Name: Kentucky Digital Government Summit 2017
Start: 2017-04-18T08:00
Location: Capital Plaza Hotel

Overview

To view speaker presentations where available, see Agenda page.

Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Kentucky Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda designed to make that passion relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they use the inspirational keynotes, leadership discussions, networking breaks, and timely topics discussed in the numerous breakout sessions to help advance the goals of their organizations and their own career paths.

Topics Include:

Don’t Take the Bait!
Managing Your Data
Achieving More with Less – It’s Not Just a Cliché
The Value of a Risk Assessment
Leveraging Your Data
The Road to a Smart Community
Moving Out of the Fog and into the Cloud
Show Me the Money!
Security and Elections

A message from our Keynote Speaker

I look forward to the Kentucky Digital Government Summit every year. It’s the perfect opportunity for both sectors to get together to discuss where we’re headed and how we can get there even faster. There’s an energy that’s palpable at the Summit and we always end up engaging in important discussions about new ideas, solutions and opportunities. I strongly encourage you to join us and I look forward to seeing you there!

– Jim Barnhart, Deputy Commissioner, Commonwealth Office of Technology

Speakers

Bronkar Lee - Keynote

Peak Performance Expert, Author, Speaker, and Dynamic Performer

Bronkar has always been fascinated by learning, as both an enthusiastic student and insightful teacher. He has learned musical instruments and languages, crafted beatboxing techniques, and mastered numerous physical skills – even to the point of breaking world records. More impressively, he’s transformed his personal abilities in record time. He applies these skills as a performer, coach, and educator to inspire countless audiences and individuals. A sampling of credits includes touring Europe as ringmaster to a world-renowned circus, teaching at-risk youth to develop the confidence to overcome abuse and addiction, and appearing with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.

As a peak performance coach, Bronkar has helped clients and audiences to achieve personal breakthroughs and accomplish goals for health, success, and well-being. His one-man variety show continues to be in great demand – everywhere from corporate conferences for Google and Facebook to Disney cruise ships to half-time shows at Madison Square Garden. As a keynote artist and speaker, he delivers an innovative experience using original art forms, personal connection, and applied technology to help others find greatness within themselves.

Over the years, Bronkar’s desire to produce, coach, and collaborate has led him to form multiple performance groups and multimedia-filled theatrical shows. Most recently, Bronkar collaborated with his wife Cyndi Harvell Lee to write the book BAM: Bold Achievement Method, outlining his 6-step process for accelerated learning.

Jason Ballard

Director, Information Technology, Louisville Metro Government

Jason G. Ballard is the Director of the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) for Louisville Metro Government. He serves as a senior advisor to Mayor Fischer, city government executive staff, and civic leaders on all technology matters, strategy, and capital investments. In addition, he is also responsible for leading DoIT in all facets of enterprise infrastructure, operations, security, telecommunications, client services, applications support, web/mobile capabilities, project management, policy, metro archives, media services, revenue technology, budget, acquisition, and contracting activities providing first-class services to metro area consumers.
Prior to his current position, he honorably served over 20 years in the United States Air Force where he led numerous IT organizations delivering the full-spectrum of air, space, cyber, nuclear, and intelligence capabilities around the globe. He also served as the chief information officer in two organizations, provided direct communications support to senior military and national-level leaders, and oversaw several multi-million dollar portfolios providing critical services in the defense of the nation.
Jason received his master’s degree in Business Administration from Columbia Southern University and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Troy State University. He also holds numerous internationally recognized professional certifications in IT, space, cyber, and program management. He is married and has two children.

Marshall Butler

President, DMD Data Systems

Marshall worked in an IBM business development capacity for over 15 years. In this role he delivered over 50% annual sales growth per year, and enjoyed developing long-term client relationships. Marshall thrives on the competitive nature of the technology business and working closely with his partners. When Marshall began at DMD in 2003 it was a fledgling company, and he is proud to be a part of its rapid growth. In his role as VP of Sales, Marshall’s focus changed from managing his specific accounts to overall company growth and development. He became President of DMD Data Systems in July of 2016. Once a professional golfer, Marshall still very much enjoys the sport. He coaches youth athletics and finds pleasure in reading good books; history is among his favorite subjects.

