Registration and Morning Refreshments

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Opening Keynote - Change the Game

We are facing difficult times. The pressure to do more with less, deliver to deadlines, and respond to increasing expectations has - in many cases... more

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• Tim Gard - Author, Speaker Hall of Fame member

Morning Break

Concurrent Sessions

Business Analytics and Big Data in Government

As Governments look to Big Data to answer harder and larger questions there is a need to analyze and understand all the information. In the... more

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• Campbell Robertson - Public Sector Executive, Enterprise Content Management, IBM

Social Media: Practical, Powerful

Social media is much more than 140 characters and it's time to stop wondering whether it has a place in the enterprise and start realizing... more

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• Christopher Cook - Sergeant, Police Office of Communication, Arlinton Police Department

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• Zhivonni McDonnell - Officer, Police Office of Communication, Arlington Police Department

Security - How to Avoid Being the Next Headline

The security environment is becoming increasingly complex due to factors such as transparency, shared services, data sharing, mobility, cloud computing and social networking - all... more

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• Lucas J. Morris, CISSP - Manager, Risk Consulting Group, Security and Privacy Delivery Unit, Crowe Horwath LLP

Lunch

Lunch Keynote - Lessons in Leadership

The Johnson Space Center is NASA's center for spaceflight training, research and mission control. Its workforce of 15,000 includes a hundred astronauts, hundreds of scientists... more

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• Jefferson "Beak" Howell - Adjunct Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, and Former Director of NASA's Johnson Space Center

Afternoon Break and Refreshments

Concurrent Sessions

Storage Trends

Enterprises are entering a new era of scale, where the amount of data processed and stored is breaking down every architectural construct in the storage... more

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• Jeff Harris - Business Solutions Architect, NetApp

Cloudy with Chance of Success

The forecast is certain: the cloud is hanging overhead and is pretty much unavoidable. The only remaining questions are how, when and to what extent... more

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• Daniel Diltz - Vice President

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• Jason Porter - Assistant Vice President, Cloud Computing, Hosting, Applications and Cloud Solutions, AT&T

Texas on the Go

As a society empowered with mobile technology, we have the potential to change how services are delivered to government employees and the citizens they serve.... more

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• Charlie Bess, P.E. - Fellow, HP Labs, Services & Solutions lab, Hewlett-Packard

Break

General Session - The CIO's Perspective: Leading Government

Leading in the public sector has always been challenging, but perhaps even more so today. Revenues have been decreasing for years, public sentiment about government... more

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• Pete Anderson - Chief Information Officer, City of Fort Worth

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• Leatha Mullins - Chief Technology Officer, Dallas County Schools

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• Stanley "Vic" Victrum - Chief Information Officer, Dallas County

Reception

Network with your colleagues and discuss technology solutions with the event sponsors. Conference times, agenda, and speakers are subject to change.... more