Topic: Strategic Management

Seminar Topics

What Does the Future Hold for Teleworking?

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

With the current pandemic, companies have mobilized to enable employees to work from home. IT departments took on this task in March. Many security and compliance challenges have been dealt with, but some remain.

Join the INTERFACE Advisory Council for a look at what lies ahead with remote working. How are you adjusting your security procedures? Do you know if your end-users will return to the office? The dreaded elephant in the room will be addressed as well – BUDGETS! What do you need? What is expected of your IT staff? You will get tips on what has worked and what still is a challenge in keeping your users active and ensuring your business is fully operational.


Panelists:
Aaron Baillio • Chief Information Security Officer, University of Oklahoma
Chris Martin • Director, Technical Services, MYCON General Contractors
Shamoun Siddiqui • Vice President & CISO, Neiman Marcus
Craig Broussard • Director, Global Infrastructure, NCH Corporation

Alan Chuang • Director, Information Technology, Trinity Consultants

Responsible Administration: The Admin Insider (Threat)

  Presented by One Identity

System Administrators are critical people to every organization. They design, build, and maintain all the parts and pieces that enable business, whether that’s retail, healthcare, or even a government agency. Ensuring sysadmin tasks are performed as securely as possible without hampering their ability to keep our business running is a delicate balance. These “insiders” not only know how the systems operate but have the credentials and privileges to operate them.

In this session, we will demonstrate an Active Directory breach using pass-the-hash and discuss ways to enable the System Administrators to operate in a way that not only protects the business from threats but also enables them to perform the intricate tasks they accomplish daily to keep business flowing under the covers.

Digital Transformation in 2020 and Beyond: What’s Changed and What’s the Same

  Presented by Ann Dunkin • Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Dell Technologies

While our lives have changed dramatically this year, some things, like the need to have a highly capable, well trained and motived workforce haven’t changed. We’ll discuss how the pandemic accelerated government digital transformation and the challenges that still exist.

IT departments worked quickly and efficiently to support remote workforces. While productivity in many departments and industries has been effective, there have been adverse effects from remote working. While technology has been a driving force, it can’t replace some elements. Join Ann Dunkin for a look at the gaps that have been created and what lies ahead.

Ann Dunkin is Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Dell Technologies. Prior to joining Dell, Ms. Dunkin was the Chief Information Officer for the County of Santa Clara. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara is the 15th largest county in the United States. Ms. Dunkin also served in the Obama Administration as the Chief Information Officer of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to her time in Washington D.C., she was the Chief Technology Officer for the Palo Alto Unified School District. Ms. Dunkin joined the School District after a long career at Hewlett Packard in a variety of leadership roles.

Ms. Dunkin is a published author, most recently of the book Industrial Digital Transformation, and sought-after speaker on the topics of technology modernization, digital services and organizational transformation. Throughout her career she has served on a wide range of professional boards and committees. She currently serves on the OptimEyes.io Board of Advisors, the WSC Board of Directors, the Agile Government Leaders (AGL) Board of Directors and the Georgia Tech President’s Advisory Board.

She holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, both from The Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a licensed professional engineer in the states of California and Washington.

What’s Next?

  Presented by Mike Baca • Chief Information Officer, New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department

Interesting developments, new approaches to old problems, new paradigms of doing business, even the talent pool is changing. 2020 presented a huge catalyst for transformation and we can see the customer experience, and our professional lives, will dramatically change forever. Government institutions are choosing to keep up with the industry leaders, and in many ways are laying the groundwork and spearheading the lasting evolution.

As the CIO for both the NM Motor vehicle and Tax Department, Mike will share an interesting cross jurisdictional perspective that demonstrates the convergence of technology with new ways of performing. We are going places faster than we ever dreamed possible. Join us for an exciting look at “What’s next?”

Mike Baca is the CIO for New Mexico’s Taxation and Revenue Department (TRD) and has over 25 years of experience in information technology. Prior to joining the TRD, Mike was the Director of the New Mexico Department of Information Technology Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO). While building NM’s EPMO, Mike worked directly with NM CIO’s focusing on legislative policy, technology budgeting, and ensuring successful enterprise project implementation (we went from huge failures to an 87% success rate – on time, on budget, complete adoption). Other significant milestones include the passage of legislation consolidating technology in NM under the Department of Information Technology, NM’s Sunshine laws, and a long history of successful business case and technology appropriations. Mike also has background data analytics.

