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ISM 2009 - an Unqualified Success
ISM held it 42nd annual conference from August 30 through September 2 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference theme was, “Winds of Change: Smart Choices for Tough Times.” Despite a tepid economy which has created budget chaos for many state and local governments the conference attracted over 750 registrants from the public and private sector. Forty eight states and the District of Columbia were represented in addition to Canada and the United Kingdom.
The strong agenda featured opening keynote speakers, Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, US Department of Agriculture and David Hansell, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, who provided insight into the priorities of the new Obama administration and shared their perspectives on how the economic crisis and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) will affect human service programs and the delivery of services and benefits. Plenary sessions’ panels of state CEOS, state CIOs, and nationally know policy experts also explored these themes in more depth in relationship to their agencies and disciplines. Closing Plenary Speaker, Ray Scheppach, Executive Director of the National Governors Association (NGA) detailed what the future looked like to those who constituents. John Kost, Group Vice President, CIO Research Worldwide, Gartner, - a conference favorite - entertained and informed the audience on how they can improve their IT Governance.
The breakouts this year included four outstanding sessions each in tracks on Business Drivers, Innovation IT Solutions and Emerging Technologies as well as fourteen platinum sponsor sessions and roundtables for state and local government attendees only. New this year was a breakout track of program specific federal training sessions conducted by FNS, CMS, OCSE, and the Children’s Bureau. FNS also conducted separate APD trainings for government attendees and private sector vendors.
The host hotel, the Downtown Marriot on the Magnificent Mile, worked very well once everyone figured out that the escalator between floors five and seven did not stop on floor six. The hotel has a great location, good food, and an extremely attentive staff. Even Mother Nature cooperated and provided some beautifully comfortable temperatures for attendees to explore the surrounding environments in the evenings after a long and jam-packed day of sessions. As matter of fact, everything went so well, that for the first time in ISM history, the conference will be held at the same venue two years in a row. Don’t miss ISM 2010, Downtown Marriott on the Magnificent Mile, August 29 through September 1, 2010.
CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
The ISM conference provides an excellent opportunity for people from the private sector to network with and learn from their state and local government business partners and to discuss information technology issues in human services that affect both the public and private sectors. The heavy educational component of the conference allows people from both the private sector and the public sector to learn together. The conference is supported, in part, by private sector sponsorships. For information on sponsorship opportunities, contact
Mary Beth Peters at ismsupport@radiowire.net or
at (573) 897-2508.
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Defining the Business of Health and Human Services
An initiative to create and adopt a nationally-accepted uniform HHS business architecture will be sponsored by the American Public Human Services Association in coordination with ISM and its other affiliates. Click here to read.
John Cuddy Named 2009 APHSA Outstanding Member
Fixing What’s Broken: A Rational Model for Funding State IT
News
- New Regional Representative Appointed
- ISM Appoints Five New Regional Representatives
- ISM Calls for Papers for 2009 Conference
- ISM Elects New Officers
- APHSA's White Paper
- APHSA and ISM Comment Letter to Administration for Children and Families on Proposal to Revise Advanced Planning Document Process
- Federal Register notice on APD reform
- Details of Notice of Proposed Rule-making
- Proposed revisions to APD regulations at 45 CFR Part 95
- Pennsylvania presented it Modern Office Project at the APHSA Spring Meeting Operations Committee Meeting
ISM is an association of State, Local and Federal Government Information Systems professionals working in the Health and Human Services areas. The goal of the organization is to promote the development and operation of effective automated systems in Health and Human Services.