Thank you for participating in GTC Southwest 2008!

In 2008, GTC Southwest provided entertaining and informative keynotes, seminars that explored "Inside the Labs", an expo floor that demonstrated many levels of technology from top vendors in the tech industry and much more! Please browse our web site to catch up on GTC Southwest 2008.

GTC Southwest Day 1 Report

Steve Towns provides an exclusive report on Day 1 of GTC Southwest.

Keynotes

The event began this year with an entertaining keynote by David Pogue who once again opened the event with his witty humor on the advancements of technology. On Thursday GTC welcomed Frank Abagnale who enlightened the audience with his first hand experience of fraud and identity theft and at the same time shared touching personal accounts of his life.

Frank Abagnale tells his story.

Watch more of his keynote speech.

David Pogue talks about phone technologies.

Watch more of his keynote speech.

Best Solutions Awards

Exhibitors and Government Agencies partnered together to produce technological solutions that would benefit the state and local communities of Texas.

Government Solutions Center

Texas State and Local Government agencies submitted their technology solutions to help improve the many diverse areas of Texas government.

Best Booth Award

This year, GTC awarded LenSec the Best Booth Award for their creative design. Congratulations LenSec!

"T1 The Greening of IT" — Brad Dupuy, Industry Manager, US State Government, Hewlett Packard

"T2: From EGov to IGov: A New Approach to Delivering Services" — Carolyn Lawson- State and Consumer Services Agency & Kathleen Straub- Human Factors International

"T3 The Future of Mobile Technology" — Vic Berger, Technologist, CDW Government Inc.

"T4 Proven Integration Strategies for Government" — Larry Singer, Vice President, State and Local Government and Education Sales, Hewlett-Packard

"T5 The Power of Enterprise Addressing Systems" — William Holland, CEO GeoAnalytics, Inc.

"T7 Information Governance in Government" — Peter Pepiton II, Discovery Product Manager, CA, Inc.

"T8 Buying IT: DIR Contracts Briefing" — Sherri Parks, Director, Contracting and Procurement Services, Texas Department of Information Resources

"W1 Model for the Future: Texas Online - An Innovative eGovernment Portal Solution" — Doug Holt & Allan Martin- Texas Department of Information Resources

"W10 Optimizing Your Agency's Business Processes through Analytics" — Chris Paladino, Executive Director, Global Public Service Information Management practice, Accenture

"W11 Buying IT: DIR Contracts Briefing" — Cindy Reed, Deputy Executive Director for Operations, Texas Department of Information Resources

"W12 Be IT Resolved" — Paul Taylor, Chief Strategy Officer, Center for Digital Government

"W2 If We Build It, They will come: The Austin- Travis County area's Combined Transportation, Emergency, and Communications Center" — David Belknap-City of Austin Fire Department, Adam Johnson- Austin-Travis County EMS & Scott Swearengin- City of Austin

"W4 Must See IT: Season II" — Paul Taylor, Chief Strategy Officer, Center for Digital Government

"W5 Governing with a New Set of Tools: Web 2.0Web" — Carolyn Lawson, Deputy Director, Business and Program Services, eServices Office, State and Consumer Services Agency

"W7 The Road to Infrastructure Optimization" — Richard McKinney, Government Technology Advisor, Microsoft

"W8 Worms, Bots and Botnets: The New Threats and How to Protect Against Them" — John McCumber, Strategic Programs Manager, Symantec Corporation

"W9 Identity Management: Who Are You?" — Dr. Clair Goldsmith, Senior Advisor for Information Technology, UT System Administration