Presentation Summary: During a time of uncertainty, understanding how your players and guests are engaging can help Tribes design the best possible experience for their visitors across all revenue streams.
Join us, along with Don Lionetti of Microsoft, to learn more about the ways Tribes can use technology to organize data, focus on personalization and drive improved engagement and experience.

Presenter: Nancy Kolo, Enterprise Account Executive

Presenter: Don Lionetti, Sales Director

Presentation Summary: Community engagement and family wellness are among the most important factions of a Tribal Nation. In this session, we will showcase all you need to know about portal technology, which offers a secure, convenient communication tool for your members while providing the tribe with a way to provide services safely by reducing in-office visits.
– Presented by Arctic IT, Microsoft and TribalWise

Presentation Summary: Experts predict by 2021, cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually.* With the ever-increasing frequency and complexity of cyber attacks, it’s no longer a question of if your Tribe will be targeted, it’s a matter of when. With complex business practices, Tribes need to strengthen their security more than ever. Discover how Bulletproof can help you put together a security platform that will protect your Tribal data and digital assets from modern and highly specialized cyber threats.

Presenter: Melissa Aarskaug, Vice President of Business Development, Bulletproof, a GLI company
Presenter Bio: Melissa Aarskaug is Vice President of Business Development. Her friendly personality and persistent hard work has solidified relationships with many clients including: Tribal nations, gaming manufacturers, commercial casinos, state entities and associations. Melissa is passionate about helping clients’ solve security challenges and is determined to maximize clients’ ROI with superior problem-solving skills and communication.

Presenter: Ricardo Nicolini, Managing Director, Security Operations, Bulletproof, a GLI company
Presenter Bio: Ricardo Nicolini has 20+ years of experience in Information Technology and Cybersecurity. He is a problem solver and believes in Digital Transformation and Enterprise Architecture as catalysts to innovation, both incremental and disruptive. He practices inclusive leadership and process-based management having experienced, time and time again, the benefits of these practices in building and leading high performing teams. He’s committed to lifelong learning as a way of life and deems this to be one of the most important competencies for striving in this information age.

Presentation Summary: With nearly all Coronavirus Relief Funds distributed, many tribes may be left wondering where else they can go if they need additional support. In this webinar, eCivis will cover the latest Uniform Grant Guidance updates and how it affects tribes, best practices to manage and spend their COVID-19 relief funding, and tips on selecting the right tools to help.

Presenter: Maria Howeth, MBA, CGMS, Tribal Alliance Specialist
Presenter Bio: Maria comes from the tribal government sector and is a proud member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. As a Tribal Alliance Specialist, Maria brings expert knowledge of grants and tribal government. She is a Certified Grant Management Specialist (CGMS) from the National Grants Management Association (NGMA) where she serves on their board of directors and is active in many committees. Maria holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Southern Nazarene University and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from East Central University. She also has training in Tribal Law from Oklahoma City University.

Presentation Summary: This exciting presentation gives the tribal hospitality sector a fresh alternative to traditional software. Imagine using just one platform to run your casino, hotel, retail and event business. On top of a traditional hotel Property Management System (PMS), you get deep retail- and hospitality-specific functionality. Get an exclusive look at how you can easily manage all your key processes: food and beverage, checks-ins, check-outs, spa bookings, reservations, retail sales, table and kitchen management – you name it – all in one solution.

• Presented by Arctic IT, LS Retail and TribalWise

Presentation Summary: Microsoft provides powerful services within Office 365 — but a comprehensive backup of your Office 365 data is not one of them. In fact, 81% of 1,000 IT pros surveyed experienced data loss in Office 365 — from simple user error to major data security threats.

In this session designed for the Tribal Community, Veeam will explore:

• • Current data protection solutions for today’s Office 365 environments
  • Microsoft’s Shared Responsibility Model
  • When files are deleted or modified, how long do the originals remain?
  • And more!

Presenter: Jeff Reichard, Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy, Veeam
Presenter Bio: Jeff Reichard is Senior Director of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam, where he focuses on risk, compliance, and partnerships. Jeff has 25 years of experience in data protection/availability, business continuity, and regulatory compliance solutions. His previous roles have ranged from designing SAN and data backup solutions to systems engineering and engineering leadership serving public sector and enterprise customers. Prior to Veeam, Jeff most recently led Commvault’s federal civilian SE team. At Veeam, Jeff works with partners, customers and industry analysts to evangelize Veeam’s vision for cloud data management and digital transformation.

Presentation Summary: Tribal governments are challenged every day to consolidate their accounting and grant management programs. Accurate grant reporting is critical in order to remain compliant and adhere to regulatory standards. Join us for this special presentation on the next generation, all-in-one solution. You’ll learn how to save time, reduce bottlenecks and increase accuracy in both your accounting and reporting.
– Presented by Arctic IT, Sparkrock and TribalWise

Presentation Summary:
Every time you purchase any item from a distributor, that creates data about your tribal business. Purchasing data can be used for contract negotiations, pricing calculations, inventory assessments, and overall business intelligence. This session examines how that data tells a story about your spending, the strength of your contracts, and the overall health of your business.

Presenter: Tim Matanane, Senior Product Development Manager, Buyers Edge Platform
Presenter Bio: Tim Matanane is Senior Product Development Manager for InsideTrack, the official data and spend management technology of Buyers Edge Platform. Tim has worked procurement for over 20 years. Previous to InsideTrack, Tim worked at Caesars Entertainment managing 3-300 million in different categories spend.

Presenter: Andy Rosenbloom, VP of Marketing, Buyers Edge Platform
Presenter Bio: Andy Rosenbloom is Vice President of Marketing for Buyers Edge Platform, the nation’s largest Food service Group Purchasing Network. Andy focuses on crafting messaging and touch points that deliver Buyers Edge Platform’s cost reduction programs to Tribal operators to help ensure their success and profitability. He frequently writes, speaks and publishes articles on the topic of foodservice supply chain, technology, data, and operational excellence. He has earned a BS in Marketing from Lehigh University and a BS in everything else from Wikipedia.

Presentation Summary:

Curvature helps tribes, and hundreds of customers, save significant amount of money, by extending the useful life of their IT infrastructure. Curvature enables IT freedom to make decisions on their timelines, budget, and preferred solutions. The webinar will discuss how tribes can optimize their infrastructure Operating Costs by leveraging Curvature’s Third Party Maintenance and IT asset lifecycle services. Curvature will also discuss how tribes can benefit by optimizing their legacy infrastructure costs and use savings to bridge the divide between the physical infrastructure and virtual. The webinar will be very beneficial for IT infrastructure and data center leaders as they progress in their digital transformation journey. Curvature will also share cloud migration planning and execution approaches and how these programs can transform your IT environment while leveraging well-established migration processes and experts. Whether full or hybrid, public or private cloud, tribes need a clear understanding of the empowering strategies that allow optimization of their approach. Discover ways of running your IT you didn’t know were possible.

Presenter: Jagger Gestson, Sr Manager, Inside Sales, Curvature

Presenter Bio: Jagger is 4 year’s with Curvature and leads a strong team of account managers in helping to
provide cost-focused IT infrastructure solutions.

Presenter: Bill Pershin, Director of Channel Sales, Curvature
Presenter Bio: Bill is 10 years with Curvature and leads the direction and growth of our Channel Partner business.

 

Presentation Summary: Join us to understand how and why cloud technology is gaining traction in the tribal sector. This 101-level discussion is designed to help Tribal Administrators learn the stages of cloud migration in easy-to-understand steps and what it takes to transition to the cloud.
– Presented by Arctic IT, Microsoft and TribalWise

Presenter: Phillip Jackson, Chief Information Officer, Arctic IT

Presenter Bio: Phillip Jackson, CIO, is responsible for Arctic IT’s network infrastructure and implementing new technologies to keep the company at the forefront of cloud security. Phillip’s career is built on a passion for cloud services and security, the power of data-driven decisions, and the ability of technology to improve organizations to their highest efficiency.

Presenter: Mac Quig, Sr. Infrastructure Specialist, Microsoft Federal – Azure

Presenter Bio: Mac came to Microsoft Federal via an acquisition  – bought for improving the performance of Windows Virtual Desktop. He has been in technology solution sales for 5 years, previously with Veeam Software. Mac is the Azure Solution Specialist for Tribal Nations, Gaming and Alaska Native Corporations for Microsoft.

Presentation Summary:
Tribal Organizations: Learn how to Optimize your Tribal IT with Microsoft/Office 365 and Teams

There are many choices for Tribal Organizations to consider when migrating from an on-premises Exchange Server to Microsoft 365/Office 365.  Migrating data to M365/O365 can pose many challenges for Tribal Organizations.

