GENERAL SESSION
The Art of the Possible
Description: In this brief opening session, we will look at how business analytics fits into the mission, financial and operational requirements of public sector organizations; we’ll also discuss best practice examples of public sector organizations that use IBM Business Analytics to achieve actionable insights through information and drive better decision-making and improved outcomes.
Speaker: Robert Dolan, Worldwide Industry Leader, Public Sector, IBM
GENERAL SESSION
Reinventing Government: Thinking by the Numbers
Description: Could citizens ever look to the IRS as a source of useful information? Can targeted increases in spending actually save money? How can agencies more effectively test policies and program effectiveness before scaling them to larger populations? Ian Ayres, noted author of the New York Times bestseller Super Crunchers, will share his insights and expertise on how data driven policy making can help government agencies ask the right bottom line questions, formulate better strategies, and become proactive in smarter targeting of government spending.
Speaker: Ian Ayres, Professor, Yale Law School and Yale School of Management
GENERAL SESSION
Data Driven Government: The Urgency of Now
Description: The calls for a leaner government grow stronger every day. In an era where cutting costs is the top priority, the Office of Management and Budget is leading the initiative to improve efficiency in the Federal government, pushing agencies to use data and technology to evaluate programs and results, track errors, manage billions of taxpayer dollars, and find areas to save money and minimize overlapping functions. This keynote address will look at how the Obama administration is making data-driven decisions in order to better manage spending, reduce waste and deliver a more efficient and effective government.
Speaker: Danny Werfel, Controller, White House Office of Management and Budget
GENERAL SESSION
Becoming an Analytics Driven Organization
Description: We all collect volumes of data – but how do we sift through it to measure what matters? How do we become an analytics-driven organization? Knowing, understanding, and aligning strategic goals is critical to driving change and seeing a return on investment with analytics. Attend this session and learn best practices from industry and government experts on how to drive improved budgeting and financial reporting, and program performance.
Moderator: Robert Dolan, Worldwide Industry Leader, Public Sector, IBM
Speakers: David L. McClure, Associate Administrator Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, U.S. General Services Administration; Dan Chenok, Executive Director, The IBM Center for The Business of Government; Anne Altman, General Manager, U.S. Federal and Government Industries, IBM
SMARTER PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Meeting the Requirements of Improper Payments Compliance
Description: The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act mandates that federal agencies reduce and eliminate improper payments. With the next set of compliance risk assessments due in FY2014, there’s no better time to learn how analytics can help you achieve the Act’s desired outcomes related to compliance and reporting, collection of outstanding debt, reduction and eliminate and prevention of future issues. Led by an IBM Government Industry solution expert, this session will focus on the use of Analytics in each area of the critical guidelines set forth by the OMB, including:
- Risk assessments of programs that are susceptible to improper payments
- Ongoing program reviews for monitoring all improper payments
- Operational and financial risk management capabilities that assess points of vulnerability
- Annual reports to Congress on actions taken to prevent improper payments
- Ongoing estimates of likely future improper payments
Speaker: Tom Harris, Worldwide Industry Solutions Leader, Government and Education, IBM
SMARTER BUDGETING AND FINANCE
Results-Driven Budgeting and Finance
Description: Demands for a more open government have added new levels of complexity to the ways in which government organizations create and update budgets, report out to stakeholders, and tie budgets to program and services execution and outcomes. In this two-part discussion, attendees will hear how one agency is using analytics to reduce the chaos and risk inherent in today’s Federal budgeting environment. In a brief IBM demonstration, attendees will also see how analytics can be used to:
- Quickly create side-by-side comparisons of spending scenarios
- Select the best scenario to maximize mission outcomes
- Continuously analyze spending vs. budget and the impact on achieving mission goals
- Streamline budget publication and distribution with the seamless marriage of narrative, data, and cascading updates
Speaker: Dustin Brown, Deputy Assistant Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget
SMARTER BUDGETING AND FINANCE
Using Analytics to Reduce Financial Risk
Description: A critical aspect of the budgeting and finance process is managing risk and compliance initiatives across the enterprise, helping to ensure loss reduction, improve decision-making about resource allocation, and optimize performance.
In this discussion attendees will hear how to use analytics to more effectively make decisions, and coordinate governance, risk and compliance activities.
Speaker: Douglas A. Glenn, Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Director of the Office of Financial Management, Department of Interior
DEMYSTIFYING BIG DATA
The Predictive Power of Big Data
Today, federal agencies are tasked with both improving their performance and reducing costs. To help solve these seemingly conflicting mandates, agencies are looking to make use of the ever growing abundance of data. A growing number of agencies are turning to distributed open-source database technologies to reduce costs and to tackle all of this “big data.” Beyond simply reviewing past performance, agencies are looking to predictive analytics to meet today’s demands. Predictive solutions allow agencies to anticipate trends and events in order to better respond to the future. In this session, you will learn how predictive analytics can leverage the power of data-intensive distributed applications without an army of IT support personnel.
Speaker: Rod Reicks, Senior Manager of Product Strategy, IBM
DEMYSTIFYING BIG DATA
Leveraging Social Media Analytics to Enhance Mission Performance
In this informative session, you will see how your agency can leverage the meteoric growth of social media content to improve its performance. Social media analytics provides a wealth of information that will give government agencies the ability to improve their mission effectiveness. Analytics enables agencies to spot growing trends, improve insight into key mission goals and see the effectiveness of policy initiatives all without the help of a large team of analysts. Social media analytics provides a cost-effective way of delivering on your mission through the vast wealth of this fast growing content.
Speaker: Jennifer Hanniman, Senior Product Manager, IBM