| Date/Time | Session | Session Dur. (minutes) | Location in the Statler Hotel | Session Title | Theme | Key Take Aways | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | |||||||
| 6:00 PM | Reception | 60 | Taylor Room | ||||
| Wednesday | |||||||
| 8:00 AM | Registration/ Breakfast | 30 | Conference Foyer | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Opening/Survey Results | 30 | Amphitheater | ||||
| 9:00 AM | Presentation 1 | 30 | Amphitheater | Supporting Secure Research in the Cloud | Technical or Research | A checklist of cybersecurity and regulatory controls to consider when leveraging cloud services to perform research projects. | Stefan Wahe – Eric Straavaldsen – University of Wisconsin – Madison |
| 9:30 AM | Research 1 | 45 | Amphitheater | Supercomputing in the Google Cloud Platform | Leveraging GCP for Research | Professor Amy Apon – C. Tycho Howle Director, School of Computing – Clemson University | |
| 10:15 AM | break | 15 | Conference Foyer | ||||
| 10:30 AM | Presentation 2 | 30 | Amphitheater | AWS Organizations & Security at Notre Dame | Cloud platform or logistics | Action items and best practices for implementing Organizations, Service Control Policies, Cloudformation Stack Sets, and more. | James Smith, Jared Bulosan – University of Notre Dame |
| 11:00 AM | Presentation 3 | 30 | Amphitheater | Subscription Provisioning and Compliance Automation in Microsoft Azure | Cloud platform or logistics | How to accomplish automated provisioning and compliance for Microsoft Azure subscriptions based on data classification | Josh Wrights – Penn State University |
| 11:30 AM | Presentation 4 | 30 | Amphitheater | Bringing Law and Order to Google Cloud Platform: Securing your GCP Organization | Cloud platform or logistics | 1) An understanding of what makes managing GCP unique among the cloud providers. 2) An approach to configuring your GCP Organization to accommodate the breadth of HED use cases and security/compliance needs | Bob Flynn and Ananya Ravipati – Indiana University |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | 60 | Ballroom | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Lightning 1 | 30 | Amphitheater | ||||
| 1:30 PM | Presentation 5 | 30 | Amphitheater | A journey through migration of a monolith to a multi tenant cloud platform and lessons learned. | Cloud platform or logistics | How to manage a migration, how to manage expectations & how to structure the steps reasonably to reach a realistic end goal. | Graeme Baillie – SWITCH ( National Education and Research Network Switzerland ) |
| 2:00 PM | Panel 1 | 45 | Amphitheater | Follow the Money: Paying for the Cloud | Policy, Legal, Governance | Lessons learned on potential models for paying for (and possibly charging) for cloud services along with actionable steps they can take to improve processes within their organization. | Jonathan White, Cloud and Infrastructure Strategist – University of Central Florida |
| Martin Sager, Computer Services Manager – University of Michigan | |||||||
| Ben Rota, Associate Director of Technology Engagement – Harvard University | |||||||
| Helen Hockx-Yu, Enterprise Data Architect – University of Notre Dame | |||||||
| Noah Abrahamson, Director, Technology Consulting Group, IT Services – Stanford University | |||||||
| 2:45 PM | break | 15 | Conference Foyer | ||||
| 3:00 PM | Presentation 6 | 30 | Amphitheater | Data Warehousing in the Cloud – An Iterative Approach | Cloud platform or logistics | This is a technical presentation focused on learning and empowerment. We intend to provide real tools to help other institutions on the cloud warehousing journey – particularly those just starting – delivered through the perspective of our experience. | Robert Snyder, Vanessa Brown – Ithaca College |
| 3:30 PM | Panel 2 | 45 | Amphitheater | Cloud SSO/IdP Design and Implementation | Solving a business or academic problem | Panel members will describe their distinctive design choice and implementation experience with SSO/IdP in the cloud. The members of the panel will cover solutions using AWS, Azure, Shibboleth, ADFS, and different approaches to addressing hybrid cloud needs. | John Bailey – Washington University in St. Louis |
| Gerard Shockley – Boston University | |||||||
| Alok Vimawala – University of Michigan | |||||||
| Gary Windham – University of Arizona | |||||||
| 4:15 PM | Lightning 2 | 30 | Amphitheater | ||||
| 5:20 PM | Dinner | Terrace Lounge | Special Guest Speaker at 5:45 | ||||
| Date/Time | Session | Session Dur. (minutes) | Location in the Statler Hotel | Session Title | Theme | Key Take Aways | Presenters |
| Thursday | |||||||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | 30 | Conference Foyer | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Presentation 7 | 30 | Amphitheater | But what have you done for me lately? Centralized consulting for a distributed University. | Solving a business or academic problem | Ideas for how to help people with independent budgets make the right decision for the University. | Ben Rota, Associate Director of Technology Engagement – Harvard University |
| 9:00 AM | Research 2 | 45 | Amphitheater | K-State’s Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Journey | Leveraging Azure for research | Ian Czarnezki, Director of Operations, Office of the Vice President for Research – Kansas State University | |
| 9:45 AM | break | 10 | Conference Foyer | ||||
