Agenda

Event Agenda

Join us for a day of valuable summit sessions and networking opportunities. Whether you are an executive, technology decision maker, project manager, or developer, we have prepared an array of topics and discussions that provide relevant value to your role. The one day agenda is organized into General and Breakout Sessions, focusing on Business Solutions, Thought Leadership, and MarkLogic Technology in Government - all containing unique content to serve your interests.

If you are new to MarkLogic, we encourage you to attend the morning introductory session to get an overview of how MarkLogic technology is designed to solve the challenges of Big Data. We have left plenty of time for networking during our Birds-of-a-Feather lunch and our evening reception at the close of the summit. Please check back frequently as more information (including speakers) is added to the agenda.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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7:00am - 9:00am	Registration and Breakfast
8:00am - 8:45am	Introduction to MarkLogic Dale Kim, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, MarkLogic and Stephen Buxton, Director of Product Management, MarkLogic Introduction to MarkLogic This optional session is for attendees new to MarkLogic. Dale Kim and Stephen Buxton will discuss MarkLogic products, define terms, and set the context for the technical talks throughout the day. Dale will provide a high level overview of what MarkLogic does, and Stephen will drill down into technical details.
9:00am - 9:05am	Welcome Randall Jackson, VP Public Sector, MarkLogic
9:00am - 9:40am	General Session Ken Bado, CEO, MarkLogic and Ron Avnur, CTO, MarkLogic
9:45am - 10:30am	Big Data: Big Problem, Big Answer General Michael Hayden, Former Director at the CIA and Deputy Director of the National Security Agency Big Data: Big Problem, Big Answer What are the global challenges facing American intelligence today? How can they be addressed? And in that process, how do we collect, manage, manipulate and turn to our own purposes the vast amount of data that is available? What is the driver that gets us from Big Data to smart, actionable decisions? General Michael Hayden will draw from his experiences serving as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency as well as the first Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence.
10:30am - 11:00am	Break
11:05am - 11:50am	The Zettabyte Era Bob Flores, President & CEO, Applicology Inc. & Former CTO at the CIA The Zettabyte Era Eight exabytes of new data appear on government networks each month. By 2015 the amount of U.S. IP traffic flowing over the internet will reach 1 zettabyte. Where is all of this information coming from, and what needs to be done to manage it all?
11:50am - 1:30pm	Birds-of-a-Feather Lunch
Track Sessions	Solutions Track	Thought Leadership Track	Technology Track
1:30pm - 2:10pm	ISR Information Sharing in Support of the Warfighter Lt Col Thomas Tschuor, Director, Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) Multi-Service Execution Team (MET) Office (DMO) Intelligence and Special Programs Division, Hanscom AFB ISR Information Sharing in Support of the Warfighter The Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) enterprise established a baseline infrastructure and common services among the seven DCGS Programs of Record called the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB). The DIB, which embraces enterprise services and standards that serve as the foundation for the interoperability of DCGS Programs of Record, is leveraged as the data layer for the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E). The DIB facilitates the sharing of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) information across DCGS, the Joint Intelligence Operations Centers (JIOCs) and the Intelligence Community, as well as coalition partners. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Tschuor, DMO Director (DCGS Multi-Service Execution Team Office) will talk about today's challenges for managing large, unpredictable, unstructured, and mixed schema sources and the effect this changing landscape has on the DIB. Lt Col Tschuor will speak to the role of the DMO in setting the appropriate architecture to ensure the optimization of ISR data sharing. He will then discuss the technologies that support the infrastructure, and review the recent conformance and performance testing results, conducted by the DMO, on DIB Metadata Catalogs.	Building Out Your Cloud-Ready Solutions Clark Richey, Federal Principal Technologist, MarkLogic Building Out Your Cloud-Ready Solutions As part of on-going efforts to minimize IT costs while simultaneously solving more and more difficult problems, we continue to look to cloud-based deployments. Technologies for virtualization, system monitoring, automated configuration, and MapReduce/Hadoop processing are key components, but there's more to consider. This session explores how MarkLogic, as the core technology of your cloud deployments, ensures that the solutions we are building for tomorrow can be readily deployed into the cloud today.	