GOVERNMENTS WORKING TOGETHER
What It Takes to Make It Happen

A One-Day Leadership Workshop for Government Executives
Monday, December 9, 2002 - Hershey, Pennsylvania
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Hershey Lodge and Convention Center

On September 11, 2001, our democracy entered a new era in which collaboration and cooperation within and among different levels of government became essential to national security. Join us on Monday, December 9, to explore existing models of intergovernmental cooperation - federal-state-local, federal-state, state-local, with key thinkers and players who will talk about their experience to date and their plans for the future.

Workshop Leader Tom Davies Technology Columnist Governing Senior Vice President Current Analysis, Inc.

Workshop Speaker Nancy Wong Assistant Director Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, U.S. Department of Commerce

Luncheon Speaker John Carrow Chief Information Officer Unisys Corporation and former CIO City of Philadelphia

8 A.M. - Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 A.M. - Welcome
Peter A. Harkness, Editor & Publisher, Governing;
Charles A. Gerhards, Chief Information Officer, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

9 - 10:00 A.M. - Opening Session
Introduction: Tom Davies, Workshop Director
Keynote Address: Goodbye Devolution, Hello Collaboration

10:30 A.M. - 12 P.M. - Plenary Session
Cooperating to Protect Critical Infrastructure: A Panel Discussion

Participants:
Nancy Wong, Assistant to the Director, Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, U.S. Department of Commerce; Brian Anderson, Chief Information Officer, Public Technology, Inc.

12:15-1:15 P.M. - Lunch
The New Model for Intergovernmental Cooperation
John Carrow, Chief Information Officer, UNISYS Corporation

1:45 - 3:15 P.M. - Breakout Sessions
Intergovernmental Collaboration - Models and Possibilities
* Law Enforcement
* Social Services
* Technology
* Homeland Security
* Public Health

3:45 - 4:30 P.M. - Final Session
Intergovernmental Cooperation: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go and What We Need to Do To Get There
Tom Davies, Workshop Director, Technology Columnist, Governing, Senior Vice President, Current Analysis, Inc.