Name: New York City Technology Forum 2016
Start: 2016-11-14T08:00
Location: New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge

Overview

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Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The New York City Technology Forum 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.

This Year’s Topics Include:

The Science of Success
Cybersecurity: How Do I know When I’m Doing Enough?
Using Collaborative Design and Digital Tools for the Public Good
Breach! When Bad Things Happen to Good People (and Their Organizations)
The Internet of Things and the Impact on Government
DevOps and Improved Service Delivery
Digital Transformation and Enterprise Content Management
Cognitive Technologies – Helping us to Outthink Real Problems
What Makes a Smart City?
Ransomware Epidemic
Human Centered Design Thinking
Services, Platforms and Clouds…Oh my!
Mobile App Showcase
NYS Forum

A message from our Keynote Speaker

I hope you will join us at the 19th annual New York City Technology Forum November 14 - 15 at the Brooklyn Marriott. I look forward to engaging discussion about shared experiences, best practices, recent developments, and emerging solutions for the unique challenges we face as public sector leaders. I hope to see you there.

- Anne Roest, Commissioner, New York City DoITT

Speakers

Anthony Huey – Keynote

President, Reputation Management Associates

Anthony Huey has 20 years of experience in editorial management, media relations, marketing communications and business strategy. His career roots started in magazine journalism and evolved into an executive speech coach, crisis management specialist and media relations consultant.
Anthony owns Reputation Management Associates, one of the nation’s leading communications training and crisis consulting companies. He has presented more than 1,400 presentations in his career and has had articles published in magazines and newsletters across the nation.
He has assisted various Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, Victoria’s Secret, Eli Lilly, Ashland Inc., and hundreds of other companies and organizations across North America.

Catherine A. Sanderson, Ph.D. - Featured Speaker

Manwell Family Professor of Life Sciences, Amherst College

Catherine Sanderson is the Manwell Family Professor of Life Sciences (Psychology) at Amherst College. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology, with a specialization in Health and Development, from Stanford University, and received both masters and doctoral degrees in psychology from Princeton University. Professor Sanderson's research examines how personality and social variables influence health-related behaviors such as safer sex and disordered eating, the development of persuasive messages and interventions to prevent unhealthy behavior, and the predictors of relationship satisfaction. This research has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. Professor Sanderson has published over 25 journal articles and book chapters in addition to four college textbooks, a high school health textbook, and a popular press book on parenting. In 2012, she was named one of the country's top 300 professors by the Princeton Review.

Manley Feinberg, II – Featured Speaker

World-class Climber, Adventurer and IT Leader, Vertical Lessons, Inc.

Manley is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author, expert climber, innovative IT leader, published outdoor adventure photographer and professional musician. It is this expertise that he shares by applying lessons he’s learned in business and adventure to life’s daily challenges, inspiring audiences worldwide. During Manley’s eleven years with Build-A-Bear Workshop, his leadership direction helped take their revolutionary retail concept from 40 stores to over 400 worldwide. Manley’s influence was a key element in creating a workplace culture that landed Build-A-Bear on the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® List seven years in a row. He is the co-author of the #1 best-selling book World Class Speaking in Action, a contributor to Support World Magazine, a member of the HDI Strategic Advisory Board and serves on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Leadership Training Staff.

Tim Paydos - Featured Speaker

Vice President, World Wide Government Cognitive Solutions Team, IBM

Tim first joined IBM in 1995 as an industry solutions consultant. He came to the company after his college years studying international relations along with deterrence theory and nuclear war gaming. He has spent 18 years at IBM in numerous leadership roles spanning strategy, solution sales and solution portfolio management teams.
Tim now serves as the Worldwide Government Leader for the IBM Cognitive Solutions Team which is focused on helping government agencies around the world harness cognitive analytics to transform operating models and optimize the business of government. Tim has had the honor of working personally with 100’s of government agencies both in the United States and abroad, at the national, provincial and local levels. He is passionate about enabling governments for the first time with the ability to create insight and apply learning across vast streams and sources of data - with speed.
While fluent in all segments and levels of government, Tim also has a particular dedication in helping public safety, emergency management, intelligence and defense agencies harness information as a strategic asset for protecting the societies they serve.
Tim has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in Government, with a specialization in international deterrence and war gaming. He is a member of the IBM Industry Academy since 2013. Tim is also a nationally certified fire rescue instructor, and recently retired from 15 years on the thin red line as a firefighter in Simsbury, CT, where he achieved a terminal rank of captain.
Tim lives in Connecticut with his wife Angela, three children, and their Labrador retriever. He is also an avid mountain biker and fly fisherman.

