AeA Tech Days in Tallahassee
March 31st & April 1st

On Thursday, March 31st, we began the program with the Emerging Technologies Forum

Foyt Ralston, Chief of Staff, State Technology Office discussed pending legislation that may alter the state of the State Technology Office.

Robin Brandl, Senior Sales Engineer, Citrix Systems, Inc. discussed today's IT access challenges and the need for an access strategy. The Strategic Power of Access Infrastructure.

Eric Vallone, Director of Product Management, Paradyne Networks discussed building one access network for voice, video and data.  Connecting Florida with Ethernet Everywhere.

Rick Johnston and Carl Nienow, StorageTek discussed Information Lifecycle Management.

Lt. Governor Toni Jennings joined us for lunch to discuss the State's education initiative and its commitment to economic diversification.

After a brief legislative briefing by Dick Kip, Lobbyist, AeA Florida Council, the attendees split up into groups of four and headed over to the capital for targeted lobby visits. View some of the issues that we brought to the table in the AeA Florida Council Watch List of Pending legislation.

On Friday, April 1st, we convened at the Senate Office Building to hear from targeted State Agency CIOs

Brenda Owens, CIO, FDLE and Herb Fillyaw, CIO, Department of Financial Services discussed what their agencies have planned for IT spending in FY2005-6. They also provided a valuable candid discussion on do's and don'ts of doing business with the state agencies.

Information Resource Management, Brenda Owens, CIO, FDLE

We were joined for lunch by Ted Bonanno, Senior Attorney and Technology/Minority Programs Coordinator, Governor's Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development for an interactive discussion of the administration's technology policy platform.  

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