Event Registration Cost(s):

     Nonmember - $20.00

Event Details:

PLEASE REGISTER BY EMAILING CRAIG MURRAY AT cmurray@audgen.michigan.gov.  Reservations are a first-come, first-serve basis determined by email date/time.

Attendees must have an AGA login ID and password to obtain the link to the webinar.  Contact Craig if you need instructions on setting up your AGA ID.  You will receive the necessary Zoom link to view the webinar from AGA on Monday September 15 , 2025.  Registered attendees may cancel their reservation no later than 8:00 a.m. EDT Monday September 15th by emailing Craig Murray. 

 

The Chapter’s “no-show” policy is applicable to all persons receiving the Monday (9/15/25) webinar link.  

 

Leveraging Data Transmission in Communications & Information Technology / Communications | 2 CPEs | FOS: Communications and Marketing (COMS)

Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:50 PM

 

Event Registration Cost(s):

     AGA Greater Lansing Chapter Member - $0.00
     All others - $20.00

AGA Greater Lansing can only accept payment via PayPal lansingaga@gmail.com or mailing a check payable to AGA Greater Lansing to PO Box 12159, Lansing, MI  48901-2159 or paying via SIGMA (Vendor ID CV0059058).

Speaker: 

James Watson, CGFM, MBA

Director of IT Modernization and Innovation

U.S. Government Services Administration

 

Moderator: 

Karen Brown, CGFM, CPA, CGMA

Project Manager
U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

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.

 

CEC Coordinator:

     Craig Murray
     cmurray@audgen.michigan.gov

Please Note:

The Registration Cutoff Date for this event is Sunday, September 14, 2025.