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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome
9:15 am General Session
Stimulating, Smart, Sustainable and Sticky: The Four Corners of Your Next IT Strategy
Paul Taylor, Ph.D., Chief Strategist, Center for Digital Government
Everything we thought we knew about strategic IT planning is wrong. Or at least needs to be repositioned for the challenges and opportunities the public IT community faces today. This opening session will begin the conversation about four characteristics of today's environment that are ignored at your peril:
1. How technology is deeply imbedded in the federal stimulus
2. Why policy makers are betting on smarter government through shared data, sensors, applied intelligence and an evolving platform mix
3. What sustainability means now and next (energy savings is only the beginning)
4. Who you serve, what they expect and how they are increasingly in control of the relationship through collaborative tools, communities and social networks
10:15 am Break
10:30 am General Session
Building the Next Glass House
(Data Center construction in a challenging economic environment)
Many organizations have been planning to build new facilities and have been forced to make other plans given the current financial environment. This group of executives has been dealing with this issue and each has their own story to tell. The important discussion is found in answering the question - "What do we do now?" The war stories will be important and group interaction on options being used and options abandoned will make for an important discussion that most IT organizations are having or will need to have in the near future.
Jim Albert, Acting CIO, State of Washington
Gail Overhouse, Acting Deputy Director, Department of Technology Services, State of California (Invited)
Chris Vein, Chief Information Officer, City and County of San Francisco
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm General Session
Consolidation
Consolidation of technology resources has gained momentum in recent years. Many state and local government organizations have made significant progress in this area and others are ramping up quickly. This session will focus on what two organizations are doing. Michigan has made tremendous progress over the past five years and Colorado is just beginning their most significant consolidation effort to date.
Ron Huston, Agency Services Director and Chief Enterprise Architect for the Governor's Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado
Ken Theis, Chief Information Officer, State of Michigan
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Securing the Zoo
Information privacy and security has become increasingly difficult as cyber criminals have become more sophisticated and government has connected itself to the world via the internet. These developments create the need for senior security officials having enterprise wide responsibilities. Many state and local government organizations have made this a priority and others are learning from their efforts. Dan Lohrmann and Mark Weatherford are two of the finest in the business and will share their thoughts on security and privacy in modern government organizations.
Dan Lohrmann, Chief Technology Officer and former Chief Information Security Officer, State of Michigan
Mark Weatherford, Chief Information Security Officer, State of California
4:00 pm Break
6:00 pm Cocktails and Dinner on the Patio
Wednesday, April 15th
8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Keynote
May we speak candidly?
The CTO Summit was created around the simple idea that the answer is in the room. This year, the Summit concludes with a principles-only discussion in two parts:
Part 1: Morning of the Long Knives
Budget discussions this year are brutal. And they are not over yet. This is an open forum for budget cutting war stories with particular attention to the moral of the story - or the take away. Delegates can come at the discussion from one or both of the following directions - the good things that would make bad cuts or the bad things that would make good cuts. Here are a few questions to think about in preparation:
1. What is likely to be cut? With what effect? And, have others successfully defended themselves against similar ill advised cuts? How?
2. What do you think should be cut? What IT investments would free up programmatic funds by changing the cost structure of service delivery or operations?
10:00 am Break (check out of your room)
10:30 am General Session
Part 2: Be Somebody's John Stewart
Gelotology (the study of humor and laughter) tells us a good chuckle can help improve blood pressure, heart rate and provide a boost to the immune system. Getting it off your chest can be just as therapeutic. The Summit closes with a competitive rant session in a visit to the Free Speech Zone. Delegates prepare and perform 30 second rants about (a) the most bizarre item in "The Stim" and (b) the one thing that absolutely needs to be in "Stim 2.0." To stimulate the stimulus rants, an amazon.com gift card will be awarded to the delegate who makes Alan laugh the loudest.
