2007 Montana Government IT Conference

Wednesday
December 5, 2007

7:30 am

Registration Opens

8:00 am – 9:30 am

Information Technology Managers Council Meeting
(Natatorium)

9:45 am
Conference Kickoff

Senator Mike Cooney
SD 40, President of the Senate, 60th Legislature
(Ballroom)

10:00 am

Trade Show Opens
(Lewis & Clark Rooms)

Trade Show Open 10:00 am – 7:30 pm

10:30 - 11:30

‘Drop In’ Demos and Discussions

GIS – Premier Data Services, GCDB Enhancement
(Clark Room)

Teleworking and Office Hoteling
Discuss tools and techniques that Northrop Grumman is employing in the telecommuting and office sharing arena.
Michael Seipp, Division Manager, Northrop Grumman
(Lewis Room)

Enterprise Content Management Demonstrations
ITSD & DNRC
(Gallery Room)

Interactive Video – ITSD & VisionNet
(Meadowlark)

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch & Keynote Address

Liza Lowery Massey, CEO, The CIO Collaborative
The Role of the CIO, Superhero, mentor, business strategist, compliance officer, financial manager, salesperson, cyber cop, and public servant!
(Ballroom)

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Information Technology Board Meeting
(Natatorium)

1:20 pm – 2:30 pm

‘Drop In’ Demos and Discussions

SharePoint, Allen Abrahamson, Microsoft
(Lewis Room)

Unified Communications
(Clark Room)

Enterprise Content Management Demonstrations
(Gallery Room)

Interactive Video – ITSD & VisionNet (Meadowlark)

3:00 – 4:00

Keynote Address

Eric Bozich, Vice President, National Network Services
Qwest Communications
Direction of the Telecom Industry
(Ballroom)

4:00 pm

No Host Bar and Appetizers – Vendor Show Area

7:30 pm

Trade Show Closes

Thursday
December 6, 2007

7:30 am – 9:00 am

CIO Breakfast
The CIO breakfast is open to public sector CIOs (managers of IT organizations) as well as managers of private sector IT businesses.  This ‘sit-down’ breakfast will provide for conversation among the various IT leaders, both public sector and private.  Each public and private organization is asked to provide one attendee to this event.
(Natatorium)

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Conference Attendee Breakfast
(Ballroom)

9:30 am – 10:30 am

Keynote Address

Ordinary Magic
Brad Montgomery, CSP
Life is Fun & Funny, And Filled with Magic.  Real magic happens in our lives everyday. Magic doesn't have to mean vanishing tigers and floating women; sometimes finding magic is as easy as stopping to smell the flowers. Or remembering to giggle. Or to do funny things.
(Ballroom)

Breakout Sessions 10:45 - 11:45

The Value of IT Governance
Liza Lowery Massey, CEO, The CIO Collaborative
The symptoms are everywhere - IT is overwhelmed, project deliverables are not met, customers are dissatisfied and adopting an “I’ll do it myself” attitude, multiple systems exist for similar needs, and/or IT lacks direction.  The cure - implement a well defined, participatory decision making process for IT.  Attend this session to learn how IT governance can cure these symptoms and ensure that the organization receives the most value possible for its IT dollars.
(Capitol Room)

Records & Information Management
Patty Borsberry, Office of the Secretary of State, Records and Information Management Division Deputy
(State Room)

Montana Integrated Justice Information System Broker
‘Implementing Standards Based Information Exchanges in Montana’
Mike Jacobson, Montana Department of Justice
Karen Nelson, Office of the Court Administrator
DOJ’s Information Technology Services Division developed a strategic vision to enhance the sharing of information between justice agencies and to enable the integration of justice information systems in Montana, known as the Montana justice integration initiative. This initiative is being completed using a phased approach to achieve each strategic goal and the overall goal of justice information integration in Montana. The implementation of the resulting “IJIS Broker” and the identified information exchanges are being accomplished through the development of GJXDM compliant IEPD’s consistent with a Service Oriented Architecture. To the DOJ and all its stakeholders, the establishment of the IJIS Broker provides an open standards platform to share complete, accurate, and timely information between partner agencies in a heterogeneous environment. This session will present the background, approach, technology and a case study of implementing standards to share justice information.
(Lewis Room)

IT Procurement with the State of Montana
Brett Boutin, Chief, Procurement Services Bureau
Penny Moon, Senior Contracts Officer, State Procurement Bureau
IT Procurement methods, law, and rule; cooperative purchasing.  Functional areas of PSB:  Equipment, Software, and Services as they relate to Computing and/or Telecommunications.
(Gallery Room)

