The Cloud Forum is a uniquely frank and intimate gathering of cloud professionals. In 2020, the Cloud Forum, like most events, was unable to be held in person. The organizers pivoted to an online format, which very successfully maintained all of these formats in an agenda that spanned the academic year.

The 2021 Cloud Forum will once again be held in person November 16-18, 2021, but it also includes a sampling of lightning talks, presentations, and researcher presentations for remote audiences. Internet2’s TechEXtra 21 is including these sessions in its Cloud Infrastructure and Services track. See below for times, topics, and registration.

Lightning Talks

Date & Time	Topic	Speaker	Registration
Tuesday, Nov 16 11 a.m. ET	Custom Biomedical Cloud Training from the NIH STRIDES Initiative	Philip Meacham – NIH	Register Now to attend these Lightning Talks held Tuesday, Nov. 16 from 11 a.m. -12 p.m. ET.
	Cloud Cost Oversight for Projects and Programs under the STRIDES Initiative	Yanik Wynter – NIH
	NIH Approaches to Cybersecurity and Cloud	Carlo Espiritu – NIH
	Cloud Wrangling at NIH	Joel Peterson – NIH
	Cloud Golf	Rob Fatland – CloudBank
	Trudging toward compliance: NIST 800-181 in Azure	Shelley Rossell – Univ Chicago
	IT’S A PILOT! Legitimating experimental work in your cloud	Cornelia Bailey – Univ. Chicago
	CLASS: Cloud Learning and Skills Sessions	Ananya Ravipati – Internet2
	Give the People What They Want (Assuming They Know What It Is)	Bob Flynn – Internet2

Research Presentations

Date & Time	Topic	Speaker	Registration
Tuesday, Nov 16 1 p.m. ET	A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Big Data Based Biomarkers	Luigi Marchionni, Associate Professor of Pathology – Weill-Cornell Medicine	Register Now
Wednesday, Nov 17 1 p..m ET	Lessons Learned from VUMC’s First End-to-End Cloud Project	Dr. Travis Osterman – Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Register Now
Thursday, Nov 18 10 a.m. ET	Implementing Genomic Medicine at the HGSC	Prof. Eric Venner, Associate Professor, Division Director for Bioinformatics – Human Genome Sequencing Center – Clinical Lab. Baylor College of Medicine	Register Now

Cloud Presentations

Date & Time	Topic	Speaker	Registration
Wednesday, Nov 17 11 a.m. ET	Managing Cloud Storage – the New Reality Simplifying Research in the Cloud	Oren Sreebny – Internet2, Helen Hockx-Yu – Notre Dame Ken Bigelow & Venkat Mahadevan – University of British Columbia	Register Now
Thursday, Nov 18 11 a.m. ET	The Creation and Operations of the Cloud Financial Analyst Position at UC San Diego Cloud Services and CloudBank TeamWow!	Declan Fleming & Jessica Respicio – University of California San Diego Rick Rhoades – Penn State	Register Now