Overview

May 28
11AM PT, 2PM ET

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The Center for Digital Government’s Digital Cities Survey provides the opportunity for city information technology organizations to highlight the great work being done, benchmark with their peers and identify trends for the future. This year’s survey will reflect the technology landscape, both currently and in preparation for the future.

On this webcast, Chief Programs Officer, Teri Takai, Executive Director, Rob Lloyd, and Surveys and Awards Director, Janet Grenslitt will walk you through this year’s survey – the overall structure, what’s new and approaches you can use to fill it out. We are happy to announce that we have planned regularly scheduled touch points where you can check in with us with any survey questions throughout the entire process. The webinar will also cover:

  • The objectives and intent of the survey
  • How to navigate the survey tool
  • Next steps and timing for survey submissions
  • Any questions

Speakers

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Rob Lloyd

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.

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Janet Grenslitt

Surveys and Awards Director, Center for Digital Government

Janet Grenslitt is the Center for Digital Government’s director of Surveys and Awards. She manages the Center’s flagship surveys and awards programs for state and local government. Working with subject matter experts, she created the Digital Cities and Digital Counties surveys more than 15 years ago.
Prior to joining e.Republic, Janet managed programs for state and local government in Florida, North Carolina and California. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University, with a certificate in Social Administration from Hull University in England, and her Master’s degree from University of California at Berkeley.

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Bianca Lochner

Chief Information Officer, City of Scottsdale, AZ

Bianca Lochner, Ph.D., has over 20 years of experience in information technology and local government. Throughout her career, she led multiple digital transformations and innovations in education and the public sector, while modernizing legacy technology and positively impacting how citizens and businesses interact with the city government. As the Chief Information Officer for the City of Scottsdale, Arizona, she combines her passion for public service with technology’s power to transform how government delivers to the community it serves.

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Peter Wallace

Chief Information Officer, Information Technology, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia

Peter Wallace is CIO for the award-winning City of Virginia Beach, VA. He leads nearly 200 employees across six business units in the Information Technology Department. With more than three decades of industry experience, Peter is a champion of innovation who empowers employees while leading organizations toward success in a digital world. He has held senior positions at Fortune 500 technology giants, including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Merrill Lynch and IBM.
His bold, yet pragmatic, approach to managing change has culminated in local, national and global recognition. Under his leadership, the City of Virginia Beach has secured two CIO 100 awards and has been ranked as the #1 “Digital City” of its size (250,000 – 499,999 population) in the Center for Digital Government’s Digital Cities Survey four times. Peter was named a Local IT Leader of the Year as part of the 2020 StateScoop Local Smart Awards. Currently, his major tech initiatives include advancing the effort to position Virginia Beach as a tech hub and developing a multijurisdictional dark fiber, open access ring, which will support digitally empowered communities and regional prosperity.

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Jonathan Behnke

Chief Information Officer, City of San Diego 

Jonathan Behnke is the Chief Information Officer for the City of San Diego and is responsible for the technology strategy and operations for America's eighth largest City in support of IT services for almost 13,000 users and 1.4 million residents. 
He has over 20 years of IT experience managing and implementing technology for a broad range of industries including public sector, contract services, energy, construction, automotive, distribution, consulting, and manufacturing. 
Jonathan serves on the Board of Directors for SanGIS, a joint powers authority between the City and County of San Diego responsible for maintaining a regional GIS land base and data warehouse. In support of regional digital equity, he is also a member of the San Diego Association of Governments Digital Equity Task Force. 
Jonathan is co-chair of the Policy Committee and serves on the board for the Gov AI Coalition of State and Local Government organizations collaborating on AI policies, use cases, governance, procurement, and incident response. 
Jonathan is also a member of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, The Municipal Information Systems Association of California, San Diego Infragard, and Metropolitan Information Exchange representing a group of CIO’s from the largest cities and counties in the USA. 

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