Agenda

With Intelligent Data Infrastructure you can rise to every moment: Simplicity, Secuirty, Scalability, Savings, Smarts and Sustainability

Jeff Baxter

Vice President, Product Marketing
NetApp

Data has become the most powerful tool in the public sector arsenal, whether educating future leaders, serving citizens, protecting our natural resources or defending our nation. This session will bring together a panel of experts to discuss the critical importance of infrastructure modernization and intelligent data management.

Brian Hack

Deputy CIO and Deputy Director, Information Technology Enterprise
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Retired

Sergio Alvarez

Acting Project Director, Enterprise Services
US Army

Jeremy Schatten

Director, Identity and Data Management Services
American University

Rob Diethorn

Lead Backup, Storage, and Archive Engineer, ITS Enterprise Infrastructure
University of Virginia

From the Battlespace to the Boardroom – A fireside chat with Quentin McCoy, Director of Procurement, Chief Digital and AI Office

Quentin McCoy

Director of Procurement
Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)

Michelle Rudnicki

President, U.S. Public Sector
NetApp

Security needs to be a core business requirement for your most precious asset, not an option. As organizations push more data to the edge, increase their cloud dependency and embrace advanced technologies like generative AI to enable growth, new vulnerabilities are created that can allow attackers to compromise their systems.

In this session Matt and Jeff will explore how NetApp’s built-in security capabilities - through ONTAP and beyond - can be leveraged to enhance cyber resilience including data protection and governance, actioning zero trust, enabling AI-powered threat detection and ensuring data integrity.

Matt Trudewind

Senior Product Manager, Security
NetApp

Jim Cosby

CTO, Public Sector and Partners, U.S. Public Sector
NetApp

Please join Flywheel as they present a true Hybrid Multi-Cloud experience for customers, while provisioning data/storage needs with NetApp utilizing a crossplane plugin for StorageGRID.

Kevin Sitto

CTO
Flywheel Data

In an era where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape of technology, data stands as the foundational element driving this transformation. Red River and NetApp understand the pivotal role data plays in your AI journey, join us to hear how you can harness the power of data to maximize performance, build seamless data mobility and securely scale your AI environment.

Austin Boone

AI Technical Lead and Retired Army CW4
Red River

Brian Charles

Cloud Practice Lead
Red River

Welcome to the future where your data infrastructure becomes more seamless, dynamic and higher performing than ever.

In this session Jeff and Matt will discuss the transformative power of NetApp® intelligent data infrastructure and how it is helping shape the future of data-driven IT modernization in the public sector with products, services, and solutions are helping customers meet mission and business needs. State of the art block storage, flexibility for VMWare workloads, the power of ONTAP, guaranteed cyber resilience, AI readiness, the power of cloud? Yea, we got all of that and more.

Jeff Baxter

Vice President, Product Marketing
NetApp

Matt Lawson

Director for Solution Engineering
NetApp U.S. Public Sector

Join CTG as we discuss how we helped a customer modernize a complex distributed design to a more centralized system with a single data repository that includes Data Governance with a Zero Trust approach to ensure security and integrity. Additionally, automation through AI/ML technologies was introduced to streamline processes and maintain consistency. These changes have helped improve mission outcomes,  increased flexibility to adopt future capabilities and delivered measurable cost savings!

Brian Toy

Principal Technical Account Manager & DOD Sales Co-Leader
CTG Federal

Zack Widing

CTO - DOD
CTG Federal

Mark Bubb

Sr Director Solutions Engineering/Technical Specialist, U.S. Public Sector
NetApp

The data explosion has created a multitude of complexities including increased security threats for organizations across the public sector. This session will bring together a panel of experts to discuss how they are tackling security challenges, the importance of building security into technology and solutions from the ground up

Carlos Azuero

Deputy CIO
US Department of Justice (DoJ) Antitrust Division

Kwadwo Burgee

Deputy Branch Chief for Directives and Guidance
CISA, DHS

John P. Sahlin Ph.D.

Vice President Cyber Solutions
GDIT