Registration and Morning Refreshments

Opening Remarks

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• Karen Robinson - Executive Director and Chief Information Officer, Department of Information Resources, State of Texas

Opening Keynote - Achieving Greatness Is a Choice

An inspiring futurist and public speaker, Byron Reese shares his technological vision for solving many of our global challenges. "The new challenge for humanity will... more

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• Byron Reese - Author and Futurist

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Concurrent Sessions

The CIO 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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• Sherri Greenberg - Director, Center for Politics and Governance, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin

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• Karen Robinson - Executive Director and Chief Information Officer, Department of Information Resources, State of Texas

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

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• Miguel Gamino, Jr. - Chief Information Officer, City of El Paso

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• Bruce High - Chief Information Officer, Harris County

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The State of Texas Cyber Security Strategy

The evolving cyber security industry has many challenges ahead that include staff and skill shortages, consistent and clear performance indicators, and business relevance. This... more

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• Brian Engle - Chief Information Security Officer, State of Texas

Mobile Device Management

Rapid advances in mobile technologies are causing fundamental changes to social and workplace interaction, resulting in an overwhelming demand for mobile solutions and applications. But... more

The Road Forgotten: What's The Roadmap For Your Website?

The technology we're all using today has dramatically changed over the last 10 years. Has your website? This session is a discussion of... more

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• Erin Hutchins - General Manager and Director of Portal Operations, Texas.gov

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• Lisa Carrell - Marketing Associate, Texas.gov

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• Pete Eichorn - Director of Technology, Texas.gov

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• Andrew Goodrick - Lead UX Designer, Texas.gov

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Lunch

Lunch Keynote - Should Government Try to be Cool?

Getting the attention of citizens in today's world is a challenge, to say the least. Government organizations can struggle in vain to get their messages... more

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• Kristy Fifelski, (aka GovGirl) - New Media Director, Government Technology magazine

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Concurrent Sessions

Crowd Sourcing and Citizen Engagement

The population is getting more sophisticated - and demanding - about being heard by the government. At the same time, governments are recognizing the many... more

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• Art Acevedo - Chief, Austin Police

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• Rossana Barrios - Policy and Planning Manager, Information Technology Services, Travis County

New Models for Staffing Government

Good IT people are hard to find...and even harder to keep. Impending retirements are pushing organizations to solve this challenge sooner rather than later. To... more

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• Charles Gray - TechShare Program Director, Texas Conference of Urban Counties

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• James Hurley - TechShare Software Development Manager, Texas Conference of Urban Counties

Building Your Innovation Capacity

Innovation, and innovative thinking, is more important now than ever before. This session will discuss why innovation must be a key part of our business... more

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• Doug Matthews - Chief Communications Director, City of Austin

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Concurrent Sessions

What's the Big Deal with Big Data?

Everybody says "Big Data," but do we really know what it means? How big it really is? Today's reality is that data records are in... more

Public/Private Partnerships - When Do They Make the Most Sense?

A public/private partnership (PPP) is a contract between a public agency and a private sector entity in which each party shares not just skills and... more

CyberPatriot Kids

CyberPatriot is the national high school cyber defense competition created by the Air Force Association (AFA) to excite, educate, and motivate the next generation of... more

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• Joe Sanchez - Co-Founder (Volunteer), San Antonio CyberPatriot Center of Excellence

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• Bernie Skoch, USAF, BGen (Ret) - Commissioner of CyberPatriot, Air Force Association

Executive Reception

Network with your colleagues and discuss technology solutions with the event sponsors.... more

Registration and Morning Refreshments

Keynote - Never Fly Solo! The Leader's Flight Plan to Win

Lt. Col. Rob "Waldo" Waldman - The Wingman - Real winners never fly solo. Today in our super charged, highly competitive world of rapid and constant... more

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• Lt. Col. Rob "Waldo" Waldman - The Wingman

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Fast Track Sessions

Cool Mobile Apps in Government

A surprising 25% of Internet users in the U.S. are mobile-only, and 120 million citizens now own smart phones. This is actually good news for... more

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• Ryan Keough - Senior Solutions Engineer, Solutions Engineering and Wireline Convergence, Sprint

The Future of Texas' IT Workforce

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• Rich Froeschle - Director of Labor Market and Career Information, Texas Workforce Commission

Texas Public Safety Broadband Network

$7 billion in funding as well as the 700 MHz D-Block was allocated to public safety by Congress in February 2012 to begin the deployment... more

Break

Best of Texas Award Ceremony and Reception

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