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GSA in coordination with the Federal IPv6 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 [email protected].
1:00 PM
Welcome | Kick-Off

Robert Sears
Director, N-Wave Program, 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
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)
1:15 PM
Opening Keynote

John Curran
President and Chief Executive Officer, American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN)
1:45 PM
Panel: Federal Government Perspective
Hear insights from the IPv6 Task Force Members

Carol Bales
Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Chief Information Officer, Executive Office of the President (invited)

Victoria Pillitteri
Acting Manager, Security Engineering & Risk Management Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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

Branko Bokan
Cybersecurity Specialist, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Robert Sears
Director, N-Wave Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Moderator: Tom Suder
Founder/CEO, ATARC
2:15 PM
Panel: Private Sector use of IPv6
Hear from industry representatives about their experience with leveraging IPv6 within their environments.

Jeffry Handal
Technical Leader, Cisco

Dawn Bedard
Principal PM Manager, Microsoft

Owen Rodgers
Assistant Vice President, Architecture & Engineering, AT&T Global Public Sector

Moderator: Robert Sears
Director, N-Wave Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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.Â

Jeff Del Vecchio
IPv6 Program Manager, U.S. Department of Defense
3:10 PM
Real World Deployment: Wells Fargo IPv6 Transition
A presentation on the methods for detecting and scanning all devices, blending the capabilities of V6-capable scanning and discovery and CMDB tools.

John Burns
Former Principal Network Architect, Wells Fargo
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’s experience with configuring and deploying IPv6 across multiple cloud service provider environments.Â

Robert Sears
Director, N-Wave Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Chris Konger
N-Wave Cloud Network Engineer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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.Â

Greg Buchanan
Senior Director, Public Sector Product Management, Zscaler

Ken Arora
Distinguished Engineer & Architect, Cybersecurity, F5

Felipe Fernandez
Sr. Director, Systems Engineering, Fortinet Federal

Moderator: Tom Suder
Founder/CEO, ATARC
4:25 PM
Q&AÂ Â |Â Â Closing Remarks

Robert Sears
Director, N-Wave Program, 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.Â