Senior Security Engineer, Public Works, SecureWorks

Bo Gorham started with SecureWorks in July of 2016 and has increased the visibility of public market pain points. Prior to coming to SecureWorks, Bo was the Security Operations Manager for the Commonwealth Office of Technology at the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Learning from field experience as a network analyst and security analyst and as a manager he provides a deep insight into public operations and right sizing for the appropriate security posture.

Terry Hect

Chief Security Strategist, AT&T

Terry Hect is a Chief Security Strategist and architect. He has extensive background in building and managing security operations centers at large government and fortune 10 businesses. Terry has been actively involved in the development and deployment of security efforts for over 20 years, rotating through various responsibilities in R&D, Operations, Marketing and Sales.

Matt Lawson

Principal Architect, State and Local Government and Education (SLED), NetApp

For over 15 years, Matt has been an information technology professional, primarily in support of higher education. He joined the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) in 2003 and served as their director for enterprise infrastructure. During his tenure with the VCCS, Matt served as Vice President for Information Technology at Thomas Nelson Community College, one of the VCCS member institutions. Matt holds a Masters of Information Systems Management and Bachelors in Business Management from Brigham Young University. Currently, Matt is a principal architect for NetApp U.S. Public Sector focusing on SLED customers. His areas of focus include virtualization, disaster recovery technologies, enterprise storage, and green data centers.

Director, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Avaya

Bryan has been in the thick of network technology for more than 30 years. Starting down this path in the early 1980s, he has lived the evolution from teletype to the explosion in wireless to now with the latest developments in the" Internet of Things". Prior to joining Avaya, Bryan was a CTO at Alcatel-Lucent where he was responsible for the US Service Providers where he helped developed the product and solution offerings for their Enterprise & Midmarket customer segment. At Avaya, he is a contributing member of the Office of the CTO and is responsible for product strategy, solution definition and messaging for the Networking & Security Portfolio.

Scott Shapiro

Chief Innovation Officer, Office of Mayor Jim Gray, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government

As Mayor Jim Gray’s Chief Innovation Officer, Scott Shapiro generates transformative projects that do not fall neatly within the standard method of city-service delivery.
A city-benchmarking project led Scott to discover a new species of city – the University City – and he writes and speaks frequently about the concept’s implications for Lexington, its peers, and aspiring University Cities. Scott also co-leads Lexington’s Gig project, which aims to bring a fiber-optic network with ultra-fast Internet speeds to the city. And he is testing one possible answer to Lexington’s long-term traffic-congestion issues by creating the city’s first protected bicycle route for commuters.
Prior to taking on the CINO role, Scott was a senior advisor to the Mayor, managing strategic projects. He was the point person for Mayor Gray’s economic-development partnership with Louisville and the Brookings Institution. And he led the reform of the city’s long-troubled police and fire pension system, which cut the fund’s unfunded liability by $150 million and strengthened the system that serves more than one thousand public-safety retirees. The city’s actuarial firm called the effort “the most effective pension reform the country.”
Scott joined the Mayor’s office having earned a Masters in Public Administration degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he went, at age 40, to embark on a new career in public service. Prior to that switch, Scott was in the private sector in New York City, where he built and sold a consulting company and was a senior executive with a publicly traded health care company.
As a side project, Scott teaches a course titled City Innovation at the University of Kentucky.

Tom Simpson

Chief Technology Officer, Cincinnati Bell, CBTS

Tom Simpson is Chief Technology Officer for Cincinnati Bell and has been with CBTS and Cincinnati Bell since February of 2001. Tom is responsible for technology development and operations across all business units of Cincinnati Bell and CBTS. Prior to this position Tom has been responsible for business segments Managed Services to Datacenter to Cloud and automated application platforms, multi-tenant hosting platforms, and refactoring high risk areas of the business for Cincinnati Bell and CBTS respectively. His background and love for VLSI engineering moved him from Silicon Valley to Atlanta in 1996 stemming from work with Scientific Atlanta and RAND for digital signal processing, finally settling down in the Cincinnati area to raise a family. Tom has a wife, 4 children and wishes to give back to a community that he has set his roots in.

