IPMA
Forum 2012
Forum Breakout Sessions are open
on May 22-23
in the Worthington Center
The Vendor Exhibit area is open
on May 23
in the Marcus Pavilion
Saint Martin’s University
WWW.ipma-wa.com
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8:30 - 9:40
May 22
T-01
Time
Keynote
Contris
10:00 - 11:00
See T-04
11:15 - 12:15
See T-08
Bharat Shyam (OCIO)
Meinrad
T-03 Leadership with a Capital
“D”
Gregg D. Richie, PMP, MCTS
T-07 Office 365 The Right Cloud
for the Right Service
Julian Soh, Microsoft
12:15 – 1:00
1:00 - 2:00
T-11 AWS Cloud - Introduction to
AWS - Rachel Pizarro and Mark
Korver, Amazon Web Services
2:15 - 3:15
T-14 CRM/xRM - Public Sector
Case Tracking and Management
Derek Visocky, Microsoft
T-15 Technology Business
Management 101: Delivering IT
Transparency to Cost, Quality, and
Value Decisions
John Novak, Apptio
T-19 Open Data: What's Next?
Cam Caldwell,
Socrata.
8:30 - 9:40
May 23
Time
10:00 - 11:00
11:15 - 12:15
T-18 BYOD: How to securely
integrate and manage personal
devices in Government
Phil Harris, Symantec
W-01
Keynote
Contris
T-12 Improving IT Financial
Transparency
(Insights into managing IT spending)
OCIO Strategy Session - panel
T- 16 Open Data Initiatives: Building
Innovation on Public Data
(Freeing data for public consumption, a
high priority of government)
OCIO Strategy Session - panel
T-20 GIS Shared Services -- From
Ground to Cloud
(Components needed to establish a
cross-agency shared service)
OCIO Strategy Session - panel
T-13 Logical Identity – the BYOD
Ultimatum
Gary Halleen, Cisco Systems
Rob St. John, Director CTS
What’s going on at CTS?
T-09 - Leading an Analytical
Enterprise
Kathy Lange and Aiman Zeid, SAS
Meinrad
Conrad
T-17 Cost reduction through
quality: Using model-based testing
technologies to prevent and detect
bugs
Adam Richards, Critical Logic
T-21 Single View of a Citizen:
Using New Technology to Leverage
Current Systems Across
Departments and Agencies
Cate Richards IBM
Michael
W-03 State Procurement Reform
2SHB 2452
Servando Patlan, Department of
Enterprise Services
W-07 VMware: A practical guide
to private and public cloud
adoption
Mathew Lodge, VMware
Lunch
W-04 Experiences in virtualization
(The value of virtualization to state
organizations)
OCIO Strategy Session - panel
W-08 How Can Washington State Be a
Better Employer? OCIO Strategy
Session- panel Eva Santos, State HR
Director and Bharat Shyam, State CIO
W-05 Cyberspace Security Lt Col
Gent Welsh, CIO, Washington
Military Department
W-10 Cloud Computing: A
Controlled Approach for IT
Environments Chuck Hobart,
VMC Consulting, Inc.
W-11 Elegance and Agility:
Semantic Technology For Early
Adopters Dave McComb, President
Semantic Arts, Inc
Ice Cream Social provided by Cisco
W-12 Government IT Trends &
Predictions for the next decade
Andrea Di Maio,
Gartner
W-13 Client compute strategies and
business drivers
Goran Ognjenovic,
Presidio
W-14 Mobile Printing and
winning the battle between
process improvement and
technology.
Sean Schoeppne, Xerox
W-15 Mobile Application
Development, Security,
Maintenance, and Architecture
Chad W. Stoker, CodeSmart Inc
W- 16 Business Intelligence in the
Public Sector: Lessons from Labor &
Industries
Joy Mundy, Kimball Group
W-17 Achieve Success by
Delivering Business Value
Vicki James, PMP, CBAP
2:00 – 2:30
2:30 – 4:00
T-05 Video, The Cloud and You
Rob Husted, Cerium
W-02 Systems Center 2012 and
What it means to you
Mark Wheatley,
QuickStart/SQLSoft
W-06 Economic and political
pressures drive different thinking
in a Data Center
Bob Burwell, NetApp
12:15 – 1:00
1:00 - 2:00
Michael
T-04 Office 365 at the State of
Washington (Project status)
OCIO Strategy Session - panel
T-08 Experiences in the Cloud
(State insights on public cloud
platforms) OCIO Strategy Session panel
Lunch
T-10 The Importance of an
Integrated Enterprise
Steve Francis, SAP
3:30 - 5:00
Conrad
An Overview of the State
Strategic Plan
W-09 Adaptive and Responsive
design put into practice!
Chad W. Stoker, CodeSmart Inc
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Welcome Message from
IPMA Chair – Ron Seymour
This year’s forum will be very exciting
because the IPMA is partnering with the
new Office of the State Chief Information
Officer (OCIO), Consolidated Technology
Services (CTS) and our Corporate
Members to bring you a series of events
that are directly in line or very relevant to
the new strategic direction of Information
Technology
in
Washington
State
government. Forum 2012 is focused on
bring you sessions that are relevant to the
challenges and opportunities that IT
professional are facing today. Over the 2
days of Forum, there will be 38 sessions
that will cover the topics that you have told
the IPMA that you would like to learn
more about. The hardest part for attendees
will be figuring out which sessions to
attend. There are sessions addressing
where the future of IT is heading, session
related to dealing with issues of today, and
session to teach us how to improve on
what we are already doing.
Forum’s
sessions will cover a wide variety of topics
including: some of the OCIO’s strategies
for Washington State IT, Cloud
Computing and what it means to State IT,
Software as a Service (SaaS), Mobile
computing including Bring your own
device (BYOD), Business intelligence and
Analysis, and much more.
The State of Washington’s CIO Bharat
Shyam will be Tuesday’s keynote speaker.
He will speak to the directions he sees for
State IT and Wednesday's keynote speaker
will be Rob St. John, Director of CTS.
Rob will describe how CTS will support
the direction of the CIO. Please stop by
and visit our Forum corporate members
and vendors and especially the IPMA’s
booth. Let us know what you think of this
year’s event. Remember, the Forum is the
centerpiece of a year-long effort by the
IPMA to provide you and your colleagues
with
educational
and
networking
opportunities.
Please share your
comments on events you would like to see
or suggestions on how we can improve.
Again, thank you for supporting your
IPMA.
I also like to express my
appreciation to the following members of
the Forum Planning committee:
Allen Schmidt
DES
Andy Jackson
L&I
Carl Harris
Agriculture
Connie Michener OCIO
Dan Kruger
Health
Gary Maciejewski Ecology
Marcus Bailey
Mary Groebner
DES
Phil Grigg
DES
Renee Alexander Revenue
Jim Andersen
Forum Director
Tuesday May 22 T-01 toT-21
Presentations
T-01Keynote Presentation: An
Overview of the State Strategic Plan
Keynote Speaker: Bharat Shyam Office
of the Chief Information Office,
Session Description: Bharat will discuss
Washington State’s Technology Strategies.
The session will include a Q&A from the
audience.
Speaker bio: Bharat Shyam was appointed
by Governor Chris Gregoire as the state’s
Chief Information Officer on November
15, 2011.
With nearly 20 years of
experience at Microsoft, he brings a deep
