Mobility

Accessing the Future: Business on the Move – In order to serve the mobile citizens and support the mobile workforce of today and the future, agencies must develop a framework of processes and applications that are built as mobility-enabled, not adapted to a mobile environment. Mobility is no longer about the device, but the applications and services enabled by the devices we carry every day.

Track Keynote: Blair Levin, Communications and Society Fellow, Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program (confirmed)

Blair Levin became Communications & Society Fellow with the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program on May 10, 2010, following his departure from the Federal Communications Commission, where he served as the Executive Director of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative. In his role at the Federal Communications Commission, Mr. Levin oversaw the development of a National Broadband Plan, a project mandated by Congress in the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Mr. Levin rejoined the Commission in June, 2009, after eight years as an analyst at Legg Mason and Stifel Nicolaus. As Barron’s Magazine noted, Levin “has always been on top of developing trends and policy shifts in media and telecommunications … and has proved visionary in getting out in front of many of today’s headline making events.”

Previously, Mr. Levin served as Chief of Staff to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt from December 1993 through October 1997. Mr. Levin oversaw, among other matters, the implementation of the historic 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act, the first spectrum auctions, the development of digital television standards, and the Commission's Internet initiative.

Prior to his position with the FCC, Mr. Levin was a partner in the North Carolina law firm of Parker, Poe, Adams and Bernstein, where he represented new communications ventures, as well as numerous local governments on public financing issues. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.

Panel 1: How To Catch the Mobility Wave

With almost everything possibly mobile in tomorrow’s hybrid enterprise, what will it mean to a government workforce under duress to bring your own device as consumerization drives innovation and traditional IT and communications boundaries are blurred, and public expectations dramatically shift? Practical ideas on laying out and executing a mobility strategy including rethinking how we buy and manage IT.

Moderator:

Tom Suder, President, Mobile Government Solutions

Panelists:
Roger Baker, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Owen Unangst, CIO Council Mobility Lead, Department of Agriculture
Blair Levin, Communications and Society Fellow, Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program
Gwynne Kostin, Director Mobile, Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies, U.S. General Services Administration

Jeff Mohan, Executive Director, Networx Program Officer, AT&T Government Solutions

Panel 2: The Business Case for Mobility

Can we enable the mobility of employees and customers and have it pay for itself (the business case and return on investment reality for device management, mobile apps, back end support, and telework)?

Moderator:
Tom Temin, Co-host, The Federal Drive with Tom Temin & Amy Morris

Panelists:
Jerry Mechling, Vice President, Gartner
Carl Froehlich, Associate Chief Information Officer End User Equipment and Services, Internal Revenue Service
Mark Cohn, Federal Chief Technology Officer, Unisys
Casey Coleman, Chief Information Officer, U.S. General Services Administration
Steve Cooper, Chief Information Officer, Federal Aviation Administration

Panel 3: Are We Ready For Mission Critical Mobile Systems?

Can we rely on mobile solutions for agency critical missions such as law enforcement and public safety, first responders, key business systems, disaster relief, defense? Where are we with public safety and emergency wireless networks?

Moderator:
Katherine McIntire Peters, Executive Director, NextGov/Government Executive

Panelists:
Rick Holgate, Assistant Director for Science and Technology/Chief Information Officer, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF)
Tim Horne, Regional Commissioner for Region 8 (Rocky Mountain Region), U.S. General Services Administration
Bernie McMonagle, Director, Federal Government Data Solutions, Verizon Wireless
Mark White, Principal and Chief Technology Officer, Deloitte
Robert Young, Department of Defense

Panel 4: The Future of Mobility

Imagining the future: where is advanced technology going? -- not just tomorrow’s devices and networks but industry-transforming services.

Moderator:
Wyatt Kash, Editorial Director, AOL Government (confirmed)

Panelists:
Steven Chan, Prince of Wales Doctoral Research Fellow Chief Architecht Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University, Kennedy School
Michael Donovan, Chief Technologist, New Services Development, HP Enterprise Services
Dr. David Metcalf, Senior Researcher and Developer, Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida
Theodore (Tod) Sizer II, Vice President Wireless Research Lab, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Jim Williams, Senior Vice President, Daon