Dominic Berg

Associate Commissioner, Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications, City of New York

Dominic Berg is Associate Commissioner for NYC Gov Lab & Studio at the City of New York’s Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT). Dominic leads a dynamic team of Designers, Business Analysts, Web Strategists and Developers, and Quality Assurance Analysts who are dedicated to delivering valuable products for NYC's residents, businesses, and government personnel. He and his team have won numerous awards for projects that have transformed how government services are accessed and experienced. Outside of work, he is a volunteer and former Chairperson for his local Community Board, he promotes community-driven policy and decision-making, including ensuring a substantial community role in decisions involving the new development of the largest tract of under-developed land below 96th Street in Manhattan.

William Eggers

Managing Director, Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights, Deloitte

William Eggers is the Executive Director of Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights where he is responsible for the firm’s public sector thought leadership. His new book is Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies that are Transforming Government (Deloitte University Press, 2016).
His eight other books include The Solution Revolution: How Government, Business, and Social Enterprises are Teaming up to Solve Society’s Biggest Problems (Harvard Business Review Press 2013). The book, which The Wall Street Journal calls “pulsating with new ideas about civic and business and philanthropic engagement,” was named to ten best books of the year lists.
His other books include the Washington Post best seller If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government (Harvard Business Press, 2009), Governing by Network (Brookings, 2004), and The Public Innovator’s Playbook (Deloitte Research 2009). He coined the term Government 2.0 in a book by the same name. His commentary has appeared in dozens of major media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. He can be reached at weggers@deloitte.com or on twitter @wdeggers.

Gregory Ferguson

Customer Solutions Director, State and Local Government & Education, SAP

Greg Ferguson is a Customer Solutions Director for State & Local Government and Education at SAP. With over 15 years of technology industry experience Greg leads SAP’s pre-sales teams focusing on SLED in eastern U.S. Additionally, he follows key trends and technologies in the State and Local Government and Education space to help customers solve their business challenges in new and more effective ways. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MS in Information Systems from The George Washington University.

Mark A. Johnson

Director, Modern Platform, Oracle

Mark Johnson leads a team in the Oracle North America Public Sector organization responsible for helping customers in the government, education and healthcare fields understand how emerging technologies like the Cloud and Big Data affect their organization. Mark joined Oracle after serving as a United States Navy Aviator and Test Pilot and has worked in and co-founded several information technology businesses. He speaks often to government and industry audiences to help them realize more value from their data and information technology.

Jay Olsen

Digital Services Director, Growth, CSRA

Mr. Olsen is currently the CSRA Digital Services Area Director, helping to lead Digital Design, Agile, DevOps, and SW Engineering Go-to-market capabilities. Mr. Olsen has over 25 years of Information Technology experience with Fortune 500 corporations and the Federal Government in the health, defense, energy, telecommunications, technology, and manufacturing industries. His recent experience has focused on strategic new business capture, solution architecture, and Agile software methodology implementations tailored for Federal customers. Mr. Olsen previously served as SRA International’s Health Business Area CTO and has managed several enterprise Agile software modernization programs for Federal clients including NIH and FDA.

Director of Cybersecurity Intelligence within Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks

Ryan is the director of Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team, responsible for collection, analysis and production of intelligence on adversaries targeting organizations around the world. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks Ryan served as Senior Manager in Verisign’s iDefense Threat Intelligence service. His area of expertise is detecting and identifying actors and groups conducting cyber-crime and cyber-espionage operations. Ryan is a contributing author to the book Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures, and primary author of Cyber Security Essentials. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in management information systems from Iowa State University, and a Master of Science degree in security informatics from The Johns Hopkins University.

Shawn Taylor

Public Sector System Engineer, ForeScout Technologies, Inc.

Shawn is a Public Sector Systems Engineer at ForeScout Technologies. He has 20 years’ experience in designing, architecting and evangelizing solutions across a wide spectrum of technology areas including Biometrics and Identity Management, IT Operations, Service, IT Asset Management and Data Management. Shawn has previously worked for BMC Software, Delphix and CA Technologies. He holds an ITIL® Foundation Certification and received a BA in Economics from University of Maryland, College

Sean Telles

Manager of Systems Engineering, Public Sector State & Local, ForeScout Technologies

Sean heads up ForeScout Technologies’ Public Sector State & Local government SE practice for the US, has seventeen years of hands-on experience architecting and building security solutions and managing production environments, integrator, and manufacturer, and in leading security teams from all sides of the table. Sean is responsible for articulating and demonstrating how the ForeScout value proposition of “See-Control-Orchestrate” for IOT, SCADA, and critical infrastructure controls fills the gaps between defense-in-depth tools, and lets state, county, and municipal authorities build their own self-defending networks leveraging the tools they have already invested in. Previously, Sean has worked at Symantec, SRA International, and Northrop Grumman, where he has held a variety of roles in Cyber Security Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure and Security, Network and Infrastructure Security, Systems Management, Network Management. He holds his Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration, and resides in Northern Virginia.