understanding of software and technology
to his new role. Bharat graduated with a
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
from IIT Bombay and went on to earn an
M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford
University. Bharat began his career at
Microsoft in 1993 as a software design
engineer, developing early prototypes of
one of the nation’s first smartphones. He
most recently served as General Manager
for Windows Azure working on the
Developer Platform.
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T-03 Leadership with a Capital “D”
Targeted Audience: Persons in a
supervisory or management capacity
Speaker: Gregg D. Richie, PMP, MCTS
Session Description: Many speakers have
discussed the topic of leadership. Most
will tell you that leaders are born and not
made and vice versa. Some will say that
delegation is the key to being a good
leader. Others will tell you that without
compassion for others and a vision for the
future, then there is no way you can be a
leader. In the grand scheme of project
management, leadership is a necessary
skill and most aspects of leadership can be
learned. In this presentation, the speaker
will
demonstrate
that
the
word
"Leadership" is actually an acronym that
depicts the key facets of a good leader.
What attendees will learn
This interactive presentation guides
students through the fundamentals of being
a good leader.
Students will gain insights into the
“learnable” skills of a good leader.
Speaker Bio: Gregg D. Richie is a Senior
Project Manager at Key Consulting, Inc.,
based in Tucson, AZ, which provides
consulting and training in project
management
techniques,
including
advanced usage of Microsoft Project. He
also teaches project planning at the
University of Washington and other topics
at colleges in Western Washington on a
part‐time basis. His education includes two
technical degrees; one in computer
programming and one in civil engineering
& architectural drafting; he also holds a
Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois
University in Workforce Education and
Development; and a Master’s Certificate
from Villanova University in Applied
Project Management.
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T-04 Office 365 at the State of
Washington
Targeted Audience: IT and business
managers, staff, and email administrators
Speakers: Moderator: Dave Kirk, Office
of the Chief Information Officer, Bob
Micielli, CIO, Department of Natural
Resources
Session Description:
The state of
Washington is evaluating adoption of
Office 365 as one of its first initiatives to
adopt Software as a Service (SAAS).
Microsoft Office 365 Online Services (in
the cloud) can enable access to the same
comprehensive set of trusted programs we
now use, with the added advantages
coming from data hosting on Microsoft’s
network of world-class data centers. With
Microsoft Office 365 Online Services, you
can access these products from anywhere
on almost any device. DNR, along with
the OCIO and CTS, have been leading the
effort to develop a business case to
determine if this new offering can reduce
our overall IT expenditures, provide
increased functionality and business value
to employees, retain or improve the quality
of service, and position the state for the
future. Come and hear more about the
status of this project and how it impacts
you.
What attendees will learn:
1. Attendees will learn how Office 365
can be used to improve collaboration
with individuals nearby and in other
locations in a secure and reliable
manner.
2. Email administrators will understand
their roles in supporting this essential
function for their agencies.
3. Attendees will learn about the proof of
concept underway and the timelines for
implementation for the rest of the
project.
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T-05 Video, The Cloud and You
Targeted Audience: State of Washington
Government Departments and Agencies
Speaker name: Rob Husted, Solution
Architect, Cerium
Session Description: In this session
attendees will learn how easy it is to
implement video solutions via The Cloud
and how your Agency can satisfy the video
needs of your workforce, without the
complexity and cost of the typical video
infrastructure required for Firewall
Traversal and Multi-Party Conferencing.
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What attendees will learn:
1. General Overview of Cloud-based
Video with Cisco TelePresence
Callway
2. Ease of implementation of Video in the
Cloud without the capital expense of
Gateways or MCUs
3. Video client options, including mobile
(Jabber), desktop and conference room
devices
4. Agency specific applications
Speaker Bio: Rob Husted has been a
Solutions Architect since 2004. He is a
Cisco
Tele-Presence
Video
Sales
Engineer. He is a certified Microsoft
Certified IT Professional, Cisco Certified
Network Associate, VMware Technical
Sales Professional and Avaya Professional
Design Specialist.
His industry
experiences include IT Manager, Cerium
Networks Systems Engineer, Cerium
Network Administrator, Networks
Instructor
and
Assistant-Network
Administrator, Interface College of
Spokane
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T-07 The Right Cloud for the Right
Service
Targeted Audience: Technical and
business leaders interested in utilizing
cloud services.
Speaker: Julian Soh; Microsoft
Collaboration Strategist
Session Description: Cloud computing
means different things to different people.
Depending on your computing needs,
whether it is personal or professional,
Cloud computing touches all aspects of
your life. This presentation will introduce
Microsoft’s Vision of Cloud Computing,
what Office 365 has to offer to different
individuals, and how it changes the way
Information
Technology
is
being
delivered.
What attendees will learn:
1. The different types of cloud services
and the proper workloads for each.
2. Business value of leveraging hosted
infrastructure.
3. Future direction of Office 365
Speaker Bio: Julian Soh is the
Collaboration Technologies Architect for
Microsoft’s Public Sector in the western
United States. In his current role, he
serves as the technologist and management
consultant for public sector customers
looking to implement productivity tools
such as Microsoft Office, SharePoint,
Exchange, and Lync, both on premises and
in the Cloud. Prior to joining Microsoft,
Julian served in technical as well as
management roles in the public sector. A
mechanical engineer by training, Julian
holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering
and Information Systems, and is a graduate
of Washington State University in Pullman
WA.
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T-08 Experiences in the Cloud
Targeted Audience: IT managers and
technicians considering appropriate cloud
computing opportunities.
Speakers:

