Overview

December 1
11AM PT, 2PM ET

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Government budget conversations tend to focus on the big, visible expenses: personnel, infrastructure, public services and major capital projects. But there's another source of fiscal strain hiding in plain sight: the sprawling collection of aging, redundant and underutilized applications that governments have accumulated over decades.

These systems do more than consume IT dollars. They drive up maintenance costs, create cybersecurity vulnerabilities, complicate compliance and divert resources from higher-value priorities.

Join us for a practical discussion on how governments can uncover the true costs of their application portfolios, identify opportunities for consolidation and build a compelling business case for modernization.

What You'll Learn:

  • How to identify the hidden financial and operational costs of legacy and redundant applications.
  • How to prioritize consolidation and modernization opportunities based on cost, risk and mission value.
  • Ways to use federal requirements and compliance obligations to build cross-agency support for modernization.

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

Speakers

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Don Ingle

Industry Executive Advisor – State & Local Government, Education, SAP

Don Ingle serves as Industry Executive Advisor for State, Local and Education at SAP, providing a government executive leader’s perspective to SAP public sector strategy and customer engagement. With over 25 years of public sector IT executive leadership experience in Washington state and Colorado, Don has been dedicated to making technology the driving force behind digital transformation, smarter decision-making through data-driven insights, and improved organizational efficiency, transparency, and resilience. Through his role as a CIO, Don and his public sector teams have earned numerous national and state awards for internal and public-facing innovations and operational excellence.

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André Mendes

Chief Information & Artificial Intelligence Officer, Tarrant County, TX

André Mendes, Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), MBA, currently serves as the Chief Information and Artificial Intelligence Officer for Tarrant County, Texas overseeing the County’s entire IT ecosystem. His portfolio spans the county’s Criminal Justice system, law enforcement and first responder infrastructure, and the back-office operations supporting all county functions.

Prior to this role, Mr. Mendes served as the Chief Information Officer and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at the U.S. Department of Commerce from August 2019 to December 2023. He was responsible for the oversight and strategic direction of all technology systems across the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and its associated Bureaus, managing a fiscal year 2020 budget of $3.8 billion.

Mr. Mendes also spent eight years at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) in various executive roles including CEO, COO, CIO, CTO, and CFO. He led an ambitious agency-wide transformation that resulted in $360 million in savings between 2010 and 2018 through aggressive global technology and facilities optimization. Projected 10-year savings exceed $503 million. Under his leadership, global weekly audiences grew by 78%, from 165 million to 278 million.

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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, Sean served as the state of Oregon’s Deputy State Chief Information Officer. Since 2013, Sean has served as a Principal Legislative IT Analyst with the Oregon Legislative Fiscal Office and as the Committee Administrator for Oregon’s Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology. In addition, Sean serves as a member Oregon’s Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and as Oregon’s representative to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Privacy.

Throughout his 26-year tenure in Oregon state government, Sean and the teams he has led have received several state, regional and national recognitions and awards. In addition, Sean has represented the state of Oregon on numerous state, regional and national project steering committees, task forces, governing boards, committees, commissions and associations, and has presented on various topics at local, state, regional, national, and international meetings and conferences.

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