Webinar: Communications

Leveraging Data Transmission in Communications & Information Technology

September 17 | 2:00–3:50 PM ET | 2 CPEs | FOS: COMS

Program Level: Overview
Prerequisite: None
Advance Preparation: None required
Field of Study: Communications and Marketing (COMS)

This webinar will focus on concepts of common communication tools and the art of data automation while keeping the audience aware of associated risks and concepts of sensible safeguards to ensure controls are working. Then, we'll briefly discuss risk mitigation techniques to help build digital resilience.

Learning Objectives

Review types of communication tools including the benefits and risks in data automation. Apply communication safeguards and value in the importance of mitigating risks.

Key Takeaways:
  • Automation must be intentional, documented, and auditable.
  • Design automation with transparency, oversight, and policy alignment.
  • Don’t resist modern tools. Govern them carefully.
  • Practicing the fundamentals builds resilience.
  • Fix one blind spot. Then scale the solution.

Speaker

Shawn M. Watson, CGFM, MBA (pending agency approval)
Shawn M. Watson, CGFM, MBA (pending agency approval)

Director of IT Modernization and Innovation
General Services Administration

Moderator

Karen Brown CGFM, CPA, CGMA

Project Manager
Dept of Housing and Urban Development

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