Broadcom Livestream - Mission to Modernize: Strategies for the Data Driven Future

Federal agencies spend four times more taxpayer dollars maintaining outdated IT systems than they spend investing in new technologies, which is a significant hurdle for agencies to meet their mission objectives including improving public end-user services and maintaining the safety of the country.

The White House has made it clear that strengthening and upgrading IT infrastructure across federal and defense agencies is a strategic imperative to better serve and protect the nation. With the President’s Management Agenda, creation of the Technology Modernization Fund, and launch of the IT Modernization Centers of Excellence, agency leaders and IT decision-makers are being challenged to modernize their agencies’ infrastructure to drive efficiency and effectiveness, save federal dollars, and create new opportunities for innovation.

Agency services and capabilities are becoming more data-driven by the day. A critical step to modernize an agency’s infrastructure is to ensure the right infrastructure is in place to optimize technologies which enable increasingly data-driven services and capabilities. A modernized storage infrastructure is critical to “front-line” operations of an agency’s IT system - driving efficiency and effectiveness, reducing operational costs, mitigating cybersecurity threats and ultimately improving the delivery of agency services to the end-user.

On October 25th, industry and government experts, decision-makers, and doers will explore how a modernized storage network and infrastructure can improve agency effectiveness while providing a platform for innovation. Register for this livestream to follow the conversation from your computer!

We’ll discuss:

• The state of IT modernization and steps agency thought leaders are taking to meet the White House’s directives and objectives
• How existing and emerging storage networking technologies and modern data center techniques can improve performance and reliability of an entire infrastructure
• Ways to gain improved visibility into the analytics of your networks, enabling proactive diagnostics and tuning of your infrastructure to optimize the latest storage technologies
• Ways to gain improved visibility into the performance of your networks, enabling proactive diagnostics and tuning of your infrastructure to optimize the latest storage technologies

Agenda

8:30 - 8:40 AM	Welcome and Event Overview Tim Hartman, Chief Executive Officer, Government Executive Media Group Tom Heinz, Federal Director, Storage Platforms, Brocade
8:40 - 9:00 AM	Opening 1-on-1 Donna Roy, Executive Director, Information Sharing and Services Office, DHS Moderator: AJ Casamento, Principal Solution Architect, Broadcom
9:00 - 9:40 AM	The Modernization Roadmap: Where We Are and Where We're Going What is the state of IT technology modernization, how can it aid government IT modernization, and what are the next steps agencies must take to meet priorities? This panel will discuss agency-specific strategies, examine areas of focus including transformative and emerging storage technologies, storage networking considerations for modernization, and best practices for federal IT stakeholders in the journey towards a modern technology infrastructure. John Bergin, Information Technology and Business System Reform Lead, Department of Defense Crystal Philcox, Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Category Management, ITC, General Services Administration AJ Casamento, Principal Solution Architect, Broadcom Kevin Kalmbach, Master Solutions Consultant, Hitachi Vantara Federal Moderator: Tom Suder, President and Founder, Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC)
9:40 - 9:55 AM	Tech Talk: Modernization with Flash and NVMe AJ Casamento, Principal Solution Architect, Broadcom
9:55 - 10:15 AM	Broadcom Keynote: Modernization with Broadcom Regan McGrath, Vice President, Worldwide Field Sales, Broadcom
10:15 - 10:45 AM	Livestream Break
10:45 - 11:15 AM	Modernization in Action Pamela Isom, Deputy CIO for Architecture, Engineering, Technology, and Innovation, and Chief Data Officer, Department of Energy Martin Skagen, Vice President, Research & Development, Brocade
11:15 - 11:40 AM	Interactive Table Discussions
11:40 - 12:30 PM	Livestream Break
12:35 - 1:15 PM	Panel Discussion: Automation for the Mission With increasingly complex environments, civilian and defense agencies are looking at automation to simplify IT operations, create efficiencies, and improve their ability to delivery services to their end customers. But, to fully benefit from automation an agency must align its processes and infrastructure to capture, optimize and use the information and tools. During this panel we'll explore the power of automaton, its role in today's modern IT infrastructure, and how it can be leveraged across agencies to help achieve mission-critical objectives. Frank Konieczny, Chief Technology Officer, Office of Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force Courtney Winship, Chief, Digital Services Division, Office of Citizenship and Applicant Information Services, U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service David Schmeichel, Director, Solutions Architecture, Broadcom Louis Speciale, Dell EMC Moderator: Jason Miller, Executive Editor, Federal News Radio
1:15 - 1:30 PM	Tech Talk: Automation David Schmeichel, Director, Solutions Architecture, Broadcom
1:30 - 1:55 PM	Closing Fireside Chat Stephen Prosser, Chief Data Officer, Intelligence Community, ODNI Moderator: Jason Miller, Executive Editor, Federal News Radio
1:55 - 2:00 PM	Closing Remarks Tim Hartman, Chief Executive Officer, Government Executive Media Group