Chief of Civic Innovation, Louisville Metro Government

Grace Simrall was named Chief of Civic Innovation for Louisville Metro Government in August 2016. Prior to this role, Simrall served as Executive Director of Innovation at Care Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel, where she was responsible for the company’s innovation and analytics initiatives. In 2010, she founded iGlass Analytics, a startup focused on delivering data management and analytics solutions in the healthcare technology space. In that role, she worked with payers, providers, and accountable care organizations (ACOs) to apply enterprise data management design principles and cutting edge analytical tools to their specific challenges.
Simrall earned a bachelor’s degree in the geophysical sciences from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Louisville’s Speed School of Engineering.

Enterprise Architect, Office of Technology, Commonwealth of Kentucky

Scott Stephens has been serving as an Enterprise Architect for the Commonwealth of Kentucky since 2014. For the 10 years prior, he served as an executive change agent for high visibility programs aligning strategy, operations, and information technology. With a particular emphasis on international, cross-functional programs, he worked with a number of organizations including the US DOD (DLA, Army, Navy, USMC, Air Force, USSOC), commercial firms (Wal-Mart, Brunswick, Medtronics, Baxter, Intel, HP) defense firms (Lockheed Martin, Boeing), and educators (Penn State, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, INSEAD) among others.
From 1996-2005 he served as the first chair of the Supply Chain Council and, for the next decade, the Chief Technology Officer leading the development of the SCOR model through its first 9 editions and licensing its use to the Department of Defense, SAP, HP and other technology vendors, and the 800 practitioner members of the Council. He served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy in destroyers and hydrofoils.

President, Kentucky Interactive LLC / Kentucky.gov

Lee Tompkins serves as the General Manager for Kentucky.gov and the President of Kentucky Interactive LLC, a subsidiary of NIC Inc., where he has been responsible for leading the successful implementation of Kentucky’s eGovernment strategy in a public-private partnership with the Commonwealth Office of Technology since 2003.
Mr. Tompkins has a wide array of experience in information technology, business development and leadership, alliance management, financial services and government affairs in both the United States and abroad. In a leadership role, he has served as the Director of Operations for Kentucky Interactive, Director of Strategic Alliances for NIC, the President of NIC Canada and as a Vice President of Portal Operations for NIC.
Prior to joining Kentucky Interactive / NIC Inc., he managed and developed web-based service delivery solutions and strategies for Alltel Information Services. He also worked for high-tech startup eCommlink as the Director of Strategic Alliances.

