2016 Schedule
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