NASA IT Summit Highlights Cutting-Edge Technology and Innovations

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Aug 11, 2011, 11:11 ET

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 1,700 people have signed up to attend NASA's second annual IT Summit. It will feature technology leaders from government, the private sector and academia. The event will take place at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco on Monday, Aug. 15 - Wednesday, Aug. 17.

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If you can't make it to the event, you may still participate through a remote engagement opportunity. All keynote or featured speakers and the Education Blast Off will be streamed live in conjunction with an online chat forum.

Remote participants may join a phone discussion forum and talk with presenters and other participants in conjunction with an online chat forum. These sessions will not be streamed. You may view the NASA IT Summit remote engagement schedule, select your sessions and register at:

http://open.nasa.gov/itsummit

Participants also will have access to the speakers' abstracts, presentations and biographies. Streamed sessions will be posted on NASA's Office of the Chief Information Officer website at:

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ocio/itsummit/

Speakers will cover topics including security, open government, future work force, and the role of IT in space science and exploration. The keynote speakers include:

-- Tim Campos, CIO, Facebook, Palo Alto, Calif.

-- Andy Jassy, senior vice president for Web services, Amazon.com, Seattle

-- LaVerne Council, corporate vice president and chief information officer, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J.

-- Lynn Tilton, CEO, Patriarch Partners LLC, New York

-- Kaplan Mobray, author, motivational speaker, career and life coach

To highlight one of the summit's tracks, "Tomorrow's Work Force," NASA's Associate Administrator for Education and former astronaut Leland Melvin will address more than 200 high school students. These students also will get hands-on technology demonstrations and meet with representatives of industry partners to encourage their enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering and math.

To schedule interviews at the conference with NASA participants, reporters should contact Eldora Valentine at [email protected]. One-on-one interviews will be available with NASA CIO Linda Cureton, Deputy CIO Deborah Diaz and Melvin.

For more information and to stay updated on various summit activities, follow NASA's CIO on Twitter and the #nasait hashtag:

http://twitter.com/nasacio

For more information about the summit, including the full agenda, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ocio/itsummit/

SOURCE NASA