IT Summit Conference Moderators

Tara McClanahan, President & CEO, Yadari Enterprises, California/Washington, D.C.

8:15         Continental Breakfast/Registration                                                   

8:45         IT Vision                                                            

To achieve its service goals, the City must better utilize technology throughout the organization.   The City Manager and Interim Director of the Regional Computer Center (RCC) outline a technology vision for the City of Cincinnati.

Milton Dohoney                      City Manager                                                        City of Cincinnati    

Margo Springs                       Interim Director, RCC                                            City of Cincinnati

9:15         Mobile Workforce

The City of Cincinnati has thousands of employees in the field, providing a wide range of services 24x7x365 to all areas of the City and County.  How do we empower our mobile employees with resources and information that can help them achieve service excellence?  Wireless service providers demonstrate solutions available today.

Blackberry – Beyond Email                    Cincinnati Bell/RIM   Matt Hand               Midwestern Region

GPS -Workforce Management                Sprint/ActSoft                                       Andy Georgian, Ohio             

Work Order                                           Verizon                                                 Deb Calabreze, Ohio

10:30       Break                                                                                                              

10:45       IT Matters Panel Discussion (Facilitator, Mark Cleverly, National Public Sector Solutions, IBM, Inc.)           

               How did the top-ranked digital cities achieve their status?     How do the IT issues facing one of the world’s largest global corporations relate to those facing local government?  IT executives in top-ranked cities and organizations discuss successes, challenges, and what’s next.

Ann Strine                              CIO, City of Tucson, AZ         

Ranked 3^rd in the 2007 Digital Cities Survey

Mike O’Rear                           Assistant Director of IT Services, City of Nashville, TN

Ranked 4^th in the 2007 Digital Cities Survey

KPMG, LLC                            IT Advisory Services/Public Sector Professionals, Midwestern Region

12:00       Box Lunch

12:20         Keynote Presentation – Steal This Idea

Interested in hearing ideas from other jurisdictions that have demonstrated savings of time and money in solving major service delivery challenges?  With nearly 95,000 city and county government organizations across the nation, where do you start? This fascinating session provides - at a pace not unlike a 3-day tour of Europe - the best of hundreds of nominees and dozens of winners from the Center for Digital Government's intensive national surveys of best and emerging practices in the public sector IT community. Be prepared to steal an idea... or 10.

Todd Sander, Deputy Director, Center for Digital Government, California

1:15         Closing Remarks

               City Manager, Milton Dohoney