CONFERENCES & EVENTS   |   2008 Midyear Conference

A Focus on the Enterprise: Campaigning for Change
April 29 - May 2, 2008
Marriott Westfields Washington Dulles

• Agenda
• Conference Presentations
• Conference Interactive Audience Polling Results
• Slideshow of the 2008 Midyear Conference

Conference Presentations

Corporate Leadership Council (CLC) Working Session

Presenters:
• David P. Gragan, Chief Procurement Officer, Office of Contracting and Procurement, District of Columbia

Keynote Address

Presenters:
• Vance Hitch, Chief Information Officer, US Department of Justice

Polling the Experts: Governors, Legislators and Their Budgets

Presenters:
• Scott Pattison, Executive Director, National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO)

Enterprise Data Protection: A Hard Sell for CIOs

Presenters:
• Chris Ipsen, Acting Chief Information Security Officer, State of Nevada
• Mark Weatherford, Chief Information Security Officer, Office of the Governor, State of Colorado

The Emperor Has No Clothes: Facing the Brutal Reality About Continuity of Government Operations

Presenters:
• Eric Kretz, Deputy Director, National Continuity of Operations Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Craig Orgeron, Deputy Director, Strategic Services, Department of Information Services, State of Mississippi
• Lorrie Tritch, Administration, Information Technology Enterprise, Department of Administrative Services, State of Iowa

Reaping Results from the Government Performance Project

Presenters:
• Mark Stencel, Deputy Publisher, Governing Magazine
• Philip Joyce, Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University

Conference Interactive Audience Polling Results

• Call to Order and Welcome
• Mining for Budget Gold
• Polling the Experts
• The Government CIO Agenda
• Interactive Technology Sponsor Questions