Moderator: Bob Zych, Office of the
Chief Information Officer

Grant Rodeheaver, CIO, Department
of Transportation – Pushing burst
Demand into the Cloud

Michael DeAngelo, CIO, Department
of Fish and Wildlife – High
Performance Scientific Computing

Michael Zimmerman, Department of
Enterprise Services – Virtual Post
Office
Session Description: The public cloud
platform offers potential for flexibility and
cost effective processing options for IT
organizations. Agencies are encouraged to
adopt public cloud platforms, where
appropriate, and private cloud platforms
across agency IT teams to enable easy
movement of workloads across pools of
servers. This session will provide “boots
on the ground” insight from agencies
seeking to capitalize on public cloud
platforms.
What attendees will learn:
Attendees will hear the current view of
cloud computing in the state and how the
strategic
actions
will
encourage
appropriate adoption. In this session,
several agencies will present their
experiences with the public cloud such as:
1. Comparing of services, developing a
business case
2. Payment options
3. Challenges
4. Promising applications.
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T-09 Leading an Analytical
Enterprise
Target Audience: Both Business Users
and IT Staff and Management will find
this topic useful if they are looking at
using Analytics
Speakers: Kathy Lange and Aiman Zeid
Session description: As organizations
continue to gather a growing range of data
and information at speed, they quickly
realize that a focus on data, methods and
technology alone does not create the
insights to improve their overall success.
They must also build the capability and
commitment to capitalize on the
technological tools, sophisticated models,
and differentiating data that come with
analytics. Organizations make that
commitment only when their leadership
shepherds the vision, sets the example,
builds the talent and reinforces the culture
needed to drive true high performance.
“Leading an Analytical Enterprise” will
help participants understand the role of
leadership in making analytics initiatives
and analytical organizations succeed.
Based on focused research and years of
experience helping clients advance
analytical capabilities, the workshop
facilitators will take a holistic view of
analytics across the enterprise, grounding
participants in the essentials for
developing and maintaining a high
performing
analytics
organization.
Participants will have the opportunity to
hear from both practitioners and clients on
their actual experiences and success
stories.
What attendees will learn:
1. The critical success factors for
business
analytics,
including
leadership, enterprise focus, data and
infrastructure
management,
information processes, talent and
culture
2. The role of the analytical leader and
what it takes to lead an analytical
enterprise
3. The lessons learned from case studies
and profiles of analytical leaders
4. The experiences, lessons learned and
challenges leading an analytical
organization
Speakers Bio: Kathy Lange has over 25
years of experience selling and
implementing analytics solutions. She is
Senior Director of SAS Americas Business
Analytics
Practice,
which
assists
customers in defining their business
problems and crafting strategies for
solving those problems with integrated
SAS solutions that include business
intelligence,
data
integration,
and
advanced analytics. Lange joined SAS in
1998 after 14 years at IBM where she
served as a statistician for the procurement
and quality engineering departments for
IBM’s largest manufacturing sites. She
holds a BS in Mathematics from
University of Delaware and a MS in
Operations Research from Union College.
Aiman Zeid, Principal Business Consultant
Global Business Advisory. Twenty seven
years of Information Management,
Business Consulting and Technical
Implementations of Business Analytics
and Performance Management solutions in
multiple industries.
Lead Senior
Consultant
in
enterprise
business
consulting projects to assess organization
maturity and alignment with business
strategies and objectives. Developed and
implemented
Enterprise
Business
Analytics and Information Management
Centers of Excellence to mobilize and
align organizational resources, processes
and culture around strategic business
strategies and goals.
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T-10 The Importance of an
Integrated Enterprise
Targeted Audience: IT, IT Management,
Risk Management, Finance
Speaker: Steve Francis, SAP
Session Description: There are many
ways to integrate, or to not integrate an
enterprise. To not do so, or to do so
ineffectively, can lead to operational risks
that may appear to have nothing to do with
integration.
Cloud solutions, and a
technology landscape that changes by the
month can divert attention from this
important objective.
What attendees will learn:
1. What does an integration problem
look like?
2. What are types, or patterns of
integration problems?
3. What integration solutions are
common, and effective?
4. What are the costs of integration
problems?
5. Roadblocks to integration
6. Integrating Cloud and on Premise
Solutions
Speaker Bio: Steve Francis is an FRM
(Financial Risk Manager), MBA and MIT
Sloan Fellow. Earlier in his career Steve
developed and implemented custom
enterprise solutions and for the past 10
years he has led Enterprise Software Sales
teams at webMethods (now Software
AG), Oracle and currently at SAP.
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T-11 AWS Cloud - Introduction to
AWS
Targeted audience: IT Professionals,
Developers and Business Decision Makers
Speakers: Rachel Pizarro, AWS Sales
Manager and Mark Korver, Solution
Architect
Session Description: Attend this event to
hear a high level overview and
introduction to Amazon Web Services
(AWS). Since 2006, Amazon Web
Services have been providing on demand,
pay-as-you-go IT infrastructure to
organizations of all sizes. We'll discuss
how government can make use of
Amazon's massive scale and operational
experience to build highly scalable
solutions and deliver citizen services more
quickly. We will show you how to get
started with AWS infrastructure services
and how to architect applications for the
cloud. You will also learn about our highly
scalable cloud computing platform with
high availability and dependability, and the
flexibility to enable you to build a wide
range of applications.
What attendees will learn:
1. What is offered on Amazon Web
Services – why all the buzz?
2. How to set up your free account and
start using it today
3.
Demonstration of launching a
Windows instance and building a
website in minutes
Speakers Bio: Rachel Pizarro has been
working with Public Sector customers
since 1987 when she started in sales at the
Westin Hotel in Seattle. She continued in
government sales at Xerox Business
Services in 1996 when she supported the
WA State Printer and the digital document
management services on the Olympia
campus. Her role at the state led to a
position at Microsoft in 2002 on the US
Public Sector team selling to State and
Local government customers in the MidAtlantic region, culminating in a role as a
Regional Sales Manager for the east region
states. She joined Amazon Web Services
in September 2011, to start up the PNW
territory for State and Local Government
and Education sales on the newly formed
AWS WW Public Sector team.
Mark Korver joined Amazon Web
Services WW Public Sector team in
September 2011. He was an AWS
customer before joining AWS as a
Solution Architect. Mark likes to take
problems, break them down and create
technology strategies that can be
communicated to engineers and managed
to completion. He is a web applications
development and geospatial professional
with over 15 years’ experience in the US
and Japan. Academic background includes
a Master's degree from MIT's School of
Architecture and Planning with a focus on
technology transfer.
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T-12 Improving IT Financial
Transparency
Targeted Audience: IT managers and
financial leaders interested in saving
money and doing more with less with their
IT budget.
Speakers:

