February 7-9, 2017
La Jolla, CA
Tuesday, February 7
| Time | Topic | Location | Presenter(s) |
| 8:00am – 5:00pm | Individual Working Group Meetings | ||
| 8:00am – 3:00pm | CEO Roundtable – Closed Meeting Breakfast Served at 7:00am Meeting begins at 8:00am Continuing the semiannual tradition that leader-peers in R&E networks meet for a roundtable exchange of views, concerns and opportunities. This session is closed to executive leadership of R&E organizations and their invited guests. |
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club – Walnut Room | Vice Chair: Dave Marble, OSHEAN |
| 8:00am – 5:00pm | Financial Focus Group As one of our longest-standing working groups the Financial Focus Group (FFG) will meet in-person for a round table discussion of key areas important to the business operations and financial management of our Quilt member organizations. |
La Jolla Shores Hotel – Aztec Room (2ndFloor) | Chair: Ami Layman, OneNet |
| 1:00 – 5:00pm | Communication and Outreach Group | Acapulco South, 2nd Floor La Jolla Shores Hotel |
Co-Chairs: Darleene Heath, MCNC Nimota Garcia, OSHEAN |
| 1:00 – 5:00pm | Services Working Group | Acapulco North, 2nd Floor La Jolla Shores Hotel |
Co-Chairs: David Dennis, Merit Chris Liechty, WiscNet |
| 3:00 – 3:30pm | Break | ||
| 3:30 – 5:00pm | Quilt Board Meeting – Closed Meeting Quarterly Board Meeting of The Quilt Board of Directors. |
La Jolla Room, 1st Floor La Jolla Shores Hotel |
Chair: Paul Schopis, OARnet |
| 5:30 – 6:00pm | Newcomers Gathering First time at a Quilt Member Meeting? Please join us for a newcomers gathering at 5:30 pm. |
Walnut Room – La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club | |
| 5:30 – 8:00pm | Beach Party Networking Event – Sponsored by CIS Authorized Providers. | La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club – Beach | |
Wednesday, February 8
The Quilt Winter Meeting
Location: La Sala Room at La Jolla Shores Beach and Tennis Club
| Time | Topic | Location | Presenter(s) |
| 7:00 – 8:15am | General Breakfast | Club Dining Patio – La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club (rain back-up, The Marine Room) | |
| 7:00 – 8:15am | Carahsoft Sponsored Breakfast for Quilt VMware Program – Sign-up with Jennifer Griffin | La Jolla Room, 1st Floor La Jolla Shores Hotel |
Martin Gavin, Carahsoft Program Manager for VMware |
| 8:30am – 12:00pm | General Session | La Sala Room – La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club | |
| 8:30 – 8:45am | Meeting Welcome and Introductions | Jen Leasure, The Quilt | |
| 8:45 – 9:30am | Invited Address – Building the Cybersecurity Workforce of Tomorrow Cybersecurity will remain a high priority for organizations in 2017 and beyond, although the shape of those investments will continue to evolve. Investments in infrastructure, technologies, and tools will not be enough to reduce risks; we also need a knowledgeable and skilled workforce. The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) is working to create an ecosystem of cybersecurity education, training, and workforce development that addresses the workforce needs of today and the future. NICE, led by NIST in the U.S. Department of Commerce, is working with other government departments and agencies, academia, and the private sector to accelerate learning and skills development, nurture a diverse learning community, and guide career development and workforce planning. State and regional networks, as architects of our education and research network infrastructure and as potential service providers to educational communities, are an important part of NICE’s strategy to leverage public-private partnerships to enhance our national security and economic security. |
Rodney Petersen, Director of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce | |
| 9:30 – 10:15am | Invited Address – National Broadband Policy Update – Preparing for a New Administration | Jeff Mitchell, LLGS, LLC | |
| 10:15 – 10:30am | Break | ||