Under the Hood with MarkLogic: Indexing, Part 1 Jason Hunter, Principal Technologist, MarkLogic Under the Hood with MarkLogic: Indexing, Part 1 If you've ever wondered what's going on inside MarkLogic software, these talks are for you. Join principal technologist Jason Hunter as he explains, in human terms, the core concepts and features of MarkLogic, and how it differs from traditional search and database products. In this first of a two part talk on indexing, Jason explains the architecture of MarkLogic's universal indexes and range indexes.
2:20pm - 3:00pm	Real Time Intelligence at the Department of Transportation Andy Walker, CEO, 42Six Solutions Real Time Intelligence at the Department of Transportation Blue Mercury is a next generation security application at the U.S. Department of Transportation where users rely on the tool for real-time analysis of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), crime reports and relevant news feeds. Blue Mercury incorporates incoming data from several sources, analyzes the information, and notifies analysts and security officers when a link is found between seemingly unrelated intelligence. Notification features rely on user-friendly collaborative features reminiscent of social media. Andy Walker, CEO, 42Six Solutions will guide the audience through a demonstration of Blue Mercury in action while discussing the benefits to the user, the impact on the broader mission of securing America's transportation systems and the speed with which 42Six Solutions developed the dynamic solution on MarkLogic.	Enterprise Data Layers: the Platform for Big Data Analytics Chris Biow, Public Sector CTO, MarkLogic Enterprise Data Layers: the Platform for Big Data Analytics If we want to create analytic capabilities and enable sharing of large and complex enterprise data, our first challenge is bringing it together with agility and speed. Agility allows us to span and integrate the various silos and sources of information in a consistent way, and speed supports the fast, interactive querying needed for effective Big Data analysis. We will explore the enhanced mission capabilities of a MarkLogic-based Data Layer, including metadata catalogs, intelligence repositories, decision support, and connection with other analytic engines.	Under the Hood with MarkLogic: Indexing, Part 2 Jason Hunter, Principal Technologist, MarkLogic Under the Hood with MarkLogic: Indexing, Part 2 If you've ever wondered what's going on inside MarkLogic software, these talks are for you. Join principal technologist Jason Hunter as he explains, in human terms, the core concepts and features of MarkLogic, and how it differs from traditional search and database products. In this second of a two part talk on indexing, Jason continues his discussion of the architecture of MarkLogic's universal indexes and range indexes. Jason's first talk on indexing is a prerequisite to this session.
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Break
3:30pm - 4:10pm	Integrating Land Use Data to Better Serve Citizens, Economic Development, and Public Servants Woodrow Bellamy, Fairfax County Government, Virginia Integrating Land Use Data to Better Serve Citizens, Economic Development, and Public Servants Fairfax County, Virginia is one of the largest local governments in the nation. The county is a critical economic engine that attracts new businesses and residents while serving its stakeholders. Fairfax County is integrating its land use data from several sources including relational databases, mainframe systems, GIS resources, and thousands of documents and CAD drawings. Bringing this data together in real time will answer questions about zoning changes, location identification for retailers, and home history inquiries for families considering a new home. This solution will dramatically reduce the county's labor effort while giving it a competitive edge for prospective residents. Woodrow Bellamy, Branch Chief for the Land Use team within Fairfax County's Department of Information Technology, will share insights on how the county is utilizing MarkLogic to build a solution for stakeholders in less than a year.	Navigating Big Data with Semantic Technology Gary Katz, Senior Consultant, MarkLogic Navigating Big Data with Semantic Technology MarkLogic Corporation has been funding research that explores semantic tuple storage and querying using an XML tuple model. By representing tuples as XML documents, MarkLogic has been able to efficiently store and query against large tuple sets, as demonstrated in both the Billion Triple Challenge and the Lehigh University Benchmark. In this session you will learn about current efforts in XML-based representations with semantic querying, as well as MarkLogic-funded research (by Professor Jim Hendler and Dr. Li Ding) on connecting XML stores to semantic technologies via automated SPARQL to XQuery translation.	Under the Hood with MarkLogic: Data Management Jason Hunter, Principal Technologist, MarkLogic Under the Hood with MarkLogic: Data Management If you've ever wondered what's going on inside MarkLogic software, these talks are for you. Join principal technologist Jason Hunter as he explains, in human terms, the core concepts and features of MarkLogic, and how it differs from traditional search and database products. In this talk, Jason discusses the data management capabilities in MarkLogic.
