ICH Releases Agenda for Agile Cloud Service Catalog Session

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The Agile Cloud consortium’s second event will occur on May 21, 2014 at TIA Headquarters in Arlington, VA. This event will focus on development of the Agile Cloud Environment Service Catalog and will feature prospective government user presentations. Current agenda is as follows:

12:30p – 1:00p       Registration
  1:00p – 1:15p       Welcome / Planned Way Forward – MGen John Brennan, USAF (Ret.)
  1:15p – 1:30p       Session 1 Outbrief / Service Catalog Candidate Services
  1:30p – 2:00p       CAPT Christopher Page, USN, Deputy Director, OPNAV N2/N6F1
  2:00p – 2:30p       Emile Monette, Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity, GSA Office of Mission Assurance
  2:30p – 3:30p       (TBA), Defense Intelligence Agency
  3:30p – 4:00p       Frank McNally, ASI Government, Cloud Service Procurement
  4:00p – 4:30p       Mike Schirf, Private Digital Network Service (PDNS)
  4:30p – 5:00p       Wrap-up / Next Steps

This event will focus on development of the Agile Cloud Environment Service Catalog and is in response to feedback from a number of Government organizations who advocated for a new compensation model that will implement agile ways to contract with partners. The Agile Cloud consortium will work with all Government partners to develop and implement processes and high-performance technical solutions that allow globally distributed virtual teams to be formed on-demand, based on topics, people’s registered skills and security classifications.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/agile-cloud-environment-service-catalog-session-tickets-11550386517

The initial “Vendor Service Registration” will close on May 21st. Currently registered services include:

The initial registration period clouses on May 21st.  Any company interested in registering their service can do so at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PD7PV58 .

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PD7PV58

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