Peter Walker

Systems Engineer, Nutanix

With almost twenty years in the IT industry, some of Peter’s previous employers are Computer Associates, IBM, Prudential, Viacom, Merrill Lynch, and TIAA-CREF. In recent years, his experience has focused on the server virtualization market, which included technologies from Cisco, EMC, Netapp, VMware, Microsoft, and Veeam. Peter currently works for the California-based Nutanix, where he is a Systems Engineer, focused on the New York and New Jersey state & local government, and education vertical. Peter lives on Long Island, with his wife of over ten years, and eight year old daughter.

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Agenda

Monday, November 14
12:45 pm Eastern	Registration Grand Ballroom Lobby and Promenade
1:30 pm Eastern	Keynote – Communicating the Right Way – It’s Not Just What You Say, It’s How You Say It! Grand Ballroom Anthony Huey, President, Reputation Management Associates Communication skills are constantly being judged by others, often subconsciously. How you communicate in everything from casual conversations to formal presentations can be the difference between success and failure. Don’t miss what is often your only opportunity to connect and leave a lasting impression. This session focuses on how to think quickly, take control, and effectively communicate your message to a wide variety of audiences including customers, vendors, staff, management, boards and even news media. You will learn how to reduce nervousness, craft a message, answer tough questions, master your material, use PowerPoint correctly, interpret body language, engage your audience, and much, much more. View Presentation Here
2:30 pm Eastern	Break Grand Ballroom Lobby and Promenade
3:00 pm Eastern	Concurrent Sessions The Science of Success Grand Ballroom A Many people focus on the importance of cognitive intelligence in predicting academic and professional success. But a growing amount of evidence suggests that other traits - including the ability to control impulses, manage adversity, find internal motivation, and build relationships – are essential in achieving the best outcomes in both personal and professional relationships. Professor Catherine Sanderson will focus on the importance of so-called emotional intelligence (or EQ) in predicting success, and provide specific strategies for increasing your own EQ. Catherine Sanderson, Professor, Amherst College Cybersecurity: How Do I Know When I’m Doing Enough? Grand Ballroom B One question about security is very easy to answer: “Are we 100% digitally secure?” The answer is always “no,” of course. There are no absolutes, and that's particularly true for security. But there are ways to tilt the odds in your favor. This session focuses on New York City’s approach to city-wide cybersecurity. Geoff Brown will discuss the latest threats, gauging risk factors, shoring up defenses, and maybe even sleeping a little better at night. Geoffrey Brown, Deputy Commissioner & Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications, City of New York Using Collaborative Design and Digital Tools for the Public Good Grand Ballroom C Complex public challenges require unprecedented collaboration. This session will showcase how Civic Hall brings together sector experts, the public, funders, data scientists, researchers, designers, technologists, media makers, community groups, and entrepreneurs to explore how the use of design, data, and technology can create scalable, sustainable solutions. Andrew Rasiej, Founder/CEO, Civic Hall
4:00 pm Eastern	Best of New York City Awards Ceremony Grand Ballroom
5:15 pm Eastern	Best of New York City Awards Reception Grand Ballroom Lobby and Promenade

