Keynote Presentation
Ray Kurzweil, President, Kurzweil Technologies

Ray Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large vocabulary speech recognition. He has successfully founded and developed nine businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality, financial investment, medical simulation, and cybernetic art.

Mr. Kurzweil has received seven national and international film awards. His book, The Age of Intelligent Machines, was named Best Computer Science Book of 1990. His current best-selling book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence has been published in 9 languages and achieved the #1 best selling book on Amazon in the categories of "Science" and "Artificial Intelligence."

Security Best Practices
Moderator: Rock Regan, NASCIO President and Chief Information Officer, State of Connecticut

Panelists:
Howard A. Schmidt, Vice Chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, U.S. Office of Homeland Security

Gerry Wethington, Chief Information Officer, State of Missouri

Panelists: Alan Paller, Director, System Administration, Networking, and Security (SANS) Institute

W. Robert Gerber, Chief of the Analysis and Warning Section, National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC)

Frank Lyons, President, Entellus Technology Group Incorporated

John Stubbs, Network Services & Security National Practice Leader, CIBER

Howard A. Schmidt, Vice Chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, will open this session with a perspective of the changing role of technology from a reactionary response to tragedies to one of detection and prevention of tragedies. Mr. Schmidt will also provide some insight on where the Office of Homeland Security is heading in terms of information sharing and whether it will be through improved telecommunications and/or applications. Mr. Schmidt will conclude by sharing how the Office of Homeland Security will be developing partnerships with the states - whether working directly with CIOs and/or through state homeland security offices.

Gerry Wethington, NASCIO Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the State of Missouri, and chair of NASCIO's Architecture Committee will address the role of architecture as an underlying element of security. NASCIO's Security Forum highlighted architecture and standards as one of the top five critical topics relative to security. Mr. Wethington will highlight the findings from the Security Forum and propose a plan of action for the incorporation of architecture in security planning.

The panelists will engage in a discussion that addresses the issue of changing approaches to security from a reactionary mode of operation to one of prescriptive action designed at detection and prevention. The panelists will discuss the emergence of pattern and method analysis as a means of predicting activity and taking preventive action.

Implementing a Moving HIPAA
Moderator: Harry Lanphear, Chief Information Officer, State of Maine

Panelists:
Greg Moody, Executive Assistant for Health and Human Services, Office of the Governor, State of Ohio

Cherilyn Cepriano Scism, Legislative Associate for Health Policy, National Governors Association

NASCIO, the NGA and others effectively lobbied the Federal Government and legislation was recently passed that delay the code transactions phase of HIPAA for one year to October 2003. This much needed delay allows states time to coordinate their implementation efforts with the many agencies in state government that are impacted. Limited resources within state government due to declining revenues coupled with less than adequate federal funding makes HIPAA an ongoing challenge to fund and manage. The additional time for the code transactions phase will allow state agencies to competitively bid this phase and provide time to coordinate implementation. Despite this, the project management required for this federal mandate is tremendously burdensome and requires creative thinking from all stakeholders. See how one state is efficiently managing HIPAA implementation and hear the view from the NGA.

The Critical Role of GIS in Homeland Security
Moderator: Rick Miller, National State Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) President and Director and Chief Information Technology Architect, Information Technology Office, State of Kansas

Introduction of Opening Speaker: Frank Galeotos, Director, Department of Administration and Information, State of Wyoming

Opening Speaker: The Honorable Jim Geringer, Governor, State of Wyoming

Panelists: Karen C. Siderelis, Geographic Information Officer, U.S. Geological Survey (invited)

Jack Dangermond, Founder and President, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Bryan Logan, Chairman and CEO, EarthData Holdings Incorporated

Geographic information systems provide officials an excellent system for integrating and organizing a wide range of information critical for state and local government preparation for and response to emergency situations - potential terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Geographic information systems allow emergency managers instant access to and visualization of critical infrastructure for planning purposes and in the midst of a crisis. GIS and other geospatial information technologies played a key role in the response to the attacks on the World Trade Center. However, efforts to take advantage of the technology as the crisis unfolded and in guiding the recovery effort provide important lessons for some the obstacles that stand in the way of taking full advantage of its benefits.

What are the obstacles that stand in the way of integrating and organizing the geographic information that has been collected by numerous federal, state and local agencies over the past decade in a useful manner that can help governments prepare for and respond to emergency situations? How is the federal government working to overcome these problems? How can federal, state and local governments work more closely and cooperatively in the future to ensure more secure communities utilizing GIS? How much will it cost and who will pay for it? What specifically can states do to work with the federal government to move coordination forward? What roles can private industry play in moving governments at all levels towards efficient exploitation of GIS for government applications?

This session will highlight some of the efforts underway to coordinate federal, state and local geographic information collection, standardization and integration by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Office of Management and Budget and the Federal Geographic Data Committee on the federal side and private sector technology companies.

