AGA 2017 Professional Development Training

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Sessions (13)

S106 - An Integrated Approach to Streamlining the Budget Cycle (Room 312)

09 Jul 17
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Barbara Harris, CPA ; James Tyler, CGFM ; Suzanne Roosen
This session covers FDA's  journey of streamlining the overall end-to-end budget process by improving processes and implementing an end-to... More...

M102 - Advantages of Public-Private Partnerships, or P3s (Room 304/306)

10 Jul 17
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Anita Molino ; Kim Farington CPA
More agencies are entering into public-private partnerships (P3s). Come learn about how P3s present an innovative model for project delivery and fi... More...

M107 - Performance Improvement through Systems Modernization (Room 312)

10 Jul 17
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Chris Coppenbarger ; Gisele Holden CPA ; Gwendolyn Sykes MPA, CGFM ; James Gregory
Listen to three agency leaders, who recently implemented modern financial and grants systems, discuss the associated benefits they experienced and ... More...

M112 - Controlling Costs Is as Easy as ABC (Room 304/306)

10 Jul 17
2:05 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Mark Krieger CPA ; Steven Whitney
Government agencies face increasing pressure to reduce costs, even as taxpayers want more from their government without tax increases. Most governm... More...

M113 - Building Trust in Government (Room 310)

10 Jul 17
2:05 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Daniel Chenok, MPP ; Doug Criscitello ; Kevin Page ; Robert Shea
Explore how to turn citizen cynicism into engagement and buy-in through reimagined financial/budgetary planning, administration, reporting and outr... More...

T104 - The Case for Program Evaluation (Room 302)

11 Jul 17
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Frank Murphy ; John Quinlan ; Nancy Kingsbury, PhD ; Sarah Brown
As budgets get squeezed, is now the time to increase investments in program evaluation techniques to ensure we are investing in programs that deliv... More...

T111 - Standard Business Reporting: Open Data to Cut Compliance Costs (Ballroom B)

11 Jul 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Amy Vetter ; Daniel Chenok, MPP ; Hudson Hollister ; Michael Middleton
A 2014 study commissioned by the National Association of Manufacturers estimated that U.S. federal regulations cost businesses $2.028 trillion annu... More...

T126 - Building a Finance Organization from the Ground Up (Ballroom B)

11 Jul 17
2:35 PM - 3:25 PM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Frank Murphy ; Gerard Badorrek ; Nicholas Dimos ; Richard Haley
As new requirements have been added over the years, most finance organizations have evolved in a piecemeal, reactive fashion, resulting in an ever-... More...

T132 - Improved Efficiency Through Better Costing (Ballroom A)

11 Jul 17
4:05 PM - 4:55 PM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Michael Sackos ; Peter Kim ; Susan Scott ; Tabatha Turman
Cost estimating is a technique to estimate all costs associated with performing an enterprise change project or product development activity. Panel... More...

T134 - Automating the Future of Financial Management (Room 304/306)

11 Jul 17
4:05 PM - 4:55 PM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): John Hill ; Robert McNamara
Learn how automation can be leveraged to increase an organization’s ability to focus on value-add activities, enterprise risk management and ... More...

W109 - Technology Modernization in the Federal Government (Room 304/306)

12 Jul 17
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Erich Klein ; James Gregory ; Jim Menard
Hear lessons learned and possible hurdles to achieving streamlined operations and efficiencies. More...

W110 - How are my analytics investments performing? (Ballroom B)

12 Jul 17
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Justin Marsico ; Nicholas Dimos ; Roman Iwachiw
As agencies become bigger consumers of analytics — and the data, algorithms and models that generate them — how do they assess performa... More...

W112 - Digital/Crypto Currencies and Distributed Ledger Technology (Ballroom C)

12 Jul 17
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Tracks: FOS: FINT (Finance-Technical)

Speaker(s): Bo Shevchik CGFM, PMP ; Jim Cunha
Learn about cryptocurrencies; how they work, regulatory concerns and their future. How can a distributed ledger/blockchain - a combination of techn... More...