TechNet Indo-Pacific 2022 Supporting Partner Opportunities


AFCEA has developed an enhanced suppprogram that will offer maximum visibility to those who participate! What better way to make sure you stand out and increase your exposure at this foremost event in which industry leaders can learn about military requirements and connect with decision makers and operators, where senior military and government officials can gain feedback, and where industry thought leaders will discuss and demonstrate solutions. Supporting Partner opportunities are offered at several investment levels, ensuring your ability to participate.

Browse available options below, or jump to specific categories: Patron Packages, Individual Opportunities, and Branding Opportunities.

Have an idea for a Supporting Partner Opportunity not listed below? We are here to ensure you have the best conference experience. We are happy to create a custom package to meet your specific needs. Let us know your vision, objective and budget and we’ll create a customized opportunity just for you.

The deadline to submit contracts and sponsor artwork is Friday, October 7th.

Sunday, October 30, 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM

  • Room: HHV Main Lobby (12-7)/Coral Ballroom Lobby (12-5)
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Monday, October 31, 7:30 AM - 7:00 PM

  • Room: HHV Main Lobby (10-7)/Coral Ballroom Lobby(7:30-5)
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Tuesday, November 01, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  • Room: HHV Main Lobby (7-2)/Coral Ballroom Lobby (7-5)
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Tuesday, November 01, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

  • Room: Tapa Ballroom II/III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
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Tuesday, November 01, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  • Room: Tapa
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Tuesday, November 01, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM

  • Room: South Pacific Ballroom I (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
Iolani School – will bring their Championship eSports team to the STEM room.  They will give their perspective of the benefits of eSports as a team sport and how it has tested their quick thinking in competitive play and how it can be successful in a college program.  They will... ...read more...
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Tuesday, November 01, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

  • Room: Honolulu III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Join us to explore cutting-edge fields, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and cloud technology.  Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be offering three interactive labs, one of which includes DeepRacer, an autonomous 1/18th scale racecar you can drive on a physical track!  Microsoft will be offering two interactive experiences, which includes... ...read more...
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Tuesday, November 01, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

  • Room: Tapa Ballroom II/III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Speaker(s)
Keynote (confirmed)
MG Joshua M. Rudd, USA
Chief of Staff
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
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Tuesday, November 01, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

  • Room: Honolulu I (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Commanders and agency directors require reliable and available emergency response capabilities to conduct safety of life, safety of flight, suicide prevention, and preservation of property response activities within each of the thousands of DoD installations, facilities, training areas, and assigned areas of operations. The Defense Information System Agency has been... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
John E. Holloway, Jr.
Lead, DoD Public Safety Communications and DISA High Frequency Communications, Cyberspace Operations Directorate
Defense Information System Agency
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Tuesday, November 01, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM

  • Room: Mid-Pacific
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Tuesday, November 01, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Room: Nautilus Suite (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
In this session, attendees will discover how the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has continued to evolve to support more of the agile methodologies used more frequently today in the DoD environments. This will start with the conception of a business need thru the Development state, with a focus on Quality,... ...read more...
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Speaker (confirmed)
Robert Linton
Business Consultant - Cloud DevSecOps
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Tuesday, November 01, 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

  • Room: Tapa I Theater
Speaker(s)
  • Moderator (confirmed)
    Shujie Chang
    Principal Research Engineer
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
  • Room: Honolulu II (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
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Tuesday, November 01, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

  • Room: Honolulu I (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
Col Jared C. Voneida, USMC
Commander
Defense Information Systems Agency Regional Field Command Pacific
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Tuesday, November 01, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

  • Room: Tapa Ballroom II/III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Speaker(s)
Keynote (confirmed)
Lt Gen James A. Jacobson, USAF
Deputy Commander
U.S. Pacific Air Forces
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Tuesday, November 01, 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

  • Room: Honolulu I (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
An introduction to Vulcan, a set of tools that enable DoD teams to adopt development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) to improve their software development process, delivering new capability to stakeholders faster. Vulcan transitions the responsibility for deploying, accrediting, and maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools from teams to a centralized provider.... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
David Lago
Vulcan Program Manager
Defense Information System Agency, Hosting and Compute Center
Speaker (confirmed)
Alexander McFarland
Cloud Engineer and DevOps Nerd
Defense Information Systems Agency, Hosting and Compute Center
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Tuesday, November 01, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

  • Room: Tapa I Theater
Building Zero Trust Architectures start with determining Identity, and, from there, building trust with authentication and authorization. Coalition Interoperability also starts with identification, authentication, and authorization. Considering the United States conducts operations with Joint and Coalition partners, the ability to securely communicate is based on the same principles. Team GDIT’s solution built... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
John Sahlin
Vice President, Cyber Solutions - Defense
General Dynamics Information Technology
Speaker (confirmed)
Chuck White
Founder
Fornetix