Moderator: Larry Dzieza, Office of
the Chief Information Office

Bharat
Shyam,
State
Chief
Information Officer

Guest Speaker – TBD, Apptio user
such as BECU or Microsoft CIO of
Infrastructure
Session Description: Good companies in
the private sector have been relentlessly
focused on doing more with less with their
IT budgets. The trends in hardware costs
and networking costs have helped. Private
companies have also adopted tools that
enable them to understand and track the
contributors to costs for the IT services
that they provide. Washington State needs
to emulate some of these examples and do
more to understand and manage IT
spending. IT leaders in WA State will also
be called upon by the CIO to adopt these
tools and be much more transparent about
where IT dollars are being spent. This need
is being driven by the desire of the
Executive (Governor’s office) and
Legislators to understand how the $1
billion in annual IT spending contributes
value to the citizens. Washington State
agencies and business owners need to
stretch every dollar to meet their mission.
This talk will provide insight into the way
IT spending will be measured and
managed in Washington.
What attendees will learn:
Attendees will hear how to use tools to
identify savings opportunities in their IT
budget. Experiences working with IT
financial data will be presented with
participants encouraged to engage in
discussion.
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T-13 Logical Identity – the BYOD
Ultimatum
Targeted Audience: CIO’s, Network
Architects, CSO
Speaker: Gary Halleen, Cisco Systems,
Consulting Engineer CISSP-ISSAP, CHP
Session Description: The who, what,
where, why and how of safely and
productively utilizing various endpoint
devices, including consumer handhelds
and tablets, to effectively accomplish
business objectives. This past winter, the
week back from holiday, in workplaces
around the country, Wi-Fi networks saw a
50% increase in the number of devices
attempting connection to the network.
Why?
Nearly 100% of them were
handheld or tablet devices, presumably
received as gifts.
The perceived value and agility of these
devices must be met with the assurance of
security and an increase in productivity.
What attendees will learn:
1. The benefits and challenges many
consumer devices represent in a
business environment.
2. Security considerations vital to
success with device variety.
3. Logical identity defined and applied
to Bring Your Own Device initiatives.
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T-14 CRM/xRM - Public Sector
Case Tracking and Management
Targeted Audience: CIO, Business
Directors, Applications Managers
Speaker: Derek Visocky, Business
Solutions Specialist, Microsoft
Corporation
Session Description: Join us to hear how
to
leverage
traditional
Customer
Relationship Management applications for
specific Public Sector applications–
effectively and surprisingly easily. See
examples such as Discovery Request
Tracking, Case Management, Offender
Management, Constituent Relations, and
311. Similar to SharePoint, attendees will
learn about the practice of leveraging a
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flexible and powerful platform, and the
applications sitting on that platform, to
meet business requirements. Find out how
CRM and SharePoint differ and where the
best fit is for each technology. Also learn
about the growing Marketplace and
Accelerators for the platform, and
Solutions, which allow for Rapid
Application Deployment and the easy
sharing of intellectual property.
Speaker Bio: Derek Visocky is a 17-year
veteran of delivering solutions in the
Business Solutions areas. In the private
sector, he has consulted in over 200 of the
Fortune 1000 companies. In the public
sector, Visocky has spent the majority of
his time in the area of Finance, most
recently as a Corporate Controller for a
Fortune 200 Company. Derek holds a
BBA with double majors in Finance and
Real Estate & Urban Planning from the
University of Wisconsin; and an MBA
with dual emphasis in Finance and
Information
Technology
from
the
University of Arizona.
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T-15 Technology Business
Management 101: Delivering IT
Transparency to Drive the Cost,
Quality, and Value Decisions
Targeted Audience: Agency staff who are
involved in strategic, operational, or
financial aspects of IT and interested in
driving better transparency.
Speaker: John Novak – Senior Vice
President, Apptio
Session Description: IT departments have
long been
tasked
with
building
management systems for every other
department in the enterprise. However,
when it comes to managing their own
organization, too many continue to rely on
spreadsheets to justify strategic decisions.
Whether it’s a major application
rationalization project or a goal of shifting
more IT spend on “change the business”
initiatives, the CIOs of tomorrow need to
be able to calculate, allocate, and
communicate IT costs and value to
business users with a higher degree of
precision. This session will examine the
latest trends from the emerging discipline
of Technology Business Management,
which aims to provide CIOs and other IT
leaders with the necessary transparency to
make smarter decisions about their IT
spend. Staff members will have the
opportunity to learn how some of today’s
most innovative IT departments and CIO’s
have successfully navigated the shift that
IT is experiencing in order to transform
their organization into a world class
services provider.
What attendees will learn:
1. Best practices from the Fortune 1000
for running IT like a business
2.
How Activity Based Costing is
driving
new
levels
of
IT
accountability
3. How to better communicate the value
of IT to your business users
Speaker Bio: John Novak is the Senior
Vice President of Marketing for Apptio,
the leading provider of on-demand
Technology Business Management (TBM)
solutions to the Fortune 1000. John leads
corporate marketing strategy, go-to-market
execution and thought leadership programs
for the company. Prior to Apptio, John
held
senior
marketing
leadership
companies at a variety of enterprise
software companies including Mercury
Interactive,
Microsoft,
and
Vitria
Technology.
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T-16 Open Data Initiatives: building
innovation on public data
Targeted Audience: CIO’s and
technology managers
Speakers: Moderator: Doug Mah, OCIO
Marc Baldwin, Assistant Director, OFM
Chris Madill, Program Manager, WTSC
Sabra Schneider, City of Seattle
Session Description: This panel will
provide CIO’s and managers of technology
a current look at the social, technical,
market, and public policy drivers that
make open data, or freeing data for public
consumption, a high priority at all levels of
government.
What attendees will learn:
The moderator will lead the panel through
a discussion so that attendees will learn:
1. What are the business drivers for
open data
2. How developers use publically
available data to create innovate
applications that improve citizen
quality of life
3. Why technology programs benefit
from open data initiatives
4. What
activities
are
currently
underway to support this strategy
Attendees should leave the session with an
improved understanding of the urgency for
organizational lines of business to provide
data, the expectations set by decision
makers regarding how the public accesses
data, and the role CIO’s and mangers will
play as technology providers, advocates,
and stewards.
Speakers Bio: Marc Baldwin is the
Assistant Director for Forecasting at the
Office of Financial Management for
Washington. He was Governor Gregoire’s
economic development policy advisor for
five years. He has a PhD from MIT, a
Masters from the London School of
Economics, and a BA from Oberlin
College.
Chris Madill was recently named Program
Director for the Washington Traffic Safety
Commission, spending the previous 7
years as program manager and chair of the
State’s Traffic Records Coordinating
Committee.
Chris has extensive
experience
developing
process
improvement strategies and accompanying
operational plans.
Chris holds a
Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from
Brigham Young University and a Master’s
Degree in Organizational Leadership from
Gonzaga University.
Sabra Schneider has a 18-year career in
public-service and currently serves as the
Director of Electronic Communications for
the City of Seattle, where she oversees
Community Technology, the Citywide
Web Team and the Seattle Channel.
Previously Sabra led web, social media
and government 2.0 efforts for King
County and was a tenured faculty member
at South Seattle Community College.
Sabra has a Bachelor's Degree in
Multimedia Communications from the
University of California, Santa Cruz and a
Masters in Public Administration from the
University of Washington.
Doug Mah is responsible for the OCIO’s
open data initiative. He has over 23 years
of public service experience including
appointed and elected positions in local,
regional, and state government and is the
former mayor of the City of Olympia. . A
native Washingtonian, Doug holds a
Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology/Criminal
Justice and a Master’s Degree in
Sociology/ Demography from Western
Washington University
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T-17 Cost reduction through quality:
Using model-based testing
technologies to prevent and detect
bugs
Targeted Audience: Project manager,
Project Sponsors, Business Owners, IT
Managers and Executives
Speaker: Adam Richards, Critical Logic
Session Description: Critical Logic
empowers
software
development
organizations to redefine what they mean
by quality, and how to attain it. At
OFM/DES, Application managers have
realized dramatic cost savings by
leveraging Critical Logic’s technology and
services. Using Critical Logic’s modeling
technology, the quality of DES’ software
requirements has steadily improved,
resulting in smoother test cycles and fewer
software disappointments. Using Critical
Logic’s automation technology, OFM/DES
has realized unparalleled regression testing
capability at a fraction of traditional
automation costs. Using Critical Logic’s
flexible, low-cost, professional contractor
resource pool, covered under a Master
Agreement with ITPS, OFM/DES has
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filled testing needs as they arise to support
demanding project schedules, while also
empowering internal agency resources to
use
Critical
Logic’s
technologies
independently.
What attendees will learn:
The speaker will review
1. Industry statistics on the dramatic
cost savings potential of bringing
quality to the center of the software
development lifecycle to eliminate
ambiguity
from
functional
requirements;
2. The benefits and challenges of
keyword-driven
automation
technologies will be discussed; and
3. Specific examples of how OFM/DES
has leveraged Critical Logic’s
technologies and services to realize
cost savings will be elaborated.
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T-18 BYOD: How to securely
integrate and manage personal
devices in Government
Targeted Audience: Security managers,
IT staff and others
Speaker: Phil Harris, Security Strategist,
Symantec
Session Description: The Bring Your
Own Device (BYOD) movement has
gained
unstoppable
momentum.
Enterprises of all sizes are looking for
capabilities to manage the influx of mobile
devices and deal with the evolving nature
of mobile applications and data. This
session will education users on trends in
mobility, what additional security concerns
that mobile devices pose, and how easy
access to cloud services poses new risks to
consider.
What attendees will learn:
1. Trends in Mobility
2. How to Protect mobile devices
outside of the corporate network
3. New security threats to be aware of
with mobile devices
Speaker Bio: Phil Harris is the Security
Strategist for Symantec, specifically
focused on the northwestern region for the
US. As a strategist, Phil provides key
leadership and direction as part of a worldclass
Security
Business
Practice
organization directly supporting the
business goals of a $6 billion Fortune 500
software company. As an extension of
Symantec’s CTO Office, Phil works
closely with Security Business Unit
Executives, Sales Organizations and
Customers. His responsibilities range from
providing security strategy and direction,
governance and compliance, industry
security trends and threat landscape
evolution, best practices and trusted
advisor to security executives, business
leaders,
and
IT
executives
and
management to large enterprise customers.
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T-19 Open Data: What's Next?
Targeted Audience: Web managers,
CIOs, PIOs, and anyone interested in
sharing, visualizing, and exploring data of
any kind
Speaker: Cam Caldwell, National
Account Manager, Socrata.
Session Description: What's next for
open data after you've launched your open
data site and put up a few datasets? In this
session we will talk about Open Data as a
platform for innovation. We'll discuss:
1. How to get beyond transparency and
into citizen engagement, app creation,
economic
development,
and
application cost displacement.
2. Offering social citizen interfaces that
engage
people
and
foster
communities
3. Modernizing
your
information
delivery infrastructure in the cloud
4. Enabling your employees to be more
productive
What attendees will learn:
How to use Socrata to share, visualize, and
exploit data of all kinds. Open data
success stories from Socrata customers in
the public sector.
Speaker Bio:
Cam Caldwell is
responsible for all client services at
Socrata. His areas of focus include
managing
implementation
projects,
orchestrating Socrata and partner resources
for the successful configuration and launch
of client sites, as well as all post-launch
customer success activities and open data
strategy. Cam brings over 10 years of
experience in information technology,
project management, professional services
and consulting.
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T-20 GIS Shared Services -- From
Ground to Cloud
Targeted Audience: CIO’s and
technology managers
Speakers: Moderator: Joy Paulus, State
GIS Coordinator, Office of the Chief
Information Officer