Final Agenda

Tuesday, April 29
10:00 am - 10:30 am	New State Member Orientation
10:30 am - 5:00 pm	Membership Meeting and State Member Forum (State CIOs and State Members Only)
6:30 pm	Buses load for State Member Networking Dinner
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm	State Member Networking Dinner - Off-Site (State CIOs and State Members Only)
Wednesday, April 30
6:30 am - 7:15 am	Continental Breakfast for Fly-In Participants
7:15 am	Load vans for ride to Capitol Hill
9:00 am - 4:00 pm	8th Annual DC Fly-In - State CIO Meetings on Capitol Hill, and with Federal Agencies and Strategic Partners
12:30 pm – 3:30 pm	Corporate Leadership Council (CLC) Luncheon and Working Session Lunch will be served 12:30pm - 1:30pm Featured Speaker: David P. Gragan, Chief Purchasing Officer, Office of Contracting and Procurement, District of Columbia Government
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm	Midyear Conference Welcome Reception
Thursday, May 1
7:00 am - 8:15 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am	Call to Order and Welcome
9:00 am - 10:00 am	Keynote Address - Vance Hitch, Chief Information Officer, US Department of Justice Vance Hitch has served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief Information Officer of the Department of Justice since April 2002. He has over 32 years of experience in leading government organizations successfully through major change initiatives. At DOJ, he is responsible for leading and implementing the effective and efficient acquisition and management of information technology across the Department. He manages the Department's $2.4 billion information technology programs, providing oversight and strategic guidance to the components within the Department, as well as major internal investments that serve the over 115,000 employees within DOJ. Mr. Hitch provides advice to the Deputy Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General for Administration in the management of IT infrastructure across the approximately 2,000 locations in 500 cities across the US where the Department has assets. In his nearly six years of service with the Department, Mr. Hitch has pushed for the use of innovative procurement approaches, initiated major Department-wide IT solutions, and helped guide problem programs back towards stability. He is an advocate for performance-based contracting and the use of Earned Value Management as a control tool for the CIO. One of his primary outward-facing roles is being an advocate for information sharing. Under his leadership, in October 2005, the CIO team created the Law Enforcement Information Sharing Plan (LEISP). Mr. Hitch often speaks to Law Enforcement organizations about technology and cultural changes needed to foster an environment of trust, whereby sharing data can occur without compromising security or civil rights requirements. He is the Department's representative on the Information Sharing Council, created by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Refreshment Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Polling the Experts: Governors, Legislators and Their Budgets Moderator: Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer, State of New York and Director, New York State Office for Technology Panelists: Scott Pattison, Executive Director, National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) Bill Pound, Executive Director, National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Ray Scheppach, Executive Director, National Governors Association (NGA) With any successful campaign, candidates and their campaign teams must evaluate the ever-present polling data gathered at each turn to determine the best course of action. In this session, you'll have the opportunity to hear from experts that represent the data most important to developing a successful campaign for change in your own organization. In this year of challenge, what resources will be available? What information will lawmakers need to stand and support an initiative for change? What priorities will the executive leadership demand of the campaign? The panel will provide valuable perspectives that you can rely on time and again as you focus on your enterprise and the campaign for change.
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	National Technology Champion Award Luncheon
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm	Mining for Budget Gold: How to Pay for Your IT Initiatives Moderator: Dick Thompson, Chief Information Officer, State of Maine Panelists: Martin Benison, Comptroller, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Vincent Brown, Director, Global Public Sector, Grant Thornton Ron May, Systems Consultant, Governor's Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado Patricia O’Donnell, Vice President, Business Development, JPMorgan Chase In the 21st century citizens expect government services to be accessible 24x7. However, to achieve this goal, states must make a substantial investment to modernize their IT infrastructure. How do you develop a comprehensive funding or financing strategy to support the development and implementation of public sector technology initiatives? This session will explain the key elements of a strategic funding plan and explore strategies for securing a sustainable funding source for ongoing system operations and upgrades. Panelists will identify diverse methods to obtain funding or financing, including approaches such as vendor participation, benefits funding, bonding, grants, general fund appropriations, and outsourcing and user fees. The discussion will address the advantages and potential issues of each; lay out a model decision process for matching the appropriate funding method to the life cycle, organizational needs and environment of each state; and suggest techniques for selling the project to governors, legislators and other stakeholders.
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm	Refreshment Break
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Discovery Workshops (These three sessions run concurrently) 1. The Emperor Has No Clothes: Facing the Brutal Reality About Continuity of Government Operations Presenters: Eric Kretz, Deputy Director, National Continuity of Operations Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency Craig Orgeron, Deputy Director, Strategic Services, Department of Information Services, State of Mississippi Lorrie Tritch, Administration, Information Technology Enterprise, Department of Administrative Services, State of Iowa Delivery of government services is becoming increasingly more automated and dependent on technology in today's 24x7 environment. If your state has a major technological outage, are you certain you will be able to provide critical services? Do you have a continuity of operations plan? Does it encompass all of the necessary components? Have all services and supporting technology been prioritized across the enterprise? Have recovery strategies been tested and proven? Is every agency equally prepared? State CIOs need to know the answers to these critical questions now, before it's too late. This workshop will explore challenges in continuity of operations planning in state government. Discussion will focus on the issues inherent to continuity of operations planning including recovery time objectives and strategies, funding and resources, commitment and executive sponsorship, service prioritization, and partnerships with other agencies and jurisdictions. 2. Enterprise Data Protection: A Hard Sell for CIOs Discussion Host: Steve Edmonson, Chief Information Officer and Director, Office of Information Technology, State of Ohio Presenters: Chris Ipsen, Acting Chief Information Security Officer, State of Nevada Mark Weatherford, Chief Information Security Officer, Office of the Governor, State of Colorado States are the custodians of enormous amounts of personal and sensitive information, which is spread across agencies, departments and other government entities. Protecting this data against compromises in confidentiality, integrity and availability is a feat that requires the support of the entire enterprise. Although state CIOs are charged with implementing policies and safeguards, ensuring consistent compliance with these measures is not easy. How can CIOs make the case for essential data protection elements for each user in every agency? For states with more mature data protection programs, what are the emerging best practices? This workshop will look at these questions and more and explore ways that state CIOs can play a role in larger data governance efforts to help guarantee the protection of personal and sensitive information across the enterprise. 3. Reaping Results from the Government Performance Project Discussion Host: Mark Stencel, Deputy Publisher, Governing Magazine Presenter: Philip Joyce, Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University The mission of the Government Performance Project is to improve service to citizens by strengthening government policy and performance. Information is one of the fundamental areas evaluated in the group's 2008 report, Grading the States. You know your state's score and even how it stacks up against the other states, but what do the results mean? And more importantly, how can you use these critical insights to improve performance in your IT organization and across the enterprise? Join authors of the report for an interactive discussion of the results and a find out what your state can do to grow and improve.
5:30 pm	Buses load for the Pinnacle/Gold Sponsor CIO Reception (Off-site)
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Pinnacle/Gold Sponsor CIO Reception (Off-site)
Friday, May 2
8:00 am - 9:30 am	Roundtable Breakfast Topics include: Collaborative Technology Frank DiGiammarino, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Business Development, National Academy of Public Administration Lena Trudeau, Program Area Director, Strategic Initiatives, National Academy of Public Administration Enterprise Architecture Cooperative Update Chuck Tyger, Director, Policy, Practice, and Architecture Eric Sweden, Enterprise Architect, NASCIO Federal Cost Allocation Claire Bailey, Chief Technology Officer, State of Arkansas John Gillispie, Chief Operating Officer, State of Iowa Greening of IT Dugan Petty, State Chief Information Officer, State of Oregon Health IT Stephanie Jamison, Issues Coordinator, NASCIO IT Governance Steve Fletcher, Chief Information Officer, State of Utah State IT Workforce Challenges Dan Ross, Chief Information Officer, State of Missouri …and more.
9:30 am - 11:00 am	The Government CIO Agenda: Campaigning for Innovation and Change Moderator:  Norman Lorentz, Vice President for Management and Technology, Council for Excellence in Government Panelists: Bill Bott, Deputy for Operations, Information Technology Services Division, State of Missouri Don Edmiston, Consultant, BearingPoint Ron Huston, Chief Information Officer, Department of Human Services, State of Colorado Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer, District of Columbia Increasingly, Governors are looking to their CIOs to lead an agenda of innovation and change with technology as an enabler of both. Many new opportunities and innovations require CIOs to work across organizational and political boundaries, so the CIO must become a diplomat and negotiator, championing the cause of change across the enterprise. However, advocacy alone is not enough. As in any campaign, CIOs need support to accomplish their goals. Legislators play a key role in establishing an environment conducive to change, where risk is not penalized and innovation is rewarded. How can CIOs cultivate this critical support? What are the key elements to a successful campaign for change? How can leaders overcome individual or agency resistance to change to build support for these efforts across the enterprise? Join our panel of experts for a discussion exploring the intricacies of innovation and change management.
Midyear Conference Adjourns
11:30 am - 1:00 pm	State Members Only Lunch

The ideas and opinions expressed in the conference sessions and in any handouts provided are those of the presenter. They are not necessarily those of NASCIO, nor can any endorsement by NASCIO be claimed.