Tuesday, November 15
8:00 am Eastern	Registration Grand Ballroom Lobby and Promenade
9:00 am Eastern	Welcoming Remarks Grand Ballroom Anne Roest, Commissioner, Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications, City of New York
9:15 am Eastern	Opening Keynote – Leading on the Edge Grand Ballroom Manley Feinberg, World-class Climber, Adventurer and IT Leader IT officials often struggle to deliver more value under tightening constraints and rising expectations. Throw in the complications of regulations, a changing workforce, constantly evolving technology, plus the chaos of day-to-day life, and you are facing some serious challenges. It can feel like you’re walking too close to the edge, and the old adage “Don’t look down!” applies just as much to a tough deadline as climbing the sheer face of El Capitan. Manley Feinberg has tackled and conquered impossible environments – from breakneck corporate expansion to nature’s most hostile terrains. In this unforgettable keynote, Manley reveals his 8 Vertical Lessons that will enable you to lead, contribute and inspire in ways that will take you – and your teams – to bold new heights.
10:15 am Eastern	Break Grand Ballroom Lobby and Promenade
10:45 am Eastern	Concurrent Sessions Breach! When Bad Things Happen to Good People (and Their Organizations) Grand Ballroom A Cyber security is the new front line of financial crime and social upheaval. It is the new Wild West, with hackers divided among the "white hats" and "black hats." Stage coach and bank robberies of old have been replaced by heists of personally identifiable information from major retailers, insurers and governments. Political protests are increasingly taking the form of denial-of-service attacks by so-called “hactivists” to disrupt the normal order of things. Such things can and do happen anywhere, and everybody has a role in preventing, preparing for, and responding to cyber threats. Michael Ferrell, Solutions Architect, CenturyLink Brett Kelsey, VP & Chief Technology Officer – Americas, CTO Intel Security, Intel Corporation (@brett_kelsey) The Internet of Things and the Impact on Government Grand Ballroom B The Internet of Things (IoT) is a series of billions – soon to be trillions – of sensors and devices connected to one another via the Internet. Most of it is automated, and the possibilities that IoT brings to society are the stuff of science fiction. But it’s all very real, and the question on many people’s minds: Is government ready? This session explores the role of government in using, exploiting, controlling and surviving the hyper-connected world of IoT. Shawn Taylor, Public Sector System Engineer, ForeScout Technologies, Inc. (@smtaylor12) Sean Telles, Manager of Systems Engineering, Public Sector State & Local, ForeScout Technologies, Inc. Mobile App Showcase Grand Ballroom C Winners from the 2016 Best of New York and Best of New York City will be presenting their award-winning apps and will engage you in a discussion on mobile app development and deployment. Take this opportunity to learn from the experts on how they successfully launched their latest and greatest mobile apps. Sam Cheung, Tech Lead, Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, City of New York Robert Marano, Chief Information Officer, New York City Housing Authority, City of New York Alberto Ng, Project Manager, Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, City of New York Todd D. Rosenfield, Project Manager, Division of Veterans’ Affairs, New York State Magdelin Vargas, Business Analyst, NYC 311, City of New York DevOps and Improved Service Delivery DUMBO/Navy Yard Born of the need to improve IT service delivery agility, the DevOps movement emphasizes communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and IT operations so applications can be developed faster and more frequently. This session will showcase DevOp best practices that have shown significantly shorter time-to-market, improved customer satisfaction, better product quality and improved productivity and efficiency. Michael Jabbour, Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeless Services, City of New York Jay Olsen, Digital Services Director, Growth, CSRA Digital Transformation and Enterprise Content Management Williamsburg/Greenpoint No one produces more paperwork than government and while agencies may have ambitions for a lean and agile digital future, the present is still badly weighed down by paper. Digital transformation can help enterprises streamline processes, increase productivity, improve services and reduce operational costs. When your organization can manage workflow and content effectively and derive value from it, you gain efficiency and improved customer service. This session will provide insight and present government case studies on the impact of paper-to-digital migration. Franco Sirkin, Enterprise Account Executive, Alfresco Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, City of New York
12:00 pm Eastern	Lunch On Your Own
1:00 pm Eastern	Featured Speaker – Cognitive Technologies – Helping Us to Outthink Real Problems Grand Ballroom Cognitive is defined as intellectual activity, in other words, what humans do. The cognitive systems era, which is the most exciting phase of enterprise transformation in more than a century, is upon us. Cognitive technology mimics human activities such as perceiving, inferring, gathering evidence, hypothesizing, and reasoning. And when combined with advanced automation, these systems can be trained to execute judgment-intensive tasks. Companies are investing billions in developing cognitive-based systems, such as IBM Watson, and we are already seeing some incredible results across all sectors of society. This session provides an introduction to a technology that has enormous potential and implications for our future civilization. The revolution has started. Are you ready? Tim Paydos, Vice President, World Wide Government Cognitive Solutions Team, IBM
1:45 pm Eastern	Break Grand Ballroom Lobby and Promenade
2:15 pm Eastern	Concurrent Sessions What Makes a Smart City? Grand Ballroom A New York City is a recognized innovator as a Smart City. What makes a smart city? Why do smart cities matter? What criteria and metrics are used to judge progress? Where are these trends heading? This session explores the role of government in using, exploiting, controlling and surviving the hyper-connected world of the Internet of Things and how it will affect our communities and make them Smart. William Eggers, Managing Director, Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights, Deloitte Consulting (@wdeggers) Gregory Ferguson, Customer Solutions Director, State and Local Government & Education, SAP (@heygregf) Ransomware Epidemic Grand Ballroom B Ransomware has certainly gathered tremendous momentum over the past 18 months. According to Newsweek, Americans paid over $325 million due to ransomware attacks in 2015. So how do you protect you and your organization? What is the appropriate response? What are the legal issues and what is the role of law enforcement? This session will get you the latest information you need to be better prepared for preventing or remediating a ransomware attack on your data. Ryan Olson, Director of Cybersecurity Intelligence within Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks Human Centered Design Thinking Grand Ballroom C In the past, design has most often occurred fairly far downstream in the development process and has focused on making products aesthetically attractive. Now supporting users by uncovering latent needs, behaviors, and desires are considered important design factors. Learn how the partnership of technology and business and always keeping the end user in in mind can lead to innovative solutions. Dominic Berg, Associate Commissioner, Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications, City of New York Michael Jabbour, Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeless Services, City of New York Services, Platforms and Clouds…Oh My! DUMBO/Navy Yard XaaS or “anything as a service” is the delivery of IT as a service through hybrid cloud computing and is a reference to either one or a combination of software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), communications as a service (CaaS), monitoring as a service (Maas), or any of a growing list of as a service services. Much hype surrounds these technologies and there is lot of shaking out to do with the emergence of Big Data, Internet of Things and Mobility. In the meantime, there will be widespread agency adoption of hybrid clouds with security concerns at the forefront. This session is all about leveraging the cloud—the pros and cons of various models and how government can make the transition. Mark A. Johnson, Director, Modern Platform, Oracle Peter Walker, Systems Engineer – SLED NY/NJ, Nutanix NYS Forum Williamsburg/Greenpoint The NYS Forum just completed its first year in NYC. The workgroups have been extremely active and a healthy number of cross-agency networks have developed. Come hear about what has been achieved so far and what our plans are for the next year. Are you learning new skills or engaged in a new project? Chances are others are as well. Shared learning is the idea that we learn best when we learn together. Come learn with your peers. Corinne Brennen, Director of Program & Business Development, NYS Forum Maureen McHugh, Senior Account Executive, Splunk Joe Merces, Chief Information Officer, Law Department, City of New York Joan Sullivan, Executive Director, NYS Forum
2:30 pm Eastern	Sponsor Briefing Grand Ballroom (Industry sponsors only) Anne Roest, Commissioner, Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications, City of New York
3:30 pm Eastern	Reception Grand Ballroom Lobby and Promenade 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