Tuesday, November 01, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

  • Room: South Pacific Ballroom (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
Speaker(s)
Moderator (confirmed)
BG Mark D. Miles, USA
Deputy Commanding General
U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence & Fort Eisenhower
Panelist (confirmed)
COL Tonri C. Brown, USA
Director, G6
U.S. Army Pacific
Panelist (confirmed)
Col Donald "Thunder" Cloud, USAF (Ret.)
SAIC
Panelist (confirmed)
COL Ronnie E. Geronimo, USA
Director of Communications (SOJ6)
Special Operations Command Pacific
Panelist (confirmed)
Robert A. "Bob" Stephenson, SES
Director for Communications and Information Systems & Chief Information Officer Commander
U.S. Pacific Fleet (N6)
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Tuesday, November 01, 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

  • Room: Honolulu I (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
An overview of the DISA Thunderdome Zero Trust Network Access Pilot, its objectives, status, and way forward....
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
Alan Rosner
Program Manager, Cyber Security & Analytics Directorate
Defense Information Systems Agency
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Tuesday, November 01, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

  • Room: Nautilus Suite (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
Note: A laptop with a recent browser version is required to fully participate in this session Traffic Mirroring is a crucial feature for security and network analysis. Its functionality is similar to that of a network tap or a span session in traditional networking. In short, Packet Mirroring captures network traffic... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
Chris Goehring
Customer Engineer
Google
Speaker (confirmed)
Ming Ling
Customer Engineer
Google
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Tuesday, November 01, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Tuesday, November 01, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

  • Room: Tapa Ballroom II/III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
No situations are risk free! Implementing risk management is a key to good decision-making and is essential for strong cybersecurity.   For wise policy, engineering, and operations, leaders must understand vulnerabilities and mitigation options. Join senior leaders in cybersecurity to learn about risk management challenges and opportunities they have faced, including security, privacy,... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Moderator (confirmed)
Miyi J. Chung
Chief, Plans and Programs Division (PC5)
Technical Advisor to DISA PAC Commander
Panelist (confirmed)
RDML Susan BryerJoyner, USN
Deputy J-6 for JADC2/ Deputy Director (DDJ6)
The Joint Staff
Panelist (confirmed)
Lauren Barrett Knausenberger
Chief Information Officer
Department of the Air Force
Panelist (confirmed)
Mary L. Smith, ED.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Hawaii Pacific University
Panelist (confirmed)
Juliana Vida
Group Vice President and Chief Strategy Advisor
Splunk
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Tuesday, November 01, 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

  • Room: Tapa Ballroom II/III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
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Wednesday, November 02, 7:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  • Room: Honolulu III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
The AFCEA Middle/High School Capture the Flag (CTF) Competition is a 4-hour, competition for aspiring cyber and cybersecurity professionals. This competition is a learning tool that will measure the participants current familiarity with various cybersecurity topics and will further sharpen the tools they have learned through education or self-learning. The... ...read more...
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Wednesday, November 02, 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  • Room: Coral Ballroom Lobby
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Wednesday, November 02, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

  • Room: Tapa
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Wednesday, November 02, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  • Room: Tapa
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Wednesday, November 02, 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

  • Room: Mid-Pacific
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Wednesday, November 02, 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

  • Room: Tapa Ballroom II/III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Speaker(s)
Keynote (confirmed)
ADM Samuel J. Paparo, USN
Commander
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
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Wednesday, November 02, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM

  • Room: South Pacific Ballroom I (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
**Highlands Intermediate – Will have five students presenting innovative programs/activities they have been working on.  They range from exploring medical Innovation, meteorology, underwater robotics, anatomy & physiology, flight, solar system and bridge building.   **Design Thinking Hawaii - ARTEC: Become a “Maker" in 10 minutes!  Design, build and code at our table.... ...read more...
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Wednesday, November 02, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

  • Room: Honolulu I (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
Capt Darren Diones, USAF
Defense Information Systems Agency Pacific
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Wednesday, November 02, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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Wednesday, November 02, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  • Room: Mid-Pacific
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Wednesday, November 02, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

  • Room: Tapa I Theater
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  • Speaker (confirmed)
    Dylan Conner
    Vice President and Product Manager for CACI’s Archon
  • Room: Honolulu II (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
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Wednesday, November 02, 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM

