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Expectations of both the public and your staff have dramatically changed due to challenges like retiring leadership, growing communities, and outdated technology. Meanwhile, governments are still adjusting to unprecedented hiring and turnover challenges, inflation, and other macro forces.

No matter your role, you can drive modernization in your agency, help meet the expectations of today, and accelerate your organization's move towards high-performance government. Listen to our panel of high-performance leaders as they talk about uniting people, process, and tech to do more with less by removing manual tasks and focusing on strategy; overcome the strain of leaving employees by documenting legacy knowledge; and engage residents with online services.

Mounting pressures are contributing to the increase of risk in asset management, including:

1. Deteriorating infrastructure due to age

2. Escalating deferred maintenance challenges

3. Resource constraints

4. Disruptions and emergencies linked to risk

Seize the opportunity to proactively mitigate asset risk. Join this session to gain insights on effectively tackling risk within your infrastructure asset management responsibilities, providing you with a sense of security.

No matter where you currently are in your budget cycle, alignment is necessary at every step: From tying in strategic priorities, collaborating with internal teams, securing the tools to take action, and communicating impact. In this session, innovative leaders from across the country will share their tips and tricks for fostering alignment throughout their budget process.

THIS SESSION QUALIFIES FOR 1 FREE CPE CREDIT (Must attend live session)

Participants must participate in group interactions during the event, and participants must stay for the duration of the event, as described in the event details, in order to be eligible for CPE.

• Field Of Study: Accounting (Governmental)
• Course Level: Overview (General review from a broad perspective)
• Prerequisite: No prerequisite knowledge is required
• Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation is required
• Delivery Method: Group internet based CPE: 1.00 credit(s) courtesy

For more information regarding certificate of completion, concerns and program cancellation policies, please contact cspiel@opengov.com

But there is one area that they can focus on that drives outsized results for their communities: modernizing the permitting and licensing experience. It’s time for municipalities to learn how to do more with less to improve their customer service experience through better access and control of their systems.

Join this session to learn why it’s time to say goodbye to Word and move to an RFx Writing tools. Discover how RFx writing tools can automate solicitation development while making it easier than ever to give your small, local, emerging businesses more opportunities to work with you.

Plus, hear from procurement professionals who have transformed their solicitation development process, spending up to 90% less time building solicitations.

Government teams leading the building inspection process work on the front lines of community safety. As new developments rise and old buildings need repairs, they help enforce codes, conduct inspections, and issue permits to avoid future accidents. Join this session to learn best practices from community leaders in local government for keeping residents safe by ensuring proper building safety throughout the community development process.

In this session you will learn:

1. How to increase code compliance by making it easier to comply. 2. How to speed up the time between code creation and code enforcement. 3. How to keep up with new trends in building safety so you can pass new codes to keep your residents safe.

However, local governments often fail to provide fair contracting opportunities for DBEs, who compete with larger companies that are politically connected, able to access financing, and have more available resources to navigate the processes of working with governments.

Thanks to inadequate tools and difficult processes, DBEs face an uphill battle from solicitation development through evaluations and awards. Join this session to discover how other communities are making it easier than ever to give small, local, emerging businesses more opportunities to work with them, while improving internal processes at the same time. In this session, you’ll discover:

1. The biggest barrier to entry for DBEs
2. Why solicitation automation is important to widening your supplier pool
3. How agenciecs are getting more compliant submissions, and
4. How your team also reaps the benefits.

With increasing demands on your staff and from your constituents, it’s time to optimize your processes with the right data and technology. From sharing information with the public to automating your workflows, you can move beyond what you’re doing today and modernize your approach to asset management, setting you up for success in the future.

In this session, you’ll learn about:

1. Automation - Give your staff time back to spend on strategic priorities by automating workflows

2. Analysis - Use things like heat maps and integrations to turn data into actionable insights

3. Transparency - Visualize and share the right information to the right stakeholders

Successful programs build on a foundation of key principles you can apply in your own teams that will get more eyes looking at the data - and the more that everyone measures their success, the better outcomes you will drive for your community.

Join OpenGov and expert practitioners as we discuss successful programs, tips and tricks you can use to boost your own programs, and pitfalls to watch out for along the way. 

THIS SESSION QUALIFIES FOR 1 FREE CPE CREDIT (Must attend live session)

Participants must participate in group interactions during the event, and participants must stay for the duration of the event, as described in the event details, in order to be eligible for CPE.

• Field Of Study: Accounting (Governmental)
• Course Level: Overview (General review from a broad perspective)
• Prerequisite: No prerequisite knowledge is required
• Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation is required
• Delivery Method: Group internet based CPE: 1.00 credit(s) courtesy

For more information regarding certificate of completion, concerns and program cancellation policies, please contact cspiel@opengov.com

In this session, learn how trustworthy AI can empower procurement teams, including drafting scopes of work and searching for suitable vendors in seconds. 

But, this innovative technology is not perfect. We’ll also highlight the challenges and limitations of this new technology. Spoiler: It could never replace a public procurement professional.

Whether you’re a state park district managing thousands of acres or a smaller community with a few trails, adopting the “Smart Parks” mindset is the blueprint for success.

Join this session with cybersecurity experts to get up-to-date guidance on how to make sure you’re asking the right questions when vetting new vendors. 

The session will provide concrete takeaways to help you streamline the security review in your vendor procurement process, including specific security questions to ask potential vendors, how to know exactly where your data is, and how to understand whether the answers you get satisfy your concerns.

In this session you will learn:

1. How to make sure your vendors are actually keeping your data safe from ransomware and other cyber attacks.

2. Supply chain issues to consider when vetting digital vendors. 

3. How to update the cybersecurity questions in your procurement process to keep up with current realities and trends.