Pamela is chief architect of the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). She is a strategic C-level advisor, inventor, business analyst, and information engineer with more than 20 years of experience in systems engineering, as well as business application development, networks, enterprise strategies, and implementations. A published inventor, Pamela has performed extensive research in security, expert systems, NANO technology, and mobile infrastructure. She holds a patent for secure biometric financial payments via mobile, contactless, and smart payment technology from the United States Patents and Trademark Office. Another patent for secure handheld device technology, business methods, and apparatus based on secure mobile financial markets and a third patent for service technology are currently pending. As an emerging technology leader and futurist, she has delivered leading-edge, high-profile national systems to form collaborative partnerships with numerous government and private organizations. Pamela has performed as a senior network analyst on the performance of event and service-driven architectures and is responsible for technical and business alignment with emerging service-oriented technologies at her current role at the NNSA. She has created an innovative service-layered approach for modeling network and provisioning segments for enterprise components and SOA planning and design and is currently leading the OneArchitecture-SmartPath approach. Pamela received a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management and Technology at George Washington University and is certified in the Governance of Enterprise Information Technology (CGEIT) with ISACA.
Gustavo is a senior IT consultant with 10 years of professional experience in the IT, telecommunications, public sector, and media industries. Gustavo has delivered technical and management consulting services to global market leaders and major governmental organizations alike and holds several IT certifications in technical and service management. He has worked with the product portfolios of cloud computing giants such as Microsoft, Cisco, and VMware. Gustavo graduated from the University of Brasília with a Bachelor of Science degree, followed by a Master of Science degree from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Dr. Michaela Iorga serves as senior security technical lead for cloud computing with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Computer Security division. She also chairs the NIST Cloud Computing Public Security Working Group and co-chairs the recently-established NIST Cloud Computing Public Forensic Science Working Group. Having previously served in a wide range of consulting positions in both government and private sector industries before joining NIST, Dr. Iorga, a recognized expert in information security, risk assessment, information assurance, and cloud computing security, has a deep understanding of cybersecurity, identity and credential management, and cyberspace privacy issues, as well as an extensive knowledge base in the development of complex security architectures. In her role as senior security technical lead at NIST and chair of the NIST Public Security Working Group, Dr. Iorga supports the development and dissemination of cybersecurity standards and guidelines that meet national priorities and promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. Dr. Iorga is particularly focused on working with industrial, academic, and other government stakeholders to develop a high-level, vendor-neutral cloud computing security reference architecture under the NIST Strategy for Developing a US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap. A proven leader and expert in problem-solving and analysis, Dr. Iorga is also managing several other NIST efforts that include the development of the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3: “Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules” and the implementation of a NIST public, secure randomness source. She also contributes to the NIST efforts in developing the security testing requirements for electrical smart meters. Dr. Iorga received her Ph.D. from Duke University in North Carolina, USA.
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A certified IT professional with more than 14 years of experience in solution architecture and design, engineering, and consultation, Amin specializes in designing medium- to enterprise-level complex solutions for partially to fully virtualized front-end infrastructures. His portfolio includes clients such as VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix, and his work consists of integrating front-ends with back-end infrastructure-layer solutions. Amin designed a unified, vendor-independent cloud computing framework that he presented at the 5th International SOA, Cloud + Service Technology Symposium in 2012. Certified in cloud computing, virtualization, and storage, Amin currently holds technical consultant and cloud operations lead positions for Hewlett-Packard, Australia.
Vinícius has more than 13 years of IT experience in network management, network security, convergence, and IT governance from working in multiple federal public departments in Brazil. He has been the chief information officer of Brazil’s Ministry of National Integration for two years and recently published several academic papers focused on enabling privacy in the cloud computing paradigm. Vinícius is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in cloud security and holds a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications (2007) from the University of Brasília.
Dr. Matthias Ziegler leads the Emerging Technology Innovation practice and is responsible for cloud computing at Accenture in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. He is part of an international team that is looking at emerging technologies in areas such as cloud computing, Big Data, analytics, and social media and develops innovative solutions for clients that create business value. His work spans from conducting innovation workshops with clients’ senior leadership, to discussing architecture alternatives with enterprise architects, to leading teams that bring emerging technology solutions successfully to production. He is a requested speaker at conferences such as the SOA, Cloud + Service Technology Symposium. Dr. Ziegler holds a diploma in Computer Science from the University of Würzburg and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich and teaches Management Information Systems at the University of Applied Management in Erding. He lives with his wife and three children near Munich, Germany.