Overview

November 5
10AM PT, 1PM ET

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Government IT leaders are caught in a difficult spot: Infrastructure needs attention, AI is creating new demands for data and compute, cyber risks keep escalating, and there’s rarely enough budget to tackle everything at once.

A massive rip-and-replace project isn’t the only way forward. Agencies can build on the infrastructure they already have while adding capacity and capabilities where they’re needed most. Consumption-based models give agencies a way to modernize incrementally, scale as requirements change and make more deliberate choices about what belongs on premises or in the cloud.

Join Government Technology for a practical conversation about infrastructure-as-a-service and what it can mean for government IT strategy. We’ll explore how consumption-based infrastructure can provide greater budget flexibility, make fragmented data more accessible for AI and support cyber resilience through capabilities such as immutable snapshots and rapid recovery — all while allowing agencies to build on technology that’s already working.

You'll learn how to:

  • Stretch IT budgets with consumption-based infrastructure.
  • Get data ready for AI without moving everything first.
  • Strengthen cyber recovery with immutable snapshots and rapid recovery.

Attend the live webinar to obtain your complimentary certificate of attendance!

Speakers

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Scott Lewis

Director of Solution Consultants, Hitachi Vantara

With decades of experience across roles on the customer, channel partner, and manufacturer in the technology industry, he specializes in designing and implementing solutions that enhance resiliency, accelerate time-to-market, mitigate risks, and deliver greater ROI.

His expertise spans on-prem and cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on storage (block, file, object), compute (including converged and hyper-converged), cloud (STaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), cyber security, virtualization and containerization, storage networking, data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, and more.

At Hitachi Vantara, he is passionate about helping organizations achieve mission-critical goals and drive digital transformation. His approach is consultative, and outcome-driven - working closely with customers to solve complex problems, maximize ROI, and aligning technology with business objectives.

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Rob Lloyd — Moderator

Executive Director, Center for Digital Government

Rob Lloyd is the Executive Director of the Center for Digital Government, where he leads the organization’s national research and advisory programs focused on technology policy, innovation and best practices for government and industry leaders in state and local government. In this role, he oversees initiatives including the Digital Communities program and the Center for Public Sector AI and serves as a national voice on the technology challenges and opportunities shaping government.

Lloyd brings nearly three decades of public-sector technology leadership. Most recently, he served as Chief Technology Officer for the City of Seattle, where he was a member of the mayor’s cabinet and oversaw a team of nearly 600 employees and a technology portfolio of roughly $300 million. Previously, he was Deputy City Manager and Chief Information Officer for the City of San José and has held senior technology leadership roles in cities across Arizona, Oregon and Colorado.

His teams have earned more than 50 national honors, and his leadership has been recognized with awards including The AI 50, two ORBIE CIO of the Year awards, Governing Magazine’s Public Official of the Year, two GovTech Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers honors, four City Executive of the Year honors, and Business Journal leadership awards in Silicon Valley and Phoenix.

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