Building a Strategy for NexGen Government IT

International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C.
March 1st, 2022 | 7:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Modernizing any organization is daunting, but there are additional challenges when doing so at government scale. The benefits, however — radically improved citizen services, increased mission velocity, insightful decisions, and strengthened security — overwhelmingly justify the effort and make clear the importance of continuous innovation.

While agency missions vary widely, a recent GovWin survey of government IT executives identified three top priorities today that will continue to be priorities for the next three years: cybersecurity, AIOps and digital services in the cloud.

The annual GIST Conference empowers attendee success by providing essential insights, concise playbooks and direct access to seasoned technical experts. Our panels will share valuable experiences from government innovators and industry experts – to include identifying opportunities for improvement, use of key technologies, lessons learned and operationalizing at massive scale. Our Innovation Hub provides attendees access to industry partners to immediately learn, engage, and accelerate your agency’s modernization efforts.

Attendees will come away from this event with an improved ability to:

• Rapidly build secure applications that deliver mission outcomes
• Deliver the best citizen experience with digital services in the cloud
• Identify AIOps use cases to save millions of dollars in work force productivity
• Unlock the strategic value of data to drive high-quality decisions
• Accelerate innovation and forge generative cultures across the enterprise

7:30 - 8:25 AM	Registration, Networking, Continental Breakfast
8:25 - 8:35 AM	Opening Remarks
8:35 - 9:00 AM	Opening Government Keynote: Shaping the Next Generation of Government IT Maj. Gen. Garrett S. Yee, Assistant to the Director, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
9:00 - 9:45 AM	Cybersecurity – Delivering Security in a Perimeter-less World Government cybersecurity has never been more difficult than with today’s disparate workforce and complex supply chains which face increasing pressure from bad actors. Cybersecurity Executive Orders, NIST guidance and other policies leave cyber leaders with daunting challenges – including Zero Trust, micro-segmentation, robust log analysis, extended detection and response, and security orchestration and response. What are the dependencies? How do you architect for long-term success? How do agencies visualize security operations? How do you cost-optimize technology investments and workforce productivity? Robert Wood*, CISO, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
9:45 - 10:15 AM	Networking Break & Innovation Hub
10:15 - 11:00 AM	Panel: Optimizing IT Operations, Productivity, and Decisions AIOps is ranked as the most successful IT analytics project by EMA survey respondents. Use cases span all IT operational roles, DevSecOps teams, executives, and a wide range of mission-centric lines of business. With targeted AIOps projects agencies can upgrade workforce skills, improve mission velocity, capture huge productivity gains, and streamline informed decision making. What AIOps projects provide the largest ROI? Where do agencies start? Should you use a general versus specialized AIOps solution? How do you integrate? Why is gaining cross-department adoption critical? Hannah Hunt, Chief Product and Innovation Officer, US Army Futures Command Software Factory Bob Costello**, CIO, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
11:00 - 11:45 AM	Panel: Innovating Digital Services in the Cloud Citizens and employees demand innovative consumer-like experiences from government digital services. Cloud technologies provide a toolkit for agencies to transform America’s competitiveness with the rest of the world. Analytics, open data, Infrastructure-as-Code, DevSecOps pipelines, low-code platforms and observability platforms are just a few of the building blocks used by modern application architectures. How are high-performing agencies building apps faster? How do they rapidly release while balancing security and quality needs? What development patterns are they using? How do agencies empower rapid innovation in risk adverse cultures?
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Closing Remarks
12:00 - 1:00 PM	Lunch & Innovation Hub
1:00 PM	Optional Museum Tours

*Speaker Pending Agency Approval

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