Michael DeAngelo, CIO, Department
of Fish and Wildlife

Ron Holeman, GIS Supervisor,
Department of Natural Resources

Dan
Saul,
GIS
Supervisor,
Department of Ecology

Alan
Smith,
GIS
Manager,
Department of Transportation

Debbie Stewart, CIO, Department of
Ecology

Tim
Young,
GIS
Manager,
Department of Fish and Wildlife
Session Description: Sharing relevant
data across a variety of disparate
organizations is a key feature of GIS.
While implementing an enterprise
approach to GIS requires a well-designed
infrastructure there is more to it than that.
This session will cover the components
needed to successfully establish a crossagency shared service, the issues of
maintaining and expanding that service
over time, and the challenges of moving it
from the ground to the cloud. A lightening
talk will be given by each of the panelists,
followed with a question and answer
session. The moderator will begin the
session with a presentation outlining the
background and events that lead to the
establishment of the state’s first geospatial
shared service. The panel will then discuss
the challenges of moving that service to a
more structured environment.
What attendees will learn:
What are the business drivers for GIS
services?
1. Examples of how GIS improves the
way we do our work by facilitating
better decision making by saving
money, time, and resources.
2. How best practices help cultivate a
new business climate, one based on
consistent, standards that help ensure
success;
3. The importance of a governance
structure in handling across agency
geospatial services;
4. The challenges of moving existing
services to the next level; and
5. The technical consideration of taking
an established service from a physical
environment to the cloud.
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T-21 Single View of a Citizen: Using
New Technology to Leverage Current
Systems Across Departments and
Agencies
Targeted Audience: CIO's, Application
Business Analysts, Developers, Database
Administrators
Speaker: Cate Richards, NA Smarter
Cities Sales Leader, IBM
Session Description: Islands of Citizen
Data Reside in different systems, reducing
service levels, decreasing collaboration
between programs, and increasing costs
and opportunity for abuses to defraud
government
programs
due
to
inefficiencies.
Often, Government
agencies seeking to provide automated
services to citizens or eliminate fraud,
waste and abuse within government
programs experience significant challenges
because the information about a citizen,
including their name, is stored in multiple
databases – in multiple formats – with
multiple identifiers that may not provide a
simple key for matching or resolving. To
facilitate services to citizens and decrease
this "hidden cost of data", agencies seek
ways to get a single, trusted, 360 degree
view of the citizen across the various data
sources that must be accessed to provide
reliable information. This session will
discuss the challenges agencies face with
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islands of citizen data, and new technology
approaches being leveraged to solve them.
What attendees will learn:
1. The Impact of Islands of Citizen Data
2. New technology and approaches to
leveraging current agency systems
while resolving this hidden cost of
data challenge
3. Key use cases that have exhibited
substantial benefit to agencies in
bridging this gap
Speaker Bio: Cate Richards is the North
Americas Leader for Smarter Cities for
IBM’s Software Group Industry Solutions.
She has worked with the public sector for
over 25 years in the capacity of teacher,
developer,
information
architect,
consulting and sales. Cate is now
responsible for IBM's Smarter Cities
software portfolio sales across North
America, and works closely with leaders
across the industries to create new citizen
value through IBM's Smarter Cities
initiatives.
She is one of the core
contributors to the creation of IBM's
Single View of a Citizen Strategy and
solution. Cate is an eight time best-selling
author of technology books for Pearson's
Que and SAM Publications, has been
published in several magazines and trade
publications, and holds a Master’s degree
in Business Administration with Honors.
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Wednesday May 23 W-01 to
W-17 Presentations
W-01 Keynote Presentation:
Consolidated Technology Services:
What’s going on over there?
Speaker: Rob St John, Director of the
Consolidated Technology Services
Session Description: This session will
explore CTS, focus on what’s new at CTS,
and give participants a sense of how CTS
is approaching its mission. Participants
will also get a preview of things on CTS’
agenda for the future.
Speaker Bio: Rob is a 25+ year employee
of Washington State Government, the last
15 or so have been managing some aspect
of information technology. Rob spent
more than two decades at the Department
of Social and Health Services (DSHS). He
joined DSHS in 1985, first working
directly with clients and later becoming a
systems administrator, supporting the
state’s welfare reform effort by leading the
development of the state’s WorkFirst case
management and child care eligibility
systems. In 2007, Rob was named the
Chief Information Officer (CIO) at DSHS
where he served until joining the newly
formed Office of the Chief Information
Officer (OCIO) as deputy. In April 2011,
Rob was named the director of
Consolidated Technology Services (CTS).
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W-02 Systems Center 2012 and What it
means to you
Targeted Audience: System
Administrators, System Engineers who are
implementing or working with System
Center Products and IT
Professionals/Managers
Speaker: Mark Wheatley, Senior
Principal Instructor
Session Description: We will meet all of
the current System Center 2012 products
and learn their places and roles. We will
drill down into the cloud-reborn workhorse
of systems management: Starting with
Configuration manager and working with
Operations Manager into the Virtual
Machine
Manager
and
finally
Orchestrator. A complete solution to
today’s needs.
What attendees will learn:
1. Where MS is going in IT Service
Management
2. What cloud computing means for our
data centers and our jobs
3. Where MS is going with its 17 year
old SMS, and see how it looks as a
completely redesigned IT Service
Management tool.
Speaker Bio: Mark Wheatley is an
industry-seasoned educator and systems
engineer, continuously Microsoft certified
since 1995. He has worked in IT Systems
Management at the U.S. Department of
State and has centered on systems
management,
service
and
server
management, network management and
security with Microsoft and other
technologies for the past twenty years. He
currently teaches and consults for
QuickStart Intelligence.
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W-03 State Procurement Reform 2SHB
2452
Speaker: Servando Patlan, Procurement
Reform and Outreach Manager,
Department of Enterprise Services
Session Description: The Legislature
recently passed 2SHB 2452 to consolidate
procurement laws under Enterprise
Services. The legislation is designed to
make the procurement process more
transparent, competitive and efficient. The
changes take effect Jan. 1, 2013.
What attendees will learn:
1. What will be different
2. What will stay the same
3. Next Steps
Speaker Bio: Servando Patlan is the
Procurement Reform & Small Business
Liaison, at the Washington State
Department of Enterprise Services. He
completed his undergraduate studies at
Humboldt State University and has
obtained
certifications
from
the
Information Technology Boot Camp
Program at Stanford University, the
University of Washington Executive
Leadership Program, and Information
Technology Project Management Program.
Mr. Patlan has over thirty years of
experience
in
Washington
State
Government information technology,
purchasing, and contracting.
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W-04 Experiences in Virtualization
Targeted Audience: Management and
Technical staff and anyone with an interest
on hearing insights on virtualization
Speakers:

