Wednesday, May 13, 2009 A New Generation Build Out: Serving Diverse Constituents, Leveraging Emerging Technologies, and Planning for the Road Ahead Mark Milliron – Catalyze Learning International
There are dramatic changes—demographic, economic, technological, and more—in our face and on the horizon. Not surprisingly, government leaders are working hard to better understand these changes and build out a new generation strategy and infrastructure to meet rapidly changing demands. This presentation will dive in to this dynamic build out, and explore a set of key conversations on blended services, mobility, immersive environments, social networking, analytics, and maintaining the human touch.
City of Frisco Best Practices for the Successful Deployment of Collaborative and Manageable Content Portals
Tim Gade – Collaboration Architect, Microsoft
Rickey McCoy – Web Master, City of Frisco Curt Balogh –Director of Information Technology, City of Frisco
This session will review how the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server platform has enabled the City of Frisco’s IT professionals and content authors to create secure, innovative, and collaborative business solutions for the web without overloading IT developers and web designers.
Put It to Work for You: A Discussion on Content Records Management
Rigo Ruiz – Senior Project Manager, MCCi
Russell Haddock – Senior Account Executive, MCCi
This presentation will help explain the need for true Content Records Management and provide a local government panel discussion on how individual cities and counties in Texas have implemented this plan.
Benefits to Managing BlackBerry Services with a BES
Aneya Elbert – Telecommunications Administrator, City of Bryan
Eric Rivas – Strategic Account Manager, Research In Motion Limited
BlackBerry devices offer many applications and benefits beyond email especially if you are maintaining a BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Today’s work force is becoming increasingly mobile and it is paramount that we offer the same security and management of mobile data devices that do for our desktop computers.
City-Wide Broadband Deployment
David Stephens – Director IT, City of Plano
Mike Larson – Business Development Manager, Motorola
Jake Price – Account Manager, Motorola
How the City of Plano's City wide network has enabled applications for other city departments. Abstract to come!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Security 2.0 John McCumber - Strategic Programs Manager, Public Sector, Symantec Corporation
This session will examine the emerging world Symantec calls Security 2.0. In the session, we show empirical evidence of the evolution of threats to your information resources; outline the dramatic changes taking place; cover how security professionals are struggling with the three C's of cost, complexity, and compliance; and offer a structured view of safeguards and how they can best be used to meet these challenges. The session also showcases procedural and human factors that you can leverage to implement a compliant and cost-effective protection environment in the Security 2.0 world.
Outdoor Wireless for Transportation & Much More
Gary Saudners – Dir. Traffic Engineering, City of Midland
Barbara Walker – Territory Account Manager, Cisco
This session will share best practices of an innovate approach to implement an outdoor wireless network to solve an immediate need, yet position a wireless backbone for a citywide multi-service voice, video and data network.
Enabling Your Town for Web 2.0
Dustin Haisler – CIO / Associate Judge, City of Manor
The purpose of this presentation is show how cities can plan, develop, and implement Web 2.0 technologies to increase efficiency and cut cost.
Professionalizing IT Services: Shifting Priorities in Challenging Economic Times
Ernest Pages – Partner, eGov Consulting Services
Stephen Gousie – Partner, eGov Consulting Services
This session will examine the pressures being brought to bear on local government IT departments by budgetary pressure and the transformation from being a hardware supplier to software provider. This presentation will include a discussion of business process improvement and the role of the business analyst, and the use of ITIL sized for local government.
Simplifying Analysis for Everyone
Elizabeth Gray – Business Systems Analyst Supervisor, Austin Fire Department
Christine Thies – Planner-GIS Analyst, Austin Fire Department
This presentation will introduce and demonstrate a business intelligence (analytics) tool that is both simple to implement and easy to use. The presentation will go on to show how this tool has greatly increased the use of data in making decisions by allowing managers to directly access their data and thus changing our culture from one of gut instinct management to more evidence-based decision making.
Collaboration 101 – Round Table Discussions with Your Peers
Come share your knowledge and find out how some of your colleagues are handling current IT issues and challenges that are facing most government IT departments today! This session will feature eight concurrent hosted round table discussions on the following topics: Green IT, Social Networking, Thin Client, User Policies, Email Retention, Mobile Solutions, IT Governance & ERP Solutions.
Friday, May 15, 2009
High Tech Crime: The players, their methods and evidence
Special Agent Michael Morris - Lab Director, North Texas Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory
While the world rapidly heads toward a severe recession, criminals both seasoned and newly unemployed, use technology to make a living, often times a great living. SA Morris will speak on crimes, technologies and techniques being used, as well as evidence that may be left behind. SA Morris will also speak on evidence issues and on the FBIs Regional Computer Forensic Laboratories.
