1. The New York State Fo rum New York’s Government and Corporate Information Technology Knowledge Space

2. What is The NYS Forum? The NYS Forum is a membership organization whose mission is to enable communication and collaboration between the IT public and private sectors in a neutral, non-biased environment. The goal of this collaboration is to facilitate effective and efficient implementations of technology strategies and solutions for the benefit of government. This goal is accomplished by: Providing peer developed educational opportunities Seminar presentations Furnishing the resources for work groups to form and function Collaboration with the private IT sector The Forum has been identified as a nationally unique Public/Private Knowledge Space

3. History of The NYS Forum Organizational Background: 24 years ago began as a grassroots IT organization formed by NYS employees involved with technology Originally founded as part of the SUNY Research Foundation The Forum became an independent Not-for-Profit entity in 2008 In 2001, the IT Corporate Roundtable (IT CR) was formed to provide knowledge share assistance to the NYS Forum membership Governance: The NYS Forum Corporate Board is comprised of elected Public sector members and the Chair of the IT Corporate Roundtable

4. The NYS Forum Membership State & Local Government IT Professionals at all levels Public sector membership of more than 5,000 IT professionals State & Local Government Organizations Over 100 state and local government organizations IT Corporate Roundtable –Corporations Providing IT Goods & Services to the Public Sector 74 IT CR members - 34 are WBE, MBE or SBE Organizations 7 charter members in 2001 IT CR Members hold NYS OGS Technology, Services and Telecom Contracts

5. IT Corporate Roundtable Purpose To provide a productive context for IT corporations focused on government to pursue proactive communications and initiatives targeted at improved mutual understandings in regard to Information Technology solutions. IT Corporate Roundtable members are held to high standards of vendor neutral behavior in their interactions with The NYS Forum membership (Leave the Logos at the door!)

6. IT Corporate Roundtable Member Activities Attend IT CR and Executive Council monthly meetings Participate in Work Groups as a group member and co-chair Assist in the planning and execution of Forum Events Opportunity to provide Subject Matter Experts for Forum Events Monthly Meetings IT CR Meetings 10 a year Executive Council 10 a year Work group 10 a year Events average of 20 a year

7. Meeting & Seminar Examples IT CR & Executive Council Meetings NYS CIO Council, Nancy Mulholland, Council Chair & CIO NYS DOT NYS CIO/OFT Strategic Plan, Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, NYS CIO Statewide Financial System (SFS) Program Update Office of Taxpayer Accountability, Alan Lebowitz, Director Work Group Seminars: IT Debriefing Round Table, IT Procurement Cloud Computing, MetroNY Strategic Planning Collaborative Sessions, 5 sessions, Small/Medium/Local Government Essentials of Business Continuity Management, 3 day session, Business Continuity

8. NYS Forum Work Groups The NYS Forum currently has 11 subject matter Work Groups. Business Continuity Cloud Computing / MetroNY Emerging Technologies IT Accessibility IT Greening IT Procurement IT Skills Development Project Management Security Small/Medium/Local Government Webmaster’s Guild

9. The MetroNY Initiative 2008 Setting the stage – addressing ethics, lobbying, procurement issues June & August Meetings / events in partnership with NYC DoITT NYC CIO was added to Forum’s Executive Council 2009 MetroNY official kickoff with Cloud Computing, co-hosted by NYC DoITT 2010 IT CR Member meeting and networking event Cloud Computing event with support of NYC DoITT, featuring CIO of NASA

10. IT CR meeting, June 25, 2010 & Questions?

11. Contact Greg Benson, Executive Director, The NYS Forum GBenson@NYSForum.org Corinne Brennen, Government Account Manager, DiRAD Technologies Corinne.Brennen@DiRAD.com IT CR Chair & Co-Chairs Leo Pfhol, Director Business Development, CGI, Chair of IT CR Leo.Pfohl@CGI.com Carter Yepsen, Cisco Systems, Co-Chair of IT CR Cyepsen@Cisco.com