Moderator: Loren Kyllo, Office of
the Chief Information Officer

Jack Funk , Department of Enterprise
Services

Doug Hoffer , CIO, Department of
Corrections
Session Description: Virtualization of
servers and storage is one of the highest
impact technologies in our data centers. In
September of 2010 the CIOs of the state
agencies collectively agreed to work
towards a target of 85% virtualization of
agency workloads. Considerable progress
to this goal has been made towards that
target going from a 27% virtualization to
over 50% by the end of 2011. Given that
we still have a ways to go; three leaders
will present their approach and
accomplishments and discuss the value of
virtualization in their organization.
What attendees will learn:
1. The constraints, risks and value of
virtualization
2. Approach taken to the efforts
3. Opportunities and direction for the
future
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W-05 Cyberspace Security
Targeted Audience: Security
professionals and anyone interested in
Cyberspace security and response within
Washington State.
Speaker: Lt Col Gent Welsh, CIO,
Washington Military Department.
Session Description: This session begins
with
an
Unclassified
Cyberspace
Intelligence
briefing
on
current
threats/actors in the cyberspace domain.
The session then moves to a discussion of
Washington
Military
Department
cyberspace response capabilities, and
concludes with a discussion on current
initiatives within the state related to
Cyberspace security response plans and
opportunities.
What attendees will learn:
Attendees will leave with a greater
understanding of the current issues within
cyberspace security, both from a threat and
response perspective. Attendees will also
leave with a greater understanding of some
of the initiatives currently in process to
allow Washington State to lead in the
domestic cyberspace response arena.
Speaker Bio: Lieutenant Colonel Gent
Welsh is the Chief Information Officer and
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Director - Communications, Command,
Control, and Computer Systems (J6) for
the Washington Military Department and
Washington National Guard.
Lt Col
Welsh is a 24 year Air Force officer and
Master
Cyberspace
Operator
with
extensive command, operational, and
deployment experiences in such locations
as the United Kingdom, Germany, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Croatia, Saudi Arabia,
Iraq, and South Korea.
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W-06 Economic and political pressures
drive different thinking in a Data Center
Targeted Audience: IT Decision Maker,
Director, System Administrator
Speaker: Bob Burwell - CTO – State,
Local Government and Education, NetApp
Session Description:
Economic and
political pressures continue to drive
different thinking in the DataCenter. The
DataCenter will eventually be a mix of
both on-premise (Private Cloud) and offpremise (Public Cloud) functions. We will
explore the challenges of today’s
datacenter, how the journey to the cloud
requires moving from Physical silo
thinking to virtual silo thinking, the effect
of efficiencies on silo costs, and how
Orchestration becomes a key part of the
Ecosystem. The transformation to the
cloud is a journey and understanding the
path is critical to balancing your cloud
architecture decisions.
What attendees will learn:
1. How decisions/steps/pressures help
transition the move to a shared
services model – either on-premise or
off-premise.
2. About
different
approach
to
datacenter consolidation - Thinking
through the Virtual Silo.
3. Impact
Efficiencies
have
on
CAPEX/OPEX/FTE’s to help truly
understand Virtual Silo costs.
Speaker Bio: Bob Burwell is the Chief
Technology Officer for U.S. Public Sector
State, Local Government and Education
(SLED) at NetApp. His responsibilities
include setting future technology and
product directions for the U.S. Public
Sector group and managing key customer
relationships in our State, Local
Government and Education business. Bob
has been in the storage industry for over 12
years with a focus on State and Local
Government, Education and US Federal
markets including; Army, Navy, Air Force
and Intelligence.
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W-07 VMware: A practical guide to
private and public cloud adoption: how to
match applications to different types of
clouds, avoid common pitfalls and hidden
costs and achieve greater agility
Targeted audience: IT Directors and
Managers considering cloud deployments
Speaker: Mathew Lodge, Senior Director
of Cloud Services, VMware
Session Description: Exploding the myth
that computing becomes a commodity in
the cloud, this session presents a simple
framework to help you determine the
match between your application and the
different styles of private and public
clouds so you can make better decisions
using examples of successful cloud
adopters to learn to avoid common
mistakes that can lead to project failures
and unexpected costs, and how to qualify
the organizational benefits.
What attendees will learn:
1. About a simple framework to
determine what kind of cloud is right
for your applications or projects.
2. Why you can't save your way to
greatness: beyond the "headline
price", know all of the costs and your
options to reduce them, and how to
crisply define the benefits.
3. How
did
other
organizations
successfully move to the cloud, and
how did it change their organizations?
Speaker Bio: Mathew has 20 years'
diverse experience in cloud computing and
product leadership. He built compilers and
distributed systems for projects like the
International Space Station, helped
connect six countries to the Internet for the
first time, and managed a $630m+ router
product line at Cisco. Prior to VMware,
Mathew was Senior Director at Symantec,
where he led go-to-market for its $1Bn+
information management group.
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W-08 How Can Washington Be a Better
Employer?
Targeted Audience: Information
technology (IT) professionals and hiring
managers presently working within State
government
Speaker: Eva Santos, State Human
Resources Director and Bharat Shyam,
State Chief Information Officer
Session Description: This will be a town
hall setting. Please come and share your
thoughts on how state government can be a
better employer for technology services
professionals. The speakers would like to
learn and listen so we can develop a
workforce strategy that enables the State of
Washington to attract and retain top talent
in IT.
What attendees will learn:
You will hear from your colleagues about
what they’d like to see in this area and also
be able to speak up and influence
proposals that Eva and Bharat would like
to present to citizens and lawmakers of
Washington State.
Speakers Bio: Eva has worked with the
State of Washington for the past 25 years.
She was recently appointed by the
Governor as the first State Human
Resources Director in 2011 after
completing a term as the Director of the
Department of Personnel appointed by
Governor Gregoire in 2005. Prior to these
appointments Governor Locke appointed
her the Director of the Labor Relations
Office and chief negotiator for labor
contracts for the State of Washington.
Previously, she was the Deputy Director of
the Labor Relations Office. Eva started her
public sector career at the Department of
Labor and Industries where she worked in
the Human Resources Office. She soon
moved up the ladder to Deputy Director
for Operations. Eva served in the United
States Army and the Women’s Army
Corps where she specialized in human
resources. She is a nurse by trade and
received her education from the Catholic
University of Puerto Rico.
See T-01 for Bharat Shyam’s bio.
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W-09 Adaptive and Responsive design put
into practice!
Targeted Audience: Software Engineers,
Technical Leads, Architects, Project
Managers, Business Analysts
Speaker: Chad W. Stoker – President &
Chief Technology Officer/CodeSmart Inc.
Session Description: With the onslaught
of new form-factors hitting the hardware
market, and business-consumers rushing to
utilize their phones, tablets, and desktops...
