Government*Horizons Inc. (A Non-Profit 501(c)3), and the Federal CPIC Forum (currently filing for Non-Profit 501(c)3 educational organization) brings you:
The First Annual Federal Capital Planning & Investment Control Conference

*This conference is sold out. If you are still interested in attending, please call Customer Service at 703-412-9283 x222 to be placed on the waiting list

About This Conference:

The First Annual Federal Capital Planning & Investment Control Conference is the only conference that brings together the government and industry capital planning community for the latest and most valuable information pertaining to best practices, compliance, lessons learned, recruiting CPIC professionals, credentialed educational resources and networking.

What You Will Learn:

  • Best Practices in Performance -Based Management and Invoicing on Earned Value for Development, Modernization & Enhancements Activities, Performance-based acquisition strategies
  • Implementing Earned Value Management, Lessons Learned
  • Content and Key Themes of the To-Be-Published-In-September GAO Cost & Schedule Guide
  • How Highly-Compliant and High-Scoring Business Cases are driven by Enterprise Architecture
  • Key Insights into managing Non-IT Capital Assets
  • Risk-Adjusted Life Cycle Cost Formulation Insights
  • Key Insights for FY10 Budget Year Submittals - Tips & Tools
  • Best Practices for Justifying growth and FTEs for your CPIC support & your PMO office
  • The keys to the kingdom: tying Performance Improvement to Budget in the business case
  • Personally Identifiable Information: The Privacy Impact Assessment and Systems of Records Notice Linkage - everything you didn't know but were supposed to.
  • Multi-Agency Collaboration - the wave of our budget future
  • Potential Impacts & Changes to the President's Management Agenda with the new Administration

Other Valuable Opportunities:

  • Opportunity to network, meet, greet other CPIC professionals in Government & Industry
  • Learn more about the Federal CPIC Forum, its Charter and its special interest working groups, such as the committee for Federal CPIC Professional Certification
  • Meet with CPIC Education Providers to learn more about CPIC training and related subject matter and if it's right for you
  • Meet with CPIC Tool providers to learn more about CPIC Solutions
  • Meet with CPIC Recruiters about CPIC Job Opportunities with the government & industry
  • Gain insight into best practices of programs and CPIC Practitioners at the CPIC Awards Reception
  • Opportunity to purchase the newly published CPIC Guidebook at a discount

Who Should Attend:

  • Chief Information Officers and their staffs
  • Performance Improvement Officials and their staffs
  • Chief Financial Officers and their staffs
  • OMB Capital Asset Plan & Business Case Justification (Exhibit 300) Business case writers and contributors
  • Any management official who participates in the budget process and uses the Exhibit 300 as an evaluation tool for budget funding
  • Members of Information Technology and Investment Review Boards, Architecture Review Boards, and Executive Review Committees
  • OMB RMO's - Responsible Management Officials
  • Program Managers, contractors and supporting personnel of Major Investments within agency and department portfolios, IT and non-IT
  • Enterprise Architect practitioners and reference modelers
  • Earned Value Practitioners
  • IT Recruiters seeking strategic planners, program managers, capital planning - CIO Support - Performance Improvement Support and OMB Exhibit 300 professionals



Speakers Include:

Janelle Hill (Conference Chairperson), President and Lead Consultant, Federal Concierge
Keynote Speaker William Taylor, Director of Strategic Programs, Citizenship & Immigration Services, DHS
Bill Mathis, Senior Director, Government Solutions Division, PRICE Systems, LLC
Ira S. Sachs, Senior Technical Director, High Performance Technologies, Inc.
Carol R. Cha, Senior IT Specialist, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Karen Richey, Senior Cost Analyst, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Russ Caple, Vice President, Management Consulting, Fujitsu Consulting Group
Stuart Simon, IT Capital Planning and Investment Control Coordinator, U.S. Department of Commerce
Kim Smith, Treasury Financial Management Service
Natalie Pascoe, IT Project Manager, Federal Bureau of Investigations
Ben Marglin, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Marla Somerville, CPIC Director, Treasury IRS
Teresa Allison, PMP, Federal CPIC Forum Advisory Board Member
Charles Santangelo, Director of Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC), Office of the Chief Information Office within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Sylvie Volel, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Joseph Roach, Director, Division of Capital Planning and Project Management, Office of Information Technology, Health Resources and Services Administration
John Prahm, Director, IT Portfolio Management Division, General Services Administration
Denzil Thies, OPNAV N611 Portfolio Management Branch Head, US Navy
Kevin C. Cooley, Director, Information Technology & Information Resource Management, Chief of Naval Operations
Kristen Burnham, Director, Portfolio Management Division, Joint Planning and Development Office for the Next Generation Air Transportation System, FAA
Registration Fee

Government attendees: $595 per person
Small Business: $695 per person
Industry: $795 per person


*Note: "Small Business" is less than 100 employees. "Industry" includes government contractors.
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