PROPOSAL DETAILS

We encourage submissions that offer co-presentation (vendor-partner and public sector customer) and a use case/storytelling format.

Feedback from past forums has indicated high satisfaction for these types of presentations. The vendor partner can share how they addressed the need or challenge and the customer can share the message, or story, as to the value and success of vendor partner engagement.

DIR is committed to hosting an accessible educational event for all participants. Final presentations and all supporting materials are required to meet digital accessibility standards, and presenters are expected to work with event organizers to make every effort to fulfill reasonable accommodation requests. For questions and requests, please email mark.leavenworth@dir.texas.gov.

Proposals are being accepted in the following categories:

Data Privacy – Use cases related to program management, operationalizing privacy impact assessments and nondisclosure agreements, data breach incident response and notification, and data discovery, inventory, and classification. Best practices and how to overcome challenges in this area. (Previous presentations: Protecting Privacy in the Generative AI World, Strategies for Enterprise Data Governance and Data Privacy Implementation.)

Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Intelligent Automation (IA) - Use cases that show or could show how Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Machine Learning, analytics, or Generative AI, or other uses of artificial intelligence have helped address an issue impacting government or helped a customer draw greater deeper understanding of their business in order to make better informed decisions. (Previous presentations: A Public Sector Perspective on Responsible AI, Exploring the Frontiers of GenAI: Navigating the Opportunities and Challenges, Engaging and Serving Texas Citizens with Artificial Intelligence.)

Data Quality (DQ) - Effective data management programs enable an organization to use data to achieve strategic goals. For data to be useful, it must be reliable, trustworthy and of high quality. Use cases that speak to these points are encouraged. (Previous presentations: Triple Play:  Data Leadership, Value & Strategy, A SHARPer Future for DSHS Data.)

Communications & Network - Topics exploring the evolution of networking and communications technologies, including modern network architectures, software-defined networks (SDN), 5G, edge computing, call center services, and innovations that improve connectivity, performance, security, and management in public sector environments. (Previous presentations: Connecting the Last Mile: the Role of Low Earth Orbit Satellites, Under the Hood of Software Defined WAN.)

Digital Transformation - Use cases that demonstrate a strategic approach to the adoption of digital technologies to create new or improve existing processes, services and customer experiences. (Previous presentations: Modernizing and Transforming in Today’s Rapidly Changing Environments, Accelerating Citizen-Centered Digital Transformations: A Data Fueled Approach.)

Modern Application Development - Use cases that include web and mobile backends, Internet of Things applications, AI/ML workloads, batch processing, shared services platforms, and microservice backends. (Previous presentations: Taking a Data Informed Look at the Prosperity of City Neighborhoods, New Technologies for Remote Patient Monitoring.)

Other related topics will be considered, if they align with the conference theme.