UPCOMING EVENTS
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 Multicloud World
- Modernizing the Enterprise Data Ecosystem: Cloud Architectures for Real-Time and AI-Ready Data
- Leveraging FinOps and GreenOps 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 Multicloud 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 multicloud 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 GreenOps 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 GreenOps 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: Security by Design: Embedding Zero Trust Principles into Cloud Architecture
Zero Trust is not just a security policy—it’s an architectural imperative. This session will walk through the implementation of Zero Trust principles directly into cloud-native architectures, including microsegmentation, identity-based access controls, secure API gateways, and telemetry-driven threat detection.
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
Panelists will include Senior Cloud Architects & IT Leaders from enterprise IT organizations
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.
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.