Agenda

Wednesday, September 15

8:00 am Registration and Morning Refreshments

9:00 am Opening Remarks

Innovation vs. the Status Quo

Greg Wass, Chief Information Officer, State of Illinois

9:30 am Opening Keynote

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?

10:30 am Morning Break

11:00 am Concurrent Sessions

Future of Wireless

We live in a wireless world and the demand will clearly grow exponentially in the years ahead. Where is the industry headed? What new capabilities and capacities are on the horizon? What should you take into account when developing and evaluating systems and applications? This session focuses on the future of wireless technologies and next generation connectivity.

Rohit Bhanot, Director, Business Development, Alcatel-Lucent

Steve Miller, Government Data Manager, Verizon Wireless

Dominic Starr, Regional Manager, Solutions Engineering, Sprint Nextel Corporation

Storage Trends and Strategies

The evolution of storage has taken many turns. Now we are at a point where traditional concepts are becoming unrecognizable. Virtualization, cloud computing, consolidation, collaboration, outsourcing, energy concerns - all of these are playing a role in changing the way that we view storage environments. This session looks at trends, standards and innovations in the face of an ever-growing list of storage requirements.

Tom Downey, Director, Global Services, EMC

Open and Transparent Government

One of President Obama's very first actions was to issue his Open Government Directive, which mandates that federal departments and agencies implement the principles of transparency, public participation and collaboration. The eventual effects on state and local governments are expected to be considerable. This session discusses transparency trends and their impact on government operations.

Will Greer, Vice President, SAP

Unified Communications

Unified communications (UC) can help organizations increase employee productivity, improve customer service and reduce costs by integrating multiple forms of communications - including video, telephony, VoIP and messaging - across a variety of networks. This session takes a look at opportunities, strategies and benefits for government organizations.

Patrick Bittner, Solutions Architect - Unified Communications, CDWG

12:15 pm Lunch

1:00 pm General Session

Management's 7 Deadly Sins

Gopal Kapur, Founder and President, Center for Project Management

Managers live in a maddening world. It's a world where expectations are off the charts, requirements are vague, commitments are tenuous, priorities shift and responsibility is often given with marginal authority. So what do most managers do? They jump into the chasm and hope the rope holds. We've all seen managers in this position and we've seen the classic mistakes that are made. In this session you will have the opportunity to assess yourself and your organization while learning practical solutions to avoid committing management's seven deadly sins.

2:00 pm Afternoon Break and Refreshments

2:30 pm Concurrent Sessions

Mobility Trends

As the traditional workplace culture changes along with rapid advances in technology, the demand for mobility is growing by leaps and bounds. Imminent increases in coverage and bandwidth will open the door to many more possibilities for government operations. This session focuses on upcoming innovations in mobile devices, tools and applications.

Brendan Walsh, Director of Sales - Mobility Application Consultant

eDiscovery and the Legal Landscape

More and more records are "born digital," meaning that they never existed (or will never exist) in paper form. Web 2.0 tools (messaging, tweets, blogs, etc.) add a new variety of issues and complications for retention, not to mention the challenges of eDiscovery and FOIA, and existing laws and guidelines are not always clear. This session looks at emerging trends, compliance requirements, standards and sensible practices.

Michele Kersey, Program Manager, eDiscovery Solutions and Strategy, IBM

Application Modernization Strategies

Given an uncertain financial outlook, IT shops will (again) be asked to do even more with even less. And a good place to start is with core enterprise applications and software platforms. This session discusses trends and opportunities in government, including modernization, migration, agile development, scalability and "cloud" alternatives.

Lance Knowlton, Vice President, Platform Migrations, Oracle

Josh van Tonder, Manager, Worldwide Government Solutions, Adobe

3:45 pm Executive Reception

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

Thursday, September 16

8:00 am Registration and Morning Refreshments

9:00 am Opening Remarks

Steve Edmonson, Chief Information Officer, Cook County, Illinois

9:15 am Keynote

Cybercrime and You

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The insidious influence and effects of cyber crime continue to grow as the digital landscape has clearly become the "new frontier". Experts say that cybercrime has now surpassed illegal drug trafficking as a criminal moneymaker and that 1 in 5 people will become a victim. Government organizations, with their vast stores of private information, are irresistible targets. All this adds up to the biggest set of security challenges ever faced by government. This session takes a look at cyber crime and the best ways to assess, recognize, prevent and respond to attacks and vulnerabilities.

10:15 am Morning Break

10:45 am Concurrent Sessions

Future of the Desktop

The desktop and its interfaces haven't really changed all that much in the last couple of decades, but some exciting new trends are being driven by a variety of factors, including teleworking, mobility, outsourcing, centralized applications, cloud computing, cost control and overall security. This session takes a look at where the desktop is headed, along with technologies that will lead the way.

Joe Krekeler, Enterprise Account Manager, Intel

Managing Unstructured Data

As paperless government moves closer to becoming a reality, the challenge is to determine how to store, manage and leverage a variety of digital information, especially in light of open government and eDiscovery. As more and more data falls outside traditional databases, it is imperative to adopt a workable lifecycle governance strategy. This session focuses on tools, technologies and tactics for dealing with a wide range of digital information.

Tony Asaro, CEO and Founder, The INI Group - Information and Insight for IT Professionals (on behalf of ViON)

Emergency Management and Collaboration

In recent years, we have had numerous opportunities to witness (or contend with) the effects of massive snow storms, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, epidemics, terrorism and cyber threats. Collaboration, interoperability and continuity are the keys to successful response and recovery. This session takes a look at strategies, technologies, applications and lessons learned that can help us prepare for a variety of potential crisis situations.

Sponsor Roundtable

(Industry sponsors only.) This informal and informative roundtable discussion is hosted by the State CIO.

12:00 pm End of Conference

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