4:15pm - 4:55pm	Search and Discovery Innovations Powered by MarkLogic Greg Hagler, Department of Defense Search and Discovery Innovations Powered by MarkLogic This presentation describes a new tool developed by a U.S. Government entity that uses MarkLogic to power innovations for search and discovery. Driven by a domain-specific ontology, the tool allows vast sets of unstructured textual information to be organized, visualized, manipulated, and navigated leading to discovery.	Adding Visualizations to Mission-Critical Analyses Jose Morales, Sr. Technical Consultant, MarkLogic Adding Visualizations to Mission-Critical Analyses Data visualization and analytics continue to evolve to further enable the understanding of complex data sets. But today's mission faces the growing challenge of how to apply visualization tools—designed for a specific, predictable data format—over high volumes of diverse data formats. This session explores how MarkLogic uniquely enables the visualization of Big Data analytics by integrating large volumes of data, applying fast built-in analytics, and then transforming, filtering, and integrating data into formats visualization tools can handle. With quick integration of numerous data sources, analysts get outputs that are more relevant and actionable. The discussion will include examples of visualization techniques uniquely enabled by MarkLogic.	Under the Hood with MarkLogic: New Features in MarkLogic Jason Hunter, Principal Technologist, MarkLogic Under the Hood with MarkLogic: New Features in MarkLogic If you've ever wondered what's going on inside MarkLogic software, these talks are for you. Join principal technologist Jason Hunter as he explains, in human terms, the core concepts and features of MarkLogic, and how it differs from traditional search and database products. In this talk, Jason discusses the newest features added to the newest release of MarkLogic.
4:55pm - 5:10pm	Closing Randall Jackson, VP Public Sector, MarkLogic
5:15pm - 6:15pm	NOVAMUG Meeting: MarkLogic Toolkits for Office and Connector for SharePoint Pete Aven, Senior Engineer, MarkLogic Hosted by Avalon Consulting, LLC NOVAMUG Meeting: MarkLogic Toolkits for Office and Connector for SharePoint Microsoft Office is ubiquitous and can be easily integrated with MarkLogic Server, providing ways for authors and analysts to maximize information assembly, reuse, and auditing, all within the applications they already know and use. Join us as we discuss the MarkLogic Toolkits for Office and Connector for SharePoint, demonstrating applications and toolkit components that provide a jump-start for Office development and seamless integration with MarkLogic Server. We'll focus on applications for Excel, using worksheets to capture query results. Application highlights include fun with charts and macros, as well as network analysis and visualizations.
5:15pm - 7:00pm	Networking Cocktail Reception

Track Descriptions

Thought Leadership Track

The Thought Leadership Track provides technically-oriented overviews of important trends, practices, and innovations around government Big Data today. In these sessions, you will hear technology experts share their insights on issues that pertain to the growing volume and complexity of government-created information. These presentations also include discussions on how MarkLogic solutions help to drive the future mission successes of government organizations.

MarkLogic Technology Track

The MarkLogic Technology Track consists of sessions that describe MarkLogic products and features at a technical level. These sessions are most suited for individuals who make critical implementation decisions for their organizations. In this track, MarkLogic engineers will give in-depth presentations on why MarkLogic technology is suited to address Big Data challenges, and also why MarkLogic government customers are able to gain significant mission advantage.

Solutions Track

The Solutions Track provides valuable insight into how organizations are using MarkLogic to exploit massive volumes of mission-critical information. Hear directly from customers, partners, and other implementation experts on how MarkLogic technology solved critical business problems in government. Also learn how these MarkLogic solutions apply to your organization to solve Big Data problems.