The General Services Administration’s annual IRMCO conference is just around the corner and two of its key panel discussions will focus on cloud computing.

IRMCO will be held March 15-16 at the Kellogg Conference Center and Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Day two will open with a CIO roundtable on implementing the 25-Point IT Plan laid out by the Obama administration last year. (Cloud computing is a major component of that plan.) The discussion will be led by Federal CIO Vivek Kundra and panelists include:

• Chris Smith, CIO, USDA
• Bernie Mazer, CIO, Interior
• Darren Ash, Deputy Director for Corporate Management, Office of the Executive Director, NRC
• Henry Sienkiewicz, CIO, DISA

The two-day conference will then finish with a panel on data center consolidation and the cloud-first policy implemented by OMB in 2010. The panel will be led by GSA’s Steve Kempf, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service.

Panelists include:

• Katie Lewin, Director, Cloud Computing Program, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, GSA
• Kevin Kampschroer, Director, Office of Federal High -Performance Green Buildings, GSA
• Richard Spires, CIO, DHS
• Jerry Williams, CIO, HUD

The Fed Cloud Blog will bring you the latest from the conference next week!

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