{"id":19617,"date":"2020-05-20T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=19617"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:10:45","slug":"meetup-replay-gov-it-modernization-in-the-era-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/meetup-replay-gov-it-modernization-in-the-era-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetup replay: Gov IT modernization in the era of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our April Microsoft Azure Government meetup featured innovative demos and influential speakers in the federal space from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), CGI Federal, C3.ai, and Microsoft discussing strategies, challenges and tools for driving government IT modernization along the impacts COVID-19 brings to these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s Nicholas DiCola kicked off the meetup with a demo of Azure Sentinel, then CGI Federal\u2019s John Blandin teamed up with Microsoft\u2019s Reynaldo Martinez and Anthony de Lagarde to share a digital modernization customer story in the federal landscape. The meetup culminated in an engaging panel discussion with DIU\u2019s Mike Madsen, C3.ai\u2019s Nikhil Krishnan and Microsoft\u2019s Kent Cunningham on how COVID-19 has impacted government IT modernization.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to watch the full meetup by viewing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLOONVrYRytUhrBPPPlWVWR-VDB1K4LcL_\">Gov IT modernization in the era of COVID 19 playlist<\/a> on our <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/AzureGovMeetupChannel\">Azure Gov Meetup YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below you\u2019ll find direct access and brief descriptions of featured demos, presentations and panel discussion from last month\u2019s Microsoft Azure Government DC Meetup:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 583px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 113px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.3333%; height: 113px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19633 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-Covid19Welcome-Thumbnail-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Image April2020 Meetup Covid19Welcome Thumbnail\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-Covid19Welcome-Thumbnail-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-Covid19Welcome-Thumbnail-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-Covid19Welcome-Thumbnail-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-Covid19Welcome-Thumbnail.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 73.655%; height: 113px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YiGG5Dj7oB8&amp;list=PLOONVrYRytUhrBPPPlWVWR-VDB1K4LcL_&amp;index=5&amp;t=0s\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;\">Gov IT modernization in the era of COVID 19 &#8211; Welcome<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\n<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u2013 with Karina Homme<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 113px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.3333%; height: 113px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19635 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-SentinelDemo-Thumbnail-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Image April2020 Meetup SentinelDemo Thumbnail\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-SentinelDemo-Thumbnail-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-SentinelDemo-Thumbnail-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-SentinelDemo-Thumbnail-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-SentinelDemo-Thumbnail.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 73.655%; height: 113px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EA-6YbU5qss&amp;list=PLOONVrYRytUhrBPPPlWVWR-VDB1K4LcL_&amp;index=2&amp;t=0s\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;\">Azure Sentinel Demo<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\n<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u2013 with Nicholas DiCola<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 112px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.3333%; height: 112px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19634 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-DigitalModernizationFedLandscapeSpeakers-Thumbnail-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Image April2020 Meetup DigitalModernizationFedLandscapeSpeakers Thumbnail\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-DigitalModernizationFedLandscapeSpeakers-Thumbnail-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-DigitalModernizationFedLandscapeSpeakers-Thumbnail-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-DigitalModernizationFedLandscapeSpeakers-Thumbnail-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-DigitalModernizationFedLandscapeSpeakers-Thumbnail-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-DigitalModernizationFedLandscapeSpeakers-Thumbnail-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 73.655%; height: 112px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9gxyWlx-y0&amp;list=PLOONVrYRytUhrBPPPlWVWR-VDB1K4LcL_&amp;index=3&amp;t=0s\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;\">Digital modernization for customers in the federal landscape<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\n<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u2013 with<b> <\/b>John Blandin, Reynaldo Martinez and Anthony de Lagarde<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 113px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.3333%; height: 113px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19632 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-Covid19Panel-Thumbnail-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Image April2020 Meetup Covid19Panel Thumbnail\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-Covid19Panel-Thumbnail-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-Covid19Panel-Thumbnail-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-Covid19Panel-Thumbnail-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/05\/April2020-Meetup-Covid19Panel-Thumbnail.