Overview

April 10

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State and local governments can prepare their staff and serve their constituents best when they take advantage of the latest IT innovations.

Artificial intelligence (AI), identity and access management (IAM), data transformation, cyber resilience, and user experience (UX) — these are the areas that will impact government and IT the most in the coming years, according to experts. Agencies will have to learn about new terminology, new approaches, and new tools to embrace these trends and reap their numerous operational and service delivery benefits.

Join us on April 10 at 11 a.m. Pacific to explore how tapping into the fastest-growing govtech trends can serve your organization.

You will learn about:

  • Real-world government applications for the 5 biggest IT trends
  • AI terms, use cases, and guidelines
  • How IAM cyber resilience can redefine your approach to security
  • Why data management matters
  • What better UX means

Speakers

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Dan Wesley

Chief Technology Officer - Planning and Analytics, Workday

Dan represents the Workday Chief Technology Office as a North America CTO. In his current role, he articulates Workdays architecture, platform and future technology initiatives and has direct support for the Government and Higher Education Industry Group. Dan has over 30 years of deep system architecture experience that spans Database, OLAP, Dimensional Analysis, Capacity/Performance Planning, Network configuration and protection, Security, Global Data Privacy, Disaster Recovery and Highly Available Infrastructure design. In addition, he has deep ERP solution experience while employed at Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Outlooksoft and ATT Global Hosting. Recently Dan was a Senior Architect and Security Risk Officer for an Andreessen Horowitz start-up (Tidemark) that offered a Multi-tenant SaaS EPM solution that utilized Big Data, Micro-services, Machine Learning and In-memory Grid technology in building a next generation EPM Budgeting and Planning tool. While at Workday he supported the Chief Trust Office in conveying Security and Global Data Privacy concerns to prospective customers. Dan currently lives in Chicago.

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Deb Snyder — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Deb is an accomplished C-level executive, influencer and educator who has dedicated her career to improving state and local government services through policy and technology innovation. She has a broad range of experience in government programs, policy, cybersecurity, privacy and information technology. She formerly served as New York state’s chief information security officer, where she led the state’s cybersecurity programs and directed the NYS Cyber Command Center. She works with organizations and universities to strategically strengthen cybersecurity programs, defenses and preparedness, and to create and inspire the next generation of cyber leaders.

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Dave Fletcher

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Dave Fletcher served as Chief Technology Officer of the State of Utah for 17 years. Dave oversaw the State’s digital government initiatives and coordinated the introduction of emerging technologies, as well as the state’s technical architecture program. David has a long history of involvement with technology initiatives, having previously served as director of the state’s Division of Information Technology, Deputy CIO over egovernment, and Deputy Director of the Utah Department of Administrative Services.

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