2016 Schedule

PA TechCon Seminar Tracks & Speakers

PA TechCon will deliver sixteen seminars over the following four conference tracks:

OPENING – 14th Floor Auditorium (9-9:45am)

Opening Keynote – Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Enterprise IT Strategic Plan

John MacMillan, Chief Information Officer, Commonwealth of PA

NETWORKING BREAK (9:45-10am)

SESSION 1 – THEORETICAL (10-10:45am)

IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Establishing an effective customer-focused service management approach

14th floor – Auditorium

 

Dr. Alexander Keller
Director, Integrated Service Management at
IBM Global Services

APP DEV

Top 10 Developer Trends

12th floor – 1205

 

 

Jim Lundy
Founder
Aragon Research

DATA

Applying predictive modeling techniques in state government

13th floor – 1302

 

Shaun Barry,
Global Leader – Security Intelligence Practice
SAS

SECURITY

Identity and Access Management in the Commonwealth

13th floor – 1305

 

Erik Avakian
Chief Information Security Officer
Commonwealth of PA

 

William Harrod
Advisor, Cyber-Security Strategy
Computer Associates

NETWORKING BREAK (10:45-11am)

SESSION 2 – THEORETICAL (11-11:45am)

IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Approaches to Implementing an ITIL based Knowledge Management Program

12th floor – 1205

 

Ann Orner
Commonwealth of PA

 

Brian Jurasic
Senior Consultant
ServiceNow, Inc.

APP DEV

Rationalizing your application portfolio

13th floor – 1302

 

John Picciotto
Senior Principle
Accenture

DATA

Playbook for Open Data – Where to Get started

14th floor – Auditorium

 

Julie Snyder
Commonwealth of PA

 

Carl Marsh,
Director – CIO Advisory
KPMG

 

Andrew Hoppin,
President
NuCivic

SECURITY

Information Technology Governance, Risk & Compliance (IT-eGRC)

13th floor – 1305

 

Peter Romness
Cybersecurity Solutions Lead,
US Public Sector
CISCO

LUNCH SERVED ON FLOORS 12-14 (11:45am-1:15pm)

SESSION 3 – Applied (1:15-2pm)

IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Methods to implement demand based capacity models

12th floor – 1205

 

Steve Nunn
Global VP/GM Cloud & Infrastructure Services
UNISYS

APP DEV

Approaches to Legacy Modernization

13th floor – 1305

 

Steven Young
SVP
Mathtech

DATA

Preparing your data sets for an open data initiative

13th floor – 1302

 

Al Domingo
Sales Engineering Director
Cloudera

SECURITY

You’ve Been Breached! Now What?

14th floor – Auditorium

 

Daniel Soo
Principal, Cyber Risk Services, Deloitte & Touche, LLP
Deloitte

NETWORKING BREAK – REFRESHMENTS SERVED (2-2:15pm)

SESSION 4 – Applied (2:15 – 3pm)

IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Structuring reasonable and effective SLAs and OLAs

12th floor – 1205

 

Carl Heininger
Systems Engineering Manager
CISCO

APP DEV

Cloud based Application Development

14th floor – Auditorium

 

Kevin Mack
Application Development Manager
Microsoft

DATA

How the Cloud can speed up your open data initiative

13th floor – 1302

 

Ewan Simpson
Accountability Consultant
Socrata

SECURITY

Advanced Analytics: Protecting Citizen Data

13th floor – 1305

 

Joseph Cudby
Senior Director of Professional and Government Security Services
Level 3 Communications

NETWORKING BREAK – REFRESHMENTS SERVED (3-3:30pm)

CLOSING – 14th Floor Auditorium (3:30 – 4:30pm)

Closing Keynote – Cognitive Computing and IBM Watson

Christopher Codella, Ph.D. – IBM Distinguished Engineer/Public Sector Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson Group