Join Big Green and Microsoft and learn how to:

• Prepare for and execute a successful M365/O365 migration
• Ensure your M365/O365 environment is secure
• Effectively roll out Teams in your Tribal Organization
• Manage and Optimize your Microsoft Licensing specific to Tribal Organizations

Presenter: John Enriquez, CIO, Wind Creek Hospitality

Presenter: Mike Prachar, Chief Operations Officer, Big Green IT
Presenter Bio: After nearly 20 years in telecommunications, Mike decided to shift his career focus to IT, specifically focusing on Microsoft cloud services. Mike joined Big Green IT in 2015 with the sole purpose of building a first-class Microsoft cloud practice. Since then Big Green IT has achieved many significant milestones, including being named the Microsoft Rising Star Partner of the Year in 2016, becoming a Tier-1 (direct) CSP and multi-proficiency gold partner with Microsoft.
Mike is passionate about matching customer challenges and goals to Microsoft technology solutions.

Presenter: Don Lionetti, Microsoft Sales Director – Tribal Government, Gaming and Alaska Native Corporations
Presenter Bio: Don joined the Microsoft Corporation 18 years ago. He is currently a Director of Sales, leading a team that provides solutions for Native American Tribal Government, Gaming and Alaska Native organizations encompassing the entire US market.

Presentation Summary: Studies show that 91% of customers who are unhappy with a brand will just leave without complaining and 72% of consumers see having to explain their problems to multiple people as poor customer service.

During this TribalWise webinar we will be discussing the benefits, best practices and key insights on how using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to augment your existing systems, can help grow revenue, uncover new business opportunities, improve both customer experiences and employee satisfaction for your tribal organization or enterprise.
We will look at how IBM Solutions combined with certain key performance indicators (KPIs) have been successfully implemented to positively influence a modernized approach. A product demonstration of a tailored end-to-end solution will provide a visual to show how these technologies could help revolutionize the brand of each tribe.

Presenter: Jason Webster, Watson AI Applications Sales Leader, IBM US Federal
Presenter Bio: My directive is to help all clients that classify as an IBM US Federal account with the understanding, adoption, and successful use of all affiliated Watson AI Applications, Software & Services. My IBM career thus far has had me in leadership positions in Watson AI & Data Science, we well as consultative positions in Hybrid Data Management and Business Analytics. I’ve had unique training and experience with customer service during my time at Marriott International HQ and have been awarded notable IBM certifications such as in Blockchain and Enterprise Design Thinking.

Presenter: Richard Hughes, IBM Data & AI Executive
Presenter Bio: Richard Hughes has over 20 years of experience in Data, Data warehouse, the BI, and the AI industry.

Presentation Summary: Tribal Health organizations run a multitude of complex systems all contributing to patient care and well being of their tribal members. RPMS is an EHR system widely used across the country in both IHS and Tribal Healthcare systems and is one of the most critical applications run by tribal health organizations today. Join us to learn how Nutanix is greatly improving performance for RPMS from a current customer, Jason Lockwood, Health Information Consultant for Pascua Yaqui Tribe.

Presenter: Justin Raisor, Sr. Account Executive, Nutanix
Presenter Bio: Justin Raisor is a Senior Account Executive for Native American Tribes who helps Tribal IT Department to modernize their datacenters. Before starting at Nutanix, Justin worked for a number of years as a Virtualization consultant and prior to that held positions as an IT Director and Network Administrator. After a successful career in IT and Consulting, Justin now assists Tribal IT Departments in designing cloud like private datacenters that provide high resiliency and security while eliminating a massive amount of complexity. Justin enjoys Amateur car racing and working on and driving classic muscle cars.

Presenter: Jason Lockwood, Health Information Consultant for Pascua Yaqui Tribe
Presenter Bio: Jason works for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe located in Tucson, AZ. Jason is employed as a consultant responsible for Health Information systems at Pascua Yaqui’s including RPMS.

 

Presentation Summary: Remote work brings with it new and different challenges to tribal organizations. Take advantage of Dell’s expertise to empower your tribal employees with tools to get it done. Learn about VMware’s intelligence-driven digital workspace platform that simply and securely delivers and manages any app on any device by integrating access control, application management and multi-platform endpoint management. Join Dell and VMware experts for an educational webinar for tribes of all sizes.

Presenter: Randy Kendzior, Client Product Executive, Dell
Presenter Bio: Randy Kendzior is a respected technologist with a focus on workforce and digital transformation strategies. He works closely with Dell customers to address their business challenges. He is a known subject matter expert on client solutions, endpoint security, and emerging technologies.

Presenter: Cameron Villers, Workforce Transformation Executive, VMware
Presenter Bio: Cameron Villers helps customers accelerate their workforce transformation journey through an integrated approach to the complex digital workspace. He brings years of experience as an enterprise account executive for VMware.

Presenter: Mac Quig, Sr. Azure Solution Specialist, Microsoft
Presenter Bio: Mac has worked in the Federal IT industry for 6+ years covering everything from Defense and Intelligence to Civilian agencies and Healthcare/Tribal Nations. Previously worked at Veeam Software as a Federal Account Executive helping customers with their disaster recovery and virtual back-up strategy. Most recently worked at a start-up called, FSLogix, which was purchased by Microsoft to help create what is now known as Windows Virtual Desktop. Mac has a deep background in Cloud adoption and has been certified in Microsoft’s AZ900 and soon AZ103 Admin. He enjoys helping customers find the perfect balance of efficiency, collaboration and technical capability to assist in taking customers to the next level. Mac has worked with Tribal customers in the DevOps, Backup and Recovery, IaaS and PaaS and Data and AI business areas to create a full cloud portfolio that ensures organizational success. Personally, Mac is working on building a new house for him and his wife and loving Pitbull.

Presentation Summary: The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is proven guidance that’s designed to help you create and implement the business and technology strategies necessary for your organization(s) to succeed in the cloud. It provides best practices, documentation, and tools that cloud architects, IT professionals, and business decision makers need to successfully achieve their short- and long-term objectives for the cloud.

By using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure best practices, you can better align your business and technical strategies to ensure success. The CAD (Cloud Adoption Framework) is implemented in 4 main phases and 2 sub phases. First, Define the strategy; understand motivations, business outcomes, business justification, and the first adoption project. Next the Plan phase; Rationalize the data, initial organization alignment, skills readiness planning and cloud adoption timeline. Then the Ready phase; dive into readiness guide, define landing zone, expand the blueprint and validate best practices. The final phase, Adoption, is grouped into two different alignments. One is migrate the other is innovate. The two sub categories are Govern and Manage which will be covered under Plan, Ready and Adopt.

We will chat about the resources available to you to achieve cloud success and what that looks like across your organization.

Summary: Tribal Organizations are facing a difficult but addressable scenario: IT and Cybersecurity staffs are shrinking while cyberthreats like extortion through ransomware are becoming more frequent and more expensive. There are short and long-term strategies Tribal Organizations can use to counter threats while reducing costs and staying compliant. In this webinar, you will learn about the current and emerging threats and see several strategies to determine which is right for your organization.

Presenter: Michael Hamilton, CISSP, CISO, President, and Founder of CI Security
Presenter Bio: Michael Hamilton, CISSP, is the CISO, President, and Founder of CI Security, a leading provider of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and information security consulting services. Michael’s roles over 30 years in information security include Chief Information Security Officer for the City of Seattle, Vice-Chair of the Homeland Security State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government Coordinating Council, Policy Advisor to Washington State, and Managing Consultant for VeriSign Global Security Consulting. Current InfraGard Sector Chief advising the Washington State emergency management division and the Governor during COVID-19.

Summary: It’s a bumpy road, but we’re moving in the right direction for a recovery from the effects of the coronavirus. Join us for insights & a live Q&A focused around the specific needs of tribal hotels & casinos.

• Supporting a hotel casino in a post-COVID-19 world
• Aligning marketing, revenue management & sales to plan your campaigns, rates & promotions
• Balancing hotel occupancy targets with capacity constraints
• Optimizing game speed, monetizing other spaces & targeting best players

Presenter: Dan Skodol, Vice President of Data Science and Analytics, Cendyn
Presenter Bio: Dan Skodol is Vice President of Data Science and Analytics Cendyn. Dan came to Cendyn following the acquisition of The Rainmaker Group in 2019. With over ten years of Revenue Management experience in gaming, hotels, multifamily real estate, and airlines, he is responsible for researching and designing enhancements and innovations within Cendyn’s product suite, as well as supporting thought leadership topics and studies via analytics. Dan previously held Director of Revenue Management roles for two casino organizations in Atlantic City and Archstone Communities. He holds a BA from Yale University and a Master of Management in Hospitality.

Summary: Join TribalWise, and SAP Concur for a webinar on Thursday, July 30th, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, that will cover SAP Concur Expense, Travel, Budget and Accounts Payable Automation solutions.
During this webinar, we will discuss understanding and managing your Tribal organization’s expenditures with a single platform that captures employee spend, when and how it happens, and how SAP Concur utilizes a single connected platform to increase compliance and transparency. We will reflect on the current success the platform provides Tribal organizations, demonstrate the best practices to help guide your organization, and establish fiscal responsibility with a trusted solution.