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Agenda

Tuesday, April 18
8:00 am Eastern	Registration and Morning Refreshments Assembly Ballroom Foyer
9:00 am Eastern	Opening Assembly Ballroom View Presentation Here
9:15 am Eastern	Keynote – Hacking the Learning Curve Assembly Ballroom Bronkar Lee, Peak Performance Expert, Author, Speaker and Dynamic Performer (@BronkarLee) We live and work in a fast-paced, high-pressure world, and if we’re not gaining new skills and continuously upping our games we risk being left behind. Not just in our jobs but in our personal lives. On the bright side, there’s never been a better time to learn for the simple reason that knowledge and information have never been more easily obtainable. But transforming information into ability isn’t so easy. And that’s where Bronkar excels. His unique learning system shortens the runway for anyone, regardless of their goals, interests or inherent talents. In this unforgettable presentation, Bronkar shows us how to re-energize our approach to skill acquisition and hands us the key to unlock our passion for learning.
10:15 am Eastern	Networking Break Assembly Ballroom Foyer
10:45 am Eastern	Concurrent Sessions Don’t Take the Bait! Caucus Room Government organizations are under attack and the stakes have never been higher. Threats of all types are increasingly sophisticated and better organized. Spearfishing and ransomware are becoming full-fledged industries with remarkably low barriers to entry. This session takes an unflinching look at what we’re up against and how to avoid becoming a prize catch. David Carter, Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Technology, Commonwealth of Kentucky Justin Wilkins, Manager of Sales Engineering, Varonis (representing Crowe Horwath LLC, formerly SDGblue) Managing Your Data Kentucky Room Big data, the Internet of Things, video, social media, et al., are pushing organizations to reinvent how they handle and leverage information. Unless the right foundation is in place, the vast potential of Big Analytics remains largely untapped. It’s all about data readiness, which hinges on adroit and astute data management. This session looks at creative practices and strategies that control and capitalize on existing data across the enterprise. Jiju Joseph, Enterprise Architect - Data, Office of Technology, Commonwealth of Kentucky Matt Lawson, Principal Architect, State and Local Government and Education (SLED), NetApp (@lawson_matt) Achieving More with Less – It’s Not Just a Cliché Seminar Room In the quest for increased efficiencies and cost savings, technology continues to blaze new trails. What approaches are getting the best results? What new technologies have the most potential to impact government operations and services? Can existing technologies and processes be transformed? This session will provide a glimpse into the future of government efficiency and the technologies that will lead the way. Moderator: Mark Bunning, Deputy Secretary, Finance and Administration Cabinet, Commonwealth of Kentucky Marshall Butler, President, DMD Data Systems Phil St. John, Branch Manager of IT Governance, Office of Technology, Commonwealth of Kentucky Lee Tompkins, President, Kentucky Interactive LLC / Kentucky.gov
11:45 am Eastern	Lunch Assembly Ballroom
12:20 pm Eastern	Best of Kentucky Awards Assembly Ballroom
12:35 pm Eastern	General Session – Innovate! Assembly Ballroom As technology drives on and continues to transform society in countless ways, we each have the choice to lead, follow or risk getting run over. Option number one is definitely the most rewarding. It’s not always easy to embrace the process of reinvention, but is there really any other choice in the long run? This session looks at some novel approaches for inspiring and engaging employees, stakeholders, businesses and citizens to think outside the box, safely venture beyond comfort zones and try some things that might never have been done before. Moderator: David Couch, Chief Information Officer, Department of Education, Commonwealth of Kentucky Jason Ballard, Director, Information Technology, Louisville Metro Government Aldona Valicenti, Chief Information Officer, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government
1:30 pm Eastern	Networking Break Assembly Ballroom Foyer
1:50 pm Eastern	Concurrent Sessions The Value of a Risk Assessment Caucus Room The cyber landscape is constantly shifting, and some strategies and safeguards that were secure just a year or two ago don’t cut it anymore. But the good news is that a properly done risk assessment can quite accurately identify vulnerabilities and priorities. And, it helps an organization get smarter about the information it must protect. This session takes a close look at what constitutes a valid assessment and what you stand to gain. David Carter, Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Technology, Commonwealth of Kentucky Bo Gorham, Senior Security Engineer, Public Works, SecureWorks (representing Dell EMC) View Gorham Presentation Here Terry Hect, Chief Security Strategist, AT&T View Hect Presentation Here Leveraging Your Data Kentucky Room Virtually every industry is being revolutionized by big data and analytics. Government is no exception, and groundbreaking success requires stepping outside the box, adopting a new mindset, and embracing new tools and approaches. This session explores ways to make open data, analytics, and public collaboration pay off for your organization. Ed Blayney, Innovation Project Manager, Office of Performance Improvement and Innovation, Louisville Metro Government Todd Decker, Vice President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell EMC (representing Pomeroy) Michael Schnuerle, Data Officer, Office of Performance Improvement and Innovation, Louisville Metro Government (@LouDataOfficer) The Road to a Smart Community Seminar Room Kentucky is on a roll! Louisville and Lexington are gaining quite a reputation as smart cities, and there’s nothing smarter than sharing ideas and inspiration with fellow governments. In this session, we will get the inside scoop on what it means to be a smart community and why it’s critical to our future. Scott Shapiro, Chief Innovation Officer, Office of Mayor Jim Gray, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Grace Simrall, Chief of Civic Innovation, Louisville Metro Government (@Greendrv) Tom Simpson, Chief Technology Officer, Cincinnati Bell, CBTS
2:50 pm Eastern	Networking Break Assembly Ballroom Foyer
3:10 pm Eastern	Concurrent Sessions Moving Out of the Fog and into the Cloud Caucus Room Today, it’s tough to find an organization that doesn’t depend on the cloud for something crucial. The question is no longer whether to venture into the cloud, yes or no. Now it’s a matter of “How, what, when and where?” Understanding and anticipating risks, limitations, scope and accountability are critical to success. This session explores the factors to consider before going “all in” (or even partway). Bryan Hunt, Cloud Solution Specialist, Microsoft Scott Stephens, Enterprise Architect, Office of Technology, Commonwealth of Kentucky View Stephens Presentation Here Show Me the Money! Kentucky Room Senior leaders and legislatures are a lot more demanding. They want to see realistic numbers about costs and savings, and the numbers better be convincing. It’s not enough anymore to show that services will be greatly improved. Be prepared to answer questions like: What is the true cost of ownership, including personnel? What (and when!) is the expected payback? What are the eventual costs of not doing the project at all? This session focuses on how to better demonstrate ROI for technology projects. Moderator: Mark Bunning, Deputy Secretary, Finance & Administration Cabinet, Commonwealth of Kentucky Michael Darmetta, Managing Partner, Smart Communities, Verizon View Darmetta Presentation Here Mack Gillim, Executive Director – Office of Processing and Enforcement, Department of Revenue, Commonwealth of Kentucky View Gillim Presentation Here Heather Stout, Executive Director, Office of Information Technology, Transportation Cabinet, Commonwealth of Kentucky Security and Elections Seminar Room Election security was big news during the recent presidential election and in its aftermath, leading the federal government to rule that election infrastructure qualifies as critical infrastructure. How will this impact state and local government, and what should we be focusing on right now to avoid being front page news later? This session discusses the future of one of the highest-profile functions in government. Maryellen Allen, Executive Director, State Board of Elections, Commonwealth of Kentucky Bryan Marklin, Director, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Avaya (@bmarklin) Tom Watson, Senior Software Engineer, State Board of Elections, Commonwealth of Kentucky
4:10 pm Eastern	Networking Reception Assembly Ballroom Foyer Network with your colleagues and discuss technology solutions with the event exhibitors. Conference times, agenda, and speakers are subject to change.

