Overview

June 18
11AM PT, 2PM ET

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Hear how the city of Georgetown, Texas — a fast-growing community near Austin — replaced legacy technology with a modern, cloud-based ERP platform. City officials will explain how they accelerated implementation, minimized disruption to core services, and laid the foundation for scalable innovation and operational excellence. Through firsthand insights, this webinar will explore the key challenges that drove the city’s decision to modernize, critical success factors for evaluating and deploying a new ERP, and practical strategies for managing change across teams. 

You’ll hear best practices for: 

  • Selecting and scoping a cloud ERP tailored to government needs 
  • Ensuring staff engagement and continuity during transformation 
  • Leveraging AI-readiness for future scalability 
  • Measuring impact on internal processes and community outcomes 

Speakers

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Leigh Wallace

Chief Financial Officer, City of Georgetown, TX

Leigh Wallace has served six years as the Finance Director for the City of Georgetown, Texas, one of the fastest growing cities in the country. The Finance Division includes Budget, Accounting, Purchasing, Treasury, Municipal Court and Fleet. She was the project team lead for selecting and implementing Workday – an enterprise resource planning software system. She is also a critical team member restoring the financial health of the City’s electric utility – including successfully financing the extreme energy costs of Winter Storm Uri in 2021. Leigh’s prior local government service includes 8 years with the City of Austin Finance Department where she led the team responsible for developing and monitoring the City’s $3.5 billion operating budget. During her tenure in Austin, she managed all public engagement efforts for the budget, including the award-winning Budget Basics Video and Budget in a Box. Leigh also worked for Austin Water Utility and the City of San Antonio.

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Justin Marlowe — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Justin Marlowe is a research professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. His research and teaching are focused on public finance, and he has published five books — including the first open-access textbook on public financial management — and more than 100 articles on public capital markets, infrastructure finance, financial disclosure, public financial technology, and public-private partnerships. He is an admitted expert witness in federal and state courts, and has served on technical advisory bodies for the state of Washington, the California State Auditor, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the National Academy of Sciences, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many other public, private and nonprofit organizations. Prior to academia, he worked in local government in Michigan. He is a Certified Government Financial Manager and an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and he holds a Ph.D. in political science and public administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Read Full Bio

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