Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Summit

Name: Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Summit
Start: 2022-06-23T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-06-23T16:30:00-04:00
Location: Virtual

June 23, 2022, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET

GSA in coordination with the IPv6 Federal Task Force, and sponsored by the CIO Council, is hosting an IPv6 summit to address the Federal community’s desire to bring together Federal agencies and industry partners to discuss IPv6 priorities, share IPv6 success stories and lessons learned, and identify partnerships between industry and government to better assist agencies in the transition to an IPv6-only environment.

This Virtual Summit is hosted in partnership with ATARC. Please submit any questions you would like speakers or panelists to address to info@atarc.org.

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1:00 PM

Welcome | Kick-Off

Robert Sears

Chair, Federal IPv6 Task Force, Federal Chief Information Officers Council | N-Wave Program Manager, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Lee Ellis

Program Manager, IPv6 Task Force Data Center & Cloud Optimization Initiative, Office of Government-wide Policy, General Services Administration

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1:05 PM

Opening Remarks

Drew Myklegard

Deputy Administrator and Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer (Acting) Office of E-Government and Information Technology, Executive Office of the President (invited)

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1:15 PM

Opening Keynote

John Curran

President and Chief Executive Officer, American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN)

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1:45 PM

Panel: Federal Government Perspective

Hear insights from the IPv6 Task Force Members

Carol Bales

Senior Policy Analyst, Cyber and National Security Unit, Office of E-Government and Information Technology, Executive Office of the President (invited)

Branko Bokan

Senior Policy Analyst, Cyber and National Security Unit, Office of E-Government and Information Technology, Executive Office of the President (invited)

Doug Montgomery

Manager Internet & Scalable Systems Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Robert Sears

Chair, Federal IPv6 Task Force, Federal Chief Information Officers Council | N-Wave Program Manager, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Moderator: Tom Suder

Founder/CEO, ATARC

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2:15 PM

Panel: Private Sector use of IPv6

Hear from industry representatives about their experience with leveraging IPv6 within their environments.

Moderator: Robert Sears

Chair, Federal IPv6 Task Force, Federal Chief Information Officers Council | N-Wave Program Manager, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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2:50 PM

Agency Story: Department of Defense

Agency perspective on their IPv6 journey: what companies have they worked with, what tools have been implemented, what are some lessons learned and success stories to share.

Jeff Del Vecchio

IPv6 Program Manager, U.S. Department of Defense

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3:10 PM

Real World Deployment: Wells Fargo IPv6 Transition

John Burns

CTO, Wells Fargo

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3:30 PM

Agency Story: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Insights from N-Wave, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s enterprise network program. Hear about the agency experience with transitioning its thousands of network devices and more than 100 Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) systems to IPv6.

Robert Sears

Chair, Federal IPv6 Task Force, Federal Chief Information Officers Council | N-Wave Program Manager, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Chris Conger

Amazon Web Services (invited)

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4:00 PM

Panel: Zero Trust Architecture and IPv6 Technologies

The road to Federal agencies implementing zero trust security architecture leads unavoidably through completion of the transition to a network infrastructure that relies on all-IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) address protocols. Panelists will discuss the importance of transition to IPv6 in the context of larger Federal IT modernization and transformation efforts.

Felipe Fernandez

Director, Systems Engineering, Fortinet Federal

Moderator: Tom Suder

Founder/CEO, ATARC

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4:25 PM

Q&A | Closing Remarks

Robert Sears

Chair, Federal IPv6 Task Force, Federal Chief Information Officers Council | N-Wave Program Manager, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Lee Ellis

Program Manager, IPv6 Task Force Data Center & Cloud Optimization Initiative, Office of Government-wide Policy, General Services Administration

Zoom for Government enables ATARC remote collaboration opportunities through its cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chats and webinars across all devices. Allowing for individuals from all areas of government, industry and academia to communicate directly.