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Citizenship and Immigration Symposium

May 25, 2023

The Government Technology & Services Coalition is extremely pleased to host the 5th annual Citizenship and Immigration Symposium, to examine the missions, programs, and goals of USCIS.

GTSC continues to bring you the people, information, and collaboration necessary to understand our government partners.  For GTSC's Transportation Security Symposium, we will host discussions around the administration's procurement goals, IT transformation initiatives, their small business strategy, and much more.

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Thank you to our Guardian Sponsor!

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Welcome to GTSC's Citizenship & Immigration Services Symposium!

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Kristina Tanasichuk

Chief Executive Officer
Government Technology & Services Coalition 

Opening Keynote: State of USCIS IT 

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9:00 AM - 9:45 AM 

Bill McElhaney

Chief Information Officer
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

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Procurement Updates at USCIS 

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM 

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Amanda Duquette

Head of Contracting Activity 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

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Michael Hamlett 

Industry Liaison
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

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Eli Roque

Deputy Head of Contracting Activity 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

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Heather Niquette 

Small Business Advocate
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Break 

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM 

State of USCIS Data 

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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM 

Beth Puchek 

Chief Data Officer
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Luncheon

11:45 - 12:45 PM 

Customer Experience and Horizontal Delivery

12: 45 PM - 1:45 PM 

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Shane Barney 

Chief Information Security Officer
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Erika Botts 

Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

David Blair 

Chief, Transformation Delivery Division, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

How RPA and Automation is Transforming How USCIS Delivers the Mission 

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM 

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Damian Kostiuk

Deputy Chief Data Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

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Bin Xu 

Chief, Advanced Analytics Branch
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

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Joe Knarich

Chief, Data Management Division
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

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Meikle Paschal 

Program Manager, Robotic Process Automation
Office of Information Technology, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Cookies and Coffee Afternoon Reception!

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM 

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