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Session Abstracts
Monday, April 12, 2010
The Five Concurrent Themes for Success – Capitol View Terrace
Gordon Graham – President, Graham Research ConsultantsGordon
Your job is getting more and more complex. In fact, the more complex it gets, the more you need a systematic approach to getting things done right. This block, "The Five Concurrent Themes for Success" is essential for everyone in the workplace, regardless of position, job description or type of organization. In this program, Mr. Graham will show you how the discipline of Risk Management, coupled with an understanding of "systems" and complemented with Customer Service, Accountability and Integrity all can work together to better assure that things get done right and how things can go wrong.
Social Networking for Cities
Mark Cleverley - Director, IBM Global Government Industry
Hamid Khaleghipour - Information Technology Director, Town of Addison
Chuck Snapp - Client Executive, IBM Corporation
This presentation examines the emerging connected environment in which citizens live, work, learn and socialize. It outlines some of the social and technology trends that are reshaping public expectations of government. It illustrates with some examples - among them, citizen-generated content and collaboration, digital communities, innovative outreach - and reports back on an examination of the prospective value of social media in the city of Addison, Texas. It concludes with some cautions, some principles and some suggestions for action.
VDI Analysis, Process and Determination
Steve Cross - Deputy Director IT, City of Mckinney
Amish Patel - Solutions Architect-Virtualization, CDWG
Rob Cooper - Account Executive, CDWG
McKinney is analyzing the implementation of virtual Desktops as a potential solution for 70% of their physical machines. CDWG has a developed Virtualization Practice centered on industry standards and aligned with leading virtualization providers. McKinney and CDWG will begin with the discovery phase and present findings from pilot data and test environments and work through the entire process to a final project recommendation. The presentation will detail specific benefits of separate applications- Citrix and VMware. Driving factors in looking at VDI v. physical are: costs, roll out strategies, life cycle, maintenance/ management & security. Multiple components will be used to determine if VDI is a practical and cost effective strategy including: terminal attributes, desktop provisioning, security/virus control, OS and patching updates, back-up and remote access. Additionally, real costs associated with implementation immediately and overtime will be addressed. At conclusion, attendees will realize an understanding of the necessary challenges that are identified, questions to ask, and caveats discovered that will provide a basis to determine if VDI is an optimal path to pursue.
Approaching Disaster Recovery: More Than Just Replication
Alan Cohen- Senior Solution Architect, SHI International Corp.
You know that Disaster Recovery is something you need to implement but what does that mean? Disaster Recovery is more than just backing up or replicating data and systems. How do you know that you have the right systems protected? Have you lost too much data? Is the recovery taking too long? Where will you recover? We will discuss terminology, concepts, and processes for disaster recovery planning. We will differentiate Disaster Recover from Business Continuity and help you understand what needs to be done from classifying your applications through testing your plan.
Expand Your Wireless World with WiMAX
Brian Dietrich- Business Development Mgr, Intel Corporation
Intel and Cisco are leading the next generation of wireless mobility with an innovative, integrated, and embedded combo Wi-Fi/WiMAX module for laptops, access points and base stations. Miles from the nearest Wi-Fi* hotspot, Mobile WiMAX will blanket large areas with wide area networks (WANs), be they metropolitan, suburban or rural with multi-megabit-per-second mobile broadband Internet access. WiMAX will free broadband from location, transforming it into personal broadband that moves with you. Together, WiMAX and Wi-Fi are ideal companions for enabling convenient, affordable mobile broadband Internet services for the public sector. In this presentation, Intel and Cisco will discuss how government s services can be delivered to your citizenry more effectively and securely by coupling WiMAX and WiFi wireless technologies together.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Making the Case for Technology in Tough Times: A Story of Necessity, Invention, and the Future of Texas
John Miri - Executive Vice President, Bluewater Technology Services
It’s a tough time to be a government CIO. Budgets have never been tighter and citizen expectations have never been higher. An increasingly data-savvy public is demanding ever greater functionality, responsiveness, and accountability from their government and educational institutions. Does this resource squeeze mean the end of IT as we know it – or is it the start of something great?
