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FORUM 2026
05/12/2026
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Start TImeEnd TimeTrack A Information Track B InformationTrack C Information
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8:00 AM8:30 AMCheck in at St Martin's and on Zoom
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8:30 AM8:35 AMWelcome
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Mary Craig (IPMA Chair)
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8:35 AM8:50 AMIntroductory Comments
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Mark Quimby, Deputy Director (WaTech)
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8:50 AM9:45 AMA1 - Keynote: The Lithium Age — Preparing Washington State for AI, Quantum, and the Future of Energy
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This keynote provides a practical look at what the shift to artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced energy solutions means for the State of Washington. It highlights both gaps and opportunities. Attendees will leave with a structured approach to adopting emerging technologies in a way that delivers measurable value and maintains public confidence.
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Scott West (ECY CIO)
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9:45 AM10:15 AMBreak (Divide Rooms)
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Meinrad RoomMichael RoomConrad/Contris Room
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10:15 AM10:55 AMA2 - From Records to Intelligence:
Reimagining Content Management in the Age of Responsible AI		B2 - If Identity is not secure, nothing isC2 - Workshop: Modernization Ideas for Public Records
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This session provides a clear, practical, and vendor-neutral framework for understanding AI in content management. Attendees will explore how AI is evolving across three stages — intelligent extraction, human-AI collaboration, and predictive decision support — and how each stage impacts records governance, defensible disposition and audit readiness.9 out of 10 cyber-attacks compromise the identity store (AD, Entra ID, Okta) because bad actors know, if users are unable to authenticate and access critical resources, business operations stop. Business continuity starts with identity resilience.
Learn how to: • Stay head of new identity threats • Stop weakness in AD, Entra ID, or Okta before attackers • Lock down sensitive AD accounts with auto-remediation • Slash cyber downtime with AD incident recovery in minutes • Monitor malicious or inadvertent changes in your identity store
In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to work in small groups to:
• Clarify the challenges presented by Public Records Requests
• Brainstorm and rank potential theoretical solutions
• Identify strategic opportunities to work together towards real solutions
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Andy MacIsaac, Jim Tripp (Laserfiche)Sarah Chechetti, Director of Product Management (Semperis)Facilitators:
Noah Reandau (Model Solutions)
Chuck Grindle (ProofPoint)
Josh Chaplo (DFW)
Joel Chang (City of Portland, OR)
Moderator: Matthew Oram (IPMA)
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10:55 AM11:35 AMA3 - From Policy to Practice: Building a Resilient Foundation for Generative and Agentic AI adoption in State GovernmentB3 - AI Adoption Without Blind Spots: Detection, Response, and GuardrailsC3 - Systemic Process Improvement: How Individuals Can Make a Big Difference
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In this live IPMA Forum session, Prompt Security, a SentinelOne company, will explore how agencies across the State of Washington can securely deploy—and scale—AI with effective guardrails.This session focuses on how to operationalize AI Detection and Response across the organization. We’ll cover how teams can enable employee use of generative AI while monitoring activity, detecting misuse, and responding to risk in real time. We’ll also examine how organizations are securing internal AI development, from LLM pipelines to deployed applications.Using Washington State's public records request (PRR) management challenge as a live case study — with real cost data, real coalition dynamics, and a working implementation at a state agency -- this session is a field guide to removing the complacency from governmental system change and understanding the steps individuals can take to making improvements.
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Andrew Howell (SentinelOne)Peter Fabianski, Channel Solutions Architect (Crowdstrike)Stacy Steck (FirstRuleGroup)
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11:35 AM12:15 PMA4 - Speaking the Language of RiskB4 - Data Priorities 2026: The Foundation for Trustworthy Government AIC4 - From Risk Reports to Resilience: Moving Government SecOps to Autonomous Cyber Remediation
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The session brings together business teams, executives, and IT, emphasizing the need for strong collaboration across all groups. It equips them with tools to build consensus and drive smarter, outcome-based cybersecurity decisions, while enabling agencies to deliver a more consistent, accessible, and easy-to-navigate experience for constituents, regardless of the channel they choose to engage.
Drawing on Info-Tech Research Group's Data Priorities 2026 report, this session translates the four data priorities shaping 2026 into practical moves for the public sector: what to tackle first, how to build governance that actually gets used, and how to raise data literacy across the enterprise so AI investments deliver trustworthy insights, measurable outcomes, and defensible decisionsThis session explores proven industry practices for harnessing AI and automation within today’s cybersecurity platforms to help cities, counties, and agencies outpace modern cyber threats. By leveraging real‑time data, intelligent prioritization, and automated workflows, organizations can break down silos between SecOps and IT operations and shift from reactive remediation to proactive resilience.
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Jon Sutherland, CIO,
Christie Whitney, Senior Enterprise Account Executive (ImageSource)		Steve Monaghan (Info-Tech)Clair Bailey, Chief Government Strategist (Tanium)
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12:15 PM1:30 PMLunch
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Meinrad RoomMichael RoomConrad/Contris Room
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1:30 PM2:10 PMA5 - Staying Ahead of Evolving Cyberattacks by Securing Identity in the Age of AI AgentsB5 - Agentic AI for Government Automation: Compliance and ModernizationC5 - The False Economy of Standing Still: Modernizing State Systems in Constrained Budget Cycles
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The session explores how organizations can address security challenges through identity visibility, automated lifecycle governance, and AI-assisted access intelligence tailored for AI and machine identities. Attendees will learn how applying least privilege, continuous access evaluation, and policy-driven controls to AI agents helps prevent privilege sprawl, reduce blast radius, and maintain accountability.This session explores how to bridge the gap between digital hoarding and automated resolution by pairing IBM Bob—an agentic coding and modernization assistant—with watsonx Orchestrate an agentic Orchestration platform. We will demonstrate how Bob leverages standards such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) to help agencies build sophisticated redaction tools and AI-driven workflows, which can then be deployed within Orchestrate to transform worker roles from manual effort and involvement to highly automated and confident accelerated actions.Drawing on real state agency examples, we discuss how organizations can prioritize foundational improvements such as data governance, shared platforms, and system integrations before pursuing larger application transformations. Using Agile principles already familiar across Washington state government, agencies can deliver meaningful improvements in increments rather than waiting for full funding to begin modernization.
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Tony Gerberick (SailPoint)Ryan Kather, Principal AI Engineer (IBM US Public Sector)Thomas (Tom) Baker, Allison Lombardo, Luke Comstrock, Technology Advisory Services (ISG)
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Start TImeEnd TimeTrack A Information Track B InformationTrack C Information
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2:10 PM2:50 PMA6 - Is your Enterprise ready for AI?B6 - From Snapshot to Signal: Continuous Cloud SecurityC6 - See It. Stop It. Secure It: Pre-Emptive Cyber Defense Against AI Threats
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In this session of our AI Governance series, we will outline the executive framework for secure AI adoption. We will move past the hype to discuss how leaders can build visibility, maintain accountability, and foster a culture of responsible innovation.This session looks at how teams can move from one-time snapshots to continuous, context-aware risk management. We’ll talk about why sustained maturity matters more than passing an audit, and how security context helps teams cut through noise and focus on the risks that actually matter.This session explores how State/Local/Educational teams can turn existing network infrastructure into a strategic security advantage—improving visibility, reducing risk, and accelerating response without adding complexity.
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Ken Robinson, Solutions Engineer (island.io)Kory Balow, Sr. Solutions Engineer (Wiz)Ryan Ettl, Product Security Specialist (InfoBlox)
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2:50 PM3:05 PMBreak
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Meinrad RoomMichael RoomConrad/Contris Room
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3:05 PM3:45 PMA7 - Interoperability as the Foundation for Responsible AI in State GovernmentB7 - Navigating Data Center infrastructures amidst a rapidly evolving cloud, hyperconverged and hypervisor landscape.C7 - Trust Is Not Optional: How Government Can Build AI the Public Will Accept
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AI only delivers value in government when data can move securely, predictably, and under clear governance across existing systems.
The session will focus on patterns, lessons learned, and governance considerations, applicable across health and human services, public safety, education, and general government.		This presentation will focus on the evolution of hypervisors, cloud architectures, and hyperconverged technologies as they impact today’s organizations. It will examine the many hypervisor solutions, alternatives to traditional data center architectures, costs saving mechanisms, and hybrid options to decrease complexity, increase resiliency, and achieve budget flexibilityThis interactive session provides a clear, government‑ready blueprint for building and operationalizing a Responsible AI program that stands up to audits, aligns with public-sector values, and integrates seamlessly with existing privacy, security, and accessibility programs.
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Leanna Aurioles (Presidio)Tony Matlick, Director of Data Center & Cloud (Right! Systems, Inc.)Tina Knutson, Brian Ruffo, Alistair Lowe-Norris (Design Laboratory, Inc.)
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3:45 PM4:25 PMA8 - CDW & IBM Fusion HCI: A Modern Path to Container-Native Infrastructure & Quantum-Safe SecurityB8 - Modernization Without Revolt: Leading the Human Side of Government IT TransformationC8 - Platform Vs. Products: Are you meeting your goal to modernize security and reduce costs?
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This session showcases how CDW and IBM are partnering to deliver Fusion HCI — a container-native infrastructure solution built on Red Hat OpenShift that unifies VM and container management under a single platform. We'll cover practical modernization pathways, the TCO advantages of a bare-metal OpenShift architecture, hybrid cloud integration, and IBM's quantum-safe cryptography roadmap to help agencies future-proof against emerging post quantum threats.In this session, you’ll explore the common organizational barriers that slow government IT modernization and learn practical approaches for building alignment, improving collaboration between enterprise IT and agencies, and supporting successful adoption of modern platforms and digital services. Participants will leave with practical insights they can apply to help modernization efforts gain traction, deliver measurable results, and mitigate a revolt.What is a platform and how does it differ from a bundle. True platforms are both configurable and programmable. Discover the right questions to ask when searching for a real platform that consolidates multiple point solutions. All of this can be done while improving efficiency, modernizing security, and reducing costs.
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Jack Zinkiewicz (CDW)Seanna Sams, Organizational Change Management (OCM) consultant (Vivid Co.)
Tonia Sugarman, Organizational Change Management (OCM) consultant (Vivid Co.)		Matthew Boknevitz, Senior Solutions Engineer (Cloudflare)
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4:25 PM4:30 PMClosing RemarksClosing RemarksClosing Remarks
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Mary Craig (IPMA)Morgan McLemore (IPMA)Matthew Oram (IPMA)
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