Key Topics:

• Streamline processes and eliminate manual tasks and piles of paper
• How automation helps reduce the risk associated with managing and tracking employee expenditures
• Improve compliance utilizing proactive strategies and policies
• Establish trust through transparency and fiscal accountability
• Manage your cash flow and all parts of your invoice process in one system
• Cut operational costs to allow your organization to run better by booking travel, submitting expenses and invoices with an integrated cloud solution

Presenter: John Loper, Senior Solutions Consultant, SAP Concur
Presenter Bio: John is a Senior Solutions Consultant for Public Sector at SAP Concur. Prior to joining Concur, John was the director of finance for agencies in the state of Texas and has 26 years of government finance and accounting experience.

Presenter: Charlene Wilcox, Product Marketing Principal, SAP Concur
Presenter Bio: Charlene leads market strategy for North America Public Sector at SAP Concur. Charlene has over 10 years of experience leading go-to-market strategies in the public sector, higher education, and healthcare markets for data and risk management technology solutions.

Presenter: Marni Carmichael, Director of Product Management, ImageSource, INC

Presenter Bio:  Marni Carmichael has been in the Document Management and Enterprise Content Management for over 20 years. Having worked at Kofax focused on image processing technology, improving all facets of the scanning process, and conversion of document to data. Marni designed and implemented solutions for Fortune 100 customers, a well as optimized user experiences for individuals. She lead international development teams for Fujitsu and today focuses on sharing ImageSource’s expertise and passion for solutions.

Summary: Our webinar series will focus on securing tribal records, converting them from paper to electronic documents, automating tribal enrollment and enabling communication between tribes and members, tribes and state and local governments.

Summary: Join us on Thursday, July 23 as we discuss best practices that tribal health clinics follow to improve data reporting to IHS. Regardless of the EHR used, tribal health clinics can implement these best practices to help improve user population, visit count, and GPRA and SDPI reporting.

Presenter: Michael Popp, President, MJP Healthcare Consulting
Presenter Bio: Michael Popp is president of MJP Healthcare Consulting, a company providing consulting services, training, and medical coding. He is a Health Information Technology consultant with more than 20 years of experience working with tribal health facilities throughout the country. Michael’s experience includes implementation, training, and support of electronic health records and practice management systems; policy development, training, and support of HIPAA programs, and project management.

Summary: Proofpoint has worked with several tribes to provide an array of cyber security solutions. During this session, we will discuss the challenges tribes face and how we can work together to solve them, with Proofpoint solutions including Insider Threat Management and real-time protection against ransomware, malware and phishing attacks.

Presenters: Sai Chavali, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint and Paul Taylor, Public Sector Account Manager, Proofpoint

 

Summary: ArcGIS Indoors is Esri’s new geo-enabled system for smart workplace management. Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations are having to quickly adapt to get their businesses up and running again and their employees back to work safely. ArcGIS Indoors helps building owners, operators, and occupants create and share relevant facilities data so that people can use their buildings more efficiently. It provides facility mapping and management workflows that create a Common Operating Picture for multiple stakeholders. Most businesses and government offices are looking for better ways to visualize their employee’s work locations, their proximity, and building use patterns. There’s also the question of effective placement of health checkpoints and sanitation stations. How will you provide a safe workplace or experience for your employees and patrons? Use ArcGIS Indoors to evaluate activities within your facilities to enable more comfortable, safe and collaborative environments.

Presenter: Lain Graham, Esri Solution Engineer, Tribal Solutions

Presenter Bio: Lain Graham is a Solution Engineer on the National Government Science and Civilian team just outside Washington DC. For the past two years, she has primarily supported Federally Recognized Tribes, the US Census Bureau, and EPA. Lain specializes in field operations and spatial imagery analysis, she is an FAA certified drone pilot and a registered professional Archaeologist. Lain holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Anthropology and Archaeology, and a doctorate in Sociology and GIS from the University of Central Florida. In her position at Esri, Lain assists National Government agencies like EPA in the adoption and optimization of the ArcGIS platform to drive meaningful solutions. She and her husband love to hike and spend time outdoors with their five-year-old twins.

Presenter: Anne Taylor, Esri Tribal Government Team Lead

Presenter Bio: Anne Taylor has been with Esri since 2003, working as an Account Manager for the National Government Civilian team. Anne manages accounts in the US Department of Interior and leads Esri’s Tribal Program. She works closely with GIS personnel and executives in her accounts to help ensure that Esri technology is being implemented efficiently and effectively, with a focus on the mission and goals of the customer. Before coming to Esri, Anne was a software engineer, developing GIS systems as a primary focus. She has worked for Genasys, USDA NRCS, Hewlett Packard, and several small start-up companies. She has a bachelor in Math and Computer Science from the University of Richmond and an MS in Anatomy and Neuroscience from Colorado State University.

Presenter: Marni Carmichael, Director of Product Management, ImageSource, INC

Summary: Our webinar series will focus on securing tribal records, converting them from paper to electronic documents, automating tribal enrollment and enabling communication between tribes and members, tribes and state and local governments.

Summary: Fifty-eight percent of cyberattack victims are categorized as small businesses. Sixty-eight percent of all breaches took months, or longer, to discover. Approximately five tribes have reported ransomware attacks in the year 2020 alone. Casinos, hospitals, owned enterprises, etc. have made Native American Tribes a prime target of cyberattacks. Join this session to hear about the portfolio of options Dell Technologies offers to help your tribe adapt and keep your tribal data secure. We’ll cover air gaps, hybrid cloud management, next-gen application protection, and more.

Presenter: Jason Sweeney, Senior Director of Global Data Protection Solutions

Presenter Bio: Jason Sweeney is one of the top executives within Dell EMC and has been on the forefront of Dell’s Data Protection strategy for over 20 years. Jason’s expertise is rooted in helping organizations and businesses address the complexity that comes with cyber security, hybrid cloud integration, disaster recovery, and more.

Presenter: Zac Mott, Systems Engineer, Fortinet Federal

Presenter Bio: Zac Mott is a Systems Engineer at Fortinet, currently assigned to the Federal Team, supporting Native American tribes nationwide. He has 17 years of diverse experience as a systems, network and cybersecurity engineer, supporting the DoD and Federal Government. He has administered and developed solutions for environments ranging from tactical, austere environments supporting less than 50 users to globally distributed enterprise environments supporting tens of thousands of users. He is a native of Oklahoma and currently resides in Colorado Springs, CO.

Summary: Digital transformation has become an important business trend that necessitates a different approach to WAN architecture. Software Defined WAN or SD-WAN, has become a popular solution for many organizations, but is often misunderstood and many small to medium- size organizations are unsure how they can benefit. We will break down the facts and explain how tribes can consolidate and simplify network infrastructure to reduce cost, optimize performance and improve security.

Presenter: Fred Brown, CTO, Virtual Procurement Services

Presenter Bio: Fred Brown has over 26 years of IT experience, including 13+ years in tribal gaming and hospitality leadership and over 12 years in strategic technology consulting spanning multiple industries. Prior to joining VPS, Fred was Corporate CIO for Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment, where he built and led the coporate IT organization and was responsible for IT strategy, budgeting, integration and oversight of nine properties globally including one of the largest tribal resorts in the US, Mohegan Sun.

Presenter: John Torres, VP of Service Delivery, Virtual Procurement Services

Presenter Bio: With over 25 years of solution sales and sourcing experience, John leads the VPS service delivery team dedicated to our tribal government and gaming clients. Prior to joining VPS, he spent a decade focusing exclusively on helping nonprofit organizations and social service agencies leverage technology to help foster their respective missions. That experience makes John’s contributions to reducing and recovering IT spend for the tribes VPS works with especially gratifying.

Summary: Now more than ever, tribal nations and businesses will need to do more with less as we continue to deal with difficult social and financial times. In this webinar, learn the keys to utilizing a proper procurement strategy to reduce and recover technology costs, optimize purchasing processes and improve organizational collaboration. While focused on IT spend, the methods discussed- including effective strategic planning, vendor and technology management and procurement risk management- can be applied to all aspects of your community including tribal healthcare, education and other services.

Presenter: Albert Kagnas, General Manager and COO, NewCore Wireless

Presenter Bio:  As General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of NewCore Wireless, Albert is responsible for overseeing the business, technical and day-to-day operations of the company. Albert has 30 years of experience in wireless communications and is considered one of the leading experts in wireless communications. Having worked on all aspects of engineering and operating a wireless network, his knowledge and understanding of rural wireless networks is unrivaled. Previously, Albert served as Director of Network Engineering and Operations at St. Cloud Wireless Holdings. During this time, Albert guided the team through technology changes, network expansions, system integrations and finally transitions to Verizon and Sprint.

Summary: NewCore wireless in partnership with Nokia and Edge services will provide an overview of the FCC’s recent initiative to allocate valuable 4G and 5G EBS spectrum to federally recognized tribes.  Topics will include the filing window, tribal action items to be  addressed prior to August 3^rd as well as explaining the buildout requirements to maintain ownership of the EBS asset.  Nokia is one of the global leaders in wireless communications infrastructure and will demonstrate how their technology can be deployed delivering a complete voice and data solution allowing tribal entities to take control of their wireless services and eliminate the reliance on other providers to meet the tribal needs.

