Breakout II

11:20 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.

Track A-2: Business Resilience: More Than Keeping the Lights On

Business resilience is the ability an organization has to quickly adapt to disruptions while maintaining continuous business operations and safeguarding people, assets and overall brand equity. Resilience​ goes a step beyond disaster recovery by offering post-disaster strategies to avoid costly downtime, shore vulnerabilities and maintain business operations in the face of additional, unexpected breaches.

Steve Cooper, CIO, Dept. of Commerce
Mike Echols, Director, Cyber Joint Program Management Office, DHS
Steve Harris, VP & GM, Dell Federal
Moderator: Bill Rowan, VP, Federal Sales, VMware
Track B-2: Lowering the Cost of Government by Moving to the Hybrid Cloud

The federal government has touted cloud computing as the way of the future for nearly a decade now, but private analysts, like Gartner, are pointing to hybrid cloud as the next trend to flood the market. And more than adding efficiency to your team's workflow, hybrid cloud can also cut costs typically dedicated to infrastructure maintenance, storage and more. During this session, IT experts will discuss where they've found tangible savings by modernizing their enterprise with hybrid cloud and best practices for getting there.

Neal Andrew, Sr. Solutions Architect, Dept. of Navy
Stanley Kaczmarczyk, Director, Cloud Computing PMO, GSA
Maria Roat, CTO, DOT
Jack Nichols, Manager, Cloud Client Services, CDW-G
Moderator: Paul Stephenson, Public Sector Field CTO, VMware
Track C-2: Enabling Security through Software Defined Networking and Micro Segmentation

Agencies in the cloud can take their security to new heights with network virtualization and a software-defined data center, like VMware's NSX architecture. Hear from those agencies and more on why they chose virtualization and the returns they're seeing from it.

Frank Konieczny, CTO, USAF
Robert Owens, Deputy Inspector General for Management & Policy, OIG, HHS
Richard Young, CIO, FAS/USDA
Christie Karrels, Sr. Solutions Architect, Intel
Moderator: Dominick Delfino, VP of Worldwide Systems Engineering, VMware