web Application developers are faced with
new challenges. The techniques used for
building applications across all platforms
and simultaneously capturing feedback
regarding "feature-use" are varied.
However, there are some industry trends
that your architects and developers should
be aware of. Come learn how expanding
your supported-browser (including mobile
browsers) list is not such an impossible
task and what you can do to maintain a
better web application for the next decade.
What attendees will learn:
1. Cascading Style Sheets techniques for
"responsive design" patterns
2. Media queries (it's probably not what
you think)
3. Differences between Responsive and
Adaptive design
4. Implementing flexible grids
5. Building and aggregating meaningful
statistics
6. ASP.NET MVC views, JqGrid,
scalable auto-complete box design,
etc.
Speaker Bio: Chad Stoker is the President
and Chief Technology Officer of
CodeSmart Inc. Chad holds a Microsoft
Certified Application Developer and
Technical Specialist certification in C# and
VB.Net.
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W-10 Cloud Computing: A Controlled
Approach for IT Environments
Targeted Audience: CIO’s, IT directors
and managers
Speaker: Chuck Hobart, VMC
Consulting, Inc.
Session Description: In this session,
Chuck Hobart will focus on operational IT
planning for virtualization and Cloud
strategies. Attendees will learn about
VMC's “Assess - Migrate - Manage”
model for implementing effective Cloud
computing solutions. The presentation will
also feature a checklist of key
considerations when moving technology
into the Cloud, such as security,
accessibility and service level agreements
with Cloud vendors. Chuck will also
provide a glimpse into key developments
in the rapidly changing Cloud market
space and how IT organizations can
leverage increasing competition and
market maturity among Cloud providers to
maximize benefits while minimizing risk.
What attendees will learn:
1. Are you ready for the cloud
2. What are your options
3. Things to consider
Speaker Bio:
Chuck Hobart is an
Engagement
Manager
for
VMC
Consulting, Inc., a global technology
consulting company that provides flexible
and scalable development and integration,
IT outsourcing and customer care
solutions. In addition to his role as
solutions architect, Chuck spearheaded the
creation of VMC’s Cloud Services practice
area for both Cloud providers and users.
He serves as internal and external
champion to promote better understanding
and strategic use of Cloud services,
frequently speaking at industry events such
as Cloud Connect, ITsmf and AFCOM. He
began working in the Data Center industry
for IBM in 1982. During his decade-long
tenure at Microsoft, he designed and
managed most of their enterprise data
centers. After Microsoft, he headed up
Washington Mutual’ s Data Center design
team, focused on design, process
development, capacity planning, metrics
and business analysis. He then started a
consulting company specializing in
government data centers and worked on
numerous contracts for federal government
data center management.
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W-11 Elegance and Agility: Semantic
Technology For Early Adopters
Targeted Audience: Thought leaders and
change agents, CIOs, CTOs, IT
professionals
Speaker: Dave McComb, President
Semantic Arts, Inc
Session Description: The speaker will
highlight some key challenges in
organizations today, and identify two
related root causes:
lack of shared
understanding of key business concepts
and unnecessary complexity. He will
describe how these problems are addressed
in the emerging semantic technology field.
He will illustrate how early adopters are
already experiencing the following
benefits of this new approach: clarified
meaning of business concepts, reduced
complexity,
increased
agility
and
flexibility, and increased interoperation
and integration.
What attendees will learn
1. How ambiguity and complexity are
driving up costs and reducing agility
in today’s organizations
2. How the emerging field of semantic
technology is addressing these
problems
3. Case studies of commercially
successful applications
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W-12 Government IT Trends &
Predictions for the next decade
Targeted Audience: CIOs, IT and
Business Executives, Directors, etc.
Speaker: Andrea Di Maio, VP &
Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
Session Description: The session will
cover government IT trends and
predictions including the 5 Key Trends
that will shape Government IT over the
next decade. What are the main challenges
and technology trends that government
CIOs need to address over the next three to
five years. Andrea will also cover how
government CIOs will strike the balance
between
traditionally
conflicting
approaches to governance and control.
There will also be a 15 minute Q&A to ask
Andrea any specific questions.
What attendees will learn:
1. The 5 Key Trends that will shape
Government IT over the next decade
2. What are the main challenges and
technology trends that government
CIOs need to address over the next
three to five years
3. How government CIOs will strike the
balance
between
traditionally
conflicting approaches to governance
and control
Speaker Bio: Andrea Di Maio is a vice
president and distinguished analyst in
Gartner Research, where he focuses on the
public sector, with particular reference to
e-government strategies, Web 2.0, open
government, cloud computing, the
business value of IT, open-source
software, green IT and the impact of
technology on the future of government.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Di Maio was
with the European Commission, where he
was responsible for part of the R&D
framework program, as well as for all
activities on the impact of the year 2000
problem and the IT impact of the European
single currency. Before the European
Commission, he held management and
technical positions in the systems and
software industry. He has more than 20
years of experience in IT. He enjoys
helping customers choose the most
adequate
solutions
often
offering
counterintuitive advice. He also enjoys the
collaboration with colleagues in different
geographies, who have a wealth of
complementary expertise in technology
and business issues.
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W-13 Client compute strategies and
business drivers
Targeted Audience: Business decision
makers, IT Executives and management
Speaker: Goran Ognjenovic, Director of
Strategic Consulting, Presidio
Session Description: Most organizations
struggle to gain velocity in their Client
Computing strategies due to inability to
identify or map-to a key business level
initiative. Today, end user computing is
more than physical desktops.
Client
Computing incorporates the “any device,
anywhere” requirement to run agencyinternal or public facing applications
ubiquitously.
This session is a multifaceted discussion of real world business
drivers and business pain points mitigated
by Virtual Desktop and Bring Your Own
Device technologies. The talk also covers
financial considerations and relevant
decision points across technology, process,
people and partnerships.
What attendees will learn:
1. Key business drivers and compelling
events for BYOD and virtual desktop
initiatives
2. Planning and evaluation strategies to
simplify and vet technology vendors
3. Financial considerations: hard and
soft costs
Speaker Bio: Goran is an experienced
technology professional with an over 12
years of progressive experience in
Information Technology. He has broad
experience managing and operating
various IT environments inclusive of
people,
process,
technology
and
partnerships,
and
starting
with
development of technical strategy to IT
financial planning through execution.
Goran has contributed to the success of
various organizations including public
institutions, large service providers, and
SMB
companies
in
IT solution
development,
architecture,
design,
implementation and support. Goran and
his team have played key roles in recent
State of Washington data center
transformation initiatives. Core practice
