Overview

January 24

Even though many agencies are planning a return to office in 2022, it doesn’t mean a return to normal. State and local government leaders know a new work-from-anywhere culture is critical to success for the future, but they have questions about how best to support this shift. On Jan. 24^th at 11am PT/2pm ET, speakers from the L.A. County Public Defender’s Office and Box will be joining Government Technology to answer questions like:

What are some ways agencies can enhance content security and compliance in an evolving threat environment?
How can cloud content management solutions support collaboration and productivity inside and outside the office?
How does an integrated tech stack affect the continuity of services and work in the face of future disruption?

Speakers

Bob Woolley — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Bob was the chief technical architect for the state of Utah’s Department of Technology Services, including the development of the state’s Utah.gov portal. Utah has been widely recognized in these areas with numerous national awards. He has also been a technical lead and RFP writer for the WSCA/NASPO Cloud and Data Communication Procurements. He has experience with state, county and higher education employee skill assessments and technology upgrade implementations, including large-scale database migrations from RDMS to NoSQL platforms. He has extensive private-sector experience with Microservices Architecture implementation and DevOps using hybrid cloud deployment patterns.

Murtaza Masood

Global Managing Director for State and Local Government, Box

Murtaza Masood is an innovative business leader with business transformation experience in public and private sector organizations. Named GovTech's 2019 Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers, Murtaza is an enterprising visionary who drives innovation to make a positive impact on people and organizations alike. As Box’s Global Managing Director for State and Local Government, Murtaza is focused on helping public sector CIOs and executives realize their digital strategies using cloud content management.

Mohammed Al Rawi

Chief Information Officer for the LA County Public Defender

Mohammed Al Rawi is the Public Defender’s first appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO). Mr. Al Rawi oversees the strategic planning and modernization initiatives of information technology, information security and data management for the Office. Mr. Al Rawi also provides vision and leadership in the development and implementation of technology applications and infrastructure supporting the department’s more than 1,100‐employee workforce including the development and implementation of the Client Case Management System (CCMS) — the largest digital transformation project in the history of the Office of the Public Defender. Prior to joining the Public Defender, Mr. Al Rawi served as the CIO for Parks and Recreation, and prior to that he served at the Board of Supervisors, Second District, as Supervisor Mark Ridley‐ Thomas’s Deputy for Technology and Innovation. Before joining the County of Los Angeles, he was the Technical Director for the Los Angeles Times' news bureau in Baghdad covering Iraq’s war and its aftermath. Mr. Al Rawi brought many innovative solutions to the County of Los Angeles digitizing and automating business processes and solving complex, life‐saving, business challenges. Initiatives include the use of advanced video analytics to prevent drowning at County pools, the establishment of a countywide plan to modernize over 100 mission‐critical application systems, as well as leading the effort to establish the County’s first consolidated, robust and cost‐ efficient data center. His leadership and advocacy for innovation was recognized by Government Technology; Mr. Al Rawi was named one of the nation’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers. Mohammed Al Rawi brings more than 16 years of experience in managing complex information technology operations in both the public and private sectors.

Webinar

Strategies to Ensure the Success of a Work-from-Anywhere Culture in Government