Available on Demand | May 20, 2026 | 1 Hour | 1 CPE

The National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO) reported in its 2025 State CIO Survey that many states have been providing supplemental funding to their CIO organizations to use on IT modernization and/or innovation. Whether streamlining state DMVs or setting up digital services for courts, agencies are focusing on providing better, more streamlined services to their customers.

Included in these modernization efforts is the continuing embrace of the cloud. All the respondents to the NASCIO survey said they have a multi-cloud strategy; their reasons were many and varied, such as modernizing their applications, optimizing their budgets, and aging (legacy) hardware. CIOs in states with federated governance structures discussed selecting software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, with the potential to build on their state’s cloud portfolio.

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Elizabeth Di Bene, Chief Information Security Officer, Loudoun County, VA

Dr. Elizabeth Di Bene
Chief Information Security Officer,
Loudoun County, VA
Dr. Craig Orgeron, Executive Director & Chief Information Officer, Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services

Dr. Craig P. Orgeron
Executive Director & Chief Information
Officer,
Mississippi Dept. of IT Services
Ben Caruso, Field CTO, State & Local Government, HPE

Ben Caruso
Field Chief Technology Officer,
State & Local Government, HPE
Jane Norris, Moderator & Contributing Editor, FedInsider

Jane Norris
Contributing Editor,
FedInsider