| May 12, 2010 | ||
| 11:30 am | to | 1:00 pm |
Location: Italian American Community Center
CATA’s May meeting will feature speaker Rock Regan, a Senior Information Technology and Systems Executive, and former Chief Information Officer for the State of Connecticut. He will be discussing the hot topic of Cloud Computing. More information to follow.
Rock Regan is Principal Consultant for Verizon Business specializing in IT and Security solutions for Government and Education. Prior to joining Verizon Business Rock worked for VMware serving as their National Director of Business Development for State/Local Government and Education.
From 1997 to January 2005, Regan was the State of Connecticut’s first Chief Information Officer. He was instrumental in the leading the state’s effort in transforming its technology to improve executive branch operations.
Rock served as President of the National Association of Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), representing CIO’s from the 50 states. Rock was also a member of the Government Accountability Offices, Executive Council on Information Management & Technology, a peer review group on national policies and practices on the Federal Governments IT effectiveness. In addition, he was a member of the Kennedy School of Governments, Harvard Policy Group, which published a series of papers on “Eight Imperatives for Leaders in a Networked World”
Rock is widely recognized as an expert in the Public Sector IT industry and has testified before Congress and has been quoted in hundreds of trade publications including Washington Technology, Federal Computer Week, CIO Magazine, Computerworld, Network World and Information Week.
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