Deploying GIS to the Enterprise
Bryant Ralston, ESRI and Marty Balikov, ESRI
This session is designed for IT and GIS managers and will outline the key fundamentals and considerations in developing and implementing an Enterprise ArcGIS Server environment as a foundation for building business solutions.  Key elements include identifying agency needs, proper planning, licensing considerations, conceptual architectures and lessons learned deploying GIS functionality via web applications and web services that can be used by clients, including ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Explorer, and browser-based applications. Traditional GIS functions like Geodata Management, Visualization, and Spatial Analysis are all available through ArcGIS Server. ArcGIS Server applications are developed using the same underlying ArcObjects as those that make up the ArcGIS Desktop products.  We will outline the workflow for using ArcGIS Server, including authoring a GIS resource, publishing the GIS resource to ArcGIS Server as a service, and using the service from a client application.
(Natatorium)

Information Technology’s Role in Enterprise Architecture
Pete Wiseman, DOA, ITSD
This session will define enterprise architecture, the role and responsibility IT has in supporting the enterprise architecture and the federated approach to meeting enterprise architecture goals and requirements.
(Clark Room)

12:00 pm 1:00 pm

Lunch & CIO Address

Dick Clark
Chief Information Officer, State of Montana
(Ballroom)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Breakout Sessions

Best Practices in Enterprise Identity and Access Management (non-technical)
Liza Lowery Massey, CEO, The CIO Collaborative
More sensitive and confidential data is being stored on-line than ever before.  At the same time, our systems are under attack.  We try to secure the enterprise but it is very expensive and management’s understanding and support are often lacking.  Worse yet, some of our security measures are seen as counter-productive.  Attend this session to learn how implementing a best practice based Identity and Access Management (IAM) program can help.
(Captiol)

Records Management and Document Tools
Becky Bacon, DOA, ITSD
Come participate in an interactive session to learn about the P8 Tools, which will help manage your electronic records.  Tools and discussion items will include Records Management, Disaster Recovery, Imaging, Content Services, Workflow and E-Forms.
(State Room)

No More Silos – Reaching Out with Applications and Support
Mark Van Alstyne, Montana Secretary of State’s Office, IT Manager
Organizations are continuing to implement “silo” applications that are isolated from the other systems and processes crucial to the organization’s success. This session will take a quick look at two new SOS initiatives, the Administrative Rules of Montana system and the SOS Information Management System (SIMS), and their approach to eliminating “silos,” and reaching out to the customer base.

Continuity of Operations Planning for the State of Montana
Dawn Pizzini, DOA, ITSD, Continuity Services Bureau
(Gallery Room)

Now that the Smoke Has Cleared... ArcObjects for the Desktop, Field and Web
Sean Myers, Kris Larson, Catherine Love – CDM, GIS Specialists
Now that the smoke around ArcGIS Server and ArcEngine have cleared, there are some practical examples of how ArcObjects development is helping state and local governments grapple with the concepts of system integration and interoperability.  During this session we will look at how the ESRI product suite components are coming together to support complete enterprise solutions for these organizations. The session will include a presentation of a custom ArcMap desktop GIS tool, a mobile GIS application running on ArcEngine, and a web-based GIS application running on ArcGIS Server.  This presentation will give a general overview and demonstration of the applications along with some brief technical development background, and strategies for integrating these and other systems within an ArcGIS Server environment.
(Natatorium)

Enterprise Architecture – How it has improved business processes within DOI
Colleen Coggins, US Dept of the Interior, Office of the CIO, Interior Chief Architect
(Clark Room)

2:15 pm – 4:30 pm

Agency Round Table
State agencies and other public sector organizations will report on their current IT organization, major IT projects and their IT issues.  This is a great opportunity to learn more about the various IT organizations that make up the Montana government IT world.
(Ballroom)

Friday
December 7, 2007

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Attendee Breakfast
(Natatorium)

8:30 – 9:30

State CIO – Local Government Open Forum
(Gallery Room)

"Factors to Consider when Deploying Unified Communications" Matt Yeagle, Nortel Networks
(Executive Room)

DNRC Resource Management – GIS Implementation
Evan Hammer, Marcus Sadak, Jeff Dobb, John Hogland
Three case studies which show how DNRC has used GIS to streamline business processes will be presented.
(Judicial Room)

9:30 – 10:30

The Strategic Network Plan for the State of Montana Presenters: Steve Noland, Julia Lester – DOA, ITSD
The Strategic Network Architecture developed by the Department of Administration Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) describes the network framework that will be used by SummitNet, the state's enterprise telecommunications network, to support design requirements, deployment of new network services and evolving technology. The architecture provides the vision and direction for a predictable, scalable, reliable and secure network environment.
(Executive Room)