Join us for this hard-hitting session that will prepare Texas government to rise above today’s crisis to realize remarkable achievements. We’ll explain the new rules of the game and help you find the right opportunities for innovation. We’ll separate the fact from fiction, point you to the most fertile ground, and help you position your organization to come out stronger than ever before.
The Role of GIS in an IT Strategy
Keith Kite- Regional Team Manager, ESRI
Michael Parma- GIS Coordinator, City of New Braunfels
GIS is being deployed in larger organizations, serving larger user communities, and leveraging more complex data sets. The visualization and analytical capabilities of GIS are being called upon to increase efficiency across a wide variety of governmental responsibilities public safety, planning, public works, elections, economic development, health and welfare issues, infrastructure and utility management. Most importantly, GIS is helping people find better solutions and make more informed decisions. Given that GIS implementations require basic IT tenets i.e. using disparate data to help form new information; managing and updating those data for consistency and reuse; and then conducting ongoing analysis and meaningful output, GIS is an important part of any IT strategy. This presentation will focus on the role and integration of current GIS technology in the IT enterprise as well as take a look at emerging GIS technologies for Web 2.0 applications and cloud computing. In addition the City of New Braunfels will detail how they have implemented an enterprise GIS system.
Why and How Denton County decided to go Completely Virtual
Steven Kaplan- VP Data Center Virtualization, INX
Kevin Carr- Director of Information Technology, Denton County
Denton County was having capacity challenges with its growing number of servers including space, power, cooling, network capacity and management. As a Microsoft shop familiar with Windows, Denton County decided to utilize Microsoft Hyper-V on a pilot basis in order to begin alleviating the capacity constraints with virtualization. As the number of VMs continued to grow, IT management increasingly became aware of virtualization's capabilities to lower costs, reduce power usage and increase availability. They estimated that taking a strategic approach to virtualizing the entire data center would save the County nearly $2 million over a five-year period while requiring an investment of only $250,000. This presentation discusses both the decision to migrate to a virtual data center as well as how IT management was able to secure funds for the project with justifications such as ROI benefits and energy savings. It describes why the County decided to switch gears to a vSphere platform despite the free Microsoft hypervisor, and also covers the implementation strategy and products utilized. Future plans for virtual disaster recovery and desktop solutions are also covered.
Straight from the IT Trenches: Spiceworks' FREE Network Management Software
Ken Eisman- IT Director, City of Bay City
Hear from a fellow IT pro on how he manages everything IT about his job for free with Spiceworks. Used by over 900,000 IT pros around the world, Spiceworks is a free network management app allowing you to inventory, monitor, map, & report on your network PLUS is combined with a user community ready to exchange Q&A, best practices, how-to's, product reviews, and more.
Managing User Expectations to Increase the Value of IT
Ernest Pages- Partner, eGov Consulting Services
Caren Skipworth- Collin County, Director of Information Technology
City and County governments are under immense budgetary pressure in these challenging economic times. Commissioners and Councils are asking fundamental questions regarding the value of IT and technology projects? How can IT improve its ability to deliver high value projects to end users? How can IT involve the organization in determining most effective projects? Presenters will examine the pressures being brought to bear on city and county government IT departments, explore ideas on how governance methods can be employed to better align IT s delivery to user needs. Presentation will include a discussion of governance frameworks and the role of the IT Planning Management. A case study will be presented that examines the success and challenges of using such a governance structure.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Executing on Enterprise 2.0: How to Succeed with Social Media
Anthony Bradley- Vice President, Gartner Research
Social media is revolutionizing the public Web and enabling new mass collaborative behaviors. It is transforming the way people work, play, interrelate, drive innovation, and deliver radical enterprise value. But success is far more challenging than most realize. This session covers how to build and execute on an effective Enterprise 2.0 strategy.
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