Tennessee's Chief Information Officer speaks to the 5 key focus areas of the state for technology and innovation, covering cloud, modernization, cybersecurity, digitial governmnet, and automation. How does the next phase of the State of Tennessee’s technology strategic vision look and what is the impact on it’s employees? 

• What is currently setting Tennessee ahead of the crowd when it comes to innovation and transformation? How is Tennessee meeting the needs of citizens and meeting them where they are, while balancing the need for modernization?
• Hear about the All-of-State approach to Cybersecurity and how the State is working to elevate the Cyber capabilities across all of Tennessee, identifying key risk areas and areas for shared gorwth.    

- Managing the competing priorities of modernization of internal and external services, and ensuring those services are accessible and manageable for employees and citizens.

- How can government keep up with the rate of digital transformation change happening, and how does centering data and metrics enable this?

- Dig into opportunities that flourish with internal digital transformation that can lead to enhanced service delivery

-To what extent does digital trust help and hinder the progress governments can make when modernizing or exploring digital transformation opportunities?

- Hear about how the CDC’s dream of a National Health Information Exchange (HIE) is levelling up Tennessee’s understanding of the health of its citizens, and how this is enabling Tennessee state government partnerships to flourish.

- How did we get to this point? How / why is Health often the leader for data exchange, and how does this leadership manifest in Tennessee?

-Collaborating with partner agencies can be a blessing and a curse – why does this HIE ensure a positive outlook for both citizens, but also government collaboration?

- How does Tennessee prioritizes Operational efficiency, and why this is a good thing for its workforce?

- Learn why Customer Focused Government is a priority for state leadership, and why it should be part of your everyday work. What is the purpose of CFG? And more importantly where is it going?

- Embedding customers (citizens) into the core of everything we do within Tennessee state government has impacts, and you’ll hear a lot about them today.

-Differentiating between CFG and Office of Evidence and Impact- how these departments are using data and metrics to tell the story of Tennessee and enable government to deliver more and provide more impact.

Grant Minchew

Deputy Chief Operating Officer, State of Tennessee

Christin Lotz

Director - Office of Evidence and Impact, Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration

Chris Fears

Director - Customer Focused Government, State of Tennessee

Adam Jarvis

Chief of Staff - Department of Finance and Administration, State of Tennessee

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