  • Room: South Pacific Ballroom (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
Description/focus/opportunities: How DDIL environments can drive zero trust architectures, particularly by distributing data (and controls/access) to combat edge (consider oconus cloud and gateways as much as ICAM) Joint and coalition factors affecting zero trust technology or architecture choices, considering multiple service SIPR enclaves or CENTRIXS. Scaling zero trust from small edge kits to... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Moderator (confirmed)
LTG Susan S. Lawrence, USA (Ret.)
President and Chief Executive Officer
AFCEA International
Panelist (confirmed)
MG Peter A. Gallagher, USA (Ret.)
Senior Vice President for Technology and Solutions
CACI
Panelist (confirmed)
Cuong Nguyen
Vice President, Public Sector
Aerospike, Inc.
Panelist (confirmed)
CW4 Patrick Perry, USA (Ret.)
Chief Zero Trust Officer
Headquarters Department of the Army G6
Panelist (confirmed)
Imran Umar
Chief Engineer
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
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Wednesday, November 02, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

  • Room: Honolulu I (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
During this spotlight panel session, we’ll hear from Carissa Landymore, Program Director of Defense Enterprise Office Solution at DISA. Carissa will lead a panel comprised of Jessop McCrae, Engineering Chief for DEOS; Constance Genne, IL6 Program Manager for General Dynamics IT; and Brad Thompson, General Program Manager for Microsoft. The... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Moderator (confirmed)
Carissa Landymore
Program Director, Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS)
Defense Information Systems Agency
Panelist (confirmed)
Constance Genne
Sr. Program Manager, DISA & Enterprise Services
GDIT
Panelist (confirmed)
Jessop McCrea
Chief Engineer, Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS)
Defense Information System Agency
Panelist (confirmed)
Brad Thompson
General Program Manager
Microsoft
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Wednesday, November 02, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Room: Nautilus Suite (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
There are over 700,000 vacant cybersecurity positions in the United States.(1) Addressing this vast shortage of cybersecurity professionals requires innovative approaches to developing new talent.   This talk will discuss how the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University creates hands-on cybersecurity challenges for innovative training and competitions. We will outline... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
Jarrett Booz
Cybersecurity Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
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Wednesday, November 02, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Room: Honolulu II (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Speaker(s)
  • Speaker (confirmed)
    Jake Kwon
    Strategic Threat Intel Advisor
    CrowdStrike, Inc.
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Wednesday, November 02, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Wednesday, November 02, 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

  • Room: Tapa Ballroom II/III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Speaker(s)
Keynote (confirmed)
MG James (Jay) B. Bartholomees, USA
Chief of Staff
U.S. Army Pacific
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Wednesday, November 02, 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

  • Room: Honolulu I (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
This session will provide an overview of DISA's Digital Capabilities and Security Center strategic vision, which is home to many core DISA programs and services to include Thunderdome, Command and Control Systems, Electromagnetic Spectrum, ICAM. The session will also include a session on DISA's JADC2 involvement....
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
Jason Martin
Component Acquisition Executive and Director of the Acquisition Organization ​
Defense Information Systems Agency
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Wednesday, November 02, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

  • Room: Iolani III/IV (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Separate advance registration requested - click here to register.  NOTE:  Both onsite and streaming attendees who register using this link will be inluded in a random drawing to win a CompTIA voucher.  (Walk-in attendees will not be eligible for the voucher) Join CompTIA’s Chief Certification Evangelist, Dr. James Stanger, and his partners... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Moderator (confirmed)
James A. Stanger, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Evangelist
CompTIA
Panelist (confirmed)
Hansang Bae
Chief Technologist
Zscaler
Panelist (confirmed)
Robin Hunt
Co-Founder
ThinkData Solutions, Inc.
Panelist (confirmed)
Michael Young
Senior Principal Solutions Architect
Elastic
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Wednesday, November 02, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

  • Room: South Pacific Ballroom (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
Speaker(s)
Keynote (confirmed)
RDML Thomas M. "Tom" Henderschedt, USN
Director for Intelligence
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (J2)
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Wednesday, November 02, 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

  • Room: Honolulu I (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
An overview of the DISA Thunderdome Zero Trust Network Access Pilot, its objectives, status, and way forward....
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
Alan Rosner
Program Manager, Cyber Security & Analytics Directorate
Defense Information Systems Agency
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Wednesday, November 02, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  • Room: Tapa I Theater
Speaker(s)
  • Moderator (confirmed)
    Shujie Chang
    Principal Research Engineer
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
  • Panelist (confirmed)
    Daniel "Dan" Hanna
    ONR Global Science & Technology Advisor
    U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific (MARFORPAC)
  • Panelist (confirmed)
    Franz Ravelo
    Tech Advisor
    PACFLT NAVAIR
  • Panelist (confirmed)
    LtCol John Williams II, USA
    Field Assistance Science & Technology Director
    DEVCOM INDPACIFIC, DEVCOM, Army Futures Command
  • Room: Honolulu II (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Speaker(s)
  • Speaker (confirmed)
    Norman E. Leach, Jr.
    Director DAF Cloudworks, Program Manager ODIN
    Air Force Research Laboratory Information
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Wednesday, November 02, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Wednesday, November 02, 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