| 9:55 AM | Lightning 3 | 30 | Amphitheater | ||||
| 10:25 AM | Presentation 8 | 30 | Amphitheater | From operational to predictive: Evolving from a traditional data warehouse to an analytics hub. | Solving a business or academic problem | Damian Doyle, Jason Paluck – University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| 10:55 AM | Panel 3 | 45 | Amphitheater | Flipping Research | Technical or Research | IT with cloud expertise can (and should) make a huge difference in revolutionizing academic research | Bill Allison – UC Berkeley |
| Damian Doyle – UMBC | |||||||
| John Ellis – Emory | |||||||
| Rob Fatland – University of Washington | |||||||
| James Kenyon – University of Michigan | |||||||
| 11:40 AM | Presentation 9 | 30 | Amphitheater | Backup to Google Cloud Platform via Cohesity | Solving a business or academic problem | Data Protection of on-prem systems to cloud can perform well and not be hard. | Hans Jacobsen – Stanford Medicine |
| 12:10 PM | Lunch | 50 | Ballroom | ||||
| 1:00 PM | Lightning 4 | 30 | Amphitheater | ||||
| 1:30 PM | Presentation 10 | 30 | Amphitheater | Enterprise-Scale DevOps with a Startup-Sized Team with GitLab, AWS, and Friends | Solving a business or academic problem | There’s an path for cloud adoption… lift/shift -> make it cheaper -> what else can we do as we leverage services; “Leverage the Services, Luke”; GitOps as a Strategy (how to manage code, deploy minimal changes in a least privileged manner); cost-saving options, but there’s a point of diminishing returns; you can have a small team with “big team” support | Michael Irwin – Carl Harris – Virginia Tech |
| 2:00 PM | Unconference Slot 1 | 45 | Amphitheater | Organize Unconference | Unconf – Organize | ||
| 2:45 PM | Break | 15 | Conference Foyer | ||||
| 3:00 PM | Unconference Slot 2 | 45 | Unconference Session 1 | Unconf – TBD during Organize Session | |||
| 3:45 PM | Unconference Slot 3 | 45 | Unconference Session 2 | Unconf – TBD during Organize Session | |||
| 4:30 PM | Unconference Slot 4 | 30 | Cloudbursts | Unconf – Report Out | |||
| 5:00 PM | Guest Speaker | 45 | Amphitheater | Elephants and technology – we need both to save a rainforest | Guest Speaker | Professor Peter Wrege – Director, Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University | |
| 6:00 PM | Reception | 60 | Taylor Room | ||||
| 7:00 PM | Dinner – on your own | ||||||
| Date/Time | Session | Session Dur. (minutes) | Location in the Statler Hotel | Session Title | Theme | Key Take Aways | Presenters |
| Friday | |||||||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | 30 | Conference Foyer | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Presentation 11 | 30 | Amphitheater | A Tale of Two Projects — separate vs. existing teams to transform an organization for cloud | Organizational Change | If we create a separate, “cracker jack” team to get us going along the cloud journey, we may blast through the clouds faster but may also have difficulty on re-entry; on the other hand, if we try to grow existing teams, we may discover many hidden gems in the organization but progress will be much slower. | John Ellis, Deputy CIO – Emory University |
| 9:00 AM | Presentation 12 | 30 | Amphitheater | UNCG’s Cloud Cyberinfrastrcuture Innovation Lab | Solving a business or academic problem | Adoption of cloud infrastructure is challenging at all institutions, but can be especially difficult for a R2. However, the opportunity to provide access to computing capabilities typically reserved for R1s makes the task compelling | Jeff Whitworth – UNC Greensboro |
| 9:30 AM | Presentation 13 | 30 | Amphitheater | UA CloudOps – Extending the Reach of the Cloud on Campus | Other | why and how to build a cloud service catalog; technologies involved in building the cloud service catalog; lifecycle management for cloud services; managed operations for a cloud service catalog | Gary Windham – Principal Enterprise Systems Architect – The University of Arizona |
| 10:00 AM | Research 3 | 45 | Amphitheater | 1. Scaling a Machine Learning Workflow to Generate Species Distributions and Population Trends Using Citizen Science Data 2. Analyzing long-term changes in nocturnal bird migration using the NEXRAD weather radar archive |
Leveraging AWS for research | 1. Tom Auer, GIS Developer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2. Adriaan Michiel Dokter, Research Associate that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology |
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| 10:45 AM | Break | 30 | Conference Foyer | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Presentation 14 | 30 | Amphitheater | I Said Hey! What’s Going On? Effective monitoring for the Cloud | Other | In this interactive session, we’ll describe the trials, travails, and triumphs of our risk-based approach to monitor and alert on cloud-based activity, focusing on both AWS and GCP (and likely Azure). We’ll cover the challenges of non-central IT managed accounts as well as adapting to the ever-evolving AWS security options and architecture. | Shelley Rossell, Cornelia Bailey – University of Chicago |
| 11:30 AM | Presentation 15 | 30 | Amphitheater | Making Carrot Cake from Carrots | Other | Learn about different incentives and structures that help researchers make use of cloud computing securely | Alok Vimawala, Martin Sager – University of Michigan |
| 12:00 PM | Closing | Amphitheater | |||||
| 12:30 PM | Adjourn |
