Achieving speed to capability in government

Note: The event URL to join us is:  www.aka.ms/AzureGovMeetupLive

Today’s mission speed continues to outpace government’s ability to deliver modern capabilities to end users. To keep pace with mission demands, agencies are reimagining their IT efforts including leveraging powerful technologies such as continuous software deployment, container management, automated machine learning, and serverless PaaS.

To hear about the latest trends, tools, and tech empowering government, we invite you to register and join us for this virtual Azure Government meetup hosted on Teams Live.

During this event, which is free and open to the public, government and industry speakers will discuss:

• Current state, evolution, and best practices for enterprise-class DevOps tools in government
• Top challenges to driving mission capabilities
• Solutions including CloudBees DevSecOps and Red Hat OpenShift
• Enterprise open-source services on Azure

AGENDA (*subject to change / all times US Eastern)

6:3O PM – 6:40 PM | Welcome & announcements

• Karina Homme, Senior Director, Azure Government, Microsoft
• Vishwas Lele, CTO, AIS, and Microsoft MVP/RD

6:40 PM – 7:00 PM | Warp speed to cloud-native apps with Red Hat OpenShift

• Dave Cohn, Azure Red Hat OpenShift Field Strategy Lead, Public Sector, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat
• Jason Dudash, Principal Solutions Architect, Red Hat

7:00PM - 7:20PM | Accelerating software delivery for govenrment CloudBees SDA 

• Tyler Johnson, Solutions Architect, CloudBees

7:20 PM – 8:00 PM | Panel: Achieving speed to capability in government

• Ken Kato, Entrepreneur in Residence, Navy Digital Warfare Office, White House Presidential Innovation Fellows
• John Soscia, CI/CD Initiative Manager, Internal Revenue Service
• Viktar Zherdetski, Director, Innovation, SAIC
• Sujit Mohanty, Senior Director, Azure Application Specialists, Microsoft
• Karina Homme, Senior Director, Azure Government, Microsoft (moderator)

Please be sure to register today to join us, and share this event with your colleagues and connections via social media using #AzureGovMeetup.

About Azure Government DC user community

The Azure Government User Community was created to bring together professionals interested in learning about government innovation especially around cloud computing technologies and capabilities. It's open to the community and provides a non-sales environment to share best practices and learnings during monthly meetups (now virtually) that draw an average of 150+ government and industry attendees per event.

We also invite you to join our government cloud community of innovators of more than 3,600 members. Please visit the Azure Government user community on the Meetup site to connect and hear about upcoming events: www.meetup.com/DCAzureGov