Presentation Summary: We will be exploring ways that cybercriminals have monetized their malicious activity & how an improved understanding of the motivation behind attackers’ behavior can lead to better securing your network. We’ll also address the balance between cryptomining & ransomware attacks, the commoditization of the cyber kill chain and the going resale price of a stolen credit card number. Lastly, we’ll talk about ways to detect & protect yourself against some of these techniques and & threat vectors.

Presenter: Ian McIntyre, Security Analyst, Varonis

Presenter BIO: Ian McIntyre is a Security Analyst on the Security Architecture and Incident Response team at Varonis. In his position at Varonis, Ian helps customers understand and implement the full scope of Varonis’ detection and alerting capabilities, as well as assisting with cybersecurity investigations. Ian holds an MS in Information Security Policy & Management and previously worked as a Security Analyst with the U.S. Navy at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and at the CERT Insider Threat Center at CMU-SEI.

Presenter: Justin McErlean, Federal Account Executive, Varonis

Presenter BIO: Justin McErlean is an Account Manager on the US Public Sector team focused on Sovereign Nations. At Varonis, Justin works with tribes to strengthen their security infrastructures, educating them on modern-day threats like Ransomware/Phishing and ultimately what the best practices are when it comes to protecting their network/data. As of today, he currently works with 30 tribes helping with a multitude of different challenges from data protection to compliance to combatting cyber threats. Justin holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Penn State and a Master’s Degree in Criminology from John Jay College of NYC.

Presenter: Jeff Reichard, Sr Director, Enterprise Strategy, Veeam

Summary: In this session, Jeff Reichard from the Office of the CTO at Veeam will discuss current data protection trends and challenges.  Jeff will draw heavily on Veeam’s recently-completed worldwide Cloud Data Management survey of 1,500 IT decision makers as well as on information from other industry analysts.  Topics will include on-prem data protection and disaster recovery as well as cloud workload management.  The talk will focus on actionable strategies based on current research, not a sales pitch.  The talk will end with a brief summary of Veeam’s solutions in the tribal data protection and availability space.

 

Presentation Summary: Telehealth has already served a vital role with rural native communities. Now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has become a necessity in delivering essential healthcare to native populations nationwide, using a safe, patient-centered approach. During this session, CTG will share a framework for adding telehealth to practices’ technology and workflows; we’ll discuss critical considerations for implementing telehealth efficiently, and review key measurements to determine if your implementation is performing as intended.  We’ll share examples of how other organizations have leveraged telehealth for purposes ranging from routine primary care to the monitoring of their most at-risk patient populations.

Presenter: Jeanette Ball, RN PCMH CCE, a Client Solution Executive for Value-Based Care at CTG, has an extensive clinical, population health and healthcare administrative background. As a senior consultant and Registered Nurse, Jeanette has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, including a 10-year history of outpatient medical center executive administration, and more than 10 years as a senior consultant in clinical application design, population health strategies and overall health system preparation for responding to health care reform and value based care.  Jeanette demonstrates knowledge and experience supporting the integration of IT solutions with medical care delivery, specializing in Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition, population health, workflow analysis, process redesign, provider clinician adoption, and quality redesign.

Presenter: Dana Bensinger, MSN, RN-BC, is a Client Solution Executive at CTG, and an Informatics Nurse Specialist with 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He is a Registered Nurse who is board-certified in Nursing Informatics, and holds a Six Sigma Green Belt. Dana has experience working with numerous healthcare organizations, including large IDNs, non-profits, children’s hospitals, and ambulatory and physician practices. Although he specializes in Epic, Dana has expertise in multiple EHR systems in the areas of planning, system selection, implementation, and optimization.

       

Presenter: Abdy Inman, Power Platform Technology Specialist, Microsoft
Presenter Bio: Abdy Iman is a Power Platform Technology Specialist with Microsoft based in Reston, VA. He focuses on supporting organizations with reporting, analytics and app modernization initiatives using self-service reporting and low-code/no-code technologies from Microsoft.  He is a Microsoft Certified Professional with certifications in Solution Development, Data Analytics, Database Administration and Azure Solution Architecture.

Presenter: Sarah Jelinek, Microsoft Business Applications MVP and Technology Evangelist, Arctic Information Technology
Presenter Bio: As Arctic IT’s Technology Evangelist, Sarah Jelinek guides organizations through the process of discovering and implementing technology solutions. Sarah has been working with Dynamics and the Power Platform since 2007 as a consultant and Microsoft Certified Trainer. She has been recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2018 and serves as a go-to resource within the Microsoft community of experts on Dynamics and the Power Platform.

Presentation Summary: Microsoft’s Business Applications Platform is revolutionizing how Tribal Governments and Tribal Enterprises meet their line-of-business application requirements. This webinar will provide insights into how organizations are building data-driven applications that produce deeper business insights. This webinar session gives Tribal organizations ideas on how to inspire everyone to build apps without risk, simplify app development without constraints, deploy quickly add value continuously, integrate all of your data with just a few clicks and infuse AI to add powerful in-app intelligence. Come see the Microsoft answer to “low code/no code platform” that includes PowerApps, Common Data Service and Power Automate.

Summary:  Join TribalWise and Arctic IT for this encore presentation with special guest Drew McElrath of Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures.
In response to the rapidly-changing business environment, Arctic IT’s Dave Bailey, President, and Phillip Jackson, CIO, deliver this educational webinar on how to transition your tribal organization to cloud technology – the “modern workplace”.

Register to learn how cloud-based technology can prepare you for the future including:
-The security that’s embedded
-How business continuity is streamlined
-And why collaboration is more intuitive

Presenters: Dave Bailey, President, Arctic IT, Phillip Jackson, CIO, Arctic IT and special guest Drew McElrath of Mille Lacs Corporation

 

Presenter: Matthew J. Lane, VP & CIO, JANUS Associates
Presenter Bio: Matthew Lanes has performed Current/Future-State assessments, risk assessments, and vulnerability analyses for a wide variety of U.S. businesses and government organizations for JANUS over the past 21 years. He has assisted clients with remediation efforts, designed risk management tools for clients that enable them to lower costs of assessing their environments and planning for events, and advised government organizations on improvements in technology architecture. Matthew is a sought-after public speaker and has presented at numerous open and closed door government and public events.

Presenter: Chris Kniffin, Director, JANUS Associates
Presenter Bio: As Director of Business Development at JANUS, Chris is responsible for working with and helping clients understand their level of cyber/data security readiness and assisting them in achieving their security, privacy, and regulatory compliance goals. Based in Stamford, CT, Chris is a 25 year industry veteran of IT related services, and enterprise & application software solutions. He is well respected for working closely with clients to help them ascertain the most appropriate services for their needs in the most cost effective manner possible.

Presentation Summary 
In this webinar, we will cover the “Work From Home” (WFH) environment amid COVID-19, including the new WFH world, what the WFH environment threats have in common and examples of current threats such as “zoomboming.” We will also cover Penetration Testing vs Vulnerability Testing, what is Scanning and what is its value and finally, what to do now; providing a security checklist.

Summary: In times like these there is a desire for organizations to embrace the new normal and think about future proofing your workforce to work from anywhere, at any given time , on any device without weeks and months of planning to deploy your first virtual desktop. We will talk about the traditional challenges DaaS (Desktop as a service) has presented and how the complexity can be eliminated and allow for a DaaS offering to be up and running in hours vs weeks or even months.

Presenter: Justin Raisor,  Sr. Account Executive for Native American Tribes, Nutanix

Presenter Bio: Justin Raisor is a Senior Account Executive for Native American Tribes who helps Tribal IT Department to modernize their datacenters. Before starting at Nutanix, Justin worked for a number of years as a Virtualization consultant and prior to that held positions as an IT Director and Network Administrator. After a successful career in IT and Consulting, Justin now assists Tribal IT Departments in designing cloud like private datacenters that provide high resiliency and security while eliminating a massive amount of complexity. Justin enjoys Amateur car racing and working on and driving classic muscle cars.

Presenter: Phil Ditzel, Nutanix FRAME Specialist, Nutanix

Presenter Bio: Phil Ditzel has been with Nutanix for over 6 years and brings experience in both sales engineering and sales in the federal space. He is currently a Nutanix Xi Frame specialist supporting Frame sales for all of the US public sector. Phil graduated from Saint Bonaventure University with a degree in Computer Science.

Summary: Now that the World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic, IT departments must develop a pandemic response plan. As you strive to sift through the fast-evolving situation, and separate out misinformation from fact, we are hosting this webinar to share Info-Tech’s COVID-19 Resource Center resources you need to effectively navigate this crisis.

Impact and Results-What you need to know about COVID-19 and what you can do prepare NOW:

• Take immediate actions to provide calm and information, assign clear accountability, address work travel, promote proper hygiene and limit the opportunity for the virus to spread in your organization.
• Monitor updates daily from reputable health authorities about the spread of COVID-19
• Begin or review crisis management and business continuity planning for the inevitable impact to your organization as the situation deteriorates globally.

