May 8-11, 2023 | Community Exchange & Emory University in Atlanta, GA

2022 Cloud Forum Schedule

Tuesday, 11/8

Date/Time (CST)Session
6-7 p.m.Reception and early check-in – Knight Center Pub – 4th Floor
 Dinner on your own

Wednesday, 11/9

Date/Time (CST)SessionSession Assets
7:30 a.m.Registration check-in and breakfast – Anheuser-Busch Dining Hall – 1 – 3rd Floor
8:30 a.m.John Bailey, Washington University in St. Louis
Jessie Minton, Vice Chancellor for Technology and CIO, Washington University in St. Louis
Opening/Survey Results – Erik Lundberg, University of Washington & Mike Kilpatrick, University of California Office of the President
Welcome Slides
Survey recap
9:15 a.m.Presentation: “Optimizing Our New AWS Account Creation Process for Time and Cost
Nick Marangella, University of California – San Diego
Slides
9:45 a.m.Break
10 a.m.Lightning Mini-RoundVirtual*Slides
Recording
10:15 a.m.Panel: “The Challenge of Federal Cloud Funding” – Virtual*
Nick Weber, National Institutes of Health
Recording
11 a.m.Research: Using the Cloud to Disrupt Health and Medicine – Virtual*
Dr. Azizi Seixas, Director of The Media and Innovation Lab, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Recording
12 p.m.Lunch – Anheuser-Busch Dining Hall – 1 – 3rd Floor
1 p.m.Presentation: “Kion: A Penn State Journey
Rick Rhoades, Penn State University
Slides
Recording
1:30 p.m.Presentation: “How UCF Is Pursuing Cloud Maturity
Jonathan White, University of Central Florida
Slides
Recording
2 p.m.Workshop – Cultivating a Cloud Culture in Your Organization: Presentations Slides
Recording
3:30 p.m.Break
3:45 – 5:15 p.m.Workshop – Cultivating a Cloud Culture in Your Organization: Panel DiscussionPre-reading
6 – 8 p.m.Reception and Dinner – Holmes Lounge – Ridgley Hall
8 – 10:30 p.m.Game Night – O’Donnell Lounge – 2nd FloorGame List

Thursday, 11/10

Date/Time (CST)SessionSession Assets
7:30 a.m.Registration check-in and breakfast – Anheuser-Busch Dining Hall – 1 – 3rd Floor
8:45 a.m.Presentation: “Harvard University: Why Multi-Cloud?
Albert Pacheco & Sean McCarty, Harvard University
Slides
9:15 a.m.Presentation: “Centralized Cloud Infrastructure
Lucrecia Kim-Boswell, Stanford University
Slides
9:45 a.m.Break
10 a.m.Lightning TalksVirtual*Slides
Recording
11 a.m.Research: Drivers of Healthcare Outcome Disparities at the Individual LevelVirtual*
Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, Chief Research Informatics Officer for the University of Kansas Medical Center and University of Kansas Health Services
Slides
Recording
12 p.m.Lunch – Anheuser-Busch Dining Hall – 1 – 3rd Floor
1 p.m.Presentation: “Give ’em the Old Razzle DaaS-le
Christopher Manly, Cornell University
Slides
1:30 p.m.Presentation: “Cloud Communications: Who, What, and How
Matthew Rich, Northwestern University
Slides
2 – 5:15 p.m.UnconferenceWorking Docs
Dinner on your own
8 – 10:30 p.m.Game Night – O’Donnell Lounge – 2nd FloorGame List

Friday 11/11

Date/Time (CST)SessionSession Assets
7:30 a.m.Registration check-in and breakfast – Anheuser-Busch Dining Hall – 1 – 3rd Floor
8:30 a.m.Panel: “Establishing a Higher Ed Cloud Mentorship Program
Bob Flynn, Internet2
Slides
Recording
9:15 a.m.Presentation: “AWS Account Provisioning at the University of Chicago
Shelley Rossell, University of Chicago
Slides
9:45 a.m.Break
10 a.m.Presentation: “Embracing Enterprise Architecture to Drive New Cloud Value” – Virtual*
Kevin Muller, Fordham University
Slides
Recording
10:30 a.m.Presentation: “Secure Research Initiatives Learnings” – Virtual*
Barbara Schnell, University of Colorado Boulder
Slides
Recording
11 a.m.Research: From the Fringes to the Mainstream: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream MediaVirtual*
Axel Bruns, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Slides
Recording
12 p.m.Boxed lunch – outside Classroom 200 – 2nd Floor
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Conference closing and departure