NOVAGA Activities

Using A-123 to Meet Risk Management Challenges

All-day training event - March 18, 2009

• Keynote speaker - Jeanette Franzel, Managing Director, Financial Management and Assurance, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Biography
• James Taylor, Deputy Inspector General, Biography and Michael Wetklow, IC Program Management Office, Office of CFO, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Biography "DHS Internal Control Playbook and Internal Control Audits in the Federal Government," Presentation slides
• Keith Kistler, Risk Management Office, Department of Education, "Best Practices in a Risk Management Office," Presentation slides, Biography
• Mike Walsh, Chief of Accounting, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), "Getting Field Project Manager Buy-in for Internal Controls," Presentation slides
• Laurie Howard, Director and Jennifer Funk, Program Manager, Internal Controls, Office of Financial Management, Department of Transportation (DOT), "Entity-Level Control Evaluation," Presentation slides, Workbook
• OMB Moderating a Panel Discussion including David Zavada, Partner, Kearney & Company, Presentation slides, Biography, and Bill Hughes, Managing Director, MorganFranklin, Presentation slides - "Using A-123 to Meet Risk Management Imperatives"
• CJ Staton, Vice President, CACI, "Building Successful Government/Contractor Teams," Presentation slides, Biography
• John Garing, CIO, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), "Protecting Data (Physical and Logical IT Security)," Presentation slides, Biography
• Richard "Gus" Gustafson, Deputy Director, Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), "Enterprise Risk Management," Presentation slides, Biography

See flyer for additional details about the event.