General Session #1: "If You're Not Confused, You're Misinformed": Essential Communication Skills for Experts in Public Service Environments |
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Randy Harrington, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Extreme Arts & Sciences |
General Session #2: Today's Challenges Facing Financial Managers
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Jeffrey O. Henley, Chairman, Oracle Corporation |
Concurrent Session #1: Security and Privacy: Cost, Complexity, & Compliance Issues for State Governments
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J.R. Reagan, Managing Director, Bearing Point Security & Identity Management Group |
Concurrent Session #2: Developments in Governmental Accounting
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An Update from the GASB |
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Robert H. Attmore, Chair, GASB
David R. Bean, Director of Research, GASB |
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OPEB |
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Robert L. Schmidt, Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Inc. |
Concurrent Session #3: Linking Strategic and Fiscal Planning
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Michael Masch, Secretary, Office of the Budget (PA) |
Concurrent Session #4: Implications of Sarbanes - Oxley Act on the Public Sector
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Nancy Valley, Partner, KPMG |
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Gail Flister Vallieres, Project Manager, U.S. Government Accountability Office |
Concurrent Session #5: Is Your State Funding Terrorism?
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Douglas Darling, Director, Division of Accounting (FL) |
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Antonio Rajan, LexisNexis |
Concurrent Session #6: Electronic Receipts
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Nolan North, Retired Assistant Treasurer, T. Rowe Price |
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Martin Johnson, Director, Visa |
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Mike Sullivan, Senior Vice President, Treasury Management Sales Manager, Bank of America |
Concurrent Session #7: ERP Systems - Internal Control and Audit Issues
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Harvey Eckert, Commonwealth Comptroller (PA) |
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Milford Sprecher, SAP Public Services, Inc. |
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Thomas Marks, Deputy Auditor General for Audits (PA) |
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Jim P. Kreiser, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young |
Concurrent Session #8: Federal/State Fiscal Position - The Unsustainable Federal Path
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Gene Dodaro, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Government Accountability Office |
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Ernie Almonte, Auditor General (RI) |
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Future Challenges for the Standards Setting Community |
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Ed Mazur, GASB Board Member |
Concurrent Session #9: Electronic Payments
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Mark Webster, Partner, CAPCO |
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Brigid O'Callaghan, Vice President and Regional Manager, Government Banking Division, U.S. Bank |
General Session #3: Achieving Service Excellence in an Era of Constrained Resources - A Technology Story
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Steve Kolodney, Vice President, CGI-AMS |
Concurrent Session #10: Talent Management - Strategic Planning for Change
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Tim Phoenix, Principal, Deloitte |
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George K. Beard, Director, Public Sector Financial Management Fellows Program, Hatfield Scool of Government, Portland State University |
Concurrent Session #11: Auditing for Fraud - Techniques That Work
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Internal Controls and Fraud - Fraud Aditing and Fraud Audit Techniques |
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Joseph R. Dervaes, Audit Manager for Special Investigations, Office of State Auditor (WA) |
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Nancy L. Young, Audit Administrator, Office of State Auditor (OR) |
Concurrent Session #12: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Effective Plans
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John Kreft, Director of Strategic Business Programs, Office of State Treasurer (OR) |
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Jacquelyn M. Devin, Assistant Vice President, State Street Bank |
Concurrent Session #13: Benchmarking in State Government
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Sadie Rodriguez-Hawkins, Assistant Director, Office of Financial Management (WA) |
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Jan Sylvis, Chief of Accounts, Department of Finance and Administration (TN) |
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Jeffrey S. Rosengard, Senior Vice President, The Hackett Group |
Concurrent Session #14: Ethics - Today's Expected Behavior
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Gila Bronner, President, Bronner Group, LLC |
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Can Government be Ethical? |
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L. Patrick Hearn, Director, Government Standards and Practices Commission (OR) |
Concurrent Session #15: Economic Trends and Emerging Issues
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State Budgets: Crisis is Over, Tough Times Still Ahead |
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Scott Pattison, Executive Director, NASBO |
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Trends in State Bond Ratings |
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Parry Young, Director, Standard & Poor's |
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Military Base Closings: Economic Impact on States |
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Kevin McHugh, Senior Vice President, American Appraisal |
Concurrent Session #16: Electronic Payments II
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Jim Donohue, Vice President, Business Development, MasterCard |
Concurrent Session #17: In a Change or Die World, Shared Services May Be An Option
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David Wilson, Partner, Accenture |
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Jay Stright, General Partner, Stright Associates |
Concurrent Session #18: Business Intelligence - Making Better Decisions
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Colleen Nicholls, Territory Account Manager, Government, Business Objects (Crystal Reporting) |
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Hackey Weinberger, Business Intelligence Senior Product Marketing Manager, Hyperion Solutions |
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Brian Whittington, Business Intelligence Architect, SAS |
Concurrent Session #19: OMB Issues
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Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 |
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Norwood "Woody" Jackson, N.J. Jackson LLC |
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Circular A-123: What States Should Know |
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Norwood "Woody" Jackson, N.J. Jackson LLC |
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Interpreting A-87 Guidlines |
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Joel Nolan, Vice President, Cost Services Division, MAXIMUS, Inc. |
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Ken Welch, Director, Fiscal Management, Office of the State Comptroller (TX) |
General Session #4: The Red Queen Challenge - Leading Change
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Dr. Sheila Sheinberg, President, The Center for Life Cycle Sciences |
