State of Maine Application Developers Forum

Kick-off Conference for the State of Maine Application Developers Forum

June 8, 2006 from 8 AM to 1 PM

Central Maine Commerce Center (CMCC) - Florian Hall

Enterprise Application Services, the Strategic Planning and Policy Office and the Project Management Office are proud to announce a conference of professionals from state government who are managing, developing and maintaining computer applications for government programs. The objectives of the conference are to:

  • Provide an update on the ongoing information technology (IT) transformation in state government
  • Meet and exchange information and ideas with developers from other departments
  • Start a dialogue to facilitate planning for an enterprise systems architecture
  • Learn about and discuss commonly used development environments and enterprise databases
  • Discuss ongoing methods of communication among developers and with staff of Enterprise Application Services, the Strategic Planning and Policy Office and the Project Management Office

Agenda:

8:00Welcome
8:05 - 8:30Update on the OIT Transformation – Richard B. Thompson, CIO
8:30 - 8:50Enterprise Application Services – Dan Walters, Director
8:50 - 9:10Project Management Office – Mary Silva, Director
9:10 - 9:40Strategic Planning and Policy Office – David Blocher, Director and Victor Chakravarty, Enterprise System Architect
9:40 - 10:00Breakout Session – Development tools, environment and methodologies Moderator - Cindy Wurpel, Systems Team Leader
10:00 - 10:20Break with refreshments
10:20 – 11:00Session reports
11:00 – 11:45Panel discussion: PLSQL, J2EE and .net – Mike Francoeur, Information Technology Consultant and Steve Chapin, Systems Team Leader
11:45 – 12:30Panel discussion: Oracle and SQL – Sharon Horne, Senior Database Analyst and David Vincent, Senior Information System Support Specialist
12:30 – 1:00Developers open mike

Registration Send an email to Angel Truman (Angeline.M.Truman@Maine.gov) on the global address list) to register for the conference. Include your name, title and agency name in the body of the email.

Directions CMCC is located on Commerce Drive which is a left hand turn off Civic Center Drive (Rt. 27) about 1.3 miles west of the I-95 overpass.