| 10:30 – 11:15am | Invited Panel Presentation and Discussion: Findings from the WILMA Report and Potential Directions for Regional Networks With the leadership of Merit and support provided by the Quello Center at Michigan State University, a collaboration of several Quilt members recently released report findings for wireless solutions to better connect communities under the project name Wireless Innovation for Last Mile Access (WILMA). | Aleks Yankelevich, Quello Center/Michigan State University, moderatorPanel: Joe Sawasky, Merit Chip Byers, MOREnet Ed Chapel, NJEDge Mark Johnson, MCNC Brian Remer, WiscNet |
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| 11:15am – 12:00pm | Invited Panel Presentation: Diversity Efforts and the WINS Project The IT field faces a diversity problem including building its next generation of leaders. Through the NSF-funded Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program, eight scholarship recipients participated in the ground-up construction of SCInet at SC16. This panel will share how WINS represents just one small step towards solving a larger problem around cultivating and preparing the next generation of female engineering talent. |
Marla Meehl, FRGP, moderator
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| 12:00pm – 2:15pm | Lunch / Networking / Special Interest Group Meetings | Club Dining Patio – La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club (rain back-up, The Marine Room) | |
| 12:15 – 2:15pm | Working Lunch Session for Blender Group – Closed Meeting | La Sala Room – La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club | Co-Chairs: Steve Wallace, IU Brian Remer, WiscNet |
| 12:15 – 1:15pm | Working Lunch and Level 3 Framework for R&E Fiber IRU Renewals | Walnut Room, La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club | Craig Cupach, Level 3 Scott Pohlman, Level 3 |
| 1:15 – 2:15pm | Internet2 Network Services Update |
La Jolla Room – 1st Floor, La Jolla Shores Hotel | George Loftus, Internet2 Linda Roos, Internet2 |
| 1:15 – 2:15pm | E-rate and Other National Policies and Programs Discussion | Acapulco N/S – 2nd Floor, La Jolla Shores Hotel | Jeff Mitchell, LLGS, LLC – facilitator |
| 2:15 – 2:45pm | Transportation to Calit2 at UCSD | ||
| 3:00 – 5:00pm | CENIC/Scripps Institution of Oceanography Sponsored Program: Earth Sciences Challenges for High Speed Regional Networks | Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall UCSD |
Louis Fox, CENIC, Host |
| 5:30 – 7:30pm | CENIC Sponsored Reception |
Birch Aquarium |
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| 7:30pm | Transportation departs from Birch Aquarium back to hotels | ||
Thursday, February 9
The Quilt Winter Meeting
Location: La Sala Room at La Jolla Shores Beach and Tennis Club (Morning Session)
| Time | Topic | Location | Presenter(s) |
| 7:00am – 8:15am | Breakfast | Club Dining Patio – La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club (rain back-up, The Marine Room) | |
| 7:00 – 8:15am | NOAA N-Wave and RON Partner Breakfast | Walnut Room – La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club | Rob Sears, NOAA Paul Love, NOAA Ann Keane, NOAA |
| 8:30 – 11:30am | Network Security Round Table | Acapulco N/S (2nd Floor), La Jolla Shores Hotel | Mark Beadles, OARnet |
| 8:30am – 12:00pm | The Trifecta Financial Focus Group Outreach and Communications Services Working Group |
La Sala Room, La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club | Jennifer Griffin, The Quilt |
| 9:00 am – 3:00 pm | ESnet Science Engagement Workshop for Regional Networks ($0 separate registration required)
This highly interactive workshop outlines a process that can be adopted by members of the R&E networking community (regional and state networks, campuses) to advance the mission of science engagement and fully realize the investments made in networking and personnel by agencies such as the Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation. |
La Jolla Room, 1st Floor, La Jolla Shores Hotel | Jason Zurawski, ESnet Jennifer Schopf, IU Kevin Thompson, NSF Steve Diggs, UCSD/SIO |
| 12:00 –1:00 pm | Boxed Lunches | Club Dining Patio – La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club and Shores Patio – La Jolla Shores Hotel | |
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