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October 26, 2009
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Amazing event tomorrow: Army PEO Gary Winkler and Professional Services Council CEO Stan Soloway on stage together. Our Bisnow Breakfast & Schmooze, ridiculously low prices because we love you! Fairview Park Marriott. Sign up here!
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Your publisher joined the Long IT March down to Williamsburg yesterday afternoon (that would be Sunday, folks, but nothing’s too good for our beloved readers) to be on hand for the 19th annual Executive Leadership Conference. 850 others had the same idea.
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We snapped DoD Deputy CIO Dave Wennergren, former DoT CIO (and now CSC’s) Dan Mintz, and ELC program chair (and Cisco’s) Alan Balutis. Intellectuals, all, Dave tells us he spent several hours hiking yesterday in Prince William Forest (we had to look it up), and Dan visited Jamestown with his wife. As for Alan, anyone whose job title is “Distinguished Fellow” could have napped all afternoon and still seemed smart.
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| Just like the days of Kremlinology, you can tell the important people by their proximity to the podium: Special Adviser to the President (and opening night speaker) Ed DeSeve, ACT/IAC executive director Ken Allen, Virginia Secretary of Technology (and former PRC and webMethods honcho) Len Pomata, and dinner co-chair (and Quest SVP) Diana Gowen. |
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The first dinner, in Charlottesville, had only 132 attendees. Now there are about that many waiters. DeSeve, also a former OMB deputy director and HUD CFO, said 2/3 of federal stimulus (including both outlays and taxes) will have been pushed out by fall '10 and that he considers such a pace pretty fast. He said technology will be critical in implementing the Administration’s long term goals and that health care IT is an example of the huge potential. On a personal hospital visit last week at the University of Pennsylvania, he said he had to fill out the same form six different times within four hours.
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Jefferson Solutions Kathy Conrad, EPA CTO (and dinner co-chair) Lisa Schlosser, IAC President Sarah DeCarlo, and OMB Deputy CIO Mike Howell. Lisa saluted the record 250 attendees from government, then cracked, “Of course many are my employees I forced to come.”
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| Someone didn’t get the memo. EDS, started by Ross Perot in 1962, was acquired mid-2008 by Hewlett Packard and became known as “EDS, an HP company.” But, four weeks ago the EDS name was removed enatirely and the goliath is now officially just HP Enterprise Services. |
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HP’s John Sindelar, photographic recidivist Alan Balutis, former Interior Deputy CIO Ed Meagher, GSA Office of Citizen Services Associate Administrator Dave McClure, and senior GSA adviser Josh Sawislak. John reports that he and DoE’s Pete Tseronis, Lockheed’s Dan Norton, and PR guru Steve O’Keefe came in four under in best ball on the Golden Horseshoe course earlier in the day. (It was Sunday—they’re allowed!)
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Kevin Razzaghi and Roger Sion of Unisys in Reston flank Booz Allen’s William Artz—a hockey star back in the day, who says he recently started coaching at Holton because the girls insist on much better food on road trips than all the cold pizza he had to eat when he coached boys. Kevin, who does transportation infrastructure, said he’s had the same experience with coaching soccer, and Roger says he’ll try to notice: His younger daughter just started playing both soccer and basketball.
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Digital Govt Institute’s Mike Smoyer and Martha McGrath sandwich Steve O’Keefe (described in a previous paragraph), here with Ron Woody of National Govt Services, and Barquin International’s e-government specialist Ramon Barquin. See all those “luau flames” in the background? Great atmosphere, but it looked dangerous and Martha speculated that “if you have hair spray and get too close, it will combust and you’ll look like you have a colonial hairdo.”
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We feel a little like TMZ accosting celebrity arrivals, but here’s National Defense University’s Mark Drapeau signing in at his hotel—before changing out of those jeans. (This government crowd’s a little more formal.)
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| Soloway and Winkler Tomorrow! |
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One of the great experts on Federal IT market opportunities and trends: Professional Services Council CEO Stan Soloway. This is just a file photo to entice you to come to hear him speak tomorrow at our Bisnow Breakfast & Schmooze at the Fairview Park Marriott. Be there or be square (or be both if you insist). Sign up here!
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And Army PEO EIS Gary Winkler, same event. If you know what those acronyms mean, you will obviously realize his importance and want to attend. If you don’t know, well, that’s another reason to attend so you can find out! Sign up here!
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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October 27 - Bisnow Breakfast & Schmooze - Hot Topics in Federal IT. Info
October 28 - Bisnow New Washington Breakfast & Schmooze - "Is K Street the New Wall Street?" Federal Stimulus czar Earl Devaney will give perspective on how funds are being spent on the recovery and in this region. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, the Trump Organization's Eric Trump, the Carlyle Group's Ed Mathias, and non-profit and economic guru Jerry Jasinowski round out the star-studded pantheon of experts. Info.
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