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

Strategies for building and refining the architecture.

September 25, 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

Designing Adaptive, Scalable, and Responsible Cloud Architectures for the Next Wave of Enterprise Innovation

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • Architecting for Cloud-Native Resilience in a Multi-cloud World
  • Modernizing the Enterprise Data Ecosystem: Cloud Architectures for Real-Time and AI-Ready Data
  • Leveraging FinOps and Green-Ops for Sustainable Cloud Architecture
  • Security by Design: Embedding Zero Trust Principles into Cloud Architecture
  • Composable Cloud Architecture: Designing for Speed, Scale, and Change
  • From Strategy to Execution: Cloud Architecture Lessons from the Enterprise (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: Architecting for Cloud-Native Resilience in a Multi-cloud World

As organizations diversify across cloud providers, resilience planning must extend beyond single-platform paradigms. This session will explore architectural patterns for achieving operational resilience in multi-cloud and hybrid environments, including distributed failover models, control plane abstraction, and cloud-agnostic service orchestration.

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

10:30am – 11:30am: Modernizing the Enterprise Data Ecosystem: Cloud Architectures for Real-Time and AI-Ready Data

Enterprises must evolve beyond traditional ETL and warehouse-centric models to support real-time analytics and AI/ML. This session will explore how to architect cloud-native data ecosystems using event-driven patterns, data mesh, and modern lakehouse platforms to accelerate innovation while ensuring governance and compliance.

11:30am – 12:30pm: Leveraging FinOps and Green-Ops for Sustainable Cloud Architecture

As cloud costs and sustainability mandates rise, architects must bake cost and carbon efficiency into their designs. This session will show how to integrate FinOps and Green-Ops principles into architecture reviews, with frameworks and tooling to optimize spend, reduce waste, and meet ESG targets without sacrificing agility.

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

1:30pm – 2:30pm: Demystifying Vectors in AI for Resilient Cloud Architectures

Owen Taylor, Senior Staff Solutions Engineer, Cockroach Labs

We’ll explore how companies are using vector databases to power intelligent search, recommendations, and semantic understanding across modern applications.

You’ll walk away with:

  • A clear understanding of what a vector database is, in straightforward terms
  • A live demo using a Battleship game to bring the concept to life
  • Practical examples of where this technology is already being applied

Taylor

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Refreshment & Exhibit Break

3:00pm – 4:00pm: Composable Cloud Architecture: Designing for Speed, Scale, and Change

The future of cloud architecture lies in composability—assembling services and components like building blocks to rapidly respond to business needs. This session explores how to architect with composability in mind using APIs, low-code/no-code platforms, service catalogs, and infrastructure as code to drive agility and innovation.

4:00pm – 5:00pm: Panel – From Strategy to Execution: Cloud Architecture Lessons from the Enterprise

This interactive panel brings together enterprise IT leaders to share lessons learned from their own cloud architecture journeys. Panelists will discuss strategic pivots, organizational challenges, architecture mistakes, governance models, and future plans—offering candid insights and actionable takeaways for attendees navigating similar transformations.

Moderator: TBD

Panelists will include:

  • Ashley Lewis, Senior Manager Infrastructure, Morningstar
  • Deepak Vishwakarma, Manager – DevSecOps & Operations, Kohler Co.
  • And other Senior Cloud Architects & IT Leaders from enterprise IT organizations

Lewis                  Vishwakarama

 

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.