Presenter: Larry Fretz, Principal Research Director, Info-Tech Research Group

Presenter Bio:  As both the Native American technology and gaming, and hospitality practice lead at Info-Tech Research Group, Larry Fretz manages a team of analysts to develop and deliver best-practice research, specific to the tribal government, gaming, and hospitality industries. As owner of the NATRC and GHRC research agendas, he is responsible for agenda planning and directing research, while also providing measured value to chief information officers and key IT leaders. This enables organizational improvements and competitive advantage through strategic technology planning; excellence in project design and implementation; COBIT5-grounded IT governance; business process optimization; and technology road-mapping, selection, and contract negotiation. Larry brings more than a decade of international gaming and hospitality experience and 25 plus years of overall technology, marketing, supply chain, and other business operations expertise.

Presenter: Matt Borkowski, Tribal Pre-Sales Solution Architect

Presentation Summary:
Join this webinar to learn how tribal governments and enterprises are thriving with the latest ERP technology for procurement and inventory. Arctic IT’s Matt Borkowski will demonstrate how these applications are flexible, scalable, and secure.

Presenter: Bill Barkovic, Modern Workplace Sales Solution Professional, Microsoft
Presenter Bio: Bill came to Microsoft with an extensive background in Telecommunications and Security with Global Telco providers and US Government Contractors. He spent his first two years at Microsoft architecting and deploying Skype for Business within the Federal Space covering Civilian, DoD and National Security Group customers as a Senior Microsoft Consultant. He then moved over to our Sales Technical Unit as an SSP and has continued his education and assisting our Native American Tribal Customers in particular with their journey to the cloud.

Presentation Summary: Microsoft is likely the most widely used toolset and platform by tribes across the country. Consider the following:
-What are the best practices for leveraging a centralized and secure data platform, with Microsoft 365, Office 365, and Dynamics 365?
-What are the “modern workplace” benefits of integrated security?
-Consider what to look for in migrating to the cloud – is it right for you?
-Is staying on-premises really as secure as you think it might be?
In the last year, we’ve seen many more cyber-attacks affecting our Tribal Customers than in the past. During this webinar, speakers will reveal the top items you need to be considering to effectively secure your environment.

Presenter: Phillip Jackson, CIO, Arctic IT
Presenters Bio: Phillip Jackson serves as Chief Information Officer for Arctic IT. He is responsible for the company’s network infrastructure and implementing new technologies to keep the company at the forefront of cloud security. In addition, Doyon Limited, Arctic IT’s parent company, relies on Phillip’s expertise to drive workplace modernization for their organization. Phillip’s career is built on a passion for cloud services and security, the power of data-driven decisions, and the ability of technology to improve organizations to their highest efficiency.

Presentation Summary:
Did you know 91% of all breaches start with an email?
During this webinar, you will receive a ready-to-use training deck to share with your employees which teaches them what to look for with every suspicious email.

Presenter: Justin Raisor, Senior Account Executive, Nutanix
Presenter Bio: Justin Raisor is a Senior Account Executive for Native American Tribes who helps Tribal IT Department to modernize their datacenters. Before starting at Nutanix, Justin worked for a number of years as a Virtualization consultant and prior to that held positions as an IT Director and Network Administrator. After a successful career in IT and Consulting, Justin now assists Tribal IT Departments in designing cloud like private datacenters that provide high resiliency and security while eliminating a massive amount of complexity. Justin enjoys Amateur car racing and working on and driving classic muscle cars.

Presenter: Neil Ashworth, Principal Security Solutions Architect, Nutanix
Presenter Bio: Neil is a seasoned security professional with a career spanning 19 years and various security disciplines. Beginning in the British Military as a SIGINT operative, Then progressing to HUMINT with Royal Marines in support of dark site/ dark ops intelligence collection efforts.
Today and after 5 years living and working in the American private sector, Neil has expanded his experience to include Global InfoSec Compliance, Open Source Security, and is the Principal Security Solutions Architect at Nutanix; charged with supporting customers and partners with their security strategies for web-scale hyperconverged and cloud infrastructures.

Presentation Summary: 
Cyber-attacks and data breaches continue to rise, with more than 75% of organizations today falling victim to attacks. What about your Tribe, Tribal Enterprises, Casinos and Healthcare entities? How well are you protecting it against the onslaught of threats? Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility, including decision makers for IT infrastructure. Join us to discover how a security-first infrastructure strategy can improve your security posture and ability to protect your business.

 

Presenter: Bryan Schmidt, Sales Solution Architect, Arctic IT
Presenter Bio: Bryan Schmidt is a Sales Solution Architect for Arctic IT’s Tribal Government and Tribal Enterprise customers. Bryan has spent the past 6 years implementing Tribal Platforms Enrollment and other business applications in Indian Country and has emerged as an industry leader in cloud based and on-premise solutions for Native American organizations.

Presenter: Rob Jacobs, Tribal Client Services Manager, Arctic IT
Presenter Bio: Rob Jacobs has a decade of experience working in Indian Country business, serving in casino player development and marketing and a consultant with the National Indian Gaming Association, National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development, Alaska Native and Tribal 8a companies, and the Presidential administration regarding Indian Energy and Indian Affairs.

Presentation Summary: 
Modernizing Member Management: Tribes are serving their members better with technology.
During this webinar Arctic IT will identify the top 5 challenges in providing services to members, and how to solve them.
Ensure your data is accurate and secure while enriching the member service experience.

Presenter: Doreen Jones, Partner Success Consultant, Skillsoft
Presenter Bio: Doreen Jones is a Partner Success Consultant for Skillsoft and has been in the learning industry for 18 years. She assists channel partners in strategizing the most effective training solutions to help learners achieve success. She is passionate about training and the trends that are changing the landscape of the eLearning industry.

Presenter: Paula Thoren, Channel Sales Director, Skillsoft
Presenter Bio: Paula Thoren has been with Skillsoft for more than 20 years focusing on creating and growing partnerships that provide synergistic learning solutions to each partner-specific learning audience. Paula is the overall account manager for TribalWise and works closely with the TribalWise team to ensure total solution options for the tribal community.

Presentation Summary: Quickly learn how your tribe or casino can take advantage of the best online training for unbelievably low prices through TribalWise. Whether you are looking for technology skills, leadership training, compliance, personal skill development, customer service or a wide range of business skills, we will quickly demonstrate the flexible and affordable options that can meet your training and education needs for individuals, groups, departments or the entire organization.

Presenter: Dave Bailey, CTO and Interim CEO of Arctic IT
Presenter Bio: Dave Bailey brings 20 years of experience to his role at Arctic IT. He leads our organization to provide Network/Cloud Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Business Application Design & Implementation for both private and public-sector enterprises. Through Dave’s leadership, Arctic IT is the go-to security vendor for clients in the government, tribal and commercial sectors. Dave holds a Master’s of Science in Cyber Security, Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Cyber Security Analyst, and CISSP. He resides in New York with his family and enjoys traveling and spending time outdoors.

Presentation Summary:
Tribal Technology 2020: Security for a new decade
A TribalWise webinar hosted by Arctic IT
What are your organizational goals for the New Year? Join us as Arctic IT walks you through technology priorities to discuss and execute including:
• The shifting tide – why tribes are embracing the cloud
• Security is not an option – minimum requirements in the changing landscape
• Technology game plan – take action for your tribe or tribal enterprise

Presenter: Janet Talley, Partner/ERP Consultant

Presenter BIO: Janet Talley is a partner and senior accountant at Milestone Information Solutions. She has been working in their business software and ERP space for 18 years, with her primary focus in accounting operations and business consulting. Janet has experience implementing and migrating tribal organizations and gaming casinos off legacy software and understands the pains, operations, and functions needed in this specialized industry.

Presentation Summary: Preparing your tribal organization for a major accounting or ERP software change can be daunting. Join us on November 21st as Janet Talley walks us through mapping out current processes, how to identify and prioritize your software needs vs. wants, how to evaluate and select your next software, and finally preparing your organization for implementation.

Presenter: Charles Beck, Vice President, Sales at Tredent Data Systems, Inc.

Presenter Bio: Charles has worked at Tredent Data Systems, Inc (TDS) for over 27 years. Focusing on maintenance alternative solutions, TDS has been providing assistance to tribal entities and city governments, helping to guide them towards a comprehensive SMART approach to saving money on annual maintenance expenses.

Presentation Summary: This webinar will reveal strategic ways to maintain a high-level of maintenance integrity within your infrastructure while freeing up precious IT budget dollars.

Understanding Hostile Events in the Tribal Community

Presenter: Damian Wilk, Senior Risk Analyst, Gate 15

Presenter Bio: Damian Wilk is a Senior Risk Analyst with Gate 15. He is a retired Battalion Fire Chief with the District of Columbia Fire & EMS Department. As an officer in the Fire Department, Damian responded to countless acts of violence. As a chief with Special Operations, he worked closely with local and federal law enforcement. He was trained and equipped to respond to acts of terrorism. Damian supported security teams, bomb squads, and SWAT teams.