  • Room: South Pacific Ballroom (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
How INDOPACOM and partners identify technologies and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP's) to address warfighting requirements through innovation, experimentation and exercises. ...
Speaker(s)
Moderator (confirmed)
BG Paul H. Fredenburgh III, USA (Ret.)
Executive Vice President, Defense and National Security
AFCEA International
Panelist (confirmed)
RDML Susan BryerJoyner, USN
Deputy J-6 for JADC2/ Deputy Director (DDJ6)
The Joint Staff
Panelist (confirmed)
Brig Gen Michael R. Drowley, USAF
Director, Training and Exercises (J7)
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
Panelist (confirmed)
COL Ronnie E. Geronimo, USA
Director of Communications (SOJ6)
Special Operations Command Pacific
Panelist (confirmed)
BG Mark D. Miles, USA
Deputy Commanding General
U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence & Fort Eisenhower
Panelist (invited)
COL J. Brennon Kavanaugh, USA
Deputy Director, Requirements and Resources Directorate (J8)
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
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Wednesday, November 02, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

  • Room: Great Lawn
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Thursday, November 03, 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Room: Honolulu III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
The AFCEA Red vs Blue Competition is a 5-hour, competition for military and collegiate cybersecurity enthusiasts. This competition is a learning tool that will measure the participants current familiarity with various cybersecurity topics and will further sharpen the tools they have learned through education or self-learning. The red vs blue... ...read more...
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Thursday, November 03, 7:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  • Room: Coral Ballroom Lobby
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Thursday, November 03, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

  • Room: Tapa
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Thursday, November 03, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Room: Tapa
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Thursday, November 03, 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

  • Room: Mid-Pacific
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Thursday, November 03, 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

  • Room: Tapa Ballroom II/III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Speaker(s)
Keynote (confirmed)
BGen Joseph R. Clearfield, USMC
Deputy Commander
U.S. Marine Forces Pacific
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Thursday, November 03, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Room: South Pacific Ballroom I (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
Ka’ohoa Charter Elementary School - Last year was our school's first year participating in the VEX IQ program. Ka'ōhao Iwotics had 2 competing teams with five members each from 5th and 6th Grades. We competed in 3 virtual tournaments and 3 live tournaments, including States on the Big Island and... ...read more...
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Thursday, November 03, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Room: Mid-Pacific
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Thursday, November 03, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

  • Room: Honolulu I (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Stratus is a DOD private cloud designed to provide optionality to mission partners. Stratus provides a multi-tenant, self-service management capability for compute, storage, and network infrastructure. It delivers rapid elasticity, resource pooling, and broad network access through a self-service on-demand web-based portal where Mission Partners can manage their resources as needed.... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Speaker (confirmed)
Courtnea Johnson
Stratus Program Manager
Defense Information Systems Agency
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Thursday, November 03, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Thursday, November 03, 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM

  • Room: South Pacific Ballroom (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
Speaker(s)
Moderator (confirmed)
Stephanie Hutch
President & CEO, Makai Defense
Founder and Chair of the Board, Kekoa Foundation
Panelist (confirmed)
William Fong
JBPHH 5G Initiative Network Testbed Design Lead
U.S. Navy
Panelist (confirmed)
Robert "Bobby" Perkins
Senior Advisor - 5G
Vectrus
Panelist (confirmed)
Mansour "Manny" Yusuf
Chief Cloud & Edge Architect
Dell Technologies Federal Systems
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Thursday, November 03, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

  • Room: Honolulu I (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Commanders and agency directors require reliable and available emergency response capabilities to conduct safety of life, safety of flight, suicide prevention, and preservation of property response activities within each of the thousands of DoD installations, facilities, training areas, and assigned areas of operations. The Defense Information System Agency has been... ...read more...
Speaker(s)
Moderator (confirmed)
John E. Holloway, Jr.
Lead, DoD Public Safety Communications and DISA High Frequency Communications, Cyberspace Operations Directorate
Defense Information System Agency
Panelist (confirmed)
Kevin Brown
DoD Public Safety Communications Subject Matter Expert
Netmaker Communications, LLC
Panelist (confirmed)
Hakeem Thomas
Cyber Security SME, Office of Public Safety Communications
Defense Information Systems Agency
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Thursday, November 03, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Thursday, November 03, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

  • Room: Tapa Ballroom II/III (Tapa Conf Center 2nd Floor)
Speaker(s)
Keynote (confirmed)
Lauren Barrett Knausenberger
Chief Information Officer
Department of the Air Force
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Thursday, November 03, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  • Room: Nautilus Suite (Mid-Pacific Conf Center)
Receive the latest and greatest information pertaining to the SEWP contract vehicle directly from the SEWP PMO, including instruction on how to utilize our web tools. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and present your challenges for discussion…you don't want to miss it!.  This is recommended for acquisition... ...read more...
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