2019 Session Handouts
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10
Full Day Sessions
8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Participatory Planning Process for Success (3P4S)
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IT Leadership Development
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The Art of Purposeful Leadership: Putting People First
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MN Cyber Range: The Ultimate Platform to Learn Incident Response and Handling
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Automate Your Tedious Tasks with Ansible Tower
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Breakfast Sessions (Optional)
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Government IT and the Legislative Process: Creating Partnerships and Conversations for Success–Breakfast Session
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Easiest Catch: Don’t Be Another Fish in the Dark ‘Net–Breakfast Session
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11:00 am – 12:00 pm
CyberSecurity Scorecard: Knowing the Basics About People, Process, and Technology
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Microsoft Teams at the State of MN: Pilots, Rollouts, and Champions
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State of Ransomware in State and Local Government
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Blockchain for the Enterprise – Leveraging Bitcoin Technology for Strategic Business Value
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Leave the GIS, Take the Usability
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Diversity in IT Leadership
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Lead Well: Use Coaching Skills to “UnBecome” the Bottleneck
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Sensational Service Strategies for Internal and External Customers
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Government IT – We Don’t Have the Time to Go Slow Anymore
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From Profit to Destruction: Analyzing Today’s Threat Landscape, Sponsored by Cisco
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Securing the Branch through Digital Transformation, sponsored by Fortinet
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Cybersecurity in the Age of Cloud, Sponsored by Microsoft
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An Actionable Path Forward: Instantiating a Meaningful Multi-Cloud Environment, sponsored by Dell
Technologies
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1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
Dev-Sec-Ops: How to Make it Work
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Survey Research and Forms Management – An Innovative, Multi-Modal Platform
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Pwn the Pentester: Easy Ways to Harden Your Network (Session Will Be Repeated)
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Using AI and Bots to WOW our Constituents
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IT Workforce Planning
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Building out SCSU’s Project Management Office (Session Will Be Repeated)
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2020 Election Cyber Threat Landscape (Sessions Will Be Repeated)
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Experiences Integrating Accessibility in the RFP Process
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Disaster Recovery Planning and Best Practices
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Child Welfare – Are You Telling the Right Story? Sponsored by IBM Watson Health
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The Evolution of IT: A Road to Containers (Session Will Be Repeated)
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Questions, Concerns, Technical Problems? Java Licensing Changes (sponsored by Collier IT)
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A Practical Guide to Cloud Migration, sponsored by AWS
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2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Keep it Safe – Rapid Fire!
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The Evolution of IT: A Road to Containers (Repeat)
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Utilize Social Media For Better Branding and Recruiting Strategies
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Architectural Documentation
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Finding Our Way: ITIL at MNIT (Session Will Be Repeated)
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Creating Positive Customer Experience
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How the Accessibility QA Test Team (EAQAT) Can Assist with the Quality of Your State Product
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Yoga For Work (Session Will Be Repeated)
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MN Pipeline Workforce Program and Dual-Training Grant
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Building and Scaling Human-Centered Citizen Experiences–Keys for Success, sponsored by IBM Watson Health
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Automating Away your IT Job with PowerShell: Real World Examples of Common IT Tasks, sponsored by Now Micro
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Enable AWS Adoption at Scale: Best practices, Automation, & Governance, Sponsored by AWS
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Creating Smarter Cities and Safer Communities, Sponsored by Insight
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10:00 am – 11:30 am
Memory as a Service, presented by Keynote Speaker Chris Dancy
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Speed Geeking – Risk Management
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Building a Culture for Innovation
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Shift Left: Use Accessibility to Improve Your Project Bottom Line
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It’s a Complex World: Leading and Navigating Through Complexity
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Cyber Insurance: Key Considerations and Challenges
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Quantum Computing and IBM Q: An Introduction
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The MN Department of Health Journey to DevOps
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High-Performance Organizations in the 21st Century
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Ten Simple Ways to Screw Up a Good Project
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Build Your Own Data Profile for Your Community with Minnesota Compass
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Improving Impact: A Crash Course in Human-Centered Design
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11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Featured Lunch Presentation – Mind of a Hacker
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12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Zero Trust, CARTA, CSF, RMF, CJIS– OMG! How Can I Address All of These?
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How to Ensure Your Website is ADA Compliant Without Sacrificing Quality Design
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A Journey to the Cloud: Stored Procedures to Serverless Architecture
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Building out SCSU’s Project Management Office (Repeat)
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Thank You for Sharing My Data: Balancing Data Sharing, Open Data and GaaS with Data Privacy
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Finding our Way: ITIL at MNIT (Repeat)
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Surviving the Mock Disaster – Building an Effective Tabletop Exercise (Session Will Be Repeated)
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Successful Partnering with Accessibility Testing Vendors
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Applying Emotional Intelligence for Career Success
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Legacy Data: Can I Delete it, Ignore it or What?
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Advanced Analytics and AI Cognitive for Government, Sponsored by IBM
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Have a Plan! Helping avoid SPAM and Ransomware Disaster
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Dynamic Segmentation – The Future of Networking, Sponsored by Presidio
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2:00 pm – 3:00pm
5 Important Security Lessons from 2019
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Interior Design 101 | UX Research for Functional & Beautiful Websites
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Getting Your Project Funded – Experiences at Public Sector Organizations
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I Am So Sick & Tired of Work!!!
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Pwn the Pentester: Easy Ways to Harden Your Network (Repeat)
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Yoga For Work (Repeat)
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Are We Project Capable? Assessing Organizational Readiness
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Enhancing Government with Drones
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Surviving the Mock Disaster – Building an Effective Tabletop Exercise (Repeat)
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Dawn of the Human Firewall: Forward Focused Cybersecurity Training and Awareness
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What Can Agile Do for You?
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2020 Election Cyber Threat Landscape (Repeat)
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Why is the Tech Industry Committing Leadership Suicide?
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Steering Committee
Alex Hepp, City of Hopkins
Bill Bleckwehl, Cisco
Dave Andrews, DEED
Jay Wyant, Minnesota IT Services
Jim Hall, Ramsey County
Matt Bailey, IBM
Melissa Reeder, League of Minnesota Cities
Nathan Beran, City of New Ulm
Sue Wallace, IT Futures Foundation
Lisa Meredith, Minnesota Counties Computer Cooperative
Justin Kaufman, Minnesota IT Services
Renee Heinbuch, Washington County/MNCITLA
Jerine Rosato, Ramsey County
David Berthiaume, Minnesota IT Services
Cory Tramm, Sourcewell Tech
Content Committee
Tomas Alvarez, Federal Reserve
Tom Ammons, MN.IT – Central
Dave Andrews, MN State Services for the Blind
Susan Bousquet, MN.IT – DOT
Robert Granvin, Metro State
Alex Hepp, City of Hopkins
Shawntan Howell, Ramsey County
Jenny Johnson, Metropolitan Council
Millicent Kasal, MN.IT – Central
Ping Li, MN.IT – MMB
Chibuzor Nnaji, MN.IT – DHS
Mehrdad Shabestari, MN.IT – Central