2021 NASC Annual Conference Materials Page

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Tuesday, March 23

10:00 – 11:05 a.m. ET	Opening Remarks Brandon Woolf, State Controller (ID) and President of NASC Kinney Poynter, Executive Director, NASACT Session A: Unboss Your Leadership to Ignite Motivation and Passion in Others I PDF File Dr. Patrick Sweeney, Professor and Executive Director, Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character, Wake Forest University School of Business
11:05 – 11:15 a.m. ET	Break
11:15 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. ET	Session B: The Future of Work: A View from the Public Sector I PDF File William McNamara, Comptroller of the Commonwealth (MA) Jamie Rodgers, Deputy Director, National Association of State Chief Administrators Jenny Brodie, Global Lead Talent Researcher, Accenture Kelly Rogers, Senior Manager, Health and Public Services, Management Consulting, Accenture
12:05 – 12:15 p.m. ET	Break
12:15 – 1:05 p.m. ET (Recording not available)	Session C: OMB Update – Grants Under New Management: ARP, 2CFR and the Compliance Supplement I PDF File Gil Tran, Senior Policy Analyst, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
1:05 – 1:55 p.m. ET	Lunch Break
1:55 – 2:45 p.m. ET	Comptrollers’ Roundtable 1: Federal-State Issues I Agenda Moderator: Lynne Bajema, State Comptroller (OK) and Vice President of NASC
2:45 – 2:55 p.m. ET	Break
2:55 – 3:35 p.m. ET	Session D: Maximizing Your ERP Investment I PDF File Kathleen Baxter, State Comptroller (AL) Kristi Racines, State Auditor (WY) Louise Oliver, Director of Product Management, CGI
3:35 – 3:45 p.m. ET	Break
3:45 – 4:25 p.m. ET	Session E: GASB’s Financial Reporting Model Improvements and the Revenue and Expense Recognition Project I PDF File Julie Barrientos, Director, Advisory, Financial Management, KPMG David Starkey, Director of Financial Reporting, Office of the Comptroller General (SC)
4:25 – 4:35 p.m. ET	Break
4:35 – 5:15 p.m. ET	Session F: Enhancing the User Experience through Cloud Technology: The One Washington Program I PDF File Avanulas “Vann” Smiley, Executive Director for One Washington, Office of Financial Management (WA) Rowan Miranda, Senior Managing Director for Government Strategy, Workday

Wednesday, March 24

10:00 – 10:55 a.m. ET	Opening Remarks Kinney Poynter, Executive Director, NASACT Session G: State of the States I PDF File Shelby Kerns, Executive Director, National Association of State Budget Officers
10:55 – 11:05 a.m. ET	Break
11:05 – 11:45 a.m. ET	Session H: Security for Data Operations in a New Era I PDF File Joshua Whitworth, Chief Deputy Controller, Office of the State Controller (ID) J.D. Williams, Senior Director, State and Local Government, Infor Public Sector Claiborne Collier, Director of Government Cloud Portfolio, Infor Public Sector
11:45 – 11:55 a.m. ET	Break
11:55 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. ET	Session I: Governmental Accounting Standards Board Update I PDF File Dave Bean, Director of Research and Technical Activities, GASB Joel Black, Chairman, GASB Kristopher Knight, Deputy Secretary of State (DE) and GASB Board Member Alan Skelton, Incoming Director of Research and Technical Activities, GASB
1:10 – 2:15 p.m. ET	Lunch Break & Awards Ceremony Presiding: Brandon Woolf, State Controller (ID) and President of NASC
2:15 – 3:05 p.m. ET	Comptrollers’ Roundtable 2: Operational Effectiveness I Agenda Moderator: Doug Cotnoir, State Controller (ME) and Secretary/Treasurer of NASC
3:05 – 3:15 p.m. ET	Break
3:15 – 3:55 p.m. ET	Session J: ACFR and Narrative Reporting in the Cloud Era I PDF File Matt Clarkson, Financial Reporting Supervisor, Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OK) Kim Champion, President, Innofin Solutions Mark Betchey, Director Statewide Strategy, Business Development, Oracle Jaquelyn Flickinger, Director State & Local Strategy and Business Development – ERP/EPM, Oracle Kapil Garga, Solution Consultant, Oracle
3:55 – 4:05 p.m. ET	Break
4:05 – 4:45 p.m. ET	Session K: Finance Automation Benefits During and After COVID-19 I PDF File Amy Fenstermacher, Manager, Technology Consulting, EY Andrew Kleine, Senior Manager, EY Chris Estes, Finance, Operations & Technology Leader, EY
4:45 – 4:55 p.m. ET	Break
4:55 – 5:35 p.m. ET	Session L: Internal Controls in a Remote Environment: What Are State Governments Doing to Strengthen or Change Controls to Maintain Data Security? I PDF File Patrick Hodges, Deputy Controller, State Controller’s Office (ID) Jodi Daugherty, Partner, Eide Bailly LLP Anders Erickson, Cybersecurity Principal, Eide Bailly LLP

Thursday, March 25

10:00 – 10:55 a.m. ET	Opening Remarks Kinney Poynter, Executive Director, NASACT Session M: Reporting Transparency and Oversight of Pandemic Spending: Coronavirus Relief Fund and Emergency Rental Assistance Program I PDF File Richard Delmar, Acting Inspector General, U.S. Treasury, Office of Inspector General Debbie Harker, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, U.S. Treasury, Office of Inspector General Jeanine Keay, Pandemic Response Accountability Committee Senior Web Manager, Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
10:55 – 11:05 a.m. ET	Break
11:05 – 11:45 p.m. ET	Session N: GASB 87 Technology Leading Practices I PDF File Christopher Stewart, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP Burju Cobb, Senior Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
11:45 – 11:55 a.m. ET	Break
11:55 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. ET	Session O: Preventing and Detecting Fraud and Compliance Risk During Economic Uncertainty I PDF File Catherine Byrne, State Controller (NV) Jim McClurkin, Sr. Director – Public Sector, SAP Concur Jon Lawrence, VP of Product, Oversight Systems
12:35 – 12:45 p.m. ET	Break
12:45 – 1:25 p.m. ET	Session P: Washington State’s ERP Effort: Moving to the Cloud I PDF File Brian Tinney, Assistant Director, Office of Financial Management (WA) Robin Milne, Principle, Plante Moran
1:25 – 2:25 p.m. ET	Lunch Break
2:25 – 3:05 p.m. ET	Session Q: What’s New with Cost Allocation? Current Issues and Impact of the Revised 2-CRF Part 200 I PDF File Jennifer Pacheco, Taxation and Cost Allocation Compliance Specialist – Lead, Office of the State Controller (NC) Nelson Clugston, Vice President, Financial Services, MAXIMUS
3:05 – 3:15 p.m. ET	Break
3:15 – 4:05 p.m. ET	Session R: Cybersecurity: Protecting Yourself, Your Organization and Your Customer’s Data I PDF File Shannon Tufts, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Law and Government, School of Government, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
4:05 – 4:15 p.m. ET	Break
4:15 – 5:10 p.m. ET	Comptrollers’ Roundtable 3: General Topics I PDF File Cheryl Grey, Administrator, State Financial Services Division (MT), NASC Executive Committee Member Conference Adjournment and Closing Remarks Lynne Bajema, State Comptroller (OK), Vice President of NASC Kinney Poynter, Executive Director, NASACT

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