Federal News Radio Online Chat with Robert Klopp, CIO, SSA
Robert Klopp, the Social Security Administration’s CIO, will join Federal News Radio Friday, March 4 at 11 a.m. for a free online chat. Klopp will discuss his priorities in modernizing SSA’s technology systems that include more than 60 million lines of COBOL. Klopp will discuss how SSA is taking advantage of cloud computing and agile development approaches. He also will discuss why open source is a good option for his agency and how he’s addressing ongoing workforce challenges like training IT workers to manage cloud, agile and mobile projects.
Executive Editor Jason Miller will moderate the chat underwritten by ViON.
Klopp will take part in the chat after his appearance on Federal News Radio’s Ask the CIO program Thursday, March 3 at 10 a.m. Listen from anywhere at FederalNewsRadio.com or on 1500 AM in the Washington D.C. metro area.
Registration is required to attend this free online text-only chat and participants will be able to ask Klopp their own questions in real-time.
Speaker and Presenter Information
Robert Klopp has been the Social Security Administration’s CIO and deputy commissioner for systems since August 2015. He has worked at SSA since January 2015 when he joined as the agency’s chief technology officer. Prior to joining the government, Klopp worked for both large and small software firms in Silicon Valley. One of those, Greenplum, for example, was acquired by EMC and Teradata. During his time at Greenplum, Klopp spent nearly two years based in Switzerland as the EMC/Greenplum CTO for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He also worked in the consulting services space for EDS, now part of HP, and for what is now KPMG, as well as in his own boutique consultancy. Klopp started his career out of college in the government arena with the State of California where he was a mainframe systems programmer.
Relevant Government Agencies
SSA
Event Type
Webcast
This event has no exhibitor/sponsor opportunities
When
Fri, Mar 4, 2016, 11:00am - 11:30am
ET
Cost
Complimentary: $ 0.00
Where
Webcast
Website
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Organizer
Federal News Radio 1500 AM
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