Registration and Morning Refreshments

Lone Star Lobby and Ballroom

Opening Remarks

Lone Star Ballroom A – C

Melody Parrish, Chief Information Officer, Texas Education Agency

Keynote – No Excuse! – Incorporating Core Values, Accountability and Balance into Your Life & Career

Lone Star Ballroom A – C

Jay Rifenbary, Author and President, Rifenbary Training & Development

Based on a solid foundation of core values, Jay teaches, validates and supports the importance of key principles and skills of self-responsibility, organizational accountability, integrity, personal honesty, professionalism, self-respect, forgiveness, passion and positive attitude as they pertain to one’s personal and professional success, and the success of others. Jay delivers a passionate message demonstrating how you can contribute to the morale and productivity of the individual and organization, resulting in a higher level of performance and a greater level of personal understanding leading to a more productive, balanced and fulfilling career and life.

Networking Break

Lone Star Ballroom D

Concurrent Sessions

The CIO of 2025

Room 301

The one constant in technology is change, and the role of the CIO continues to evolve to meet this change. Keeping the lights on and managing daily operations is not the primary focus of the CIO in 2025. Given the disruptive technologies and driving the digital footprint, what will the CIO focus on to drive technology and business services? This session focuses on a broad discussion for the CIO of 2025 and the path to meet future challenges.

Moderator: Chris McConn, Director, Guidehouse

Chris Cutler, Chief Information Officer, Teachers Retirement System, State of Texas

Stephen Elkins, Chief Information Officer, City of Austin

Butch Grote, Chief Information Officer, Department of Agriculture, State of Texas

Sam Segran, Chief Information Officer, Texas Tech University

Joseph Warner, Senior Systems Engineer, Information Technology Services - Client/Server Computing, Tarleton State University

Unlocking Your Creative Mind

Room 302

Design thinking has emerged as a catalyst for user-centered problem solving and innovation. It is an agile and flexible method that emphasizes open inquiry, user feedback, empathy, and rapid solution prototyping. Design thinking can help teams to develop fresh, efficient, and cost-effective approaches to problems in any organization. Join us for an interactive exploration and discover how the practice of design thinking can shorten your time to solution and foster a culture of innovation.

Speaker: Karen Schneider, Director of User Experience Design, Laserfiche

Facilitators:

Stephen Mendonca, Professor, Lone Star College

Amy Swartz, Project Coordinator, Lottery Commission, State of Texas

Are We Having Fun Yet? The Evolution of Contract Management

Room 303

Contracts and contract management continue to evolve and become more sophisticated. The maturation of your contract management process is critical if you want to maintain compliance and manage risk. Get important tips and guidelines to help you mature your organization’s contract management process. Public and private industry experts will provide case studies and lessons learned to help you be successful moving forward. Learn how to collaborate with business leaders to ensure proper oversight of the contract. Understand the critical role of IT and expectations of contract management today.

Speakers:

Amy Comeaux, Manager of Statewide Procurement Policy & Outreach, Comptroller of Public Accounts, State of Texas

Cindy Reed, Former Deputy Executive/Chief Operating Officer, Department of Information Resources, State of Texas

Kevin Sanders, Manager, Guidehouse

Lunch

Lone Star Ballroom A – C

Featured Speaker – Collateral Change: Finding Balance in Our Digitally Evolving World

Lone Star Ballroom A – C

Michael Hakkarinen, Instructional Technology Specialist, Utah Education Network (@edtechakk)

Is there any doubt that this is the Age of Disruption? Technology is rending the fabric of society as we know it, driving historic levels of transformative change and mindboggling opportunities. But what are the consequences of this disruption on the lives of everyday citizens? The ramifications run deep, and it’s time to shift our focus from the technology to the resulting “collateral change” in human behavior. We’ve long passed some serious tipping points. This provocative session explores new communication paradigms, runaway device infatuation, generation gaps, radical education, future game-changers and creative ways to engage the “new citizen.”

Networking Break

Lone Star Ballroom D

Concurrent Sessions

Speed to Market: Barriers and Strategies

Room 301

Speed to market refers to the amount of time it takes for an organization to launch a product or service and make it available to the customer. In today’s technically driven environment, customers have an expectation of functional, fast and flexible. Many Agency IT shops struggle to meet these expectations when faced with limited budgets and resources, cumbersome processes, overwhelming workloads and legacy technology environments. How do you build a foundation for achieving speed to market as part of the core methodology? These technology executives feel the pressure daily and will share their experiences driving speed to market in their organizations.

Moderator: Kay Meyer, Principal Industry Consultant, State and Local Government, SAS (@MeyerkKay)

Speakers:

Greg Flay, Chief Technology Officer, Austin Energy

Rudy Montoya, Chief Information Officer, Texas Office of the Attorney General

Melody Parrish, Chief Information Officer, Texas Education Agency

Ed Serna, Deputy Executive Director, Texas Workforce Commission

Michael Wood, Director, Cloud-Native Strategist, Pivotal

Innovation Secret Sauce: Unclassified Recipes for Innovating Government

Room 302

Everyone's talking about 'innovation', but for some government organizations the word has become a strategic directive. This session will explore what innovation means for public agencies and identify outcome-based strategies to address complex, systemic issues. Learn from local Texas agencies and municipalities who are driving the national 'innovation' buzz about how to leverage existing resources, align objectives, and create the ‘secret sauce’ to make innovation a priority.

Moderator: Sam Hall, State and Local Government Marketing Manager, Laserfiche

Speakers:

Heather Hall, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Texas Workforce Commission

Randy Nesbitt, Chief Innovation Officer, Office of Innovation and Project Management, State of Texas

Kerry O’Connor, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Austin

Mike Sturm, Chief Information Officer, City of San Marcos

Digital Transformation: Making Cybersecurity Work for Digital Government

Room 303

As IT leaders are busy exploring innovative methods and tools to deliver quality mission critical services for their constituents, cybersecurity continues to be a major area of focus. This session will feature key findings from the Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report; and provide a strategic approach for IT leaders to secure their enterprise.

Moderator: Frank Williams, Information Security Officer, Teachers Retirement System, State of Texas

Speakers:

Todd Waskelis, Vice President, Security, AT&T

Craig Bowman, Vice President, Security, Verizon

Networking Break

Lone Star Ballroom D

Featured Speaker – Recruiting Talent in the Public Sector

Lone Star Ballroom A – C

Jay B. Carlile, General Manager, State & Local Government, LinkedIn Talent Solutions

Competition for talent is at an all-time high. It’s a candidate’s market and government agencies are struggling to recruit and retain top talent. In this session, LinkedIn’s Jay Carlile, will provide a Linkedn-101 overview and explore what it means for public agencies to modernize the way they attract and hire new talent and discuss strategies to develop and retain existing talent while engaging with younger generations. This session will provide you actionable insights into how to move beyond “post and pray”… to modernize the hiring processes for your public agency.

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The Texas CIO Academy Awards Ceremony and Reception

Lone Star Ballroom A – C

Conference times, agenda, and speakers are subject to change.