Thursday

5K Fun Run/3K Walk

Meet in the Sheraton Lobby to carpool to the race location.

Join us bright and early Thursday morning for a Fun Run or Walk. We will meet at 6:30 am (it’s not that early-the sun will be up!) to carpool to the Clive Greenbelt Trail just a couple of minutes away. The run & walk will be held concurrently on the paved trail along the creek in the woods. Light refreshments will be provided after the event, and we plan to have everybody back in plenty of time to clean up before the first morning session begins at 9 am.

Prizes will go to the first place male and female runners and walkers!

Click to view the planned route

Please sign up through the conference registration. There are no additional costs to participate.

Breakfast in the Ballroom

The registration desk is located in the Waterfall Atrium area. Please stop by the registration desk to register for the conference or if you have any questions regarding the conference.

Announcements in the Ballroom.

Explore ESRI software offerings and get free training at the Hands-on Learning Lab.

The Learning Lab offers self-paced training sessions (approximately 45 minutes each) featuring a recorded presentation and an interactive exercise. ESRI instructors are available to answer your questions.

Afternoon Break in the Ballroom

Free time

Join your fellow ITAG conference attendees for a little music and refreshment on the deck, sponsored by IP Pathways.

ITAG Banquet In The Ballroom

5K Fun Run/3K Walk

Meet in the Sheraton Lobby to carpool to the race location.

Join us bright and early Thursday morning for a Fun Run or Walk. We will meet at 6:30 am (it’s not that early-the sun will be up!) to carpool to the Clive Greenbelt Trail just a couple of minutes away. The run & walk will be held concurrently on the paved trail along the creek in the woods. Light refreshments will be provided after the event, and we plan to have everybody back in plenty of time to clean up before the first morning session begins at 9 am.

Prizes will go to the first place male and female runners and walkers!

Click to view the planned route

Please sign up through the conference registration. There are no additional costs to participate.

Breakfast in the Ballroom

The registration desk is located in the Waterfall Atrium area. Please stop by the desk to register for the conference or if you have any questions regarding the conference.

Announcements in the Ballroom.

Title: Safe, Secure and Productive

Description: During this session we will explore how new capabilities in Office Pro Plus and Advanced Threat Protection will keep your users safe and secure wile being more productive. We will also explore some of the more recent capabilities that enable your users to easily comply with 508.3 accessibility regulations.

Advance Threat Protection Keeping You and Your Users Safe and Secure
- Latest O365 Security Best Practices
- Advanced Features

The Productive, Modern Workplace
- Working and collaborating together
- Protecting and restoring your files
- Modern collaboration

Presenter: Tom Moen

Presenter Bio: Tom Moen has had a wide range of Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and of course, Records/Compliance experience across a gamut of technology firms including; Apple Computer, FileNet/IBM and Microsoft. Tom was a product manager for Microsoft Back Office Server and worked on the FileNet Records Manager Connector for SharePoint. He has supported Cloud Services since the very early days of Cloud Computing helped numerous organizations understand the depths of Microsoft Security and Compliance Center and how these capabilities solve real world security issues facing many government agencies today. Tom’s passion and unique ability to tell complex technology stories has landed him on stage with iconic leaders including Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, and Bill Gates.

Morning break in the Ballroom sponsored by Sanborn

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Lunch in the Ballroom

Title: Connecting with Cisco Meraki

Description: The goal of our presentation is to spend the first half (25 minutes) covering the full stack of Meraki products and the power of our cloud-managed dashboard. Ideally we will share our screen with the crowd and run through the visibility and analytics you can get from the working from a single pane of glass.

The second half of the session (30 minutes) will be a Q&A session with Andrew, Micah, Yasir, and myself discussing what it's like to have a full Meraki network and how customers have seen success with our products. This is also the time to ask any technical questions/concerns that may be stopping them from evaluating Meraki as a potential solution for their county.

Presenter: Catherine Lahlouh & Yasir Al-Ibrahim

Presenter Bio: Catherine Lahlouh is the Cisco Meraki Account Manager for all of Iowa Public Sector. She has been with Meraki for two and half years - initially supporting all field sales for public sector before becoming an Account Manager.

Yasir Al-Ibrahim is a Cisco Meraki Systems Engineer supporting the Public Sector Central region. Yasir holds a Master's degree in Network Engineering and Security from DePaul University in Chicago and is the Public Sector MVP SE of second quarter of FY19.

Title: Tyler Technologies Users Meeting (ICUBE)

Description: Users of Tyler Technology software will have a round table discussion on software, polices, and issues.


Presenter: Michelle Fields

Presenter Bio: Michelle Fields, Greene County IT Director, will facilitate the meeting.

Afternoon Break in the Ballroom

Free time

Join your fellow ITAG conference attendees for a little music and refreshment on the deck, sponsored by IP Pathways.

ITAG Banquet in the Ballroom

5K Fun Run/3K Walk

Meet in the Sheraton Lobby to carpool to the race location.