Mike is many things – poet, painter, teacher, vegetarian cowboy, the Director of NM’s EPMO, and most recently the CIO for New Mexico’s Taxation and Revenue Department and Motor Vehicle Division.  His background includes holistic data mining, rescuing endangered IT projects, and organizational transformation. On the personal side he loves chocolate chip cookies, motorcycles, and libraries.

Adapting and Implementing the New Normal for Education

  Presented by Ardham & Extreme Networks

Education Institutions and staff are rapidly preparing their organizations for success in a changed world. As they continue to drive towards digital transformation this global pandemic heightened these unique IT challenges into full force. Continuing to focus on their main challenges; some have been re-prioritized to accommodate remote learning to drive better learning outcomes.

Join our interactive session to see a showcase of key approaches and ideas in the education industry, plus the critical building blocks, to help advance your own IT response.

  • Key considerations for the new normal – technology and education trends.
  • A showcase of strategies and best practices from some of the leaders in the education industry.
  • How Education IT departments are coping with and adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • How Teachers and Staff are evolving their classrooms into remote learning environments and still continue to drive better learning outcomes.
  • Best Practices for Remote and Online Learning.
  • Facilitating agile environments, by delivering simple and secure remote and extended connectivity, with centralized IT control.
  • How to better enable contact tracing and occupancy management with ubiquitous, real-time location analytics and long-term data horizons.

Responsible Administration: The Admin Insider (Threat)

  Presented by One Identity

System Administrators are critical people to every organization. They design, build, and maintain all the parts and pieces that enable business, whether that’s retail, healthcare, or even a government agency. Ensuring sysadmin tasks are performed as securely as possible without hampering their ability to keep our business running is a delicate balance. These “insiders” not only know how the systems operate but have the credentials and privileges to operate them.

In this session, we will demonstrate an Active Directory breach using pass-the-hash and discuss ways to enable the System Administrators to operate in a way that not only protects the business from threats but also enables them to perform the intricate tasks they accomplish daily to keep business flowing under the covers.

Unified Endpoint Management

  Presented by Quest Software

This presentation highlights the reasons and need for Unified Endpoint Management in your business strategy. This presentation’s sole purpose is to educate C-level and system administrators of the need for UEM as well as what aspects are important. One of the problems with endpoint management today is the proliferation of endpoints. During this global health crisis especially, we are seeing a large work-from-home movement in businesses all over the world. In order to combat this issue, you must have an endpoint management strategy that works not only on the network but off of it as well.

Unified Endpoint Management

  Presented by Quest Software

This presentation highlights the reasons and need for Unified Endpoint Management in your business strategy. This presentation’s sole purpose is to educate C-level and system administrators of the need for UEM as well as what aspects are important. One of the problems with endpoint management today is the proliferation of endpoints. During this global health crisis especially, we are seeing a large work-from-home movement in businesses all over the world. In order to combat this issue, you must have an endpoint management strategy that works not only on the network but off of it as well.

What is HCI and How Does it Enable a Public Cloud On-Prem?

  Presented by Nutanix

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) has been taking the IT industry by storm the past 5 years. As businesses are exploring what this means to them, they need to ask themselves should we consider changing our infrastructure? During this session we will cover the following discussions:

  • What is HCI exactly and why consider it?
  • Why are companies moving to the cloud and why are they now moving back?
  • How do I create the Public Cloud experience in my own On-Prem solution?
  • What hypervisors work with HCI solutions?

What is HCI and How Does it Enable a Public Cloud On-Prem?

  Presented by Nutanix

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) has been taking the IT industry by storm the past 5 years. As businesses are exploring what this means to them, they need to ask themselves should we consider changing our infrastructure? During this session we will cover the following discussions:

  • What is HCI exactly and why consider it?
  • Why are companies moving to the cloud and why are they now moving back?
  • How do I create the Public Cloud experience in my own On-Prem solution?
  • What hypervisors work with HCI solutions?