Jump-start your training experience by attending these interactive, practical workshops and embrace the promise of mobile. These information-packed sessions are a great opportunity to network with fellow attendees while taking a hands-on, common sense approach to mastering mobile initiatives that will enhance your understanding of the informative, case study presentations throughout the training.

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Mobile 101: Tips And Techniques You Need To Develop A Secure Mobile Strategy That Will Improve Productivity And Lower Costs

More and more people are going mobile causing everyone increased pressure to understand how mobile can be utilized to improve productivity and lower costs. In addition, deploying mobile solutions that are secure and scale to thousands of users internally as well as externally, is of great importance.

Understanding why Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms are critical to your mobile strategy and how mobile application development will affect your organizations systems is key to mobile success.

In this session, you will learn key factors that should be considered when deciding on your approach for implementing mobile solutions, including:

• Understanding the different types of mobile applications and why or when they should be utilized
• Preparing your team to manage the demand for mobile solutions to drive productivity and lower costs
• Learning industry best practices in designing and deploying mobile solutions
• Major components and functions of a mobile platform and architecture
• Security concerns of a mobile platform and how to maintain a secure infrastructure
• Communication methods used for different types of mobile applications and the impact each has on your enterprise environment and the end user
• How to plan and implement a scalable mobile platform that addresses your current and future requirements

WORKSHOP LEADER: Thomas Voshell is Senior Director, Solution Engineering at SAP Public Sector, Federal /Civilian. SAP is a leading provider of Enterprise Systems to Public Sector organizations globally. With over 15,000 Public Sector customers, SAP is able to leverage our experience and knowledge to build solutions that help Public Sector Run Better. 

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Afternoon break/lunch on your own

How To Create A Mobile Strategy With User Experience In Mind: Understanding Your Audience To Develop A Powerful Mobile Strategy That Will Benefit Your Users & Meet Your Objectives

Successful mobile solutions focus on users’ broader experiences and they don’t come about by just cramming legacy Web sites onto smaller screens. People make emotional connections to their mobile devices and they integrate their their use/usage into the most significant aspects of their lives.

In this interactive session, you will learn how to redefine your mobile projects by convergence of business objectives, technology and specific, well-defined users to deliver meaningful results. Through hands-on exercises, you will craft ambitious and powerful experiences that involve mobile touch points without being limited by them, including how to:

• Describe interactions with your most important users
• Define those users’ goals and tasks across platforms
• Develop meaningful measures of success to meet your objectives
• Assess the effectiveness of your organization’s mobile efforts

WORKSHOP LEADERS: Dan Willis, Associate Creative Director for Sapient Government Services has been crafting powerful user experiences for nearly two decades. He has facilitated workshops and spoken at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival and many other major user experience conferences.

Bill Annibell, Chief Technology Officer for Sapient Government Services is responsible for leading clients through the technology lifecycle with a focus on innovation and measurable return on investment. He offers a deep understanding of emerging technologies and user-centric best practices to help ensure the delivery of systems that provide tailored solutions on time and on budget.

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS
These workshops are designed to take your conference experience to the next level. Post-conference workshops allow you to take the information you gained from the general sessions, and identify and focus on your individual needs and applications. Make the most out of this conference by attending these highly interactive, hands-on sessions. Space is limited to ensure interactivity!

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8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
POST-TRAINING MORNING WORKSHOP C
Continental breakfast will be provided at 8:00 a.m. for the morning
workshop attendees.

Strengthening The Case For Workforce Mobility: How To Maximize Cost Reduction, Improve Productivity, Mitigate Risk And Address Conflicting Objectives

Despite the documented benefits of workforce mobility, some agencies still resist. Join recognized thought leaders in workplace change management as they explore strategies that organizations are employing to strengthen the business case for mobility and share proven techniques to overcome resistance to change at various levels within your agency.

Participate in this hands-on workshop activities to focus on overcoming your most challenging barriers to success and winning support from skeptical management leaders. Leave with best practices and actionable steps you can apply to your own mobility program, including:

• Mitigating risk through an understanding of 15 factors impacting the mobile workforce
• An understanding of how diverse stakeholders and generational groups perceive mobile work
• Address conflicting objectives in the business case for mobility
• Ensuring your mobility strategy maximizes both cost reduction and productivity improvement
• Tips on recognizing and circumventing “silent sabotage” and other common pitfalls

WORKSHOP LEADERS: Diane Stegmeier is President and Founder of Stegmeier Consulting Group, a globally-recognized leader in workplace change management that has been engaged by diverse clients to significantly reduce workplace costs while improving workforce productivity. Stegmeier is best known for her extensive research on resistance to workplace change and her discovery of the 15 Critical Influences™ impacting behavior in the workplace. Those research findings were compiled in her book, Innovations in Office Design: The Critical Influence Approach to Effective Work Environments, which was ranked the #1 Workplace Strategy Book by Amazon readers.

Sandy Crocker Hosfeld is a Senior Consultant in Change Management with Stegmeier Consulting Group. She has conducted extensive research on diversity and the multi-generational workforce, and is a recognized expert on the topics. She is an international speaker, workshop leader, facilitator, and presenter. She has 26 years of experience in the office and workspace solution industry and 16 years of teaching experience.

Matthew Stegmeier is a Consultant in Change Management with Stegmeier Consulting Group and has been instrumental in applying the firm's best practices and proprietary Critical Influence methodology to clients' mobility, flex work, shared-space environments, and other alternative workplace strategies. Matthew Stegmeier is the co-author of the forthcoming book, CAVE People in the Workplace: Managing Citizens Against Virtually Everything.

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Afternoon break/lunch on your own

Mobile Risk Management: Going Beyond Traditional Mobile Device Management Practices To Ensure Security And Comply With Policies And Regulations

As agencies increasingly rely on BlackBerry, iOS and Android devices for remote access to secure information and custom applications, the integrity and risk profile of their mobile infrastructure is a growing concern. Agencies must now go beyond traditional mobile device management practices to ensure their devices, infrastructure and data are secured and monitored in a way that protects confidential information and maintains compliance with policies and regulations.

This session will explore the emerging category of Mobile Risk Management (MRM) and will present you with best practices to help securely manage the proliferation of mobile devices within your workforce, including:

• The risks associated with allowing Android, iOS and BlackBerry devices to connect to your agency’s network and applications
• Best practices and options for protecting agency data on iPads, iPhones and Android devices
• Mobile Risk Management and the importance of addressing risk head-on
• How you can embrace the "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) trend while maintaining agency compliance
• Mobile application aanagement and approaches to securing and tracking usage of agency apps
• How others are looking at mobile security and what approaches they are taking to protecting their agency assets and proving compliance

WORKSHOP LEADER: Daniel Ford is the Chief Security Officer at FIXMO. Daniel continues to be a trusted advisor to Senior Federal Agency Leaders. He specializes in information security practices, procedures, and implementation of complex information security solutions.