Webinar Wednesday

As local and regional governments adopt City as a Platform technology to support all their Digital Transformation, Integration, and Big Data Management initiatives, one of the first major initiatives is to simplify and digitally connect residents to governments. This webinar will focus on Digital Resident Engagements, illustrating a Colorado city that partnered with Globetom to successfully connect residents to various government services, information, platforms, and departments, through a single, integrated experience.

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The HB 24-1454 deadline for accessibility compliance (mandated by HB 21-1110) is rapidly approaching. Is your organization ready? CapTech covered the most critical steps you should take to mitigate risk and make meaningful progress before July 1 and discussed practical approaches and best practices to:

• Efficiently audit your websites, documents, and digital content
• Make sense of and prioritize accessibility issues
• Work with third-party vendors to ensure they meet accessibility requirements
• Create a realistic and actionable accessibility roadmap
• Implement standards and processes to maintain accessibility after July 1

Agile Principles for Leaders: Slalom explores how popular frameworks like Scrum and Kanban can revitalize teamwork and deliver meaningful outcomes—even beyond software development. Designed with government professionals in mind, this webinar traced Agile’s roots in iterative practices and lean thinking, showcasing its relevance across diverse sectors—from finance to HR. Discover how an Agile leadership mindset—centered on collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement—can empower every team member to lead.

Webinar Wednesdays are organized by SIPA for our suppliers to present on topics of interest, problems they can help Colorado governments solve, and the services and products they offer to achieve the goals of putting more information and services online, becoming compliant with statutes, improving cybersecurity, managing data, and ultimately saving governments time and money.

Webinar Transcript: Agile Principles for Leaders in Accessible PDF

Gain insights on grant writing with SIPA's Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Catherine Kunst. Catherine has decades of experience, writing and reviewing grants locally and nationally. You will learn the essentials to include in any grant application to SIPA or anywhere, and have it stand out for reviewers.

Noah Kaplan, the SIPA GovGrants Program Director, will take you through the grant criteria, how to apply, and answer your most pressing questions.

HB21-1110 requires all Colorado governments bring their documents, websites, and other online services into compliance with current WCAG guidelines. Allyant's CommonLook tools for PDFs, Word Documents, and Powerpoint presentations help you achieve that goal and allow all of your constituents to access the information you provide. In this webinar, they performed a demo of the software, answered questions, and discussed the benefits included in the upcoming SIPA license renewals for the Accessibility Grant we offered earlier in the year.

Take the next step and assess your organization's AI readiness with this webinar by OGx. Before adopting AI, Colorado's public sector organizations must assess their readiness. This session will equip attendees with the knowledge and tools to assess their organization's AI maturity and develop a roadmap for successful AI implementation.

What You'll Learn:
How to identify areas where AI can deliver the most value for your organization
The essential steps to ensure your data infrastructure is AI-ready
How to assess your team's skills and capabilities
Strategies for building a culture of innovation and experimentation
The legal and ethical considerations for AI adoption

Cyberthreats are multi-dimensional and are increasingly prevalent, costly, and sophisticated. In this webinar, Optiv shares how they can partner with you to manage your cyber risk to ensure compliance, protect your organization, maximize effectiveness, and build resilience to achieve your security goals.

Producing accessible experiences requires more than simply checking a list and relying on third-party tools. Without a more robust commitment and a proactive approach to accessibility, changes in legal requirements and accessibility standards can result in surprises and unexpected work. However, by embedding accessibility in your processes and standards, you can be prepared for these changes. Not only that, you'll create richer experiences that truly provide greater access for a wider range constituents. In this webinar with CapTech, they'll cover best practices that you can adopt in your organization to raise the bar and make accessibility "business as usual."

NTT DATA explores the importance of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Single Sign-On (SSO) cleanup in optimizing the citizen experience, and its significance in ensuring a seamless and secure user experience for citizens accessing government services. They delve into the challenges and implications of managing IAM/SSO processes, particularly in relation to Active Directory, highlighting the impact it has on streamlining processes, enhancing security, and improving overall citizen satisfaction.

You will gain valuable insights into best practices for IAM/SSO cleanup, understand the benefits of integrating Active Directory, and learn how to optimize the citizen experience through efficient identity management.

Drawing from practical experience working with State of Colorado agencies and local municipalities, Slalom explores effective strategies for building a culture of accessibility. Gain an understanding of how to identify existing gaps, recognize a practical path to conformance, and discover approaches for change management and training that emphasize the collective role of everyone in fostering accessibility. This webinar explores ways to authentically engage with teams, instill lasting behavioral change, and embed accessibility as a foundational aspect of organizational culture.

Data analytics projects can answer complex questions, but many organizations assume they’re too expensive and time-consuming to tackle. A design thinking methodology and an agile, phased approach with a focus on iterative development and feedback cycles cuts down considerably on the risk, cost, and time associated with data analytics projects. Resultant walks you through examples of their rapid prototyping process in action, shows you the benefits of standing up a proof-of-concept solution in six weeks, and helps you determine whether a rapid prototype can answer important questions for your organization.

One of our newest suppliers, OGx, joined us to discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance - A Public Sector Perspective. AI has the potential to revolutionize decision-making processes in the public sector, streamlining operations, enhancing efficiency, and providing valuable insights. However, as AI-based solutions become increasingly integrated into public sector processes, it is vital to establish robust AI Governance frameworks that ensure these tools are used responsibly and ethically. 

Knowing the right questions to ask, creating and adapting customer surveys, and analyzing data in real-time and awesome dashboards is what Qualtrics does best. In this webinar, find out how they can help you better serve your constituents and propel your digital transformation further!

Imagine if you implemented new online procedures that resulted in reducing the public's wait time from 5 to 3 minutes for DMV renewals. You'd be celebrating your success, right? What would you do if, all of a sudden, you started receiving tons of complaints regarding that process, and now have to find out what's going wrong? Enter Qualtrics who did just that for another state by diving into the procedure, creating pin-pointed customer surveys about each step, and discovering a flaw that caused people to give up before finishing the forms; thus, the wait time results decreased due to a failure, not an improvement, of the process. With Qualtrics' help, that DMV identified and fixed the issue so they could provide a better online experience for their customers.

Do you know if your procedures are working as expected for those who are using them? Qualtrics shows you how their tools can help you figure that out!