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 73.655%; height: 113px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3j0wLCE4qmc&amp;list=PLOONVrYRytUhrBPPPlWVWR-VDB1K4LcL_&amp;index=4&amp;t=0s\"><strong>Panel: Gov IT modernization in the era of COVID 19<\/strong>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0&#8211; with Nikhil Krishnan, Mike Madsen, Kent Cunningham and Karina Homme<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Microsoft Azure Sentinel Demo<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ndicola\/\"><em>Nicholas DiCola<\/em><\/a><em>, Principal Group PM Manager, C+AI Security Experience Engineering Team, Microsoft<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EA-6YbU5qss&amp;list=PLOONVrYRytUhrBPPPlWVWR-VDB1K4LcL_&amp;index=1\">this segment<\/a>, get a tour of Azure Sentinel and learn key aspects from how to get data into you system using data connectors, to how process information and extract actionable data that can be visualized using workbooks. <em>Azure Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native,\u00a0<strong>security information event management (SIEM)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>security orchestration automated response (SOAR)<\/strong>\u00a0solution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/azure-sentinel\/become-an-azure-sentinel-ninja-the-complete-level-400-training\/ba-p\/1246310\">Become an Azure Sentinel Ninja: The complete level 400 training<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/sentinel\/\">Azure Sentinel documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-sentinel-general-availability-a-modern-siem-reimagined-in-the-cloud\/\">Azure Sentinel general availability: A modern SIEM reimagined in the cloud<\/a><strong> (blog)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Digital modernization for customers in the federal landscape<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-blandin-5b640a8\/\"><em>John Blandin<\/em><\/a><em>, Director Consulting Services, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgi.com\/us\/en-us\/federal\"><em>CGI Federal<\/em><\/a>\n<em>Reynaldo Martinez, Senior Account Executive, Microsoft\n<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anthonydelagarde\/\">Anthony de Lagarde<\/a>, Principal FastTrack Engineer, Microsoft<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9gxyWlx-y0&amp;list=PLOONVrYRytUhrBPPPlWVWR-VDB1K4LcL_&amp;index=2\">this segment<\/a>, John, Reynaldo and Anthony share a transformational story for one of their mission partner\u2019s customers in the defense aerospace industry. The customer faced several common challenges such as accumulated technical debt, insufficient resource bandwidth, no encryption for the last mile and in-existent inventory of dataset to migrate. This presentation walks through this transformation project from project discovery, approach, outcomes, and lessons learned.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Panel discussion: <\/strong><strong>Gov IT Modernization in the era of COVID-19<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/susie-adams-4175bb\/\"><em>Kent<\/em><\/a><em> Cunningham<\/em><em>, Chief Technology Officer, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fenterprise%2Fgovernment%2Ffederal-government&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cv-mpudas%40microsoft.com%7C16bd52dd2ad54443963f08d7ab5c065e%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637166284046827970&amp;sdata=MoUi3BSt4pWhFYkVq8qcdrPw5aubxfweuJ980KrHbWQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><em>Microsoft Federal<\/em><\/a><em> Civilian\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/diu.mil\/team\/Michael-Madsen\"><em>Mike Madsen<\/em><\/a><em>, Director, Strategic Engagement, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/diu.mil\/\"><em>Defense Innovation Unit<\/em><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nikhil-krishnan-4744211\/\"><em>Nikhil Krishnan<\/em><\/a><em>, Group Vice President, Products, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/c3.ai\/\"><em>C3.ai<\/em><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/karinahomme\/\"><em>Karina Homme<\/em><\/a><em>, Senior Director, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/global-infrastructure\/government\/\"><em>Microsoft Azure Government<\/em><\/a><em> (moderator)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3j0wLCE4qmc&amp;list=PLOONVrYRytUhrBPPPlWVWR-VDB1K4LcL_&amp;index=3\">panelists<\/a> provided insights on their definition of IT modernization in government in this time where 80 percent of the budget is allocated to legacy tech. They spoke to challenges, various types of modernization, and top priorities. We also discussed COVID-19\u2019s impact on modernization strategies and priorities along with the emphasis on technologies that enable telework, remote access, network security (Zero Trust model), and automation.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you again to all our speakers and the Azure Gov Meetup community! Make sure to RSVP today to join us for our next virtual meetup on <strong>May 27<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/azuregovmeetup-0520\"><strong>The rise of DevSecOps in gov software initiatives<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our April Microsoft Azure Government meetup featured innovative demos and influential speakers in the federal space from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), CGI Federal, C3.ai, and Microsoft discussing strategies, challenges and tools for driving government IT modernization along the impacts COVID-19 brings to these efforts. 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