The Center for Digital International Government (CDIG), jointly with Paulo Sforza of the U.S. Treasury Department, co-hosted a summit on IT innovation in the government. Representatives of the federal sector met with leading members of the academic and corporate IT communities to discuss innovation.

The information (schedule, slides, contact information) on this page is available only to workshop participants.

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Welcome, V.S. Subrahmanian

Introduction, Paul Sforza

Keynote Speakers:

• Michael Duffy, Understanding Systemic Risk
• K. Ananth Krishnan, Leveraging IT to Drive Innovation in Federal Financial Sector

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Improving the Efficiency and Capability of End-user Computing Platforms.

Panelists:

• Robert Hughes, Efficient and Effective End-User Computing Platforms
• Michael Tiemann, Presentation
• Scott Davis, VMware View 4: The Virtual Desktop Revolution is Here
• Anand Sivasubrahaniam, End-User Computing: A Green Perspective
• Andy Tryba, Improving the Efficiency & Capability of End-user Computing Platforms
• Etay Bogner, Neocleus for Innovation Summit

Moderator:

• Bajinder Paul, Presentation

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Leveraging Cloud Computing

Panelists:

• Harrick Vin, Enterprise Cloud Computing: Opportunities & Challenges
• Jimmy Lin, Why Cloud Computing? The Academic Perspective
• Carl J. Moses, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Susie Adams, Presentation
• Eric Pulier, Federal Financial Sector: Panel Discussion

Moderator:

• Gautam Shroff, Development 2.0 in the Cloud

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Break

2:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Optimizing Enterprise Information and Knowledge

Panelists:

• Jeffrey Ullman, Near-Neighbor Search: Finding Variants of a News Article, Finding Similar Restaurants
• Gautam Shroff, Analytics, Search, & Collaboration
• Hamid Pirahesh, Adapting Platforms for Processing Massive Amount of Ever Changing Information
• Luke Lonergan, Greenplum: Driving the Future of Data Warehousing and Analytics
• Luis Derechin, Enterprise Mashups: IT Summit for the Federal Financial Sector
• Ted Senator, Presentation

Moderator:

• V.S. Subrahmanian, Panel on Optimizing Enterprize Knowledge

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Closing Remarks by Paul Sforza

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Informal Q&A and Personal Networking

For more information, please contact V.S. Subrahmanian (vs@cs.umd.edu) at the University of Maryland.