[9:45 a.m. ET/6:45 a.m. PT]
Virtual environment is open! Welcome and Housekeeping

Download resources on transformation techniques throughout the environment. These resources will help you solve some of your agency's biggest challenges.

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[10:00 - 10:20 a.m. ET/7:00 - 7:20 a.m. PT] 
Opening Government Keynote: Government Pain Points: Exploring the Foundations of the IT Modernization Challenge

Speaker: Chezian Sivagnanam, Chief Enterprise Architect, National Science Foundation

In this government keynote, you'll hear from the National Science Foundation's Chezian Sivagnanam about the factors and pain points that led to current transformation challenges at his organization and the path forward.

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[10:20 - 10:50 a.m. ET/7:20 - 7:50 a.m. PT]
Red Hat Keynote

Speaker: Dave Egts, Chief Technologist, Red Hat

In this engaging keynote, you'll hear how Red Hat is enabling agencies transformation to meet IT modernization challenge.

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[11:00 - 11:40 a.m ET/8:00 - 8:40 a.m. PT] 
Session 1: Low Bandwidth No More

Speaker:

• Richard Lewis, Senior Solutions Engineer, Couchbase Federal
• David Schexnayder, Principal Partner Solutions Architect, Couchbase
  

Bandwidth and time, these are two precious commodities for government employees – especially for those that work remotely or in the field. One way to enhance both, is through edge computing.

Edge computing provides applications the ability to run at the location where it's needed at the time. Aka cutting down on the time it take an application to run because the data is right onsite. And when you align that capability with the cloud it can have truly remarkable results. For example, agencies could see major advancements in fraud analysis because of rapid facial recognition technologies that use edge computing capabilities.

In this session, you will learn from experts about how edge computing is changing the way government works.

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[11:50 - 12:30 p.m. ET /8:50 - 9:30 a.m. PT] 
Session 2: Reducing Complexity and Risk in IT Modernization Projects

Speakers:

• Gus Robertson, Executive Vice President, NGINX, AI & Data
  
• Paul Pindell, Principal Architect, Business Development, F5

Budgetary constraints, conflicting priorities, skills gaps, speed of innovation and cybersecurity incidents are just a few of the challenges facing agencies who are looking to transform. To make matters more complicated. as agencies adopt new hybrid cloud architectures the inherent nature of supporting these disparate environments introduces complexity and risk.

In this session, you will learn from experts how multiple tool sprawl leads to inefficiencies in productivity, slower adoption, architectural complexity, security blind spots and increased administrative overhead. And what to do to overcome those barriers.

[12:40 - 1:30 p.m. ET/9:40 – 10:30 a.m. PT]
Government Keynote: Best Practices

Speaker:

• Debbi Blyth, Chief Information Security Officer, State of Colorado
• Jason Gray, Chief Information Officer, Department of Education

In this government keynote, you'll hear from an innovator who has successfully navigated a transformation challenge. You'll learn 5 best practices for how they were able to transform their organization for the better.

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[1:40 - 2:20 p.m. ET/10:40 – 11:20 a.m. PT]
Session 3: How to Use Automation Data Securely and Safely in Gov

Speaker: Mark Hurter, Solutions Sales Specialist, DevSecOps, CyberArk

Automation is a critical part of improving operational efficiency for federal agencies, but the SolarWinds software supply chain breach demonstrates just how important it is to secure, authenticate, and audit access to sensitive data. Unprotected secrets in code, automation scripts, or more violate federal compliance regulations because they could grant attackers unfettered access to sensitive government data.

Agencies need to find ways to add in layers of protection so that they can achieve and maintain compliance with important standards such as FISMA, NIST, and others.

In this session, you'll learn:

• Best practices for securing sensitive information.
• Real word federal case study for protecting and retrieving Ansible secrets.
• The process by which agencies can taking a stronger security posture.

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[2:30 - 3:10 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. PT]
Session 4: Modernize Your Data Strategy, Maximize Your Security

Speakers:

• Nasheb Ismaily, Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloudera
  
• Brian Merrick, Director, Cloud Programs, Department of State
• Garrett Clark, Principal Storage and Hyperconverged Sales Specialist, Red Hat
• Zachary Schwartz, Division Chief, Communications Directorate, U.S. Census Bureau

As your agency data volume increases and the need to gain insight grows, developing a comprehensive data strategy becomes critical. But with data in multiple environments and strict security and governance requirements, what is the best way to tackle modernization efforts?

Join government and industry experts for a discussion that will serve as a modernization playbook for agencies looking to leverage cloud flexibility and elasticity while minimizing security risks that can result from public cloud deployment. You'll explore the ways government organizations can securely manage the complete data lifecycle, putting data to work faster and reducing time to value.

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[3:20 - 3:40 p.m. ET/12:20 - 12:40 p.m. PT]
GovLoop Wrap Up!

What a day! So many trainings! Did you catch everything? If you missed out on a session or are looking for a cliff notes style recap, this session is for you. GovLoop will break down the biggest lessons learned and key takeaways from the day in plain language.