November 16-18
TechEXtra21 Event: The Cornell Cloud Forum
November 16-18, 2021
Join Us!
Since 2015, the Cornell Cloud Forum has been the place where higher education cloud leadership meets to share their successes and failures, ask tough questions, and seek consensus on best practices. This year the Cloud Forum returns in-person, but, in partnership with the Internet2 TechEXtra21 series, we are bringing several sessions live to the higher education community for this November 16-18, 2021 event.
View Table of Events to Register for Sessions!
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 |