Breakfast

Welcome and Group Introductions

Alan Cox, Executive Vice President and Publisher, Public CIO

Mike Hussey, Chief Information Officer, State of Utah

The Changing Face of IT

The pace of change seems to be increasing while time and money still remain scarce. How do you keep up? There are workforce shifts underway that make it difficult to hire and retain staff. The shift to cloud has changed the operational focus of many organizations toward a contract/supplier management role. There are many choices to make and the implications of each decision are varied. How are you managing through this given the short tenure of a CIO? What should you stop doing and why? This will be a candid discussion on the future of leading and running IT organizations.

Eric Ellis, Director of Strategic Solutions, SHI

Teri Takai, Executive Director, Center for Digital Government

Break

How Can We Make Procurement More Difficult?

Does it feel like the things we do in government are designed to make it harder and harder for us to manage procurement processes wisely and efficiently? Aging systems don’t have the modern tools and a new ERP solution often times isn’t designed to support the procurement needs of the public sector. At the same time, we are asked to be more strategic and transparent in our contracting and purchasing. So, what is going on to improve procurement systems? What should you be considering as you look at the end to end process of procurement? This session will shed some light on procurement and provide insight into what other organizations are doing to make procurement easier and more modern.

Christopher Kennedy, Chief Operating Officer, Periscope Holdings, Inc.

Dave Weinstein, Chief Technology Officer, State of New Jersey

Lunch

Cloud First in Action

Many organizations have announced that they have a “cloud first” stance on IT systems. What does that mean in reality? Is this being said so that the organization appears to be progressive? Does the organization actually do a diligent job of evaluating options and implementing the best fit? This session will be a discussion of how this is working and what organizations have learned during the beginning of the cloud era.

John Conley, Customer Success Director, Customer Success Group, Salesforce (@johndconley)

Stu Davis, Chief Information Officer, State of Ohio

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Break

So You Don’t Have a Data Scientist – Being Smart about Smart

It seems like every organization says they have a “smart” initiative. One CIO said that she does not like that term as it insinuates that everything we have done prior to this was not “smart!” One of the challenges of the “smart” world is finding qualified data scientists to do the hard work of cleaning up and interpreting the mass of data that your organization collects. Today, however, there are other approaches to solving the challenge of being smarter and they don’t all involve having to hire an expensive data scientist. What is being done? How are your peers approaching this? Shared service? New tools? This session will shed some light on how to approach this area without having to break the bank!

Peeter Kivestu, Senior Industry Consultant, Transportation and Logistics, Teradata Government Systems

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Drew Zachary, Senior Analyst & Director, The Opportunity Project, U.S. Department of Commerce

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Break

How About “Citizens First” as a Strategy?

What can we do to deliver the best citizen services, securely, quickly and efficiently and with the maximum use of tax dollars? If you start with those questions, what would your technology strategy look like? For some, cloud first and other strategies may be born from an operational first approach. For others, IT strategy is purely made from a citizen services point of view. Is that the right lens to use? In this session, we will discuss the point of view and the implications of IT strategy.

Ron Baldwin, Chief Information Officer, State of Montana

Peter Harteveld, Senior Vice President, Compuware Corporation

Break until Dinner

Meet in Lobby for Transportation to Dinner

Cocktails and Dinner

Breakfast

Cybersecurity – Keeping it Real

There are many fish to fry when it comes to cybersecurity. Penetration testing, in-house phishing campaigns, education… There is plenty to do. Given your entire budget of time and money can’t go to handling cybersecurity, what should your priories be? Do you expect and attack and plan to mitigate? Do you do the necessary steps that are required to maintain your insurance and then hope for the best? Have you been attacked and have a new outlook? This is an in-house, behind closed doors discussion where the hope is that we can keep it real!

Tim Dupuis, Chief Information Officer, Alameda County, California

Break

Open Discussion on Topics of Interest

Wrap-up

Conference times, agenda, and speakers are subject to change.