Dinner

Registration and Breakfast

Welcome and Introductions

Dustin Haisler, President, e.Republic

Teri Takai, Senior Vice President, Center for Digital Government

Craig Hopkins, Chief Information Office, City of San Antonio

What’s Next for the Future of Data

The importance of data to state and local governments has exploded. AI is advancing at an astonishing pace, transforming industries and redefining the possibilities in our everyday lives. This rapid progression is unlocking new potential across government agencies to enhance public services, streamline operations and improve decision-making processes. But it all depends on the underlying data – what are state and local governments doing to keep up with the demand.

This quick-hitting session will highlight what is happening now and where we need to go to ensure our data are ready to meet the future constituents needs.

Dustin Haisler, President, e.Republic

Confronting the Future of Data – Case Studies and Practical Next Steps

The future of data requires strategies and plans that range from quality to sharing to technical infrastructure. All of this requires a team effort across both technology and business leaders. This discussion will focus on examples of what data professionals are doing to move their jurisdictions forward. The goal is to share among peers what works and to understand the challenges that everyone in the room is facing.

Moderator: Teri Takai, Senior Vice President, CDG & CPSAI

Neil Cooke, Statewide Chief Data Officer, Department of Information Resources State of Texas

Break

What is the Data Architecture of the Future? From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes to Data Lake Houses….

Government focused in the past on bringing disparate data together into data warehouses to enable sharing and enterprise analytics. As government looks to leverage AI, the need to look at different data architectures and approaches continues to be a challenge. How will LLM’s fit into the architecture? What tools does the government need? What skill sets are required? This session will focus on what exists today, defining what the different elements of data architecture bring, and what implementation challenges exist moving into the future.

Moderator: Dustin Haisler, President, e.Republic

Lunch

Ensuring Compliance, Ethics, Transparency and Privacy

The major challenges with the management of data are not only the technology. State and local governments are moving quickly to address the compliance and ethical challenges, biases, privacy, and transparency issues that will drive how data are organized and utilized in the future. This session will focus on how organizations are addressing these issues and what policies are being developed to ensure protection of constituent data.

Moderator: Teri Takai, Senior Vice President, Center for Digital Government

Ted Cotterill, Chief Privacy Officer, State of Indiana and General Counsel, Indiana Management Performance Hub

Break

The Answer is in the Room – What Are Your Top Priorities?

This interactive session will engage everyone in discussions based on the topics that are of most interest. The group will break out into tables to discuss key topics. The topics will include:

Facilitators:

Dustin Haisler, President, e.Republic

Teri Takai, Senior Vice President, Center for Digital Government

Break

Around the Horn – What Data Topics Did We Miss?

With the fast pace of change, it is impossible to cover everything in one day. This session will be an open and wide-ranging discussion on what comes next. What didn’t we cover in the summit and what needs to be addressed your role in governing and providing data becomes more and more essential to how government operates.

Dustin Haisler, President, e.Republic

Teri Takai, Senior Vice President, Center for Digital Government

Adjourn