American Council for Technology (ACT)
28th Annual Management of Change Conference
Norfolk, VA June 8-10, 2008
Saturday, June 7th
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Conference/Early Event Registration
(Third Floor Foyer)
Sunday, June 8th
10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Conference Registration
(Third Floor Foyer)
7:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Special Events (off property)
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Intergovernmental Solutions Showcase
(Hampton Roads Foyer, Third Floor)
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Welcome Reception
(Hampton Roads Foyer, Third Floor)
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Dinner & Opening Remarks
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV & V, Third Floor)
"Evolving from Fantasy to Reality in Managing Change"
Dennis Clem
Chief Information Officer
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Presentation of the Honorable John J. Franke Jr. Award
Monday, June 9th
6:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Conference Registration
(Third Floor Foyer)
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Buffet Breakfast
(Marriott Ballroom, Fourth Floor)
7:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Intergovernmental Solutions Showcase
(Hampton Roads Foyer, Third Floor)
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. "A Whole New Mind"
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV & V, Third Floor)
Daniel Pink
Columnist, Author
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Break
(Hampton Roads Foyer, Third Floor)
9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Best Practice Defined - What Were You Thinking
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV &V, Third Floor)
Moderator: Michael W. Carleton
Chief Information Officer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Executive Director
Virginia Economic Development Partnership
Charles R. Christopherson Jr.
Chief Financial Officer
Department of Agriculture
Timothy K. Young
Deputy Administrator
E-Government and Information Technology
Office of Management and Budget
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. The Young and the Restless: How Generation Y is Changing our Workforce
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV & V, Third Floor)
Dr.Michelle Marks
Associate Professor of Management
School of Management, George Mason University
11:15 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Break
(Hampton Roads Foyer, Third Floor)
12:15 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV & V, Third Floor)
Congressman Tom Davis, Commonwealth of Virginia (bio)
Presentation of the Exceptional Leadership Award
1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Break
(Hampton Roads Foyer, Third Floor)
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Workshop Session I:
Anticipating Change: Envisioning What Works and What Won’t Work
(Hampton Roads Ballroom I & II, Third Floor)
Moderator: Bruce McConnell, McConnell International
President McConnell International & President, Government Futures
Sonja Barnes, Chief, Education Branch, Verification Division, Citizenship &
Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security
Robert Gaines, Chief of Strategy, Verification Division, Citizenship & Immigration
Services, Department of Homeland Security
Major Alfred A. Hamilton, Medical Chief Information Officer
U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base
Colonel Claude Hines, Jr., Program Manager for the
Theater Medical Information Program, Department of Defense Health Affairs
Paul Tibbits, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Enterprise Development
Department of Veteran Affairs
Leadership Development: Building a Sustainable Way of Change
(Marriott Ballroom I, II, & III, Fourth Floor)
Moderator: Leigh Shields, President, Consulting Services
Healthy Companies International
Mary Abbajay, President, Careerstone Group, LLC
Dr. W. Stan Boddie, Professor of Systems Management,
Information Resources Management College, National Defense University
Michael Howell, Chief Information Officer, Department of the Interior
Measures and Metrics: Performance Based Realities
(Hampton Roads Ballroom VII & VIII, Third Floor)
Moderator: Tim Long, Chief Development Officer, Acquisition Solutions
Mark E. Krzysko, Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense,
Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
Department of Defense
Tarrazzia Martin, Director of Policy and Programming,
Program Manager Information Sharing Environment, Director of National Intelligence
Patrick T. Plunkett, Manager, IT Performance Management
Office of the chief Information Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Diane O'Grady, President, Mid-Atlantic Telework Advisory Council
Robert J. Shea, Associate Director, Administration and Government Performance,
Office of Management and Budget
3:00. p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Break
(Hampton Roads Foyer, Third Floor)
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Workshop Session II:
(Hampton Roads Ballroom, Third Floor)
Evolving the Workforce - The New Generations: Tapping Their Greatness and
Recognizing Differences
(Hampton Roads Ballroom VII & VIII, Third Floor)
Moderator: Norman E. Lorentz, Vice President
Council for Excellence in Government
Dr. Jerry Ice, Chief Executive Officer, Graduate School
US Department of Agriculture
Steve Ressler, IT Specialist, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Office of the Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland Security
& Co-Founder, Young Government Leaders
Jim Trinka, Director, Training and Development, Federal Aviation Administration
Government 2.0 - blogs, wikis, social networking and more: Rebooting the
Public Square
(Hampton Roads Ballroom I & II, Third Floor)
Moderator: Lena Trudeau, Director of Strategic Initiatives
National Academy of Public Administration
Neil Bonner, Web Strategist, Transportation Security Adminisitration
Jim Walker, Director, Alabama Department of Homeland Security
Rethinking the Enterprise - How to Best Manage Knowledge & Information in
an Increasingly Virtual Environment
(Marriott Ballroom I, II & III, Fourth Floor)
Facilitators: Kathryn Wilks, SAIC Hassan Altalib, SAIC
Jim Knox, Knowledge Management, Records Management and Information Sharing
Team Leader, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Department of the Navy
Susan Swart, Chief Information Officer, Department of State
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Reception
(Hampton Roads Foyer, Third Floor)
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Dinner & Speaker
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV & V, Third Floor)
"Innovation and Integration to Dominate the Battlespace"
Lieutenant General Michael W. Peterson
Chiefof Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer
Officeof the Secretary of the Air Force
Intergovernmental Solutions Awards Program
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV & V, Third Floor)
Tuesday, June 10th
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Conference Registration
(Third Floor Foyer)
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Sitting at the Dock of the Bay: Where Change and Business Meet
Leadership Breakfast with Today's Change Agents
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV & V, Third Floor)
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Looking to the Horizon
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV & V, Third Floor)
Moderator: David Wennergren
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information
Management, Department of Defense
Janet Barnes, Chief Information Officer, Office of Personnel Management
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Wrap-up & Conference Closing
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV & V, Third Floor)
11:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch & Networking Session
(Hampton Roads Ballroom IV & V, Third Floor)