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All events will take place at the Fairmont San Jose.

Sunday, June 23
Registration: Registration desk in the Imperial Foyer, 5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.

Monday, June 24
Registration: Registration desk in the Imperial Foyer, 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
HotPar '13 Club Regent		UCMS '13 Crystal Room
Continental Breakfast: Market Street Foyer, 8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Keynote Address Eric Brewer, University of California, Berkeley, and Google		9:00 a.m.–9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks Chris St. Pierre, Wireless Generation, Inc. 9:15 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Keynote Address: The Business of Configuration Management Mark Burgess, CFEngine, Inc.
Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.		Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m. Performance		11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Invited Talk: DevOps, Desired State, and Microsoft Windows Bruce Payette, Microsoft, Inc.
Break: Market Street Foyer, 11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Programming Models
FCW Luncheon: Imperial Ballroom, 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m. Data Structures		2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m. Invited Talk: Continuous Deployment with Ansible Tim Gerla, Ansibleworks 2:45 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Invited Talk: Beyond Open Source Configuration Management: Rapidly Building Any Cloud at Scale Thomas Hatch, SaltStack, Inc.
Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 2:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.		Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Panel: Tools in the Real World		4:00 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Invited Talk: Continuously Integrating Puppet Matthew Barr, Snap Interactive 4:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Invited Talk: Maintaining Consistency in a Massively Parallel Environment Dinah McNutt and Jason Bouzane, Google, Inc.
Monday Happy Hour and HotPar '13 Poster Session, Imperial Ballroom, 5:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, June 25
Registration: Registration Desk in the Imperial Foyer, 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
HotPar '13 Club Regent	Feedback Computing '13 Garden Room	HotCloud '13 Crystal Room	ESOS '13 Empire Room
Continental Breakfast: Market Street Foyer, 8:15 a.m.–9:15 a.m.
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Keynote Address Bill Dally, Stanford University and nVidia	9:00 a.m–10:00 a.m. Keynote Address: Research Challenges in Feedback Computing: An Interdisciplinary Agenda Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	9:00 a.m–10:00 a.m. Keynote Address:Dystopia as a Service Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix	9:15 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Introduction Program Co-Chairs: Uwe Brinkschulte,;Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Christian Müller-Schloer, Leibniz Universität Hannover, and Mathias Pacher, Leibniz Universität Hannover One, Few, Many: How the Number of Cooperating Agents Affects Strategies for Self-Organized Behavior Phyllis Nelson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
			10:00 a.m–10:30 a.m. Foundations of Embedded Self-Organizing Systems (1)
Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.		Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m. Bugs	10:30 a.m.–Noon Cloud Computing	10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Virtualization	11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Foundations of Embedded Self-Organizing Systems (2)
Break: Market Street Foyer, 11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Panel: Practitioners vs. Academics
FCW Luncheon: Imperial Ballroom, 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.	FCW Luncheon: Imperial Ballroom Noon–1:30 p.m.	FCW Luncheon: Imperial Ballroom 12:30 p.m.–1:45 p.m.	FCW Luncheon: Imperial Ballroom 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Semantics	1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Resource Control	1:45 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Networking and Bandwidth	2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Applications in Embedded Self-Organization Systems
3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Debate: Determinism: Blessing or Curse?	3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Challenge Papers
Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 3:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m.
4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Work-in-Progress/Forward-Looking Ideas	4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m. System and Tools	4:15 p.m.–5:45 p.m. I/O
5:30 p.m.–5:35 p.m. Closing Remarks Emery Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Kim Hazelwood, Google	6:00 p.m.–6:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
Tuesday Happy Hour, Market Street Foyer, 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Evening Plenary: "Thinking Security" by Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University and Federal Trade Commission, Crystal Room, 7:00 p.m.–7:45 p.m.
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs): See BoF Board in registration area, 8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.

