Welcome to GTRA

The GTRA Council Meetings are an invitation-only executive-level meeting for government and IT leaders who come together to collaborate, network, share best practices and lessons learned across the areas paramount to executing successful IT strategies for: Security, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Records Management, Leadership, Green IT, Mobile/Wireless and Defense. Over the course of three-days, cutting edge curriculum is delivered by government and industry leaders through a dynamic blend of presentations, panels, live-demonstrations, roundtable discussions, and boardroom meetings designed to be highly interactive and facilitate information exchange at the executive level. Complimenting the curriculum, a heavy focus on networking functions is designed to foster and solidify peer relationships through collaborative banquets, networking events, cocktail receptions, a golf tournament and entertainment.

This unique forum engages multi-discipline collaboration while balancing the need for in-depth learning on critical subject areas including:

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

• Dr. Robert “Rocky” Young, Associate Professor of Systems Management, NDU - Terrorists, Criminals, Hackers & You - In Virtual Worlds like Social Networking, Who Needs Privacy? Come-on Share. Everyone’s Doing It!
• Vance Hitch, Chief Information Officer, Co-Chair Information Security and Identity Management Committee, Federal CIO-Council, Justice - The Cyber Security Challenge
• Colleen Coggins, Chief Knowledge Officer, Interior / George Thomas, Chief Architect, GSA - Transparency and Open Government:  Technologies, Methodologies and Applications that are Revolutionizing How We Create and Share Knowledge
• Robert Lentz, Chief Information Assurance Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Networks and Information Integration / Chief Information Officer, Defense - Information Assurance and Risk Management Practices for Agency-Wide Success: A DoD Case Study

BREAKOUT MEETINGS:

• Jim Butterworth, Senior Director of Cyber Security, Guidance Software - Digital Remnants; The Classified Spillage Conundrum...
• Doreen Cox, Chief Architect, Customs & Borders Protection, Homeland Security - Integrating EA, IT Strategic Planning and Enterprise Portfolio Management
  
• Randolph C. Hite, Director, IT Architecture & Systems Issues, GAO - EA: One of Many Stars in the Constellation Known As Organtransform Major
• John Teeter, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Chief Enterprise Architect, HHS / Richard "Dick" Burk, Chair, Health IT Committee, GTRA - The State of Federal Health IT Reform
• Ira Grossman, Chief Enterprise Architect, FEMA / Elisa Cruz, Chief Information Security Officer, FEMA - Security and EA Collaboration at FEMA
• Peter Tseronis, Deputy Associate Chief Information Officer, Energy - Cloud Computing, IPv6, and Enterprise Architecture:  Establishing a Line of Sight
• Tim Belcher, Chief Technology Officer, NetWitness - Combating Advanced CyberSecurity Threats
• Dr. Suzanne Acar, Senior Federal Data Architect / Dave Kelly, Information Assurance Solution Director, Citizant - Engineering Data-Centric Services for a Connected World 
• Dr. Scott Bernard, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Federal Railroad Administration, Transportation / Devon Bryan, Director, Cyber Security Operations, IRS - Consensus Audit Guidelines: A CXO Panel Discussion
• Dr. Ron Ross, Senior Computer Scientist, NIST - NIST Updates: Security Certification and Accreditation (800-37) and the Risk Management Framework
• Marian Cody, Chief Information Security Officer, Housing & Urban Development / Dr. Sharon Fratta-Hill, Vice President of Academic Programs and Distance Education, The Graudate School, USDA / Andrew Krzmarzick, Senior Project Coordinator, The Graudate School, USDA / Emma Antunes, Center Web Manager, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA - Building Effective, Secure and Sustainable Social Networking Programs
• Peter Mell, Cloud Computing Project Lead, Senior Computer Scientist, NIST / Dr. James Ransome, CISSP, CISM, Chief Security Officer for Cisco Collaborative Software Group (WebEx), Cisco Systems, Inc. - SaaS, The Federal Cloud, and Keeping It All Secure 
• Donna Dodson, Deputy Chief Cyber Advisor, NIST - Think Tank: Identity Management and User Authentication 
• Ylanda Ford, Director, Enterprise Architecture, HUD / Lori Pettebone-Maatta, MS, Director, Division of Enterprise Architecture, Program Management, CMS/OIS/EASG / Adel Harris, EA Solutions Director, Citizant - Leveraging EA for New Legislation Planning
• Mary McCaffery, Senior Advisor, Assistant Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency / John Sullivan, Chief Architect, EPA / Richard "Dick" Burk, Chair, Health IT Committee, GTRA / Col. Douglas Wreath, Director, Net Centric Operations Division, Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) - Information Sharing in a Net-Centric World: The Impact of Digital Convergence

STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGES:

• Michael Schievelbein, Program Manager and Solutions Architect, Solutions Coordination Office, National Business Center, Interior - Aligning Project Management with Enterprise Architecture
• Dr. W. Stan Boddie, PMP, CISSP, Professor of Systems Management, Information Resource Management College, NDU - Improving Personal and Organizational Performance Through Transformational Leadership
• Diane Woodson-Reeves, Business Architect, Interior - Best Practices for Improving Operational Efficiency
• Patrick Howard, Chief Information Security Officer, NRC - Managing Security Risks in SaaS and Contracted Environments
• Ylanda Ford, Director, Enterprise Architecture, HUD - Identity Management & Authentication Challenges for External Business Users
• Walt Okon, Senior Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Architecture & Standards, Defense - A Government-Wide Standard for EA Training
• Michael McFarren, Senior Principal, Information Systems Engineer, MITRE - Service Oriented Enterprise (SOE): A Discussion of SOE and its Impacts on a Government Agency
• Col. Douglas Wreath, Director, Net Centric Operations Division, US Air Force - Interagency Information Exchange
• Karen Larkowski, General Manager, Green Computing impact Organization - The Sustainable Organization: Green Beyond the Data Center
• Harsh Sharma, Sustainability SIG Chair, OMG - Model Driven Approach to Green and Sustainability Standards
• Bob Daniel, Chief Technology Officer, Government Solutions, Troux Technologies - Segment Architecture and You: A Health Check
• Felix Rausch, Co-Founder and Executive Director, FEAC Institute - Architecture = An Enterprise Paradigm Shift to Sinergistically Manage Complexity in the 21st Century?

LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS:

• Dr. Len Mizrah, President & CEO, Authernative, Inc. - Next Generation Multi-Factor User Authentication
• Greg Dupier, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton - Creating the Federal Cloud
• Skip Taylor, VP Product Marketing, Fiberlink - Using Cloud-Computing Technologies to Solve Mobile Device Management and Security 
• John Jefferies, Vice President, Marketing, IronKey - The Insider Threat and Mobile Devices: Trends in Insider Compliance with Data Security Policies

BOARDROOM MEETINGS:

• Authernative - Addressing Authentication & Identity Management in Government Initiatives
• Booz Allen Hamilton - A Cloud Computing War game
• Cisco Systems - Cloud Computing and Security
• Citizant - Focusing IT Resources on Agility, Transparency, Value, and Performance
• Core Security - Know Thyself and Know Thy Enemy
• eGlobalTech - A Service Oriented Approach to Deloying Cloud Computing Solutions
• Fiberlink - How to Get Visibility and Control Over a More Mobile Workforce
• GSA - Integrated Solutions for IT Service Requirements Utilizing the GSA GWACs
• Guidance Software - Proactive Cyber Security and eDiscovery
• Intel / Lenovo - Creating a Secure Mobile Workforce
• HP / Secure64 - Secure Infrastructure Solutions for Government
• IronKey - Eliminating the Risks Posed by Flash Drives without Eliminating the Drives Themselves
• iTKO-LISA - Test, Validate and Virtualize Shared Environments for Quality and Agility
• Neohapsis - Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance Solutions
• NetWitness - How to Stop Advanced Persistent Threats from Evading Detection
• PhishMe - Preventing Phishing Attacks at the Source
• SecureWorks - Intelligence-Driven Security and Compliance: Using Applied Threat Research, Log Correlation and Best Practices to Protect Government Assets
• Troux Technologies - Strategic IT Planning – The Next Chapter for Enterprise Architecture