Digital Government: Emerging Issues for the Next Six Months
Moderator: Charles Gerhards, Chief Information Officer and Deputy Secretary for Information Technology, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Opening Speaker: Mark A. Forman, Associate Director of Information Technology and E-Government, U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Panelists: Keith Comstock, Chief Information Officer, State of West Virginia

Harry Lanphear, Chief Information Officer, State of Maine

Mark A. Forman was appointed to oversee implementation of 21st Century Information technology in June 2001. He will address the process and selection of the Quicksilver initiatives and their current status. He will discuss his plans and the challenges of coordinating these initiatives between federal, state and local governments to ensure the services provided are seamless.

With the majority of government jurisdictions actively engaged in bringing e-Government to their own particular set of constituents, the issue of cross-jurisdictional collaboration moves to the forefront. Government Without Boundaries is a unique collaboration between federal, state and local jurisdictions to present services to citizens in a manner intuitive to them regardless of the jurisdictions involved. Keith Comstock will address the progress made to date and next steps.

States continue to put more services online and must coordinate these efforts with local governments and other state agencies, Harry Lanphear will discuss successes and challenges in collaborating with local governments and other state agencies to provide seamless government to the citizens of Maine.

A wrap-up discussion will solicit audience reaction to the presentations and address Digital Government priorities for the near term including how to position Digital Government in a time of budget reductions and find new innovative funding methods.

Component Reuse: Pass the Reuse Juice and Spice Up Your Solutions
Moderator: Richard J. Varn, Chief Information Officer, State of Iowa

Panelists:
Larry Singer, Chief Information Officer and Executive Director, Georgia Technology Authority

P.K. Agarwal, Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President, National Information Consortium (NIC) Incorporated

Rick Dorman, Partner, Deloitte and Touche

Georgia has been a leading proponent of the component reuse initiative, Georgia CIO Larry Singer will discuss how they are utilizing component sharing throughout their agencies. CIO's are encouraged to incorporate component reuse into their architectures and software solution development processes. In previous sessions, compelling success stories showed a good ROI on reuse. The industry and software component processes have matured and are ripe for adoption. However, as with all new technologies, component reuse is not the solution for every application. Experienced integrators can help guide the CIO's in the "how to's" and the "watch out for's".

Maintaining the Momentum in a Downturn Economy
State governments have made great progress in the past ten years in modernizing legacy systems, establishing system architectures, building effective and efficient telecommunications networks and moving state governments forward toward a true electronic government environment. It sometimes feels as though many states are just on the brink of the next major breakthrough in the use of technology to really improve the delivery of government services. The downturn in the U.S. economy, which has been exacerbated by events of 9/11/2001, now threatens to reduce funding levels for information technology and slow, if not stop, the momentum that has built over the last five to ten years.

The purpose of these three sessions will be to explore the economic downturn and find some common understanding of what has already happened, what we can expect in the next two to five years, and what pro-active policies and actions states should employ to maintain their current momentum.

Policy Briefing on the Downturn Economy
Facilitator: Tom Davies, Senior Vice President of Development, Consulting and Systems Integration, Current Analysis

Nancy McCallin, Director of Planning and Budgeting, State of Colorado

Brad Young, Chairman of the State's Joint Budget Committee, Colorado House of Representatives

Arturo Pérez, Senior Policy Specialist, Fiscal Affairs Program, National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)

Art Burgess, Budget Director, State of Wyoming

This session will address the effects of the economic downturn from the perspective of state budget organizations, and the state legislatures.

What is the fiscal outlook for the states both short and long term? What are the major policy levers the states have available to them to relieve the pressure and how are they likely to be used or not used? How is the fiscal outlook likely to affect policymaker's disposition to spending on information technology? What should technology leaders do, to help make the case to policymakers for sustaining the investment in technology, so the momentum of the past few years is not lost? Our panel of experts will provide their insight on these questions.

CLC Roundtable
Facilitator: Tom Davies, Senior Vice President of Development, Consulting and Systems Integration, Current Analysis

Panelists: Ken Anderson, Chief Information Officer, Novell

John Carrow, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Unisys

Claire Rawlins, Senior Vice President of Information Technology, Qwest

Michael D. Titmus, Vice President, American Management Systems, Incorporated

This session will explore how private sector technology firms cope with economic downturns internally and how they maintain their long range technology directions even in the face of funding cutbacks. Our panel consisting of CIOs from some of the major IT companies will address these issues.

CIO Roundtable
Facilitator: Tom Davies, Senior Vice President of Development, Consulting and Systems Integration, Current Analysis

What is actually happening in the states relative to funding for IT? Have priorities changed in the past year and are additional modifications to priorities anticipated in the next two to three years? What do they anticipate to be the level and purpose of funding that might be passed down from the federal government to the states for such things as homeland security, health (dealing with bio-terrorism possibilities), etc.? And finally, how can the corporate community help during these trying times? State CIOs will share with their colleagues and with the audience their perspective of how they are dealing with the impacts of the economic downturn in their own states.