Overview

March 20

Budget leaders serving state and local governments and school districts face more demands than ever. In addition to creating efficiencies in performance and ensuring financial compliance, budget leaders are tasked with:

Providing increased levels of transparency
Meeting non-financial goals around priorities like equity

Legacy budgeting approaches fall short of helping organizations meet these new demands. To meet this moment, budget leaders are leveraging innovative, sophisticated strategies that allow for more valuable data analyses, better reporting and increased collaboration.

Join Government Technology on March 20, 2023, at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern to learn how state and local government and education leaders are using new approaches to transform the budget process. As a participant in this live webinar, you will:

Learn the strategic budgeting approaches used by leading public sector agencies
Hear how Atlanta Public Schools is meeting the challenges of school district budgeting
Explore the impacts of modern data management and reporting tools

Speakers

Harpreet Hora

Executive Director, Budget Services, Atlanta Public Schools

Harpreet Hora serves as the Executive Director of Budget Services for Atlanta Public Schools (APS). She oversees the development, monitoring and management of a $1.4 billion budget based on district priorities, and a goal to ensure equitable funding. In addition to overseeing the budget for the APS school district, Harpreet is working on implementing strategic initiatives like the Academic Return on Investment (AROI), and building an Opportunity, Tangibles, Intangibles, and Systems (OTIS) index to measure educational equity.

Tami Fillyaw

Finance & Administration Leader, Amazon Web Services

Tami Fillyaw is the Finance and Administration (F&A) Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Her role is to help state and local government agencies leverage the cloud to improve business operations, financial performance, and customer interactions. Prior to AWS, Tami served 22 years in Florida government leading statewide policy initiatives and enterprise operations as the state’s Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Deputy Secretary of Workforce Operations, and Chief of Staff. During her time in public service, she founded Florida’s transparency portal for state expenditures and contracts, modernized the state’s $2.7 billion group health plan, and transformed HR, retirement, and procurement functions using cloud-based tools.

Scott Coble

Solutions Engineering Director, OpenGov

Scott Coble currently serves as Solutions Engineering Director for OpenGov. Prior to his role at OpenGov, Scott served as Budget Manager with Montgomery County, MD, Government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Scott holds a Master’s Degree in Information and Telecommunications Systems from Johns Hopkins University, a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Certificate in Public Management from George Washington University.

Sean McSpaden — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Sean McSpaden is an executive level information technology professional with over 30 years of experience in the private, non-profit, and public sectors. His background includes the start-up and management of several small businesses and he has served on the Board of Directors or in Executive Director positions for several 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations. Sean’s public service experience includes progressively responsible positions as an IT analyst, and in statewide coordination, management and leadership positions within the Executive and Legislative branches of Oregon state government. From June 2008 to September 2013, served as the state of Oregon’s Deputy State Chief Information Officer.

Webinar

Rethinking Budgeting: How to Build an Efficient, Equitable and Transparent Budget Process