Presenter: David Pounder, Director of Threat and Risk Analysis, Gate 15

Presenter Bio: David Pounder is Gate 15’s Director of Threat and Risk Analysis. He advises on both physical and cyber security issues. Dave spent over 20 years in the Army as an Intelligence and Security Officer, specializing in counter-terrorism, force protection, and counterintelligence efforts as well as serving in the private sector for leading financial institutions responsible for information security and mobile applications. Dave twice served in senior command positions responsible for both counterintelligence operations and investigations.

Presentation Summary: Hostile Events are more than Active Shooters. The “Understanding Hostile Events in the Tribal Community” webinar will explore how to effectively prevent and prepare for all Hostile Events. It is vital for Native American organizations and enterprises to understand the ever-changing threat environment and to base preparedness activities on a threat-informed and risk-based approach. This webinar presents threat analysis, actionable recommendations, and best practices.

Presenter: Janet Talley, Partner/ERP Consultant

Presenter BIO: Janet Talley is a partner and senior accountant at Milestone Information Solutions. She has been working in their business software and ERP space for 18 years, with her primary focus in accounting operations and business consulting. Janet has experience implementing and migrating tribal organizations and gaming casinos off legacy software and understands the pains, operations and functions needed in this specialized industry.

Presentation Summary: In this webinar, we’ll discuss some of the latest tools and features you may have heard of. Which tools are worth the hype and which are more flash than function? We’ll also talk about how some of our tribal customers are applying new features and you you can evaluate these tools and decide which features can improve the way you do business.

Presenter: Chris Tristan

Presenter Bio: Chris Tristan is currently a Channel Systems Engineer at Aruba Networks for the Central US region. Prior to joining the Aruba team, Chris worked as a network engineer within the Casino industry out of Southern California for 10 years. With casino gaming experience in mind, he designed and implemented an enterprise grade WLAN solution ideal for the next generation of business connectivity and an enhanced patron experience. The success of this implementation put Chris at the forefront of an ongoing security effort to gain control and visibility into the network, a top of mind topic for all gaming organizations.

Presentation Summary: Understand how changes at the edge require a next generation networking architecture for the software-defined enterprise. Learn how mobile first requirements are driving the need for open, secure and operational simplicity. Gain insight into the changes in the traditional attack surface with the expansion of IoT. Hear how to deliver components of an overall application and technology platform for today’s digital user and IoT experiences.

Presenter: Janet Talley, Partner/ERP Consultant

Presenter Bio: Janet Talley is a partner and senior accountant at Milestone Information Solutions. She has been working in their business software and ERP space for 18 years, with her primary focus in accounting operations and business consulting. Janet has experience implementing and migrating tribal organizations and gaming casinos off legacy software and understands the pains, operations and functions needed in this specialized industry.

Presentation Summary: In this webinar we will discuss warning signs that your accounting software’s time may be running out and has become more of a burden on the organizations resources. We will discuss strategies and solutions to extend the life of your software, and pros and cons that tribal clients have experienced investing in a new accounting system. We’ll also discuss tips and tricks you can use while evaluating a new system, and deciding what is right for your organization.

How To Achieve Continuous Operations Throughout Your Tribal Community

Presenter: Sanjay Wadhwa, Data Storage Category Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Presenter Bio: Sanjay Wadhwa is currently the North America Category Manager for the HPE Storage business unit.  He has been with HPE for 9 years and has worked as an Enterprise Solutions Architect for storage solutions supporting Boeing, REI, Microsoft and General Motor where he designed multi-petabyte high performing SAN solutions to smaller solution Hyper-Converged Solutions for smaller remote sites. Prior to joining HPE, Sanjay worked as a Pre-Sales Technical Consultant with EMC where he designed Enterprise Systems Monitoring and Configuration Management solutions.

Sanjay has a Master degree in Computer Sciences from Chico State University and a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Electronics from Mumbai University, India. Sanjay makes his home in Seattle Washington with his wife Andrea and dogs Clio and Cooper.

Presentation Summary: According to Gartner’s IT Glossary, Continuous Operations is defined as, “Those characteristics of a data-processing system that reduce or eliminate the need for planned downtime, such as scheduled maintenance. One element of 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week operation.” The idea behind continuous operations is that operations never stop. Hardware and software solutions are put in place to eliminate planned maintenance, and applications will continue to service customers until they’re switched over to newer versions.
The value of continuous operations can be tied to the cost of downtime. For tribal gaming operations, casinos lose money whenever their machines are down. For tribal healthcare organizations, lives can literally be at stake if a doctor cannot access patient data. Continuous operations can require new approaches to your IT platform. These can include solution elements such as transformation to hybrid cloud, the use of containers, peer persistence, robust data backup, and data recovery. Businesses who transform their IT infrastructure for continuous operations will be at a competitive advantage. This webinar will help you understand what it will take to get to that advantage.

You’ve Been Hacked! – The Mind of a Hacker and How to Protect Your Tribal Data

Presenter: Ian McIntyre, Security Analyst at Varonis

Presenter Bio: Ian McIntyre is a Security Analyst on the Security Architecture and Incident Response team at Varonis. In his position at Varonis, Ian helps customers understand and implement the full scope of Varonis’ detection and alerting capabilities, as well as assisting with cybersecurity investigations. Ian holds an MS in Information Security Policy & Management and previously worked as a Security Analyst with the U.S. Navy at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and at the CERT Insider Threat Center at CMU-SEI.

Presenter: Justin McErlean, US Public Sector Account Manager at Varonis

Presenter Bio: Justin McErlean is an Account Manager on the US Public Sector team focused on Sovereign Nations. At Varonis, Justin works with tribes to strengthen their security infrastructures, educating them on modern-day threats like Ransomware/Phishing and ultimately what the best practices are when it comes to protecting their network/data. As of today, he currently works with 23 tribes and is constantly working on a multitude of different challenges varying from data protection to compliance and combatting insider threats. Prior to Varonis, Justin obtained a Bachelor’s Degree from Penn State and his Master’s Degree in Criminology from John Jay College.

Presentation Summary: More now than ever in the Tribal community, we see networks being hacked, data being stolen, and organizations attempting to frantically fix the problem after it’s too late. Join us to learn about the various methods that hackers utilize in order to penetrate networks and more. Our live cyber-attack workshop will show you how a hacker can use a simple phishing e-mail to gain entry into the network and proceed to wreak havoc. See what you can do to be proactive against these sorts of threats with your Tribal data.

How Drones and Drone2Map Can Impact Your Tribal Lands

Presenter: Lain Graham, National Government Solution Engineer at Esri

Presenter Bio: Lain Graham is a Solution Engineer on the National Government Civilian and Sciences Team. She primarily supports Tribes, EPA and Census. She is an FAA certified drone pilot and a registered professional Archaeologist. She holds a BA in Physical Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, an MA in BioArchaeology from Georgia State University and she is in the final stages of her Ph.D. at the University of Central Florida where she is studying Sociology and GIS. In her position at Esri Lain assists federal agencies like tribes with the adoption and optimization of the ArcGIS platform to drive meaningful business solutions.

Presenter: Steven R. Marien, LS, CFedS, Geographic Information Officer at the Mohegan Tribe

Presenter Bio: Steven R. Marien, LS, CFedS, CAD/GIS Document Control Director, Geographic Information Officer; Connecticut licensed Land Surveyor; Certified Federal Surveyor, with 28 years of combined experience working with spatial information. Steven has spent the last 15 years developing a comprehensive spatial information program at Mohegan and providing the leadership and vision required to develop an effective Enterprise GIS in support of the Tribe’s strategic objectives including cultural and environmental preservation, land management, business growth, infrastructure life-cycle management and risk management.

Presentation Summary: Commercial drones are making remote sensing a personal technology. This webinar will navigate use cases, best practices, and common workflows. Esri’s Drone2Map application allows for the easy processing of drone imagery and the production of accurate, high-resolution 2D and 3D information products. You will hear about the Mohegan Tribe’s application of drone imagery and GIS technology from Steve Marien of the Mohegan Tribe and see a demonstration of Drone2Map from Esri’s Lain Graham.

 

Understanding, Identifying and Combating Insider Threats to Tribal Governments & Businesses

Presenter: Jim Coyle, Senior Public Sector Channel Systems Engineer, FireEye

Presenters Bio: Jim Coyle is the Senior US Public Sector Channel Engineer at FireEye, helping Federal, State, and Local Government, as well as Education institutions, understand today’s types of attacks, threat agents, and how to defend against them. For over a decade Jim has been working in the federal security industry in various capacities supporting the US Armed Forces both here at home, and abroad specializing in secure communication channels. This has provided Jim a solid background with intricate cryptologic systems, networks, and security architectures in the most demanding and challenging environments. Jim now takes his passion to help Government leadership and executives understand the ties between geo-political events on the world stage and complex cyber security issues.

Presentation Summary: There is no doubt that insider threats pose a significant risk to tribal governments, citizens and Native and non-Native organizations, as they can compromise sensitive and confidential data. Join FireEye’s Jim Coyle, Senior Public Sector Channel Systems Engineer, as he discusses how organizations must stay vigilant against external threats while keeping a keen eye on the risk that insider threats pose. Jim will also address what an insider threat looks like to your organization, what assets and systems are targeted by inside threat actors and steps to secure your organization against these threats.

