Government and industry experts to address how the freedom of open
source is driving next generation government IT
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that officials from the Department of
Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the Director of
National Intelligence, National Reconnaissance Office, National Security
Agency and United States Patent and Trademark Office, as well as
speakers from GitHub and Red Hat, are scheduled to deliver keynote
addresses at the annual Red Hat Government Symposium. The event will be
held on Oct. 23, 2012 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
The one-day event will bring together more than 350 government IT and
business professionals to discuss how the freedom of open source can
play a pivotal role in meeting the government's mission-critical IT
demands. Red Hat's Public Sector general manager and vice president,
Paul Smith, will welcome attendees to the Symposium.
Keynote speakers scheduled for the Red Hat Government Symposium include:
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John Britton, Education Liaison, GitHub
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Dr. Peter Levin, CTO, Department of Veterans Affairs
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John Marshall, CTO, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Department of Defense
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Dawn Meyerriecks, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for
Acquisition, Technology, and Facilities, Office of the Director of
National Intelligence
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John Owens, CIO, United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Dan Risacher, Associate Director for Information Enterprise Strategy &
Policy, Office of the CIO, Department of Defense
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Jill Singer, CIO, National Reconnaissance Office
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Michael Tiemann, Vice President, Open Source Affairs, Red Hat
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Neal Ziring, Technical Director, Information Assurance Directorate
(IAD), NSA
In addition to the keynote addresses, the agenda features panel
discussions on topics ranging from open, hybrid cloud and
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), to Linux as a platform for government
innovation; virtualization; open, elastic storage; digital government
strategy; and security. Hands-on, technical labs will cover Red Hat
Storage, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.0.
"Evolving IT policies and dynamic advancements in technology are
changing the way our government serves citizens at every level. As
agencies evolve to meet these changes, choice of platform,
virtualization and cloud providers becomes critical as it allows
agencies to stay in control of their infrastructure and avoid lock-in,"
said Paul Smith, vice president and general manager, Public Sector, Red
Hat. "The Red Hat Government Symposium gives government and industry an
opportunity to share expertise and best practices on how the freedom of
open source is delivering this choice and meeting their IT challenges."
Sponsors of the 2012 Red Hat Government Symposium include Carahsoft,
Acquia, Cisco, DLT Solutions, Violin Memory, Alfresco, Arista, August
Schell, CollabNet, Emergent, Dell, GC Micro, 10gen, EnterpriseDB,
General Dynamics, Shadow-Soft and Vizuri.
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