The Growing Role For IoT in Government’s Pandemic Response

Session Abstract:

The pandemic has rapidly brought government agencies into the Digital World. This presentation provides survey data on how government has changed the way it does its work, its challenges, and long-term adjustments such as the movement out of buildings for day-to-day work. The presentation concludes with how IoT can and is being applied to address the current challenges that agencies are facing, such as safe workplaces and distribution of vaccines.

Speaker:

Mark Forman is an accomplished executive with more than 30 years of professional work experience, including a Presidential appointment to be the first U.S. Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology, the Federal Government’s Chief Information Officer. Mark has a long record of accomplishments in government management reforms, spanning a variety of government and industry positions.​​ In his current role, Mark is leveraging deep domain industry expertise across the entire SAIC portfolio to provide solutions important to Public Sector clients. He has global responsibility for leading all SAIC activities and growing revenues and profitability within the Public Sector vertical. This includes providing direct leadership for the Client Executive teams supporting Public Sector clients and developing strong working relationships within Unisys to expand existing solutions and develop new offerings. Prior to joining Unisys, Mark was Vice President for IT Services and Cloud Solutions, assisting government agencies in transitioning to the cloud by providing advanced systems engineering, integration and decision-support services to the federal government. This work includes creating and managing a high quality team of consultants that developed IT Modernization Roadmaps and a modern IT governance framework, and engineers who architected and deployed FEMA’s first hybrid cloud. Mark is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and CIO Sage. He led the Industry Advisory Council’s Presidential Transition Study. He has given well over 100 speeches on federal IT management, E-Government, business transformation and information technology to a wide variety of industry groups and government officials from around the world. Mark has testified frequently before the U.S. Congress and California State Senate on information policy and management reform issues. He has participated in on-line Q&A sessions hosted by the Whitehouse and Washington Post, and written numerous papers and reports on government management and use of IT. He is a respected speaker on government use of cloud computing, IT risk management, Enterprise Architecture, data center consolidation, e-government and social media tools.

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