How To Secure Vendor Privileged Access To Tribal Networks & Ensure Compliance Across Industries

Presenter: Justin Strackany, Chief Customer Officer at SecureLink

Presenter Bio: Justin Strackany is the Chief Customer Officer at SecureLink, the leader in vendor privileged access. He has been with SecureLink since it was founded in 2003 and has served in many customer-focused capacities, including sales engineering, implementation, customer success, account management, and onboarding new clients. Over the years he has developed deep partnerships with some of the largest, most complex enterprise organizations and technology vendors across the country and internationally in industries such as healthcare, gaming, legal, finance, and retail.

Presenter: Tony Howlett, CISO at SecureLink

Presenter Bio: Tony Howlett is a published author and speaker on various security, compliance, and technology topics. He serves as President of (ISC)2 Austin Chapter and is an Advisory Board Member of GIAC/SANS. He is a certified AWS Solutions Architect and holds the CISSP, GNSA certifications, and a B.B.A in Management Information Systems. Tony is currently the CISO of SecureLink, a vendor privilege access management company based in Austin.

Presentation Summary: Cybersecurity continues to be a significant area of concern, with an increasing frequency (63%) of a multi-million dollar, potentially deadly, security breaches, being attributed to a third party.*

These increasing risks bring stricter regulatory requirements such as being able to identify, control, and audit all access to your network – down to the individual level.

In this webinar, SecureLink’s Chief Customer Officer, Justin Strackany, and CISO, Tony Howlett, will discuss how to ensure your organization is adhering to regulatory compliance requirements such as NIGC, HIPAA, and CJIS specific to vendor remote access. They will also discuss:

– Lessons from recent third-party vendor-related data breaches

– Why privileged access should be managed differently for vendors vs. employees

– Tools and strategies to ensure third-party accountability

*Data Risk in the Third-Party Ecosystem, Ponemon Report 2017

 

Learn to Crush Performance At Work: How To Build, Engage and Ultimately Become the Workforce of the Future for your Tribal Organization

Presenter: Dan Negroni, Speaker, Master Coach, Best-Selling Author, CEO, at launchbox

Presenter Bio: Dan Negroni is a hyper-growth CEO and bold impact coach who guides companies in bridging the gap between managers and their millennial workforce and creating “next-gen” workforce cultures to increase employee engagement, productivity and profits. He is a serial entrepreneur, experienced business leader, attorney, master coach of CEOs and millennials, Inc. Top 100 leadership speaker, and Amazon best- selling author of Chasing Relevance: 6 steps to Understand, Engage and Maximize Next Generation Leaders in the Workplace.

Presentation Summary: It’s no secret that we’re in the middle of a fourth industrial revolution. AI, augmented reality, virtual reality, predictive bots, apps, and accessibility to big data everywhere- and we’re just at the beginning of this new future that is changing everything about the way we live and work! The Future of Work is already here- how are you preparing your secret weapon, your superpower, to foster success in your organization through this fourth revolution?

 

Tackling Challenges in Indian Country: Recruiting and Retaining IT Skills Expertise

Presenter: Linda Marie Arredondo, Director, Native American Technology Research – CIO

Presenter Bio: Experienced Information Technology executive with demonstrated success working in multiple vertical industries including: tribal government, housing, finance, healthcare, education, gaming, hospitality, and enterprise. Member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

Presentation Summary: Tribal Nations face a constant challenge in finding the right skills to support new technologies while at the same time maintaining the skills in-house that support your existing platforms. Let the NATRC help you decide whether to retrain existing staff, hire new staff, contract, or outsource the work. Learn how to avoid poor decisions, higher costs, delays, or inadequate talent quality.

Presenter: Fred Starzyk

Presenter Bio: With almost 25 years of federal legislative and political experience, Fred Starzyk is the founding principal of Aronnax Public Strategies (APS), a federal government affairs firm that focuses on Indian Country, agriculture, and Department of Interior related issues. APS’s goal is to partner with clients to create solutions that matter.

Presentation Summary: In this webinar, Aronnax Public Strategies will address the digital divide in Indian Country, federal funding opportunities in broadband, and the opportunities and challenges these can present to Indian Country.

Presenters:
Brian Walski, VP of Sales and Marketing
Darrell Luery, Advisor to the CEO

Presenters Bio:
Brian Walski is the VP of HMBookstore Business Development, Sales and Marketing team overseeing strategic accounts and key customer relationships. Brian manages the strategic product roadmap based on customer feedback and industry trends. He has over 30 years of Business Operations and IT Management experience leading worldwide teams within the US and Asian markets delivering over $1B in business value.

Darrell Luery is the former president of the combined Bally’s and Paris Resorts in Las Vegas and former CEO of Swiss Casinos of America. Darrell assumed responsibility for Bally’s shortly after it filed bankruptcy and brought it to $100 million in earnings within six months by relying on its employees as the most knowledgeable source to define key issues needing improvement. Completed co-authoring a book on this experience and is in current contract negotiations with a major book publisher. Darrell serves as the advisor to the CEO of HMBookstore and remains a strong advocate for the power of employee engagement in achieving business success.

Webinar Summary: Employee productivity is important to any business. But typical “shadow” on-the-job training in today’s business environment is no longer enough. This webinar details how new online training techniques are raising core job performance and improving employee effectiveness up to 44% while creating a happier, more engaged workforce. This, in turn, reduces costly absenteeism and turnover up to 50%. This is a must-see webinar for GM’s, HR officials and department heads alike.

Presenters: Matt Lane, CIO and Brad Mayer, Director of Customer Relationships

Presenters Bio’s:

Matt Lane has performed Current/Future State Assessments, risk assessments, and vulnerability analyses for a wide variety of U.S. businesses and government organizations for JANUS over the past 20 years. He has assisted clients with remediation efforts in both technical and CISO roles. He has extensive experience in critical infrastructure organizations, such as financial operations, healthcare, casinos, Tribal governments, and utilities. He is an expert network and application specialist.

Brad Mayer has worked exclusively in Cybersecurity for over 15 years now. He has managed relations with many of the largest Casino and Tribal entities in the U.S. and is dedicated to customer satisfaction and delivery. In addition to Casinos and Tribal Governments Brad has extensive experience with banks, manufacturing, healthcare, and state and local governments entities, and he understands the current business and specialized cybersecurity challenges the each of these industries face.

Webinar Summary: In this webinar, we will discuss the current cybersecurity trends and challenges that tribal governments face. Specifically, how those challenges are faced internally within an organization and how both the technical and non technical managers approach and explain the importance of these challenges and initiatives internally.

Presenters: 

Mike Day, TribalHub Founder and Executive Officer

Katie Wolf, TribalHub Sales and Account Manager

Session Summary:

Tune in to learn how easy it is to find exclusive pricing and offers for tribal organizations and enterprises. Join Mike and Katie as they highlight the mission of TribalValue, walk you through the TribalValue Portal, talk about available deals and savings, and get you started on your path to a new way of purchasing for your organization. You won’t want to miss this webinar!

 

Presenters: Marina Pascali and Manessa Grisham Offering Managers, Watson Health

Presenter Bio’s:

Marina Pascali has over 20 years’ experience in the health industry, evaluating market trends and developing population health and care management products to meet the challenges of integrated care systems worldwide. In this role, Ms. Pascali supports the product lifecycle, identifying new market opportunities, working with clients to design solutions that meet their business objectives, managing the product roadmap, and supporting operations. Marina holds a PhD in Health Services and Policy Analysis from UC Berkeley and a MS from McGill University.

Manessa Grisham has worked in the healthcare industry for IBM Watson Health for the last 5 years. As an Offering Manager, her team is responsible for delivering a globally relevant population health management solution aimed at improving care and case managers’ workflows for high risk populations in the government and healthcare markets. Manessa earned her Bachelor of Science and MBA from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.

Webinar Summary:  In this session you will hear about the value of a whole person care approach to assessing and caring for individuals whose health is affected by a combination of physical, mental and social issues. Supporting team collaboration and engaging the individual as a contributor and owner of their care plan is key. A population health strategy that incorporates this broader perspective can effectively identify and address fundamental issues affecting the well-being of each of your tribal members.

 

Presenters: Jason Brescia and Matt Borkowski

Join Jason Brescia and Matt Borkowski for a very important presentation on the many ways you need to protect your tribe in today’s world. In this webinar, we will cover:

• The number one thing you can do to ensure your tribe is protected
• The different types of threats – and how to combat them
• The 7 layers of protection every tribe needs to have

Arctic IT has been serving Indian Country for more than 16 years by providing technology solutions. We empower tribes to thrive with managed services, application services and our proprietary solution, Tribal Platforms.