Michael H. Bott
Assistant Comptroller/Chief Information Officer
Comptroller
New York City

Stephen Fisher
Chief Information Officer
Department of Small Business Services
New York City

Eusebio Formoso
Chief Information Officer, Information Technology
Department of Finance
New York City

Jeffrey Grunfeld
Chief Information Officer
Taxi & Limousine Commission
New York City

Evan Hines
First Deputy Commissioner
Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications
New York City

Jose Ivey
Chief of Staff
Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications
New York City

Michael Jabbour
Chief Information Officer
Department of Homeless Services
New York City

Henry Jackson
Chief Information Officer
Office of Emergency Management
New York City

Edmund Lee
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Bureau of Information Technology
Department of Sanitation
New York City

Jian Liu
Chief Information Officer
Health and Mental Hygiene
New York City

Cecil McMaster
Chief Information Officer
Department of Environmental Protection
New York City

Joseph Merces
Chief Information Officer
Law Department
New York City

Nitin Patel
Chief Information Officer
Citywide Administrative Services
New York City

Bruce Poehlman
Senior Director, Application Development
Department of Sanitation
New York City

Anne Roest
Commissioner
Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications
New York City

Cordell Schachter
Chief Information Officer
Department of Transportation
New York City

Joan Sullivan
Executive Director
NYS Forum

Anthony Thomas
Chief Information Officer
Housing Preservation and Development
New York City

Benny Thottam
Chief Information Officer
Fire Department (FDNY)
New York City

Industry Representatives

Austin Adams
Vice President
Public Sector
Alfresco Software

Tom Belajonas
District Sales Manager
NYC
DynTek Services

Natalie Byrnes
Account Manager
Business Development
Global Solutions
Infor

Rich Faller
Client Unit Executive
IBM

Paul Fox
Region Manager
State and Local Government
ForeScout Technologies

Joseph Lynch
East Region Vice President
Public Sector
Oracle

Hariharan Murthy
Managing Director
Deloitte