Florida Digital Government Summit 2018

Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Florida Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda designed to make that passion relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they use inspirational keynotes, leadership discussions, networking breaks, and timely topics discussed in the numerous breakout sessions to help advance the goals of their organizations and their own career paths.

Topics Include:

Assessing Cybersecurity Risk, Vulnerability and Chances of Survival
Reinventing the Citizen Experience
Cloud Trends, Opportunities and Lessons Learned
Artificial Intelligence and What It Means for Government
Making Sense of Your Data
Emergency Management in Florida
Birds of a Feather Roundtable Discussions
From the Horse’s Mouth – IT Officials Tell It Like It Is
Blockchain – Closer than It Appears?
Geospatial, Geovisual and Geofantastic!
Cool Things Happening in Miami-Dade County

Speaker and Presenter Information

Michael Hakkarinen - Keynote

Instructional Technology Specialist, Utah Education Network

Michael Hakkarinen specializes in helping teachers engage students in the classroom with technology such as Mac Tools, Google Apps for Educators, iPads and more. He earned a Bachelor’s in English from the University of Maryland at College Park and a Master’s in Elementary Education at Mount Saint Mary’s University, where he also taught Instructional Technology at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He was a Technology Resource Teacher in Frederick County, Maryland, where he taught elementary school, and an EdTech for Canyons School District in Utah before joining the UEN PD team in 2014. He currently serves as an elected member of the UCET Board.

Anthony Huey - Keynote

President, Reputation Management Associates

Anthony Huey has 20 years of experience in editorial management, media relations, marketing communications and business strategy. His career roots started in magazine journalism and evolved into an executive speech coach, crisis management specialist and media relations consultant.

Anthony owns Reputation Management Associates, one of the nation’s leading communications training and crisis consulting companies. He has presented more than 1,400 presentations in his career and has had articles published in magazines and newsletters across the nation.

He has assisted various Fortune 500 companies, including Nike, Victoria’s Secret, Eli Lilly, Ashland Inc., and hundreds of other companies and organizations across North America.