UPCOMING EVENTS
Cloud Architecture: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois
Strategies for building and refining the architecture.
April 23, 2025
9:00am-5:00pm
7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded
Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois
Overview
Once your organization’s business needs have been established, you can then create a plan that integrates infrastructure and platform strategy with the supporting cyber resilience.
What You Will Learn
In this one day conference attendees will learn:
- Cloud-Native Architecture: Maximizing Performance and Agility
- Building Resilient Cloud Architectures for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Cloud Security Architecture: Integrating Security into Every Layer
- Designing Scalable and Flexible Cloud Architectures for the Future
- Hybrid Cloud Architectures: Balancing On-Premise and Cloud Resources
- Cloud Architecture Best Practices: Learning from Successes and Failures (Panel Discussion)
Conference Price: $349.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
CONFERENCE AGENDA
9:00am – 10:00am: Designing Scalable and Flexible Cloud Architectures for the Future
As businesses grow and adapt to changing market conditions, their cloud architectures need to scale quickly and efficiently. This session will explore the principles and best practices for designing cloud architectures that can dynamically scale to meet demand. Topics will include elastic infrastructure, microservices, containerization, and the use of serverless computing to build highly scalable and cost-efficient cloud environments. Attendees will gain insights into future-proofing their cloud strategies to accommodate unpredictable workloads and growth.
10:00am – 10:30am: Refreshment Break
10:30am – 11:30am: Cloud-Native Architecture: Maximizing Performance and Agility
This session focuses on the design principles behind cloud-native architectures that optimize performance and enhance business agility. By fully embracing the cloud’s inherent capabilities—such as auto-scaling, self-healing, and infrastructure as code (IaC)—organizations can build applications that are faster, more resilient, and more adaptable. Attendees will learn how to structure applications and services in a cloud-native environment using best practices for microservices, Kubernetes, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
11:30am – 12:30pm: Hybrid Cloud Architectures: Balancing On-Premise and Cloud Resources
As organizations continue to invest in hybrid cloud strategies, finding the right balance between on-premise and cloud resources is critical to optimizing performance and cost-efficiency. This session will cover the core design principles of hybrid cloud architectures, addressing key challenges such as integrating legacy systems, data synchronization, security, and workload portability. Learn how to design a hybrid cloud environment that takes advantage of both private and public cloud benefits while ensuring smooth interoperability and flexibility.
12:30am – 1:30pm: Lunch and Exhibit Break
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Building Resilient Cloud Architectures for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Resiliency is key to ensuring uninterrupted business operations, especially in mission-critical environments. This session will focus on how to build cloud architectures that can withstand failures, mitigate risks, and ensure high availability. Attendees will learn about designing multi-region and multi-zone architectures, incorporating automated failover mechanisms, and establishing robust disaster recovery (DR) plans. Real-world examples will highlight how resilient cloud designs can reduce downtime and maintain service continuity during disruptions.
2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment Break
3:00pm – 4:00pm: Cloud Security Architecture: Integrating Security into Every Layer
With cybersecurity threats on the rise, embedding security into every layer of cloud architecture has never been more important. This session will provide a comprehensive overview of security-first cloud architecture design, including secure access control, data encryption, network security, and compliance. Learn how to adopt a Zero Trust model, secure cloud-native applications, and implement advanced identity and access management (IAM) strategies. The session will also cover automated security monitoring and incident response to detect and address potential vulnerabilities before they escalate.
4:00pm – 5:00pm: Cloud Architecture Best Practices: Learning from Successes and Failures (Panel Discussion)
In this interactive panel discussion, leading cloud architects and industry experts will share their experiences in designing, deploying, and managing cloud architectures. Panelists will discuss common challenges organizations face when moving to the cloud or optimizing their existing cloud environments, as well as key lessons learned from both successes and failures. Topics will include selecting the right cloud platform, managing cloud costs, ensuring security and compliance, and optimizing for scalability. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and gain valuable insights into what works—and what doesn’t—in cloud architecture.
Panelists will include Cloud Architecture Executives sharing strategies, tactics and lessons learned.
Conference Price: $349.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
Exhibits
As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.