EDUCATION OVERVIEW
Tuesday, July 19 – Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Learn from leading federal, state and local government IT officials in this unique and timely conference program bringing together leaders from the broader international and commercial technology community, providing a forum for bridging ideas and innovations between the public and private sector and outlining upcoming federal IT initiatives for longer term strategic planning.
Session Tracks:
Enabling the Mobile Government Workforce
Sessions in this track focus on harnessing mobile web apps, social media and emerging wireless technologies for more effective government, including innovations from the Defense sector.
Cybersecurity, Network Defense and Information Assurance
Sessions in this track cover proven strategies and technologies for protecting government information systems and the data that moves across them.
Next-Generation Infrastructure Strategies
Sessions in this track cover infrastructure strategies from desktop virtualization to could computing and everything in between.
Information Management & Collaboration
Sessions in this track focus on ways that new tools and approaches are improving enterprise-wide and federated decision making.
Add-On Sessions:
Wednesday, July 20The Deployment Diaries: DNSSEC in U.S. Federal Systems and Beyond
In 2011, more than half of U.S. federal agencies have not yet deployed the domain name system security extensions (DNSSEC) mandated by OMB and FISMA. In the meantime, private-sector and international deployment continues in other domains around the world. This session will assess progress, identify lessons learned and offer new solutions and models for successful deployment, with an emphasis on solutions.
Participants will learn:
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Where individual agencies stand compared to the rest of the .gov domain
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How DNSSEC fits into current cybersecurity priorities for the U.S. government
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Successful deployment models in the public and private sectors, from other domains, ISPs, registrars and more
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New apps, APIs, tools and products to help with federal deployment