Agenda

Monday, June 8

8:00 am Registration and Morning Refreshments

9:00 am Opening Remarks

Mark Bengel, Chief Information Officer, State of Tennessee

9:15 am Opening Keynote

Hurricane Season: From Trauma to Triumph

Al Collins

In the days following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, high school basketball Coach Al Collins lost his home, nearly all of his team (displaced by the storm), funds, facilities and just about everything he needed to do his job. Against unimaginable odds, Coach Collins gave his students and community something the storm couldn't touch - a special purpose and the will to rebound, literally. The upcoming film Hurricane Season (MGM) stars Forest Whitaker as Coach Collins in telling the courageous true story of how one man made an impact by turning trauma into triumph.

10:15 am Morning Break

10:45 am Concurrent Sessions

The Mobile Workforce: Tools, Technologies and Innovations

As the traditional workplace culture changes along with technology advances and the rising cost of energy - not to mention a scarcity of IT workers and mandates for cutting costs - the demand to work remotely is growing by leaps and bounds. Issues include: What technologies are most effective? Can teleworking be done securely? What tools are available for remote and collaborative meetings, training, etc? This session focuses on successful tools, technologies and approaches.

Steve Hammond, Director- Sales, State and Local Sales, GTSI

More and more records are "born digital," meaning that they never existed (or will never exist) in paper form. The challenge is to properly determine what must be retained and for how long, and how to efficiently retrieve it when needed. eDiscovery and the public records laws bring new pressures and risks to the table, and existing laws and guidelines are not always clear. This session looks at emerging standards and sensible practices.

Pete Pepiton, eDiscovery Solutions Director, CA, Inc.

This session will feature real life case studies on how money well spent can increase efficiency in your organization and how to justify the expense to management. Case studies will include Rutherford County's success in implementing an IT policy among other noteworthy programs.

Chyreese Ductan, Account Manager, Cisco Systems

Brian Robertson, Chief Information Officer, Rutherford County

The State of Tennessee is a good place to do business and Economic Development professionals statewide are busy recruiting industry and jobs to the State such as the new Volkswagen Plant in Chattanooga. Technology is a key facilitator in the success of these efforts. This session will focus on how communities need to use technology to recruit potential businesses.

Mike Atchison, Director of the Special Projects Office, Department of Economic and Community Development, State of Tennessee

Kendrick Curtis, Community Planning GIS Manager, Local Planning Assistance Division, Department of Economic and Community Development, State of Tennessee

Dan Hawk, ECD Administrator of Community Development, Department of Economic and Community Development, State of Tennessee

11:45 am Lunch

12:30 pm Afternoon Keynote

Leadership in Tough Times: What's Your Role?

Jerry Mechling, Harvard School of Government

In today's economic climate, your biggest decision is whether to hunker down or to use the crisis for game-changing innovations. What are the risks and rewards in fundamentally changing how work is conducted and governed? What is being done by other leaders and how can their innovations fit in your own world? Where can you find the support and resources needed to make things happen? In this timely keynote address, nationally known author, researcher and Harvard faculty member Jerry Mechling uses University research to create a framework for IT leadership with a focus on developing an action agenda for the challenges ahead.

1:30 pm Afternoon Break and Refreshments

1:50 pm Concurrent Sessions

Securing the Mobile Enterprise

When a workforce is empowered with mobile technology, productivity rises but at the same time a door opens to new vulnerabilities and security risks, not to mention personal liability for data loss. This session looks at the technical and legal issues surrounding the security of mobile devices including laptops, PDAs, cell phones and flash drives. State and federal law requirements will be discussed, as well as protections such as encryption.

Josh Jones, Legal Consultant, Municipal Technical Advisory Service, University of Tennessee

Justin O'Hara, IT Consultant, Municipal Technical Advisory Service, University of Tennessee

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become an indispensable part of many, if not most, government services and has set the standard for collaboration and data-sharing in the public sector. This session focuses on leveraging the State of Tennessee's collaborative investment in the TNMap and how it successfully built shared services for state and local government in Tennessee.

Dennis Pedersen, Director, GIS Services, Office of Information Resources, State of Tennessee

Barbara Seviers, GIS Analyst, Rutherford County

The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet, and cloud computing simply means Internet-based development and use of computer technology. It is a delivery model in which vendors host applications and services over the Internet. Customers pay for usage rather than owning the infrastructure themselves, thereby reducing staffing and capital expenditures. This session provides an introduction to these technologies and a look at how they can bring increased efficiency and cost savings to government organizations.

Bob Ballard, Online Solutions Specialist, Microsoft Corporation

2:50 pm Break

3:10 pm Concurrent Sessions

LOGITT Membership Meeting

This session, facilitated by the LOGITT steering committee, will be held to discuss the organizational status of LOGITT. Open to members and potential members, topics discussed will include membership status, state contract purchasing, MTAS and CTAS services available to local governments and goals for the organization's future.

Al Thomas, Director of Information Technology, Johnson City & Chair, LOGITT

Enterprise Cloud - The Evolution to Next Generation Computing

Early industry conversations about cloud computing have focused on the idea of external, public cloud infrastructures. From the standpoint of the enterprise, however, these external cloud services do not represent a viable solution because they require disruptive re-writing of applications, lock-in proprietary system and provide inadequate service levels for availability, security and performance. Enterprises want the benefits of cloud computing - but they want these benefits on their own terms. The solution is to bring the cloud to the enterprise, rather than forcing the enterprise to port its entire IT infrastructure to a proprietary external cloud. The solution, in other words, is to transform the internal datacenter into a Private Cloud that, optionally, can federate with external cloud services in a secure way. It's an evolutionary journey - with revolutionary benefits. And, if you've implemented virtualization to any degree, you've already taken the first critical steps.

Alberto Farronato, Product Marketing, VMware, Inc.

Steve Hammond, Director- Sales, State and Local Sales, GTSI

Joe Uglialoro, Deputy General Counsel, GTSI

4:10 pm Executive Reception

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

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