areas include datacenter consolidation,
cloud computing, virtualization, unified
communications,
and
network
infrastructure. Goran is ITIL v3 certified
and is a double CCIE.
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W-14 Mobile Printing and winning the
battle between process improvement
and technology.
Target Audience: IT managers and end
users.
Speaker: Sean Schoeppner, Xerox
Session Description: The session will
focus on elements for balancing process
improvement
versus
technology
investment. The speaker will discuss
various situations and ideas that increase
flexibility for IT managers and end users.
What attendees will learn:
The progression of Mobile Printing
applications, managing the mobile user
experience, and choosing the right
applications. As well as, methods for
managing challenges organizations have
balancing technology cost and security
implications with the user experience and
desired productivity gains.
Speaker Bio:
Sean Schoeppner is a Technical Marketing
Manager for Xerox North American. He is
responsible for communicating technical
information about current and future
Office Products to Xerox customers. He is
a Technical Consultant in current and
emerging Service offerings, such as
Mobile Print Technology, Managed Print
Services
and
Business
Process
Outsourcing. Sean has been with Xerox
25 years.
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W-15 Mobile Application Development,
Security, Maintenance, and Architecture
Targeted Audience: Software Engineers,
Technical Leads, Architects, Database
Administrators
Speaker: Chad W. Stoker – President &
Chief Technology Officer – CodeSmart
Inc.
Session
Description:
The
mobile
application arena is changing at an
incredible pace. Today, more and more
WA State agencies are taking on projects
that include mobile applications based on
web
and
even
native
platform
technologies. Explore how to work with
Mono (iPhone and Android variants),
SQLite, browser shells inside native app
shells, ASP.NET MVC views, Kerberos
Authentication scenarios, and more. We’ll
dive in and discuss libraries that can be
leveraged from 3rd-parties, how sourcecontrol can be managed, and what
considerations should be given to security.
What attendees will learn:
1. iPhone development considerations.
(How they differ from Android… and
we don’t just mean java open-source
versus XCode here)
2. Android development techniques –
Leveraging pre-existing applications,
3rd-party API’s, and more
3. Tablet development considerations
for screen size, memory options, and
more
4.
Authenticating against SharePoint or
web-services from the mobile world
Speaker Bio: Chad Stoker is the President
and Chief Technology Officer of
CodeSmart Inc. Chad holds a Microsoft
Certified Application Developer and
Technical Specialist certification in C# and
VB.Net.
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W-16 Business Intelligence in the Public
Sector: Lessons from Labor & Industries
Targeted Audience: Business
management; data warehouse aficionados;
database experts
Speaker: Joy Mundy, Kimball Group
Session Description: Kimball Group has
just finished leading a data warehouse
redesign effort for the State of Washington
Department of Labor & Industries. A
"green field" project, the new data
warehouse will replace the existing data
warehouse / reporting technologies.
Development is just starting, so the
information we have to share is about the
design process, not the development or
deployment.
What attendees will learn:
1. What are the benefits of a data
warehouse / business intelligence
solution?
2. What are the tradeoffs between build
versus buy for your data warehouse /
business intelligence solution?
3. Which tools (software) will we need?
What should our architecture be?
How do we know we're doing the
right thing?
Speaker Bio:
Joy Mundy is a Vice President at Kimball
Group, the leading educator and design
consultant for data warehousing. She has
focused on data warehousing and business
intelligence since the early 1990s,
specializing in business requirements
analysis, dimensional modeling, and
business intelligence systems architecture.
Joy co-founded InfoDynamics LLC, a data
warehouse consulting firm, then joined
Microsoft WebTV to develop closed-loop
analytic applications and a packaged data
warehouse. Before returning to consulting
and Kimball Group in 2004, Joy worked in
Microsoft
SQL
Server
product
development, managing a team that
developed the best practices for building
business intelligence systems on the
Microsoft platform.
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W-17 Achieve Success by Delivering
Business Value
Targeted audience: Project Managers,
Business Analysts, Business Owners,
Sponsors
Speaker: Vicki James, PMP, CBAP,
Independent Consultant, Professional
Project Services
Session Description: There is a muchneeded change in the understanding of
project success in the air these days. Focus
is shifting from projects that deliver on
time, budget, and scope to ensuring that
projects bring value to the business. What
is not clear is who is responsible for the
business value or how we know when it is
achieved. Explore the roles of the project
sponsor, project manager, and business
analyst in delivering successful projects.
Learn to define and measure success in
terms of business value.
Attendees will learn:
1. The definition of "business value"
2. Roles of the project sponsor, project
manager, and business analyst
3. How to measure project success
Speaker Bio: Vicki James, PMP, CBAP
began her career in project development in
1999 for the state of Washington. Vicki
received her Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts
from the Evergreen State College in 2002
and went on to achieve her PMP in 2005.
She has been successful in delivering
varied projects, from infrastructure to web
applications in both the business analyst
and project management roles. Vicki
earned her Certified Business Analysis
Professional in 2010 from the International
Association of Business Analysis (IIBA).
She is a skilled trainer, presenter, and
facilitator with a passion to share best
practices to make the lives of others easier
and more productive. Her blend of
expertise in project management and
business analysis gives her insight to set
the stage for a project environment that
fosters success.
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The IPMA would like to extend its
appreciation to:

Bon Appetit. for the preparation of
food and beverages

Cisco and CenturyLink for providing
wireless Internet access in the
Pavilion and Worthington Center

Saint Martin’s University
Worthington Center staff

Northwest Decorators for the setup of
the booths.

And especially to the Xerox
Corporation for printing the Forum
2012 brochure
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37
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Capital
Bus
Mach
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Corp
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34
33
32
31
Amazon
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IPMA
OMUG
IIBA
30
Image
Source
38
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houwen
Cisco
SAP
39
29
28
27
26
5
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General
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Presidio
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Critcal
Micro Sys
40
22
Logic
23
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25
4
Attachmate
RSI
41
3
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VMware
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Code
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Smart
2
42
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20
19
18
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Century
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Denali
HP
IBM
Link
43
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14
15
NH
Cayzen
Nimble
United
Tech.
Storage
13
12
11
16
17
UW
EMC
QuickStart
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6
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Electric
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