Achieving speed to capability in government

*** 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 RSVP and join us for this virtual 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
• And, more

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 Azure 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

7:00 PM – 7:20 PM
Accelerating software delivery for government with 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 DWO, 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)

We hope to "see" you on Dec. 2, Please help spread the word about this event to your colleagues and connections who would be interested, and share on social media with your network using #AzureGovMeetup.