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Program Agenda:

• 7:30 am — 8:30 am: Networking Breakfast & Registration

• 8:30 am — 8:45 am: Welcome & Opening Remarks

  Fritz Nelson, VP & Editorial Director, InformationWeek

• 8:45 am — 9:15 am: Keynote: The Road Ahead For Federal IT

  In this opening keynote, we learn more about the priorities for driving change going forward and the expectations for the CIOs of federal agencies and departments, including how IT funding will be spent in fiscal 2011.
  
  Speaker:
  Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer
  
  

• 9:15 am — 9:55 am: Connecting The Dots On Intelligence

  Amid ongoing security threats at home and abroad, intelligence experts are deploying new technologies and refining processes to increase the government's awareness of threats and our ability to respond. In this roundtable discussion, intelligence IT leaders discuss steps they're taking to collect, integrate, analyze and securely share information across agencies. They'll assess which approaches are working--and which are a waste of time.
  
  Speakers:
  Don Burke, Intellipedia Doyen, CIA
  
  Casey Henson, CTO, Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer, DIA
  
  Margaret H. Graves, Deputy Chief Information Officer, U. S. Department of Homeland Security
  
  Moderator:
  Doug Henschen, Editor-in-Chief, Intelligent Enterprise

• 9:55 am — 10:25 am: Your Tough Questions On Cybersecurity Answered

  In this interactive session, one of the nation's leading cybersecurity experts answers questions from government IT pros on emerging threats to U.S. computer systems and IT infrastructure. This session will dig into the strategy for increasing collaboration among cybersecurity stakeholders and creating stronger defenses.
  
  Speaker:
  Dr. Ron Ross, Senior Computer Scientist & Information Security Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  
  Moderator:
  Tim Wilson, Editor, Dark Reading

• 10:25 am — 10:40 am: Refreshment & Networking Break

• 10:40 am — 11:30 am: Feet-To-The-Fire Project Management

  The federal IT Dashboard gives government decision makers--and the public--unprecedented visibility into the performance of agencies' major technology projects and overall IT operations. Agency CIOs discuss the steps they're taking to manage IT projects more effectively and provide on-the-spot assessments of current projects. Learn how government IT leaders are making the hard decisions on which projects to push ahead--and which ones to put out of their misery.
  
  Speakers:
  Roger Baker, CIO, Veteran Affairs
  
  Danny A. Harris, CIO, Department of Education
  
  Jerry Williams, CIO, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
  
  Moderator:
  Nick Hoover, Senior Editor, InformationWeek Government

• 11:30 am — 12:00 pm: Case Study: Inside The FAA's Monumental NextGen Project

  The Federal Aviation Administration is forging ahead with a plan to transform the national air transportation system to handle one billion passengers annually by 2025. FAA CIO David Bowen provides an update on NextGen's progress and shares insights into the technical and organizational challenges his team has had to work through along the way.
  
  Speaker:
  David M. Bowen, CIO, Federal Aviation Administration
  
  
  Moderator:
  John Foley, Editor, InformationWeek Government

• 12:00 pm — 1:15 pm: Driving IT Innovation At NASA and Networking Awards Luncheon

  Introducing the Government CIO 50. InformationWeek editors honor the CIOs on our first-ever list of top IT leaders in government.
  
  Speakers:
  Chris Kemp, CTO for IT, NASA
  
  Rob Preston, VP, Editor-in-Chief, InformationWeek, "The Innovation Mandate"

• 1:15 pm — 2:00 pm: Federal CIOs Tackle Their Top Issues

  The CIO Council is a nexus of activity for sharing best practices and coordinating action plans in support of government-wide IT policy initiatives. In this session, CIO Council officers and members engage the audience in a discussion of some of the most pressing issues on their agenda, including President Obama's open government mandate and the fiscal 2011 IT budget.
  
  Speakers:
  Frank Baitman, CIO, Social Security Administration
  
  Chris Smith, CIO, United States Department of Agriculture
  
  David Wennergren, Deputy CIO, Department of Defense
  
  Moderator:
  Fritz Nelson, Vice President and Editorial Director, InformationWeek

• 2:00 pm — 2:45 pm: Cloud Computing Implementer's Guide

  This will not be another hand-wringing discussion about the potential and risks of cloud computing; it's geared to government IT pros who want to get started. With the launch of Apps.gov, NASA's Nebula, and DISA's Rapid Access Computing Environment, cloud-based services are now a real option for government departments and agencies. Top managers of the government's early cloud efforts discuss usage scenarios and how to get going without compromising data security or falling into other traps.
  
  Speakers:
  Rosio Alvarez, CIO, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  
  Katie Lewin, Director, Cloud Computing Program, GSA
  
  Henry J. Sienkiewicz, CIO, DISA
  
  Moderator:
  John Foley, Editor, InformationWeek Government

• 2:45 pm — 3:00 pm: Refreshment & Networking Break

• 3:00 pm — 3:50 pm: Open Government, Phase Two

  In keeping with President Obama's Open Government Directive, federal agencies have taken their first steps to be more transparent, collaborative, and participatory in the services they provide and in how they engage the public. Where do we go from here? In this session, we look at strategies and technologies for pushing open government well beyond those initial efforts.
  
  Speakers:
  Todd Park, CTO, Health and Human Services
  
  Chris Vein, CIO, San Francisco
  
  Eugene J. Huang, Senior Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
  
  Moderator:
  Clay Johnson, Director, Sunlight Labs

• 3:50 pm — 4:00 pm: Closing Remarks

  Fritz Nelson, VP & Editorial Director, InformationWeek

• 4:00 pm — 5:00 pm: Networking Cocktail Reception