Wednesday, June 26
Registration: Registration Desk in the Imperial Foyer, 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
USENIX ATC '13 Imperial Ballroom	ICAC '13 Gold Room	HotCloud '13 Crystal Room	WiAC '13 Club Regent
Continental Breakfast: Market Street Foyer, 8:15 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m–9:15 a.m. Welcome to USENIX ATC '13 Program Co-Chairs:Andrew Birrell, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, and Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University	8:45 a.m–9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks	9:00 a.m–10:00 a.m. Keynote Address: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Cloud Mike Dahlin, The University of Texas at Austin and Google, Inc.	9:00 a.m.–9:15 a.m. Opening Session: Why Are We Here? Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University, and Carolyn Rowland
9:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m. Virtual Machine Implementation	9:00 a.m–10:30 a.m. Keynote Address: Perspectives on Virtualized Resource Management Carl Waldspurger		9:15 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Keynote Address: Computational Zen Allison Randal, Eigenstate, Inc.
Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:45 a.m.–11:15 a.m.	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Computing in the Cloud	11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Cloud Management	10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Security, Mobile, and Big Data	11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Panel: How I Got There Panelists include: Jean Yang, MIT; Kirsten Stewart, Social Code; Jessica Rothfuss, Taos; Melinda Graham, SwiftStack
FCW Luncheon: Market Street Foyer, 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.			FCW Luncheon: Market Street Foyer, 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Flash-based Storage	2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. System Resource Management	2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. The Need for Speed	1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Workshop: Crafting a Strong Resume N. Nadine Miller, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.			Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
4:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m. Miscellanea #1	4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Virtual Machine Management	4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Reliability	3:30 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Invited Talk: Building a Successful Technology Career Dawn M. Foster, Puppet Labs
			4:15 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Invited Talk: What Does Feminism Have to Offer Me? Beth Andres Beck, TripAdvisor
			5:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Invited Talk: Free to Be a Kid Kelia Banks
			8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions Check out our Evening BoF Talks presented by Rupa Dachere, Sangeetha Visweswaran, and Emily Gladstone Cole
Annual Meeting with the USENIX Board: Valley Room, 5:45 p.m.–6:45 p.m.
Wednesday Happy Hour and ICAC '13 Poster Session: Imperial Ballroom/Imperial Ballroom Foyer, 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs): See BoF Board in registration area, 8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.

Gold RoomCrystal RoomClub Regent

Thursday, June 27
Registration: Registration Desk in the Imperial Foyer, 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
USENIX ATC '13 Imperial Ballroom	ICAC '13 Gold Room	HotStorage '13 Crystal Room	WiAC '13 Club Regent
Continental Breakfast: Market Street Foyer, 8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m. Data Storage	9:00 a.m–10:30 a.m. Keynote Address II: Recent Advances on Structured Data and the Web Alon Halevy, Google	9:00 a.m–10:30 a.m. Keynote Address Program Chair: Ajay Gulati, VMware Keynote Speaker: Peter Godman, CEO, Qumulo	9:00 a.m.–9:15 a.m. Opening Session: Welcome to Day 2 Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University, and Carolyn Rowland
			9:15 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Invited Talk: Burnish Your Brand, Using Your Best Talents More Often Sheryl Chamberlain, EMC
Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:45 a.m.–11:15 a.m.	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Miscellanea #2	11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Managing MapReduce Workloads	11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Filesystems Everywhere	11:00 a.m.–11:45 p.m. The Mid-Career Donut Hole Nadyne Richmond, VMware
			11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Why Do They Do That? Men's Behavior Through The Lens of Gender Beth Andres Beck, TripAdvisor
FCW Luncheon: Market Street Foyer, 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.			FCW Luncheon: 12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Virtual Machine Performance	2:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Management of Big Data Systems Track	2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Everything About NAND	1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Workshop: Speaking Up and Selling Yourself
Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 3:45 p.m.–4:00 p.m.	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
4:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m. Managing Resources	4:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m. Self-Aware Internet of Things Track	4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. RAID Parade	3:30 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Invited Talk: Best Practices: Building an Engineering Culture of Diversity Jane Wang, Etsy
			4:15 p.m.–5:15 p.m. Closing Keynote Address: Creating a Personal Brand That Reflects What Really Matters Terrell Cox, Microsoft
	4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Management of Big Data Systems Panel Panelists: TBA. This session will take place in the Empire Room.
ICAC '13 Ph.D. Forum: Gold Room, 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
FCW '13 Reception and HotStorage '13 Poster Session and Reception: Market Street Foyer, 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs): See BoF Board in registration area, 8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.

Friday, June 28
Registration: Registration Desk in the Imperial Foyer, 8:00 a.m.–noon
USENIX ATC '13 Imperial Ballroom	ICAC '13 Gold Room	HotStorage '13 Crystal Room	HotSWUp '13 Empire Room
Continental Breakfast: Market Street Foyer, 8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Small Applications	9:00 a.m–10:30 a.m. Keynote Address III: Opportunities for Autonomic Behavior in Mobile Cloud Computing Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm Research	9:00 a.m–10:30 a.m. Panel Discussion: Software-defined Storage Bill Earl, VMware; David Black, EMC; Jay Kistler, Maginatics; Robert Novak, Nexenta; Umesh Maheshwari, NimbleStorage	9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Keynote Address: Strategies for Updating at Scale at Adobe Peleus Uhley, Platform Security Strategist, Adobe Systems, Inc..
Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Packets	11:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m. Self-Protect/Self-Healing	11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Virtual Machine Data	11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Updates in Object-Oriented Languages
12:15 p.m.–12:30 p.m. Best Paper Awards and Closing Remarks Andrew Birrell, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, and Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University
	FCW Luncheon: Market Street Foyer, 12:45 p.m.–2:00 p.m.	FCW Luncheon: Market Street Foyer, 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
	2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Scheduling/Data Placement	2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Storage Performance and Energy	2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Updates for C and Embedded Systems
	Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.		Break with Refreshments: Market Street Foyer, 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
	4:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m. Power/Temperature-Aware Management		4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Other Updates

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