2008 Florida Government Technology Conference

I will be going to the today and tomorrow. The theme this year is "Government IT Saving Green by Going Green" (see banner below)



Currently I am schedule to see five "breakout sessions" and hopefully one Keynote tomorrow.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008


1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Web 2.0 Technologies
Joe Clark
Florida State University,
Center for Teaching and Learning

2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

Business Mash-Ups
Kevin Parker
Serena Software


Wednesday, September 24, 2008


8:30 am - 9:30 am

The Rising Threats and Vulnerabilities of Businesses and Organizations Through the Use of Social Engineering with Basic Hacking Skills
Denise Stemen
Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI Cyber Division
Infraguard and Agency for Enterprise Information Technology

The ITIL Journey: Tales from the Road (Alterative Class)
Coleen Birch
itSMF Local Interest Group




9:45 am - 10:45 am

Proven Integration Strategies for Government
John Jamieson
Hewlett Packard




1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Business Intelligence Trends & Successes: Government Dashboards and Visual Presentation of my Key Data
Guy Cavallo, Microsoft Corporation



Hopefully I will be able to blog a little about them all. Also, I hope gets some pictures from the vendor exhibit hall floor. Today I am going to sit in on two of my favorite topics, Web 2.0 and Mashups. I am really hoping that there will be some interesting material covered that I can take back and introduce to my management. I suspect that since this a government conference there will not be any Bleeding Edge Technology shown, but maybe I can see some established Web 2.0 tech being used in a way that is conducive my government agency's directive.



For more information on the Florida Government Technology Conference 2008 please visit the website: http://floridagtc.com/index.cfm

A conference program that list the schedule of all activities and Keynotes can be found here: http://floridagtc.com/conferenceProgram08.cfm