LCM) no matter where they live. Learn more about Nutanix Database Service and consider taking a free Test Drive.

Greg LaPace
Federal Systems Architect, Nutanix

11:52 AM
Emerging Technology Tech Talk
11:52 AM
The Challenge: Scaling Cloud Training Programs for Public Sector CIOs
Smart public sector organizations understand the best road to IT modernization starts with cloud adoption. They have reinvented themselves as digital enterprises built on modern applications and multiple clouds.
But as the pace picks up, the cloud workforce skills gaps are getting bigger and bigger. So, how can organizations, especially with limited budgets, attract new talent?
The key is to upskill and reskill existing employees first. “Build it and they will come.”
- You have an existing team that already knows your environment.
- Better than outsourcing which can be expensive and doesn’t keep knowledge within your organization
Work from the Inside Out
- Create a comprehensive plan to upskill your internal team – leverage benchmarking, sand boxes, mentoring, establish a baseline of cloud literacy. (etc.)
- Bring your team from literacy to fluency – drive to hands-on learning.
- Build a culture of cloud – encourage blogs, talks, projects to get experience, establish internal meet-ups. Become an organization that can say “We Speak Cloud Here”
- Get your team involved outside of your organization into the cloud community – build a reputation as a cloud-first organization.. And they will come

Drew Firment
SVP Cloud Transformation, A Cloud Guru, Pluralsight

12:00 PM
Panel: Data Management for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 supercharged the need for digital-first enterprises, cloud adoption has been rising steadily.While the public cloud remains the most popular model, another approach is steadily making headway – the hybrid cloud model. For a hybrid cloud approach to be effective, enterprises must conceptualize, implement and monitor a sound hybrid cloud data management strategy. With an increase in the adoption of hybrid cloud models, enterprises must transform their data management strategy and embrace hybrid cloud data management.
Tune into this panel to hear from topic experts on the best strategies for managing Data within a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Federal workforce. What type of solutions have been made available to help strengthen Federal Data Management within a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud? What best practices do these topic experts recommend about strengthening data sharing methodologies in various cloud environments?

Brian F. Merrick
Director, Cloud Program Management Office, Bureau of Information Resource Management, United States Department of State

David P. "Dave" Catanoso
Acting Director, Application Hosting, Cloud, and Edge Solutions, Infrastructure Operations, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Walter Maikish
Federal Vice President, Pure Storage, Inc.

Moderator: Chris Oglesby
Chair of ATARC's Cloud and Infrastructure Mission Area
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