Enterprise GIS in Agriculture and Forest Land Valuation
Ted Chase, GIS Manager Department of Revenue-Property Assessment Division
The session will provide an overview of the department's business process of valuing 55 million acres of agriculture and forest land in Montana using GIS technology. Demonstrations will include GIS data review, processing, analysis and migration of GIS information to the Property Assessment Division CAMA (Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal) database.
(Judicial Room)

9:00 – 10:30

State Project Manager Panel
State agency project managers will share their experiences employing Project Management principles in the State Government arena.
This panel includes Departments of Administration, Environmental Quality, Public Health and Human Services, Revenue, and Transportation. It is designed to allow agencies and vendors to understand the PM efforts underway or planned in some state organizations. These should be great presentations and Q&A.
(Legislative)

How-To Breach Government Security
Brad Smith, RN,BS,ASCIE,MCNSP,CISSP…
CIR Security, Helena, MT dir@EndHack.com
Brad will show the most common methods of breaching government security. Foremost we'll discuss and demonstrate cross site scripting (XSS) and how it can be used to harvest passwords, route visitors to fake sites and how to get browsers to do the scripting for you. We'll then talk about how to capture a web server and turn it to the deviant purpose of an attack platform that is used to create Bot armies and how these armies are currently being used to attack government agencies. This session includes demonstrations, case studies and information not generally available to the public.
(State)

9:00 – 12:00

“Records Management and IT:  Bridging the Chasm of Misunderstanding” 
Dr. Mark Langemo, CRM, and Dr. Timothy O’Keefe, Ph.D.
It is essential that IT professionals and records managers now collaborate regularly and consistently if information resources and records (digital, paper, and other) are to be managed in any organization.  Unfortunately, records managers and IT leaders often don’t understand each other, often don’t fully understand each other’s work, and often don’t combine their expertise and experience to accomplish successful organization-wide information management.  Dr. Tim O’Keefe, a Ph.D. in IT with 20+ years of real-world IT experience, and Dr. Mark Langemo, CRM, a 41-year records management professor emeritus and consultant will present a  straight-forward energetic presentation about how to effectively bring IT and records management professionals together for the benefit of them and their organizations.
(Capitol Room)

10:45 am – 12:30 pm

Developing and deploying enterprise GIS solutions with ArcGIS Server and Explorer
Tim Weisenburger
This presentation is focused towards GIS programmers and application developers and will focus on thinking about maps in web-enabled GIS applications, considerations when publishing map resources, their properties and planning, and utilizing a map cache. There are best practices that users have learned in order to increase application productivity. This additional information on these methods when implementing ArcGIS Server will definitely help you in developing robust applications.

Migrating to Agile Software Development: Overcoming the Challenges
Dennis Phillips, Ph.D., CEO, Gold Systems
Rapid and erratic change in requirements, demands for decreased time to market and the use of leading or bleeding edge technologies drive software development organizations to implement new methodologies.  Agile methods are emerging as the choice of many organizations to address current demands on software development groups.  Migrating to these methods introduces many challenges to a traditional plan –driven organization.  This presentation will discuss the challenges of migrating to Scrum from traditional, plan-driven methods and provide an approach to meeting those challenges through example and case studies.
(Legislative)

Montana’s Major Infrastructure Projects: ESSC and Network Expansion Status
Mike Boyer, ITSD, Infrastructure Projects Director
Carl Hotvedt, ITSD, Network Expansion Project Manager
Mike will give a status and plans presentation on the Enterprise Systems Services Centers project.  Carl will present the status and plans for the Network Expansion project.
(Executive Room)

Windows Platform Foundations from .Net 3.0 -> .Net 3.5
Steven Fiore, Microsoft
During this session we will explore the 4 application platform components comprising .Net 3.0. We will explore the evolution of .Net 3.0 into .Net 3.5. We will spend time exploring each framework layer: WCF, WPF, WCS, WF. Then will then introduce Silver - the new evolutionary path for WCF + WF in Visual Studio 2008.
(Clark)

1:00 – 3:00

Silverlight for Developers
Steven Fiore, Microsoft
Silverlight is the next generation of end user experience on the Web. Rich Interactive Applications (RIA) represents the marriage of the best of the desktop and the web ON the web. During this session we will overview Silverlight as a development platform, then explore key components of the Expression suite of products which are core enabler for building multimedia-rich applications for the web. From there we will explore Silverlight Hosting/Publishing on Windows Live. In the second half of this talk we will dive into the specifics of Development using Visual Studio 2008. All of it will be accompanied by a reasonable amount of Demos.
(Clark)