Digital Innovation in Action: Corpus Christi's Blueprint for Smart Governance

Peter Collins

CIO, City of Corpus Christi

Jesse Dalton

Senior Solutions Architect, WWPS ISVs, Amazon Web Services

Jesse Dalton, a Solutions Architect with seven years of experience supporting AWS partners that provide solutions to public sector organizations. Jesse has worked with a variety of public sector customers, from Local Government, to Higher Education, to DoD and he understands their challenges well. For the last five years, he’s specifically been focused on ISV partners offering ERP solutions to state and federal government. Prior to his time at AWS, Jesse worked in the public sector, both in healthcare and at a university research lab.

Jimi Stricklin

Senior Director, Consulting Practice, Infor

Prentice Mannetter

Customer Success Executive, Infor

Meet Prentice Mannetter, a Customer Success Executive with almost two decades providing solutions to public sector organizations. Prentice has focused on city, county and state customers as well as businesses ranging from small cap to Fortune 500 companies. Prentice received his MBA from the University of St. Thomas providing a strong foundation to understand customer needs and develop plans to exceed their business goals. Prentice is one of Infor’s leaders who is viewed by his customers as their valuable, trusted advisor.

Craig Orgeron — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Dr. Orgeron has extensive information technology experience in both the private sector and the federal and state level of the public sector. Currently, Dr. Orgeron is Professor of Management Information Systems in the Else School of Management at Millsaps College. After beginning his career as a communications-computer systems officer in the United States Air Force, he served as the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services (ITS) and Chief Information Officer for the State of Mississippi. In this role, Dr. Orgeron provided statewide leadership in the provision of services that facilitated cost-effective information processing and telecommunication solutions for Mississippi government agencies and institutions. Dr. Orgeron has served as an Executive Government Advisor with Amazon Web Services (AWS), President of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and on the Executive Committee of the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), as well as participated in numerous government information technology task forces and committees, such as the Mississippi Broadband Task Force, the Digital Signature Committee, the Electronic Government Task Force, and the Governor’s Commission on Digital Government, which led to the implementation of the enterprise electronic government in Mississippi. Dr. Orgeron holds a bachelor’s degree in MIS, a master’s degree and doctorate in public policy and administration from Mississippi State University. Dr. Orgeron is a certified public manager and a graduate of the Senator John C. Stennis State Executive Development Institute, as well as the Institute on International Digital Government Research, and the Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Executive Education Series, Leadership for a Networked World, Cybersecurity: The Intersection of Policy and Technology, and the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP).