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UPCOMING EVENTS

Cloud Architecture: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois

Strategies for building and refining the architecture.

April 23, 2026

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

8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am: From Cloud Adoption to Cloud Intentionality

Many organizations are already “in the cloud,” but few are architecting with clear intent. This session focuses on how mature cloud programs move beyond lift-and-shift toward deliberate architectural choices aligned with business outcomes.

Includes:

  • Recognizing signs of accidental architecture
  • Aligning cloud design with business priorities
  • Making architectural trade-offs visible and intentional

10:00am – 10:30am: Sponsor & Refreshment Break

10:30am – 11:30am: Composable Cloud Architecture: Building With Modular Services

Modern cloud platforms enable architectures built from modular, reusable components. This session explores how composable design improves adaptability while controlling complexity.

Includes:

  • Modular and composable architecture principles
  • Service boundaries and dependency management
  • Avoiding over-fragmentation and sprawl

11:30am – 12:30pm: Designing Cloud Platforms, Not Just Applications

As organizations scale, teams increasingly need internal platforms rather than one-off solutions. This session focuses on cloud architecture that supports platform engineering and shared services.

Includes:

  • Platform vs. application architecture decisions
  • Enabling self-service without sacrificing control
  • Reference architectures for internal platforms

12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch and Exhibit Break

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Data-Centric Cloud Architecture

Data gravity increasingly shapes cloud design decisions. This session examines how data location, movement, and lifecycle influence architecture across analytics, AI, and transactional systems.

Includes:

  • Designing around data locality and movement
  • Architecting for analytics and AI workloads
  • Data governance and lifecycle considerations

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment Break

3:00pm – 4:00pm: Architecting for Human Systems: Teams, Skills, and Operations

Cloud architecture decisions directly affect how teams build, deploy, and operate systems. This session connects architectural choices to organizational structure, skills, and day-to-day operations.

Includes:

  • Conway’s Law and cloud architecture
  • Designing for operational clarity and ownership
  • Reducing cognitive load for engineering teams

4:00pm – 5:00pm: Cloud Architecture Panel: Hard Lessons and Honest Trade-Offs

Panelists will include Enterprise Identity Executives sharing the strategies, tactics, and lessons learned.

This closing panel moves beyond hype to discuss real-world cloud architecture challenges. Panelists will share lessons learned, mistakes made, and how their thinking has evolved over time.

Includes:

  • When simplicity beats “best practice”
  • Revisiting architectural decisions as systems mature
  • What architects would do differently today
  • Audience Q&A

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.