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Advisory Board

Government Representatives

Jason Ballard
Director, Information Technology
Louisville Metro Government

Jim Barnhart
Deputy Commissioner
Commonwealth Office of Technology
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Mark Bunning
Deputy Secretary
Finance & Administration Cabinet
Commonwealth of Kentucky

David Carter
Chief Information Security Officer
Commonwealth Office of Technology
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Denver Collett
Director - Information Services
General Administration and Program Support
Commonwealth of Kentucky

David Couch
Chief Information Officer
Department of Education
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Jim Fowler
Chief Technology Officer
Miller Information Technology Center
University of Louisville

Doyle Friskney
Vice President Technical Services
University of Kentucky

Mack Gillim
Executive Director - Office of Processing and Enforcement
Department of Revenue
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Kathy Harp
Chief Information Officer
Department of Agriculture
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Will Holmes
Branch Manager for GIS
Transportation Cabinet
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Kenneth Jones
Branch Manager for Application Development
Transportation Cabinet
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Brian Kiser
Implementation & Court Services Project Manager
Administrative Office of the Courts
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Greg McCall
Staff Advisor
Commonwealth Office of Technology
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Mike Nugent
Director of Technical Services
Lexington Consolidated

Beth Shields
Electronic Records Management
Department for Libraries & Archives
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Tom Sparkman
Information Technology Director
Auditor of Public Accounts
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Phil St. John
Branch Manager of IT Governance
Commonwealth Office of Technology
Commonwealth of Kentucky

David Summerfield
Director of Information Technology
Clerk's Office
Jefferson County

Roy Terry
Executive Director - Office of Enterprise Technology
Commonwealth Office of Technology
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Glenn Thomas
Director of Information Technology Governance
Commonwealth Office of Technology
Commonwealth of Kentucky

Rene True
Executive Director
ConnectKentucky

Aldona Valicenti
Chief Information Officer
Lexington Consolidated

Jerry Wright
Commander, Communication and Computer Technologies
Kentucky State Police
Commonwealth of Kentucky