Registration and Morning Refreshments

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Opening Remarks

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Scott Cardenas, Chief Information Officer, City and County of Denver

Opening Keynote – Find Your Voice

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Jim Meskimen, Master Impressionist and Communication Coach

Today’s culture emphasizes the value of teamwork and collaboration, sometimes at the expense of the individual. This is particularly true in the IT arena where you can sometimes find yourself stereotyped, or even worse, not taken seriously by potential stakeholders. What good are insights and solutions if your words get lost in the crowd? You need to make sure that you’re heard! Jim Meskimen has spent the past 25 years studying the most famous, creative and interesting people in modern times. In this fascinating and amusing session, Jim discusses – and illustrates – the traits and methods used by some of the best and most charismatic communicators in the world. Don’t settle for being “one of the crowd”. YOU have a unique identity. YOU have a voice!

Break

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Concurrent Sessions

Government is a Cool Place to Work

Capitol Ballroom 1

Everyone’s talking about the difficulty in recruiting and retaining IT people in government. It’s not just salary disparities, but government often is not seen as an innovative place to work. This session will challenge that theory by demonstrating initiatives that prove government can be at the forefront of technology, provide great work/life balance and meaningful outcomes. Concrete best practices for recruiting and retaining the best technology workers will also be discussed.

Steve Clagg, Chief Information Officer, Division of Support Services – Information Technology, Aurora Public Schools

Brandon Williams, Director, Google Operations, Governor’s Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado

A Mobile Colorado

Capitol Ballroom 2

In an increasingly connected society, smart devices, gadgets and sensors are ubiquitous and inescapable. The implications are both exciting and staggering. This session explores some of the technologies that are sweeping across society and the opportunities and challenges they bring to our communities.

Kevin McPeak, Technical Architect, Security, Public Sector Strategic Programs, Symantec

Fred Sargeson, General Manager, Colorado Interactive

Collaboration is Key

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Technology leaders from the public and private sectors will discuss the issues at hand and upcoming opportunities for cooperation and collaboration in Colorado. Topics of the discussion will include sharing applications and resources, cooperative procurement practices, engaging citizens, marketing your IT organization, and driving the cost out of IT.

Phil Bertolini, Deputy County Executive, Chief Information Officer Oakland County, Michigan

Scott Cardenas, Chief Information Officer, City and County of Denver

David McCurdy, Chief Technology Officer, Governor's Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado

Enterprise Analytics – Turning Data into Knowledge

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With growing demand for government IT organizations to embrace a ‘digital first’ strategy, data is emerging as the most important currency to improve government service delivery, provide new services, reduce the cost of delivering existing services and cut waste and fraud. Government agencies have no shortage of data from which to extract actionable insights, but you can’t gain insights from unstructured data scattered across your enterprise. This session looks at how to capitalize on existing data and its potential worth to government agencies, challenges of leveraging disparate data silos and formats to deliver next generation information-based services, offer real world examples of government organizations that are exploiting data assets to fundamentally change how they are operating.

Michelle Gore, Chief Data Officer, Governor’s Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado

Chris VanWagoner, Chief Strategy Officer, CommVault

Lunch

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Welcome

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Suma Nallapati, Secretary of Technology and Chief Information Officer, State of Colorado

Lunch Keynote – Natives, Immigrants and Innovators – Oh My!

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Jared Covili, Professional Development Trainer, Utah Education Network

Whether "digital immigrants" or "digital native", everyone brings a wealth of experience to the workplace that can be enhanced using new tools. Technology has reached the point where it can support just about anything that anyone wants to do. The toughest challenge is embracing the process of reinvention, but sometimes external pressures leave you no choice. In this session, author and professor Jared Covili will discuss innovative ways of leveraging a technology-diverse workforce through modern social media and technology tools.

Break

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Concurrent Sessions

Open Data Governance

Capitol Ballroom 1

Open government and transparency are often unattainable without an aggressive open data strategy. Data empowers citizens – but only if it is valuable information and only if it is in a form that is easy to understand and use. Otherwise, all the hard work just goes to waste. This session looks at how to effectively use open data to streamline, improve upon, and amplify citizen relationships.

Andrew Cole, Program Manager, Go Code Colorado, Secretary of State’s Office, State of Colorado

Michelle Gore, Chief Data Officer, Governor’s Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado

The Wide World of the Internet of Things

Capitol Ballroom 2

The Internet of Things is as vast as it sounds – it encompasses every object that’s able to exchange data through electronics, software, sensors or connectivity. From smart water meters, to connected street lights, the already huge expanse continues to grow. So how can this information be used to an organization’s advantage? This session explores the relationship between the Things and government organizations.

Phil Bertolini, Deputy County Executive, Chief Information Officer Oakland County, Michigan

Tim Brooks, Principal, Business Development, Big Data Practice, World Wide Technology

Broadband Access

Capitol Ballroom 3

Policy makers have identified broadband as a critical infrastructure to help grow our state’s economy. It can be a catalyst for businesses to grow and expand, students to have access to greater educational opportunities, patients and doctors to connect without leaving their communities, and citizens to engage with their government. While more citizens have access to broadband, those that remain unserved and underserved are increasingly difficult to connect with and public/private partnerships play a critical role. This session will explore best practices and solutions to increasing broadband access for Colorado.

Moderator: Jeff Gavlinski, Co-Chair, Mountain Connect

Panelists: Mike Brazell, District 1 Commissioner, Park County

Chris Prekopa, Director of Sales, Western Region, Comcast

Brian Shepherd, Broadband Program Manager, Governor’s Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado

Sponsor Briefing

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(Industry sponsors only.) This informal roundtable discussion is hosted by State CIO Suma Nallapati and State CISO Debbi Blyth. The focus will be on strategies, priorities, opportunities and the procurement process.

Break

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General Session – A Secure Colorado

Capitol Ballroom 4

Cyber-attacks have become more organized, advanced, persistent, and adaptive. It is imperative for government organizations to be prepared to meet these dire challenges, and still meet current user’s demands and compliance requirements. This session will explore the tactics attackers use at the front lines of cyber warfare, as well as some of the best practices for preparation and response to a breach.

Debbi Blyth, Chief Information Security Officer, Governor’s Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado

Kashif Dhatwani, Security Practice Director, BIAS Corporation

Steve Hurst, Director, AT&T

Reception

Capitol Ballroom Foyer

Everyone is invited! Please join in networking with your peers over refreshments.

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