VIRTUAL EVENT

SLED Nation 2021

April 22, 202111:00 AM - 4:00 PM(UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Overview

Resilience. Recovery. Rethinking: Modernizing Government for 2021 and Beyond

What a year it has been. Rising expectations. Growing complexity. Workforce constraints. Faster project timelines. Aging infrastructure.  Add in a global pandemic, it’s clear that the future of government is digital. For many state and local agencies and higher education, however, providing services for citizens, students and patients quickly while embracing emerging technologies is difficult. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on how to simplify and modernize your agency, university or teaching hospital with Red Hat® open source technology portfolio.

The time is now. Let Red Hat help you on your journey. 

Agenda

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Resilience. Recovery. Rethinking: Modernizing Government for 2021 and Beyond

  • Speaker: Nancy Bohannan, Red Hat, VP State and Local Government and Higher Education, Sales, Andrew Clay Shafer, Red Hat, VP Global Transformation and Anne Dalton, Red Hat, SSP Data Science & Edge 
  • In March 2020, everything changed all at once. During this keynote, Red Hat’s SLED leader will connect the dots between real world problems agencies are facing today and how modernization and automation can help you with resilience, recovery, and rethinking for the years ahead. Plus, From Challenges to Opportunities: The Five Elements of Transformation a fireside chat with Red Hat experts discussing how to prepare your workforce for what you haven’t done before, leveraging digital transformation and an open organization culture to achieve the mission.  
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City & County of Denver Spotlight: Automation Excellence

  • Speakers: Sean Greer, City and County of Denver, IT Director of Service Delivery, Hailaeos Troy, City and County of Denver, Sr. DevOps Automation Architect, Kacie Kelly, Red Hat, Account Executive  
  • For many state and local agencies, providing citizen services quickly while embracing emerging technologies is difficult. Hear how City and County of Denver is a trailblazer in automation excellence, transforming their culture and technical infrastructure.  
     
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Sector Spotlight: State & Local Health & Human Services

  • Speakers: Benjamin LaBelle, Washington Health Benefit Exchange, Associate Director Of Infrastructure Services, Ashley D’Souza, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Senior Manager, Sam Malhotra, The Center for THINK Strategies, CEO and Kevin Tunks, Red Hat, National Technology Advisor, SLED
  • Hear how the State of Washington Health Exchange teamed up with Deloitte to move their operations to a cloud environment, reducing costs by eliminating unused servers and systems in 100 days.
     
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Sector Spotlight: Higher Education & Teaching Hospitals

  • Speakers: Bruce Maas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Emeritus Vice Provost for Information Technology and CIO, Ted Hanss, Yale University, Health Sciences Chief Information Officer, John Eberhart, Yale University, IT Associate Director,  Dan Domkowski, Red Hat, AI/ML/DL Delivery Specialist and Damien Eversmann, Red Hat, Delivery Strategist for Higher Education
  • Interested in delivering cost-cutting technology services for research? Join this session for your how-to guide on democratizing research in the distributed cloud.  
     
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State of Delaware Spotlight: How to get started on your automation journey

  • Speakers:  David Crown, State of Delaware Department of Technology and Information (DTI), Lead Telecommunications Technologist and Patrick Boyle, State of Delaware Department of Technology and Information (DTI), Senior Telecommunications Technologist and Tom Suder, Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC), President & Founder
  • You’re ready to modernize. Now what? Whether you are facing an aging infrastructure, rising expectations, resource constraints, faster project timelines or all of the above, the question to modernize is not when but how. Hear from State of Delaware DTI as they share their automation journey, getting the quality, consistency and repeatability that makes an immediate impact. 
     
 
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Speakers

Andrew Clay Shafer
Red Hat, VP, Global Transformation

Anne Dalton
Red Hat, SSP Data Science & Edge
 

Ashley D’Souza
Deloitte Consulting LLP, Senior Manager

Benjamin LaBelle  Washington Health Benefit Exchange, Associate Director Of Infrastructure Services

Bruce Maas      University of Wisconsin-Madison, Emeritus Vice Provost for Information Technology and CIO

Damien Eversmann  Red Hat, Delivery Strategist for Higher Education 

Dan Domkowski
Red Hat, AI/ML/DL Delivery Specialist

Hailaeos Troy
City and County of Denver, Sr. DevOps Automation Architect

John Eberhart
Yale University, IT Associate Director

Kacie Kelly
Red Hat, Account Executive

Kevin Tunks
Red Hat, National Technology Advisor, SLED

Nancy Bohannan
Red Hat, VP State and Local Government and Higher Education, Sales

Patrick Boyle
State of Delaware Department of Technology and Information (DIT), Senior Telecommunications Technologist

Sam Malhotra
The Center for THINK Strategies, CEO

 Sean Greer
City and County of Denver, IT Director of Service Delivery
 Ted Hanss
Yale University, Health Sciences Chief Information Officer		 Tom Suder
Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC), President & Founder		      

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