Best of California 2007

Best of California 2007
December 12, 2007
Hyatt Regency Ballrooms
Sacramento, CA

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"Converged Communications" — Shrikant Latkar, Senior Manager, Enterprise Marketing, Juniper Networks

As Voice over IP and streaming video become mainstream, more organizations are starting to combine voice, data and video applications and networks. The increasing demands for these services are saturating existing networks and creating network capacity planning challenges. This session will take a look at the latest trends in customer demands for network services, current technologies and best practices in network capacity planning.

"Disaster Recovery Collaboration" — Dennis Dearbaugh, Deputy Director, Operations, California Department of Technology Services

Recent natural disasters have shown, more than ever, the critical role of technology in business continuity and in the community as a whole. Communications, interoperability, quick response, critical applications availability and public alerts are all vital concerns. This session will cover some of the golden rules that IT organizations in a regional multi-jurisdiction environment must keep at the forefront of their efforts, and give you a glimpse of the challenges unique to California.

"Information Security" — Manish Nasta, Regional Engineering Director, Government/Education Solutions, Verizon Business

Information integrity is of primary importance in government systems, but by definition government services must be open to the public, making the security mission even more difficult. This is compounded by the fact that governments are a favorite target of viruses and hackers. The use of mobile devices, including laptops and PDAs, simply adds to the complexity. This session looks at the latest threats, strategies and solutions.

"IT Governance" — Gino Menchini, Vice President, Public Sector North America, CA, Inc.

One of the hottest topics nationwide is how to go about creating an effective and economical IT governance structure. Every government organization faces the same set of problems: how to strike the right balance between centralization and decentralization; how to ensure fair representation and engagement; how to evaluate investments; and, above all, how to organize it all. This session will review these and other keys to IT governance, including best practices and lessons learned from other state and local government jurisdictions.

"Service Oriented Architecture" — Kelly Emo, SOA Product Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been promoted as the next evolutionary step to help IT organizations meet an increasingly complex set of challenges. The idea is to make it easier for organizations to share business services and information based on the latest industry standards. This session discusses the Office of State CIO's approach to SOA and its impact on government IT.

"Service Oriented Architecture" — Lee Macklin, Acting Director, California Enterprise Architecture Program Office of State CIO

"Service Oriented Architecture" — Larry S. Pressley, Software IT Architect, IBM

"YouGov: The Modernization Government Needs and the Public Expects" — Paul Taylor, Ph.D.,Chief Strategy Officer, Center for Digital Government - Center for Digital Education

If the first generation of the e-government movement focused on "dot-com'ing" government, the second generation began by "dot-gov'ing" the private and not-for-profit sectors as partners in delivering public services in a world of networked collaboration. At the same time, the public has taken its long standing demands to get back into the public life of its community into its own hands, using the collaborative tools now flourishing on the Internet. Still at an early stage, these subtle but important shifts point to a shared future that could finally realize long hoped visions of a renewed relationship between the public and the government that serves them.

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