Accelerating Agency Innovation: Driving Your Team, Tech and Mission Forward

Agenda:

[10:00-10:50 a.m. ET/7:00-7:50 a.m. PT]
Session 1: Unlocking the Value of Innovation

Government Keynote: Understanding the People in Analytics

LTC Kristin Saling, EN/49, Deputy Director, People Analytics, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army

In this opening keynote, you will hear from LTC Kristin Saling about how to unlock value throughout your entire organization by using data to make better decisions.

Lightning Talk 1: Acceleration Change Management to the Cloud

Carmen Taglienti, Principal Architect, Data & AI, Insight
Michele Snead, Director of Performance Consulting, Insight

The past three years have provided a crash course in managing disruption and what we learn from it will define our success (or failure) as organizations move to the cloud. In this engaging lightning keynote, you will hear about the role change management plays in cloud transformation. Discover how to become a change-capable agency by embracing the mindsets, processes and tools that empower leadership and your workforce to manage digital transformation.

[10:55-11:55 a.m. ET/7:55-8:55 a.m. PT]
Session 2: What the Workforce Needed to Move Forward in Innovation

Lightning Talk 1: Innovation in the Cloud

Joel Lipkin, COO, Four Points

Legacy systems are causing agencies to get stuck in an innovation rut. Join us to hear from Four Points Technology, on how government agencies can leverage cloud services and solutions to drive innovation forward.

Lightning Talk 2: Where to Next: The Evolution of Gov Customer Experience

Quinn Chasan, Head of Customer Analytics, Public Sector, Google Cloud Government

On the heels of a quiet change to OMB guidelines requiring Federal agencies to take ‘Customer Experience’ more seriously. The administration released a new executive order codifying this language into immediate action, calling on agencies to reform critical, citizen-facing operations. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated the digital transformation of State & Local governments in several ways, showing a path to a new era of public sector capability. In this lightning keynote, we’ll walk through what customer experience can look like when it's optimized for public sector organizations.

Gov Lightning Keynote: How to Make Change a Reality - How to Unlock Innovation

Jill Marlowe, Digital Transformation Officer, NASA

In this gov lightning keynote, you will hear from a government innovator at NASA who has worked through red tape to find creative ways to modernize.

[12:00-1:00 p.m. ET/9:00-10:00 a.m. PT]

Session 3: How to Implement and Embed Innovation

Lightning Talk 1: More Than Just One-Off Modernization

Damien Eversmann, Chief Architect for Education, Red Hat

The public and private sectors often talk about “modernization initiatives" as if they have a fixed start and finish. But such starts and stops are not productive. At the state and local level, modernization tends to be a challenging issue due to limitations in funding, delays in legislation, and often a reliance on ballot initiatives or tuition increases. Hear from a Red Hat expert about how operationalizing modernization results in it becoming a regular budget line-item and means it happens more often and more reliably.

Lightning Talk 2: Making Zero Trust Part of Your Agency’s Journey

Sterling Wilson, Sr. Business Development Manager, Public Sector, Rubrik

Last year’s cybersecurity executive order put moving to a zero trust infrastructure front and center. Where does the government currently stand when it comes to implementing zero trust? And where are the biggest hurdles? Hear from Rubrik about how agencies are operationalizing in the new zero trust world.

Government Lightning Keynote: Reframing the Workforce of the Future

Jeff Shilling, CIO and Chief of IT, National Cancer Institute

In this lightning keynote, you'll hear from a government leader about how to embed workforce improvements for future generations.

[1:05-2:05 p.m. ET/10:05-11:05 a.m. PT]
Session 4: How to Truly Have Tech and Mission Meet

Lightning Talk 1: How to Make Lasting Change

Angelo Riddick, COL(R) PMP, Chief Information Officer for the state of New York and Director of Information Technology Services

In this gov lightning keynote, you will hear from a state and local government innovator who has worked to unlock innovation by embracing change.

Lightning Talk 2: Accelerating the Path to Data-Driven Government

Paul Moxon, SVP Data Architecture and Chief Evangelist, Denodo

Agencies need to access and deploy data anytime, anywhere - whether on-premises, in a private cloud or in the public cloud to support mission-critical decision-making. As agencies look to become more data-driven, many are already leveraging data fabric solutions and seeing great results. In this lightning talk, you'll learn what a data fabric is and how it works in government.

Government Lightning Keynote: Unlocking Innovation - By Focusing on What Matters

Sanjay J. Koyani, Chief Technology Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Labor

In this lightning keynote, you will hear from a government leader about their biggest priorities for 2022.

[2:10-3:10 p.m. ET/11:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m. PT]
Session 5:

Lightning Talk 2: Where to Next: The Evolution of Gov Customer Experience

Quinn Chasan, Head of Customer Analytics, Public Sector, Google Cloud Government

Jill Marlowe, Digital Transformation Officer, NASA

In this gov lightning keynote, you will hear from a government innovator at NASA who has worked through red tape to find creative ways to modernize.