Government Innovation 2024 - Texas | Public Sector Network | 12 November 2024 | Hilton Austin, 500 E 4th St, Austin, TX 78701, USA

The future of Texas has never been brighter! As the Lone Star state thrives due to technological growth and innovation, public sector leaders are providing the opportunity, workforce, and leadership to deliver the vision of a Texas-sized tomorrow. This event offers attendees the chance to learn from public sector leaders across Texas and explore innovative solutions for the challenges public servants around the state encounter.

Public sector leaders are looking for novel ways to modernize their efforts – with technology likely to be at the forefront of their minds after the last several years of challenge-inspired innovation; accelerated further by ongoing national & world events. Information technology modernization and how it supports digital transformation remains significant. How will Texas navigate modernizing platforms, leveraging data and analytics? What do we need from our leaders to get the job done? How will technology, data, digital transformation, AI, and the workforce continue to evolve?

This event will convene public sector leaders across all levels of government, and from throughout the state and region to share their innovative ideas and cutting-edge initiatives and projects. This one-day, in-person program provides the ideal space for networking and sharing best practices – join the conversation!

Benefits of Attending:
• Learn from firsthand insights on how technology is shaping the State of Texas and understand the role public sector leaders need to play
• Hear from a panel of diversity leaders in technology. This thought-provoking panel will explore the importance of diversity leaders in technology, and how to recruit, advance and attract more inclusion to the profession
• What are the best practices to maximize your cybersecurity and technology investments with an outcome-driven approach?
• Attend one of two dedicated tracks examining innovation in the spheres of Data& Technology-or- Digital Transformation/ Service Delivery & CX

Discussing the Most Current Topics:
• Innovation
• Data & Analytics
• Transformation
• Technology
• Automation
• Cybersecurity
• Digital & CX
• Procurement

2024 Speakers

MODERATOR:

Jeff Stewart
GVP, Product Management, SolarWinds

PANELS:

Erika Kemp
Strategic Initiatives and Innovation Division Director, Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT)

Misti Hair
Deputy Executive Commissioner, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Office of Transformation and Innovation

Yiting Liu
Director of Applications and Data, The University of Texas Austin, McCombs School of Business

Mallory Thaut
Senior Enterprise Account Executive, State and Local Government Liaison, BetterUp

SPEAKERS:

Wendy Dalwin
Senior Director of Event Programming, Public Sector Network

Amanda Crawford
Executive Director and State Chief Information Officer, Texas Department of Information Resources

Adam Leonard
Director of Information Innovation & Insight, Texas Workforce Commission

Glenn Hegar
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Bryanna Pardoe
Executive Director, Commonwealth Office of Digital Experience (CODE PA)

Cory Wilburn
Chief Information Officer, The University of Texas Austin, McCombs School of Business

David Partsch
Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Catherine Crago
Head of Strategic Initiatives, Housing Authority of the City of Austin

Jason Alexander
Deputy Chief – Airport Affairs, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)

Kenneth Hess
Deputy Secretary for Procurement, Department of General Services, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

John Schimanski
Adjunct Professor, Cybersecurity, Purdue Global & Former Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Emily Yates
Chief Innovation Officer, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)

Todd Pauley
Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Texas Education Agency

KEITH HARTUNG
Chief Information Security Officer, Pennsylvania Treasury

Dr. Alaric Robertson
Director of Continuous Improvement Programs, Office of Transformation and Innovation

Nathan Haselhorst
Information Security Officer, Office of State Administration, Texas Military Department

Horacio Zambrana
Managing Director, Chief of Talent Management, Teacher Retirement System of Texas

Jarah Meador
Director of Open Innovation, Technology Transformation Services, Challenge.Gov & CitizenScience.gov, U.S. General Services Administration

Marie Cohan
Statewide Digital Accessibility Officer, Texas Department of Information Resources

Kenneth Perrine
Senior Engineering Scientist, Center for Transportation Research, The University of Texas at Austin

Divya Rathanlal
Austin Digital Services, IT Corporate Manager, City of Austin

Aaron King
Solutions Engineer, Anthology, formerly Blackboard

Thomas Herrmann
Senior Account Executive, Anthology, formerly Blackboard

Andrew Keeney
Channel Account Executive, Anthology, formerly Blackboard

Lisa Jones-Huff
Senior Director, Solutions Architecture, Elastic

Jon Bartosh
Account Executive, SLED/NatGov, SolarWinds

Mitch Herckis
Global Head of Government Affairs, Wiz

2024 Partners

SUPPORTING PARTNER:
• Gov TAP

PARTNERS:
• Solarwinds
• Anthology
• Nice
• Freshworks
• Elastic
• Freeit
• BlackDuck
• AWS
• Nutanix
• WIZ
• The Ford Consulting Group, LLC