Q&A with Jennifer Bush - Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Information Security, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services 

My favorite part of cyber security is that no two days are the same! I enjoy the variety problems, projects, and challenges we’re presented and finding creative solutions to helping IT and our partners achieve their goals. I also enjoy the never-ending learning part of cybersecurity. This career field definitely keeps you on your toes and pushes you to be a better version of yourself day after day. Our knowledge, expertise and real-world experiences are constantly leaned on to help businesses make the best decisions for the business from a security perspective. Modernization of our legacy systems is a priority …

Automation Now & Next Annual Report 2022

Automation Now & Next 2022 provides insights unavailable from any other data set as it is tightly focused on intelligent automation and how businesses are embracing—and succeeding—in the Automation Economy. This is a unique and comprehensive look at the efforts, experiences, and projections of more than 1,000 automation leaders and more than 3,800 Automation Anywhere customers—nearly 5,000 voices from across industries and regions. Since this report is the third edition, we can also now discern meaningful trends and shifts in how organizations are using automation today and plan to use it in the future.

Exclusive Interview – Stephanie Delgado, CEO & Founder, DataCents Analytics 

I am currently the CEO and Chief Data Office of DataCents Analytics, LLC. My company provides three services: Fractional Chief Data Officer/data science on demand services, social impact analyses like economic impact analyses, and data monetization services with a focus on data coming from the public sector. I’m an applied economist by training, and I’ve moved back and forth between the public, private and entrepreneurial spaces. What I love about my job is that I spend most days making people happy. There is so much data in so many different places in the public sector, but people either don’t know …

Redefining HR Functions Amid the Evolution of the Workplace

The main point is that the pandemic shone a light on the need to ensure greater engagement and empowerment of employees. Almost for the first time, employees realized that they are in charge of their own destinies, so Martina Mangion says, we as HR teams need to be more competitive in how we attract, recruit, engage with and retain those employees. People now move laterally not just upwards if a competing role has better conditions or benefits. So upskilling has also become more important than ever before. On top of that, it is crucial that we have a diverse workforce …

Strategies to Attract and Retain the Next Generation of Leaders for Tomorrow’s Public Sector

In the forgotten past, people were happy to have a job and often stayed in their roles for many years even if they didn’t really enjoy what they were doing. In the last few decades this started to change and now, especially after the pandemic, the job alone is not enough to sustain employees. It is about the workforce and the workplace as much as the work itself. For instance, the demographics of most workplaces will soon change with the retirement of the baby-boomers and incoming of the next generation who have a different priority as they join the workforce. …

Speaker Spotlight Q&A: John Kaschak, Executive Deputy Secretary at Pennsylvania Department of Revenue

Conversely, COVID has led to a lot more emails and far fewer face-to-face interactions. And, despite leveraging technology such as Skype, Teams, etc. relationship and team building is much harder. Onboarding and training of new personnel have been more difficult. And we’ve learned that departmentwide communication has had its challenges. Employee awareness and engagement have suffered a bit.

Speaker Spotlight Q&A: Jenny Hedderman, Esq., State Risk Counsel, Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Jenny Hedderman, Esq., State Risk Counsel, Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Risk Counsel with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Comptroller’s Office. An expert and creative strategist in Government legal, finance, Risk Management and internal controls including Cybersecurity. Created CTR Cyber for cyber internal controls, speaker, Host of CTR Cyber 5 Series (Youtube), Professor and Board Member. Your Government Keynote: Risk & Reward: Cybersecurity and Privacy Awareness will detail how privacy awareness is a crucial component of cyber protection for the public sector - as it helps define the overall privacy culture in an organization. Mechanisms in place will help …

NSW Government Service Innovation

We surveyed over 1600 public sector leaders and the results are in. Take a look at the biggest trends, challenges and priorities shaping the future of government service innovation across the NSW public sector. Last year we saw a hybrid format with 253 leaders from across the state gathering in person and 1,356 joining us online. In 2022 the event is back bigger and better, with a completely in-person program. In partnership with the NSW Government, the Digital.NSW Showcase will share detailed examples of how NSW departments and agencies enable greater accessibility by addressing the digital divide and improving connectivity …