Tentative Agenda |
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| Wednesday, April 20th | |
| 11:00 AM | Registration / Lunch* / Sponsor Meet & Greet – sponsored by CMA. |
| 11:30 AM | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 11:45 AM | Open Floor Introductions |
| 12:00 PM | LONI Updates |
| Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI Lance Neal, COO, LONI Gary Mumphrey, CTO, LONI LONI staff will kick-off the summit with information pertaining to the working group missions, governance, and provide brief updates on some of the LONI projects:
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| 12:30 PM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits – sponsored by Dell |
| 12:45 PM | LONI Services |
| Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI Lance Neal, COO, LONI Gary Mumphrey, CTO, LONI LONI staff will cover today’s portfolio of services that are available to the community while also touching on future opportunities. |
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| 1:15 PM | Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) |
| Gary Mumphrey, CTO, LONI Philip Stott, Network Engineer, LONI LONI staff will provide updates on the NGI project. |
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| 2:00 PM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits – sponsored by Dell |
| 2:15 PM | An Overview of High Performance Computing on LONI |
| Le Yan, Assistant Director, LONI HPC
Since its conception, LONI has been the provider of state-of-the-art high performance computing (HPC) resources to researchers in Louisiana and played a vital role by enabling them to tackle challenging problems in science and engineering. In this presentation, Dr. Yan will provide an overview of the resources and services offered by LONI HPC, as well as the research projects from around the state that are leveraging LONI HPC. |
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| 2:45 PM | Open Discussion: Compliance |
| Facilitator: Charles Broome, CISO, ULL
This session will be an open-floor discussion regarding various compliance challenges (CMMC, GLBA, etc.). |
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| 3:15 PM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits – sponsored by Dell |
| 3:30 PM | Open Discussion: Resiliency Strategies |
| Facilitators: Charles Broome, CISO, ULL & Tracy Brown, CIO, LSMSA
This session will be an open-floor discussion regarding resiliency strategies. |
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| 4:00 PM | Consortium Ideas & Activities |
| Tom Hoover, CIO, LA Tech & Vice President for Information Technology, UL System Tom will be leading a discussion around consortium ideas and activities. |
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| 4:30 PM | Open Discussions |
| Facilitators: co-chairs
This session will be an open-floor, open-topic discussion regarding anything that the community would like to cover. |
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| 5:00 PM | Recess |
| Thursday, April 21th | |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast* / Sponsor Meet & Greet |
| 8:30 AM | Featured Presentation: Vision 2029, Eliminating the Digital Divide |
| Veneeth Iyengar, Executive Director, Louisiana Office of Broadband Development & Connectivity
Veneeth is responsible for coordinating efforts among federal, state and local leaders to eliminate the digital divide in Louisiana by 2029. To learn more about Veneeth, his team, and his office, please visit https://connect.la.gov/about-us#AUMeetTheTeam. |
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| 9:30 AM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits |
| 9:45 AM | Facilitated Discussion: SB131 |
| 10:15 AM | Open Discussion: Supply Chain |
| Facilitators: LONI Staff and co-chairs
This session will be an open-floor discussion regarding supply chain issues, challenges, and strategies to overcome them. LONI Staff will also discuss a “swap & shop” concept. |
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| 10:45 AM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits |
| 11:00 AM | Facilitated Discussion: O365 |
| 11:30 AM | Configuration Management |
| Josh Young, CIO, SOWELA Josh will lead a facilitated discussion regarding configuration management (i.e., inTune, MDM, SECM, etc.). |
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| 12:00 AM | Lunch* / Networking / Sponsor Visits – sponsored by Palo Alto |
| 12:45 PM | LONI NOC |
| Corey Donovan, Manager of Business Operations, GlobalNOC
Corey will be providing an introduction to the LONI NOC (GlobalNOC) and field questions and discussions with the attendees. |
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| 1:15 PM | Community SOC |
| Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI Charles Broome, CISO, ULL Jonathan Cockrell, Associate Director, LSUS Lonnie will lead a facilitated discussion and panel discussion regarding the concept of a community SOC. |
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| 1:45 PM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits – sponsored by Presidio |
| 2:00 PM | New Co-chair Elections |
| 2:10 PM | Open Discussions / Summit Wrap-up |
| 2:50 PM | Closing Remarks – Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI |
| 3:00 PM | Dismiss |
*Lunch will be provided for both days. Please contact Lance Neal at lance@loni.org if you have any special dietary restrictions and/or food allergies.