November 5-8, 2019 | Cornell Univesity in Ithaca, NY
2019 Cloud Forum Schedule
Tuesday, 11/5
| Date/Time (EST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 6-7 p.m. | Reception and early check-in |
| Dinner on your own |
Wednesday, 11/6
| Date/Time (EST) | Session | Session Assets |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration check-in and breakfast | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Opening and Survey Results | Survey recap (opens in a new window) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Presentation 1: Supporting Secure Research in the Cloud Stefan Wahe & Eric Straavaldsen – University of Wisconsin – Madison | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 9:30 a.m. | Reserach 1: Supercomputing in the Google Cloud Platform Professor Amy Apon – C. Tycho Howle Director, School of Computing – Clemson University | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 10:15 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Presentation 2: AWS Organizations & Security at Notre Dame James Smith, Jared Bulosan – University of Notre Dame | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 11:00 a.m. | Presentation 3: Subscription Provisioning and Compliance Automation in Microsoft Azure Josh Wrights – Penn State University | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 11:30 a.m. | Presentation 4: Bringing Law and Order to Google Cloud Platform: Securing your GCP Organization Bob Flynn and Ananya Ravipati – Indiana University | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 12 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1 p.m. | Lightning Round 1 | Slides (opens in a new window) | Schedule (opens in a new window) |
| 1:30 p.m. | Presentation 5: A journey through migration of a monolith to a multi tenant cloud platform and lessons learned. Graeme Baillie – SWITCH ( National Education and Research Network Switzerland ) | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 2 p.m. | Panel 1: Follow the Money: Paying for the Cloud 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 | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 2:45 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Presentation 6: Data Warehousing in the Cloud – An Iterative Approach Robert Snyder, Vanessa Brown – Ithaca College | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 3:30 p.m. | Panel 2: Cloud SSO/IdP Design and Implementation John Bailey – Washington University in St. Louis Gerard Shockley – Boston University Alok Vimawala – University of Michigan Gary Windham – University of Arizona | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 4:15 p.m. | Lightning Round 2 | Slides (opens in a new window) | Schedule (opens in a new window) |
| 5:20 p.m. | Dinner – Special Guest Speaker at 5:45 |
Thursday, 11/7
| Date/Time (EST) | Session | Session Assets |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Presentation 7: But what have you done for me lately? Centralized consulting for a distributed University. Ben Rota, Associate Director of Technology Engagement – Harvard University | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Research 2: K-State’s Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Journey Ian Czarnezki, Director of Operations, Office of the Vice President for Research – Kansas State University | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 9:45 a.m. | Break | |
| 9:55 a.m. | Lightning Round 3 | Slides (opens in a new window) | Schedule (opens in a new window) |
| 10:25 a.m. | Presentation 8: From operational to predictive: Evolving from a traditional data warehouse to an analytics hub Damian Doyle, Jason Paluck – University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 10:55 a.m. | Panel 3: Flipping Research Bill Allison – UC Berkeley Damian Doyle – UMBC John Ellis – Emory Rob Fatland – University of Washington James Kenyon – University of Michigan | |
| 11:40 a.m. | Presentation 9: Backup to Google Cloud Platform via Cohesity Hans Jacobsen – Stanford Medicine | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 12:10 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1 p.m. | Lightning Round 4 | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 1:30 p.m. | Presentation 10: Enterprise-Scale DevOps with a Startup-Sized Team with GitLab, AWS, and Friends Michael Irwin & Carl Harris – Virginia Tech | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 2 – 5:00 p.m. | Unconference sessions and report out | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Guest Speaker: Elephants and technology – we need both to save a rainforest Professor Peter Wrege – Director, Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University | |
| 6:00 p.m. | Reception | |
| 7:00 p.m. | Dinner on your own |
Friday 11/8
| Date/Time (EST) | Session | Session Assets |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Presentation 11: A Tale of Two Projects — separate vs. existing teams to transform an organization for cloud John Ellis, Deputy CIO – Emory University | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Presentation 12: UNCG’s Cloud Cyberinfrastrcuture Innovation Lab Jeff Whitworth – UNC Greensboro | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 9:30 a.m. | Presentation 13: UA CloudOps – Extending the Reach of the Cloud on Campus Gary Windham – Principal Enterprise Systems Architect – The University of Arizona | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 10:00 a.m. | Research 3: 1. Scaling a Machine Learning Workflow to Generate Species Distributions and Population Trends Using Citizen Science Data Tom Auer, GIS Developer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2. Analyzing long-term changes in nocturnal bird migration using the NEXRAD weather radar archive Adriaan Michiel Dokter, Research Associate that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Presentation 14: I Said Hey! What’s Going On? Effective monitoring for the Cloud Shelley Rossell & Cornelia Bailey – University of Chicago | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 11:30 a.m. | Presentation 15: Making Carrot Cake from Carrots Alok Vimawala & Martin Sager – University of Michigan | Slides (opens in a new window) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. | Conference closing and adjournment (boxed lunches in lobby) |