Pacific Northwest Digital Government Summit 2010

Red Lion Hotel
Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center
1500 Broadway
Tacoma, WA 98402
June 9 − 10, 2010

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The Digital Government Summits I’ve attended in the past are first-rate. It’s a rare opportunity to meet peers and share ideas, strategies and best practices. The programs are well-designed and targeted to top-of-mind topics for state and local government IT leaders. I would strongly recommend it to any CIO or manager.
-Tony Tortorice, Director, Department of Information Services, State of Washington

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OPENING KEYNOTE

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Off Balance on Purpose

Dan Thurmon, Author and Peak Performance Coach

Life is an off balance proposition. Achieving balance – a perfect symmetry – is an unrealistic objective. You will never get there! Life is in constant motion, and priorities and resources change all the time. That’s why we need to embrace and initiate off balance moments in order to successfully engage life in all its aspects. In this dynamic keynote address, Dan Thurmon uses highly visual and creative means to demonstrate that “off balance” is how we learn, grow, excel and fully experience what is happening around us. It’s tough out there right now. The question is: Are you thrown off balance in response to your world or are you off balance on purpose?

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SECOND DAY KEYNOTE

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Life After - What do we do now?

Cathilea Robinett, Executive Vice President, Center for Digital Government/e.Republic, Inc.

You have cut budgets, staff, services and some of your most strategic programs and projects.  You have even lowered your expectations about what comes next, if you have allowed yourself to think about it all.  There is a growing consensus that the darkest hours may be behind us. Perhaps the most important question before us now is, “How do we survive the recovery?” If this has been a different kind of recession, it calls for a different kind of recovery.  Urban theorist Richard Florida, echoed by the likes of Bill Clinton and Steve Ballmer, talks about a fundamental "reset."  What does life look like after the recession, the realignments, the retirements and/or the reset . . . For public sector IT?  For our organizations?  For the communities we serve? For ourselves?  There are encouraging signs, to be sure. As a matter of survival, innovation is taking root in some of the hardest hit public agencies with encouraging results. This keynote will explore what life may be like after the dark clouds burn off and, in the words of the songwriter, “the world survives into another day.”

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TOPICS WILL INCLUDE

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• Digital Government Trends
• Leadership in Challenging Times
• New Technologies
• Innovation
• Cost Savings
• Collaboration

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REGISTRATION

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Government Registration - $75.00

Not open to private-sector registrations.

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CONTACT US

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If you are interested in attending the Pacific Northwest Digital Government Summit 2010, please contact Liese Brunner, Registration, 800.917.7732 ext. 1355.

If you are interested in sponsoring the Pacific Northwest Digital Government Summit 2010, please contact Stacy Ward-Probst, Vice President of Sales, 916.932.1396.