Overview

December 13

Leveraging multicloud computing has many well-known benefits for state and local governments – it can increase efficiency, improve cybersecurity and reduce costs. But migrating to a multicloud environment can be complex. How can agencies make the journey to the cloud seamless and straightforward?

Cloud migration solutions can address the challenges of moving to a multicloud environment. These tools can help organizations quickly migrate workloads, create consistent cloud infrastructure and scale services with no down time. Cloud migration services can also help agencies leverage the right environment for each cloud application, reduce operational costs and continue to meet IT requirements for visibility, security and control.

Join Government Technology for a webinar on December 13 to discuss how governments can accelerate their journey to the cloud. During this webinar, experts will discuss:

How to take the fastest, lowest cost path to the cloud
The multicloud complexities and pitfalls agencies should be aware of
How governments can address multicloud challenges

Speakers

Sean McSpaden — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Senior for Digital Government

Sean McSpaden is an executive level information technology professional with over 30 years of experience in the private, non-profit, and public sectors. His background includes the start-up and management of several small businesses and he has served on the Board of Directors or in Executive Director positions for several 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations. Sean’s public service experience includes progressively responsible positions as an IT analyst, and in statewide coordination, management and leadership positions within the Executive and Legislative branches of Oregon state government. From June 2008 to September 2013, served as the state of Oregon’s Deputy State Chief Information Officer. Throughout his 23-year tenure in Oregon state government, Sean and the teams he has led have received several state, regional and national recognitions and awards. In addition, Sean has represented the state of Oregon on numerous state, regional and national project steering committees, task forces, governing boards, committees, commissions and associations, and has presented on various topics at local, state, regional, national, and international meetings and conferences. Sean earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree and Certificate of Public Management from the Willamette University, Atkinson Graduate School of Management. Sean is an ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), holds a PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, and is a Zachman Certified Enterprise Architect Associate. Sean also holds a Secret level clearance granted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Herb Thompson

Senior SLED Strategist, VMware

Herb is a Senior State, Local and Education Strategist. Having history in various government CIO roles he is responsible for assisting customers achieve their strategic outcomes through understanding their business issues and how policy, process and technology can impact business outcomes. He has been sharing best practices learned from around the country on optimization, workforce modernization and leveraging the cloud. He also is providing insight in practical implementations of shared services, engaging employees, smart communities, and executing a cloud strategy at many government conferences. Prior to joining in 2018, VMware Herb served as the State of Wisconsin Deputy State CIO and CTO, CIO for Health and Family Services and CIO for Corrections.

Matt Dreyer

Senior Director of Product Management

Matt is a Sr. Director of Product Management at VMware and is responsible for driving compliance, certification, automation and analytics for VMware Cloud on AWS. Matt’s team focuses on delivering strategic priorities including PCI Compliance, VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud, Infrastructure as Code, and Data as a Service. Previously he oversaw the development of many significant services and features across the VMware portfolio, including vShield Edge, vCenter Server and vCloud Director. During his nine+ years at VMware Matt has been a featured speaker at VMworld, VMware Explore and other industry events.

Webinar

A Fast, Straightforward Path to the Cloud for Governments