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May 20 – 22, 2025 | New York University in New York, NY

2025 Cloud Forum Schedule

For Higher Ed,
By Higher Ed

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Monday, 5/19

Date/Time (EDT)SessionSession Assets
6:30-8:30Reception / Game Night

Tuesday, 5/20

Date/Time (EDT)SessionSession Assets
8 – 9 a.m.Breakfast and Check-in
9 – 9:45 a.m.Opening Remarks and Survey Review
Bob Flynn, I2; Phil Fenstermacher, William and Mary; David Lacey, J. Paul Getty Trust
9:45 – 10:15 a.m.Presentation: “Five Years of Cloud at Penn State and the Road Ahead“
Rick Rhoades, Penn State University
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.Break
10:30 – 11 a.m.Presentation: “Visualizing Cloud Spend at UT“
Margaret Spangenberg, The University of Texas at Austin
11 – 11:30 a.m.Presentation: “Migration Misfortunes: How FinOps Saved the Day (and costs)“
Jonathan White, University of Central Florida
11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.Presentation: “Counting Clouds to maximize cloudy returns: How to not let cloud accounting rain on your cloud team’s parade“
Lucrecia Kim-Boswell, Stanford University
12 – 1 p.m.Lunch
1 – 1:45 p.m.Research Presentation: “Find the Causes of Rare Pediatric Genetic Diseases“
Gilad Evrony, New York University School of Medicine
1:45 – 2:30 p.m.Research Presentation: “The First 1000 Days: Creating Cloud-Based Systems for Collecting and Analyzing a Big Naturalistic Dataset to Study Human Development“
Hadas Raviv, Princeton University
Liat Hasenfratz, Princeton University
Irene Kopaliani, Princeton University
Uri Hasson, Princeton University
2:30 – 2:45p.m.Break
2:45 – 3:30 p.m.Research Presentation: “Rapid Detection of Wildfires from Satellite Observations and the importance of Cloud Computing in support of Open-Source Science“
Steve Dutcher, University of Wisconsin, Space Science & Engineering Center
3:30 – 4:15 p.m.Researcher Panel Discussion
Moderator: Nick Weber, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
4:15 – 4:30 p.m.Break
4:30 – 5 p.m.Presentation: “Building the Cloud Foundation: Empowering Higher Ed with Terraform templates, Security risk assessments, and Collaboration“
Kelly Rivera, University of Wisconsin-Madison
TBDDinner

Wednesday, 5/21

Date/Time (EDT)SessionSession Assets
8 – 9 a.m.Breakfast
9 – 9:30 a.m.Presentation: “Designing the Next-generation Cloud Service“
Chris Manly, Cornell University
9:30 – 10 a.m.Presentation: “OCRE2024, the cloud tender for 39 European countries“
Michel Wets, SURF, the Dutch NREN
10 – 10:15 a.m.Break
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.Cloud Security Maturity Model Workshop: Advancing Your Institution’s Readiness
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Cloud Security Maturity Model Workshop: Advancing Your Institution’s Readiness (continued)
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.Lightning Talks
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.Break
2:45 – 3:15 p.m.Presentation: “Using Cloud Computing for HPC and Big Data“
Shenglong Wang, New York University
3:15 – 3:45 p.m.Presentation: “Saving a Million with AI: How UMBC Built Its Own Enterprise E-Discovery Solution“
Jason Paluck, University of Maryland – Baltimore County
3:45 – 4 p.m.Break
4 – 5:15 p.m.Lightning Talks

Thursday, 5/22

Date/Time (EDT)SessionSession Assets
8 – 9 a.m.Breakfast
9 – 9:30 a.m.Presentation: “Adapting SecOps To Higher Ed“
Matthew Rich, Northwestern University
9:30 – 10 a.m.Presentation: “Lessons learned from Architecting, Deploying, and Managing a Secure Research Cloud“
James Monek, Lehigh University
10 – 10:45 a.m.Panel Discussion: Staffing and Training
James Smith, Notre Dame
Damian Doyle, University of Virginia
Todd Haddaway, University of Maryland – Baltimore County
10:45 – 11 a.m.Break
11 – 11:30 a.m.Presentation: “Automated Provisioning and Autonomous IAM Management“
Jake Catlett, University of Minnesota
11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.Presentation: “Enhancing the Security Posture of Existing Cloud Deployments“
John Bailey, Washington University in St. Louis
12 – 1 p.m.Lunch
1 – 1:30 p.m.Presentation: “Navigating the Cloud: Aligning Essential Roles for UCOP’s Data Center Exit Project“
Eric Person, University of California Office of the President
1:30 – 5 p.m.Open Discussion and Wrap-up


Cloud Forum Timeline

  • Call for Proposals for Research Presentations Opens: Monday, October 14, 2024
  • Call for Proposals for Cloud Presentations Opens: Monday, October 14, 2024
  • Calls for Proposals Close: Friday, December 20, 2024
  • Researcher and Speaker Notification: Thursday, January 23, 2025
  • Full Schedule Posted: Monday, February 17, 2025
  • Registration Opens: Monday, February 17, 2025
  • Cloud Forum Convenes: May 20 – 22, 2025