Presenter: Jeffrey Ward, VP, IBM Federal, MaaS360

Presenter Bio: Experienced Sales Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the computer and network security industry. Strong professional skilled in Cloud Computing, Public Sector Sales, IT Security, Enterprise Software, Solution Selling, and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Presenter: Douglas Harbert, Security Software Sales Leader

Presenter Bio: Senior level executive with over 25 dynamic years of sales and marketing experience in the high technology industry with extensive experience in enterprise software, security, hardware, storage, consulting, energy management, data warehousing, business analytics and managed services. My experience has allowed me to help direct my customers (partners) to solving their most complex IT problems in their respective companies, leading to great customer relationships and to demonstrate high levels of integrity, initiative, honesty and leadership.

Summary: While the endpoint continues to be the largest “attack surface” within most networks, securing them continues to be problematic.  Managing endpoints plus their users and data is a time-consuming task with conventional mobile device management (MDM) and enterprise mobile management (EMM) solutions.  Smart IT leaders are turning towards a cognitive unified endpoint management (UEM) approach that consolidates the management of smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, wearables,etc

Presenters: 

Troy Arwine, Federal Security Executive
Thom Oaks, Technology Solutions Professional-Identity
Brian Jamison, Technology Solution Professional – Cloud Security

Presenters BIOs: 

-Troy Arwine has worked at Microsoft for over 13 years in a variety of different roles. Currently, he is the Enterprise Security Executive, managing relationships with the Chief Information Security Officer’s of Microsoft’s largest accounts. In addition, Troy drives security solution scenarios through understanding customers’ long and short-term strategy.

-Thom Oaks is a Technical Solution Specialist supporting Security, Identity, and Enterprise Mobility featuring Azure Active Directory, Azure Information Protection, Azure Rights Management and Intune. I’ve worked at Microsoft for over 12 years in both Services and Sales supporting all facets of the Federal Government. Before focusing on Security, Identity and Mobility, I’ve enjoyed learning Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and most recently Azure.

-Brian Jamison has been in the Information Technology industry for well over 19 years.  His emphasis for the bulk of his career has been in Identity/Access Management, Data Protection, Cybersecurity and Security Intelligence. As Brian has worked with several of the Top 5 world-wide IT companies, he has gained experience in commercial, Healthcare, Armed Services, Local & State and Federal Government as well as International industries. Currently, Brian serves as a Microsoft Technology Solution Professional (Technical Pre-Sales Role). The solutions Brian’s covers in this role are the Azure security components (Enterprise Mobility & Security suite, Intune, Azure Information Protection, Microsoft Cloud App Security, Azure Active Directory, Azure Advanced Threat Protection). In summary, Mr. Jamison has a vast background in the Information Technology industry.  That coupled with his military service in the United States Airforce, Brian is well equipped to assist his customers through their Digital transformation journey and beyond.

Session Summary: 

This webinar will discuss the need for strong Identity Management Practices and how this ultimately improves the Security footprint of tribal nations and their constituents. Through this webinar, tribal groups will learn about Microsoft’s optimized identity and security solutions, which will overall benefit data management and business productivity.

Presenters Name: Kris Reynolds, PMP, ITIL, Six-Sigma Black Belt, Arrowhead Consulting

Presenter Bio: Kris is a multifaceted individual with 20+ years of experience piloting highly effective projects and process improvement initiatives.  He is well versed in strategic planning, financial modeling and business development with a proven track record in leading diverse cross-functional teams with on-time and under budget completions.  Kris is customer focused with a reputation for innovation, organization and delivering results. Kris Reynolds is an International speaker and trainer, having presented on a myriad of topics to multiple companies and non-profit organizations in numerous industries both domestically and abroad since 2011. His areas of focus include Project Management, Innovation, Leadership, Process Improvement and Strategic Thinking.

Session Summary:TribalWise and OakTree IT Staffing and Training have partnered to bring you an introduction to Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and  an opportunity to receive ITIL Certification. This webinar gives a sneak peek at the benefits, barriers and remedies to implementing ITIL within organizations and provides an overview of ITIL Foundations, the globally recognized certification for IT Service Management.  Here from industry expert Kris Reynolds regarding IT spending which has reached nearly $5 trillion at the end of 2017; up 25% from just 3 years prior.  The steep growth has resulted in IT service providers to turn towards Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) for its framework and best practice guidance in an attempt to control and monitor IT services. Plus, learn about the three day certification course being offered in Tulsa, OK and the option to participate virtually through the ProximiTree Online Learning System.

Presenters Name: Stephanie Licata. M.A. A.C.C.

Presenter Title: Training & Development Specialist

Company: Stephanie Licata, Training & Development Specialist

Presenter Bio: Stephanie Licata is a seasoned coach, trainer, consultant and adult learning strategist with over 18 years of experience. With a passion for serving tribal communities, she designs and delivers on-site and virtual leadership trainings for tribes and tribal-owned businesses some of which include NNGE, Redding Rancheria, Spokane Tribal Enterprises, Win-River Resort & Casino, Bear River Resort & Casino and in partnership with Player Performance Group out of Tulsa, OK. Stephanie has a Masters in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a coaching certification from NYU and the ICF.

Session Summary: Managing conflict successfully can dramatically impact any organization. This mini-course supports you in effectively managing 1-1 or group conflict within your tribe or organization. This webinar will address both gaming and non-gaming tribal organization’s. Case studies in working with tribal casinos and tribal government employees in the areas of healthcare, education, and technology will be discussed. Help people come together to achieve common goals and stay true to your tribe’s values.

Presenters Name: Matt Lane, CIO  and Brad Mayer, Head of Customer Relations

Presenter BIO: Matthew Lane has performed Current/Future-State assessments, risk assessments, and vulnerability analyses for a wide variety of U.S. businesses and government organizations for JANUS over the past 20 years.  He has assisted clients with remediation efforts, designed risk management tools for clients that enable them to lower costs of assessing their environments and planning for events, and advised government organizations on improvements in technology architecture.  He has extensive experience in critical infrastructure organizations such as financial operations, healthcare, and utilities and has led a number of risk analyses for these organizations.  He is an expert network and application specialist.

Presenter Bio: Brad Mayer has worked exclusively in Cybersecurity for over 15 years now.  He has managed relations with many of the largest Casino and Tribal entities in the U.S and is dedicated to customer satisfaction and delivery.  In addition to casinos he has worked with banks, manufacturing, healthcare, and state and local government entities.

Session Summary: Cybersecurity Best Practices for Securing Your Tribal Environment. In this webinar we will discuss current cybersecurity trends and exploitation avenues that hackers take to infiltrate your tribal business or organization. More importantly though we will discuss the best practices and layered approach on how to prevent the bad guys from accessing your critical tribal business systems.

Presenters Name: David J Clark, Federal Financing Executive, IBM Global Financing-Federal Market

Presenter Bio: Dave assists Federal clients to include Tribes in meeting their IT financing needs. Dave has held previous roles in banking at Bank of America and within early-stage financial technology firms. Additionally, he holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis where he studied finance and entrepreneurship.

Dave began his career as a US Army Officer where he served an Advisor to Afghan forces tasked with securing Kabul and surrounding provinces during the historic 2009 election. He also led an intelligence unit based in South Korea.

Dave serves on the board of a Mississippi-based start-up and speaks frequently at events promoting financial innovation and entrepreneurship in rural areas.

Session Summary: The webinar will cover how Tribes can match the right financing option to project needs.  Rapid technological change and the hidden costs of ownership are often overlooked when considering financing. We will discuss these challenges and highlight the power of Fair Market Leasing (FMV) for Tribal projects that include equipment and assets that face rapid obsolesce.

Instructors: Ronald Bushar, Global Government CTO, FireEye

Contact your FireEye representatives today!

Patrick Narus

[email protected]

Ron Bushar

[email protected]

Instructors: Dave Fore, Account Executive,Sophos and Tim Kinnerup, Vice President, Sales & Business Development, QCM Technologies

Contact your QCM representative today!

Tim Kinnerup, QCM Technologies
VP, Business Development & Sales
Phone: 480-483-4371 Direct
Email:  [email protected]
Website:  www.qcmtech.com

Instructor: David Larimer, Senior Systems Engineer for IBM System Storage, IBM

Contact your IBM representatives today!

Wayne A. Johnson
IBM Systems Sales Specialist
301-399-1780

Felecia R. Kornegay
IBM Client Manager
770-863-1947

Instructors: Carlos Marques, Enterprise Architect, Mainline Information Systems and Matthew Likes, Enterprise Architect, Mainline Information Systems

Contact Your Mainline Representative Today!

Tyler Burkett

Account Executive

Mainline Information Systems

[email protected]

Instructor: Even Brande, CEO of Handel IT and Assistant Lectures in Entrepreneurship, University of Wyoming

Instructor: Bill Babilon, Global ITOA Solutions Architect,Splunk

Instructor: Dave Bailey, CTO and VP, Arctic IT

Instructors: Stacey Wright, Intelligence Program Manager and Eugene Kipniss, Sr. Program Specialist,MS-ISAC

Instructor: Matt Stephenson, Sr. Security Technologist,Cylance

Instructor: Thom Oaks, Microsoft Technical Specialist Threat Intelligence, Microsoft​