Join us bright and early Thursday morning for a Fun Run or Walk. We will meet at 6:30 am (it’s not that early-the sun will be up!) to carpool to the Clive Greenbelt Trail just a couple of minutes away. The run & walk will be held concurrently on the paved trail along the creek in the woods. Light refreshments will be provided after the event, and we plan to have everybody back in plenty of time to clean up before the first morning session begins at 9 am.

Prizes will go to the first place male and female runners and walkers!

Click to view the planned route

Please sign up through the conference registration. There are no additional costs to participate.

Breakfast in the Ballroom

The registration desk is located in the Waterfall Atrium area. Please stop by the desk to register for the conference or if you have any questions regarding the conference.

Announcements in the Ballroom.

Title: Disaster Recovery in the Real World

Description:
The Myths around BC and DR
Concepts around Executive buy-in for a Disaster Recovery Program
Terminology and Definitions
Types and Causes of disasters IT DR Program – Where to start, steps, etc…
Prioritization and Tiering
The Disaster Recovery Plan
Testing
A lessons learned example
DR options in today’s market

Presenter: Jim Roché

Presenter Bio: Based in Dallas/Ft Worth, Jim Roché currently leads a boutique consulting firm headquartered in Dallas, TX that specializes in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Jim has 27 years of technical, financial, and business consulting experience in information technology infrastructure design, management, and operations. Jim’s experience spans continents with footprints in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America, in addition to the US. Recognized globally for a strong business acumen and profound technical knowledge, Jim has served as a direct advisor to the executive leadership of numerous Fortune 100 Companies. Jim is committed to excellence and delivering unparalleled customer service.

Jim’s current role includes the management of Hybrid Advisors’ Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Practice, as well as GDPR initiatives for global clients. He transitioned into IT from Honeywell, where he worked as an optical R&D engineer in 1991. He cut his IT teeth in the Financial Services Industry, where he held many roles such as: UNIX Admin, Oracle DBA, C++ programmer, Storage and Backup/Recovery Manager, amongst others. He has worked for several IT Integrators and consulting companies as well.

Morning break in the Ballroom sponsored by Sanborn

Title: MS-ISAC

Description: Local Government IT leaders and specialists are always faced with a seemingly unmanageable number of necessary steps to secure their environments. Whether it is the NIST Cyber Security Framework or the 20 Controls from CIS, compliance frameworks can be overwhelming to consider and aim to fulfill. We will seek to go over just a few key cybersecurity best practices that local governments should consider, and information about the free services and resources offered by the MS-ISAC that will help them on the road to implementing those practices in their organizations.

Presenter: Eugene Kipniss

Lunch in the Ballroom

Title: Acronis Snap Deploy

Description: How Several Iowa Counties use Acronis Snap Deploy to quickly deploy election laptop builds.

Presenter: Andrew Meyers & Josh Dykstra

Presenter Bio: Andrew works in Marion County. Josh works in Sioux County.

Title: Local.gov Software Should be Open

Description: Local governments have a lot in common, especially within the same state. Many of us have developed custom software in-house or hired outside contractors to do such work. That software was bought with public funds, may have utility to other agencies, and yearns to be free.

We should, as public entities, make our applications open-source. The benefits are manifold.

Publicly-available source code can be reused by other organisations, saving tax-payer money. Code made available to the world is open to transparent inspection as well as improvements from anyone with interest. If another entity authors updates or hires a contractor to adapt a program, the resulting improvements can be committed back to the public repository, benefiting all users.

Small moves, like adding language to contracts that ensures you will own the code produced by a vendor can free our software. Publishing sources under an open licence to a site like GitHub enables easy sharing and even a free backup (no messy code escrow needed!).

I'll provide a proof of concept from PottCounty as well as examples where this would have helped in the past. I'll also make a compelling case to open-up our custom applications, and offer to help write resolutions for boards that choose to prefer vendors who won't insist on keeping the code you paid them to write under lock and key.

Recommended reading: The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond

Presenter: Anthony Kava

Presenter Bio: Anthony "Karver" Kava is a hacker who fights crime and eats trail mix. He calls himself a Tactical Computer Geek as a mind-meld of his day job title of Digital Forensics / Technology Administrator and his moonlight gig as a Special Deputy, both in the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office. He enjoys Digital Forensics, InfoSec, Community Outreach, and long walks in the Dark Web. Assigned to the Iowa Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force since 2009, worked County IT 2003 - 2017, has some certs, lives to serve the public and solve puzzles.

Title: Forcing Passphrases

Presenter: Eric Guth

Presenter Bio: Eric is the IT Director at Winnebago County.

Title: Solutions/Document Locator User Meeting Round Table

Description: Users of Solutions software and Document Locator will have a round table discussion on software, hardware, policies, and issues.

Presenter: Andrew De Haan

Presenter Bio: Andrew De Haan, Marian County IT Director, will facilitate the meeting.

Afternoon Break in the Ballroom

Free time

Join your fellow ITAG conference attendees for a little music and refreshment on the deck, sponsored by IP Pathways.

ITAG Banquet in the Ballroom